PRIVACY POLICY

General note and manda­tory information

Respon­sible for data processing

The controller respon­sible for the proces­sing of data on this website is

opti­vendo GmbH
Guido Gutowski Schrader
Sport­allee 77
22335 Hamburg
Germany

The controller respon­sible decides alone or toge­ther with others on the purposes and means of the proces­sing of personal data (e.g. names, contact details, etc.).

With­drawal of consent to data processing

Some of the data proces­sing is only possible with your provided consent. You can with­draw your consent at any time simply by cont­ac­ting us via email. If you with­draw your consent, this will not make proces­sing which we under­took before you with­drew your consent unlawful.

Right to lodge a complaint with the compe­tent super­vi­sory authority

As a data subject, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a super­vi­sory autho­rity, in parti­cular in the Member State of his or her habi­tual resi­dence, place of work or place of the alleged infrin­ge­ment if the data subject considers that the proces­sing of personal data rela­ting to him or her infringes this Regulation.

For ques­tions regar­ding the data protec­tion please contact the Germany Commis­sioner for Data Protec­tion, in which our company has its regis­tered office. The link below provides a list of data protec­tion offi­cers and their contact infor­ma­tion: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to data portability

You have the right to have the data, which we have processed auto­ma­ti­cally on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract, handed over to you or to third parties. The data will be provided in a machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another respon­sible party, this will only be done as far as it is tech­ni­cally possible.

Right to infor­ma­tion, recti­fi­ca­tion, blocking, erasure

Within the frame­work of the appli­cable legal provi­sions, you have the right to obtain infor­ma­tion free of charge at any time about your stored personal data, the origin of the data, its reci­pi­ents and the purpose of the data proces­sing and, if appli­cable, a right to rectify, block or to erase this data. In this regard and also for further ques­tions on the subject of personal data, you can contact us at any time using the contact options listed in the imprint.

Server log files

We collect personal data through our internet access logs. When you access our website, your internet address is auto­ma­ti­cally coll­ected and is placed in our internet access logs (i.e., log files on server). The infor­ma­tion coll­ected are:

• Browser type and browser version
• Opera­ting system used
• Referrer URL
• Host­name of the acces­sing computer
• Time of the server request
• IP address

This data is not linked with other data sources. The basis for data proces­sing is Art. 6(1)b GDPR, which permits the proces­sing of the data for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contrac­tual measures.

Regis­tra­tion on our website

If you make use of our website to register for certain func­tions, you will be asked to provide personal data. The trans­mitted data will be only used to provide you the neces­sary service. Manda­tory infor­ma­tion requested during the regis­tra­tion must be provided in full. Other­wise we will refuse registration.

In the event of important changes, for example in the scope of tech­ni­cally neces­sary changes, we will use the e-mail address provided during regis­tra­tion to inform you.

The data entered during regis­tra­tion is processed on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)a GDPR). You can revoke any consent you have given at any time. All you need to do is send us an informal noti­fi­ca­tion by e-mail. The lega­lity of the data proces­sing already carried out remains unaf­fected by the revocation.

The data coll­ected during regis­tra­tion is stored by us for as long as you are regis­tered on our website. Your data will be deleted if you cancel your regis­tra­tion. Legal reten­tion periods remain unaffected.

Contact form

Data trans­mitted via the contact form will be stored inclu­ding your contact data in order to be able to process your inquiry or to be available for follow-up ques­tions. These data will not be passed on without your consent.

The proces­sing of the data entered in the contact form is based exclu­si­vely on your consent (Art. 6 (1)a GDPR). You can with­draw this consent at any time. An informal noti­fi­ca­tion by email is suffi­cient for the with­drawal. The lega­lity of the data proces­sing opera­tions carried out until the revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected by the revocation.

Data trans­mitted via the contact form will be stored until you request us to delete it, or until you with­draw your consent for the storage or if the data storage is not needed anymore. Manda­tory legal provi­sions – in parti­cular reten­tion periods – remain unaffected.

Storage dura­tion of posts and comments

Posts and comm­ents as well as related data, such as IP addresses, are stored. The content remains on our website until it has been comple­tely deleted or has to be deleted for legal reasons.

