Privacy Policy

Last Updated: March 22, 2025

Controller
Overview of Processing Operations
Relevant Legal Bases
Security Measures
General Information on Data Storage and Deletion
Rights of Data Subjects
Provision of Online Services and Web Hosting
Use of Cookies
Web Analytics, Monitoring and Optimization
Social Media Presence
Plugins and Embedded Functions and Content

Controller

Stefan Wolk

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Overview of Processing Operations

The following overview summarizes the types of data processed and the purposes of their processing and refers to the data subjects.

Types of Data Processed

Location data.
Contact data.
Content data.
Usage data.
Meta, communication and procedural data.
Log data.

Categories of Data Subjects

Users.

Purposes of Processing

Communication.
Security measures.
Reach measurement.
Tracking.
Audience formation.
Feedback.
Marketing.
Profiles with user-related information.
Provision of our online services and user-friendliness.
Information technology infrastructure.
Public relations.

Relevant Legal Bases

Relevant legal bases under the GDPR: Below you will find 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 or domicile. Furthermore, should more specific legal bases be decisive in individual cases, we will inform you of these in the privacy policy.

Consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) - The data subject has given consent to the processing of their personal data for one or more specific purposes.
Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) - 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.

National data protection regulations in Germany: In addition to the data protection regulations of the GDPR, national regulations on data protection apply in Germany. These include, in particular, the Act on Protection against Misuse of Personal Data in Data Processing (Federal Data Protection Act - BDSG). The BDSG contains special provisions 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 transmission, as well as automated individual decision-making, including profiling. Furthermore, state data protection laws of the individual federal states may apply.

Security Measures

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures in accordance with the legal requirements, taking into account the state of the art, the implementation costs and the nature, scope, circumstances and purposes of the processing as well as the different probabilities of occurrence and the extent of the threat to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, in order to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk.

The 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 to, input, transmission, securing of availability and their separation. Furthermore, we have established procedures to ensure the exercise of data subjects' rights, the deletion of data and responses to data compromise. Furthermore, we already take the protection of personal data into account during the development or selection of hardware, software as well as procedures in accordance with the principle of data protection, through technology design and through data protection-friendly default settings.

General Information on Data Storage and Deletion

We delete personal data that we process in accordance with the legal provisions as soon as the underlying consents are revoked or there are no further legal bases for processing. This applies to cases where the original purpose of processing ceases to exist or the data is no longer needed. Exceptions to this rule exist when legal obligations or special interests require longer retention or archiving of the data.

In particular, data that must be retained for commercial or tax reasons or whose storage is necessary for legal prosecution or for the protection of the rights of other natural or legal persons must be archived accordingly.

Our privacy notices contain additional information on the retention and deletion of data that is specific to certain processing operations.

In case of multiple specifications for the retention period or deletion deadline of a piece of data, the longest period is always applicable.

If a period does not expressly start at a specific date and lasts at least one year, it automatically starts at the end of the calendar year in which the triggering event occurred. In the case of ongoing contractual relationships within the framework of which data is stored, the triggering event is the time at which the termination or other termination of the legal relationship becomes effective.

Data that is no longer needed for the originally intended purpose, but is being retained due to legal requirements or other reasons, is processed exclusively for the reasons that justify its retention.

Further information on processing operations, procedures and services:

Storage and deletion of data: The following general time limits apply for the retention and archiving according to German law:
- 10 years - Retention period for books and records, annual financial statements, inventories, management reports, opening balance sheet as well as the work instructions and other organizational documents necessary for their understanding (§ 147 para. 1 no. 1 in conjunction with para. 3 AO, § 14b para. 1 UStG, § 257 para. 1 no. 1 in conjunction with para. 4 HGB).
- 8 years - Accounting documents, e.g., invoices and receipts (§ 147 para. 1 no. 4 and 4a in conjunction with para. 3 sentence 1 AO as well as § 257 para. 1 no. 4 in conjunction with para. 4 HGB).
- 6 years - Other business documents: commercial or business letters received, reproductions of commercial or business letters sent, other documents insofar as they are of importance for taxation, e.g., hourly wage slips, operating settlement sheets, calculation documents, price markings, but also payroll accounting documents, insofar as they are not already accounting documents, and till receipts (§ 147 para. 1 no. 2, 3, 5 in conjunction with para. 3 AO, § 257 para. 1 no. 2 and 3 in conjunction with para. 4 HGB).
- 3 years - Data that is necessary to consider potential warranty and compensation claims or similar contractual claims and rights, as well as to process related inquiries, based on previous business experience and common industry practices, is 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 arise in particular from Art. 15 to 21 GDPR:

Right to object: You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Article 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR, including profiling based on those provisions. Where personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing.
Right to withdraw consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Right of access: You have the right to request confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed, and, where that is the case, access to that personal data and other information and a copy of the data in accordance with the legal requirements.
Right to rectification: In accordance with legal requirements, you have the right to request the completion of personal data concerning you or the rectification of inaccurate data concerning you.
Right to erasure and restriction of processing: In accordance with the legal requirements, you have the right to demand that relevant data be erased without undue delay, or alternatively, in accordance with the legal requirements, to demand restriction of the processing of the data.
Right to data portability: You have the right to receive personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request that it be transmitted to another controller.
Complaint to supervisory authority: Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, 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 personal data relating to you infringes the requirements of the GDPR.

Provision of Online Services and Web Hosting

We process user data in order to be able to provide them with our online services. For this purpose, we process the IP address of the user, which is necessary to transmit the content and functions of our online services to the browser or end device of the users.

Types of data processed: Usage data (e.g. websites visited 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, time information, identification numbers, involved persons). Log data (e.g. log files concerning logins or the retrieval of data or access times).
Data subjects: Users (e.g. website visitors, users of online services).
Purposes of processing: Provision of our online service and user-friendliness; information technology infrastructure (operation and provision of information systems and technical devices (computers, servers, etc.)). Security measures.
Storage and deletion: Deletion in accordance with the information in the section "General Information on Data Storage and Deletion".
Legal bases: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).