Privacy Policy

Please note that this text has been automatically translated from the original German version via DeepL.

With this privacy policy we would like to inform you about the type, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data on our website. Personal data are all data that have a personal reference to you, e.g. name, address, e-mail address or user behavior.

Who is responsible for data processing at our company

Responsible for data processing is:

Glumpler GbR
Partner in a Partnership under the Civil Code: Stefan & Boris Glumpler
Agnes Bernauer St. 9
80687 Munich, Germany
Germany

+498957868436
hi@trekk.io
https://trekk.io/imprint

Processing your data as part of our company’s core activity

We process your personal data transferred to us within the framework of the contractual and pre-contractual relationships between us. The scope, type, purpose and necessity of the processing depends on the respective underlying contractual relationship. For this purpose, we store and process your data in the computer systems we use. The data processed by us includes all data provided by you for the purpose of using the contractual or pre-contractual services and which is required to process your inquiry or the contract concluded between us.

The following data can be counted here, in particular:

  • Name and address
  • E-mail address and phone number
  • Contract data
  • payment data.

The processing is limited to those data which are necessary and expedient to answer inquiries and/or to fulfil a contract concluded between you and us. Personal data will only be passed on to third parties if this is necessary for the purpose of providing the service or within the framework of the organisation of our company for the handling of financial accounting and compliance with legal obligations. In this case, only those data are transferred to external service providers which are necessary and expedient for the fulfilment of the contract or for the handling of financial accounting and compliance with legal obligations. Processing by us is carried out in accordance with your instructions or the statutory provisions. Legal basis: Your personal data will be processed and transferred to third parties in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR and serves to fulfil the contract between you and us. In all other respects we pass on data to third parties only if there is a legal obligation to do so, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c) GDPR or if there is a justified interest in doing so, Art. 6 para. 1 lit f. GDPR. This is the case, for example, if this is necessary to pursue our claims. Deletion: Your data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary to fulfil contractual or statutory duties of care or to deal with any warranty or similar obligations. This does not affect the statutory storage obligations.

Web Hosting

We use an Internet service provider to maintain our online presence, on whose server the website is stored (hosting) and who makes our website available on the Internet. The Internet service provider processes contact data, content data, contract data, usage data, inventory data as well as meta and communication data on our behalf. name and address of the Internet service provider: DigitalOcean, LLC 101 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10013, USA. You can view its data protection regulations here: https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/privacy. The Internet service provider is based outside the EU. It is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus offers a guarantee to comply with European data protection law. Legal basis: The Internet service provider processes the aforementioned data on our behalf, Art. 28 GDPR. Data processing is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest in an efficient and secure provision of our Internet offer, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

If you use our website for informational purposes only, our Internet service provider will only collect the personal data that the browser you are using transmits to its server. This is the following data:

  • IP address
  • The date and time of access to our website
  • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Access status (HTTP status)
  • The amount of data transferred
  • The Internet service provider of the accessing system
  • The type of browser you are using and its version
  • The operating system you are using
  • The website from which you may have accessed our website
  • The pages or subpages that you visit on our website.

The above data is stored as log files on the servers of our Internet service provider. This is necessary to display the website on the device you are using and to ensure stability and security. Our legitimate interest in data processing lies in the above purposes. Legal basis: The data processing is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest in an efficient and secure provision of our Internet offer, art. 6 par. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Duration: The above data for the provision of our website will be stored for the duration of 7 days and then deleted.

KeyCDN

On our website we use the Content Delivery Network KeyCDN, a product of proinity LLC from Switzerland.

KeyCDN serves to optimize the loading times of our website and their protection. For this we use KeyCDN as Content Delivery Network (CDN). A CDN is a network of regionally distributed servers that are connected via the Internet. Scalable storage and delivery capacities are made available via the CDN. This ensures optimum data throughput even at high load peaks. Via KeyCDN, user requests on our website are first routed via KeyCDN’s server network. Statistics are generated from these data streams. This serves to detect potential malware threats to our website at an early stage and to optimize the loading times of our website. For this purpose, we have concluded a data processing agreement with KeyCDN under which KeyCDN is entitled and obliged to evaluate the information received and to prepare statistical reports on the type and scope of use of the website for us. IP addresses are anonymized in the provided content delivery logs. In addition, statistical data is aggregated and does not contain any personal data. These statistics enable us to continuously improve our offer, to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of our Internet marketing and to make our Internet presence more interesting and user-friendly for you as a user. Purpose: We use KeyCDN because of our legitimate interest in an efficient and secure provision of our Internet offer. Legal basis: Legal basis for the processing of your data is art. 6 par. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Deletion: The collected data will be deleted by KeyCDN upon request.