Posts and comm­ents will be stored on your consent (Art. 6(1) GDPR). You can with­draw this consent at any time. An informal noti­fi­ca­tion by email is suffi­cient for the with­drawal. The lega­lity of the data proces­sing opera­tions carried out until the revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected by the revocation.

Comment Subscrip­tions

As a user, you can subscribe to comm­ents after you have regis­tered. With a confir­ma­tion email we will check whether you are the owner of the email address provided. You can unsub­scribe from the subscrip­tion func­tion at any time via the link found in the subscrip­tion email. Data entered to set up the subscrip­tion will be deleted if you unsub­scribe. We will store the data if it has been trans­mitted to us for other purposes.

News­letter

In order for us to send you our news­letter we need your email address. In addi­tion, we must prove that you are the owner of the given email address and that you agree to receive the news­letter. Further data are not coll­ected or only on a volun­tary basis. We use this data exclu­si­vely for the deli­very of the requested information.

The consent to sending the news­letter to your email address is based on Art. 6(1)a GDPR. You can unsub­scribe from our news­letter at any time by clicking the “unsub­scribe” link in the news­letter, or by sending us an email. The lega­lity of the data proces­sing opera­tions already carried out remains unaf­fected by the revocation.

Data entered to set up the subscrip­tion will be deleted in case of cancel­la­tion. We will store the data if it has been trans­mitted to us for other purposes.

Newsletter2Go

For the deli­very of our news­letter, we use Newsletter2Go. Provider is the Newsletter2Go GmbH, Köpe­ni­cker Str. 126, 10179 Berlin. With this service we can orga­nize and analyze the news­letter dispatch. The data you enter to receive the news­letter, such as your email address, is stored on the Newsletter2Go server, which is located in Germany.

Sending the news­letter with Newsletter2Go allows us to analyze the beha­vior of the reci­pient. Among other things, the analysis shows us how many reci­pi­ents have opened their news­letter and how often the links in the news­letter have been clicked. Newsletter2Go supports conver­sion tracking in order to analyze whether a previously defined action, such as a product purchase, has taken place after clicking on the link.

You can find out more about the data analysis by Newsletter2Go here: https://www.newsletter2go.de/features/newsletter-trackingoptionen/

The consent to sending the news­letter to your email address is based on Art. 6(1)a GDPR. You can unsub­scribe from our news­letter at any time by clicking the “unsub­scribe” link in the news­letter, or by sending us an email. The lega­lity of the data proces­sing opera­tions already carried out remains unaf­fected by the revocation.

If you want to opt out from analysis by Newsletter2Go, you must unsub­scribe from our news­letter. To unsub­scribe, simply send us an email or click on the “unsub­scribe” link in the newsletter.

Once you unsub­scribe, we will delete the data entered to set up the subscrip­tion from our and Newsletter2Go servers. We will store the data if it has been trans­mitted to us for other purposes.

Details of Newsletter2Go’s privacy policy can be found at: https://www.newsletter2go.de/datenschutz/.

Order proces­sing

To fully comply with the legal data protec­tion requi­re­ments, we have concluded a contract with Newsletter2Go for order processing.

YouTube

For inte­gra­tion and display of video content, our website uses plugins from YouTube. Provider of the video portal is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

When a page with inte­grated YouTube plugin is called up, a connec­tion to the YouTube servers is estab­lished. This tells YouTube which of our pages you have visited.

YouTube can assign your surfing beha­vior directly to your personal profile, if you are logged in to your YouTube account. By logging out you have the possi­bi­lity to prevent this.

YouTube is used in the inte­rest of an attrac­tive presen­ta­tion of our online offers. This repres­ents a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the sense of Art. 6 para­graph 1 lit. f GDPR.

Details on the hand­ling of user data can be found in the YouTube privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. They are small text files which are stored on the device with which you access this website. Cookies help us make our website more user-friendly, effec­tive and safe.

Most of the cookies we use are “session cookies”. They are auto­ma­ti­cally deleted after your browser session ends. However, other cookies remain on your device until you delete them yourself. These cookies enable us to reco­gnize your browser on your next visit.

You can monitor, delete or prevent cookies via your internet browser settings. Many internet brow­sers can be confi­gured so that cookies are deleted auto­ma­ti­cally when you close the program. Disab­ling cookies may limit the func­tion­a­lity of this website.

