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DATA PROTECTION

The person responsible in terms of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

 

Julia Valentina Kropeit

Hermannstr. 121A

12051 Berlin

Germany

 

Your rights as a data subject

You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provide at the end of this statement:

  • Information about your data stored by us and their processing (Art. 15 GDPR),

  • Correction of incorrect personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),

  • Deletion of your data stored by us (Art. 17 GDPR),

  • Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR),

  • Objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 GDPR) and

  • Data portability, provided you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR).

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

You can contact a supervisory authority with a complaint at any time, e.g. B. to the responsible supervisory authority of the federal state of your place of residence or to the authority responsible for us as the responsible body. A list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public area) with addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html .

 

Collection of general information when you visit our website

Type and purpose of processing:

If you access our website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide information, information of a general nature is automatically recorded. 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 problem-free connection to the website,

  • Ensuring smooth use of our website,

  • Evaluation of system security and stability as well as

  • to optimize our website.

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about you personally. Information of this type is statistically evaluated anonymously if necessary in order to optimize our website and the technology behind it.

Legal basis and legitimate interest:

Processing takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR, based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Receiver:

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

Third country transfer:

The data collected may be transferred to the following third countries: United States, Ireland, South Korea, Taiwan, Israel

The following data protection guarantees exist: Adequacy decision of the EU Commission

Storage period :

The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for the purpose of the survey. For the data used to provide the website, this is generally the case when the respective session has ended.

If the data is stored in log files, this is the case after 14 days at the latest. Any further storage is possible. In this case, the users' IP addresses are anonymized so that they can no longer be assigned to the calling client.

Provision required or required:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is not required by law or contract. Without the IP address, however, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services may not be available or restricted. For this reason it is not possible to object.

 

Cookies

Like many other websites, we also use so-called "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website.

You can delete individual cookies or the entire set of cookies. In addition, we provide you with information and instructions on how these cookies can be deleted or their storage blocked in advance. Depending on the provider of your browser, you will find the necessary information under the following links:

Storage duration and cookies used:

If you allow us to use cookies through your browser settings or consent, the following cookies can be used on our website:

1. Technically necessary cookies

Type and purpose of processing:

We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the calling browser can also be identified after changing pages.

The purpose of using technically necessary cookies is to simplify the use of websites for users. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For this it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after changing pages.

Legal basis and legitimate interest:

Processing takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in a user-friendly design of our website.

Receiver:

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

Third country transfer:

The data collected may be transferred to the following third countries: United States, Ireland, South Korea, Taiwan, Israel

The following data protection guarantees are in place: Adequacy decision by the EU Commission

Provision required or required:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is not required by law or contract. Without this data, however, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services may not be available or restricted.

Objection

Please read the information about your right of objection according to Art. 21 GDPR below.

2. Technically not necessary and functional cookies

We also use cookies to better tailor the offer on our website to the interests of our visitors or to improve it in general on the basis of statistical evaluations.

Please refer to the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used to find out which providers set cookies.

Legal basis:

The legal basis for this processing is your consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

Receiver:

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

For further recipients, please refer to the information listed below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used.

Third country transfer:

For information on this, please refer to the lists of the individual display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis providers.

Provision required or required:

Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Web browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via the settings of your browser (see Revocation of Consent as well as links provided above).

Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

Revocation of consent:

You can revoke your consent at any time using our cookie consent tool.

 

Profiling:

To what extent we analyze the behavior of website visitors with pseudonymized user profiles, please refer to the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used.

 

Contact form

Type and purpose of processing:

The data you enter will be saved for the purpose of individual communication with you. To do this, you must provide a valid email address and your name. This is used to assign the request and then answer it. The specification of further data is optional.

Legal basis:

The processing of the data entered in the contact form takes place on the basis of a legitimate interest (Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. f GDPR). By providing the contact form, we would like to make it easy for you to contact us. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions. If you contact us to inquire about an offer, the data entered in the contact form will be processed in order to carry out pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR).

Receiver:

The recipients of the data may be contract processors.

Third country transfer:

The data collected may be transferred to the following third countries: United States, Ireland, South Korea, Taiwan, Israel

The following data protection guarantees are in place: Adequacy decision by the EU Commission

Storage period:

Data will be deleted no later than 6 months after processing the request. If there is a contractual relationship, we are subject to the statutory retention periods according to the German Commercial Code and delete your data after these periods have expired.

Provision required or required:

The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your request if you provide us with your name, your 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 analysis service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (hereinafter: “Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", i.e. text files that are stored on your computer and that enable your use of the website to be analyzed. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The full IP address is only transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there in exceptional cases. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You can find more information on terms of use and data protection at https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us and at https://policies.google.com.

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

The data sent by us and linked to cookies, user IDs, or advertising IDs are automatically deleted after 14 months. The deletion of data whose retention period has expired takes place automatically once a month.

Revocation of consent:

You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly (see links above); however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in to de-activate Google Analytics available under the following link and install: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

 

SSL encryption

In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) over HTTPS.

 

Information about your right of objection according to Art. 21 GDPR

Right to object on a case-by-case basis

You have the right, for reasons that arise from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of personal data relating to you which is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR (data processing on the basis of a balance of interests) takes place, to lodge an objection; this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 GDPR.

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

Recipient of an objection

Julia Valentina Kropeit
Hermannstr. 121A
12051 Berlin

 

Change of our data protection regulations

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

 

Questions about data protection

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email to art@kropeit.de.

 

The data protection declaration was created with the help of activeMind AG, the experts for external data protection officers (Version # 2020-09-30).

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