Pri­va­cy policy

Pri­va­cy policy

1. An over­view of data protection

Gene­ral information

The fol­lo­wing infor­ma­ti­on will pro­vi­de you with an easy to navi­ga­te over­view of what will hap­pen with your per­so­nal data when you visit this web­site. The term “per­so­nal data” com­pri­ses all data that can be used to per­so­nal­ly iden­ti­fy you. For detail­ed infor­ma­ti­on about the sub­ject mat­ter of data pro­tec­tion, plea­se con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­ti­on, which we have included beneath this copy.

Data recor­ding on this website

Who is the respon­si­ble par­ty for the recor­ding of data on this web­site (i.e., the “con­trol­ler”)?

The data on this web­site is pro­ces­sed by the ope­ra­tor of the web­site, who­se cont­act infor­ma­ti­on is available under sec­tion “Infor­ma­ti­on about the respon­si­ble par­ty (refer­red to as the “con­trol­ler” in the GDPR)” in this Pri­va­cy Policy.

How do we record your data?

We coll­ect your data as a result of your sha­ring of your data with us. This may, for ins­tance be infor­ma­ti­on you enter into our cont­act form.

Other data shall be recor­ded by our IT sys­tems auto­ma­ti­cal­ly or after you con­sent to its recor­ding during your web­site visit. This data com­pri­ses pri­ma­ri­ly tech­ni­cal infor­ma­ti­on (e.g., web brow­ser, ope­ra­ting sys­tem, or time the site was acces­sed). This infor­ma­ti­on is recor­ded auto­ma­ti­cal­ly when you access this website.

What are the pur­po­ses we use your data for?

A por­ti­on of the infor­ma­ti­on is gene­ra­ted to gua­ran­tee the error free pro­vi­si­on of the web­site. Other data may be used to ana­ly­ze your user pat­terns. If con­tracts can be con­cluded or initia­ted via the web­site, the trans­mit­ted data will also be pro­ces­sed for con­tract offers, orders or other order enquiries.

What rights do you have as far as your infor­ma­ti­on is concerned?

You have the right to recei­ve infor­ma­ti­on about the source, reci­pi­ents, and pur­po­ses of your archi­ved per­so­nal data at any time wit­hout having to pay a fee for such dis­clo­sures. You also have the right to demand that your data are rec­ti­fied or era­di­ca­ted. If you have con­sen­ted to data pro­ces­sing, you have the opti­on to revo­ke this con­sent at any time, which shall affect all future data pro­ces­sing. Moreo­ver, you have the right to demand that the pro­ces­sing of your data be rest­ric­ted under cer­tain cir­cum­s­tances. Fur­ther­mo­re, you have the right to log a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent super­vi­sing agency.

Plea­se do not hesi­ta­te to cont­act us at any time if you have ques­ti­ons about this or any other data pro­tec­tion rela­ted issues.

Ana­ly­sis tools and tools pro­vi­ded by third parties

The­re is a pos­si­bi­li­ty that your brow­sing pat­terns will be sta­tis­ti­cal­ly ana­ly­zed when your visit this web­site. Such ana­ly­ses are per­for­med pri­ma­ri­ly with what we refer to as ana­ly­sis programs.

For detail­ed infor­ma­ti­on about the­se ana­ly­sis pro­grams plea­se con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­ti­on below.

2. Hos­ting

We are hos­ting the con­tent of our web­site at the fol­lo­wing provider:

Stra­to

The pro­vi­der is Stra­to AG, Otto-Ost­row­ski-Stra­ße 7, 10249 Ber­lin (her­ein­af­ter refer­red to as “Stra­to”). When you visit our web­site, Stra­to records various log­files, inclu­ding your IP addresses.

For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se con­sult the Stra­to Data Pri­va­cy Poli­cy: https://www.strato.de/datenschutz/.

Stra­to is used on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in a depic­tion of our web­site that is as relia­ble as pos­si­ble. If appro­pria­te con­sent has been obtai­ned, the pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, inso­far the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or the access to infor­ma­ti­on in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­prin­ting) within the mea­ning of the TDDDG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

3. Gene­ral infor­ma­ti­on and man­da­to­ry information

Data pro­tec­tion

The ope­ra­tors of this web­site and its pages take the pro­tec­tion of your per­so­nal data very serious­ly. Hence, we hand­le your per­so­nal data as con­fi­den­ti­al infor­ma­ti­on and in com­pli­ance with the sta­tu­to­ry data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons and this Data Pro­tec­tion Declaration.

