Privacy Policy

We have written this privacy statement (version 08.12.2019-111218046) to explain to you, according to the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the Data Protection Act (DPA), what information we collect, how we use data, and what decision options you have as a visitor to this website.

Unfortunately, it is in the nature of things that these explanations sound very technical. However, we have endeavored to describe the most important things as simply and clearly as possible.

Automatic Data Storage

When you visit websites nowadays, certain information is automatically created and stored, including on this website.

When you visit our website just now, our web server (computer on which this website is stored) automatically saves data such as

the address (URL) of the accessed website
browser and browser version
the operating system used
the address (URL) of the previously visited page (referrer URL)
the hostname and IP address of the device from which access is made
date and time

in files (web server log files).

Web server log files are usually stored for two weeks and then automatically deleted. We do not pass on these data, but we cannot exclude that these data may be viewed in the presence of unlawful behavior.

Cookies

Our website uses HTTP cookies to store user-specific data.
Below, we explain what cookies are and why they are used to better understand the following privacy statement.

What exactly are cookies?

Whenever you browse the internet, you use a browser. Well-known browsers include Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Edge. Most websites store small text files in your browser. These files are called cookies.

One thing is undeniable: cookies are really useful little helpers. Almost all websites use cookies. More precisely, these are HTTP cookies, as there are also other cookies for other applications. HTTP cookies are small files that are stored on your computer by our website. These cookie files are automatically placed in the cookie folder, essentially the “brain” of your browser. A cookie consists of a name and a value. When defining a cookie, one or more attributes must also be specified.

Cookies store certain user data from you, such as language or personal site settings. When you return to our site, your browser sends the “user-related” information back to our site. Thanks to cookies, our website knows who you are and offers you the settings you are used to. In some browsers, each cookie has its own file, in others, such as Firefox, all cookies are stored in a single file.

There are both first-party cookies and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are created directly by our site, while third-party cookies are created by partner websites (e.g., Google Analytics). Each cookie must be evaluated individually as each cookie stores different data. The expiration date of a cookie also varies from a few minutes to a few years. Cookies are not software programs and contain no viruses, Trojans, or other “pests.” Cookies cannot access information on your PC either.

For example, cookie data might look like this:

Name: _ga
Value: GA1.2.1326744211.152111218046 Purpose: Differentiation of website visitors
Expiration date: after 2 years

These minimum sizes should be supported by a browser:

At least 4096 bytes per cookie
At least 50 cookies per domain
At least 3000 cookies in total

What types of cookies are there?

The question of which cookies we use in particular depends on the used services and is clarified in the following sections of the privacy statement. At this point, we would like to briefly address the different types of HTTP cookies.

There are 4 types of cookies:

Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary to ensure basic functions of the website. For example, these cookies are needed when a user puts a product in the shopping cart, continues browsing on other pages, and later proceeds to checkout. These cookies do not delete the shopping cart even if the user closes their browser window.

Functional Cookies
These cookies collect information about user behavior and whether the user receives any error messages. Additionally, these cookies measure the loading time and the behavior of the website with different browsers.

Targeted Cookies
These cookies ensure a better user experience. For example, entered locations, font sizes, or form data are stored.

Advertising Cookies
These cookies are also called targeting cookies. They are used to deliver personalized advertising to the user. This can be very practical, but also very annoying.

Usually, when you visit a website for the first time, you are asked which of these cookie types you want to allow. And, of course, this decision is also stored in a cookie.

How can I delete cookies?

You decide how and whether you want to use cookies. Regardless of which service or website the cookies come from, you always have the option to delete, disable, or allow only certain cookies. For example, you can block cookies from third parties but allow all other cookies.

If you want to determine which cookies are stored in your browser, if you want to change cookie settings or delete them, you can find this information in your browser settings:

Chrome: Delete, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome

Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have stored on your computer

Internet Explorer: Deleting and managing cookies

Microsoft Edge: Deleting and managing cookies

If you do not want any cookies, you can set up your browser so that it always informs you when a cookie is to be set. This allows you to decide for each individual cookie whether you want to allow it or not. The procedure varies depending on the browser. It is best to search for the instructions on Google with the search term “delete cookies Chrome” or “disable cookies Chrome” in the case of a Chrome browser.

How about my privacy?

Since 2009, there are so-called “cookie guidelines.” These guidelines state that storing cookies requires your consent. However, there are very different reactions to these guidelines within the EU countries. In Austria, however, the implementation of this directive was made in § 96 (3) of the Telecommunications Act (TKG).

If you want to know more about cookies and are not afraid of technical documentation, we recommend https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265, the Request for Comments of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) called “HTTP State Management Mechanism.”

Storage of Personal Data

Personal data that you transmit to us electronically on this website, such as name, email address, address, or other personal information in the context of submitting a form or comments on the blog, will only be used by us for the specified purpose, kept secure, and not disclosed to third parties.

We use your personal data only for communication with those visitors who expressly request contact and for the processing of the services and products offered on this website. We do not disclose your personal data without consent but cannot exclude that these data may be viewed in the presence of unlawful behavior.

If you send us personal data by email – thus outside of this website – we cannot ensure a secure transmission and protection of your data. We recommend never transmitting confidential data unencrypted by email.

Rights According to the General Data Protection Regulation

According to the provisions of the GDPR and the Austrian Data Protection Act (DPA), you have the following rights:

Right to Rectification (Article 16 GDPR)
Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”) (Article 17 GDPR)
Right to Restriction of Processing (Article 18 GDPR)
Right to Notification – Obligation to Notify in Connection with Rectification or Erasure of Personal Data or Restriction of Processing (Article 19 GDPR)
Right to Data Portability (Article 20 GDPR)
Right to Object (Article 21 GDPR)
Right not to be Subject to a Decision Based Solely on Automated Processing – Including Profiling (Article 22 GDPR)

If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or your data protection rights have otherwise been violated, you can complain to the supervisory authority, which in Austria is the Data Protection Authority, whose website you can find at https://www.dsb.gv.at/.

Analysis of Visitor Behavior

In the following privacy statement, we inform you whether and how we evaluate data of your visit to this website. The analysis of the collected data is usually anonymous, and we cannot infer your person from your behavior on this website.

You can find more about options to object to this analysis of visit data in the following privacy statement.

TLS Encryption with https

We use https to transmit data securely over the internet (data protection through technical design, Article 25 (1) GDPR). By using TLS (Transport Layer Security), an encryption protocol for secure data transmission on the internet, we can ensure the protection of confidential data. You can recognize the use of this security for data transmission by the small lock symbol at the top left of the browser and the use of the scheme https (instead of http) as part of our internet address.

Newsletter Privacy Policy

If you sign up for our newsletter, you provide the above personal data and give us the right to contact you by email. The data stored as part of the newsletter registration will only be used for our newsletter and will not be disclosed.

If you unsubscribe from the newsletter – you will find the link at the bottom of each newsletter – we will delete all data stored with the registration for the newsletter.

Google Fonts Local Privacy Policy

On our website, we use Google Fonts from Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). We have integrated Google fonts locally on our web server, not on Google servers. As a result, there is no connection to Google servers, and therefore no data transmission or storage.

What are Google Fonts?

Previously known as Google Web Fonts. Dabei handelt es sich um ein interaktives Verzeichnis mit über 800 Schriftarten, die die Google LLC kostenlos bereitstellt. With Google Fonts, you could use fonts without uploading them to your own server. However, in order to prevent any transfer of information to Google servers in this regard, we have downloaded the fonts to our server. In this way, we act in accordance with data protection regulations and do not send any data to Google Fonts.

Google Fonts privacy policy

We use Google Fonts on our website. These are the “Google Fonts” from Google Inc (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA).

You do not need to log in or enter a password to use Google fonts. Furthermore, no cookies are stored in your browser. The files (CSS, fonts) are requested via the Google domains fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. According to Google, requests for CSS and fonts are completely separate from all other Google services. If you have a Google account, you do not need to worry that your Google account data will be transmitted to Google while using Google Fonts. Google records the use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and the fonts used and stores this data securely. We will take a closer look at exactly how the data is stored.

What are Google Fonts?

