Privacy Policy

1) Infor­ma­ti­on about the coll­ec­tion of per­so­nal data and cont­act details of the respon­si­ble entity

1.1 We are plea­sed that you have deci­ded to visit our web­site and thank you for your inte­rest. Plea­se find below infor­ma­ti­on about how we hand­le your data when you use our web­site. Per­so­nal infor­ma­ti­on is any data with which you could be per­so­nal­ly identified.

1.2 The enti­ty respon­si­ble for the data pro­ces­sing on this web­site regar­ding the Gene­ral Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­ti­on (GDPR) is Bur­da World­wi­de Tech­no­lo­gies GmbH, Rudolf-Die­sel-Stra­ße 18, 65760 Esch­born, Ger­ma­ny, Tel.: +49 6173 32424 0, Fax: +49 6173 32424 24, email: info@burdawtg.de. ‘Respon­si­ble enti­ty’ shall mean the natu­ral or legal per­son, who alo­ne or joint­ly with others deter­mi­nes the pur­po­ses and means of the pro­ces­sing of per­so­nal data.

1.3 For secu­ri­ty reasons and to pro­tect the trans­mis­si­on of per­so­nal data as well as other con­fi­den­ti­al con­tent (e.g., orders or requests to the con­trol­ler), this web­site uses SSL or TLS encryp­ti­on. You can reco­g­ni­se an encrypt­ed con­nec­tion in the HTML string “https://” and the lock icon in your browser.

2) Data coll­ec­tion when you visit our website

When you use our web­site for infor­ma­ti­on pur­po­ses only, i.e. if you do not regis­ter or other­wi­se pro­vi­de us with infor­ma­ti­on, we only coll­ect data that your brow­ser trans­mits to our ser­ver (so-cal­led ‘ser­ver log files’). When you visit our web­site, we obtain the fol­lo­wing infor­ma­ti­on that is tech­ni­cal­ly neces­sa­ry for us to dis­play the web­site content:

  • Our visi­ted website
  • Date and time of the access
  • Amount of data sent in bytes
  • Source/Reference from which site you were redirected
  • Brow­ser used
  • Ope­ra­ting sys­tem used
  • IP address used (if appli­ca­ble: anonymised)

Data pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter f GDPR from our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in impro­ving the sta­bi­li­ty and func­tion­a­li­ty of our web­site. The data will not be pas­sed on or used in any other way. Howe­ver, we reser­ve the right to check the ser­ver log files sub­se­quent­ly, if the­re are any con­cre­te indi­ca­ti­ons of ille­gal use.

 

3) Coo­kies

We use the so-cal­led coo­kies on some of our pages to make your visit to our web­site as attrac­ti­ve as pos­si­ble and to enable the use of spe­ci­fic func­tions. The­se are text files which are stored on your device. Some of the coo­kies we use are dele­ted after the end of the brow­ser ses­si­on, i.e. after clo­sing your brow­ser (so-cal­led ses­si­on coo­kies). Other coo­kies remain on your ter­mi­nal and enable us or our part­ner com­pa­nies (third-par­ty coo­kies) to reco­g­ni­se your brow­ser on your next visit (per­sis­tent coo­kies). If coo­kies are set, they coll­ect and pro­cess spe­ci­fic user infor­ma­ti­on such as brow­ser and loca­ti­on data as well as IP address values accor­ding to indi­vi­du­al requi­re­ments. Per­sis­tent coo­kies are auto­ma­ti­cal­ly dele­ted after a spe­ci­fied peri­od, which may vary depen­ding on the cookie.

In some cases, coo­kies are used to sim­pli­fy the orde­ring pro­cess by saving set­tings (e.g. remem­be­ring the con­tent of a vir­tu­al shop­ping bas­ket for a later visit to the web­site). Pro­vi­ded that indi­vi­du­al coo­kies imple­men­ted by us also pro­cess per­so­nal data, this is done accor­ding to Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter b GDPR eit­her for the exe­cu­ti­on of the agree­ment or fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter f GDPR to safe­guard our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rests and main­tain the best pos­si­ble func­tion­a­li­ty of the web­site as well as a cus­to­mer-fri­end­ly and prac­ti­cal design for page visitors.

We work tog­e­ther with adver­ti­sing part­ners who help us to make our web­site more inte­res­t­ing for you. For this pur­po­se, coo­kies from part­ner com­pa­nies are also stored on your device when you visit our web­site (third-par­ty coo­kies). You will be infor­med indi­vi­du­al­ly and sepa­ra­te­ly about the use of such coo­kies and the scope of the infor­ma­ti­on coll­ec­ted in each case within the fol­lo­wing sections.

Plea­se note that you can set your brow­ser in such a way that you are infor­med about the set­ting of coo­kies and you can deci­de indi­vi­du­al­ly about their accep­tance or exclude the accep­tance of coo­kies for some ins­tances only or gene­ral­ly. Each brow­ser dif­fers in the way it mana­ges the coo­kie set­tings; this is descri­bed in the Help menu of each brow­ser, which explains how you can chan­ge your coo­kie set­tings. You will find the­se for the respec­ti­ve brow­sers under the fol­lo­wing links:

Plea­se note that the func­tion­a­li­ty of our web­site may be limi­t­ed if coo­kies are not accepted.

4) Cont­act

In the con­text of cont­ac­ting us (e.g. via cont­act form or email), per­so­nal data is coll­ec­ted. Which infor­ma­ti­on is obtai­ned in the case of a cont­act form can be seen from the respec­ti­ve cont­act form. The­se data are stored and used exclu­si­ve­ly to respond to your request, estab­li­shing cont­act, and for the asso­cia­ted tech­ni­cal admi­nis­tra­ti­on. The legal basis for pro­ces­sing data is our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in respon­ding to your request fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter f GDPR. If your cont­act is aimed to con­clude a con­tract, the addi­tio­nal legal basis for the pro­ces­sing will be Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter b GDPR. Your data will be dele­ted after final pro­ces­sing of your enquiry; this is the case if it can be infer­red from the cir­cum­s­tances that the facts in ques­ti­on have been final­ly cla­ri­fied, pro­vi­ded, that the­re are no legal sto­rage obli­ga­ti­ons to the contrary.

