Privacy Policy – Stein-Autoservice Kaiserslautern

Privacy Policy at a Glance

General Information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data that can be used to identify you personally. You can find detailed information on data protection in our privacy policy listed below this text.

Data Collection on Our Website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the legal notice of this website.

How do we collect your data?

Some of your data is collected when you provide it to us. This may include, for example, data that you enter in a contact form.

Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is mainly technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of page view). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure the error-free provision of the website. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right at any time to receive free information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking or deletion of this data. For this and other questions on the subject of data protection, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority.

You also have the right, under certain circumstances, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. Details on this can be found in the privacy policy under “Right to restriction of processing.”

Analysis Tools and Third-Party Tools

When you visit our website, your surfing behavior can be statistically evaluated. This is mainly done with cookies and with so-called analysis programs. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous; the surfing behavior cannot be traced back to you.

You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information on these tools and your objection options can be found in the following privacy policy.

General Information and Mandatory Information

Data Protection

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy. When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is data that can be used to identify you personally. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens. We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Note on the Responsible Party

The responsible party for data processing on this website is:

STEIN Handels- und Instandsetzungsgesellschaft mbH
Phone: 06301 / 79 31 24
E-mail: info@stein-autoservice.de

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses or similar).

Withdrawal of Your Consent to Data Processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time. An informal notification by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out until the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Right to Object to Data Collection in Special Cases and to Direct Advertising (Art. 21 GDPR)

If data processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e or f GDPR, you have the right at any time to object to the processing of your personal data for reasons arising from your particular situation; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. The respective legal basis on which processing is based can be found in this privacy policy. If you object, we will no longer process your personal data concerned, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims (objection pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR).

If your personal data is processed for the purpose of direct advertising, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such advertising; this also applies to profiling, insofar as it is associated with such direct advertising. If you object, your personal data will subsequently no longer be used for the purpose of direct advertising (objection pursuant to Art. 21 para. 2 GDPR).

Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority

In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of their habitual residence, their place of work or the place of the alleged violation. The right to lodge a complaint exists without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedies. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Anschriften/anschriften_table.html (Germany) and https://www.dsb.gv.at/ueber-die-website/kontakt.html (Austria).

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.

SSL or TLS Encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or requests that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

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

Encrypted Payment Transactions

If, after the conclusion of a contract subject to a charge, there is an obligation to transmit your payment data to us (e.g. account number for direct debit authorization), this data is required for payment processing. Payment transactions via the common means of payment (Visa/MasterCard, direct debit) are carried out exclusively via an encrypted SSL or TLS connection. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line. With encrypted communication, your payment data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, Blocking, Deletion and Correction

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient and the purpose of the data processing and, if applicable, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data. For this and other questions on the subject of personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice.

Right to Restriction of Processing

You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:

If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we usually need time to verify this. For the duration of the verification, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
If the processing of your personal data was/is unlawful, you can request the restriction of data processing instead of deletion.
If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it for the exercise, defense or assertion of legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of deletion.
If you have lodged an objection pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, a balance must be struck between your interests and ours. As long as it has not yet been determined whose interests outweigh, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, this data – apart from its storage – may only be processed with your consent or for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of an important public interest of the European Union or a member state.

Objection to Advertising E-mails

The use of contact data published within the scope of the imprint obligation for sending unsolicited advertising and information materials is hereby objected to. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e-mails.

Data Collection on Our Website

Cookies

This website uses cookies or other technologies that are strictly necessary or such as functional cookies, so that you can be provided with the retrieved website including functions, § 25 para. 2 number 2 Telecommunications-Digital-Services-Data Protection Act (TDDDG), Article 6 para. 1 subparagraph 1 letter f GDPR.

If you give your consent for optional services, non-required cookies, the legal basis is § 25 para. 1 TDDDG, Article 6 para. 1 subparagraph 1 letter a GDPR (consent). For this and the cookies or services used, you can obtain further information from the consent management tool used at any time and revoke consent freely and without disadvantage with effect for the future. Please note, however, that our website may not always function as intended without the cookies used.

You can view the cookies used in our tool and edit and revoke your consent etc. there at any time. The revocation of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation.

Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions that you have requested (e.g. shopping cart function) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies for analyzing your surfing behavior) are stored, these are treated separately in this privacy policy.

Server Log Files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

Browser type and browser version
operating system used
referrer URL
hostname of the accessing computer
time of the server request
IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources. This data is collected on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and optimization of its website – for this purpose, the server log files must be recorded.

Contact Form

If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact data you provided there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. The legal basis for this is Article 6 para. 1 subparagraph 1 letter b GDPR. We do not pass on this data without your consent. The data you enter in the contact form remains with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.

Inquiry by E-mail, Telephone or Fax

If you contact us by e-mail, telephone or fax, your inquiry, including all personal data resulting from it (name, inquiry), will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your request. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

The processing of this data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, provided that your inquiry is related to the fulfillment of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR) and/or on our legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR), as we have a legitimate interest in the effective processing of the inquiries addressed to us.

The data you send to us via contact requests remains with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular statutory retention periods – remain unaffected.

Registration on This Website

You can register on our website to use additional functions on the site. We use the data entered for this purpose only for the purpose of using the respective offer or service for which you have registered. The mandatory information requested during registration must be provided in full. Otherwise, we will reject the registration. The legal basis for this is Article 6 para. 1 subparagraph 1 letter b GDPR.

For important changes, such as changes to the scope of the offer or technically necessary changes, we use the e-mail address provided during registration to inform you in this way.