When­ever you use this web­site, a varie­ty of per­so­nal infor­ma­ti­on will be coll­ec­ted. Per­so­nal data com­pri­ses data that can be used to per­so­nal­ly iden­ti­fy you. This Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­ti­on explains which data we coll­ect as well as the pur­po­ses we use this data for. It also explains how, and for which pur­po­se the infor­ma­ti­on is collected.

We here­wi­th advi­se you that the trans­mis­si­on of data via the Inter­net (i.e., through e‑mail com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons) may be pro­ne to secu­ri­ty gaps. It is not pos­si­ble to com­ple­te­ly pro­tect data against third-par­ty access.

Infor­ma­ti­on about the respon­si­ble par­ty (refer­red to as the “con­trol­ler” in the GDPR)

The data pro­ces­sing con­trol­ler on this web­site is:

KMTC Vor­ti­fer Tech­no­lo­gies GmbH
Daim­ler­str. 2
D‑70736 Fellbach

Pho­ne: +49 711 30 55 93 40
E‑mail: post@kmtc-technologies.com

The con­trol­ler is the natu­ral per­son or legal enti­ty that sin­gle-han­dedly or joint­ly with others makes decis­i­ons as to the pur­po­ses of and resour­ces for the pro­ces­sing of per­so­nal data (e.g., names, e‑mail addres­ses, etc.).

Sto­rage duration

Unless a more spe­ci­fic sto­rage peri­od has been spe­ci­fied in this pri­va­cy poli­cy, your per­so­nal data will remain with us until the pur­po­se for which it was coll­ec­ted no lon­ger appli­es. If you assert a jus­ti­fied request for dele­ti­on or revo­ke your con­sent to data pro­ces­sing, your data will be dele­ted, unless we have other legal­ly per­mis­si­ble reasons for sto­ring your per­so­nal data (e.g., tax or com­mer­cial law reten­ti­on peri­ods); in the lat­ter case, the dele­ti­on will take place after the­se reasons cea­se to apply.

Gene­ral infor­ma­ti­on on the legal basis for the data pro­ces­sing on this website

If you have con­sen­ted to data pro­ces­sing, we pro­cess your per­so­nal data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR or Art. 9 (2)(a) GDPR, if spe­cial cate­go­ries of data are pro­ces­sed accor­ding to Art. 9 (1) DSGVO. In the case of expli­cit con­sent to the trans­fer of per­so­nal data to third count­ries, the data pro­ces­sing is also based on Art. 49 (1)(a) GDPR. If you have con­sen­ted to the sto­rage of coo­kies or to the access to infor­ma­ti­on in your end device (e.g., via device fin­ger­prin­ting), the data pro­ces­sing is addi­tio­nal­ly based on § 25 (1) TDDDG. The con­sent can be revo­ked at any time. If your data is requi­red for the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract or for the imple­men­ta­ti­on of pre-con­trac­tu­al mea­su­res, we pro­cess your data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Fur­ther­mo­re, if your data is requi­red for the ful­fill­ment of a legal obli­ga­ti­on, we pro­cess it on the basis of Art. 6(1)© GDPR. Fur­ther­mo­re, the data pro­ces­sing may be car­ri­ed out on the basis of our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest accor­ding to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Infor­ma­ti­on on the rele­vant legal basis in each indi­vi­du­al case is pro­vi­ded in the fol­lo­wing para­graphs of this pri­va­cy policy.

Infor­ma­ti­on on the data trans­fer to third-par­ty count­ries that are not secu­re under data pro­tec­tion law and the trans­fer to US com­pa­nies that are not DPF-certified

We use, among other tech­no­lo­gies, tools from com­pa­nies loca­ted in third-par­ty count­ries that are not safe under data pro­tec­tion law, as well as US tools who­se pro­vi­ders are not cer­ti­fied under the EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work (DPF). If the­se tools are enab­led, your per­so­nal data may be trans­fer­red to and pro­ces­sed in the­se count­ries. We would like you to note that no level of data pro­tec­tion com­pa­ra­ble to that in the EU can be gua­ran­teed in third count­ries that are inse­cu­re in terms of data pro­tec­tion law.

We would like to point out that the US, as a secu­re third-par­ty coun­try, gene­ral­ly has a level of data pro­tec­tion com­pa­ra­ble to that of the EU. Data trans­fer to the US is the­r­e­fo­re per­mit­ted if the reci­pi­ent is cer­ti­fied under the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF) or has appro­pria­te addi­tio­nal assu­ran­ces. Infor­ma­ti­on on trans­fers to third-par­ty count­ries, inclu­ding the data reci­pi­ents, can be found in this Pri­va­cy Policy.