5) Data pro­ces­sing when ope­ning a cus­to­mer account and for con­tract processing

Under Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter b GDPR, per­so­nal data will con­ti­nue to be coll­ec­ted and pro­ces­sed if you pro­vi­de them to us for the exe­cu­ti­on of a con­tract or when ope­ning a cus­to­mer account. Which data is obtai­ned can be seen from the respec­ti­ve input forms. It is pos­si­ble to dele­te your cus­to­mer account at any time; this can be done by sen­ding a mes­sa­ge to the address men­tio­ned abo­ve of the respon­si­ble enti­ty. We only save and uti­li­se your data to pro­cess your con­tract. Once the agree­ment has been con­cluded, or your cus­to­mer account has been clo­sed, your data will be dele­ted accor­ding to the reten­ti­on peri­ods impo­sed by the laws gover­ning taxes and com­mer­cial tran­sac­tions. Once the reten­ti­on peri­od has been rea­ched, your data will be dele­ted unless you have expli­cit­ly agreed to the fur­ther use of your data or we have reser­ved the right, through legal chan­nels, to the con­tin­ued usa­ge of the data, in which case you will be infor­med accor­din­gly. Your data will be coll­ec­ted (e.g. via the cont­act form or by email) while you are in cont­act with us. It is evi­dent from the respec­ti­ve cont­act form, which data is coll­ec­ted; this data is used and stored for the sole pur­po­se of rep­ly­ing to your request, to cont­act you, and for the tech­ni­cal admi­nis­tra­ti­on con­nec­ted to it. Your data will be dele­ted as soon as your appli­ca­ti­on has been pro­ces­sed, inso­far, you have reques­ted this, and no legal data reten­ti­on requi­re­ments that pre­vent us from so doing exist.

6) Com­ment function

As part of the com­ment func­tion on this web­site and in addi­ti­on to your com­ment, infor­ma­ti­on con­cer­ning the moment you ente­red the com­ment as well as the ali­as of the com­ment cho­sen by you will be saved and pos­ted on this web­site. Fur­ther­mo­re, your IP address will be stored and published on this web­site in the con­text of the com­ment func­tion, this is done for secu­ri­ty reasons, in case the per­son con­cer­ned vio­la­tes the rights of third par­ties or posts ille­gal con­tent by sub­mit­ting a com­ment. We need your email address to cont­act you if a third par­ty should object to your published mate­ri­al as unlawful. The legal basis for the sto­rage of your data as per Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter b and f GDPR. We reser­ve the right to dele­te comm­ents if they are objec­ted to as unlawful by third par­ties or by us.

7) Use of your data for direct advertising

7.1 Sig­ning up for our elec­tro­nic newsletter

If you sub­scri­be to our email news­let­ter, we will send you regu­lar infor­ma­ti­on about our offers. The only man­da­to­ry infor­ma­ti­on for trans­mit­ting the news­let­ter is your email address. The indi­ca­ti­on of addi­tio­nal pos­si­ble data is vol­un­t­a­ry and is used to be able to address you per­so­nal­ly. We use the so-cal­led dou­ble opt-in pro­ce­du­re for sen­ding the news­let­ter; this means that we will not send you an email news­let­ter unless you have express­ly con­firm­ed to us that you agree to the sen­ding of the news­let­ter. We will then send you a con­fir­ma­ti­on email asking you to pro­ve that you wish to recei­ve future news­let­ters by cli­cking on an appro­pria­te link.

By acti­vat­ing the con­fir­ma­ti­on link, you give us your con­sent to the use of your data fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter a GDPR. When you regis­ter for the news­let­ter, we store your IP address ente­red by the Inter­net Ser­vice Pro­vi­der (ISP) as well as the date and time of regis­tra­ti­on so that we can trace any pos­si­ble misu­se of your email address at a later time. The data coll­ec­ted by us when regis­tering for the news­let­ter will be used for adver­ti­sing through the news­let­ter. You can unsub­scri­be from the news­let­ter at any time via the link pro­vi­ded in the news­let­ter or by sen­ding a mes­sa­ge to the respon­si­ble enti­ty named abo­ve. After your can­cel­la­ti­on, your email address will imme­dia­te­ly be dele­ted from our news­let­ter dis­tri­bu­ti­on list, unless you have express­ly con­sen­ted to fur­ther use of your data or we reser­ve the right to use data in excess the­reof, which is per­mit­ted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration.

7.2 Sen­ding an elec­tro­nic news­let­ter to the exis­ting customers

If you have pro­vi­ded us with your email address when purcha­sing pro­ducts, we reser­ve the right to regu­lar­ly send you offers for pro­ducts simi­lar to tho­se alre­a­dy purcha­sed from our ran­ge by email. Accor­ding to Sec­tion 7(3) Ger­man law against unfair com­pe­ti­ti­on, we do not need to obtain sepa­ra­te con­sent from you for this. In this respect, data pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out sole­ly by our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in per­so­na­li­sed direct adver­ti­sing under Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter f GDPR. If you have initi­al­ly objec­ted to the use of your email address for this pur­po­se, we will not send you an email. You are entit­led to object to the use of your email address for the adver­ti­sing men­tio­ned abo­ve at any time with effect for the future by noti­fy­ing the respon­si­ble enti­ty named at the begin­ning. In so doing, you only have to pay deli­very cos­ts accor­ding to the neces­sa­ry rates. Upon receipt of your objec­tion, the use of your email address for adver­ti­sing pur­po­ses will cea­se immediately.

7.3 News­let­ter dis­patch via CleverReach

Our email news­let­ter is sent by the tech­ni­cal ser­vice pro­vi­der Cle­ver­Reach GmbH & Co. KG, Müh­len­str. 43, 26180 Ras­tede ‘Cle­ver­Reach’, to which we pass on your data pro­vi­ded during the news­let­ter regis­tra­ti­on. This dis­clo­sure is made fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter f GDPR and ser­ves our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the use of an effec­ti­ve, secu­re and user-fri­end­ly news­let­ter sys­tem. The data you enter for news­let­ter sub­scrip­ti­on (e.g. email address) will be stored on CleverReach’s ser­vers in Ger­ma­ny and The Repu­blic of Ireland.