The processing of the data entered during registration is based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can withdraw your consent at any time. An informal notification by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing that has already taken place remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

The data collected during registration is stored by us as long as you are registered on our website and is then deleted. Legal retention periods remain unaffected.

Processing of Data (Customer and Contract Data)

We collect, process and use personal data only to the extent that it is necessary for the establishment, content design or modification of the legal relationship (inventory data). This is done on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures. We collect, process and use personal data about the use of our Internet pages (usage data) only to the extent that this is necessary to enable the user to use the service or to bill for it.

The collected customer data will be deleted after completion of the order or termination of the business relationship. Legal retention periods remain unaffected.

Data Transmission at the Conclusion of the Contract for Online Stores, Dealers and Goods Shipping

We only transmit personal data to third parties if this is necessary within the scope of the contract processing, for example to the companies entrusted with the delivery of the goods or the credit institution commissioned with the payment processing. A further transmission of the data does not take place or only then if you have expressly consented to the transmission. Your data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent, for example for advertising purposes.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Data transmission upon conclusion of contract for services and digital content

We only transmit personal data to third parties if this is necessary within the scope of contract processing, for example to the credit institution commissioned with payment processing. A further transmission of the data does not take place or only if you have expressly consented to the transmission. Your data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent, for example for advertising purposes. The basis for data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Registration with Facebook Connect

Instead of registering directly on our website, you can register with Facebook Connect. The provider of this service is Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.

If you decide to register with Facebook Connect and click on the “Login with Facebook”/”Connect with Facebook” button, you will be automatically redirected to the Facebook platform. There you can log in with your user data. This will link your Facebook profile to our website or our services. Through this link, we receive access to your data stored on Facebook. These are mainly:

Facebook name
Facebook profile and cover picture
Facebook cover picture
E-mail address stored on Facebook
Facebook ID
Facebook friend lists
Facebook Likes
Birthday
Gender
Country
Language

This data is used to set up, provide and personalize your account.

Registration with Facebook Connect and the associated data processing operations are based on your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future.

Further information can be found in the Facebook terms of use and the Facebook privacy policy. These can be found at: https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/ and https://de-de.facebook.com/legal/terms/.

Comment function on this website

For the comment function on this page, in addition to your comment, information on the time the comment was created, your e-mail address and, if you do not post anonymously, the user name you have chosen will be stored.

Storage of the IP address

Our comment function stores the IP addresses of users who write comments. Since we do not check comments on our site before they are published, we need this data in order to take action against the author in the event of legal violations such as insults or propaganda.

Subscribing to comments

As a user of the site, you can subscribe to comments after registering. You will receive a confirmation email to verify that you are the owner of the email address you provided. You can unsubscribe from this function at any time via a link in the info emails. The data entered when subscribing to comments will be deleted in this case; however, if you have transmitted this data to us for other purposes and elsewhere (e.g. newsletter order), it will remain with us.

Storage period of the comments

The comments and the associated data (e.g. IP address) are stored and remain on our website until the commented content has been completely deleted or the comments have to be deleted for legal reasons (e.g. offensive comments).

Legal basis

The comments are stored on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR) or for the fulfillment of a contract (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR). You can revoke your consent at any time. An informal notification by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.

Plugins and Tools

Google Web Fonts

This page uses web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. The Google Fonts are installed locally. A connection to Google’s servers does not take place.

Google Maps

This page uses the Google Maps map service via an API. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transmission.

The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and easy findability of the places specified by us on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. In addition, the Google services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

More information on the handling of user data can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Adobe Fonts

Our website uses web fonts from Adobe for the uniform display of certain fonts. The provider is Adobe Systems Incorporated, 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704, USA (Adobe).

When you visit our pages, your browser loads the required fonts directly from Adobe in order to display them correctly on your device. Your browser establishes a connection to Adobe’s servers in the USA. This gives Adobe knowledge that our website has been accessed via your IP address. According to Adobe, no cookies are stored when providing the fonts.

Adobe has a certification according to the EU-US Privacy Shield. The Privacy Shield is an agreement between the United States of America and the European Union that is intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards. Further information can be found at: https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/eudatatransfers.html.

The use of Adobe Fonts is necessary to ensure a uniform typeface on our website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

Further information on Adobe Fonts can be found at: https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policies/adobe-fonts.html.

The privacy policy of Adobe can be found at: https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policy.html

YouTube with enhanced data protection

Our website uses plugins from the YouTube website. The operator of the pages is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

We use YouTube in enhanced privacy mode. According to YouTube, this mode means that YouTube does not store information about visitors to this website before they watch the video. However, the transfer of data to YouTube partners is not necessarily excluded by the extended data protection mode. For example, YouTube establishes a connection to the Google DoubleClick network – regardless of whether you watch a video or not.

As soon as you start a YouTube video on our website, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

Furthermore, YouTube can store various cookies on your device after starting a video. With the help of these cookies, YouTube can obtain information about visitors to our website. This information is used, among other things, to collect video statistics, improve user-friendliness and prevent fraud attempts. The cookies remain on your device until you delete them.

If necessary, further data processing operations may be triggered after starting a YouTube video, over which we have no influence.

The use of YouTube is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. In addition, the Google services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to revoke it, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The legality of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

Further information about data protection at YouTube can be found in their privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Vimeo

Our website uses plugins of the video portal Vimeo. The provider is Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.

When you visit one of our pages equipped with a Vimeo plugin, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established. This tells the Vimeo server which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo obtains your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo or do not have an account with Vimeo. The information collected by Vimeo is transmitted to the Vimeo server in the USA.

