Privacy Policy
1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following, we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data with which you can be personally identified.
1.2 The controller for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Mühleis EDV-Service GbR, An den Platzäckern 54, 55127 Mainz, Germany, Tel.: +496131476051, E-Mail: info@voluntira.com. The controller for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
2.1 In the case of purely informational use of our website, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect data that your browser transmits to the page server (so-called "server log files"). When you call up our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:
Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively should there be concrete indications of unlawful use.
2.2 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g., orders or inquiries to the controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string "https://" and the lock symbol in your browser line.
Cloudflare
We use a content delivery network from the following provider: Cloudflare Inc., 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
This service enables us to deliver large media files such as graphics, page content, or scripts faster via a network of regionally distributed servers. Processing is carried out to safeguard our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have concluded an order processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of the data of our site visitors and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
In order to make the visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, i.e., small text files that are stored on your end device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted after closing the browser (so-called "session cookies"), some of these cookies remain longer on your end device and enable the storage of page settings (so-called "persistent cookies"). In the latter case, you can find the storage duration in the overview of the cookie settings of your web browser.
If personal data is also processed by individual cookies used by us, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR either for the performance of the contract, in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR in the case of consent given, or in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website as well as a customer-friendly and effective design of the site visit.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually about their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general.
Please note that if cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be restricted.
When contacting us (e.g., via contact form or e-mail), personal data is processed - exclusively for the purpose of processing and answering your concern and only to the extent required for this.
The legal basis for the processing of this data is our legitimate interest in answering your concern in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact aims at a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and provided that there are no statutory storage obligations to the contrary.
In accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR, personal data continues to be collected and processed to the extent required in each case if you communicate this to us when opening a customer account. Which data is required for opening an account can be found in the input mask of the corresponding form on our website.
Deletion of your customer account is possible at any time and can be done by a message to the above-mentioned address of the controller. After deletion of your customer account, your data will be deleted, provided that all contracts concluded via it have been fully processed, there are no statutory retention periods to the contrary, and there is no legitimate interest on our part in further storage.
7.1 Subscription to our e-mail newsletter
If you subscribe to our e-mail newsletter, we will regularly send you information about our offers. The only mandatory information for sending the newsletter is your e-mail address. Providing further data is voluntary and is used to be able to address you personally. For sending the newsletter, we use the so-called double opt-in procedure, which ensures that you only receive newsletters after you have expressly confirmed your consent to receive the newsletter by clicking on a verification link sent to the specified e-mail address.
By activating the confirmation link, you give us your consent for the use of your personal data in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. In doing so, we store your IP address entered by the Internet Service Provider (ISP) as well as the date and time of registration in order to be able to trace a possible misuse of your e-mail address at a later date. The data collected by us when registering for the newsletter will be used strictly for the intended purpose.
You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time via the link provided for this purpose in the newsletter or by sending a corresponding message to the controller named at the beginning. After unsubscribing, your e-mail address will be immediately deleted from our newsletter distribution list, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to further data use that is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration.
7.2 Sending the e-mail newsletter to existing customers
If you have provided us with your e-mail address when purchasing goods or services, we reserve the right to regularly send you offers for similar goods or services, such as those already purchased, from our range by e-mail. For this, we do not need to obtain separate consent from you in accordance with § 7 Para. 3 UWG. The data processing is carried out solely on the basis of our legitimate interest in personalized direct advertising in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If you initially objected to the use of your e-mail address for this purpose, we will not send any e-mails.
You are entitled to object to the use of your e-mail address for the aforementioned advertising purpose at any time with effect for the future by a notification to the controller named at the beginning. In this regard, you only incur transmission costs according to the basic rates. After receipt of your objection, the use of your e-mail address for advertising purposes will be discontinued immediately.
7.3 Mailgun
Our e-mail newsletter is sent via this provider: Sinch Sweden AB, Lindhagensgatan 74, 11218 Stockholm, Sweden
On the basis of our legitimate interest in effective and user-friendly newsletter marketing, we pass on the data provided during newsletter registration to this provider in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR so that it takes over the newsletter dispatch on our behalf.
