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Cookie and privacy policy

Cookie and privacy policy

1. Our privacy policy at a glance

General information

The following information gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our website. Personal information is any data by which you could be personally identified. For detailed information on data protection, please see our privacy policy below.

Data collection on this website

Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?

The data on this website is processed by the operator of the website, whose contact information is available under section “Legal Notice” on this website.

How do we collect your data?

We collect your data if you share it with us. This may, for instance be information you enter into our contact form.

Other data is collected either automatically by our IT systems or with your consent when you visit the website. This is primarily technical data such as the browser and operating system you were using or the time you accessed the page. This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Other data can be used to analyse how visitors use the site.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You always have the right to request information about your stored data, its origin, its recipients, and the purpose of its collection at no charge. You also have the right to request that it be corrected or deleted. If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it permanently at any time. You also have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. You may also, of course, file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at any time under the address disclosed in section “Legal Notice” on this website if you have questions about this or any other data protection related issues.

Analytics and third-party tools

When visiting our website, your browsing behaviour may be statistically analysed. This is mainly done with cookies and so-called analysis programs.

Detailed information on these analysis programs can be found in the following privacy policy.

2. Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

External hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (hosting provider). The personal data recorded on this website is stored on the hosting provider’s servers. This information is primarily IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, instances of website access, and other data generated via a website.

The hosting provider is used to fulfil the contract with our potential and existing customers (Section 6(1, b) GDPR) and in the interest of secure, fast and efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider (Section 6(1, f) GDPR).

Our hosting provider will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil its performance obligations and to follow our instructions with respect to such data.

3. General and mandatory information

Data protection

The operators of these sites take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations as well as this privacy policy.

If you use this website, various pieces of personal data will be collected. Personal information is considered to be any data by which you could be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what information we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

We would like to point out that data transmitted via the Internet (e.g. via email communication) may be subject to security breaches. Completely protecting data from access by third parties is not possible.

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

The Data Controller responsible for processing the data on this website is:

49°N Communication Services PartG
Dr. Bueno Belloso, Kleinhenz, Obradors Noguera, Rauschmaier
Dolmetscherinnen und Übersetzerinnen

Data protection officer: Christin Kleinhenz

Email: christin@49n-communications.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, email addresses, etc.).

Withdrawing your consent for the processing of your data

Many data processing operations are only possible with your consent. You may revoke this consent at any time. Your withdrawal request will not apply to the data processed prior to the revocation.

Right to object to the collection of data in special cases and to direct advertising (Section 21 of the GDPR)

If the data is processed on the basis of Section 6(1,e) or (f) of the GDPR, you have the right at any time to object to the processing of your personal data for reasons arising from your particular situation; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. The respective legal basis on which processing is based can be found in this privacy policy. If you lodge your objection, we will no longer process your relevant personal data unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims (objection on the basis of Section 21(1), GDPR).

Where personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right at any time to object to the processing of personal data related to you for the purposes of such advertising, including profiling to the extent it is related to such direct marketing. If you object, your personal data will no longer be used for direct marketing purposes (objection in accordance with Section 21(2) GDPR).

Right to file complaints with the regulatory authorities

In the event of infringements of the GDPR, the persons concerned shall have the right to appeal to a supervisory authority, particularly in the member state of their habitual residence, workplace or place of presumed infringement. The right of appeal shall be without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right of Data Portability

You have the right to have data which we process with your consent or in fulfilment of a contract automatically delivered to yourself or to a third party in a standard, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another responsible party, this will only take place to the extent that it is technically feasible.

SSL and TLS encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and for the protection of the transmission of confidential content, such as the enquiries you send to us as site operator. You can recognise an encrypted connection in your browser’s address line when it changes from “http://” to “https://” and the lock icon is displayed in your browser’s address bar.

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

Disclosure, deletion, and correction

As permitted by law, you have the right to be provided with information free of charge at any time about your stored personal data as well as its origin, the recipient and the purpose for which it has been processed. You also have the right to have this data corrected or deleted. You may contact us at any time using the address provided in our legal note should you have further questions regarding personal data.

Right to restrict processing

You have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. You can contact us at any time at the address stated on our site’s legal note page. The right to restrict processing exists in the following cases:

  • If you dispute the accuracy of the stored personal data (we usually need time to check this). During the verification period, you have the right to demand that the processing of your personal data be restricted.
  • If the processing of your personal data has taken/is taking place unlawfully, you can demand the restriction of data processing instead of data deletion.
  • If we no longer require your personal data but you do to exercise, defend or assert legal claims, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted instead of the data being deleted.
  • If you have lodged an objection pursuant to Section 21(1) GDPR, your as well as our interests must be weighed. As long as it has not been ascertained whose interests prevail, you have the right to demand that the processing of your personal data be restricted.

If processing of your personal data has been restricted, such data—apart from being stored—may be processed only with your consent or for the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending rights or protecting the rights of another natural or legal person or on the grounds of an important public interest of the Union or of a Member State.

4. Data collection on this website

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device and do no harm.They are stored in your browser cache for the duration of your browser session (“session cookies”) or on your hard drive for a certain amount of time (“permanent cookies”). The cookies are automatically deleted after your visit. Permanent cookies remain in your device’s memory until you delete them yourself or your web browser automatically deletes them.

