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Privacy Policy

Unless stated otherwise below, providing your personal data is neither required by law or contract, nor necessary for entering into a contract. You are not obligated to provide the data. Not providing it has no consequences. This applies only insofar as no other information is given for the individual processing operations described below.

"Personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Server Log Files
You can visit our website without providing any personal information.

Every time our website is accessed, usage data is transmitted to us or to our web host / IT service provider by your internet browser and stored in log data (so-called server log files). This stored data includes, for example, the name of the page accessed, the date and time of access, the IP address, the amount of data transferred, and the requesting provider. This processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, on the grounds of our overriding legitimate interest in ensuring the smooth operation of our website and in improving our offering.

Collection and Processing When Using the Contact Form 
When you use the contact form, we collect your personal data (name, email address, message text) only to the extent you provide it. This data processing serves the purpose of enabling contact. By submitting your message, you consent to the processing of the data provided. This processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, with your consent.

You may withdraw your consent at any time by notifying us, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent before its withdrawal. We use your email address solely to process your inquiry. Your data will subsequently be deleted, unless you have agreed to further processing and use.

Cookies 
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored in, or by, the internet browser on a user's computer system. When a user visits a website, a cookie may be stored on the user's operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string of characters that allows the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is visited again.

Cookies are stored on your computer. You therefore have full control over the use of cookies. By selecting the appropriate technical settings in your internet browser, you can be notified before cookies are set and decide individually whether to accept them, as well as prevent the storage of cookies and the transmission of the data they contain. Cookies that have already been stored can be deleted at any time. Please note, however, that in that case you may not be able to use all the features of this website to their full extent.

You can find out how to manage (and, among other things, disable) cookies in the most common browsers at the following links:

Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac

Technically Necessary Cookies 
Unless stated otherwise elsewhere in this privacy policy, we only use these technically necessary cookies for the purpose of making our offering more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Cookies also allow our systems to recognize your browser after you navigate to a different page and to offer you services. Some features of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these, it is necessary that the browser is recognized again even after switching pages.

This processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, on the grounds of our overriding legitimate interest in ensuring the optimal functionality of the website as well as a user-friendly and effective design of our offering.

For reasons arising from your particular situation, you have the right to object at any time to this processing of personal data concerning you, which is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Use of Google Analytics
We use the web analytics service Google Analytics, provided by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google"), on our website. If you are habitually resident in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is the controller responsible for your data. Google Ireland Limited is therefore the Google affiliate responsible for processing your data and for compliance with applicable data protection laws.

This data processing serves the purpose of analyzing this website and its visitors, as well as for marketing and advertising purposes. To that end, Google will use the information obtained on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services relating to website and internet usage to the website operator. This may include the collection of information such as: IP address, date and time of the page request, click path, information about the browser and device you use, pages visited, referrer URL (the website through which you accessed our website), location data, and purchasing activity. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.

Google Analytics uses technologies such as cookies, browser web storage, and tracking pixels, which enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated in this way about your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. IP anonymization is enabled on this website. As a result, your IP address is shortened by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

This data processing, in particular the setting of cookies, is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, on the grounds of our overriding legitimate interest in the needs-based and targeted design of the website. For reasons arising from your particular situation, you have the right to object at any time to this processing of personal data concerning you, which is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

You can prevent Google from collecting and processing data generated by Google Analytics and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

To prevent data collection and storage by Google Analytics across devices, you can set an opt-out cookie. Opt-out cookies prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website. You must perform the opt-out on all systems and devices you use for it to take full effect. If you delete the opt-out cookie, requests will again be transmitted to Google.

For more information on terms of use and data privacy, please visit https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/, https://www.google.com/policies/, and https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies.

Webhosting with Squarespace
We use the services of Squarespace Ireland Ltd., Le Pole House, Ship Street Great, Dublin 8, Ireland, to host our website, and have entered into a data processing agreement with Squarespace in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. For more information, please see Squarespace's privacy policy at https://www.squarespace.com/privacy.

The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest in operating and maintaining the operational security of this website, pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR.

Social Media Presence

We maintain an online presence on social networks and, in that context, process user data in order to communicate with users active there or to provide information about us.

Please note that in doing so, user data may be processed outside the European Union. This can pose risks for users, for example because it may make it more difficult to enforce users' rights.

Furthermore, user data within social networks is generally also processed for market research and advertising purposes. For example, usage profiles may be created based on users' behavior and resulting interests. These usage profiles can, in turn, be used, for example, to place advertisements within and outside the networks that are presumed to match users' interests. For these purposes, cookies are generally stored on users' computers, in which their usage behavior and interests are stored. Data may also be stored in usage profiles independently of the devices used by the users (particularly if the users are members of the relevant platforms and are logged in on them).

For a detailed description of the respective forms of processing and options to object (opt-out), please refer to the privacy policies and information provided by the operators of the respective networks.

Even in the case of requests for information or the exercise of data subject rights, we would like to point out that these can be asserted most effectively directly with the providers. Only the providers have access to users' data and can take appropriate action and provide information directly.

Services and Service Providers Used:

Retention Period
Once a contract has been fully processed, the data will initially be retained for the duration of the warranty period, and thereafter in accordance with statutory retention periods — in particular under tax and commercial law — and will then be deleted once those periods expire, unless you have agreed to further processing and use.

Rights of the Data Subject
Where the legal requirements are met, you have the following rights under Articles 15 to 20 GDPR: the right to access, to rectification, to erasure, to restriction of processing, and to data portability.

In addition, under Art. 21(1) GDPR, you have the right to object to processing based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, as well as to processing for the purposes of direct marketing.

Please feel free to contact us. You can find our contact details in our Legal Notice (Impressum).

Right to Lodge a Complaint with a Supervisory Authority
Under Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data does not comply with the law.

Right to Object
Where the personal data processing described here is based on our legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, you have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to such processing with future effect.

Following such an objection, we will stop processing the affected data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or where the processing serves to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims.

If personal data is processed for the purposes of direct marketing, you may object to this processing at any time by notifying us. Following such an objection, we will stop processing the affected data for direct marketing purposes.

Due to ongoing technical developments, we reserve the right to make additions or changes to this privacy policy.