Cookies that are required to carry out the elec­tronic commu­ni­ca­tion process or to provide certain func­tions that you have requested (e.g. shop­ping basket func­tion) are stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)f GDPR. The website operator has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the storage of cookies for the tech­ni­cally flaw­less and opti­mized provi­sion of its services. If other cookies are set (e.g. for analysis func­tions), these are dealt with sepa­ra­tely in this Privacy Policy

Google Analy­tics

Our website uses func­tions of the web analysis service Google Analy­tics. The provider of the web analy­tics service is Google Inc, 1600 Amphi­theatre Parkway, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analy­tics uses so-called cookies, text files, which are stored on your computer and make it possible to analyze your use of the website. As a rule, the infor­ma­tion gene­rated by the cookie about your use of this website (inclu­ding your IP address), is trans­ferred to a Google server in the US and stored there.
The setting of Google Analy­tics cookies is based on Art. 6(1)f GDPR. Our justi­fied inte­rest in the use of this service derives from the fact that we must be able to analyze and opti­mize the use of our website

IP anony­miza­tion

We use Google Analy­tics in conjunc­tion with the IP anony­miza­tion func­tion. It ensures that Google shor­tens the IP address for those resi­ding within member states of the Euro­pean Union or in other states party to the Euro­pean Economic Area before sending it to the USA. The full IP address will only be trans­ferred to a Google server in the US and shor­tened there in excep­tional cases. Google uses this infor­ma­tion on behalf of the website owner in order to evaluate your website use, to compile reports about website acti­vi­ties and to provide the website owner with other services asso­ciated with the website and internet use. The IP address trans­mitted by your browser in the context of Google Analy­tics is not merged with other Google data.

Browser Plugin

You can prevent the storage of cookies with the rele­vant setting on your browser soft­ware. We do, however, point out that in this case, you might not be able to use all func­tions of this website to the full extent. You can also prevent the coll­ec­tion of data as gene­rated by the cookie, which refers to your website use inclu­ding your IP address, is sent to and being processed by Google, by down­loa­ding and instal­ling the appro­priate browser add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

The right to object data collection

Alter­na­tively, you can prevent the coll­ec­tion of data by Google Analy­tics by setting a specific opt-out cookie, which prevents the future coll­ec­tion of your data when visi­ting this website.

You can obtain further infor­ma­tion in Google’s terms of use and the over­view of data protec­tion. For more infor­ma­tion about Terms of Use and Privacy, please see
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Order proces­sing

To fully comply with the legal data protec­tion requi­re­ments, we have concluded a contract with Google for order processing.

Demo­gra­phic data in Google Analytics

We have enabled the Google Analy­tics func­tion “demo­gra­phic data” on our website. It can be used to gene­rate reports that contain infor­ma­tion about age, gender and inte­rests of visi­tors to the site. This data comes from inte­rest-based adver­ti­sing by Google as well as from visitor data from third parties. It is not possible to assign the data to a specific person. You can deac­ti­vate this func­tion at any time. You can do this through the ad settings in your Google Account or by gene­rally prohi­bi­ting the coll­ec­tion of your data by Google Analy­tics, as explained in the section “Opting out of data collection”.

Xing Plugins

Our website uses features of the XING network. The provider is XING AG, Damm­tor­straße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.

When a page with inte­grated Xing func­tions is called up, a connec­tion to the Xing servers is estab­lished. To the best of our know­ledge, no personal data is stored. IP addresses are not stored, nor is there any evalua­tion of user behavior.

Details on data protec­tion and the XING Share button can be found in the XING privacy policy at: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection.

Twitter plugin

Our website uses func­tions of the Twitter service. The provider is Twitter Inc, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Fran­cisco, CA 94103, USA.

When using Twitter and the “Re-Tweet” func­tion, websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and published in your Twitter feed. In the process, data is trans­ferred to Twitter. We have no know­ledge of the content of the trans­mitted data or the use of this data by Twitter. Details can be found in the Twitter privacy policy: https://twitter.com/privacy.

You can change your privacy settings on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/account/settings.

Source: Privacy Confi­gu­rator from mein-datenschutzbeauftragter.de