Third-party information:

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files consisting of a series of numbers and letters that are stored on the device you are using. Cookies neither transmit viruses nor can they execute programs. Rather, they are primarily used to exchange information between the terminal device you use and our website in order to make our Internet offering more user-friendly and effective for you. A distinction must be made between temporary (transient) cookies and persistent cookies. Transient cookies include session cookies in particular. These store a so-called session ID, with which different requests of your browser can be assigned to the common session. This way our website recognizes your computer when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete these cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser.

Cookies are used to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the calling browser can be identified even after a page change. In particular, information on language settings or log-in information may be stored in these cookies.

In addition, we also use cookies on our website that enable an analysis of your visit to our Internet pages. In particular, these cookies may contain information on search terms entered, the frequency of page visits or the use of website functions. These cookies enable us to track how often and in what way the website and its functions are used. They serve to improve the quality and user-friendliness of our website, in particular its content and functions. This enables us to continuously optimize our offer. The data collected in this way is pseudonymised by technical precautions. Therefore an assignment of the data to your person is not possible. The data will not be stored together with other personal data concerning you.

For the above purposes, we have a legitimate interest in data processing. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

As cookies are stored on your computer, you as a user also have full control over the use of cookies. You can use the security settings of your browser to determine whether cookies are stored at all. For example, you can accept no cookies from the outset or only accept cookies upon request, or you can specify that cookies are deleted each time you close your browser. If cookies are deactivated for our website, it may no longer be possible to use all functions of the website in full.

Storage period/deletion

We delete or block your personal data as soon as the purpose of storage has been achieved or no longer applies. Any further storage will only take place if this is given to us by national or European regulations. In this case, the data will be blocked or deleted when the storage period prescribed by the respective regulations has expired, unless we need your data to fulfill a contract concluded between us or if this is necessary to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

Details of the contact options we have available

If you contact us via e-mail, social media, telephone, fax, post, our contact form or otherwise and provide us with personal data such as your name, your telephone number or your e-mail address or provide further information about yourself or your request, this data will be stored and processed in our company for processing your request. Legal Basis: If you have submitted your request via our contact form, the legal basis for processing your data is Art. 6 Para.1 lit. a GDPR. If you make your request within the framework of contractual or pre-contractual relations with us, the legal basis for processing your data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b. GDPR. Unless your request falls into one of the above categories, our legitimate interest in the processing of your data is to answer your request properly and in your interest, Art. 6 Para. 1 letter f GDPR. Deletion: The personal data we collect will be deleted if it is no longer required. We check the necessity every 2 years. You can also revoke data processing at any time.

The handling of your data for the application process

If you apply through us, we will process the personal data you provide to us during the application process. If you send the data by e-mail or via a contact form on our website, it will be processed electronically. In order to be able to apply through us, we store your data for the purpose of handling the application process in compliance with the statutory regulations. purpose: The purpose is to process the application process. Legal basis: The legal basis for the processing of your data for the aforementioned purpose is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Deletion: You can delete your data by yourself via your customer account or request deletion from us. This does not apply if statutory provisions prevent the deletion or if the further storage of your data is necessary for the purpose of the production of evidence, for example in a procedure according to the General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz – AGG). Prevention: In addition, you have the right to demand the deletion of your personal data at any time.

Blog

You have the opportunity to comment on posts we post on our blog. Since we may be held liable ourselves for infringing contents (insult, abuse criticism, incitement of the people, prohibited display of violence etc.) of your commentary, we store your IP address for a period of 7 days in order to be able to determine your identity if necessary. Legal basis: The legal basis for the storage of your data is Art. 6 par. 1 lit. f GDPR. Deletion: The data we collect and transmit in this way will be automatically deleted after 14 days. Prevention: You can prevent the IP address from being saved by not making any comments.

