DATA PRIVACY

§1 Information on the collection of personal data

In the following we will inform about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data are all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behaviour.

The person responsible in accordance with Art. 4 para. 7 of the EU Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO) is Andreas Kraus (see legal notice).

When contacting us by e-mail, the data you provide (your e-mail address, your name and telephone number if applicable) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data collected in this context after storage is no longer required, or restrict processing if there are legal storage obligations.

If we need to use third party service providers for individual parts of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below. In this context, we will also state the defined criteria for the storage period.

§ 2 Your rights

You have the following rights regarding the personal data concerning you: 

gain information,

correct or delete,

restrict processing,

oppose processing,

transfer data.

The right to:

You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

If we process data in a third country (i.e. outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)) or if this is done in the context of using the services of third parties or disclosure or transfer of data to third parties, this will only take place if it is done to fulfil our (pre-)contractual obligations, on the basis of your consent, on the basis of a legal obligation or on the basis of our legitimate interests. Subject to legal or contractual permissions, we will only process or transfer the data in a third country if the special requirements of Art. 44 ff. DS-GVO, i.e. the processing is carried out, for example, on the basis of special guarantees, such as the officially recognised determination of a level of data protection equivalent to that in the EU (e.g. for the USA through the “Privacy Shield”) or compliance with officially recognised special contractual obligations (so-called “standard contractual clauses”).

§ 3 Collection of personal data when visiting our website

If you use the website for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not provide any information, we only collect the personal data that your browser sends to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website and to ensure its stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DS-GVO):

IP address

Date and time of the request

Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

Content of the request (concrete page)

Access status/HTTP status code

Amount of data transmitted in each case

Website from which the request comes

Browser

Operating system and its interface

Language and version of the browser software.

We collect protocol data that are generated during the operation of communication technology of our consulting company and evaluate them automatically, as far as this is necessary for the recognition, limitation or elimination of disturbances or errors in communication technology or the defence of attacks on our information technology or the recognition and defence of malware.

In addition to the data mentioned above, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard disk, assigned to the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the site that sets the cookie (here by us). Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet offer more user-friendly and effective.

Use of cookies:

This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and function of which are explained below:

Transient cookies (in addition b)

Persistent cookies (see c). 

Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. This includes session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the common session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.

Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete the cookies in the security settings of your browser at any time.

You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all the functions of this website.

§ 4 Third party services

Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (following Google). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on these websites, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google.

Use of Google MapsThis website uses Google Maps API to visually display geographic information. When using Google Maps, Google also collects, processes and uses data on the use of the map functions by visitors. Further information about data processing by Google can be found in the Google privacy policy. There you can also change your personal data protection settings in the data protection centre.

Detailed instructions on how to manage your own data in connection with Google products can be found here.

Social Plugins On our websites we use social plugins from the providers listed below. You can recognize the plugins by the fact that they are marked with the corresponding logo. These plugins may be used to send information, which may include personal data, to the service provider and may be used by the service provider.We have integrated the social media buttons of the following companies on our website:

Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountainview, California 94043, USA; https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/?hl=de. Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield,  https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. 

LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, California 94043, USA; http://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. LinkedIn has submitted to the EU-US privacy shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. 

SoundCloud Ltd., Rheinsberger Str. 76/77, 10115 Berlin; https://www.soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.

We have no influence on what data an activated plugin collects and how this data is used by the service provider. At present, it must be assumed that a direct connection to the provider’s services will be established and at least the IP address and device-related information will be collected and used. It is also possible that the service provider will attempt to store cookies on the computer used. Please refer to the data protection information of the respective service provider to find out which specific data is collected and how it is used. Note: If you are logged into Facebook at the same time, Facebook can identify you as a visitor to a particular page.