Cle­ver­Reach uses this infor­ma­ti­on to send and sta­tis­ti­cal­ly eva­lua­te news­let­ters on our behalf. For eva­lua­ti­on pur­po­ses, the emails sent con­tain so-cal­led web bea­cons or track­ing pixels, which repre­sent sin­gle-pixel image files stored on our web­site; this allows us to deter­mi­ne whe­ther a news­let­ter mes­sa­ge has been ope­ned and which links have been cli­cked on. With the help of the so-cal­led con­ver­si­on track­ing, it can also be ana­ly­sed whe­ther a pre-defi­ned action (e.g., purcha­se of a pro­duct on our web­site) has taken place after cli­cking on the link in the news­let­ter. Also, tech­ni­cal infor­ma­ti­on is recor­ded (e.g. time of retrie­val, IP address, brow­ser type, and ope­ra­ting sys­tem). The data is exclu­si­ve­ly rai­sed in a pseud­ony­mi­sed for­mat and is not lin­ked with your other per­so­nal data to pre­vent you from being iden­ti­fied; this data is used sole­ly for sta­tis­ti­cal ana­ly­sis of
news­let­ter cam­paigns. The results of the­se ana­ly­ses can be used to adapt future news­let­ters to the inte­rests of the reci­pi­ents better.

If you wish to object to the data ana­ly­sis for sta­tis­ti­cal eva­lua­ti­on pur­po­ses, you must unsub­scri­be from the newsletter.

We have con­cluded an order pro­ces­sing agree­ment with Cle­ver­Reach obliging Cle­ver­Reach to pro­tect our cus­to­mers’ data and not to pass it on to third parties.

You can read more about CleverReach’s data analysis.

You can view CleverReach’s pri­va­cy poli­cy.

7.4 Adver­ti­sing via let­ter post

Based on our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the per­so­na­li­sed direct mail, we reser­ve the right to store your first and last name, your pos­tal address, and – if we have recei­ved this addi­tio­nal infor­ma­ti­on from you within the frame­work of the con­trac­tu­al rela­ti­onship – your title, aca­de­mic degree, year of birth. We also store your pro­fes­sio­nal, indus­try, or busi­ness name per Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter f GDPR and to use them for sen­ding exci­ting offers as well as infor­ma­ti­on on our pro­ducts by let­ter post.

You can object to the sto­rage and use of your data for this pur­po­se at any time by sen­ding an appro­pria­te mes­sa­ge to the respon­si­ble entity.

8) Pro­ces­sing of data for order handling

8.1 To pro­cess your order, we work tog­e­ther with the fol­lo­wing ser­vice provider(s), which sup­port us whol­ly or par­ti­al­ly in the exe­cu­ti­on of con­cluded con­tracts. As a result, spe­ci­fic per­so­nal data is trans­fer­red to the­se ser­vice pro­vi­ders, as men­tio­ned below.

The per­so­nal infor­ma­ti­on we have coll­ec­ted within the frame­work of your orders will be trans­mit­ted to the com­pa­ny that is com­mis­sio­ned with the deli­very, inso­far as this is requi­red for the deli­very of the goods. We will give your pay­ment data to the appoin­ted cre­dit insti­tu­ti­on within the frame­work of pay­ment pro­ces­sing if this is neces­sa­ry for pay­ment hand­ling. If pay­ment ser­vice pro­vi­ders are used, we expli­cit­ly inform you of this below. The legal basis for the trans­fer of data takes place under Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter b GDPR.

8.2 Trans­fer of per­so­nal data to ship­ping ser­vice provider

– DHL

If deli­very of the pro­duct takes place by the trans­port ser­vice pro­vi­der (Deut­sche Post AG, Charles-de-Gaul­le-Stra­ße 20, 53113 Bonn, Ger­ma­ny), we pass your email address to DHL with your express con­sent pri­or to the ship­ment of the pro­duct to coor­di­na­te a date of deli­very, as fol­lows: we pass your email address to DHL with your express per­mis­si­on pri­or to the ship­ment of the pro­duct for coor­di­na­ting a date of deli­very fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter a GDPR. Other­wi­se, only the name of the reci­pi­ent and the deli­very address will be pas­sed on to DHL for deli­very fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter b GDPR.

The data will only be pas­sed on if this is neces­sa­ry for the deli­very of the goods. In this case, pre­ce­ding coor­di­na­ti­on about the date of deli­very with DHL is not possible.
The con­sent can be revo­ked at any time with effect for the future eit­her with the respon­si­ble enti­ty or with the trans­port ser­vice pro­vi­der DHL.

– DPD

If deli­very of goods takes place by the trans­port ser­vice pro­vi­der DPD Deutsch­land GmbH, Wai­landt­stra­ße 1, 63741 Aschaf­fen­burg, Ger­ma­ny (DPD), we will pass on your email address to DPD fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter a GDPR, pri­or to ship­ment of the goods, to coor­di­na­te a date of deli­very or noti­ce about the ship­ment sta­tus, if you have given your express con­sent during the orde­ring pro­cess. Other­wi­se, only the name of the reci­pi­ent and the deli­very address will be pas­sed on to DPD for deli­very fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter b GDPR. The data will only be pas­sed on if this is neces­sa­ry for the deli­very of the goods. In this case, pri­or coor­di­na­ti­on of the deli­very date with DPD or com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on of sta­tus infor­ma­ti­on con­cer­ning the ship­ment is not pos­si­ble. The con­sent can be revo­ked at any time with effect for the future eit­her with the respon­si­ble enti­ty or with the trans­port ser­vice pro­vi­der DPD.

– GLS

If deli­very of goods takes place by the trans­port ser­vice pro­vi­der GLS (Gene­ral Logi­stics Sys­tems Ger­ma­ny GmbH & Co. OHG, GLS Ger­ma­ny-Stra­ße 1-7, 36286 Neu­en­stein, Ger­ma­ny), we will pass on your email address to GLS fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter a GDPR, pri­or to ship­ment of the goods, to coor­di­na­te a date of deli­very or noti­ce about the ship­ment sta­tus, if you have given your express con­sent during the orde­ring pro­cess. Other­wi­se, only the name of the reci­pi­ent and the deli­very address will be pas­sed on to GLS for deli­very fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter b GDPR.

The data will only be pas­sed on if this is neces­sa­ry for the deli­very of the goods. In this case, pri­or coor­di­na­ti­on of the deli­very date with GLS or com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on of sta­tus infor­ma­ti­on con­cer­ning the ship­ment is not possible.

The con­sent can be revo­ked at any time with effect for the future eit­her with the respon­si­ble enti­ty or with the trans­port ser­vice pro­vi­der GLS.