Google Fonts (formerly Google Web Fonts) is a directory of over 800 fonts that Google LLC makes available to its users free of charge.

Many of these fonts are published under the SIL Open Font Licence, while others are published under the Apache licence. Both are free software licences.

Why do we use Google Fonts on our website?

Google Fonts allows us to use fonts on our own website without having to upload them to our own server. Google Fonts is an important component in maintaining the quality of our website. All Google fonts are automatically optimized for the web, saving data volume, which is a great advantage especially for mobile devices. When you visit our site, the small file size ensures a fast loading time. Furthermore, Google Fonts are secure web fonts. Different rendering systems in different browsers, operating systems and mobile devices can cause issues. Such errors can sometimes visually distort texts or entire websites. Thanks to the fast Content Delivery Network (CDN), there are no cross-platform problems with Google Fonts. Google Fonts supports all major browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera) and works reliably on most modern mobile operating systems, including Android 2.2+ and iOS 4.2+ (iPhone, iPad, iPod). We use Google Fonts so that we can present our entire online service as beautifully and uniformly as possible.

What data is stored by Google?

When you visit our website, the fonts are reloaded via a Google server. This external call transmits data to the Google servers. This way, Google also recognizes that you or your IP address have visited our website. The Google Fonts API is designed to reduce the collection, storage, and use of end-user data to what is necessary for the proper provision of fonts. API stands for “Application Programming Interface” and serves, among other things, as a data transmitter in the software sector.

Google Fonts securely stores CSS and font requests with Google, thus protecting them. The collected usage data allows Google to determine how well the individual fonts are received. Google publishes the results on internal analysis pages such as Google Analytics. Additionally, Google also uses data from its own web crawler to determine which websites use Google fonts. This data is published in the BigQuery database of Google Fonts. Entrepreneurs and developers use the Google web service BigQuery to analyse and move large amounts of data.

It is important to note, however, that each Google Font request also automatically transmits information such as language settings, IP address, browser version, browser screen resolution, and browser name to Google servers. It is not clear whether this data is also stored or not clearly communicated by Google.

How long and where is the data stored?

Google stores CSS asset requests for one day on their servers, which are primarily located outside the EU. This allows us to use the fonts with the help of a Google stylesheet. A stylesheet is a template that allows you to quickly and easily change the design or font of a website, for example.

The font files are stored by Google for one year. Google aims to improve the loading time of websites in general. When millions of websites reference the same fonts, they are cached after the first visit and appear immediately on all other subsequently visited websites. Sometimes Google updates font files to reduce the file size, increase language coverage, and improve design.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

The data that Google stores for one day or one year cannot be easily deleted. The data is automatically transmitted to Google when the page is called up. To delete this data prematurely, you must contact Google support at https://support.google.com/?hl=de&tid=111218046. You can only prevent data storage by not visiting our site.

Unlike other web fonts, Google allows us unrestricted access to all fonts. This means we have unlimited access to a sea of fonts and can therefore optimise our website. You can find out more about Google Fonts and other questions at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq?tid=111218046 While Google addresses privacy-related issues there, really detailed information about data storage is not included. It is relatively difficult to get really precise information from Google about stored data.

You can also find out which data is generally collected by Google and what this data is used for at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Google Maps privacy policy

We use Google Maps from Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). With Google Maps, we can better show locations and thus tailor our service to your needs. By using Google Maps, data is transmitted to Google and stored on Google’s servers. Here we want to go into more detail about what Google Maps is, why we use this Google service, what data is stored, and how you can prevent this.

What is Google Maps?

Google Maps is an Internet map service from Google Inc. With Google Maps you can search for exact locations of cities, attractions, accommodations or businesses online via a PC, tablet or app. If businesses are represented on Google My Business, additional information about the company is displayed alongside the location. To show the directions, map sections of a location can be embedded in a website using HTML code. Google Maps shows the earth’s surface as a road map or as an aerial or satellite image. Thanks to the Street View images and the high-quality satellite images, very accurate visualisations are possible.

Why do we use Google Maps on our website?

All our endeavours on this site are aimed at providing you with a useful and meaningful time on our website. By integrating Google Maps, we can provide you with the most important information on various locations. You can see at a glance where we are based. The directions always show you the best or quickest way to reach us. You can call up the directions for routes by car, public transport, on foot or by bike. For us, the provision of Google Maps is part of our customer service.

What data is stored by Google Maps?

In order for Google Maps to provide its full service, the company needs to collect and store data from you. This includes the search terms you enter, your IP address and the latitude and longitude coordinates. If you use the route planner function, the start address you enter is also saved. However, this data storage takes place on the Google Maps websites. We can only inform you about this, but cannot influence it. As we have integrated Google Maps into our website, Google sets at least one cookie (name: NID) in your browser. This cookie stores data about your user behaviour. Google uses this data primarily to optimise its own services and to provide you with individual, personalised advertising.

The following cookie is set in your browser due to the integration of Google Maps:

Name: NID
Value: 188=h26c1Ktha7fCQTx8rXgLyATyITJ111218046 Purpose: NID is used by Google to customise advertisements to your Google search. With the help of the cookie, Google “remembers” your most frequently entered search queries or your previous interaction with adverts. This means you always receive customised adverts. The cookie contains a unique ID that Google uses to collect your personal settings for advertising purposes.
Expiry date: after 6 months

Note: We cannot guarantee the completeness of the stored data. Changes can never be ruled out, especially when using cookies. In order to identify the NID cookie, a separate test page was created where only Google Maps was integrated.

How long and where is the data stored?

The Google servers are located in data centres all over the world. However, most of the servers are located in America. For this reason, your data is increasingly stored in the USA. You can find out exactly where the Google data centres are located here: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de

Google distributes the data on various data carriers. This means that the data can be accessed more quickly and is better protected against any attempts at manipulation. Each data centre also has special emergency programmes. If, for example, there are problems with the Google hardware or a natural disaster paralyses the servers, the data is still pretty much protected.

Google stores some data for a fixed period of time. For other data, Google only offers the option of deleting it manually. The company also anonymises information (such as advertising data) in server logs by deleting part of the IP address and cookie information after 9 and 18 months respectively.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage? With the automatic deletion function for location and activity data introduced in 2019, information on location determination and web/app activity – depending on your decision – is stored for either 3 or 18 months and then deleted. You can also manually delete this data from your history at any time via your Google account. If you want to completely prevent your location from being recorded, you must pause the “Web and app activity” section in your Google account. Click on “Data and personalisation” and then on the “Activity settings” option. Here you can switch the activities on or off.

You can also deactivate, delete or manage individual cookies in your browser. Depending on which browser you use, this always works slightly differently. The following instructions show you how to manage cookies in your browser:

Chrome: Delete, activate and manage cookies in Chrome

Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have stored on your computer

Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies

Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies

Google is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information about this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG. If you would like to find out more about Google’s data processing, we recommend that you read the company’s own privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Google Analytics privacy policy

We use Google Analytics from Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) on this website to statistically analyse visitor data. Google Analytics uses targeted cookies for this purpose.

Cookies from Google Analytics

_ga
- Expiry time: 2 years
- Use: Differentiation of website visitors
- Example value: GA1.2.1326744211.152111218046
_gid
- Expiry time: 24 hours
- Usage: Differentiation of website visitors
- Example value: GA1.2.1687193234.152111218046
_gat_gtag_UA_
- Expiry time: 1 minute
- Usage: Used to throttle the request rate. If Google Analytics is provided via Google Tag Manager, this cookie is given the name _dc_gtm_ .
- Example value: 1

Further information on terms of use and data protection can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de

Pseudonymisation

Our concern in terms of the GDPR is the improvement of our offer and our website. As the privacy of our users is important to us, user data is pseudonymised.

Deactivation of data collection by Google Analytics

Website visitors can use the browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, dc.js) to prevent Google Analytics from using their data.

You can prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Google Analytics reports on demographic characteristics and interests

We have activated the functions for advertising reports in Google Analytics. The reports on demographic characteristics and interests contain information on age, gender and interests. This allows us to get a better picture of our users without being able to assign this data to individual persons. You can find out more about the advertising functions at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3450482?hl=de_AT&utm_id=ad.

