privacy policy
Effective Date: July 27, 2024
Table of Contents
- Responsible Party
- Overview of Processing Activities
- Relevant Legal Bases
- Security Measures
- Transfer of Personal Data
- International Data Transfers
- General Information on Data Retention and Deletion
- Rights of Data Subjects
- Business Services
- Business Processes and Procedures
- Provision of the Online Offer and Web Hosting
- Use of Cookies
- Blogs and Publication Media
- Contact and Inquiry Management
- Web Analysis, Monitoring, and Optimization
- Plugins and Embedded Functions and Content
- Processing of Data in Employment Relationships
Responsible Party
SAGA invest GmbH
Kanalstr. 2 | 41460 Neuss
Germany
Authorized Representatives: Alexander Dubynski, Jürgen Helmhold
Email Address: info@saga-alliance.com
Imprint: https://www.saga-alliance.com/legal-notice
Overview of Processing Activities
The following overview summarizes the types of data processed and the purposes of their processing, referring to the affected persons.
Types of Data Processed
- Inventory data.
- Employee data.
- Payment data.
- Location data.
- Contact data.
- Content data.
- Contract data.
- Usage data.
- Meta, communication, and procedural data.
- Log data.
Categories of Data Subjects
- Service recipients and contractors.
- Employees.
- Interested parties.
- Communication partners.
- Users.
- Business and contract partners.
Purposes of Processing
- Provision of contractual services and fulfillment of contractual obligations.
- Communication.
- Security measures.
- Audience measurement.
- Office and organizational procedures.
- Organizational and administrative procedures.
- Feedback.
- Profiles with user-related information.
- Provision of our online offer and user-friendliness.
- Establishment and execution of employment relationships.
- Information technology infrastructure.
- Business processes and economic procedures.
Relevant Legal Bases
Relevant legal bases under the GDPR: The following provides an overview of the legal bases of the GDPR on which we process personal data. Please note that, in addition to the provisions of the GDPR, national data protection regulations may apply in your or our country of residence. Should specific legal bases be relevant in individual cases, we will inform you of these in the privacy policy.
- Consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) – The data subject has given their consent to the processing of their personal data for one or more specific purposes.
- Contract performance and pre-contractual inquiries (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) – The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party or to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract.
- Legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR) – The processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject.
- Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) – The processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data.
- Processing of special categories of personal data in healthcare, employment, and social security (Art. 9(2)(h) GDPR) – The processing is necessary for purposes of preventive or occupational medicine, for the assessment of the working capacity of the employee, for medical diagnosis, the provision of health or social care or treatment, or the management of health or social care systems and services on the basis of Union or Member State law or pursuant to a contract with a health professional.
National data protection regulations in Germany: In addition to the data protection regulations of the GDPR, national regulations on data protection apply in Germany. This includes, in particular, the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). The BDSG contains special regulations on the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to object, the processing of special categories of personal data, processing for other purposes, and the transmission of data and automated decision-making in individual cases, including profiling. Furthermore, state data protection laws of the individual federal states may apply.
Security Measures
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, taking into account the state of the art, the implementation costs, and the nature, scope, context, and purposes of the processing, as well as the varying likelihood and severity of the risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons.
Measures include, in particular, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data by controlling physical and electronic access to the data, as well as access, input, transmission, availability, and separation of the data. Furthermore, we have established procedures to ensure the exercise of data subjects‘ rights, deletion of data, and response to data threats. We also consider the protection of personal data during the development or selection of hardware, software, and procedures according to the principle of data protection by design and by default.
Secure online connections using TLS/SSL encryption technology (HTTPS): To protect the data of users transmitted through our online services from unauthorized access, we use TLS/SSL encryption technology. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) are the cornerstones of secure data transmission on the Internet. These technologies encrypt the information transmitted between the website or app and the user’s browser (or between two servers), protecting the data from unauthorized access. TLS, as the more advanced and secure version of SSL, ensures that all data transmissions meet the highest security standards. When a website is secured with an SSL/TLS certificate, this is indicated by the display of HTTPS in the URL. This serves as an indicator to users that their data is being securely and encryptedly transmitted.
