4) Cookies
To make your visit to our website more attractive and to enable the use of certain features, we use cookies, which are small text files stored on your device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted after closing your browser (so-called “session cookies”), while others remain on your device for a longer period to store site settings (so-called “persistent cookies”). In the latter case, you can find the storage duration in the cookie settings of your web browser.
If any personal data is processed by individual cookies used by us, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR either for the performance of the contract, in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR in case of consent, or in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR to protect our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of site visits.
You can configure your browser to be informed about the placement of cookies and decide individually whether to accept them or exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general.
Please note that if cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited.
5) Contacting Us
When you contact us (e.g., via contact form or email), personal data is collected. The data collected when using a contact form can be found in the respective contact form. This data is stored and used solely for the purpose of answering your request or for contacting you and related technical administration.
The legal basis for the processing of this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact aims at the conclusion of a contract, an additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted after the final processing of your request, provided that the circumstances indicate that the matter has been conclusively clarified and that there are no statutory retention periods.
6) Tools and Other
Cookie Consent Tool
This website uses a “Cookie Consent Tool” to obtain valid user consents for consent-required cookies and cookie-based applications. The “Cookie Consent Tool” is displayed to users when the page is accessed in the form of an interactive user interface, where consents for specific cookies and/or cookie-based applications can be given by ticking checkboxes. Only those cookies/services that require consent are loaded if the respective user gives their consent by ticking the checkbox. This ensures that such cookies are set on the user’s device only if consent has been granted.
The tool sets technically necessary cookies to store your cookie preferences. Personal user data is not processed in this case.
In exceptional cases, if personal data (such as the IP address) is processed for the purpose of storing, assigning, or logging cookie settings, this is done in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in a legally compliant, user-specific, and user-friendly consent management system for cookies and thus in a legally compliant design of our website.
The additional legal basis for processing is also Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c GDPR. As controllers, we are legally obligated to make the use of technically unnecessary cookies dependent on the user’s consent.
If necessary, we have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, ensuring the protection of the data of our website visitors and prohibiting unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
Further information on the operator and the settings of the Cookie Consent Tool can be found directly in the respective user interface on our website.
7) Rights of the Data Subject
7.1 The applicable data protection law grants you the following rights regarding the processing of your personal data by the controller (right of access and intervention), with reference to the respective legal basis for exercising the rights:
- Right of access according to Art. 15 GDPR;
- Right to rectification according to Art. 16 GDPR;
- Right to erasure according to Art. 17 GDPR;
- Right to restriction of processing according to Art. 18 GDPR;
- Right to notification according to Art. 19 GDPR;
- Right to data portability according to Art. 20 GDPR;
- Right to withdraw consent according to Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR;
- Right to lodge a complaint according to Art. 77 GDPR.
7.2 Right to Object
If we process your personal data based on a legitimate interest as part of a balancing of interests, you have the right to object to this processing at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, with effect for the future.
If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the affected data. However, further processing is reserved if we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or if the processing is for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
If we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of such marketing at any time. You can exercise this right as described above.
If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the affected data for direct marketing purposes.
8) Duration of Storage of Personal Data
The duration of the storage of personal data depends on the respective legal basis, the processing purpose, and, if applicable, the statutory retention periods (e.g., commercial and tax retention periods).
In the case of processing personal data based on explicit consent according to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR, the affected data will be stored as long as you do not withdraw your consent.
If there are statutory retention periods for data processed within the scope of contractual or similar obligations based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR, these data will be routinely deleted after the retention periods have expired, unless they are still required for contract fulfillment or contract initiation, and/or we have a legitimate interest in retaining them.
In the case of processing personal data based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR, the data will be stored until you exercise your right to object according to Art. 21 Para. 1 GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate reasons for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
For the processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR, the data will be stored until you exercise your right to object according to Art. 21 Para. 2 GDPR.
Unless otherwise stated in this declaration regarding specific processing situations, stored personal data will be deleted when they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.