You can stop the use of the activities and information of your Google account under “Settings for advertising” at https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated by ticking the checkbox.

Google Analytics data processing addendum

We have concluded a direct customer contract with Google for the use of Google Analytics by accepting the “Data Processing Addendum” in Google Analytics.

You can find out more about the data processing addendum for Google Analytics here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3379636?hl=de&utm_id=ad

Embedded social media elements Privacy policy

We embed elements of social media services on our website to display images, videos and texts.
When you visit pages that display these elements, data is transferred from your browser to the respective social media service and stored there. We have no access to this data.
The following links will take you to the pages of the respective social media services where it is explained how they handle your data:

Instagram privacy policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
The Google privacy policy applies to YouTube: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
Facebook privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
Twitter privacy policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy

Facebook privacy policy

We use selected Facebook tools from Facebook on our website. Facebook is a social media network of the company Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland. With the help of these tools, we can offer you and people who are interested in our products and services the best possible offer. Below we provide an overview of the various Facebook tools, what data is sent to Facebook and how you can delete this data.

What are Facebook tools?

In addition to many other products, Facebook also offers the so-called “Facebook Business Tools”. This is the official term used by Facebook. However, as the term is hardly known, we have decided to simply call them Facebook tools. These include, among others:

Facebook pixel
Social plug-ins (such as the “Like” or “Share” button)
Facebook login
Account Kit
APIs (programming interface)
SDKs (collection of programming tools)
Platform integrations
plugins
codes
Specifications
Documentation
Technologies and services

Through these tools, Facebook extends services and has the ability to obtain information about user activity outside of Facebook.

Why do we use Facebook tools on our website?

We only want to show our services and products to people who are really interested in them. With the help of adverts (Facebook Ads), we can reach precisely these people. However, Facebook needs information about people’s wishes and needs in order to show users suitable adverts. The company is therefore provided with information about user behaviour (and contact details) on our website. As a result, Facebook collects better user data and can show interested people suitable adverts about our products and services. The tools thus enable customised advertising campaigns on Facebook.

Facebook calls data about your behaviour on our website “event data”. This is also used for measurement and analysis services. Facebook can thus create “campaign reports” on our behalf about the impact of our advertising campaigns. Furthermore, analyses give us a better insight into how you use our services, website or products. This allows us to optimise your user experience on our website with some of these tools. For example, you can use the social plug-ins to share content on our site directly on Facebook.

What data is stored by Facebook tools?

By using individual Facebook tools, personal data (customer data) may be sent to Facebook. Depending on the tools used, customer data such as name, address, telephone number and IP address may be sent.

Facebook uses this information to match the data with its own data that it has about you (if you are a Facebook member). Before customer data is transmitted to Facebook, it is hashed. This means that a data set of any size is transformed into a character string. This is also used to encrypt data.

In addition to the contact data, “event data” is also transmitted. “Event data” refers to the information we receive about you on our website. For example, which subpages you visit or which products you buy from us. Facebook does not share the information it receives with third parties (such as advertisers) unless the company has explicit authorisation or is legally obliged to do so. “Event data” can also be linked to contact details. This allows Facebook to offer better personalised advertising. After the aforementioned matching process, Facebook deletes the contact data again.

In order to deliver optimised advertisements, Facebook only uses the event data if it has been combined with other data (collected by Facebook in other ways). Facebook also uses this event data for security, protection, development and research purposes. Much of this data is transferred to Facebook via cookies. Cookies are small text files that are used to store data or information in browsers. Depending on the tools used and whether you are a Facebook member, different numbers of cookies are stored in your browser. We go into more detail about individual Facebook cookies in the descriptions of the individual Facebook tools. You can also find general information about the use of Facebook cookies at https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies.

How long and where is the data stored?

In principle, Facebook stores data until it is no longer required for its own services and Facebook products. Facebook has servers all over the world where your data is stored. However, customer data is deleted within 48 hours after it has been compared with your own user data.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to access, rectification, portability and erasure of your data.

Your data will only be completely deleted if you delete your Facebook account completely. Here’s how to delete your Facebook account:

1) Click on Settings on the right-hand side of Facebook.

2) Then click on “Your Facebook information” in the left-hand column.

3) Now click on “Deactivation and deletion”.

4) Now select “Delete account” and then click on “Continue and delete account”

5) Now enter your password, click on “Next” and then on “Delete account”

The data that Facebook receives via our site is stored using cookies (e.g. for social plugins). You can deactivate, delete or manage individual or all cookies in your browser. Depending on which browser you use, this works in different ways. The following instructions show you how to manage cookies in your browser:

Chrome: Delete, activate and manage cookies in Chrome

Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have stored on your computer

Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies

Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies

Facebook is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information about this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG. We hope we have given you the most important information about the use and data processing by the Facebook tools. If you would like to learn more about how Facebook uses your data, we recommend that you read the data policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.

Instagram privacy policy

We have integrated Instagram functions on our website. Instagram is a social media platform of the company Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025, USA. Instagram has been a subsidiary of Facebook Inc. and is a Facebook product. Embedding Instagram content on our website is called embedding. This allows us to show you content such as buttons, photos or videos from Instagram directly on our website. When you visit web pages on our website that have an Instagram function integrated, data is transmitted to Instagram, stored and processed. Instagram uses the same systems and technologies as Facebook. Your data is therefore processed across all Facebook companies.

In the following, we want to give you a more detailed insight into why Instagram collects data, what data is involved and how you can largely control data processing. Since Instagram belongs to Facebook Inc., we obtain our information from the Instagram guidelines on the one hand, but also from the Facebook data guidelines themselves on the other.

What is Instagram?

Instagram is one of the most popular social media networks in the world. Instagram combines the advantages of a blog with the advantages of audiovisual platforms such as YouTube or Vimeo. You can upload photos and short videos to “Insta” (as many users casually call the platform), edit them with various filters and also share them on other social networks. And if you don’t want to be active yourself, you can also just follow other interesting users.

Why do we use Instagram on our website?

Instagram is the social media platform that has really gone through the roof in recent years. And of course we have also responded to this boom. We want you to feel as comfortable as possible on our website. That’s why a varied presentation of our content is a matter of course for us. The embedded Instagram functions allow us to enrich our content with helpful, funny or exciting content from the Instagram world. As Instagram is a subsidiary of Facebook, the data collected can also be useful to us for personalised advertising on Facebook. This means that only people who are genuinely interested in our products or services receive our adverts.

Instagram also uses the collected data for measurement and analysis purposes. We receive summarised statistics and thus gain more insight into your wishes and interests. It is important to note that these reports do not identify you personally.

What data is stored by Instagram?

When you visit one of our pages that has Instagram functions (such as Instagram images or plug-ins), your browser automatically connects to Instagram’s servers. In the process, data is sent to Instagram, stored and processed. This happens regardless of whether you have an Instagram account or not. This includes information about our website, your computer, purchases made, adverts you see and how you use our website. The date and time of your interaction with Instagram is also stored. If you have an Instagram account or are logged in, Instagram stores significantly more data about you.

Facebook differentiates between customer data and event data. We assume that this is exactly the case with Instagram. Customer data includes, for example, name, address, telephone number and IP address. This customer data is only transmitted to Instagram once it has been “hashed”. Hashing means that a data record is converted into a character string. This allows the contact data to be encrypted. The “event data” mentioned above is also transmitted. By “event data”, Facebook – and consequently Instagram – means data about your user behaviour. Contact data may also be combined with event data. The contact data collected is compared with the data that Instagram already has about you.

The collected data is transmitted to Facebook via small text files (cookies), which are usually set in your browser. Depending on the Instagram functions used and whether you have an Instagram account yourself, different amounts of data are stored.

We assume that Instagram processes data in the same way as Facebook. This means that if you have an Instagram account or have visited www.instagram.com, Instagram has at least set a cookie. If this is the case, your browser sends information to Instagram via the cookie as soon as you come into contact with an Instagram function. This data is deleted or anonymised after 90 days at the latest (after reconciliation). Although we have intensively analysed Instagram’s data processing, we cannot say exactly what data Instagram collects and stores.