Registration

You have the option to register on our website and create a user account to access specific content on our website. This requires the entry of personal data resulting from the input mask. The data requested there includes in particular your name, password and e-mail address. This data is stored and processed by us in order to enable you to access your user account. The data can be changed or deleted by you at any time. The data will not be passed on to third parties unless they are used for contract processing. In order to protect you and us from abusive registrations, we store the IP address used during registration, as well as the date and time of registration. This data will not be passed on to third parties. Legal basis: We process your data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR for the purpose of providing your user account. Deletion: The personal data, as well as IP address, date and time will be stored until the purpose for this is deleted. The deletion of the data, which were raised in the context of the registration, take place, as soon as the associated account on our web page is deleted or changed. You can delete your account at any time or demand the deletion by the responsible person specified above for the processing.

Online-Shop

If you use our online shop to place orders, we need certain data to process your order. This includes in particular your name as well as your address and electronic contact data, information on the payment process and the services used. These data are stored by us. The information provided by you in the mandatory fields of the order form is absolutely necessary for the justification and fulfilment of the contract. In detail we use the data transmitted by you to us in particular for

  • identify you as our customer,
  • to process, fulfill and process your order,
  • to get in touch with you,
  • to invoice you,
  • to be able to process any liability claims,
  • to be able to assert contractual claims against you.

Legal basis: The legal basis for the processing of your data is, as far as the processing of your order is concerned, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR. This also applies to the processing operations that are necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures.

We will only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

  • the disclosure according to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in not disclosing your data,
  • the disclosure of your personal data is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.

  • there is a legal obligation under Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. c GDPR to do so,
  • this is necessary according to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b GDPR for the processing of the contract concluded with you (e.g. forwarding of the data to the logistics company commissioned with the delivery or for the purpose of processing payment).

In addition, your personal data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent. If we pass on your personal data to third parties, we limit the amount of data transmitted to the required minimum.

You can voluntarily create a user account by viewing your orders. We will store the data you provide when creating your user account until you revoke your consent. If you have terminated your account, your data will be deleted, subject to their retention is necessary for commercial or tax reasons pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c GDPR. Information in the customer account remains until its deletion with subsequent archiving in the case of a legal obligation. It is the responsibility of the users to back up their data before the end of the contract in the event of termination. We use transient cookies (for the term see above under Cookies) to store the contents of the shopping basket and persistent cookies (for the term see above under Cookies) to store the login status.

When you place an order, register for a user account or log in again, we save your IP address and the time of the respective user action. The purpose of the storage are our but also your legitimate interests in the protection against misuse and other unauthorized use. Legal basis: Legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. These data will not be passed on to third parties, unless this is necessary to pursue our claims or there is a legal obligation pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR.

Deletion: Due to commercial and tax law requirements, we are obliged to store your address, payment and order data for a period of 10 years. After expiry of the statutory warranty rights (2 years), however, we will restrict the processing to the extent that your data will only be used to comply with the statutory obligations.

Newsletter

We regularly send out a newsletter to inform our customers, business partners and prospects about our offers and news. You have the opportunity to register for our newsletter on our website and to agree to receive it when you register. When you subscribe to our newsletter, you must provide your e-mail address. We save the e-mail address in order to be able to send you the newsletter. As soon as you subscribe to our newsletter, you will receive a confirmation e-mail to the e-mail address you provided when you subscribed using the double opt-in procedure. This e-mail contains a link. If you click on this link, you confirm that you would like to receive the newsletter. This ensures that your e-mail address was not misused by a third party during registration. For the same reason, we store the date and time of registration and the IP address assigned to you at registration. The aforementioned data will not be passed on to third parties. Legal basis: Legal basis for the processing of your data is art. 6 par. 1 lit. a GDPR. Deletion: The e-mail address will be deleted either if you have not clicked on the confirmation link 1 month after sending the confirmation e-mail using the double opt-in procedure or immediately after you have unsubscribed from our newsletter. Revocation: You can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. We offer the following options for you to declare your revocation:

Click on the link provided for this in the newsletter

Mail Service Provider

We have commissioned the following mail service provider to send our newsletter: Revue Holding B.V.,Europalaan 500-unit O.2.3, 3526KS Utrecht, The Netherlands. You can view their privacy policy here: https://www.getrevue.co/privacy. The mail service provider can use your data in pseudonymous form, i.e. without allocation to a user, to optimise or improve its own services, e.g. for technical optimisation of the mailing and the presentation of the newsletter or for statistical purposes. However, the mail service provider is not entitled to write to you himself or to pass on your data to third parties. Legal basis: The mail service provider will act for us on the basis of our legitimate interests in the proper dispatch of the newsletter in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR and within the framework of an order processing contract in accordance with Art. 28 Para. 3 S. 1 GDPR.