If you are logged into your Vimeo account, you allow Vimeo to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.

The use of Vimeo is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to revoke it, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The legality of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

Further information on the handling of user data can be found in Vimeo’s privacy policy at: https://vimeo.com/privacy.

SoundCloud

Plugins of the social network SoundCloud (SoundCloud Limited, Berners House, 47-48 Berners Street, London W1T 3NF, UK) can be integrated on our pages. You can recognize the SoundCloud plugins by the SoundCloud logo on the pages concerned.

When you visit our pages, a direct connection is established between your browser and the SoundCloud server after activating the plugin. SoundCloud receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click the “Like” button or “Share” button while you are logged into your SoundCloud user account, you can link and/or share the contents of our pages with your SoundCloud profile. This allows SoundCloud to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by SoundCloud.

The use of SoundCloud is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the widest possible visibility in the social media. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to revoke it, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The legality of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

Further information on this can be found in SoundCloud’s privacy policy at: https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.

If you do not want SoundCloud to associate your visit to our pages with your SoundCloud user account, please log out of your SoundCloud user account before activating content from the SoundCloud plugin.

Spotify

Functions of the music service Spotify are integrated on our pages. The provider is Spotify AB, Birger Jarlsgatan 61, 113 56 Stockholm in Sweden. You can recognize the Spotify plugins by the green logo on our site. An overview of the Spotify plugins can be found at: https://developer.spotify.com.

This allows a direct connection to be established between your browser and the Spotify server when you visit our pages via the plugin. Spotify receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click the Spotify button while you are logged into your Spotify account, you can link the contents of our pages to your Spotify profile. This allows Spotify to associate the visit to our pages with your user account.

Data processing is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the appealing acoustic design of its website. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to revoke it, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The legality of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

Further information on this can be found in Spotify’s privacy policy: https://www.spotify.com/de/legal/privacy-policy/.

If you do not want Spotify to be able to associate your visit to our pages with your Spotify user account, please log out of your Spotify user account.

Zendesk

We use the CRM system Zendesk to process user inquiries. The provider is Zendesk, Inc, 1019 Market Street in San Francisco, CA 94103 USA.

We use Zendesk to process your inquiries quickly and efficiently. The legal basis for the processing of your data is the legitimate interest on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Zendesk is certified as a US provider Privacy Shield and is therefore committed to complying with EU data protection law. In addition, we have concluded a contract with Zendesk on order processing (Data Processing Agreement, DPA). This ensures that Zendesk uses the user data only within the framework of the EU data protection standards exclusively for processing the inquiries and does not pass them on to third parties.

You can only send inquiries with the specification of the e-mail address and without specification of your name.

If you do not agree with the processing of your request with us via Zendesk, you can alternatively communicate with us by e-mail, telephone or fax.

Further information can be found in Zendesk’s privacy policy: https://www.zendesk.de/company/customers-partners/privacy-policy/.

Google reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to check whether the data input on our websites (e.g. in a contact form) is made by a human or by an automated program. To this end, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, the time the website visitor spends on the website or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analyses run completely in the background. Website visitors are not informed that an analysis is taking place.

Data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offers from abusive automated spying and from SPAM. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, please see the following links: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/v3.htmll.

Use of EverCAPTCHA

To protect our contact form against unwanted use, we use the EverCAPTCHA service of our website creator and hoster United Media AG, Hansaallee 299, 40549 Düsseldorf. This service is provided by the sub-contract data processor: wwwe GmbH, Hansaallee 299, 40549 Düsseldorf. EverCAPTCHA makes it possible to distinguish whether the data entered in the contact form is actually done by a human or abusively automated by a machine, a so-called spam bot.

For this purpose, various questions are asked when using our forms (for example: “Click on a symbol X” etc.). EverCAPTCHA stores all failed attempts by a user, an IP address via a session ID, which is stored in the LocalStorage. The session ID is transmitted to the server via JavaScript with every request. If 30 incorrect entries are made, the user’s IP address is permanently stored in a database for spam prevention. In addition, the IP addresses are deleted within 7 days. Data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offers from abusive automated spying and from SPAM. Data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offers from abusive automated spying and from SPAM.

Widget YourRate

We have implemented a rating widget on our website. You can find out more about widgets there: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget.

The widget we use is implemented as part of our website offer from yourrate.com. The provider of this service is the subcontractor of our provider, namely Euroweb Internet GmbH, Hansaallee 299, 40549 Düsseldorf. We have concluded corresponding agreements with our order processor and this with its sub-order processor. Further details on data processing can also be found in the terms and conditions at https://www.yourrate.com/de/agb (hereinafter: YourRate).

The rating widget on our website requests data from YourRate. When you call up the widget, your end device establishes a connection to the YourRate servers via the browser used. This primarily collects your IP address. This data is not merged with other data sources. The temporary storage of the IP address by the system is therefore technically necessary to enable the delivery of the website including widgets to your end device, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. In particular, there is no tracking and no statistical evaluation.

Social media

Integration of social media content

On this website, we have integrated a tool for implementing social media content from the provider Curator Group, 69 Ruthven Street, Bondi Junction, NSW 2022 Australia. Details on the data processing carried out in connection with the service can be found in the provider’s privacy policy, https://curator.io/privacy-policy. The legal basis for the integration of the tool is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in optimizing the user-friendliness of the website and enabling the integration of social media posts. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

Social media plugins with Shariff

Plugins from social media are used on our pages (e.g. Facebook, X, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest, XING, LinkedIn, Tumblr).