Below we show you the minimum cookies that are set in your browser when you click on an Instagram function (such as a button or an Insta image). In our test, we assume that you do not have an Instagram account. If you are logged in to Instagram, significantly more cookies will of course be set in your browser.

These cookies were used in our test

Name: csrftoken
Value: “”
Purpose: This cookie is most likely set for security reasons to prevent requests from being falsified. However, we were unable to find out more details.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: mid
Value: “”
Purpose: Instagram sets this cookie to optimise its own services and offers inside and outside Instagram. The cookie defines a unique user ID.
Expiry date: after the end of the session

Name: fbsr_111218046124024
Value: keine Angaben
Purpose: This cookie saves the log-in request for users of the Instagram app.
Expiry date: after the end of the session

Name: rur
Value: ATN
Purpose: This is an Instagram cookie that ensures functionality on Instagram.
Expiry date: after the end of the session

Name: urlgen
Value: “{\”194.96.75.33\”: 1901}:1iEtYv:Y833k2_UjKvXgYe111218046”
Purpose: This cookie is used for Instagram’s marketing purposes.
Expiry date: after the end of the session

Note: We cannot claim completeness here. Which cookies are set in individual cases depends on the embedded functions and your use of Instagram.

How long and where is the data stored?

Instagram shares the information received between the Facebook companies with external partners and with people you connect with worldwide. Data processing is carried out in compliance with our own data policy. For security reasons, among others, your data is distributed on Facebook servers around the world. Most of these servers are located in the USA.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

Thanks to the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to access, portability, rectification and erasure of your data. You can manage your data in the Instagram settings. If you want to completely delete your data on Instagram, you must permanently delete your Instagram account.

Here’s how to delete your Instagram account:

First open the Instagram app. On your profile page, go to the bottom and click on “Help”. You will now be taken to the company’s website. On the website, click on “Manage your account” and then on “Delete your account”.

If you delete your account completely, Instagram will delete posts such as your photos and status updates. Information that other people have shared about you does not belong to your account and will therefore not be deleted.

As mentioned above, Instagram stores your data primarily via cookies. You can manage, deactivate or delete these cookies in your browser. Depending on your browser, the management always works a little differently. Here we show you the instructions for the most important browsers.

Chrome: Delete, activate and manage cookies in Chrome

Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have stored on your computer

Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies

Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies

You can also set up your browser so that you are always informed when a cookie is to be set. You can then always decide individually whether you want to allow the cookie or not.

Instagram is a subsidiary of Facebook Inc. and Facebook is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. This framework ensures correct data transfer between the USA and the European Union. You can find out more at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG. We have tried to provide you with the most important information about data processing by Instagram. At https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875.
You can find out more about Instagram’s data policy

YouTube privacy policy

We have integrated YouTube videos on our website. This allows us to present interesting videos directly on our site. YouTube is a video portal that has been a subsidiary of Google LLC since 2006. The video portal is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you access a page on our website that has an embedded YouTube video, your browser automatically connects to the YouTube or Google servers. Various data is transmitted (depending on the settings). Google is responsible for all data processing and therefore Google’s data protection policy also applies.

In the following, we would like to explain in more detail what data is processed, why we have integrated YouTube videos and how you can manage or delete your data.

What is YouTube?

YouTube allows users to watch, rate, comment on and upload videos for free. Over the last few years, YouTube has become one of the most important social media channels in the world. To enable us to display videos on our website, YouTube provides a code snippet that we have integrated into our site.

Why do we use YouTube videos on our website?

YouTube is the video platform with the most visitors and the best content. We endeavour to offer you the best possible user experience on our website. And of course, interesting videos are a must. With the help of our embedded videos, we provide you with further helpful content in addition to our texts and images. The embedded videos also make our website easier to find on the Google search engine. Even if we place adverts via Google Ads, Google can – thanks to the data collected – only show these adverts to people who are interested in our offers.

What data is stored by YouTube?

As soon as you visit one of our pages that has a YouTube video embedded, YouTube sets at least one cookie that stores your IP address and our URL. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can usually assign your interactions on our website to your profile using cookies. This includes data such as session duration, bounce rate, approximate location, technical information such as browser type, screen resolution or your internet provider. Other data may include contact details, any ratings, the sharing of content via social media or adding to your favourites on YouTube.

If you are not logged into a Google account or a YouTube account, Google stores data with a unique identifier that is linked to your device, browser or app. For example, your preferred language setting is retained. But a lot of interaction data cannot be saved because fewer cookies are set.

In the following list, we show cookies that were set in a test in the browser. On the one hand, we show cookies that are set without a logged-in YouTube account. On the other hand, we show cookies that are set with a logged-in account. The list cannot claim to be complete because the user data always depends on the interactions on YouTube.

Name: YSC
Value: b9-CV6ojI5Y
Purpose: This cookie registers a unique ID to store statistics of the video viewed.
Expiry date: after the end of the session

Name: PREF
Value: f1=50000000
Purpose: This cookie also registers your unique ID. Google receives statistics on how you use YouTube videos on our website via PREF.
Expiry date: after 8 months

Name: GPS
Value: 1
Purpose: This cookie registers your unique ID on mobile devices to track the GPS location.
Expiry date: after 30 minutes

Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Value: 95Chz8bagyU
Purpose: This cookie attempts to estimate the user’s bandwidth on our websites (with embedded YouTube video).
Expiry date: after 8 months

Other cookies that are set when you are logged in with your YouTube account:

Name: APISID
Value: zILlvClZSkqGsSwI/AU1aZI6HY7111218046-
Purpose: This cookie is used to create a profile of your interests. The data is used for personalised advertisements.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: CONSENT
Value: YES+AT.de+20150628-20-0
Purpose: The cookie stores the status of a user’s consent to the use of various Google services. CONSENT is also used for security purposes to check users and protect user data from unauthorised attacks.
Expiry date: after 19 years

Name: HSID
Value: AcRwpgUik9Dveht0I
Purpose: This cookie is used to create a profile of your interests. This data helps to display personalised advertising.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: LOGIN_INFO
Value: AFmmF2swRQIhALl6aL…
Purpose: This cookie stores information about your login data.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: SAPISID
Value: 7oaPxoG-pZsJuuF5/AnUdDUIsJ9iJz2vdM
Purpose: This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. It is used to create a profile of your interests.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: SID
Value: oQfNKjAsI111218046-
Purpose: This cookie stores your Google Account ID and your last login time in digitally signed and encrypted form.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: SIDCC
Value: AN0-TYuqub2JOcDTyL
Purpose: This cookie stores information about how you use the website and what adverts you may have seen before visiting our site.
Expiry date: after 3 months

How long and where is the data stored?

The data that YouTube receives and processes from you is stored on Google servers. Most of these servers are located in America. At https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de you can see exactly where the Google data centres are located. Your data is distributed across the servers. This means that the data can be accessed more quickly and is better protected against manipulation.

Google stores the collected data for different lengths of time. You can delete some data at any time, others are automatically deleted after a limited time and others are stored by Google for a longer period of time. Some data (such as elements from “My activity”, photos or documents, products) that are stored in your Google account remain stored until you delete them. Even if you are not signed in to a Google Account, you can delete some data associated with your device, browser or app.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

In principle, you can delete data in your Google account manually. With the automatic deletion function for location and activity data introduced in 2019, information is stored for either 3 or 18 months, depending on your decision, and then deleted.

Regardless of whether you have a Google account or not, you can configure your browser so that cookies are deleted or deactivated by Google. Depending on which browser you use, this works in different ways. The following instructions show you how to manage cookies in your browser:

Chrome: Delete, activate and manage cookies in Chrome

Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have stored on your computer

Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies

Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies

If you do not want any cookies, you can set up your browser so that it always informs you when a cookie is to be set. This allows you to decide for each individual cookie whether you want to allow it or not. As YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, there is a joint privacy policy. If you want to find out more about how your data is handled, we recommend the privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Pinterest privacy policy

We use buttons and widgets from the Pinterest social media network, Pinterest Inc, 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA, on our website.