In some cases, it is possible that third party cookies are stored on your device once you enter our site (third-party cookies). These cookies enable you or us to take advantage of certain services offered by the third party (e.g. cookies for the processing of payment services).

Cookies serve different purposes. Many cookies are technically essential since certain website functions would not work in the absence of the cookies (e.g. the shopping cart function or the display of videos). The purpose of other cookies may be the analysis of user patterns or the display of promotional messages.

Cookies which are necessary to carry out the electronic communication process, to provide certain functions desired by you (e.g. shopping basket function) or to optimise the website (e.g. cookies to analyse the web audience) are stored in accordance with Section 6(1,f) GDPR, unless a different legal basis is stated. The website owner has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically correct and optimised delivery of its services. If a corresponding agreement has been requested, the processing takes place exclusively on the basis of Section 6(1,a) GDPR; the agreement can be revoked at any time.

Furthermore, you can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide to accept or reject each cookie. Alternatively, your browser can automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or can always reject them, and you can also tell it to automatically delete cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

In the event that third-party cookies are used or if cookies are used for analytical purposes, we will separately notify you in conjunction with this privacy policy and, if applicable, ask for your consent.

Server log files

The website provider automatically collects and stores information in “server log files”, which your browser automatically transmits to us. This includes:

  • Your web browser type and version
  • your operating system
  • The referrer URL
  • Host name of the accessing computer
  • Time of the server request
  • IP address

This data will not be combined with data from other sources.

This data is collected in accordance with Section 6(1, f) GDPR. The operator of the website has a legitimate interest in the technically error free depiction and the optimisation of the operator’s website. In order to achieve this, server log files must be recorded.

Contact form

If you send us queries via the contact form, we will collect the data entered on the form, including the contact details you provide, in order to answer your query and for any follow-up questions. We will not share this data without your permission.

This data is processed on the basis of Section 6(1, b) GDPR, provided your request is related to the performance of a contract or necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual arrangements. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the inquiries sent to us (Section 6(1, f) GDPR) or with your consent (Section 6(1, a) GDPR) if this was queried.

The data you enter in the contact form will be stored by us until you ask us to delete it or the purpose for storing the data is no longer applicable (e.g. after your request has been processed). Any mandatory statutory provisions—especially those regarding mandatory data retention periods—remain unaffected by this provision.

Enquiries by email, phone or fax

If you contact us by email, phone or fax, your request, including all ensuing personal data (name, nature of enquiry), is stored and processed by us for the purposes of processing your request. We will not share this data without your permission.

This data is processed on the basis of Section 6(1, b) GDPR, provided your request is related to the performance of a contract or necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual arrangements. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the inquiries sent to us (Section 6(1, f) GDPR) or with your consent (Section 6(1, a) GDPR) if this was queried.

We will store the data you provide on the contact form until its deletion is requested, your consent for storage is revoked, or the purpose for its storage is no longer applicable (e.g. after the handling of your enquiry has been completed). Any mandatory statutory provisions—especially those regarding mandatory data retention periods—remain unaffected by this provision.

5. Social media

Social media plugins with Shariff

Social media plugins are used on this website (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, XING, LinkedIn, Tumblr).

You can usually recognise the plugins by their respective social media logos. In order to guarantee data protection on this website, we only use these plugins in conjunction with the so-called “Shariff” solution. This application prevents the plugins integrated on this website from transferring data to the respective provider when the page is accessed for the first time.

A direct connection to the provider’s server is only established when you activate the respective plugin by clicking on the associated button (consent). As soon as you activate the plugin, the respective provider receives the information that you have visited this website with your IP address. If you are logged into your respective social media account (e.g. Facebook) at the same time, the respective provider can assign your visit to this website to your user account.

Activating the plugin constitutes consent pursuant Section 6(1, a) GDPR. You may withdraw your consent at any time with future effect.

6. Newsletter

Newsletter data

If you would like to receive our newsletter, we require a valid email address as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the specified email address and that you agree to receive this newsletter. No additional data is collected or is only collected on a voluntary basis. We only use this data to send the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.

The data entered in the newsletter registration form will be processed exclusively if you give us your consent (Section 6(1, a) GDPR). You may revoke consent to the storage of your data and email address as well as their use for sending the newsletter at any time via the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The legality of the processing of data which was conducted before we received your request remains unaffected by this.

The data provided when registering for the newsletter will be stored by us or by the newsletter service provider until such time as you cancel your subscription, when said data will be deleted. Data stored by us for other purposes shall remain unaffected by this.

After you have unsubscribed from the newsletter distribution list, your email address may be saved in a blacklist either with us or the newsletter service provider to prevent future mailings. The data from the blacklist is used solely for this purpose and is not combined with other data. This serves both your interest and our interest in complying with the legal requirements for sending newsletters (legitimate interest in accordance with Section 6(1, f) GDPR). The storage of data in the blacklist is not limited in time. You may object to the storage if your interests outweigh our legitimate interests.

Source: https://www.e-recht24.de