Evaluation of user behavior

If you have consented to this, we will evaluate your user behaviour when sending the newsletter. For this purpose, our newsletter contains tracking pixels and tracking links. This enables us to recognize if and when you have opened the newsletter and if and which links you have clicked on in the newsletter. Purpose: We evaluate the newsletter as described above in order to be able to measure a statistical evaluation of the success or failure of our newsletter. Legal basis: The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. Prevention: You can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time using the options above. Deletion: We delete your data after revocation.

Your rights under the GDPR

According to the GDPR you are entitled to the following rights, which you can assert at any time with the person named in section 1. of this data protection declaration:

  • Right of information: According to Art. 15 GDPR you can request a confirmation as to whether and which personal data we process from you. In addition, you can request information from us free of charge about the purposes of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to correction, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of complaint and the origin of your data, insofar as these have not been collected from us. You also have a right to information as to whether your personal data has been transferred to a third country or to an international organisation. If this is the case, you have the right to obtain information about the appropriate guarantees in connection with the transmission.
  • Right of correction: According to art. 16 GDPR you can request the correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us concerning you.
  • Right of Deletion: According to Art. 17 GDPR you have the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless we need it for the following purposes:
    • to fulfill a legal obligation,
    • for asserting, exercising or defending legal claims,
    • to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information or
    • for reasons of the public interest cases referred to in Article 17(3)(c) and (d) GDPR.
  • Right of restriction: According to Art. 18 GDPR you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data if
    • the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, for a period that allows us to verify the accuracy of the personal data,
    • the processing of your data is unlawful, but you refuse to delete it and instead request a restriction on the use of the data,
    • we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of processing, but you do need the data to assert, exercise or defend legal claims
    • You have filed an objection against the processing of your data pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR, but it has not yet been determined whether the legitimate reasons which entitled us to further processing despite your objection outweigh your rights.
  • Right of Information: If you have exercised your right to correct, delete or limit the processing against us, we are obliged to notify all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you have been disclosed of the correction or deletion of the data requested by you or their restriction on processing, unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed by us of these recipients.
  • Right to Data Transferability: In accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, you may request that we receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or request that it be transmitted to another person responsible.
  • Right of appeal: According to Art. 77 GDPR you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. For this you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence, your workplace or our company headquarters.

Right of revocation

According to Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR you have the right to revoke your consent to the processing of your data at any time. Your declaration of revocation does not change the legality of the processing of your personal data until revocation.

Right of appeal

You have the right to object at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you, which is based on a balance of interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). This is particularly the case if data processing is not necessary for the performance of a contract. If you make use of your right of objection, we ask you to explain the reasons. We will then no longer process your personal data unless we can prove to you that compelling reasons worthy of protection outweigh your interests and rights in data processing.

Independent on the above, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes.

Please address your objection to the above contact address of the person responsible.

YouTube

We use components from YouTube, a service of YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

Using Youtube allows us to embed various videos and clips provided on the youtube.com Internet platform. After a page or subpage of our website is called up on which such an embedding has taken place, the Internet browser you use will cause video components of the embedded video or clip to be downloaded. During your visit to our website and its sub-pages, both Youtube and Google are informed of which page or sub-pages you have accessed by transmitting your IP address to Google’s external servers in the USA. This information is transferred regardless of whether the videos or clips displayed are actually viewed or clicked on, or whether you are logged into your YouTube or Google account. Google is a member of the Privacy-Shield Agreement and is certified for data processing according to European standards. This information is collected and assigned to your Google account if you are logged in during your visit to it. Purpose: The use of the YouTube components on our website is to provide you with videos and clips from the website www.youtube.de on our website for viewing and interaction purposes. Legal basis: We use Youtube because of our legitimate interest in the optimization and design of our online offer, art. 6 par. 1 lit. f GDPR. Prevention: You can prevent the data transfer at any time by logging out of your Youtube account, or by logging into your Google account and setting an opt-out cookie using the logout button at https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

Third Party Information:

Registered office within the EU: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001.