Reci­pi­ents of per­so­nal data

In the scope of our busi­ness acti­vi­ties, we coope­ra­te with various exter­nal par­ties. In some cases, this also requi­res the trans­fer of per­so­nal data to the­se exter­nal par­ties. We only dis­c­lo­se per­so­nal data to exter­nal par­ties if this is requi­red as part of the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract, if we are legal­ly obli­ga­ted to do so (e.g., dis­clo­sure of data to tax aut­ho­ri­ties), if we have a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the dis­clo­sure pur­su­ant to Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR, or if ano­ther legal basis per­mits the dis­clo­sure of this data. When using pro­ces­sors, we only dis­c­lo­se per­so­nal data of our cus­to­mers on the basis of a valid con­tract on data pro­ces­sing. In the case of joint pro­ces­sing, a joint pro­ces­sing agree­ment is concluded.

Revo­ca­ti­on of your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of data

A wide ran­ge of data pro­ces­sing tran­sac­tions are pos­si­ble only sub­ject to your express con­sent. You can also revo­ke at any time any con­sent you have alre­a­dy given us. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­di­ce to the lawful­ness of any data coll­ec­tion that occur­red pri­or to your revocation.

Right to object to the coll­ec­tion of data in spe­cial cases; right to object to direct adver­ti­sing (Art. 21 GDPR)

IN THE EVENT THAT DATA ARE PRO­CES­SED ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6(1)(E) OR (F) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO AT ANY TIME OBJECT TO THE PRO­CES­SING OF YOUR PER­SO­NAL DATA BASED ON GROUNDS ARI­SING FROM YOUR UNI­QUE SITUA­TI­ON. THIS ALSO APPLI­ES TO ANY PRO­FIL­ING BASED ON THE­SE PRO­VI­SI­ONS. TO DETER­MI­NE THE LEGAL BASIS, ON WHICH ANY PRO­CES­SING OF DATA IS BASED, PLEA­SE CON­SULT THIS DATA PRO­TEC­TION DECLA­RA­TI­ON. IF YOU LOG AN OBJEC­TION, WE WILL NO LON­GER PRO­CESS YOUR AFFEC­TED PER­SO­NAL DATA, UNLESS WE ARE IN A POSI­TI­ON TO PRE­SENT COM­PEL­LING PRO­TEC­TION WORT­HY GROUNDS FOR THE PRO­CES­SING OF YOUR DATA, THAT OUT­WEIGH YOUR INTE­RESTS, RIGHTS AND FREE­DOMS OR IF THE PUR­PO­SE OF THE PRO­CES­SING IS THE CLAI­MING, EXER­CIS­ING OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL ENTIT­LE­MENTS (OBJEC­TION PUR­SU­ANT TO ART. 21(1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PER­SO­NAL DATA IS BEING PRO­CES­SED IN ORDER TO ENGA­GE IN DIRECT ADVER­TI­SING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PRO­CES­SING OF YOUR AFFEC­TED PER­SO­NAL DATA FOR THE PUR­PO­SES OF SUCH ADVER­TI­SING AT ANY TIME. THIS ALSO APPLI­ES TO PRO­FIL­ING TO THE EXT­ENT THAT IT IS AFFI­LIA­TED WITH SUCH DIRECT ADVER­TI­SING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PER­SO­NAL DATA WILL SUB­SE­QUENT­LY NO LON­GER BE USED FOR DIRECT ADVER­TI­SING PUR­PO­SES (OBJEC­TION PUR­SU­ANT TO ART. 21(2) GDPR).

Right to log a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent super­vi­so­ry agency

In the event of vio­la­ti­ons of the GDPR, data sub­jects are entit­led to log a com­plaint with a super­vi­so­ry agen­cy, in par­ti­cu­lar in the mem­ber sta­te whe­re they usual­ly main­tain their domic­i­le, place of work or at the place whe­re the alle­ged vio­la­ti­on occur­red. The right to log a com­plaint is in effect regard­less of any other admi­nis­tra­ti­ve or court pro­cee­dings available as legal recourses.

Right to data portability

You have the right to have data that we pro­cess auto­ma­ti­cal­ly on the basis of your con­sent or in ful­fill­ment of a con­tract han­ded over to you or to a third par­ty in a com­mon, machi­ne-rea­da­ble for­mat. If you should demand the direct trans­fer of the data to ano­ther con­trol­ler, this will be done only if it is tech­ni­cal­ly feasible.