– Her­mes

If deli­very of goods takes place by the trans­port ser­vice pro­vi­der Her­mes (Her­mes Logis­tik Grup­pe Deutsch­land GmbH, Esse­ner Stra­ße 89, 22419 Ham­burg, Ger­ma­ny), we will pass on your email address to Her­mes fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter a GDPR, pri­or to ship­ment of the goods, to coor­di­na­te a date of deli­very or noti­ce about the ship­ment sta­tus, if you have given your express con­sent during the orde­ring pro­cess. Other­wi­se, only the name of the reci­pi­ent and the deli­very address will be pas­sed on to Her­mes for deli­very fol­lo­wing Sec­tion (1) let­ter b GDPR. The data will only be pas­sed on if this is neces­sa­ry for the deli­very of the goods. In this case, pri­or coor­di­na­ti­on of the deli­very date with Her­mes or com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on of sta­tus infor­ma­ti­on con­cer­ning the ship­ment is not possible.

The con­sent can be revo­ked at any time with effect for the future eit­her with the respon­si­ble enti­ty or with the trans­port ser­vice pro­vi­der Hermes.

– UPS

If deli­very of goods takes place by the trans­port ser­vice pro­vi­der UPS (United Par­cel Ser­vice Deutsch­land Inc. & Co. OHG, Gör­lit­zer Stra­ße 1, 41460 Neuss, Ger­ma­ny) we will pass on your email address to Her­mes fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter a GDPR, pri­or to ship­ment of the goods, to coor­di­na­te a date of deli­very or noti­ce about the ship­ment sta­tus, if you have given your express con­sent during the orde­ring pro­cess. Other­wi­se, only the name of the reci­pi­ent and the deli­very address will be pas­sed on to UPS for deli­very fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter b GDPR. The data will only be pas­sed on if this is neces­sa­ry for the deli­very of the goods. In this case, pri­or coor­di­na­ti­on of the deli­very date with UPS or com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on of sta­tus infor­ma­ti­on con­cer­ning the ship­ment is not possible.

The con­sent can be revo­ked at any time with effect for the future eit­her with the respon­si­ble enti­ty or with the trans­port ser­vice pro­vi­der UPS.

8.3 Use of pay­ment ser­vice providers

– Pay­pal

When pay­ing via Pay­Pal, cre­dit card via Pay­Pal, direct debit via Pay­Pal, or – if offered –

‘purcha­se on account’, or ‘pay­ment by inst­al­ments’ via Pay­Pal, we trans­mit your pay­ment data

to Pay­Pal (Euro­pe) S.a.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Bou­le­vard Roy­al, L-2449 Luxem­bourg (from now on ‘Pay­Pal’). The trans­fer takes place fol­lo­wing Sec­tion (1) let­ter b GDPR and only inso­far as this is neces­sa­ry for pay­ment processing.

Pay­Pal reser­ves the right to car­ry out cre­dit checks for the pay­ment methods cre­dit card via Pay­Pal, direct debit via Pay­Pal, or – if offe­red – ‘purcha­se on account’ or ‘pay­ment by inst­al­ments’ via Pay­Pal. For this pur­po­se, your pay­ment data may be pas­sed on to cre­dit agen­ci­es by PayPal’s legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in deter­mi­ning your sol­ven­cy accor­ding to Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter f GDPR. Pay­Pal shall use the result of the cre­dit check con­cer­ning the sta­tis­ti­cal likeli­hood of non-pay­ment and deci­de which of the pay­ment methods will be offe­red. The cre­dit check could include pro­ba­bi­li­ty values (score values). Inso­far as score values are lis­ted in the cre­dit check, the­se shall be based on a sci­en­ti­fi­cal­ly reco­g­nis­ed, mathe­ma­ti­cal-sta­tis­ti­cal pro­ce­du­re. The cal­cu­la­ti­on of the score values includes, but is not limi­t­ed to, address data. You will find infor­ma­ti­on regar­ding other data, which is affec­ted by data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons, such as the cre­dit bure­aus used, under PayPal’s pri­va­cy state­ment.

You can object to this pro­ces­sing of your data at any time by sen­ding a mes­sa­ge to Pay­Pal. Howe­ver, Pay­Pal may still be entit­led to pro­cess your data if this is neces­sa­ry for con­trac­tu­al pay­ment processing.

8.4 Per­forming cre­dit checks

– Atra­di­us Cre­dit Insurance

Should we enter into advan­ce per­for­mance (e.g., deli­very on account), we reser­ve the right to car­ry out a cre­dit check based on mathe­ma­ti­cal-sta­tis­ti­cal pro­ce­du­res to safe­guard our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in deter­mi­ning the sol­ven­cy of our cus­to­mers. The per­so­nal data requi­red for a cre­dit check is sub­mit­ted fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter f GDPR to the fol­lo­wing ser­vice providers:

Atra­di­us Cre­dit Insu­rance N.V.

Opla­de­ner Stra­ße 14

50679 Colo­gne, Germany

The cre­dit report can con­tain pro­ba­bi­li­ty values (so-cal­led score values). If score values are included in the result of the cre­dit report, they are based on reco­gni­zed sci­en­ti­fic, mathe­ma­ti­cal-sta­tis­ti­cal methods. The cal­cu­la­ti­on of the score values includes, but is not limi­t­ed to, address data. We use the result of the cre­dit assess­ment con­cer­ning the sta­tis­ti­cal pro­ba­bi­li­ty of non-pay­ment to deci­de on the on the crea­ti­on, exe­cu­ti­on, or ter­mi­na­ti­on of a con­trac­tu­al relationship.

You can object to this pro­ces­sing of your data at any time by sen­ding a mes­sa­ge to the con­trol­ler respon­si­ble for data pro­ces­sing or Atra­di­us Cre­dit Insu­rance N.V.

You can object to this pro­ces­sing of your data at any time by sen­ding a mes­sa­ge to the respon­si­ble enti­ty for data pro­ces­sing or the cre­dit agen­cy men­tio­ned abo­ve. Howe­ver, we may still be entit­led to pro­cess your data if this is neces­sa­ry for con­trac­tu­al pay­ment processing.