You can usually recognize the plugins by the respective social media logos. To ensure data protection on our website, we only use these plugins together with the so-called “Shariff” solution. This application prevents the plugins integrated on our website from transmitting data to the respective provider the first time you enter the page.

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

Activating the plugin constitutes consent within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future.

Facebook plugins (Like & Share button)

Plugins from the social network Facebook, provider Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA, are integrated on our pages. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button on our page. An overview of the Facebook plugins can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=de_DE.

When you visit our pages, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Facebook receives the information that you have visited our page with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “Like” button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or its use by Facebook. Further information on this can be found in Facebook’s privacy policy at: https://de-de.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

If you do not want Facebook to be able to assign your visit to our pages to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account. The use of the Facebook plugins is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the widest possible visibility in social media. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

Use of juicer.io

On this website, we have integrated a tool for implementing social media content from the provider saas.group LLC, 304 S. Jones Blvd #1205, Las Vegas NV 89107, USA. Details on the data processing carried out in connection with the service can be found in the provider’s privacy policy, https://www.juicer.io/privacy. The legal basis for the integration of the tool is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in optimizing the user-friendliness of the website and enabling the integration of social media posts. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

Twitter / X Plugin

Functions of the Twitter / X service are integrated on our pages. These functions are offered by Twitter International Unlimited Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland. By using Twitter / X and the “Re-Tweet” function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter / X account and made known to other users. Data is also transferred to Twitter / X. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or its use by Twitter / X. Further information on this can be found in Twitter / X’s privacy policy at: https://x.com/de/privacy.

The use of the Twitter / X plugin is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the widest possible visibility in social media. You can change your data protection settings on Twitter / X in the account settings at https://x.com/settings/account. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

Instagram Plugin

Functions of the Instagram service are integrated on our pages. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.

If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content of our pages to your Instagram profile by clicking on the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or its use by Instagram.

The use of the Instagram plugin is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the widest possible visibility in social media.

Further information on this can be found in Instagram’s privacy policy: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

Tumblr Plugin

Our pages use buttons from the Tumblr service. The provider is Tumblr, Inc., 35 East 21st St, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA.

These buttons allow you to share a post or page on Tumblr or follow the provider on Tumblr. When you access one of our websites with a Tumblr button, the browser establishes a direct connection with Tumblr’s servers. We have no influence on the extent of the data that Tumblr collects and transmits with the help of this plugin. According to the current status, the user’s IP address and the URL of the respective website are transmitted.

The use of the Tumblr plugin is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the widest possible visibility in social media. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

Further information on this can be found in Tumblr’s privacy policy at: https://www.tumblr.com/privacy/de.

LinkedIn Plugin

Our website uses functions of the LinkedIn network. The provider is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Each time one of our pages containing LinkedIn functions is accessed, a connection to LinkedIn’s servers is established. LinkedIn is informed that you have visited our website with your IP address. If you click on LinkedIn’s “Recommend button” and are logged into your LinkedIn account, LinkedIn is able to assign your visit to our website to you and your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or its use by LinkedIn.

The use of the LinkedIn plugin is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the widest possible visibility in social media. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

Further information on this can be found in LinkedIn’s privacy policy at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

XING Plugin

Our website uses functions of the XING network. The provider is XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.

Each time one of our pages containing XING functions is accessed, a connection to XING’s servers is established. To our knowledge, personal data is not stored in the process. In particular, no IP addresses are stored or user behavior evaluated.

The use of the XING plugin is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the widest possible visibility in social media. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

Further information on data protection and the XING Share button can be found in XING’s privacy policy at: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection.

Pinterest Plugin

On our site, we use social plugins from the social network Pinterest, which is operated by Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-490, USA (“Pinterest”).

When you access a page that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Pinterest’s servers. The plugin transmits log data to Pinterest’s server in the USA. This log data may contain your IP address, the address of the websites visited that also contain Pinterest functions, the type and settings of the browser, the date and time of the request, your use of Pinterest and cookies.

The use of the Pinterest plugin is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the widest possible visibility in social media. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

For more information about the purpose, scope, and further processing and use of data by Pinterest, as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy, please see Pinterest’s privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy.

Analysis Tools and Advertising

Hotjar

This website uses Hotjar, provided by Hotjar Ltd., Level 2, St Julians Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julians STJ 1000, Malta, Europe (Website: https://www.hotjar.com).

Hotjar is a tool for analyzing your user behavior on our website. With Hotjar, we can, among other things, record your mouse and scroll movements and clicks. Hotjar can also determine how long you have remained with the mouse pointer on a specific point. From this information, Hotjar creates so-called heatmaps, which can be used to determine which website areas are preferred by the website visitor.

Furthermore, we can determine how long you have remained on a page and when you left it. We can also determine at which point you canceled your entries in a contact form (so-called conversion funnels).

In addition, Hotjar can be used to obtain direct feedback from website visitors. This function serves to improve the website operator’s web offers.

Hotjar uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. They serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. These cookies can be used in particular to determine whether our website has been visited with a specific device or whether the functions of Hotjar have been deactivated for the browser in question. Hotjar cookies remain on your device until you delete them.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

The use of Hotjar and the storage of Hotjar cookies is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to revoke it, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

Deactivate Hotjar

If you want to deactivate the data collection by Hotjar, click on the following link and follow the instructions there: https://www.hotjar.com/policies/do-not-track/

Please note that the deactivation of Hotjar must be done separately for each browser or device.