Infor­ma­ti­on about, rec­ti­fi­ca­ti­on and era­di­ca­ti­on of data

Within the scope of the appli­ca­ble sta­tu­to­ry pro­vi­si­ons, you have the right to demand infor­ma­ti­on about your archi­ved per­so­nal data, their source and reci­pi­ents as well as the pur­po­se of the pro­ces­sing of your data at any time. You may also have a right to have your data rec­ti­fied or era­di­ca­ted. If you have ques­ti­ons about this sub­ject mat­ter or any other ques­ti­ons about per­so­nal data, plea­se do not hesi­ta­te to cont­act us at any time.

Right to demand pro­ces­sing restrictions

You have the right to demand the impo­si­ti­on of rest­ric­tions as far as the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data is con­cer­ned. To do so, you may cont­act us at any time. The right to demand rest­ric­tion of pro­ces­sing appli­es in the fol­lo­wing cases:

  • In the event that you should dis­pu­te the cor­rect­ness of your data archi­ved by us, we will usual­ly need some time to veri­fy this cla­im. During the time that this inves­ti­ga­ti­on is ongo­ing, you have the right to demand that we rest­rict the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data.
  • If the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data was/​is con­duc­ted in an unlawful man­ner, you have the opti­on to demand the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your data ins­tead of deman­ding the era­di­ca­ti­on of this data.
  • If we do not need your per­so­nal data any lon­ger and you need it to exer­cise, defend or cla­im legal entit­le­ments, you have the right to demand the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data ins­tead of its eradication.
  • If you have rai­sed an objec­tion pur­su­ant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, your rights and our rights will have to be weig­hed against each other. As long as it has not been deter­mi­ned who­se inte­rests pre­vail, you have the right to demand a rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data.

If you have rest­ric­ted the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data, the­se data – with the excep­ti­on of their archi­ving – may be pro­ces­sed only sub­ject to your con­sent or to cla­im, exer­cise or defend legal entit­le­ments or to pro­tect the rights of other natu­ral per­sons or legal enti­ties or for important public inte­rest reasons cited by the Euro­pean Uni­on or a mem­ber sta­te of the EU.

SSL and/​or TLS encryption

For secu­ri­ty reasons and to pro­tect the trans­mis­si­on of con­fi­den­ti­al con­tent, such as purcha­se orders or inqui­ries you sub­mit to us as the web­site ope­ra­tor, this web­site uses eit­her an SSL or a TLS encryp­ti­on pro­gram. You can reco­gni­ze an encrypt­ed con­nec­tion by che­cking whe­ther the address line of the brow­ser swit­ches from “http://” to “https://” and also by the appearance of the lock icon in the brow­ser line.

If the SSL or TLS encryp­ti­on is acti­va­ted, data you trans­mit to us can­not be read by third parties.

4. Recor­ding of data on this website

Coo­kies

Our web­sites and pages use what the indus­try refers to as “coo­kies.” Coo­kies are small data packa­ges that do not cau­se any dama­ge to your device. They are eit­her stored tem­po­r­a­ri­ly for the dura­ti­on of a ses­si­on (ses­si­on coo­kies) or they are per­ma­nent­ly archi­ved on your device (per­ma­nent coo­kies). Ses­si­on coo­kies are auto­ma­ti­cal­ly dele­ted once you ter­mi­na­te your visit. Per­ma­nent coo­kies remain archi­ved on your device until you actively dele­te them, or they are auto­ma­ti­cal­ly era­di­ca­ted by your web browser.

Coo­kies can be issued by us (first-par­ty coo­kies) or by third-par­ty com­pa­nies (so-cal­led third-par­ty coo­kies). Third-par­ty coo­kies enable the inte­gra­ti­on of cer­tain ser­vices of third-par­ty com­pa­nies into web­sites (e.g., coo­kies for hand­ling pay­ment services).

Coo­kies have a varie­ty of func­tions. Many coo­kies are tech­ni­cal­ly essen­ti­al sin­ce cer­tain web­site func­tions would not work in the absence of the­se coo­kies (e.g., the shop­ping cart func­tion or the dis­play of vide­os). Other coo­kies may be used to ana­ly­ze user beha­vi­or or for pro­mo­tio­nal purposes.

