Pri­vacy policy

The respons­ible party with­in the mean­ing of the data pro­tec­tion laws, in par­tic­u­lar the EU Gen­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion (DSGVO), is:

Data Pro­tec­tion Officer:
WS Datens­chutz GmbH
Dir­ck­sen­straße 51
D-10178 Ber­lin
Ver­tre­tungs­berechtige Geschäfts­führ­er: Kemal Weber­sohn (LL.M.); Chris­ti­an Scholtz (LL.M.)
Tele­fon: 030 / 88 72 07 88
E-Mail: kontakt@ws-datenschutz.de

Your data sub­ject rights
You can exer­cise the fol­low­ing rights at any time using the con­tact details provided by our data pro­tec­tion officer:

  • Inform­a­tion about your data stored by us and its pro­cessing (Art. 15 DSGVO),
  • Cor­rec­tion of incor­rect per­son­al data (Art. 16 DSGVO),
  • dele­tion of your data stored by us (Art. 17 DSGVO),
  • Restric­tion of data pro­cessing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to leg­al oblig­a­tions (Art. 18 DSGVO),
  • objec­tion to the pro­cessing of your data by us (Art. 21 DSGVO) and
  • Data port­ab­il­ity, provided you have con­sen­ted to the data pro­cessing or have con­cluded a con­tract with us (Art. 20 DSGVO).

If you have giv­en us con­sent, you can revoke this at any time with effect for the future.

You can sub­mit a com­plaint to a super­vis­ory author­ity at any time, e.g. to the com­pet­ent super­vis­ory author­ity in the fed­er­al state of your res­id­ence or to the author­ity respons­ible for us as the respons­ible body.

A list of the super­vis­ory author­it­ies (for the non-pub­lic sec­tor) with address can be found at:

https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Anschriften/Laender/Laender-node.html.

Col­lec­tion of gen­er­al inform­a­tion when vis­it­ing our website

Nature and pur­pose of the pro­cessing:
When you access our web­site, i.e. if you do not register or oth­er­wise sub­mit inform­a­tion, inform­a­tion of a gen­er­al nature is auto­mat­ic­ally col­lec­ted. This inform­a­tion (serv­er log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the oper­at­ing sys­tem used, the domain name of your inter­net ser­vice pro­vider, your IP address and the like.

In par­tic­u­lar, they are pro­cessed for the fol­low­ing purposes:

  • Ensur­ing a smooth con­nec­tion of the website,
  • Ensur­ing the smooth use of our website,
  • eval­u­at­ing sys­tem secur­ity and sta­bil­ity, and
  • for the optim­isa­tion of our website.

We do not use your data to draw con­clu­sions about your per­son. Inform­a­tion of this kind will be stat­ist­ic­ally ana­lysed anonym­ously, if neces­sary, in order to optim­ise our web­site and the tech­no­logy behind it.

Leg­al basis and legit­im­ate interest:
The pro­cessing is car­ried out in accord­ance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO on the basis of our legit­im­ate interest in improv­ing the sta­bil­ity and func­tion­al­ity of our website.

Recip­i­ents:

Recip­i­ents of the data may be tech­nic­al ser­vice pro­viders who act as order pro­cessors for the oper­a­tion and main­ten­ance of our website.

Stor­age duration:

The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the pur­pose for which it was col­lec­ted. For data used to provide the web­site, this is gen­er­ally the case when the respect­ive ses­sion has ended.

In the case of stor­age of data in log files, this is the case after 14 days at the latest. Stor­age bey­ond this peri­od is pos­sible. In this case, the IP addresses of the users are anonymised so that it is no longer pos­sible to assign the call­ing client.

Bereit­s­tel­lung vorges­chrieben oder erforderlich:

The pro­vi­sion of the afore­men­tioned per­son­al data is neither leg­ally nor con­trac­tu­ally required. How­ever, without the IP address, the ser­vice and func­tion­al­ity of our web­site can­not be guar­an­teed. In addi­tion, indi­vidu­al ser­vices and ser­vices may not be avail­able or may be restric­ted. For this reas­on, an objec­tion is excluded.
Regis­tra­tion on our website.