Google Maps

We use components of "Google Maps", a service of Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter referred to as: "Google") on our website.

Google Maps displays geographic information visually. Google collects and processes the IP address of the visitor. This will be transmitted to Google regardless of whether you are actually using Google Maps or logged into your Google account. Your IP address will be assigned to your Google account if you are logged in when you visit our website. This data is transmitted to external servers of Google in the USA. Google is a member of the Privacy-Shield Agreement and is certified for data processing according to European standards. Google may share this data collected through the technical process with third parties. Purpose: The integration of Google Maps simplifies visualization and navigation during a visit to our site. Google processes data for the purposes of advertising, market research, website design and the provision of demand-oriented advertising. Legal basis: We use Google Maps because of our legitimate interest in the optimization and design of our online offer, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Prevention: You can prevent the association of the data by refraining from using Google Maps on our website and logging out of your Google account before your visit. You can also disable JavaScript in your browser to prevent the map display. Further we refer to the privacy policy of Google under the following link http://www.google.com/intl/de_en/help/terms_maps.html

Third Party Information:

Registered office within the EU: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001.

Google (Invisible) reCAPTCHA

We use on our website “Google (Invisible) reCAPTCHA “, a service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

The service enables us to check whether certain actions or inputs are carried out by a human being or misused by a bot, i.e. by a computer in an automated process. Google (Invisible) reCAPTCHA processes information about your user behaviour on our website for this purpose. In addition, your IP address is transmitted to a Google server. Google (Invisible) reCAPTCHA uses among other things Cookies  (see to the term above under the heading Cookies), which are stored in the cache of your browser and which make an analysis possible of the use of our Internet appearance by you. You can find more detailed information on how data is collected and processed in Google’s data protection information, which you can access here: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. Purpose: The purpose of our use of the service lies in the aforementioned interests. Legal basis: We use Google (Invisible) reCAPTCHA because of our legitimate interest in the secure and efficient provision and optimization of our online service, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Prevention: For the use and the prevention of Cookies we refer to the references given above under heading “Cookies”. If you are not logged in via your Google account when you visit our site, the IP address transmitted to Google via the service will not be merged with other Google data. You must therefore log out of Google before you visit our site if you want to prevent your IP address from being merged with other data. Google has signed and is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement between the European Union and the United States. This means that Google is committed to complying with the standards and regulations of European data protection law. For more information, please refer to the following linked entry: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

Third party information:

Head office within the EU: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001.

Google Web Fonts

We use on our website "Google Web Fonts", a service of Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

The service allows us to include the representation of external fonts (web fonts) in the design of our website and to output them correctly when displaying the website. This gives us certain creative possibilities with which we want to make the design of our website more user-friendly. These web fonts are integrated by a server call. The fonts are delivered compressed from this server to your browser and unpacked there. This server is regularly located in the USA. If you visit one of our pages on which we integrate Google Fonts, we will send to Google which of our Internet pages you have visited. In addition, the IP address of the browser of the visitor’s terminal device is stored by Google. Purpose: The aforementioned interests represent the purpose of using Google Web Fonts. Legal basis: We use Google Web Fonts because of our legitimate interest in the optimization and design of our online offer, Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. f GDPR.

Third Party Information:

Registered office within the EU: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001.

MyFonts

We use MyFonts, a web font service from Monotype GmbH, Horexstr. 30, 61352 Bad Homburg, Germany.

By using this service we have certain creative possibilities open to us, with which we want to make the design of our website more user-friendly. These online fonts are integrated by calling our own server. For licensing reasons, we are required to install a web font tracking code to track the number of page views. The latter does not collect, process or store any personal data. When you access a Web site that contains the Web font tracking script or similar technology, the following information is collected:

  • Web font project identification number (anonymized)
  • URL of the licensed website linked to a customer ID to identify the licensee and the licensed web fonts
  • Referrer URL

Purpose: The aforementioned interests represent the purpose of using Google Web Fonts. Legal basis: We use MyFonts because of our legitimate interest in the optimization and design of our online offer, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. For more information about the MyFonts web fonts we use, please see the MyFonts and Monotype Privacy Policy: https://www.monotype.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Vimeo

We use components of Vimeo, a service of Vimeo LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York 10011, USA, on this website.