Transfer of Personal Data
In the course of our processing of personal data, it may happen that this data is transferred to other entities, companies, legally independent organizational units, or persons, or disclosed to them. Recipients of this data may include, for example, IT service providers or providers of services and content that are embedded in a website. In such cases, we comply with the legal requirements and conclude appropriate contracts or agreements with the recipients of your data to protect your data.
International Data Transfers
Data processing in third countries: If we process data in a third country (i.e., outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)) or if the processing takes place within the scope of using third-party services or disclosing or transferring data to other persons, entities, or companies, this will only occur in accordance with the legal requirements. If the level of data protection in the third country has been recognized by an adequacy decision (Art. 45 GDPR), this will serve as the basis for the data transfer. Otherwise, data transfers will only take place if the data protection level is otherwise ensured, especially through standard contractual clauses (Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR), explicit consent, or if the transfer is necessary for contractual or legally required reasons (Art. 49(1) GDPR). We will inform you about the basis of third-country transfers for the individual providers from third countries. Information on third-country transfers and existing adequacy decisions can be obtained from the information offered by the EU Commission: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection_en?prefLang=de.
EU-US Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework: Within the framework of the so-called “Data Privacy Framework” (DPF), the EU Commission has also recognized the level of data protection for certain companies from the USA as secure in the adequacy decision of 10.07.2023. The list of certified companies and further information on the DPF can be found on the website of the US Department of Commerce at https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/ (in English). We inform you in our privacy notices which service providers we use that are certified under the Data Privacy Framework.
General Information on Data Retention and Deletion
We delete personal data that we process in accordance with the legal requirements as soon as the consents underlying the processing are revoked or other legal bases no longer apply. This includes cases where the original purpose for processing no longer exists or the data is no longer required. Exceptions to this rule exist if legal obligations or special interests require longer retention or archiving of the data.
Data that must be retained for commercial or tax law reasons or that is necessary for the pursuit or defense of legal claims or the protection of the rights of other natural or legal persons will be archived accordingly.
Our privacy notices contain additional information on the retention and deletion of data that apply specifically to certain processing activities.
When multiple retention periods or deletion deadlines are specified for a data point, the longest period is always applicable.
If a period does not explicitly begin on a specific date and is at least one year, it automatically starts at the end of the calendar year in which the event triggering the period occurred. In the case of ongoing contractual relationships in which data is stored, the triggering event is the effective date of termination or other end of the legal relationship.
Data that is no longer needed for its originally intended purpose but is retained for legal or other reasons will be processed solely for the reasons justifying its retention.
Additional Notes on Processing Activities, Procedures, and Services:
- Retention and Deletion of Data: The following general periods apply to retention and archiving under German law:
- 10 years – Retention period for books and records, annual financial statements, inventories, management reports, opening balance sheets, and the necessary instructions and organizational documents for their understanding, booking vouchers, and invoices (§ 147(3) in conjunction with (1) no. 1, 4, and 4a AO, § 14b(1) UStG, § 257(1) no. 1 and 4, (4) HGB).
- 6 years – Other business documents: received commercial or business letters, copies of sent commercial or business letters, other documents relevant for taxation, such as timesheets, operating cost sheets, calculation documents, price lists, as well as payroll records not already booking vouchers and cash register strips (§ 147(3) in conjunction with (1) no. 2, 3, 5 AO, § 257(1) no. 2 and 3, (4) HGB).
- 3 years – Data necessary to consider potential warranty and compensation claims or similar contractual claims and rights, as well as related inquiries based on past business experiences and usual industry practices, are stored for the duration of the regular statutory limitation period of three years (§§ 195, 199 BGB).
Rights of Data Subjects
Rights of Data Subjects under the GDPR: As a data subject, you have various rights under the GDPR, which are primarily derived from Articles 15 to 21 of the GDPR:
- Right to Object: You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of your personal data, which is based on Article 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. If your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for such marketing purposes; this also applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: You have the right to withdraw consent at any time.
- Right of Access: You have the right to request confirmation as to whether relevant data is being processed and to obtain information about this data and further information and a copy of the data in accordance with legal requirements.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request the completion of data concerning you or the rectification of inaccurate data concerning you in accordance with legal requirements.