9) Use of social media: social plug-ins

9.1 Face­book as a stan­dard plug-in

This web­site uses the so-cal­led social ‘plug-ins’ of the social net­work Face­book, which is ope­ra­ted by Face­book Inc., 1601 S. Cali­for­nia Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (Face­book). The plug­ins are mark­ed with a Face­book logo or the phra­se ‘Face­book social plug­in’. You can find an over­view of the Face­book plug­ins and what they look like here.

If you open a page on our web­site, which con­ta­ins such a plug­in, your brow­ser will con­nect direct­ly to the Face­book ser­vers. The con­tent of the plug­in will be trans­mit­ted to your brow­ser by Face­book and included on the page. Via this plug­in, Face­book recei­ves the infor­ma­ti­on, which your brow­ser has reques­ted on our web­site, even if you do not have a Face­book pro­fi­le, or if you are curr­ent­ly not log­ged into Face­book. This infor­ma­ti­on (inclu­ding your IP address) is sent direct­ly from your brow­ser to one of the Face­book ser­vers in the USA, whe­re it is stored.

If you are log­ged into Face­book, it can direct­ly link your visit to our site to your Face­book pro­fi­le. If you inter­act with the plug­ins, for exam­p­le, press the ‘Like’ but­ton or make a com­ment, this infor­ma­ti­on is also trans­mit­ted direct­ly to a Face­book ser­ver and stored the­re. The infor­ma­ti­on is also pos­ted on your Face­book pro­fi­le and dis­play­ed to your Face­book friends.

The descri­bed data pro­ces­sing takes place accor­ding to Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter f GDPR by the legi­ti­ma­te inte­rests of Face­book in the inser­ti­on of per­so­na­li­sed adver­ti­sing to inform other users of the social net­work about your acti­vi­ties on our web­site and for the demand-ori­en­ted design of the service.

If you do not want Face­book to link the data coll­ec­ted on our web­site to your Face­book account, you should log out of Face­book befo­re visi­ting our web­site. You can also pre­vent the loa­ding of the Face­book plug-ins and thus the data pro­ces­sing pro­ce­du­res descri­bed abo­ve with add-ons for your brow­ser for the future, e.g. with the script blo­cker ‘NoScript’.

Goog­le LLC, based in the United Sta­tes, is cer­ti­fied for the US-Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion agree­ment ‘Pri­va­cy Shield’, which gua­ran­tees com­pli­ance with the data pro­tec­tion level appli­ca­ble in the EU.

For the pur­po­se and scope of data coll­ec­tion but also fur­ther pro­ces­sing and use of the data by Face­book as well as your rights in this respect and set­ting opti­ons for pro­tec­ting your pri­va­cy, plea­se refer to the data pri­va­cy state­ments by Face­book.

9.2 Goog­le+ as a stan­dard plug-in

On our web­site, we also use social ‘plug-ins’ of the social net­work Goog­le+, which is ope­ra­ted by Goog­le Inc., 1600 Amphi­theat­re Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA (Goog­le). The­se plug­ins are indi­ca­ted by but­tons, for exam­p­le, with the ‘+1’ sym­bol on a white or colou­red back­ground. You will find an over­view of the Goog­le plug­ins and their appearance here: When you visit a page of our web­site that con­ta­ins a social plug­in, your brow­ser makes a direct con­nec­tion to the ser­vers of Goog­le forth. The con­tent of the plug­in is trans­fer­red from Goog­le direct­ly to your brow­ser and embedded into the page. Thanks to this con­nec­tion, Goog­le recei­ves the infor­ma­ti­on that your brow­ser has acces­sed the rele­vant page of our web­site, even if you do not have a Goog­le+ pro­fi­le or have one but are curr­ent­ly not log­ged on. This infor­ma­ti­on (inclu­ding your IP address) is trans­mit­ted by your brow­ser direct­ly to a Goog­le ser­ver in the USA and stored there.

If you are log­ged into Goog­le+, Goog­le can link your visit to our web­site direct­ly to your Goog­le+ pro­fi­le. If you inter­act with the plug­ins, for exam­p­le by pres­sing the ‘+1’ but­ton, the infor­ma­ti­on is also trans­mit­ted direct­ly to a Goog­le ser­ver and stored the­re. The infor­ma­ti­on is also pos­ted on Goog­le+ and dis­play­ed to your cont­acts there.

The descri­bed data pro­ces­sing takes place accor­ding to Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter f GDPR by the legi­ti­ma­te inte­rests of Goog­le in the inser­ti­on of per­so­na­li­sed adver­ti­sing to inform other users of the social net­work about your acti­vi­ties on our web­site and for the demand-ori­en­ted design of the service.

If you do not want Goog­le to asso­cia­te the infor­ma­ti­on coll­ec­ted through our site direct­ly with your pro­fi­le on Goog­le+, you must log out of Goog­le+ befo­re visi­ting our site.

You can also pre­vent the loa­ding of the Goog­le+ plug­ins and thus the data pro­ces­sing pro­ce­du­res descri­bed abo­ve with add-ons for your brow­ser for the future, e.g. with the script blo­cker ‘NoScript’.

Goog­le LLC, based in the United Sta­tes, is cer­ti­fied for the US-Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion agree­ment ‘Pri­va­cy Shield’, which gua­ran­tees com­pli­ance with the data pro­tec­tion level appli­ca­ble in the EU.

The pur­po­se and scope of the data coll­ec­tion and the fur­ther pro­ces­sing and use of the data by Goog­le as well as your rights and set­ting opti­ons for the pro­tec­tion of your pri­va­cy can be found in Google’s data pro­tec­tion information.

9.3 Insta­gram as a stan­dard plug-in

Our web­site uses so-cal­led social ‘plug-ins’ of the Insta­gram online ser­vice ope­ra­ted by Insta­gram LLC, 1601 Wil­low Rd, Men­lo Park, CA 94025, USA (Insta­gram). The plug-ins are label­led with an Insta­gram logo, for exam­p­le in the form of an ‘Insta­gram came­ra’. An over­view of the Insta­gram plug­ins and their appearance can be found here. If you open a page on our web­site, which con­ta­ins such a plug­in, your brow­ser will con­nect direct­ly to the Face­book ser­vers. The con­tent of the plug­in will be trans­mit­ted to your brow­ser by Insta­gram and included on the page. Via this plug­in, Face­book recei­ves the infor­ma­ti­on, which your brow­ser has reques­ted on our web­site, even if you do not have a Face­book pro­fi­le, or if you are curr­ent­ly not log­ged into Insta­gram. This infor­ma­ti­on (inclu­ding your IP address) is sent direct­ly from your brow­ser to one of the Insta­gram ser­vers in the USA, whe­re it is stored.