Data is also transferred to: Mailgun Technologies, 112 E. Pecan Street #1135, San Antonio, Texas, 78205 USA
Subject to your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR, the provider also carries out a statistical success evaluation of newsletter campaigns using web beacons or tracking pixels in the sent e-mails, which can measure opening rates and specific interactions with the contents of the newsletter. In the process, end device information (e.g., time of access, IP address, browser type, and operating system) is also collected and evaluated, but not merged with other datasets.
You can revoke your consent to newsletter tracking at any time with effect for the future.
We have concluded an order processing agreement with the provider, which protects the data of our site visitors and prohibits disclosure to third parties.
For the transfer of data to the USA, the provider relies on standard contractual clauses of the European Commission, which are intended to ensure compliance with the European level of data protection.
8.1 Transmission of image files for order processing via upload function
On our website, we offer customers the opportunity to commission the personalization of products by transmitting image files via an upload function. The submitted image motif is used as a template for the personalization of the selected product.
Via the upload form on the website, the customer can transmit one or more image files from the memory of the end device used directly to us via automated, encrypted data transmission. We then collect, store, and use the transmitted files exclusively for the production of the personalized product within the meaning of the respective performance description on our website. If the transmitted image files are passed on to special service providers for the production and processing of the order, you will be explicitly informed of this in the following paragraphs. No further disclosure takes place. If the transmitted files or the digital motifs contain personal data (in particular images of identifiable persons), all processing operations just named are carried out exclusively for the purpose of processing your online order in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR.
After final processing of the order, the transmitted image files are automatically and completely deleted.
8.2 To the extent necessary for contract processing for delivery and payment purposes, the personal data collected by us will be passed on to the commissioned transport company and the commissioned credit institution in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR.
If we owe you updates for goods with digital elements or for digital products on the basis of a corresponding contract, we process the contact data transmitted by you when ordering in order to inform you personally within the scope of our statutory information obligations in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c GDPR. Your contact data will be used strictly for the purpose of notifying you of updates owed by us and will only be processed by us for this purpose to the extent necessary for the respective information.
To process your order, we also work with the following service provider(s), who support us in whole or in part in the execution of concluded contracts. Certain personal data is transmitted to these service providers in accordance with the following information.
8.3 Use of payment service providers (payment services)
- PayPal
One or more online payment methods of the following provider are available on this website: PayPal (Europe) S.a.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg
When selecting a payment method of the provider where you pay in advance, your payment data communicated during the ordering process (including name, address, bank and payment card information, currency, and transaction number) as well as information about the content of your order will be passed on to it in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR. The disclosure of your data takes place in this case exclusively for the purpose of payment processing with the provider and only to the extent that it is necessary for this.
When selecting a payment method where we pay in advance, you will also be asked during the ordering process to provide certain personal data (first and last name, street, house number, postal code, city, date of birth, e-mail address, telephone number, if applicable data for an alternative means of payment).
In order to safeguard our legitimate interest in determining your solvency in such cases, these data are forwarded by us to the provider in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR for the purpose of a credit check. The provider checks on the basis of the personal data provided by you as well as other data (such as shopping cart, invoice amount, order history, payment experience) whether the payment option selected by you can be granted with regard to payment and/or default risks.
The credit report can contain probability values (so-called score values). Insofar as score values flow into the result of the credit report, they have their basis in a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. Among other things, but not exclusively, address data is included in the calculation of the score values.
You can object to this processing of your data at any time by a message to us or to the provider. However, the provider may still be entitled to process your personal data if this is necessary for contractual payment processing.
- Stripe
One or more online payment methods of the following provider are available on this website: Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland
When selecting a payment method of the provider where you pay in advance (such as credit card payment), your payment data communicated during the ordering process (including name, address, bank and payment card information, currency, and transaction number) as well as information about the content of your order will be passed on to it in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR. The disclosure of your data takes place in this case exclusively for the purpose of payment processing with the provider and only to the extent that it is necessary for this.
When selecting a payment method where the provider pays in advance (such as purchase on account or installment purchase or direct debit), you will also be asked during the ordering process to provide certain personal data (first and last name, street, house number, postal code, city, date of birth, e-mail address, telephone number, if applicable data for an alternative means of payment).