- Right to Erasure and Restriction of Processing: You have the right to request the immediate deletion of data concerning you in accordance with legal requirements, or alternatively, to request the restriction of the processing of the data in accordance with legal requirements.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive the data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format in accordance with legal requirements or to request its transmission to another controller.
- Right to Lodge a Complaint with a Supervisory Authority: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of your personal data infringes the GDPR, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy.
Business Services
We process data from our contract and business partners, e.g., customers and interested parties (collectively referred to as „contract partners“), within the framework of contractual and comparable legal relationships as well as associated measures and in the context of communication with the contract partners (or pre-contractually), e.g., to respond to inquiries.
We use this data to fulfill our contractual obligations. These include, in particular, the obligations to provide the agreed services, any update obligations, and remedy any warranty and other service disruptions. In addition, we use the data to protect our rights and for the purposes of the administrative tasks associated with these obligations as well as the organization of the company. We also process the data based on our legitimate interests in proper and economic business management as well as in security measures to protect our contract partners and our business operations from misuse, endangerment of their data, secrets, information, and rights (e.g., involving telecommunications, transport, and other assistance services as well as subcontractors, banks, tax and legal advisors, payment service providers, or tax authorities). In accordance with applicable law, we only disclose the data of contract partners to third parties to the extent necessary for the above purposes or to fulfill legal obligations. Further forms of processing, such as for marketing purposes, will be communicated to the contract partners within this privacy policy.
We inform contract partners of the necessary data for the above purposes before or in the context of data collection, e.g., in online forms, through special markings (e.g., colors) or symbols (e.g., asterisks), or personally.
We delete the data after the expiration of statutory warranty and comparable obligations, i.e., generally after four years, unless the data is stored in a customer account, e.g., as long as it must be retained for legal archiving reasons (e.g., for tax purposes generally ten years). Data disclosed to us by the contract partner in the context of an order will be deleted according to the specifications and generally after the end of the order.
- Processed Data Types: Inventory data (e.g., full name, address, contact information, customer number, etc.); payment data (e.g., bank details, invoices, payment history); contact data (e.g., postal and email addresses, or phone numbers). Contract data (e.g., contract subject, duration, customer category).
- Affected Persons: Service recipients and clients; interested parties; business and contract partners.
- Purposes of Processing: Provision of contractual services and fulfillment of contractual obligations; communication; office and organizational procedures; organizational and administrative procedures. Business processes and economic procedures.
- Retention and Deletion: Deletion in accordance with the information in the section „General Information on Data Retention and Deletion“.
- Legal Bases: Contract performance and pre-contractual inquiries (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR); legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR); legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Business Processes and Procedures
Personal data of service recipients and clients, including customers, clients, or in special cases, mandatories, patients, or business partners, as well as other third parties, are processed within the framework of contractual and comparable legal relationships and pre-contractual measures, such as the initiation of business relationships. This data processing supports and facilitates economic processes in areas such as customer management, sales, payment transactions, accounting, and project management.
The data collected is used to fulfill contractual obligations and to streamline business processes. This includes the handling of business transactions, customer relationship management, optimization of sales strategies, and ensuring internal accounting and financial processes. Additionally, the data supports the protection of the rights of the controller and promotes administrative tasks and the organization of the company.
Personal data may be shared with third parties if necessary to fulfill the stated purposes or to comply with legal obligations. These third parties include service providers involved in telecommunications, transport, and other assistance services, subcontractors, banks, tax and legal advisors, payment service providers, or tax authorities. We only share data to the extent necessary for the above purposes or to comply with legal requirements.
- Processed Data Types: Inventory data (e.g., full name, address, contact information, customer number, etc.); payment data (e.g., bank details, invoices, payment history); contact data (e.g., postal and email addresses or phone numbers); content data (e.g., textual or visual messages and posts and related information, such as authorship details); contract data (e.g., contract subject, duration, customer category); usage data (e.g., page views and dwell time, click paths, usage intensity and frequency, device types and operating systems used, interactions with content and functions); meta, communication, and procedural data (e.g., IP addresses, timestamps, identification numbers, participants).