For more information about Hotjar and the data collected, please refer to Hotjar’s privacy policy at the following link: https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy/

Contract for order processing

We have concluded a contract for order processing with Hotjar to implement the strict European data protection regulations.

Google Analytics

This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

The storage of Google Analytics cookies and the use of this analysis tool are based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to revoke it, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

IP anonymization

We have activated the IP anonymization function on this website. This will cause Google to shorten your IP address within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before transmission to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Browser Plugin

You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Objection to data collection

You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent the collection of your data on future visits to this website: Deactivate Google Analytics.

For more information on how Google Analytics handles user data, please see Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Order processing

We have concluded a contract with Google for order processing and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.

Demographic characteristics in Google Analytics

This website uses the “demographic characteristics” function of Google Analytics. This allows reports to be created that contain statements about the age, gender and interests of site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google as well as from visitor data from third-party providers. This data cannot be assigned to a specific person. You can deactivate this function at any time via the ad settings in your Google account or generally prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics as described in the “Objection to data collection” section.

Storage period

Data stored by Google at the user and event level that is linked to cookies, user IDs (e.g. User ID) or advertising IDs (e.g. DoubleClick cookies, Android advertising ID) will be anonymized or deleted after 14 months. Details can be found under the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7667196?hl=de

Google Analytics Remarketing

Our websites use the functions of Google Analytics Remarketing in connection with the cross-device functions of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

This function enables the advertising target groups created with Google Analytics Remarketing to be linked with the cross-device functions of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. In this way, interest-based, personalized advertising messages that have been adapted to you depending on your previous usage and surfing behavior on one device (e.g. mobile phone) can also be displayed on another of your devices (e.g. tablet or PC).

If you have given your consent, Google will link your web and app browser history to your Google account for this purpose. In this way, the same personalized advertising messages can be displayed on every device on which you log in with your Google account.

To support this function, Google Analytics collects google-authenticated IDs of users that are temporarily linked to our Google Analytics data to define and create target groups for cross-device advertising.

You can permanently object to cross-device remarketing/targeting by deactivating personalized advertising; follow this link: https://adssettings.google.com/.

The summary of the collected data in your Google account is based exclusively on your consent, which you can give or revoke to Google (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). For data collection processes that are not merged in your Google account (e.g. because you do not have a Google account or have objected to the merging), the collection of data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The legitimate interest arises from the fact that the website operator has an interest in the anonymized analysis of website visitors for advertising purposes. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to revoke it, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

Further information and the data protection regulations can be found in Google’s data protection declaration at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=de.

Google AdSense

This website uses Google AdSense, a service for integrating advertisements from Google Inc. (“Google”). The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google AdSense uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of the use of the website. Google AdSense also uses so-called web beacons (invisible graphics). These web beacons can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on these pages. The information generated by cookies and web beacons about the use of this website (including your IP address) and the delivery of advertising formats are transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. This information may be passed on by Google to Google’s contractual partners. However, Google will not merge your IP address with other data stored by you. The storage of AdSense cookies is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising. You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purpose described above. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to revoke it, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking

This website uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising program of Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

As part of Google AdWords, we use so-called conversion tracking. When you click on an ad placed by Google, a cookie is set for conversion tracking. Cookies are small text files that the Internet browser stores on the user’s computer. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used to personally identify users. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page.

Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. The cookies cannot be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information with which users can be personally identified. If you do not want to participate in tracking, you can object to this use by easily deactivating the Google Conversion Tracking cookie via your Internet browser under user settings. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.

The storage of “conversion cookies” and the use of this tracking tool are based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to revoke it, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

More information about Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

WordPress Stats

This website uses the WordPress tool Stats to statistically evaluate visitor access. The provider is Automattic Inc., 60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110-4929, USA.

WordPress Stats uses cookies that are stored on your computer and allow an analysis of the use of the website. The information generated by the cookies about the use of our website is stored on servers in the USA. Your IP address is anonymized after processing and before storage.

“WordPress Stats” cookies remain on your device until you delete them. The storage of “WordPress Stats” cookies and the use of this analysis tool are based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the anonymized analysis of user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising. In addition, the services are only actively loaded if you have given your prior consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to revoke it, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing based on the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

You can object to the collection and use of your data in the future by setting an opt-out cookie in your browser with a click on this link: https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/.

If you delete the cookies on your computer, you must set the opt-out cookie again.

Meta Pixel (formerly Facebook Pixel)

This website uses the visitor action pixel from Facebook/Meta for conversion measurement. The provider of this service is Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. However, according to Facebook, the data collected is also transferred to the USA and other third countries.

This allows the behavior of page visitors to be tracked after they have been redirected to the provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook ad. This allows the effectiveness of Facebook ads to be evaluated for statistical and market research purposes and future advertising measures to be optimized.

The data collected is anonymous to us as the operator of this website, and we cannot draw any conclusions about the identity of users. However, the data is stored and processed by Facebook, so that a connection to the respective user profile is possible and Facebook can use the data for its own advertising purposes, in accordance with the Facebook data usage policy (https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/). This allows Facebook to enable the placement of advertisements on Facebook pages and outside of Facebook. We, as the site operator, cannot influence this use of data.

The use of this service is based on your consent according to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 Para. 1 TDDDG. You can revoke your consent at any time.