By accessing pages that use such functions, data (IP address, browser data, date and time, cookies) is transmitted to Pinterest, stored and analysed.

The privacy policy, what information Pinterest collects and how they use it can be found at https://policy.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy.

Source: Created with the data protection generator from adsimple.at in cooperation with immoextra.at

We are very delighted that you have shown interest in our enterprise. Data protection is of a particularly high priority for the management of the Traveldisco.shop GmbH, Linz/Austria. It is generally possible to use the Traveldisco.shop GmbH website without providing any personal data. However, if a person concerned wishes to make use of special services of our company via our website, it may be necessary to process personal data. If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no legal basis for such processing, we generally obtain the consent of the data subject.

The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to Traveldisco.shop GmbH. By means of this data protection declaration, our company would like to inform the public about the type, scope and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Furthermore, data subjects are informed of the rights to which they are entitled by means of this data protection declaration.

As the controller, the Traveldisco.shop GmbH has implemented numerous technical and organisational measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through this website. Nevertheless, Internet-based data transmissions can generally have security gaps, so absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transmit personal data to us by alternative means, for example by telephone.

1. Definitions of terms

The data protection declaration of the Traveldisco.shop GmbH is based on the terms used by the European legislator for the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our data protection declaration should be legible and understandable for the general public, as well as our customers and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to explain the terminology used in advance.

We use the following terms, among others, in this privacy policy

a) personal data

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter “data subject”). An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

b) Data subject

Data subject is any identified or identifiable natural person whose personal data is processed by the controller responsible for the processing.

c) Processing

Processing means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

d) Restriction of processing

Restriction of processing is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of restricting its future processing.

e) Profiling

Profiling means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements.

f) Pseudonymisation

Pseudonymisation is the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.

g) Controller or controller responsible for the processing

The controller or controller responsible for the processing is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data. Where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.

h) Processor

Processor is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

i) Recipient

Recipient is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. Public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular enquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall be regarded as recipients.

j) Third party

A third party is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, the controller, the processor and the persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process the personal data.

k) Consent

Consent is any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which they, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signify agreement to the processing of personal data relating to them.

2. Name and address of the controller

Controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other data protection laws applicable in Member states of the European Union and other provisions related to data protection is

Traveldisco.shop GmbH

Wiener Strasse 43a

4020 Linz

Austria

Tel.: +43 732 652 128 0

E-Mail: info@Traveldisco..at

Website: www.traveldisco.shop

3. Cookies

Die Internetseiten der Traveldisco.shop GmbH verwenden Cookies. Cookies are text files that are placed and stored on a computer system via an Internet browser.

Numerous websites and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier for the cookie. It consists of a character string that allows websites and servers to be assigned to the specific internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This enables the websites and servers visited to distinguish the individual browser of the data subject from other Internet browsers that contain other cookies. A specific Internet browser can be recognised and identified via the unique cookie ID.

Through the use of cookies, the Traveldisco.shop GmbH can provide the users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.

By means of a cookie, the information and offers on our website can be optimised for the benefit of the user. As already mentioned, cookies enable us to recognise the users of our website. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to use our website. For example, the user of a website that uses cookies does not have to re-enter their access data each time they visit the website because this is taken over by the website and the cookie stored on the user’s computer system. Another example is the cookie of a shopping basket in an online shop. The online shop remembers the items that a customer has placed in the virtual shopping basket via a cookie.

The data subject can prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. Furthermore, cookies that have already been set can be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software programmes. This is possible in all common internet browsers. If the person concerned deactivates the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all functions of our website may be fully usable.

4. Collection of general data and information

The website of the Traveldisco.shop GmbH collects a series of general data and information when a data subject or automated system calls up the website. This general data and information is stored in the server log files. The (1) browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system accesses our website (so-called referrer), (4) the sub-websites which are accessed via an accessing system on our website can be recorded, (5) the date and time of access to the website, (6) an internet protocol address (IP address), (7) the internet service provider of the accessing system and (8) other similar data and information used for security purposes in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.

When using these general data and information, the Traveldisco.shop GmbH does not draw any conclusions about the data subject. When using these general data and information, the Buchbinderei Strandl, Linz/Austria, e.U. does not draw any conclusions about the data subject. Rather, this information is needed to (1) deliver the content of our website correctly, (2) optimise the content of our website and the advertising for it, (3) ensure the long-term functionality of our information technology systems and the technology of our website, and (4) provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for criminal prosecution in the event of a cyber attack. Therefore, the Traveldisco.shop GmbH analyses anonymously collected data and information statistically, with the aim of increasing the data protection and data security of our enterprise, and to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.

5. Contact possibility via the website

The website of the Traveldisco.shop GmbH contains information that enables a quick electronic contact to our enterprise, as well as direct communication with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic mail (e-mail address). If a data subject contacts the data controller by e-mail or via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject is automatically stored. Such personal data transmitted on a voluntary basis by a data subject to the controller are stored for the purposes of processing or contacting the data subject. This personal data is not passed on to third parties.

6. comment function in the blog on the website

The Traveldisco.shop GmbH offers users the possibility to leave individual comments on individual blog contributions on a blog, which is on the website of the controller. A blog is a portal on a website, usually open to the public, in which one or more people, called bloggers or web bloggers, can post articles or write down thoughts in so-called blog posts. The blog posts can usually be commented on by third parties.

If a data subject leaves a comment in the blog published on this website, information on the time of the comment entry and the user name (pseudonym) chosen by the data subject are stored and published in addition to the comments left by the data subject. Furthermore, the IP address assigned by the data subject’s Internet service provider (ISP) is also logged. The IP address is stored for security reasons and in the event that the data subject violates the rights of third parties or posts illegal content by posting a comment. This personal data is therefore stored in the controller’s own interest so that the controller can exculpate itself in the event of an infringement. The personal data collected will not be passed on to third parties unless such a transfer is required by law or serves the legal defence of the controller.

7. Subscription to comments in the blog on the website

The comments made in the blog of the Traveldisco.shop GmbH may be subscribed to by third parties. In particular, it is possible for a commenter to subscribe to the comments following their comment on a particular blog post.

If a data subject decides in favour of the option to subscribe to comments, the controller sends an automatic confirmation email to check in the double opt-in procedure whether the owner of the specified email address has actually opted for this option. The option to subscribe to comments can be cancelled at any time.

8. Routine erasure and blocking of personal data

The controller shall process and store the personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of storage, or as far as this is granted by the European legislator or other legislators in laws or regulations to which the controller is subject to.

If the purpose of storage ceases to apply or if a storage period prescribed by the European Directive and Regulation Giver or another competent legislator expires, the personal data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.

9. Rights of the data subject

a) Right to confirmation

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller the confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed. If a data subject wishes to avail himself of this right of confirmation, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller.

b) Right to Access

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European legislator, to obtain from the controller, at any time and free of charge, information about the personal data stored about them and to receive a copy of this information. Furthermore, the European legislator has granted the data subject access to the following information:

The purposes of the processing

The categories of personal data being processed

The recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, particularly recipients in third countries or international organizations

If possible, the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored, or, if this is not possible, the criteria used to determine this duration

The existence of the right to rectification or erasure of personal data concerning them or to restrict processing by the controller or to object to such processing

The existence of a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

if the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information about the source of the data

The existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, pursuant to Article 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR and, at least in these cases, meaningful information about the logic involved as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject

Additionally, the data subject has the right to be informed about whether personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organization. Where this is the case, the data subject has the right to be informed about the appropriate safeguards relating to the transfer.

If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to access, they may, at any time, contact an employee of the controller responsible for processing.

c) Right to Rectification

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European legislator, to demand the immediate rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning them. Furthermore, the data subject has the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data, considering the purposes of the processing, which may be done through a supplementary statement.

If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to rectification, they can, at any time, contact an employee of the controller responsible for processing.

d) Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten)

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European legislator, to demand from the controller the immediate deletion of personal data concerning them, provided that one of the following reasons applies and the processing is not necessary:

The personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.