Nature and pur­pose of the processing:

For regis­tra­tion on our web­site, we require some per­son­al data, which is trans­mit­ted to us via an input mask.

The fol­low­ing addi­tion­al data is col­lec­ted at the time of registration:

Your regis­tra­tion is required for the pro­vi­sion of cer­tain con­tent and ser­vices on our website.

Leg­al basis:

The pro­cessing of the data entered dur­ing regis­tra­tion is based on the user’s con­sent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO).

Recip­i­ents:

Recip­i­ents of the data may be tech­nic­al ser­vice pro­viders who act as order pro­cessors for the oper­a­tion and main­ten­ance of our website.

Stor­age duration:

Data will only be pro­cessed in this con­text as long as the rel­ev­ant con­sent has been giv­en.
Pro­vi­sion man­dat­ory or required:
The pro­vi­sion of your per­son­al data is vol­un­tary, based solely on your con­sent. Without the pro­vi­sion of your per­son­al data, we can­not grant you access to our offered content.

News­let­ter

Nature and pur­pose of the processing:

For the deliv­ery of our news­let­ter, we col­lect per­son­al data that is trans­mit­ted to us via an input mask.

For an effect­ive regis­tra­tion, we require a val­id e-mail address. In order to veri­fy that a regis­tra­tion is actu­ally made by the own­er of an e-mail address, we use the “double opt-in” pro­ced­ure. For this pur­pose, we log the regis­tra­tion for the news­let­ter, the send­ing of a con­firm­a­tion email and the receipt of the response reques­ted here­with. No fur­ther data is collected.

Leg­al basis:

Based on your express con­sent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO), we will reg­u­larly send you our news­let­ter or com­par­able inform­a­tion by e-mail to your spe­cified e-mail address.

You can revoke your con­sent to the stor­age of your per­son­al data and its use for send­ing the news­let­ter at any time with effect for the future. You will find a link to this effect in every news­let­ter. You can also unsub­scribe dir­ectly on this web­site at any time or inform us of your revoc­a­tion using the con­tact option provided at the end of this pri­vacy policy.

Recip­i­ents:

Recip­i­ents of the data are pro­cessors, if applicable.

Stor­age duration:

In this con­text, the data will only be pro­cessed as long as the cor­res­pond­ing con­sent has been giv­en. After­wards they will be deleted.
Pro­vi­sion pre­scribed or required:
The pro­vi­sion of your per­son­al data is vol­un­tary, based solely on your con­sent. Unfor­tu­nately, we can­not send you our news­let­ter without your consent.

Revoc­a­tion of consent:

You can with­draw your con­sent to the stor­age of your per­son­al data and its use for the news­let­ter mail­ing at any time with effect for the future. Unsub­scrib­ing can be reques­ted via the link con­tained in every email or from the data pro­tec­tion officer or per­son respons­ible for data pro­tec­tion lis­ted below.

Con­tact form

Nature and pur­pose of the processing:

The data you enter will be stored for the pur­pose of indi­vidu­al com­mu­nic­a­tion with you. For this pur­pose, it is neces­sary to provide a val­id e-mail address and your name. This is used for the assign­ment of the enquiry and the sub­sequent response to it. The pro­vi­sion of fur­ther data is optional.

Leg­al basis:

The pro­cessing of the data entered in the con­tact form is based on a legit­im­ate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO).

By provid­ing the con­tact form, we would like to enable you to con­tact us in an uncom­plic­ated man­ner. The inform­a­tion you provide will be stored for the pur­pose of pro­cessing the enquiry and for pos­sible fol­low-up questions.

If you con­tact us to request a quote, the data entered in the con­tact form will be pro­cessed to carry out pre-con­trac­tu­al meas­ures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO).

Recip­i­ents:

Recip­i­ents of the data are, if applic­able, order processors.

Stor­age duration:

Data will be deleted no later than 6 months after the request has been processed.

If a con­trac­tu­al rela­tion­ship arises, we are sub­ject to the stat­utory reten­tion peri­ods accord­ing to the Ger­man Com­mer­cial Code (HGB) and delete your data after these peri­ods have expired.

Pro­vi­sion man­dat­ory or required:

The pro­vi­sion of your per­son­al data is vol­un­tary. How­ever, we can only pro­cess your request if you provide us with your name, e-mail address and the reas­on for the request.