Coo­kies, which are requi­red for the per­for­mance of elec­tro­nic com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on tran­sac­tions, for the pro­vi­si­on of cer­tain func­tions you want to use (e.g., for the shop­ping cart func­tion) or tho­se that are neces­sa­ry for the opti­miza­ti­on (requi­red coo­kies) of the web­site (e.g., coo­kies that pro­vi­de mea­sura­ble insights into the web audi­ence), shall be stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, unless a dif­fe­rent legal basis is cited. The ope­ra­tor of the web­site has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the sto­rage of requi­red coo­kies to ensu­re the tech­ni­cal­ly error-free and opti­mi­zed pro­vi­si­on of the operator’s ser­vices. If your con­sent to the sto­rage of the coo­kies and simi­lar reco­gni­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies has been reques­ted, the pro­ces­sing occurs exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of the con­sent obtai­ned (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG); this con­sent may be revo­ked at any time.

You have the opti­on to set up your brow­ser in such a man­ner that you will be noti­fied any time coo­kies are pla­ced and to per­mit the accep­tance of coo­kies only in spe­ci­fic cases. You may also exclude the accep­tance of coo­kies in cer­tain cases or in gene­ral or acti­va­te the dele­te-func­tion for the auto­ma­tic era­di­ca­ti­on of coo­kies when the brow­ser clo­ses. If coo­kies are deac­ti­va­ted, the func­tions of this web­site may be limited.

Which coo­kies and ser­vices are used on this web­site can be found in this pri­va­cy policy.

Con­sent with Coo­kie Noti­ce & Compliance

Our web­site uses the con­sent tech­no­lo­gy of Coo­kie Noti­ce & Com­pli­ance for GDPR to obtain your con­sent for the archi­ving of cer­tain coo­kies on your device or for the use of cer­tain tech­no­lo­gies and for the data pro­tec­tion com­pli­ant docu­men­ta­ti­on of the former.

The pro­vi­der of the tool is Hu-mani­ty Rights Inc., 300 Car­ne­gie Cen­ter, Suite 150, Prince­ton, NJ, New Jer­sey 08540, USA (her­ein­af­ter refer­red to as “Hu-mani­ty Rights Inc.”). When you gain access to our web­site, a con­nec­tion with the ser­vers of Hu-mani­ty Rights Inc. is estab­lished to obtain your con­sent and other decla­ra­ti­ons rela­ted to the use of coo­kies. Sub­se­quent­ly, Hu-mani­ty Rights Inc. stores a coo­kie in your brow­ser to be able to allo­ca­te the gran­ted con­sent and their revo­ca­ti­on to you. The thus recor­ded data is stored until you ask us to dele­te it, dele­te the Hu-mani­ty Rights con­sent coo­kie yours­elf or the pur­po­se of data archi­ving is no lon­ger valid. This does not affect man­da­to­ry sta­tu­to­ry reten­ti­on periods.

Coo­kie Noti­ce & Com­pli­ance for GDPR is being used to obtain the con­sent for the use of coo­kies requi­red by law. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)© GDPR.

Cont­act form

If you sub­mit inqui­ries to us via our cont­act form, the infor­ma­ti­on pro­vi­ded in the cont­act form as well as any cont­act infor­ma­ti­on pro­vi­ded the­r­ein will be stored by us in order to hand­le your inquiry and in the event that we have fur­ther ques­ti­ons. We will not share this infor­ma­ti­on wit­hout your consent.

The pro­ces­sing of the­se data is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, if your request is rela­ted to the exe­cu­ti­on of a con­tract or if it is neces­sa­ry to car­ry out pre-con­trac­tu­al mea­su­res. In all other cases the pro­ces­sing is based on our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the effec­ti­ve pro­ces­sing of the requests addres­sed to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your agree­ment (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) if this has been reques­ted; the con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

The infor­ma­ti­on you have ente­red into the cont­act form shall remain with us until you ask us to era­di­ca­te the data, revo­ke your con­sent to the archi­ving of data or if the pur­po­se for which the infor­ma­ti­on is being archi­ved no lon­ger exists (e.g., after we have con­cluded our respon­se to your inquiry). This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­di­ce to any man­da­to­ry legal pro­vi­si­ons, in par­ti­cu­lar reten­ti­on periods.

Request by e‑mail, tele­pho­ne, or fax

If you cont­act us by e‑mail, tele­pho­ne or fax, your request, inclu­ding all resul­ting per­so­nal data (name, request) will be stored and pro­ces­sed by us for the pur­po­se of pro­ces­sing your request. We do not pass the­se data on wit­hout your consent.