In order to safeguard our legitimate interest in determining the solvency of our customers, these data are forwarded by us to the provider in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR for the purpose of a credit check. The provider checks on the basis of the personal data provided by you as well as other data (such as shopping cart, invoice amount, order history, payment experience) whether the payment option selected by you can be granted with regard to payment and/or default risks.
The credit report can contain probability values (so-called score values). Insofar as score values flow into the result of the credit report, they have their basis in a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. Among other things, but not exclusively, address data is included in the calculation of the score values.
You can object to this processing of your data at any time by a message to us or to the provider. However, the provider may still be entitled to process your personal data if this is necessary for contractual payment processing.
9.1 Google Analytics 4
This website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analysis service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"), which enables an analysis of your use of our website.
By default, when visiting the website, Google Analytics 4 sets cookies, which are stored as small text blocks on your end device and collect certain information. The scope of this information also includes your IP address, which is however shortened by Google by the last digits in order to exclude a direct personal reference.
The information is transmitted to Google's servers and processed further there. Transfers to Google LLC based in the USA are also possible.
Google uses the collected information on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity for us, and to provide other services associated with website use and internet use. The IP address transmitted and shortened by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not merged with other data from Google. The data collected within the scope of using Google Analytics 4 is stored for a period of two months and then deleted.
All processing described above, in particular the setting of cookies on the end device used, only takes place if you have given us your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR.
Without your consent, the use of Google Analytics 4 during your site visit will not take place. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of revocation, please deactivate this service via the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website.
We have concluded an order processing agreement with Google, which ensures the protection of the data of our site visitors and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
Further legal information on Google Analytics 4 can be found at https://business.safety.google
Demographic Characteristics
Google Analytics 4 uses the special function "demographic characteristics" and can use it to create statistics that make statements about the age, gender, and interests of site visitors. This is done by analyzing advertising and information from third-party providers. This allows target groups for marketing activities to be identified. However, the collected data cannot be assigned to a specific person and is deleted after storage for a period of two months.
Google Signals
As an extension to Google Analytics 4, Google Signals can be used on this website to have cross-device reports created. If you have activated personalized ads and linked your devices to your Google account, Google can, subject to your consent to the use of Google Analytics in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR, analyze your user behavior across devices and create database models, including cross-device conversions. We do not receive any personal data from Google, only statistics. If you want to stop the cross-device analysis, you can deactivate the function "Personalized Advertising" in the settings of your Google account. To do this, follow the instructions on this page: https://support.google.com
User IDs
As an extension to Google Analytics 4, the function "User IDs" can be used on this website. If you have consented to the use of Google Analytics 4 in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR, set up an account on this website, and log in to this account on different devices, your activities, including conversions, can be analyzed across devices.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
9.2 Google Tag Manager
This website uses the "Google Tag Manager", a service of the following provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (hereinafter: "Google").
The Google Tag Manager provides a technical basis for bundling various web applications, including tracking and analysis services, and being able to calibrate, control, and link them to conditions via a uniform user interface. The Google Tag Manager itself does not store any information on user end devices or read them. Nor does the service perform any independent data analysis. However, through the Google Tag Manager, your IP address is transmitted to Google when you call up the page and stored there if necessary. A transmission to servers of Google LLC. in the USA is also possible.
This processing will only be carried out if you have given us your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. Without this consent, the use of Google Tag Manager during your site visit will not take place. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your revocation, please deactivate this service in the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website.
We have concluded an order processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of the data of our site visitors and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
Further legal information on Google Tag Manager can be found at https://business.safety.google
Google Ads Remarketing
This website uses retargeting technology from the following provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland
For this purpose, Google sets a cookie in the browser of your end device, which automatically enables interest-based advertising by means of a pseudonymous cookie ID and on the basis of the pages you visit. Any further data processing only takes place if you have agreed with Google that your internet and app browser history is linked by Google with your Google account and information from your Google account is used to personalize ads that you view on the web. In this case, if you are logged into Google while visiting our website, Google will use your data together with Google Analytics data to create and define target group lists for cross-device remarketing. For this purpose, your personal data will be temporarily linked by Google with Google Analytics data in order to form target groups. Within the scope of using Google Ads Remarketing, there may also be a transmission of personal data to the servers of Google LLC. in the USA.