If you are log­ged in to Insta­gram, Insta­gram can imme­dia­te­ly asso­cia­te your visit to our web­site with your Insta­gram account. If you inter­act with the plug­ins, for exam­p­le by pres­sing the ‘Insta­gram Came­ra’ but­ton, this infor­ma­ti­on is also direct­ly trans­mit­ted to an Insta­gram ser­ver and stored the­re. The infor­ma­ti­on is also published on your Insta­gram account and signal­led to your contacts.

The descri­bed data pro­ces­sing pro­ces­ses are car­ri­ed out fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter f GDPR by Instagram’s legi­ti­ma­te inte­rests in the inser­ti­on of per­so­na­li­sed adver­ti­sing to inform other users of the social net­work about your acti­vi­ties on our web­site and for the demand-ori­en­ted design of the service.

If you do not want Insta­gram to link the data coll­ec­ted on our web­site to your Insta­gram account, you must log out of Insta­gram befo­re visi­ting our web­site. You can also pre­vent the loa­ding of the Insta­gram plug­ins and thus the data pro­ces­sing pro­ce­du­res descri­bed abo­ve with add-ons for your brow­ser for the future, e.g. with the script blo­cker ‘NoScript’. Insta­gram LLC., based in the United Sta­tes, is cer­ti­fied for the US-Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion agree­ment ‘Pri­va­cy Shield’, which gua­ran­tees com­pli­ance with the data pro­tec­tion level appli­ca­ble in the EU.

‘Pri­va­cy Shield’, which gua­ran­tees com­pli­ance with the data pro­tec­tion level appli­ca­ble in the EU. Plea­se refer to Instagram’s pri­va­cy poli­cy for the pur­po­se and scope of data coll­ec­tion and the fur­ther pro­ces­sing and use of data by Insta­gram and your rights and set­ting opti­ons for pro­tec­ting your pri­va­cy here.

9.4 Lin­ke­dIn as a stan­dard plug-in

This web­site uses the so-cal­led social ‘plug-ins’ of the social net­work Lin­ke­dIn ope­ra­ted by Lin­ke­dIn Cor­po­ra­ti­on, 2029 Stier­lin Court, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA (Lin­ke­dIn). The Lin­ke­dIn plug­ins are iden­ti­fied by the Lin­ke­dIn logo or the ‘Recom­mend’ but­ton on our website.

When you access a page on our web­site that con­ta­ins such a plug-in, your brow­ser estab­lishes a direct con­nec­tion with the Lin­ke­dIn ser­vers. Lin­ke­dIn trans­fers the con­tent of the plug­in direct­ly to your brow­ser and inte­gra­tes it into the page. This inte­gra­ti­on informs Lin­ke­dIn that your brow­ser has acces­sed the cor­re­spon­ding page of our web­site, even if you do not have an Insta­gram pro­fi­le or are not curr­ent­ly log­ged in to Insta­gram. This infor­ma­ti­on (inclu­ding your IP address) is trans­mit­ted by your brow­ser direct­ly to a Lin­ke­dIn ser­ver in the USA and stored there.

If you are log­ged in to Lin­ke­dIn, it can imme­dia­te­ly asso­cia­te your visit to our web­site with your Lin­ke­dIn account. If you inter­act with the plug­ins, this infor­ma­ti­on is also direct­ly trans­mit­ted to a Lin­ke­dIn ser­ver and stored the­re. The infor­ma­ti­on is also published on your Lin­ke­dIn account and signal­led to your contacts.

The descri­bed data pro­ces­sing pro­ces­ses are car­ri­ed out fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6 (1) let­ter f GDPR by LinkedIn’s legi­ti­ma­te inte­rests in the inser­ti­on of per­so­na­li­sed adver­ti­sing to inform other users of the social net­work about your acti­vi­ties on our web­site and for the demand-ori­en­ted design of the service.

If you do not want Lin­ke­dIn to link the data coll­ec­ted on our web­site to your Lin­ke­dIn account, you must log out of Insta­gram befo­re visi­ting our web­site. You can also pre­vent the loa­ding of the Lin­ke­dIn plug-ins and thus the data pro­ces­sing pro­ce­du­res descri­bed abo­ve with add-ons for your brow­ser for the future, e.g. with the script blo­cker ‘NoScript’. Lin­ke­dIn Cor­po­ra­ti­on, based in the United Sta­tes, is cer­ti­fied for the US-Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion agree­ment ‘Pri­va­cy Shield’, which gua­ran­tees com­pli­ance with the data pro­tec­tion level appli­ca­ble in the EU.

Plea­se see the Lin­ke­dIn pri­va­cy poli­ci­es for infor­ma­ti­on on the pur­po­se and scope of data coll­ec­tion and its fur­ther pro­ces­sing and use of data as well as your rights in this regard, as well as set­ting opti­ons to pro­tect your privacy.

9.5 Twit­ter as a stan­dard plug-in

Our web­site uses the so-cal­led social ‘plug-ins’ of the Twit­ter micro-blog­ging ser­vice, which is ope­ra­ted by Twit­ter Inc., 1355 Mar­ket St, Suite 900, San Fran­cis­co, CA 94103, USA (Twit­ter). The plug-ins are mark­ed with a Twit­ter logo, for exam­p­le in the form of a blue ‘Twit­ter bird’. You can find an over­view of the Twit­ter plug-ins and what they look like here.

If you open a page on our web­site, which con­ta­ins such a plug­in, your brow­ser will con­nect direct­ly to the Twit­ter ser­vers. The con­tent of the plug­in will be direct­ly trans­mit­ted to your brow­ser by Twit­ter. Through this con­nec­tion, Twit­ter recei­ves the infor­ma­ti­on, which your brow­ser has reques­ted on our web­site, even if you do not have a Twit­ter account, or if you are curr­ent­ly not log­ged into Twit­ter.  This infor­ma­ti­on (inclu­ding your IP address) is sent direct­ly from your brow­ser to one of the Twit­ter ser­vers in the USA, whe­re it is stored. Twit­ter can asso­cia­te your visit to our web­site direct­ly with your Twit­ter account if you are log­ged into Twit­ter. If you inter­act with the plug­ins, for exam­p­le, by using the ‘Tweet’ but­ton, this infor­ma­ti­on is also trans­mit­ted direct­ly to one of the Twit­ter ser­vers, whe­re it is stored. This infor­ma­ti­on is also published in your Twit­ter account, whe­re your cont­acts can see it.