Vimeo is a video portal where users can watch videos for free. Vimeo offers website operators the possibility to integrate videos on their own website. Vimeo provides a code snippet that displays the video in a so-called inline frame. After a page or subpage of our website is called up on which such an embedding has taken place, the Internet browser you use will cause video components of the embedded video or clip to be downloaded. This process requires Vimeo to read the IP address assigned to you, otherwise Vimeo will not be able to send the video to your browser. Vimeo may recognize that you have visited one of our sites where we have included a Vimeo video when you are logged in to Vimeo. This information will be sent to Vimeo even if you do not click on the Vimeo video. Vimeo collects this information and assigns it to your Vimeo account. Purpose: The use of Vimeo components on our website is to provide you with videos and clips of Vimeo’s website for viewing and interaction purposes. Legal basis: We use Vimeo because of our legitimate interest in the optimization and design of our online offer, art. 6 par. 1 lit. f GDPR. Prevention: You can prevent this data transfer at any time by logging out of your Vimeo account.

Third party information:

Our online presence on social networks

We operate online presences within the social networks listed below. If you visit one of these presences, your usage data will be collected and processed by the respective provider. This is usually done by cookies which are stored on the terminal device you are using. For the term "cookie" see above under the corresponding heading. Cookies are used to store your usage behavior and your interests and to create corresponding usage profiles. In the user profiles, data can also be stored independently of the device you are using. This is especially the case if you are a member of the respective platform and logged in to it.

We have embedded plugins on our website in the form of "Social-Media-Buttons" of the providers we use. You can recognize which plugin belongs to which provider by the respective logo with which the plugin is marked. We have deactivated the social media plugins on our website by default, so that data is not automatically transferred to the provider of the plugin when our pages are accessed. For this we use the so-called Shariff solution. Only when you click on the "Social-Media-Button" of the respective provider, the collection of information and its transfer to the provider is triggered. If you click on one of these buttons, data can be sent to the social network operator even if you do not have an account or do not have one there, but are not logged in when you visit our website.

The data collected is generally used by the provider for advertising and market research purposes by creating usage profiles from your usage behavior. These in turn can be used by the providers to play you interest-related advertising. You have a right of revocation against the creation of user profiles. To do this, you must contact the respective provider. If you have an account with the provider, your usage data can be linked to it. To prevent such a linking of your data, you can log out before visiting our site at the service of the provider.

For what purpose and to what extent data is collected from the provider, you can see the respective, in the following communicated, data protection declarations of the provider. We have no influence on which data is collected and how this data is used by the provider. If you wish to request detailed information or make use of your rights as a data subject, you can do this most effectively with the respective provider, since only the respective provider has access to your data.

We would like to point out that your user data can be transferred and processed outside the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the enforcement of your rights may be made more difficult. Those US providers that are certified under the Privacy Shield have committed themselves to comply with EU data protection standards. The information whether the respective provider has such a certificate can be found in the information on the providers listed below.

Legal basis: If you have been asked for consent to data processing by one of the providers named below, the legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. Otherwise, your data will be processed on the basis of our legitimate interests to contact you and communicate with you, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR. Prevention: For the respective possibilities of objection (opt-out) we refer to the following linked information of the providers.

We maintain online presences on the following social networks:
Twitter

Twitter is a service of Twitter Inc, 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107 – USA

Based in the EU: Twitter Inc, 26 Fernian St, Dublin – Ireland

Instagram

Instagram is a service of Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025 – USA

Pinterest

Pinterest is a service of Pinterest Europe Ltd, Palmerston House, 2nd Floor, Fenian Street, Dublin 2 – Ireland

XING

XING is a service of XING AG, Gänsemarkt 43, 20354 Hamburg – Germany

LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a service of LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043 – USA

Seat in the EU: LinkedIn, Hofstatt 4th Floor, Sendlinger Str. 12, 80331 München – Germany

Reddit

Reddit is a service of Reddit Inc., 520 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 – USA

Facebook

Facebook is a service of Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

Based in the EU: Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 – Ireland

Google Universal Analytics

We use on our website "Google Universal Analytics", a service of Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