The­se data are pro­ces­sed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR if your inquiry is rela­ted to the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract or is requi­red for the per­for­mance of pre-con­trac­tu­al mea­su­res. In all other cases, the data are pro­ces­sed on the basis of our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the effec­ti­ve hand­ling of inqui­ries sub­mit­ted to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on the basis of your con­sent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) if it has been obtai­ned; the con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

The data sent by you to us via cont­act requests remain with us until you request us to dele­te, revo­ke your con­sent to the sto­rage or the pur­po­se for the data sto­rage lap­ses (e.g. after com­ple­ti­on of your request). Man­da­to­ry sta­tu­to­ry pro­vi­si­ons — in par­ti­cu­lar sta­tu­to­ry reten­ti­on peri­ods — remain unaffected.

Mee­ter­go

We have inte­gra­ted Mee­ter­go on this web­site. The pro­vi­der is Mee­ter­go GmbH Haupt­str. 44, 40789 Mon­heim am Rhein (her­ein­af­ter “Mee­ter­go”).

Mee­ter­go enables us to make online appoint­ments. For this pur­po­se, we pro­cess per­so­nal mas­ter data, com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on data (e.g. tele­pho­ne, e‑mail), con­tent data of the cont­act (title, area of inte­rest and com­ment), user beha­vi­or, IP address, refer­rer URL, time of access.

The legal basis for data pro­ces­sing is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the pos­si­bi­li­ty of making appoint­ments. If a cor­re­spon­ding con­sent has been reques­ted, the pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG. Con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

Fur­ther details can be found in the pro­vi­der’s pri­va­cy poli­cy at https://meetergo.com/datenschutz/.

5. Social media

X (form­er­ly Twitter)

We have inte­gra­ted func­tions of the social media plat­form X (form­er­ly Twit­ter) into this web­site. The­se func­tions are pro­vi­ded by the parent com­pa­ny X Corp., 1355 Mar­ket Street, Suite 900, San Fran­cis­co, CA 94103, USA. The branch Twit­ter Inter­na­tio­nal Unli­mi­t­ed Com­pa­ny, One Cum­ber­land Place, Feni­an Street, Dub­lin 2, D02 AX07, Ire­land, is respon­si­ble for the data pro­ces­sing of indi­vi­du­als living out­side the United States.

If the social media ele­ment has been acti­va­ted, a direct con­nec­tion bet­ween your device and X’s ser­ver will be estab­lished. As a result, X (form­er­ly Twit­ter) will recei­ve infor­ma­ti­on on your visit to this web­site. While you use X (form­er­ly Twit­ter) and the “Re-Tweet” or “Repost” func­tion, web­sites you visit are lin­ked to your X (form­er­ly Twit­ter) account and dis­c­lo­sed to other users. We must point out, that we, the pro­vi­ders of the web­site and its pages do not know any­thing about the con­tent of the data trans­fer­red and the use of this infor­ma­ti­on by X (form­er­ly Twit­ter). For more details, plea­se con­sult the X (form­er­ly Twit­ter) Data Pri­va­cy Decla­ra­ti­on at: https://x.com/en/privacy.

The use of this ser­vice is based on your con­sent in accordance with Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG. Con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

Data trans­mis­si­on to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tu­al Clau­ses (SCC) of the Euro­pean Com­mis­si­on. Details can be found here: https://gdpr.x.com/en/controller-to-controller-transfers.html.

You have the opti­on to reset your data pro­tec­tion set­tings on X (form­er­ly Twit­ter) under the account set­tings at https://x.com/settings/account.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/2710.

Insta­gram

We have inte­gra­ted func­tions of the public media plat­form Insta­gram into this web­site. The­se func­tions are being offe­red by Meta Plat­forms Ire­land Limi­t­ed, Mer­ri­on Road, Dub­lin 4, D04 X2K5, Ireland.

If the social media ele­ment has been acti­va­ted, a direct con­nec­tion bet­ween your device and Instagram’s ser­ver will be estab­lished. As a result, Insta­gram will recei­ve infor­ma­ti­on on your visit to this website.

If you are log­ged into your Insta­gram account, you may click the Insta­gram but­ton to link con­tents from this web­site to your Insta­gram pro­fi­le. This enables Insta­gram to allo­ca­te your visit to this web­site to your user account. We have to point out that we as the pro­vi­der of the web­site and its pages do not have any know­ledge of the con­tent of the data trans­fer­red and its use by Instagram.