Insofar as personal data is collected on our website with the help of the tool described here and forwarded to Facebook, we and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland are jointly responsible for this data processing (Art. 26 GDPR). The joint responsibility is limited exclusively to the collection of data and its transfer to Facebook. The processing by Facebook after the transfer is not part of the joint responsibility. The obligations incumbent upon us jointly have been recorded in an agreement on joint processing. You can find the wording of the agreement at: https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum. According to this agreement, we are responsible for providing data protection information when using the Facebook tool and for implementing the tool on our website in a data protection-compliant manner. Facebook is responsible for the data security of Facebook products. You can assert the rights of data subjects (e.g. requests for information) with regard to the data processed by Facebook directly with Facebook. If you assert the rights of data subjects with us, we are obliged to forward them to Facebook.

The data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum and https://de-de.facebook.com/help/566994660333381.

You can find further information on protecting your privacy in Facebook’s privacy policy: https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

You can also deactivate the remarketing function “Custom Audiences” in the settings for advertisements under https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. To do this, you must be logged in to Facebook.

If you do not have a Facebook account, you can deactivate usage-based advertising from Facebook on the website of the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/.

If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter offered on the website, we require an email address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the email address provided and that you agree to receive the newsletter. Further data will not be collected or only on a voluntary basis. We use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.

The data entered in the newsletter registration form is processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the email address and its use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example via the “Unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The legality of the data processing operations that have already taken place remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data you have stored with us for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will be deleted after you unsubscribe from the newsletter. Data that has been stored by us for other purposes remains unaffected by this.

Own Services

Applications

If you send us an application, we process the personal data you provide there in order to process your application and contact you. The personal data concerning you will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent, unless we are legally obliged to do so, you have requested this or the data transfer is necessary for the initiation and implementation of a contractual relationship with you or the application process. The legal basis is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Subparagraph 1 Letter a, b GDPR, Article 88 Paragraph 1 GDPR, § 26 Paragraph 1 Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG).

We delete applications no later than three months after the application process has been completed. Should the data be required for legal prosecution after completion of the application process, data processing can take place on the basis of the requirements of Article 6 GDPR, in particular for the protection of legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Subparagraph 1 Letter f GDPR. Our legitimate interest then lies in the assertion or defense of claims.

If your application is successful, we will continue to process the personal data concerning you for the purposes of the employment relationship.

If you have expressly given your consent, you can revoke your declaration of consent at any time with effect for the future, so that we delete your data.

Scope and purpose of data collection

If you send us an application, we process your associated personal data (e.g. contact and communication data, application documents, notes from job interviews, etc.) to the extent that this is necessary to decide on the establishment of an employment relationship. The legal basis for this is § 26 BDSG-neu according to German law (initiation of an employment relationship), Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR (general contract initiation) and – if you have given your consent – Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The consent can be revoked at any time. Your personal data will only be passed on within our company to people who are involved in processing your application.

If the application is successful, the data you submit will be stored in our data processing systems on the basis of § 26 BDSG-neu and Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR for the purpose of implementing the employment relationship.

Duration of storage

Stored server log files and IP addresses are deleted after seven days at the latest.

Session cookies are automatically deleted after the end of the session. Other cookies are stored on your device, and you have control over the use and deletion of cookies, see above.

We process your data from your inquiries via email or via the contact form until your inquiry has been fully processed and completed. The information will then be deleted. Please note, however, that due to a legal transaction with you, there may be commercial and tax retention obligations of at least six (§ 257 HGB) or ten (§147 AO) years for certain data, which may also apply to the content of contact requests and emails, see above.

If you apply via email, for example, we will delete your transmitted personal data and applications three months after the application process has been completed. If your application is successful, we will continue to process your personal data for the purposes of the employment relationship. If you have expressly given your consent, you can revoke your declaration of consent at any time with effect for the future, so that we delete your data, see above.

In addition, it is checked on an annual basis whether data can be deleted. This is the case if the purpose of processing and the requirements of the legal basis for processing no longer apply and there is no legal obligation to retain the data.

Online Marketing and Partner Programs

Amazon Partner Program

The operators of the pages participate in the Amazon EU partner program. Advertisements and links to the Amazon.de page are integrated into our pages by Amazon, through which we can earn money via advertising cost reimbursement. Amazon uses cookies to trace the origin of the orders. This allows Amazon to recognize that you clicked on the partner link on our website. The storage of “Amazon cookies” takes place on the basis of Art. 6 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in this, as the amount of its affiliate remuneration can only be determined by the cookies. Further information on data usage by Amazon can be found in Amazon’s privacy policy: https://www.amazon.de/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=footer_privacy?ie=UTF8&nodeId=3312401.

Payment Providers and Resellers

PayPal

On our website, we offer payment via PayPal, among other options. The provider of this payment service is PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter “PayPal”).

If you select payment via PayPal, the payment data you enter will be transmitted to PayPal.

The transfer of your data to PayPal takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent) and Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR (processing to fulfill a contract). You have the option to revoke your consent to data processing at any time. A revocation does not affect the effectiveness of data processing operations that have taken place in the past.

Klarna

On our website, we offer payment with Klarna’s services, among other options. The provider is Klarna AB, Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden (hereinafter “Klarna”).

Klarna offers various payment options (e.g. installment purchases). If you decide to pay with Klarna (Klarna checkout solution), Klarna will collect various personal data from you. You can find details on this in Klarna’s privacy policy at the following link: https://www.klarna.com/de/datenschutz/.

Klarna uses cookies to optimize the use of the Klarna checkout solution. The optimization of the checkout solution represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device and do not cause any damage. They remain on your device until you delete them. Details on the use of Klarna cookies can be found at the following link: https://cdn.klarna.com/1.0/shared/content/policy/cookie/de_de/checkout.pdf.

