Data Privacy Statement
Responsible party in terms of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR), is:
Chris D'Alfonso, Max Ottinger, Tobias Risch, Meinrad Rutschmann
Your Rights as Data Subject
Under the contact details provided for our Data Protection Officer, you can exercise the following
rights at any time:
Information about your data stored by us and their processing (Art. 15 GDPR),
Correction of incorrect personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),
Deletion of your data stored by us (Art. 17 GDPR),
Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal
obligations (Art. 18 GDPR),
Objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 GDPR), and
Data portability if you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with
us (Art. 20 GDPR).
If you have given us consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.
You may at any time lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, e.g., the competent
supervisory authority in the federal state of your residence or the authority responsible for us as
the responsible party.
A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at:
[https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Anschriften/Laender/Laender-node.html]
(https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Anschriften/Laender/Laender-node.html).
Provision of Paid Services
Type and Purpose of the Processing:
To provide paid services, we request additional data from you, such as payment information, to
fulfill your order.
Legal Basis:
The processing of data required to conclude the contract is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR.
Recipients:
Recipients of the data may be third-party processors.
Transfer to Third Countries:
The data collected may be transferred to the following third countries:
Yes
The following data protection safeguards are in place:
Adequacy decision by the European Commission, Standard Contractual Clauses, Binding
Corporate Rules
Retention Period: We store this data in our systems until the statutory retention periods have expired.
These are generally 6 or 10 years for reasons of proper accounting and tax requirements.
Provision Required or Mandatory: The provision of your personal data is voluntary.
Without the provision of your personal data, we cannot grant you access to our content and services.
Newsletter
Type and Purpose of the Processing:
For the delivery of our newsletter, we collect personal data that is transmitted to us via an input
form.
For effective registration, we require a valid email address. To verify that a registration is actually
being made by the owner of an email address, we use the "double opt-in" procedure. For this
purpose, we log the registration for the newsletter, the sending of a confirmation email, and the
receipt of the requested response. No further data is collected.
Legal Basis:
Based on your express consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR), we will regularly send you our
newsletter or comparable information via email to your specified email address.
You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the
newsletter at any time with effect for the future. Each newsletter contains a corresponding link.
You can also unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time directly on this website or inform us of
your revocation via the contact option provided at the end of this data protection notice.
Recipients: Recipients of the data may be third-party processors.
Transfer to Third Countries:
The data collected may be transferred to the following third countries:
Yes
The following data protection safeguards are in place:
Adequacy decision by the European Commission, Standard Contractual Clauses, Binding
Corporate Rules
Retention Period:
The data will only be processed in this context as long as the corresponding consent is
available. After that, it will be deleted.
Provision Required or Mandatory:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary, based solely on your consent. Without existing
consent, we cannot send you our newsletter.
Revocation of Consent:
You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the
newsletter at any time with effect for the future. You can request cancellation via the link
provided in each email or by contacting the Data Protection Officer listed below or the person
responsible for data protection.
Contact Form
Type and Purpose of the Processing:
The data you enter will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. The
provision of a valid email address and your name is required for this purpose. This serves to
assign the request and then answer it. Providing further data is optional.
Legal Basis:
The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based on a legitimate interest (Art. 6
Para. 1 lit. f GDPR).
By providing the contact form, we want to enable you to contact us in an uncomplicated manner.
The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for
possible follow-up questions.
If you contact us to request an offer, the processing of the data entered in the contact form will
be carried out to carry out pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR).
Recipients: Recipients of the data may be third-party processors.
Transfer to Third Countries:
The data collected may be transferred to the following third countries:
Yes
The following data protection safeguards are in place:
Adequacy decision by the European Commission, Standard Contractual Clauses, Binding
Corporate Rules
Retention Period:
Data will be deleted at the latest 6 months after processing the request.
If a contractual relationship is established, we are subject to the legal retention periods under
the German Commercial Code (HGB) and will delete your data after these periods have expired.
Provision Required or Mandatory:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your request if
you provide us with your name, your email address, and the reason for the request.
Embedded YouTube Videos
We embed YouTube videos on our website. The operator of the corresponding plugins is
YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (hereinafter "YouTube"). YouTube,
LLC is a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
(hereinafter "Google"). When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to
YouTube's servers is established. This informs YouTube which pages you visit. If you are logged
into your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your surfing behavior to you personally. You
can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.
When a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect hints about user
behavior.
For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by YouTube,
please refer to the provider's privacy policies. There you will also find further information on your
rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy
([https://policies.google.com/privacy](https://policies.google.com/privacy)).
Revocation of Consent:
The provider currently does not offer an easy opt-out or blocking of data transmission. If you
wish to prevent tracking of your activities on our website, please revoke your consent for the
corresponding cookie category or all technically unnecessary cookies and data transfers in the
cookie consent tool.
In this case, you may not be able to use our website or only to a limited extent.
SSL Encryption
To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption
techniques (e.g., SSL) via HTTPS.
Information about Your Right to Object under Art. 21 GDPR
Individual Right to Object
You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to the
processing of your personal data concerning you, which is carried out on the basis of Art. 6
Para. 1 lit. f GDPR (data processing based on a balance of interests); this also applies to
profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 GDPR.
If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate
compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and
freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Recipient of an Objection
Chris D'Alfonso, Max Ottinger, Tobias Risch, Meinrad Rutschmann
Changes to Our Data Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always complies with
current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data protection
declaration, e.g., when introducing new services. The new data protection declaration will then
apply for your next visit.