The use of this ser­vice is based on your con­sent in accordance with Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG. Con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

Inso­far as per­so­nal data is coll­ec­ted on our web­site with the help of the tool descri­bed here and for­ward­ed to Face­book or Insta­gram, we and Meta Plat­forms Ire­land Limi­t­ed, 4 Grand Canal Squa­re, Grand Canal Har­bour, Dub­lin 2, Ire­land are joint­ly respon­si­ble for this data pro­ces­sing (Art. 26 DSGVO). The joint respon­si­bi­li­ty is limi­t­ed exclu­si­ve­ly to the coll­ec­tion of the data and its for­war­ding to Face­book or Insta­gram. The pro­ces­sing by Face­book or Insta­gram that takes place after the onward trans­fer is not part of the joint respon­si­bi­li­ty. The obli­ga­ti­ons incum­bent on us joint­ly have been set out in a joint pro­ces­sing agree­ment. The wor­ding of the agree­ment can be found under: https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum. Accor­ding to this agree­ment, we are respon­si­ble for pro­vi­ding the pri­va­cy infor­ma­ti­on when using the Face­book or Insta­gram tool and for the pri­va­cy-secu­re imple­men­ta­ti­on of the tool on our web­site. Face­book is respon­si­ble for the data secu­ri­ty of Face­book or Insta­gram pro­ducts. You can assert data sub­ject rights (e.g., requests for infor­ma­ti­on) regar­ding data pro­ces­sed by Face­book or Insta­gram direct­ly with Face­book. If you assert the data sub­ject rights with us, we are obli­ged to for­ward them to Facebook.

Data trans­mis­si­on to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tu­al Clau­ses (SCC) of the Euro­pean Com­mis­si­on. Details can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum, https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/ and https://de-de.facebook.com/help/566994660333381.

For more infor­ma­ti­on on this sub­ject, plea­se con­sult Instagram’s Data Pri­va­cy Decla­ra­ti­on at: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/4452.

Lin­ke­dIn

This web­site uses ele­ments of the Lin­ke­dIn net­work. The pro­vi­der is Lin­ke­dIn Ire­land Unli­mi­t­ed Com­pa­ny, Wil­ton Pla­za, Wil­ton Place, Dub­lin 2, Ireland.

Any time you access a page of this web­site that con­ta­ins ele­ments of Lin­ke­dIn, a con­nec­tion to LinkedIn’s ser­vers is estab­lished. Lin­ke­dIn is noti­fied that you have visi­ted this web­site with your IP address. If you click on LinkedIn’s “Recom­mend” but­ton and are log­ged into your Lin­ke­dIn account at the time, Lin­ke­dIn will be in a posi­ti­on to allo­ca­te your visit to this web­site to your user account. We have to point out that we as the pro­vi­der of the web­sites do not have any know­ledge of the con­tent of the trans­fer­red data and its use by LinkedIn.

The use of this ser­vice is based on your con­sent in accordance with Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG. Con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

Data trans­mis­si­on to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tu­al Clau­ses (SCC) of the Euro­pean Com­mis­si­on. Details can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1343190/datenubertragung-aus-der-eu-dem-ewr-und-der-schweiz?lang=de.

For fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on on this sub­ject, plea­se con­sult LinkedIn’s Data Pri­va­cy Decla­ra­ti­on at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5448.

6. News­let­ter

News­let­ter data

If you would like to sub­scri­be to the news­let­ter offe­red on this web­site, we will need from you an e‑mail address as well as infor­ma­ti­on that allow us to veri­fy that you are the owner of the e‑mail address pro­vi­ded and con­sent to the receipt of the news­let­ter. No fur­ther data shall be coll­ec­ted or shall be coll­ec­ted only on a vol­un­t­a­ry basis. We shall use such data only for the sen­ding of the reques­ted infor­ma­ti­on and shall not share such data with any third parties.

The pro­ces­sing of the infor­ma­ti­on ente­red into the news­let­ter sub­scrip­ti­on form shall occur exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of your con­sent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You may revo­ke the con­sent you have given to the archi­ving of data, the e‑mail address, and the use of this infor­ma­ti­on for the sen­ding of the news­let­ter at any time, for ins­tance by cli­cking on the “Unsub­scri­be” link in the news­let­ter. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­di­ce to the lawful­ness of any data pro­ces­sing tran­sac­tions that have taken place to date.