The data subject withdraws their consent on which the processing is based according to Article 6 (1)(a) GDPR or Article 9 (2)(a) GDPR, and there is no other legal ground for the processing.

The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21 (1) GDPR, and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21 (2) GDPR.

The personal data have been unlawfully processed.

The deletion of personal data is necessary to comply with a legal obligation under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject.

The personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Article 8 (1) GDPR.

If one of the aforementioned reasons applies, and a data subject wishes to request the erasure of personal data stored by the Traveldisco.shop GmbH, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller. An employee of Traveldisco.shop GmbH shall promptly ensure that the erasure request is complied with immediately.

If the personal data have been made public by the Traveldisco.shop GmbH and our company is responsible pursuant to Art. 17 para. Where the controller has made the personal data public and is obliged pursuant to Article 1 of the GDPR to erase the personal data, the Traveldisco.shop GmbH, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform other controllers processing the personal data that the data subject has requested erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data, as far as processing is not required. An employees of the Traveldisco.shop GmbH will arrange the necessary measures in individual cases.

e) Right to Restriction of Processing

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European legislator, to request the controller to restrict the processing if one of the following conditions applies:

The accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data.

The processing is unlawful, and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests instead the restriction of their use.

The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but the data subject requires them for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

The data subject has objected to processing pursuant to Article 21 (1) GDPR pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.

If one of the aforementioned conditions is met, and a data subject wishes to request the restriction of the processing of personal data stored by the Traveldisco.shop GmbH, he or she may at any time contact any employee of the controller. The employee of the Traveldisco.shop GmbH will arrange the restriction of the processing.

f) Right to Data Portability

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European legislator, to receive the personal data concerning them, which they have provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. They also have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, as long as the processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6 (1)(a) GDPR or Article 9 (2)(a) GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Article 6 (1)(b) GDPR, and the processing is carried out by automated means, as long as the processing is not necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

Furthermore, in exercising their right to data portability pursuant to Article 20 (1) GDPR, the data subject has the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible and where this does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

To assert the right to data portability, the data subject can, at any time, contact an employee of Traveldisco.shop GmbH.

g) Right to Object

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European legislator, to object at any time, on grounds relating to their particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning them which is based on Article 6 (1)(e) or (f) GDPR. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

The Traveldisco.shop GmbH shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

If the Traveldisco.shop GmbH processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her for such marketing. This applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. Verarbeitet der Traveldisco.shop GmbH personenbezogene Daten, um Direktwerbung zu betreiben, so hat die betroffene Person das Recht, jederzeit Widerspruch gegen die Verarbeitung der personenbezogenen Daten zum Zwecke derartiger Werbung einzulegen.

In addition, the data subject has the right, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to object to processing of personal data concerning him or her by the Traveldisco.shop GmbH for scientific or historical research purposes, or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) of the GDPR. (1) GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.

In order to exercise the right to object, the data subject may contact any employee of the Traveldisco.shop GmbH. Furthermore, the data subject is free to exercise their right to object in connection with the use of information society services, notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, by automated means using technical specifications.

h) Automated Individual Decision-Making, Including Profiling

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European legislator, not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning them or similarly significantly affects them, as long as the decision (1) is not necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) is authorized by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or (3) is based on the data subject’s explicit consent.

If the decision (1) is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) it is based on the data subject’s explicit consent, the Traveldisco.shop GmbH shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and contest the decision.

If the data subject wishes to exercise the rights concerning automated individual decision-making, they can, at any time, contact an employee of the controller responsible for processing.

i) Right to Withdraw Data Protection Consent

Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European legislator, to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data at any time.

If the data subject wishes to exercise the right to withdraw consent, they can, at any time, contact an employee of the controller responsible for processing.

10. Data Protection Provisions About the Application and Use of AddThis

The controller responsible for processing has integrated components of the company AddThis on this website. AddThis is a so-called bookmarking provider. The service allows simplified bookmarking of websites via buttons. By hovering over the AddThis component with the mouse or by clicking on it, a list of bookmarking and sharing services is displayed. AddThis is used on over 15 million websites, and the buttons are displayed more than 20 billion times a year according to the operating company.

The operating company of AddThis is AddThis, Inc., 1595 Spring Hill Road, Suite 300, Vienna, VA 22182, USA.

Each time one of the individual pages of this website operated by the controller and on which an AddThis component has been integrated is accessed, the internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted by the respective AddThis component to download data from the website www.addthis.com. During the course of this technical procedure, AddThis is informed about the visit and which specific individual page of this website is used by the information technology system of the data subject. Furthermore, AddThis is informed about the IP address assigned by the internet service provider (ISP) to the computer system used by the data subject, the browser type, the browser language, the previously visited website, the date, and the time of the visit to our website. AddThis uses this data to create anonymized user profiles. The data and information transmitted to AddThis in this way enable AddThis itself, as well as the affiliated companies or its partners, to target the visitors of the controller’s website with personalized, interest-based advertising.

AddThis displays personalized and interest-based advertising using a cookie set by the company. This cookie analyzes the individual surfing behavior of the information technology system used by the data subject. The cookie stores the visits to websites originating from the system.

The data subject can prevent the setting of cookies by this website, as already explained above, at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the internet browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the internet browser used would also prevent AddThis from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. Cookies already set by AddThis can be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software programs.

The data subject also has the possibility to object to the collection of data generated by AddThis related to a usage of this website as well as the processing of these data by AddThis and to prevent such processing. For this purpose, the data subject must press the opt-out button under the link http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out which sets an opt-out cookie. The opt-out cookie set for this purpose is stored on the information technology system used by the data subject. If the cookies on the data subject’s system are deleted after an objection, the data subject must call up the link again and set a new opt-out cookie.

With the setting of the opt-out cookie, however, the use of the websites of the controller may not be fully usable for the data subject.

Data Protection Provisions About the Application and Use of AddThis The applicable data protection provisions of AddThis can be accessed at [http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy].

11. Data Protection Provisions About the Application and Use of Facebook

The controller responsible for processing has integrated components of Facebook on this website. Facebook is a social network.

A social network is an online meeting place, a virtual community that usually allows users to communicate and interact with each other in a virtual space. A social network can serve as a platform to exchange opinions and experiences or enable the internet community to provide personal or business-related information. Facebook allows users to create private profiles, upload photos, and network through friend requests.

The operating company of Facebook is Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. If a data subject lives outside the USA or Canada, the controller for processing personal data is Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

With each call to one of the individual pages of this website, operated by the controller and on which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-in) has been integrated, the internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted by the respective Facebook component to download a representation of the corresponding Facebook component from Facebook. An overview of all Facebook plug-ins can be accessed at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=de_DE. During the course of this technical procedure, Facebook is informed about which specific subpage of our website was visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in to Facebook at the same time, Facebook detects with every call to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our website—which specific subpage of our website was visited. This information is collected through the Facebook component and associated with the respective Facebook account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks one of the Facebook buttons integrated into our website, such as the “Like” button, or if the data subject submits a comment, Facebook matches this information with the personal Facebook user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.

Facebook always receives information via the Facebook component that the data subject has visited our website if the data subject is logged into Facebook at the time of the call to our website; this occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Facebook component or not. If such a transmission of information to Facebook is not desired by the data subject, they can prevent this by logging out of their Facebook account before calling our website.

The data policy published by Facebook, which is available at https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/, provides information about the collection, processing, and use of personal data by Facebook. It also explains what setting options Facebook offers to protect the privacy of the data subject. Additionally, different configuration options are made available to allow the elimination of data transmission to Facebook. These applications can be used by the data subject to eliminate data transmission to Facebook.

12. Data Protection Provisions About the Application and Use of Google Analytics (with Anonymization Function).

The controller has integrated the Google Analytics component (with the anonymization function) on this website. Google Analytics is a web analysis service. Web analysis is the collection, gathering, and analysis of data about the behavior of visitors to websites. A web analysis service collects, among other things, data about the website from which a data subject has come (the so-called referrer), which subpages were visited, or how often and for what duration a subpage was viewed. Web analysis is mainly used to optimize a website and for cost-benefit analysis of internet advertising.