All processing described above, in particular the setting of cookies for reading information on the end device used, is only carried out if you have given us your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. Without this consent, the use of retargeting technology during your site visit will not take place.
You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your revocation, please deactivate this service in the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
Details on the processing initiated by Google and on Google's handling of data from websites can be found here: https://policies.google.com
Further information on Google's data protection regulations can be found here: https://business.safety.google
11.1 YouTube
This website uses plugins for displaying and playing videos from the following provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland
Data can also be transmitted to: Google LLC., USA
When you call up a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the provider's servers at the latest at the time of video playback in order to load the contents. In the process, certain information, including your IP address, is transmitted to the provider.
If the playback of embedded videos is started via the plugin, the provider also uses cookies to collect information about user behavior, to create playback statistics, and to prevent abusive behavior.
If you are logged into a user account with the provider during your site visit, your data will be assigned directly to your account when you click on a video. If you do not want the assignment to your account, you must log out before pressing the playback button.
All aforementioned processing, in particular the setting of cookies for reading information on the end device used, only takes place if you have given us your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke the consent given at any time with effect for the future by deactivating this service via the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
11.2 TrustPilot
Graphic elements of the following provider are integrated on our website to display external customer reviews and/or an externally awarded seal of quality: Trustpilot A/S, Pilestræde 58, 1112 Copenhagen, Denmark
When you call up a page of our website that contains such graphic elements, your browser establishes a direct connection to the provider's servers in order to load the elements properly. In the process, certain browser information, including your IP address, is transmitted to the provider.
If personal data is also processed in the process, this is done in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in the optimal marketing of our offer and the appealing design of our website.
11.3 Google Maps
This website uses an online map service of the following provider: Google Maps (API) of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google").
Google Maps is a web service for the display of interactive (land) maps in order to represent geographical information visually. Through the use of this service, our location is shown to you and any journey is facilitated.
Already when calling up those subpages in which the map of Google Maps is integrated, information about your use of our website (such as your IP address) is transmitted to Google's servers and stored there; here there may also be a transmission to the servers of Google LLC. in the USA. This happens regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether a user account exists. If you are logged into Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account. If you do not want the assignment with your profile at Google, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data (even for users not logged in) as user profiles and evaluates them.
The collection, storage, and evaluation are carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of Google's legitimate interest in the display of personalized advertising, market research, and/or the demand-oriented design of Google websites. You have a right of objection to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact Google to exercise it. If you do not agree with the future transmission of your data to Google within the scope of using Google Maps, there is also the possibility of completely deactivating the web service of Google Maps by switching off the JavaScript application in your browser. Google Maps and thus also the map display on this website can then not be used.
To the extent legally required, we have obtained your consent for the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your revocation, please follow the option described above for making an objection.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
Further information on Google's data protection regulations can be found here: https://business.safety.google
11.4 Google Maps API
To enable the verification of certain entries in the address form of the ordering process of our webshop for input errors in real time, we use the services of the following provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland
Data can also be transmitted to: Google LLC., USA
The provider validates the entered address, verifies the spelling, and supplements any missing data. In the case of ambiguous addresses, correct alternative suggestions are displayed. For this purpose, the address data entered by you is transmitted to the provider, stored there, and evaluated.
This processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in the proper recording of the customer's correct address data for the conscientious fulfillment of our contractual delivery obligations and to prevent problems in the execution of the contract.
The provider processes the affected data separately and does not merge it with other datasets, and deletes it as soon as its status or correctness has been confirmed, but at the latest after 30 days.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
Further information on Google's data protection regulations can be found here: https://business.safety.google
11.5 Google reCAPTCHA
On this website, we use the CAPTCHA service of the following provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland
Data can also be transmitted to: Google LLC, USA. For the visual design of the captcha window, "Google Fonts", i.e., fonts loaded from the internet by Google, are used by the provider. A processing of further information than those mentioned above, which are already transmitted to Google via the functionality of reCAPTCHA, does not occur in this case.
The service checks whether an entry is made by a natural person or abusively by machine and automated processing, and blocks spam, DDoS attacks, and similar automated malicious access. To ensure that an action is performed by a human and not by an automated bot, the provider collects the IP address of the end device used, identification data of the browser and operating system type used, as well as the date and duration of the visit and transmits these to the provider's server for evaluation. Cookies may be used here, i.e., small text files that are stored in the browser of the end device.