The transfer of your data to Klarna takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent) and Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR (processing to fulfill a contract). You have the option to revoke your consent to data processing at any time. A revocation does not affect the effectiveness of data processing operations that have taken place in the past.

STRIPE

On our website, we offer payment via Stripe and the associated payment methods, among other options. The provider of these payment services is Stripe Payments Europe Ltd, Block 4, Harcourt Centre, Harcourt Road, Dublin 2

If you select payment via Stripe, the payment data you enter will be transmitted to Stripe. The transfer of your data to Stripe takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent) and Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR (processing to fulfill a contract). You have the option to revoke your consent to data processing at any time. A revocation does not affect the effectiveness of data processing operations that have taken place in the past. All data required for payment processing is used exclusively for the execution of payments and transmitted via the “SSL” procedure. Stripe is PCI DSS certified. Stripe may transfer, process and store personal data outside the EU. Stripe is subject to the Safe Harbor Agreement. Information on data protection from Stripe is available here: https://stripe.com/de/privacy.

Our Social Media Presence

Data processing by social networks

We maintain publicly accessible profiles on social networks. You can find the social networks we use in detail below.

Social networks such as Facebook, Google+, etc. can generally comprehensively analyze your user behavior if you visit their website or a website with integrated social media content (e.g. like buttons or advertising banners). By visiting our social media presences, numerous data protection-relevant processing operations are triggered. In detail:

If you are logged into your social media account and visit our social media presence, the operator of the social media portal can assign this visit to your user account. However, your personal data may also be collected if you are not logged in or do not have an account with the respective social media portal. In this case, this data collection takes place, for example, via cookies that are stored on your device or by collecting your IP address.

With the help of the data collected in this way, the operators of the social media portals can create user profiles in which your preferences and interests are stored. In this way, you can be shown interest-based advertising inside and outside the respective social media presence. If you have an account with the respective social network, the interest-based advertising can be displayed on all devices on which you are or were logged in.

Please also note that we cannot understand all processing processes on the social media portals. Depending on the provider, further processing operations may be carried out by the operators of the social media portals. For details on this, please refer to the terms of use and data protection provisions of the respective social media portals.

Legal basis
Our social media presences are intended to ensure the widest possible presence on the Internet. This is a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The analysis processes initiated by the social networks may be based on different legal bases, which must be specified by the operators of the social networks (e.g. consent within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR).

Responsible party and assertion of rights
If you visit one of our social media presences (e.g. Facebook), we are jointly responsible with the operator of the social media platform for the data processing operations triggered during this visit. You can generally assert your rights (information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability and complaint) both against us and against the operator of the respective social media portal (e.g. against Facebook).

Please note that despite the joint responsibility with the social media portal operators, we do not have full influence on the data processing operations of the social media portals. Our options depend largely on the company policy of the respective provider.

Storage period
The data collected directly by us via the social media presence will be deleted from our systems as soon as the purpose for its storage no longer applies, you request us to delete it, you revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies. Stored cookies remain on your device until you delete them. Mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.

We have no influence on the storage period of your data that is stored by the operators of the social networks for their own purposes. For details, please contact the operators of the social networks directly (e.g. in their privacy policy, see below).

Social networks in detail

Facebook

We have a profile on Facebook. The provider is Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. Facebook has a certification according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield.

We have an agreement with Facebook regarding joint processing (Controller Addendum). This agreement defines which data processing operations we or Facebook are responsible for when you visit our Facebook page. You can view this agreement under the following link: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum.

You can adjust your advertising settings independently in your user account. To do this, click on the following link and log in:https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads.

For details, please refer to Facebook’s privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

Facebook Fanpage Insights – Note for our Facebook Fanpage users

Facebook Ireland Ltd (“Facebook”) provides us, as a Facebook fan page operator, with so-called “Facebook Insights” (“Insights”). The insights are various statistics that give us information about the use of our Facebook fan page. Detailed information on this and what data processing takes place can be found at https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/ and https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data

Facebook fan page insights can be based on personal data that has been collected in connection with a visit or interaction by people on or with our Facebook fan page and its content, so that personal data can also be processed by Facebook, visit our Facebook site. The essential information of the agreement concluded between us and Facebook within the meaning of Article 26 of the General Data Protection Regulation can be found there: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

Jointly responsible for processing Facebook Fanpage Insights are

Facebook Ireland Ltd.
4 Grand Canal Square
Grand Canal Harbour
Dublin 2, Ireland
https://www.facebook.com/business/gdpr
https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970

and

STEIN Handels- und Instandsetzungsgesellschaft mbH Sauerwiesen 6b 67661 Kaiserslautern 06301 / 79 31 24 info@stein-autoservice.de

Facebook Ireland primarily fulfills:

the information obligations from Articles 12, 13 GDPR, as well as
the obligations from Article 15 to 21 GDPR, so the rights of data subjects can be asserted against Facebook Ireland, as well as
the obligations from Articles 33 and 34 GDPR.

Of course, you can also assert your rights against us.

Facebook Ireland takes appropriate technical and organizational measures in accordance with Article 32 GDPR to ensure the security of processing using Facebook Fanpage Insights.

Please refer to the information there for the legal basis and purposes of processing by Facebook Ireland: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/legal_bases and https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

We process the Facebook Fanpage Insights data on the basis of our legitimate interest in evaluating the activities on our fan page and our marketing measures there (advertisements, campaigns, postings); Article 6 Para. 1 Sentence 1 f) GDPR.