The operating company of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

The controller uses the addition “_gat._anonymizeIp” for the web analysis through Google Analytics. By means of this addition, the IP address of the internet connection of the data subject is shortened and anonymized by Google if the access to our websites is from a member state of the European Union or another contracting state to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

The purpose of the Google Analytics component is to analyze the traffic on our website. Google uses the collected data and information, among other things, to evaluate the use of our website and to provide online reports showing the activities on our websites, and to provide other services concerning the use of our website.

Google Analytics places a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. What cookies are has already been explained. With the setting of the cookie, Google is enabled to analyze the use of our website. With each call to one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by the controller and on which a Google Analytics component has been integrated, the internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically submitted to Google through the Google Analytics component for the purpose of online advertising and the settlement of commissions. During the course of this technical procedure, the enterprise Google gains knowledge of personal information, such as the IP address of the data subject, which serves Google, among other things, to understand the origin of visitors and clicks, and subsequently create commission settlements.

The cookie is used to store personal information, such as the access time, the location from which the access was made, and the frequency of visits to our website by the data subject. With each visit to our website, such personal data, including the IP address of the internet access used by the data subject, will be transmitted to Google in the United States of America. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass these personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties.

The data subject can prevent the setting of cookies by this website, as already explained above, at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the internet browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the internet browser used would also prevent Google Analytics from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. Additionally, cookies already in use by Google Analytics may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.

In addition, the data subject has the possibility of objecting to the collection of data generated by Google Analytics, related to the use of this website, as well as the processing of this data by Google and the chance to preclude any such processing. For this purpose, the data subject must download a browser add-on under the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and install it. This browser add-on tells Google Analytics through a JavaScript, that any data and information about the visits of internet pages may not be transmitted to Google Analytics. The installation of the browser add-ons is considered an objection by Google. If the information technology system of the data subject is later deleted, formatted, or newly installed, then the data subject must reinstall the browser add-ons to disable Google Analytics. If the browser add-on was uninstalled by the data subject or any other person who is attributable to their sphere of competence, or is disabled, it is possible to execute the reinstallation or reactivation of the browser add-ons.

Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under (https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/) and under (http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html). Google Analytics is further explained under the following Link https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/analytics/.

13. Data Protection Provisions About the Application and Use of Google+

The controller has integrated the Google+ button as a component on this website. Google+ is a social network. A social network is an online meeting place, a virtual community that usually allows users to communicate and interact with each other in a virtual space. A social network can serve as a platform to exchange opinions and experiences or enable the internet community to provide personal or business-related information. Google+ allows users to create private profiles, upload photos, and network through friend requests.

The operating company of Google+ is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

With each call to one of the individual pages of this website, operated by the controller and on which a Google+ button has been integrated, the internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted by the respective Google+ button to download a representation of the corresponding Google+ button from Google. During the course of this technical procedure, Google is made aware of what specific subpage of our website was visited by the data subject. More detailed information about Google+ is available at https://developers.google.com/+/.

If the data subject is logged in at the same time to Google+, Google recognizes with each call to our website by the data subject and for the entire duration of their stay on our website which specific subpage of our website was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Google+ button and Google matches this with the respective Google+ account associated with the data subject.

If the data subject clicks on one of the Google+ buttons integrated on our website and thus gives a Google+1 recommendation, then Google assigns this information to the personal Google+ user account of the data subject and stores the personal data. Google stores the Google+1 recommendation of the data subject, making it publicly available in accordance with the terms and conditions accepted by the data subject in this regard. A Google+ recommendation given by the data subject on this website will subsequently be stored and processed along with other personal data, such as the name of the Google+ account used by the data subject and the photo stored in this account, in other Google services, such as search engine results from the Google search engine, the Google account of the data subject, or in other places, such as on websites or in connection with advertisements. Furthermore, Google is able to link the visit to this website with other personal data stored by Google. Google also records this personal information for the purpose of improving or optimizing Google’s various services.

Google receives information through the Google+ button whenever the data subject is logged in to Google+ at the time of visiting our website; this occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Google+ button or not.

If such a transmission of information to Google is not desired by the data subject, they can prevent this by logging out of their Google+ account before visiting our website.

Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google can be retrieved at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/. Additional information from Google about the Google+1 button can be obtained at https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy).

14. Data Protection Provisions About the Application and Use of Google AdWords

The controller has integrated Google AdWords on this website. Google AdWords is an internet advertising service that allows advertisers to place ads both in Google’s search engine results and in the Google advertising network. Google AdWords allows an advertiser to predefine specific keywords by means of which an ad will be displayed in Google’s search engine results only when the user uses the search engine to retrieve a keyword-relevant search result. In the Google advertising network, the ads are distributed on relevant web pages using an automatic algorithm, taking into account the previously defined keywords.

The operating company of Google AdWords services is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

The purpose of Google AdWords is to promote our website by including relevant advertising on the websites of third parties and in the search engine results of the Google search engine, and by displaying third-party advertising on our website.

If a data subject reaches our website via a Google ad, a conversion cookie is filed on the information technology system of the data subject by Google. What cookies are has already been explained. What cookies are has already been explained. A conversion cookie loses its validity after 30 days and is not used to identify the data subject. If the cookie has not expired, the conversion cookie is used to check whether certain subpages, such as the shopping cart from an online shop system, were called up on our website. Through the conversion cookie, both Google and the controller can understand whether a person who reached an AdWords ad on our website generated sales, that is, executed or canceled a sale of goods.

The data and information collected through the use of the conversion cookie are used by Google to create visit statistics for our website. These visit statistics are used to determine the total number of users who have been served AdWords ads to see the success or failure of each AdWords ad and to optimize our AdWords ads in the future. Neither our company nor other Google AdWords advertisers receive information from Google that could identify the data subject.

The conversion cookie stores personal information, such as the web pages visited by the data subject. Each time we visit our web pages, personal data, including the IP address of the internet access used by the data subject, is transmitted to Google in the United States of America. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass these personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties.

The data subject can prevent the setting of cookies by this website, as already explained above, at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the internet browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass these personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties. The data subject can prevent the setting of cookies through our website, as stated above, at any time by adjusting the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies.

Such an adjustment to the internet browser used would also prevent Google from setting a conversion cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. Additionally, a cookie set by Google AdWords can be deleted at any time via the internet browser or other software programs. The data subject has a chance to object to interest-based advertising by Google.

Therefore, the data subject must access from each of the browsers in use the link www.google.de/settings/ads and set the desired settings. Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google can be retrieved at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

15. Data Protection Provisions About the Application and Use of Instagram

The controller has integrated components of the service Instagram on this website. Instagram is a service that may be qualified as an audiovisual platform, which allows users to share photos and videos, as well as disseminate such data in other social networks.

The operating company of Instagram services is Instagram LLC, 1 Hacker Way, Building 14 First Floor, Menlo Park, CA, USA.

With each call to one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by the controller and into which an Instagram component (Insta button) has been integrated, the internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to the download of a display of the corresponding Instagram component of Instagram. During the course of this technical procedure, Instagram becomes aware of what specific subpage of our website was visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Instagram, Instagram detects with every call to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our website—which specific subpage of our website was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Instagram component and is associated with the respective Instagram account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Instagram buttons integrated on our website, then Instagram matches this information with the personal Instagram user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.

Instagram receives information via the Instagram component whenever the data subject is logged in to Instagram at the time of the call to our website; this occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Instagram component or not. If such a transmission of information to Instagram is not desirable for the data subject, then they can prevent this by logging out of their Instagram account before a call to our website is made.

Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Instagram may be retrieved at https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388 and https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

16. Data Protection Provisions About the Application and Use of Jetpack for WordPress

The controller has integrated Jetpack on this website. Jetpack is a WordPress plug-in, which provides additional features to the operator of a website based on WordPress. Jetpack allows the website operator, among other things, an overview of the visitors to the site. By displaying related posts and publications or the possibility to share content on the page, it is possible to increase visitor numbers. Additionally, security features are integrated into Jetpack, which means that a site using Jetpack is better protected against brute-force attacks. Jetpack also optimizes and accelerates the loading of images on the website.