If the processing described above is carried out on the basis of cookies, these are only set if you have given us your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by deactivating this service in the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website.
If the processing described above is carried out without the use of cookies, the legal basis is our legitimate interest in determining individual responsibility on the internet and avoiding abuse and spam in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
We have concluded an order processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of the data of our site visitors and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
Further information on Google's data protection regulations can be found here: https://business.safety.google
11.6 Google Customer Reviews (formerly Google Trusted Stores program)
We work with Google within the scope of the program "Google Customer Reviews". The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"). This program gives us the opportunity to obtain customer reviews from users of our website. In the process, you will be asked after a purchase on our website whether you would like to participate in an e-mail survey from Google.
If you give your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR, we will transmit your e-mail address to Google. You will receive an e-mail from Google Customer Reviews asking you to rate the purchasing experience on our website. The rating given by you will then be aggregated with our other ratings and displayed in our Google Customer Reviews logo as well as in our Merchant Center dashboard. In addition, your rating will be used for Google Seller Ratings. Within the scope of using Google Customer Reviews, there may also be a transmission of personal data to the servers of Google LLC. in the USA.
You can revoke your consent at any time by a message to the controller for data processing or to Google.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
Further information on Google's data protection regulations can be found here: https://business.safety.google
Cookie Consent Tool
This website uses a so-called "Cookie Consent Tool" to obtain effective user consent for cookies requiring consent and cookie-based applications. The "Cookie Consent Tool" is displayed to users when calling up the page in the form of an interactive user interface on which consent for certain cookies and/or cookie-based applications can be given by checking a box. Through the use of the tool, all cookies/services requiring consent are only loaded if the respective user gives corresponding consent by checking a box. This ensures that such cookies are only set on the respective end device of the user in the case of consent given.
The tool sets technically necessary cookies to save your cookie preferences. Personal user data is generally not processed in the process.
If, in individual cases, personal data (such as the IP address) is processed for the purpose of storing, assigning, or logging cookie settings, this is done in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in legally compliant, user-specific, and user-friendly consent management for cookies and thus in a legally compliant design of our website.
A further legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c GDPR. As controllers, we are subject to the legal obligation to make the use of technically non-necessary cookies dependent on the respective user consent.
To the extent necessary, we have concluded an order processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of the data of our site visitors and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
Further information on the operator and the setting options of the Cookie Consent Tool can be found directly in the corresponding user interface on our website.
13.1 The applicable data protection law grants you the following data subject rights (rights of information and intervention) vis-à-vis the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data, whereby reference is made to the cited legal basis for the respective exercise requirements:
13.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT
IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITHIN THE SCOPE OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS ON THE BASIS OF OUR PREDOMINANT LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME, FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP THE PROCESSING OF THE AFFECTED DATA. HOWEVER, FURTHER PROCESSING REMAINS RESERVED IF WE CAN PROVE COMPELLING REASONS FOR THE PROCESSING WORTHY OF PROTECTION THAT OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ASSERTION, EXERCISE OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.
IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US TO OPERATE DIRECT ADVERTISING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH ADVERTISING. YOU CAN EXERCISE THE OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP THE PROCESSING OF THE AFFECTED DATA FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING PURPOSES.
The duration of the storage of personal data is measured on the basis of the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and - if relevant - additionally on the basis of the respective statutory retention period (e.g., retention periods under commercial and tax law).
When processing personal data on the basis of express consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR, the affected data is stored until you revoke your consent.
If statutory retention periods exist for data that are processed within the scope of legal business or business-like obligations on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR, these data are routinely deleted after the expiry of the retention periods, provided they are no longer required for contract fulfillment or contract initiation and/or there is no legitimate interest on our part in further storage.
When processing personal data on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR, these data are stored until you exercise your right to object according to Art. 21 Para. 1 GDPR, unless we can prove compelling reasons for the processing worthy of protection that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.
When processing personal data for the purpose of direct advertising on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR, these data are stored until you exercise your right to object according to Art. 21 Para. 2 GDPR.
Unless otherwise stated in the other information of this declaration about specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