We use Google Universal Analytics to track and statistically evaluate the flow of visitors to our website. Google Universal Analytics collects, among other things, data about the website from which you accessed our website (so-called referrer), which subpages of the website you accessed or how often and for how long a subpage was viewed and which interactions you performed. To collect and store this data, Google Analytics places a cookie on the device you use (see the term above under the heading Cookies). By the set Cookie the sides visited by you including your IP address are raised and transferred on Google servers in the USA. However, data processing is also possible without cookies if Google Universal Analytics has been implemented on the website. We use the AnonymizeIP function to make your IP address anonymous, so that it is shortened and can no longer be assigned to your visit to our website. Further transmitted information is not assigned to or linked to the anonymised IP address by Google. The information generated in this way is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the USA. Google may disclose personal data collected through the technical process to third parties. We have entered into an order processing agreement with Google. Accordingly, Google is entitled and obliged to evaluate the information obtained for us and to compile statistical reports for us on the type and extent of website use. These statistics enable us to continuously improve our offer, to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of our Internet marketing and to make our Internet presence more interesting and user-friendly for you as a user. Legal basis: We ask for your consent to use this service via an opt-in. This means that the cookie, pixel-code or similar methods used to process your personal data via this service will not activate until you have given your consent. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you are in Germany and have not yet reached the age of 16 (14 years in Austria and Switzerland), you are not yet in a position to give effective consent under data protection law according to the assessment of the respective national legislator. We regard your opt-in as your reasonable expectation regarding the use of cookies. In this case, we refer to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR as the legal basis. In this case, our legitimate interests lie in the user-friendly design of our online offer and our economic interest in the collection, storage and evaluation of data material. Prevention: You can prevent cookies from being stored by downloading and installing the browser add-on provided by Google. This is available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. However, you may not be able to use all functions of our website in full afterwards. Alternatively, you can prevent the storage of cookies by setting an opt-out cookie, which prevents data from being collected from you on our website in the future. Please click on the following Link. You also have the option of preventing the storage of cookies by setting this in your browser. Cookies that have already been set can be deleted by you at any time.

Third Party Information:

Registered office within the EU: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001.

Google Ads

We use on our website “Google Ads”, a service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Ads is a service for displaying Internet advertising in the form of ads. The ads are displayed as search results in search engine results or in the Google advertising network. We use Google Ads to define certain keywords. Our ads are displayed by Google in search engine results when you use Google’s search engine to retrieve a search result associated with the keyword. In the display network, the ad is displayed on related pages. If you click on one of the ads, you will be redirected to the website we advertised. Here Google Ads sets a cookie (see the term above under the heading Cookies). This allows both Google and we to see whether you have reached our site via our ad and whether you have taken any further actions, such as buying something, using a contact form or calling us. For this purpose, the pages visited by you, including your IP address, are collected by the set cookie and transferred to Google servers in the USA (conversion tracking). Google evaluates this data in order to produce a report with statistical statements about the number of visitors generated by the advertisement and the success of the advertising measure. The reports include, among other things, the total number of users who were referred to our website via our advertisements. In addition, the reports contain information on the end devices and browsers of the users, where the users were located and at what times the ad was clicked. However, the reports do not contain any information that personally identifies you as a user of our site. purpose: The ads allow us to target traffic to our sites. The statistical evaluations and reports generated by Google enable us to optimize our ads. Legal basis: We use Google Ads because of our legitimate interest in the analysis, optimization and commercial operation of our online offering, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR.Prevention: You can prevent the use of cookies by setting this in your browser. Cookies that have already been set can be deleted from your browser. In addition, it is possible to object to the use of interest-related advertising by calling up the following link and manually deactivating the corresponding options http://www.google.com/ads/preferences.

Third-party information:

Head office within the EU: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001.

Google AdSense

We use on our website “Google AdSense”, a service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Advertising ads are displayed on our website via Google AdSense. For this we receive a payment from Google. In order to make it comprehensible for Google when a payment is due for the display of advertising, your usage data is collected and stored. This is done on the one hand by setting cookies (for the term see above). In addition, Google AdSense uses so-called tracking pixels. These are invisible miniature graphics that Google uses to analyze user flows on our website. The information received via cookies and tracking pixels, your IP address shortened by the last two digits and the advertising format played out are transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google may also share this information with third parties. Google may only associate other information with your IP address if you are logged into your Google account when you visit our website. Legal basis: We use Google AdSense because of our legitimate interest in the economic operation of our online service, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Prevention: You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting this in your browser. Cookies that have already been set can be deleted from your browser. You can also object to the use of interest-related advertising by calling up the following link and manually deactivating the corresponding options http://www.google.com/ads/preferences. You also have the option of deactivating interest-related advertising by setting this under the following link http://www.aboutads.info/choices.