The operating company of the Jetpack plug-in for WordPress is Automattic Inc., 132 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.

Jetpack sets a cookie on the information technology system used by the data subject. What cookies are has already been explained. With each call to one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by the controller and on which a Jetpack component has been integrated, the internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to send data through the Jetpack component for analysis purposes to Automattic. During the course of this technical procedure, Automattic is made aware of data that is subsequently used to create an overview of website visits. The data obtained in this way serves to analyze the behavior of the data subject, which has accessed the controller’s website and is analyzed with the aim of optimizing the website. The data collected via the Jetpack component will not be used to identify the data subject without first obtaining a separate express consent from the data subject. The data is also made known to Quantcast. Quantcast uses the data for the same purposes as Automattic.

The data subject can prevent the setting of cookies by this website, as already explained above, at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the internet browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the internet browser used would also prevent Automattic/Quantcast from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. Additionally, cookies already in use by Automattic may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.

The data subject also has the option of objecting to the collection of data relating to a use of this website generated by the Jetpack cookie, as well as the processing of this data by Automattic/Quantcast and the chance to preclude any such. To do this, the data subject must press the opt-out button under the link https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/, which sets an opt-out cookie. The opt-out cookie set for this purpose is placed on the information technology system used by the data subject. If the cookies on the data subject’s system are deleted after an objection, the data subject must call up the link again and set a new opt-out cookie.

With the setting of the opt-out cookie, however, the use of the websites of the controller may not be fully usable for the data subject.

The applicable data protection provisions of Automattic can be accessed at https://automattic.com/privacy/. The applicable data protection provisions of Quantcast can be accessed at https://www.quantcast.com/privacy/.

17. Data Protection Provisions About the Application and Use of Pinterest

The controller has integrated components of Pinterest Inc. on this website. Pinterest is a social network. A social network is an online meeting place, a virtual community that usually allows users to communicate and interact with each other in a virtual space. A social network can serve as a platform to exchange opinions and experiences or enable the internet community to provide personal or business-related information. Pinterest is a social network that enables users to create and share collections of images, single images, and descriptions on virtual pinboards, which other users can share (re-pin) or comment on.

The operating company of Pinterest is Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA.

With each call to one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by the controller and into which a Pinterest component (Pinterest plug-in) has been integrated, the internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted by the respective Pinterest component to download a representation of the corresponding Pinterest component from Pinterest. More information about Pinterest can be accessed at https://pinterest.com/. During the course of this technical procedure, Pinterest is made aware of what specific subpage of our website was visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in at the same time to Pinterest, Pinterest detects with every call to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our website—which specific subpage of our website was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Pinterest component and is associated with the respective Pinterest account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Pinterest buttons integrated on our website, then Pinterest assigns this information to the personal Pinterest user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.

Pinterest receives information via the Pinterest component whenever the data subject is logged in to Pinterest at the time of the call to our website; this occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Pinterest component or not. If such a transmission of information to Pinterest is not desirable for the data subject, then they can prevent this by logging out of their Pinterest account before a call to our website is made.

The data protection guideline published by Pinterest, which is available at https://about.pinterest.com/privacy-policy, provides information about the collection, processing, and use of personal data by Pinterest.

18. Data Protection Provisions About the Application and Use of Shariff

The controller has integrated the Shariff component on this website. Shariff provides social media buttons that comply with data protection regulations. Shariff was developed for the German computer magazine c’t and is published by GitHub, Inc.

The developer of the Shariff component is GitHub, Inc. , 88 Colin P. Kelly Junior Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.

Usually, the button solutions provided by social networks already transfer personal data to the respective social network when a user visits a website into which a social media button has been integrated. By using the Shariff component, personal data is only transmitted to social networks when the visitor to a website actively presses one of the social media buttons. Further information about the Shariff component is provided by the computer magazine c’t at http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Datenschutz-und-Social-Media-Der-c-t-Shariff-ist-im-Einsatz-2470103.html. The use of the Shariff component aims to protect the personal data of visitors to our website and to enable us to integrate a social media button solution on this website.

Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of GitHub can be accessed at https://help.github.com/articles/github-privacy-policy/.

19. Data Protection Provisions About the Application and Use of YouTube

The controller has integrated YouTube components on this website. YouTube is an internet video portal that enables video publishers to set video clips and other users to view, rate, and comment on these videos for free. YouTube allows the publication of all types of videos, which is why both complete film and TV shows, as well as music videos, trailers, and user-made videos, are accessible via the internet portal.

The operating company of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

With each call to one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by the controller and into which a YouTube component (YouTube video) has been integrated, the internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted by the respective YouTube component to download a representation of the corresponding YouTube component from YouTube. Further information about YouTube can be accessed at https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/de/. During the course of this technical procedure, YouTube and Google are made aware of what specific subpage of our website was visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in at the same time on YouTube, YouTube recognizes with each call to a subpage that contains a YouTube video, which specific subpage of our website was visited by the data subject. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to the respective YouTube account of the data subject.

YouTube and Google receive information through the YouTube component whenever the data subject is logged in to YouTube at the time of the call to our website; this occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks on a YouTube video or not. If such a transmission of this information to YouTube and Google is not desirable for the data subject, then the delivery may be prevented by logging out of their YouTube account before visiting our website.

The data protection provisions published by YouTube, which are available at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/, provide information about the collection, processing, and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.

20. Legal Basis for Processing

Article 6(1) (a) GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing operations for which we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose. If the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, as is the case, for example, when processing operations are necessary for the supply of goods or to provide any other service, the processing is based on Article 6(1) (b) GDPR. The same applies to such processing operations that are necessary for carrying out pre-contractual measures, for example, in the case of inquiries concerning our products or services. If our company is subject to a legal obligation by which the processing of personal data is required, such as for the fulfillment of tax obligations, the processing is based on Article 6(1) (c) GDPR. In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were injured in our company and their name, age, health insurance data, or other vital information would have to be passed on to a doctor, hospital, or other third party. Then the processing would be based on Article 6(1) (d) GDPR. Finally, processing operations could be based on Article 6(1) (f) GDPR. This legal basis is used for processing operations that are not covered by any of the above-mentioned legal grounds if the processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by our company 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. Such processing operations are particularly permissible because they have been specifically mentioned by the European legislator. He considered that a legitimate interest could be assumed if the data subject is a client of the controller (Recital 47 Sentence 2 GDPR).

21. Legitimate Interests in the Processing Pursued by the Controller or a Third Party

If the processing of personal data is based on Article 6(1) (f) GDPR, our legitimate interest is to carry out our business in favor of the well-being of all our employees and shareholders.

22. Period for Which the Personal Data Will Be Stored

The criterion used to determine the period of storage of personal data is the respective statutory retention period. After the expiration of that period, the corresponding data is routinely deleted, as long as it is no longer necessary for the fulfillment of the contract or the initiation of a contract.

23. Provision of Personal Data as Statutory or Contractual Requirement; Requirement Necessary to Enter Into a Contract; Obligation of the Data Subject to Provide the Personal Data; Possible Consequences of Failure to Provide Such Data

We inform you that the provision of personal data is partly required by law (e.g., tax regulations) or may also result from contractual provisions (e.g., information on the contractual partner). Sometimes it may be necessary to conclude a contract that the data subject provides us with personal data, which must subsequently be processed by us. For example, the data subject is obliged to provide us with personal data when our company signs a contract with them. Failure to provide the personal data would result in the contract with the data subject not being concluded. Before personal data is provided by the data subject, the data subject must contact one of our employees. Our employee will inform the data subject on a case-by-case basis whether the provision of the personal data is required by law or contract or is necessary for the conclusion of the contract, whether there is an obligation to provide the personal data, and the consequences of not providing the personal data.

24. Existence of Automated Decision-Making

As a responsible company, we do not use automatic decision-making or profiling.

This privacy policy was created by the privacy policy generator of the DGD Deutsche Gesellschaft für Datenschutz GmbH, which acts as the External Data Protection Officer Duisburg, in cooperation with the IT and data protection lawyer Christian Solmecke from Cologne.