The descri­bed data pro­ces­sing takes place accor­ding to Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter f GDPR by the legi­ti­ma­te inte­rests of Twit­ter in the inser­ti­on of per­so­na­li­sed adver­ti­sing to inform other users of the social net­work about your acti­vi­ties on our web­site and for the demand-ori­en­ted design of the service.

If you are a mem­ber of Twitter’s social net­work and you wish to limit the coll­ec­tion of data through our web­site and the aggre­ga­ti­on of your user data with the data stored about you on the social net­work Twit­ter, you should log out of Twit­ter befo­re visi­ting our website.

You can also pre­vent the loa­ding of the Twit­ter plug-ins and thus the data pro­ces­sing pro­ce­du­res descri­bed abo­ve with add-ons for your brow­ser for the future, e.g. with the script blo­cker ‘NoScript’.

Twit­ter Inc., based in the United Sta­tes, is cer­ti­fied for the US-Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion agree­ment ‘Pri­va­cy Shield’, which gua­ran­tees com­pli­ance with the data pro­tec­tion level appli­ca­ble in the EU.

Plea­se refer to Twitter’s pri­va­cy poli­cy for the pur­po­se and scope of data coll­ec­tion and the fur­ther pro­ces­sing and use of data by Twit­ter and your rights and set­ting opti­ons for pro­tec­ting your pri­va­cy here.

9.6 Xing plug-ins

On this web­site, the ‘XING Share But­ton’ is used. When this web­site is acces­sed, your brow­ser will brief­ly con­nect to the ser­vers of the XING AG (XING). This enables the use of the ‘XING Share But­ton’ func­tions, (par­ti­cu­lar­ly the calculation/display of the coun­ter). XING does not store any of your per­so­nal data when you visit this web page. In par­ti­cu­lar, XING does not store any IP addres­ses. No ana­ly­sis of your user beha­viour takes place via the use of Coo­kies asso­cia­ted with the ‘XING’ share but­ton. The rele­vant cur­rent data pro­tec­tion infor­ma­ti­on on the ‘XING’ share but­ton and fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on can be found here.

10) Use of social media: videos

Use of You­Tube Videos

This web­site uses the You­Tube embed­ding func­tion for dis­play and play­back of vide­os offe­red by the pro­vi­der You­Tube, which belongs to Goog­le LLC, 1600 Amphi­theat­re Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA (Goog­le).

Here, the exten­ded data pro­tec­tion mode appli­es, which, accor­ding to the provider’s data, only beg­ins saving user infor­ma­ti­on once a video has been star­ted. If an embedded You­Tube video is star­ted, the pro­vi­der, ‘You­Tube’ uses coo­kies, to coll­ect infor­ma­ti­on about the user beha­viour. Accor­ding to infor­ma­ti­on from You­Tube, this infor­ma­ti­on ser­ves the pur­po­se, among others, of coll­ec­ting video sta­tis­tics to impro­ve user-fri­end­li­ne­ss and pre­vent abu­se. If you are log­ged in to Goog­le, your infor­ma­ti­on will be direct­ly asso­cia­ted with your account when you click on a video. If you do not wish to be asso­cia­ted with your pro­fi­le on You­Tube, you must log out befo­re acti­vat­ing the but­ton. Goog­le stores your data (even for non-log­ged-in users) as user pro­files and eva­lua­tes them. Such an eva­lua­ti­on takes place in par­ti­cu­lar accor­ding to Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter f GDPR by the legi­ti­ma­te inte­rests of Goog­le in the inser­ti­on of per­so­na­li­sed adver­ti­sing, mar­ket rese­arch and demand-ori­en­ted design of its web­site. You have the right to object to the crea­ti­on of the­se user pro­files, wher­eby you must cont­act You­Tube to exer­cise this right.

Inde­pendent­ly of a play­back of the embedded vide­os, a con­nec­tion to the Goog­le net­work ‘Dou­ble­Click’ is initia­ted every time you access this web­site. This can result in fur­ther data pro­ces­sing, upon which we have no influence.

Goog­le LLC, based in the United Sta­tes, is cer­ti­fied for the US-Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion agree­ment ‘Pri­va­cy Shield’, which gua­ran­tees com­pli­ance with the data pro­tec­tion level appli­ca­ble in the EU.

Fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on on You­Tube data pro­tec­tion can be found in the

provider’s data pro­tec­tion state­ment.

11) Online marketing

Use of Goog­le AdWords Con­ver­si­on Tracking

This web­site uses the online adver­ti­sing pro­gram ‘Goog­le AdWords’ and the con­ver­si­on track­ing within the frame­work of Goog­le AdWords, Goog­le LLC, 1600 Amphi­theat­re Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA (Goog­le). We use the Goog­le Adwords pro­gram to draw atten­ti­on to our attrac­ti­ve offers with the help of adver­ti­sing mate­ri­als on exter­nal web­sites. We can deter­mi­ne, con­cer­ning the adver­ti­sing cam­paigns data, how suc­cessful the indi­vi­du­al adver­ti­sing mea­su­res are. We are inte­res­ted in show­ing you adver­ti­se­ments that are of inte­rest to you. We want to make our web­site more inte­res­t­ing for you and to achie­ve a fair cal­cu­la­ti­on of adver­ti­sing costs.