- Affected Persons: Service recipients and clients; interested parties; communication partners; business and contract partners.
- Purposes of Processing: Provision of contractual services and fulfillment of contractual obligations; office and organizational procedures; business processes and economic procedures.
- Retention and Deletion: Deletion in accordance with the information in the section „General Information on Data Retention and Deletion“.
- Legal Bases: Contract performance and pre-contractual inquiries (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR); legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Further Notes on Processing Activities, Procedures, and Services:
- Collection of Access Data and Log Files: Access to our online offer is logged in the form of so-called „server log files“. The server log files may include the address and name of the accessed websites and files, date and time of access, transferred data volumes, message about successful access, browser type and version, the user’s operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page), and, as a rule, IP addresses and the requesting provider. The server log files can be used for security purposes, e.g., to avoid server overload (especially in case of abusive attacks, so-called DDoS attacks), and to ensure server utilization and stability; Legal Bases: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Deletion of Data: Log file information is stored for a maximum of 30 days and then deleted or anonymized. Data that must be retained for evidence purposes is excluded from deletion until the respective incident is finally clarified.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are small text files or other memory notes that store information on end devices and read information from them. For example, to save the login status in a user account, a shopping cart content in an e-shop, the accessed content, or used functions of an online offer. Cookies can also be used for various purposes, such as the functionality, security, and comfort of online offers, as well as for the creation of analyses of visitor flows.
Information on Consent: We use cookies in accordance with legal regulations. Therefore, we obtain prior consent from users, unless this is not required by law. Consent is particularly not necessary if the storage and reading of the information, including cookies, is absolutely necessary to provide users with a service they expressly requested. The revocable consent will be communicated to users clearly and contain the information about the respective cookie usage.
Information on Legal Bases: The legal basis for processing users‘ personal data using cookies depends on whether we ask users for consent. If users consent, the legal basis for processing their data is the declared consent. Otherwise, the data processed with cookies is based on our legitimate interests (e.g., in a business operation of our online offer and its improvement) or, if necessary, to fulfill our contractual obligations, if the use of cookies is required to fulfill our contractual obligations.
Retention Period: Regarding the retention period, the following types of cookies are distinguished:
- Temporary Cookies (also: session or session cookies): Temporary cookies are deleted at the latest after a user has left an online offer and closed their end device (e.g., browser or mobile application).
- Permanent Cookies: Permanent cookies remain stored even after closing the end device. For example, the login status can be saved, or preferred content can be displayed directly when the user visits a website again. Likewise, the data collected using cookies can be used for reach measurement. Unless users are explicitly informed about the type and retention period of cookies (e.g., during consent collection), they should assume that cookies are permanent and the retention period can be up to two years.
General Information on Revocation and Objection (Opt-out): Users can revoke the consents they have given at any time and also object to the processing in accordance with the legal requirements, particularly through the privacy settings of their browser.
- Processed Data Types: Meta, communication, and procedural data (e.g., IP addresses, timestamps, identification numbers, participants).
- Affected Persons: Users (e.g., website visitors, users of online services).
- Legal Bases: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).
Further Notes on Processing Activities, Procedures, and Services:
- Processing of Cookie Data Based on Consent: We use a consent management solution in which the users‘ consent to the use of cookies or to the mentioned procedures and providers is obtained. This procedure involves obtaining, logging, managing, and revoking consents, particularly regarding the use of cookies and similar technologies used for storing, reading, and processing information on the users‘ end devices. In the context of this procedure, the consents of users are collected for the use of cookies and the related processing of information, including the specific processing mentioned and providers. Users can manage and revoke their consents. The consent declarations are stored to avoid having to ask for them again and to be able to prove the consent in accordance with the legal requirements. Storage can be server-side and/or in a cookie (so-called opt-in cookie) or using similar technologies to assign the consent to a specific user or their device. Unless specific details are provided for the consent management service providers, the following general information applies: the storage period for consent is up to two years. A pseudonymous user identifier is created and stored together with the time of consent, information on the scope of the consent (e.g., which categories of cookies and/or service providers), as well as information on the browser, system, and end device used.