Use of Google Analytics

If you have giv­en your con­sent, this web­site uses Google Ana­lyt­ics, a web ana­lyt­ics ser­vice provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphi­theatre Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043 USA (here­in­after: “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 trans­mit­ted 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 trun­cated before­hand 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 trans­mit­ted to a Google serv­er in the USA and shortened there. The IP address trans­mit­ted by your browser as part of Google Ana­lyt­ics will not be merged with oth­er Google data.

For more inform­a­tion on terms of use and data pro­tec­tion, please vis­it https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.

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 to the web­site operator.

The data sent by us and linked to cook­ies, user IDs (e.g. user ID) or advert­ising IDs are auto­mat­ic­ally deleted after 14 months. Data whose reten­tion peri­od has been reached is auto­mat­ic­ally deleted once a month.

With­draw­al of consent:

You can stop track­ing by Google Ana­lyt­ics on our web­site by click­ing this link. This will install an opt-out cook­ie on your device. This will pre­vent the col­lec­tion by Google Ana­lyt­ics for this web­site and for this browser in the future, as long as the cook­ie remains installed in your browser.

You may also refuse the use of cook­ies by select­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings on your browser, how­ever please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full func­tion­al­ity of this website.

You can also pre­vent the col­lec­tion of data gen­er­ated by the cook­ie and related to your use of the web­site (incl. your IP address) by Google and the pro­cessing of this data by Google by down­load­ing and installing the browser plu­gin avail­able under the fol­low­ing link: Browser Add On to deac­tiv­ate Google Ana­lyt­ics.

Use of script lib­rar­ies (Google Web Fonts)

In order to dis­play our con­tent cor­rectly and in a graph­ic­ally appeal­ing man­ner across browsers, we use “Google Web Fonts” from Google LLC (1600 Amphi­theatre Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA; here­in­after “Google”) on this web­site to dis­play fonts.

Fur­ther inform­a­tion on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s pri­vacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

 

SSL encryp­tion

To pro­tect the secur­ity of your data dur­ing trans­mis­sion, we use state-of-the-art encryp­tion pro­ced­ures (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Inform­a­tion about your right to object accord­ing to Art. 21 DSGVO

Right to object on a case-by-case basis

You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relat­ing to your par­tic­u­lar situ­ation, to the pro­cessing of per­son­al data relat­ing to you which is car­ried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) DSGVO (data pro­cessing on the basis of a bal­ance of interests); this also applies to pro­fil­ing based on this pro­vi­sion with­in the mean­ing of Art. 4 No. 4 DSGVO.

If you object, we will no longer pro­cess your per­son­al data unless we can demon­strate com­pel­ling legit­im­ate grounds for the pro­cessing which over­ride your interests, rights and freedoms, or the pro­cessing serves to assert, exer­cise or defend leg­al claims.

Recip­i­ents of an objection

WS Datens­chutz GmbH
Dir­ck­sen­straße 51
D-10178 Ber­lin
Ver­tre­tungs­berechtige Geschäfts­führ­er: Kemal Weber­sohn (LL.M.); Chris­ti­an Scholtz (LL.M.)
Tele­fon: 030 / 88 72 07 88
E-Mail: kontakt@ws-datenschutz.de

Change to our pri­vacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this data pro­tec­tion declar­a­tion so that it always com­plies with the cur­rent leg­al require­ments or in order to imple­ment changes to our ser­vices in the data pro­tec­tion declar­a­tion, e.g. when intro­du­cing new ser­vices. The new data pro­tec­tion state­ment will then apply to your next visit.

Ques­tions to the Data Pro­tec­tion Officer

If you have any ques­tions about data pro­tec­tion, please write us an e-mail or con­tact the per­son respons­ible for data pro­tec­tion in our organ­isa­tion directly

WS Datens­chutz GmbH
Dir­ck­sen­straße 51
D-10178 Ber­lin
Ver­tre­tungs­berechtige Geschäfts­führ­er: Kemal Weber­sohn (LL.M.); Chris­ti­an Scholtz (LL.M.)
Tele­fon: 030 / 88 72 07 88
E-Mail: kontakt@ws-datenschutz.de