The data depo­si­ted with us for the pur­po­se of sub­scrib­ing to the news­let­ter will be stored by us until you unsub­scri­be from the news­let­ter or the news­let­ter ser­vice pro­vi­der and dele­ted from the news­let­ter dis­tri­bu­ti­on list after you unsub­scri­be from the news­let­ter or after the pur­po­se has cea­sed to app­ly. We reser­ve the right to dele­te or block e‑mail addres­ses from our news­let­ter dis­tri­bu­ti­on list at our own dis­cre­ti­on within the scope of our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Data stored for other pur­po­ses with us remain unaffected.

After you unsub­scri­be from the news­let­ter dis­tri­bu­ti­on list, your e‑mail address may be stored by us or the news­let­ter ser­vice pro­vi­der in a black­list, if such action is neces­sa­ry to pre­vent future mai­lings. The data from the black­list is used only for this pur­po­se and not mer­ged with other data. This ser­ves both your inte­rest and our inte­rest in com­ply­ing with the legal requi­re­ments when sen­ding news­let­ters (legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest within the mea­ning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). The sto­rage in the black­list is inde­fi­ni­te. You may object to the sto­rage if your inte­rests out­weigh our legi­ti­ma­te interest.

7. Plug-ins and Tools

Ado­be Fonts

In order to ensu­re the uni­form depic­tion of cer­tain fonts, this web­site uses fonts cal­led Ado­be Fonts pro­vi­ded by Ado­be Sys­tems Incor­po­ra­ted, 345 Park Ave­nue, San Jose, CA 95110–2704, USA (Ado­be).

When you access pages of this web­site, your brow­ser will auto­ma­ti­cal­ly load the requi­red fonts direct­ly from the Ado­be site to be able to dis­play them cor­rect­ly on your device. As a result, your brow­ser will estab­lish a con­nec­tion with Adobe’s ser­vers in the United Sta­tes. Hence, Ado­be lear­ns that your IP address was used to access this web­site. Accor­ding to the infor­ma­ti­on pro­vi­ded by Ado­be, no coo­kies will be stored in con­junc­tion with the pro­vi­si­on of the fonts.

Data are stored and ana­ly­zed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in a uni­form pre­sen­ta­ti­on of the font on the operator’s web­site. If appro­pria­te con­sent has been obtai­ned, the pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, inso­far the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or the access to infor­ma­ti­on in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­prin­ting) within the mea­ning of the TDDDG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

Data trans­mis­si­on to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tu­al Clau­ses (SCC) of the Euro­pean Com­mis­si­on. Details can be found here: https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/eudatatransfers.html.

For more infor­ma­ti­on about Ado­be Fonts, plea­se read the poli­ci­es under: https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policies/adobe-fonts.html.

Adobe’s Data Pri­va­cy Decla­ra­ti­on may be review­ed under: https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5660.

Goog­le reCAPTCHA

We use “Goog­le reCAPTCHA” (her­ein­af­ter refer­red to as “reCAPTCHA”) on this web­site. The pro­vi­der is Goog­le Ire­land Limi­t­ed (“Goog­le”), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ireland.

The pur­po­se of reCAPTCHA is to deter­mi­ne whe­ther data ente­red on this web­site (e.g., infor­ma­ti­on ente­red into a cont­act form) is being pro­vi­ded by a human user or by an auto­ma­ted pro­gram. To deter­mi­ne this, reCAPTCHA ana­ly­zes the beha­vi­or of the web­site visi­tors based on a varie­ty of para­me­ters. This ana­ly­sis is trig­ge­red auto­ma­ti­cal­ly as soon as the web­site visi­tor enters the site. For this ana­ly­sis, reCAPTCHA eva­lua­tes a varie­ty of data (e.g., IP address, time the web­site visi­tor spent on the site or cur­sor move­ments initia­ted by the user). The data tra­cked during such ana­ly­ses are for­ward­ed to Google.

reCAPTCHA ana­ly­ses run enti­re­ly in the back­ground. Web­site visi­tors are not aler­ted that an ana­ly­sis is underway.

Data are stored and ana­ly­zed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the pro­tec­tion of the operator’s web­sites against abu­si­ve auto­ma­ted spy­ing and against SPAM. If appro­pria­te con­sent has been obtai­ned, the pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, inso­far the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or the access to infor­ma­ti­on in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­prin­ting) within the mea­ning of the TDDDG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

For more infor­ma­ti­on about Goog­le reCAPTCHA plea­se refer to the Goog­le Data Pri­va­cy Decla­ra­ti­on and Terms Of Use under the fol­lo­wing links: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780.

Quel­le: https://www.e‑recht24.de