Blogs and Publication Media
We use blogs or similar means of online communication and publication (hereinafter referred to as „publication medium“). The data of the readers are processed for the purposes of the publication medium only to the extent necessary for its presentation and communication between authors and readers or for security reasons. Otherwise, we refer to the information on the processing of visitors to our publication medium in the context of these privacy notices.
- Processed Data Types: Inventory data (e.g., full name, residential address, contact information, customer number, etc.); contact data (e.g., postal and email addresses or telephone numbers); content data (e.g., text or image messages and contributions, as well as information about them, such as authorship information or creation time); usage data (e.g., page views and dwell time, click paths, usage intensity and frequency, device types and operating systems used, interactions with content and functions); meta, communication, and procedural data (e.g., IP addresses, timestamps, identification numbers, participants).
- Affected Persons: Users (e.g., website visitors, users of online services).
- Purposes of Processing: Feedback (e.g., collecting feedback via online form); providing our online offer and user-friendliness.
- Retention and Deletion: Deletion in accordance with the information in the section „General Information on Data Retention and Deletion“.
- Legal Bases: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Contact and Inquiry Management
When contacting us (e.g., by post, contact form, email, phone, or via social media) and within the framework of existing user and business relationships, the information provided by the inquiring persons is processed to the extent necessary to answer the contact inquiries and any requested measures.
- Processed Data Types: Inventory data (e.g., full name, residential address, contact information, customer number, etc.); contact data (e.g., postal and email addresses or telephone numbers); content data (e.g., text or image messages and contributions, as well as information about them, such as authorship information or creation time); usage data (e.g., page views and dwell time, click paths, usage intensity and frequency, device types and operating systems used, interactions with content and functions); meta, communication, and procedural data (e.g., IP addresses, timestamps, identification numbers, participants).
- Affected Persons: Communication partners.
- Purposes of Processing: Communication; organizational and administrative procedures; feedback (e.g., collecting feedback via online form); providing our online offer and user-friendliness.
- Retention and Deletion: Deletion in accordance with the information in the section „General Information on Data Retention and Deletion“.
- Legal Bases: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); contract performance and pre-contractual inquiries (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
Further Notes on Processing Activities, Procedures, and Services:
- Contact Form: When contacting us via our contact form, email, or other communication methods, we process the personal data provided to us to answer and handle the respective request. This typically includes information such as name, contact details, and, if applicable, additional information provided that is necessary for proper handling. We use this data solely for the specified purpose of contacting and communicating; Legal Bases: Contract performance and pre-contractual inquiries (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR), legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Web Analysis, Monitoring, and Optimization
Web analysis (also referred to as „reach measurement“) serves to evaluate the visitor flows of our online offer and can include behavior, interests, or demographic information about the visitors, such as age or gender, as pseudonymous values. With the help of reach analysis, we can, for example, recognize at what time our online offer or its functions or content is most frequently used or invites re-use. Likewise, we can track which areas need optimization.
In addition to web analysis, we may also use testing procedures to test and optimize different versions of our online offer or its components.
Unless otherwise stated below, profiles, i.e., data summarized for a usage process, can be created and information in a browser or end device can be stored and read for these purposes. The collected information includes, in particular, visited websites and there used elements, as well as technical information, such as the used browser, the computer system used, and information about usage times. If users have agreed to the collection of their location data, this can also be processed.
Furthermore, the IP addresses of the users are stored. However, we use an IP masking procedure (i.e., pseudonymization by shortening the IP address) to protect users. Generally, no clear data of the users (such as email addresses or names) are stored in the context of web analysis, A/B testing, and optimization, but pseudonyms. This means that we and the providers of the software used do not know the actual identity of the users, but only the information stored in their profiles for the respective procedures.
Notes on Legal Bases: If we ask users for their consent (e.g., in the context of a cookie consent), the legal basis for this processing is this consent. Otherwise, the users‘ personal data are processed based on our legitimate interests (i.e., interest in efficient, economic, and recipient-friendly services). In this context, we also refer you to the information on the use of cookies in this privacy policy.
- Processed Data Types: Usage data (e.g., pages viewed, time spent, click paths, usage intensity, and frequency, device types, and operating systems used, interactions with content and functions); Meta, communication, and procedural data (e.g., IP addresses, timestamps, identification numbers, participants).