Further information: Data protection: Facebook Fanpages and InSights – here are the answers

You are not legally obliged to provide your personal data. However, the provision may be necessary for the conclusion of a contract or for functions of the Facebook fan page. If it is not provided, a contract or a function on the Facebook fan page may not be offered.

The rights of data subjects arise in particular from Articles 15 to 23 and Article 77 of the General Data Protection Regulation and from §§ 32 to 37 of the Federal Data Protection Act.

With regard to your personal data, you have the right to

Information, Article 15 General Data Protection Regulation
Correction, Article 16 General Data Protection Regulation
Deletion, Article 17 General Data Protection Regulation
Restriction of processing, Article 18 General Data Protection Regulation and
Transferability, Article 20 General Data Protection Regulation.

You also have the right to object to the processing of personal data

Objection, Article 21 General Data Protection Regulation

to raise, see further information separately immediately.

If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to

Revocation, Article 7 General Data Protection Regulation

with effect for the future.

Please send all inquiries, requests and notifications to Facebook Ireland or to us, see above-

If you are of the opinion that the processing of personal data concerning you violates data protection law, you always have the

Right to complain

to the responsible supervisory authority, cf. Article 77 General Data Protection Regulation. Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have this right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of your place of residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged violation, if you are of the opinion that the processing of personal data relating to you violates the General Data Protection Regulation. The supervisory authority responsible for Facebook Ireland is the Irish Data Protection Commission (https://www.dataprotection.ie/) the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information North Rhine-Westphalia, Kavalleriestraße 2-4, 40213 Düsseldorf is responsible for us.

INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR RIGHT OF OBJECTION ACCORDING TO ARTICLE 21 GDPR

1. You have the right to object, on grounds arising from your particular situation, at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out on the basis of Article 6 Para. 1 Sentence 1 f) General Data Protection Regulation (data processing on the basis of a balance of interests).

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

2. In individual cases, we process personal data to carry out direct advertising. If this is the case with you, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of data concerning you for the purpose of such advertising

If you object to the processing for direct marketing purposes, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes.

The objection can be made without any particular form.

Google+

We have a profile on Google+. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google has a certification according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield:

You can adjust your advertising settings independently in your user account. To do this, click on the following link and log in: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

For details, please refer to Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

X

We use the short message service Twitter / X. The provider is Twitter International Unlimited Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland. Twitter / X has a certification according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield.

You can adjust your Twitter / X privacy settings independently in your user account. To do this, click on the following link and log in: https://x.com/settings/account/personalization.

For details, please refer to the privacy policy of Twitter / X: https://x.com/de/privacy.

Instagram

We have a profile on Instagram. The provider is Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. Details on how they handle your personal data can be found in Instagram’s privacy policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875.

We have a profile on Pinterest. The operator is Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94103-490, USA (“Pinterest”). Details on how they handle your personal data can be found in Pinterest’s privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy.

XING

We have a profile on XING. The provider is XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. Details on how they handle your personal data can be found in XING’s privacy policy: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung.

We have a profile on LinkedIn. The provider is LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland. LinkedIn has a certification according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield. LinkedIn uses advertising cookies.

If you want to deactivate LinkedIn advertising cookies, please use the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.

Details on how they handle your personal data can be found in LinkedIn’s privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Tumblr

We have a profile on Tumblr. The provider is Tumblr, Inc., 35 East 21st St, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA. Details on how they handle your personal data can be found in Tumblr’s privacy policy: https://www.tumblr.com/privacy/de.

Privacy Policy at a Glance

General Information

Data Collection on Our Website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

How do we collect your data?

What do we use your data for?

What rights do you have regarding your data?

Analysis Tools and Third-Party Tools

General Information and Mandatory Information

Data Protection

Note on the Responsible Party

Withdrawal of Your Consent to Data Processing

Right to Object to Data Collection in Special Cases and to Direct Advertising (Art. 21 GDPR)

Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority

Right to Data Portability

SSL or TLS Encryption

Encrypted Payment Transactions

Information, Blocking, Deletion and Correction

Right to Restriction of Processing

Objection to Advertising E-mails

Data Collection on Our Website

Cookies

Server Log Files

Contact Form

Inquiry by E-mail, Telephone or Fax

Registration on This Website

Processing of Data (Customer and Contract Data)

Data Transmission at the Conclusion of the Contract for Online Stores, Dealers and Goods Shipping

Data transmission upon conclusion of contract for services and digital content

Registration with Facebook Connect

Comment function on this website

Storage of the IP address

Subscribing to comments

Storage period of the comments

Legal basis

Plugins and Tools

Google Web Fonts

Google Maps

Adobe Fonts

YouTube with enhanced data protection

Vimeo

SoundCloud

Spotify

Zendesk

Google reCAPTCHA

Use of EverCAPTCHA

Widget YourRate

Social media

Integration of social media content

Social media plugins with Shariff

Facebook plugins (Like & Share button)

Use of juicer.io

Twitter / X Plugin

Instagram Plugin

Tumblr Plugin

LinkedIn Plugin

XING Plugin

Pinterest Plugin

Analysis Tools and Advertising

Hotjar

Deactivate Hotjar

Contract for order processing

Google Analytics

IP anonymization

Browser Plugin

Objection to data collection

Order processing

Demographic characteristics in Google Analytics

Storage period

Google Analytics Remarketing

Google AdSense

Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking

WordPress Stats

Meta Pixel (formerly Facebook Pixel)

Newsletter

Own Services

Applications

Scope and purpose of data collection

Duration of storage

Online Marketing and Partner Programs