Third-party information:

Head office within the EU: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001.

Affiliate Programs

On this website, we are using various affiliate networks and programs from within the EU and from outside of the EU.

With affiliate marketing, interested parties can offer their own advertising on third-party websites. Among other things, data such as the affiliate’s identification number (the one on whose site advertising is placed), the order number of the visitor to a website and that of the advertising material clicked on are recorded. Interested parties can thus offer their own advertising on third-party websites. Here Affiliate sets a cookie (see the term above under the heading Cookies). No personal data will be stored. Purpose: The named data is stored to process the commission payments between the advertiser and the person who allows this advertising to be displayed on their site. Legal basis: The legal basis for the prescribed use of the data is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Prevention: You can prevent cookies from being stored by setting this in your browser. Cookies that have already been set can be deleted by you at any time.

Third-party information:

  • Privacy policies: Please get in touch with us if you want to know more details about the affiliate programs and networks used on this website.

Amazon Affiliate Program

On our website we use the affiliate program of Amazon Europe S. à. r. l. 5, Rue Plaetis, L-2338 Luxembourg.

Affiliate marketing allows interested parties to offer their own advertising on third-party websites. Among other things, data such as the affiliate’s identification number (the one on whose page the advertisement is placed), the visitor’s order number on a website and the number of the advertising medium clicked on are recorded. Interested parties can thus offer their own advertising on third-party websites. Advertisements and links from amazon.de can be placed on our website, which can also lead to reimbursement of advertising costs. Amazon sets a cookie (see the term above under the heading Cookies). The cookie you set determines the pages you visit, including your IP address. We do not have any influence on the quantity, quality or storage time of the transmitted data. No personal data is stored here. Amazon is a member of the Privacy Shield Agreement and is certified for data processing in accordance with European standards. Amazon may pass on your data to third parties. This information is collected and assigned to your Amazon account if you are logged in to it during your visit. Purpose: The advertising is displayed with the purpose of displaying interesting advertising for you and making our website more attractive. The named data is stored in order to process the commission payments between the advertiser and the person who permits the display of this advertising on his page. Legal basis: We use the Amazon Partner Program on the basis of our legitimate interest in the economic operation of our online services, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Prevention: You can prevent the storage of cookies by deactivating the display of interest-related advertising under the following link https://www.amazon.de/gp/dra/info. You can also deactivate interest-related advertising by clicking on the following link: https://www.aboutads.info/choices. You also have the option of preventing the storage of cookies by setting this in your browser. Cookies that have already been set can be deleted by you at any time.

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Backups

For backups we are using WP Time Capsule, a service of Revmakx LLC, 250 River Run Rd, Boone, NC 28607, USA.

Third-party information:

For saving backups we are using Wasabi, a service of Wasabi Technologies, Inc., 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02199, USA.

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Stripe

We offer on our website payment processing via the payment service provider Stripe (185 Berry Street, Suite 550, San Francisco, CA 9410, USA).

Since the entire payment process is tokenized via Stripe, we never get access to your complete payment data. Furthermore, we do not store any payment data on our own servers. Legal basis: The legal basis for the prescribed use of the data is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit b GDPR. You can revoke your consent to Stripe to use your personal information at any time. Despite revocation, Stripe may still be entitled to process, use and transmit the personal data that are absolutely necessary for contractual payment processing.

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Buy Me A Coffee

On our website, we accept donations via Buy Me A Coffee, a service of Publisherr Inc, 2035 Sunset Lake Road, Suite B-2 Newark, DE 19702, USA.

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Safety Measures

We also take state-of-the-art technical and organisational security measures to comply with data protection laws and to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or total loss, destruction or unauthorised access by third parties.

Update and changes to this privacy policy

This data protection declaration is currently valid and has the status February 2019. Due to changed legal or official requirements, it may be necessary to adapt this data protection declaration.

This Privacy Policy was created and customized using SOS Law. You can find the Privacy Policy Generator here. SOS Law is an offer of MMR Müller Rößner Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft with seat in Berlin.

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