Data Protection Policy

The responsible person according to the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) is:

Dr. Thomas Kurth
Neue Weyerstraße 9
50676 Köln

Rights of affected parties

By use of abovenamed contact details of our person in charge of data protection, you are able to perform the following rights:

To gain information on data we store from you and how this data is being used (Art. 15 GDPR),
to request correction of false personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),
to request deletion of your personal data held by us (Art. 17 GDPR),
to request limitation of usage of your personal data, as long as we do not have the right to delete your personal data completely yet, according to law (Art. 18 GDPR), to file a notice of opposition against your personal data being used by us (Art. 21 GDPR) and the data portability, in case you have agreed to our terms of data usage or if you have entered into a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR). If you have signed an agreement with us, you have the right to withdraw with effect for the future at all times.

You have the right to appeal to authority at any time, e.g. to the responsible authority of the federal province of your place of residence or to the responsible public authority in charge of us.

You can find a list of responsible authority offices (in charge of the private sector) with corresponding addresses here:
https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Nature and purpose of data usage:

If you merely visit our website, in other words, if you do not register nor transfer data in any way, data of general nature will automatically be recorded. This information ("server logfiles") includes for example the web browser type, the applied operating system, the domain name of your internet service provider or your IP address, amongst others.

Data are being used especially for the following purposes:

To secure a smooth website performance, to secure an unproblematic use of our website, to evaluate system security and stability and for other administrative purposes.

We do not use your data with respect to personal identification.
Information of this kind will eventually be evaluated statistically in order to optimize our internet performance and the herein correlating technology.

Legal grounds:

Data is being processed according to art. 6 section 1 GDPR on grounds of our justified interest in optimizing the stability and functionality of our website.

Contact Information

Way and purpose of data processing: For individual communication purpose, the information given by you will be stored. Accordingly, a valid email address and name are required to allocate the request and to serve its respective response. Further information is optional.

Recipients:

Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who operate order management processing with regards to the service and the maintenance of our website.

Storage duration:

The data will be deleted as soon as it is not required for the purpose of evaluation anymore.
This applies in general for data serving the availability of the website, as soon as the respective session has ended.

Mandatory or necessary provision:

The provision of the before mentioned personal data is neither mandatory by law nor by contract. Without IP address, however, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. Also, particular provisions and services may not be available or they may be limited. For this reason, a notice of opposition is precluded.

Storage duration:

Data will be deleted latest 6 months after handling the request.

As far as parties have agreed by contract, we are subject to the legally required storage time according to Book 1, Book 2 and Book 5 of the Commercial Code of Germany (HGB) and will delete your data after fulfilment of this period.

Mandatory or necessary provision:
You provide your personal data on voluntary grounds. We can only handle your request, however, if you provide us with your name, your email address and the reason of your request.

SSL encryption:

In order to secure the safety of your data while being transferred, we use encryption methods according to state-of-the-art technologies (e.g. SSL) through HTTPS.

Changes of our data protection policy:

We reserve the right to make amendments to this data-protection-policy so that at any time it fulfils the latest legal requirements or to implement changes of our services in this data protection policy, e.g. the introduction of new services. The new data protection policy will then apply with your next website visit.

Questions to the data protection supervisor:

If you have any questions regarding data protection, send us an email or directly contact the person in charge of data protection within our organization.

This data protection policy has been created with the data-protection-policy-generator activeMind AG (Version 2018-09-24).