- Affected Persons: Users (e.g., website visitors, users of online services).
- Purposes of Processing: Reach measurement (e.g., access statistics, recognition of returning visitors); Profiles with user-related information (creation of user profiles); Providing our online offer and user-friendliness.
- Retention and Deletion: Deletion in accordance with the information in the section „General Information on Data Retention and Deletion“. Storage of cookies for up to 2 years (unless otherwise stated, cookies and similar storage methods can be stored for up to two years on users‘ devices).
- Security Measures: IP masking (pseudonymization of the IP address).
- Legal Bases: Consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR); Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Further Notes on Processing Activities, Procedures, and Services:
- Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to measure and analyze the use of our online offer based on a pseudonymous user identification number. This identification number does not contain any clear data, such as names or email addresses. It is used to assign analysis information to a device to recognize which content users have accessed within a usage process or across several usage processes, which search terms they have used, or which interactions they have performed with our online offer. The time of use and its duration are stored, as well as the sources of the users, i.e., the previous page visited before our online offer. The collected data is then used to optimize our online offer further.
Service Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; Legal Bases: Consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR); Website: https://marketingplatform.google.com/intl/en/about/analytics/; Security Measures: IP masking (pseudonymization of the IP address); Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy; Data Processing Agreement: https://business.safety.google/adsprocessorterms/; Basis for Third-Country Transfers: Data Privacy Framework (DPF); Opt-Out Option: Opt-out plugin: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en, Ad settings: https://myadcenter.google.com/personalizationoff; Further Information: https://business.safety.google/adsservices/ (Types of processing and processed data).
Plugins and Embedded Functions and Content
We integrate functional and content elements into our online offer that are obtained from the servers of their respective providers (hereinafter referred to as „third-party providers“). These can be, for example, graphics, videos, or social media buttons, as well as contributions (hereinafter uniformly referred to as „content“).
The integration always presupposes that the third-party providers of this content process the users‘ IP address since they could not send the content to their browser without the IP address. The IP address is thus necessary for the presentation of this content or functions. We endeavor to use only such content whose respective providers use the IP address only to deliver the content. Third-party providers may also use so-called pixel tags (invisible graphics, also known as „web beacons“) for statistical or marketing purposes. The „pixel tags“ can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on the pages of this website. The pseudonymous information may also be stored in cookies on the user’s device and include technical information about the browser and operating system, referring websites, visit time, and other information about the use of our online offer, as well as being linked to such information from other sources.
Notes on Legal Bases: If we ask users for their consent (e.g., in the context of a cookie consent), the legal basis for this processing is this consent. Otherwise, the users‘ personal data are processed based on our legitimate interests (i.e., interest in efficient, economic, and recipient-friendly services). In this context, we also refer you to the information on the use of cookies in this privacy policy.
- Processed Data Types: Usage data (e.g., pages viewed, time spent, click paths, usage intensity and frequency, device types and operating systems used, interactions with content and functions); Meta, communication, and procedural data (e.g., IP addresses, timestamps, identification numbers, participants); Location data (data indicating the geographical position of a device or person).
- Affected Persons: Users (e.g., website visitors, users of online services).
- Purposes of Processing: Providing our online offer and user-friendliness.
- Retention and Deletion: Deletion in accordance with the information in the section „General Information on Data Retention and Deletion“. Storage of cookies for up to 2 years (unless otherwise stated, cookies and similar storage methods can be stored for up to two years on users‘ devices).
- Legal Bases: Consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR); Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Further Notes on Processing Activities, Procedures, and Services:
- Google Fonts (Self-Hosted): Provision of font files for a user-friendly display of our online offer; Service Provider: The Google Fonts are hosted on our server, no data is transmitted to Google; Legal Bases: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
- Google Maps: We integrate the maps of the service „Google Maps“ of the provider Google. The processed data may include, in particular, IP addresses and location data of the users; Service Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; Legal Bases: Consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR); Website: https://mapsplatform.google.com/; Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. Basis for Third-Country Transfers: Data Privacy Framework (DPF).
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