The con­ver­si­on track­ing coo­kie is set on a user’s brow­ser, if he/she clicks on an AdWords ad deli­ver­ed by Goog­le. Coo­kies are small text files that are stored on your com­pu­ter sys­tem. The­se coo­kies expi­re in 30 days and are not used for per­so­nal iden­ti­fi­ca­ti­on. If you visit cer­tain pages of this web­site befo­re the coo­kie has beco­me inva­lid, both we and Goog­le can see that you have cli­cked on the ad and been for­ward­ed to the web page in ques­ti­on. Every Goog­le AdWords cus­to­mer is assi­gned a dif­fe­rent coo­kie. The­r­e­fo­re, coo­kies can­not be tra­cked via the web­sites of AdWords cus­to­mers. The infor­ma­ti­on that is coll­ec­ted via con­ver­si­on coo­kies ser­ves to pro­vi­de con­ver­si­on sta­tis­tics for AdWords cus­to­mers who have elec­ted to use the con­ver­si­on track­ing func­tion. The cus­to­mers are pro­vi­ded with the total num­ber of users who have cli­cked on their ads, whereu­pon they are for­ward­ed to a page that has a con­ver­si­on track­ing tag. Howe­ver, they do not recei­ve any infor­ma­ti­on, with which they can iden­ti­fy the user per­so­nal­ly. If you do not want to par­ti­ci­pa­te in the track­ing pro­gram, you can refu­se the use of this pro­gram by deac­ti­vat­ing the Goog­le Con­ver­si­on Track­ing coo­kie via your Inter­net brow­ser through the user set­tings. In this case, you will not be included in the con­ver­si­on track­ing sta­tis­tics. We use Goog­le Adwords by our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in tar­ge­ted adver­ti­sing fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter f GDPR.

Goog­le LLC, based in the United Sta­tes, is cer­ti­fied for the US-Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion agree­ment ‘Pri­va­cy Shield’, which gua­ran­tees com­pli­ance with the data pro­tec­tion level appli­ca­ble in the EU.

You can find out more about Google’s data pro­tec­tion poli­cy.

You can per­ma­nent­ly deac­ti­va­te coo­kies for adver­ti­sing pre­fe­ren­ces by blo­cking them via the respec­ti­ve set­tings of your brow­ser soft­ware or by down­loa­ding and instal­ling the brow­ser plug-in, available under the fol­lo­wing link.

Plea­se note that some func­tions of this web­site may not be used or only to a limi­t­ed ext­ent if you have deac­ti­va­ted the use of cookies.

12) Web ana­ly­sis services

Goog­le (Uni­ver­sal) Analytics

– Goog­le Analytics

This web­site uses Goog­le Ana­ly­tics, a web­site ana­ly­sis tool from Goog­le, Inc.

Amphi­theat­re Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA (Goog­le). Goog­le Ana­ly­tics uses ‘coo­kies’, text files that are saved to your com­pu­ter and allow your use of the web­site to be ana­ly­sed. The infor­ma­ti­on gene­ra­ted by the coo­kies about your use of this web­site (inclu­ding the shor­ten­ed IP address) is gene­ral­ly trans­mit­ted to a Goog­le ser­ver in the USA and stored there.

This web­site uses Goog­le Ana­ly­tics exclu­si­ve­ly with the exten­si­on ‘_anonymizeIp()’, which ensu­res an anony­mi­sa­ti­on of the IP address by shor­tening it and excludes a direct per­so­nal rela­ti­onship. As a result of the exten­si­on, your IP address will pre­vious­ly be trun­ca­ted by Goog­le within mem­ber sta­tes of the Euro­pean Uni­on or in other signa­to­ry sta­tes to the Agree­ment on the Euro­pean Eco­no­mic Area. Only in excep­tio­nal cases will the full IP address be trans­mit­ted to a Goog­le ser­ver in the US and trun­ca­ted the­re. In the­se rare cases, this pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter f GDPR based on our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the sta­tis­ti­cal ana­ly­sis of user beha­viour for opti­mi­sa­ti­on and mar­ke­ting purposes.

On our behalf, Goog­le will use this infor­ma­ti­on to eva­lua­te your use of the web­site, to com­pi­le reports on web­site acti­vi­ty and to pro­vi­de us with other ser­vices rela­ting to web­site and inter­net use. The IP address trans­mit­ted by your brow­ser in the con­text of Goog­le Ana­ly­tics is not mer­ged with other Goog­le data.

You can pre­vent the sto­rage of coo­kies by making the respec­ti­ve set­tings in your brow­ser. Howe­ver, we wish to point out that some func­tions offe­red by the web­site will not be ful­ly available in this case. You may per­ma­nent­ly refu­se Goog­le to coll­ect data gene­ra­ted by coo­kies regar­ding the use of the web­site (inclu­ding your IP address) and to pro­cess them. You can down­load and install the brow­ser plug-in available under the fol­lo­wing link.

As an alter­na­ti­ve to the brow­ser plug-in or for brow­sers on mobi­le devices, plea­se click on the fol­lo­wing link in order to set an opt-out coo­kie which dis­ables Goog­le Ana­ly­tics to coll­ect data on this web­site in the future (this opt-out coo­kie only func­tions for this brow­ser and this domain. If you dele­te your coo­kies on this brow­ser, you must click again on this link): Disable Goog­le Ana­ly­tics Goog­le LLC, based in the United Sta­tes, is cer­ti­fied for the US-Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion agree­ment ‘Pri­va­cy Shield’, which gua­ran­tees com­pli­ance with the data pro­tec­tion level appli­ca­ble in the EU.

For more infor­ma­ti­on about how Goog­le Ana­ly­tics hand­les user data, refer to Google’s pri­va­cy policy.

13) Tools and miscellaneous

Goog­le Maps

Our web­site uses Goog­le Maps (API) by Goog­le LLC., 1600

Amphi­theat­re Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA (Goog­le). Goog­le Maps is a web ser­vice for dis­play­ing inter­ac­ti­ve (coun­try) maps to dis­play geo­gra­phi­cal infor­ma­ti­on visual­ly. The use of this ser­vice will show you our loca­ti­on and make it easier to get there.

When you visit any of the sub­pages whe­re the Goog­le Maps map is incor­po­ra­ted, infor­ma­ti­on about your use of our web­site (such as your IP address) is trans­mit­ted to Google’s ser­vers in the United Sta­tes and stored the­re; this is done regard­less of whe­ther Goog­le pro­vi­des a user account that you are log­ged in to, or if the­re is no user account. If you are log­ged in to Goog­le, your infor­ma­ti­on will be direct­ly asso­cia­ted with your account. If you do not wish to be asso­cia­ted with your pro­fi­le on Goog­le, you must log out befo­re acti­vat­ing the but­ton. Goog­le stores your data (even for non-log­ged-in users) as user pro­files and eva­lua­tes them. Such an eva­lua­ti­on takes place in par­ti­cu­lar accor­ding to Sec­tion 6(1) let­ter f GDPR by the legi­ti­ma­te inte­rests of Goog­le in the inser­ti­on of per­so­na­li­sed adver­ti­sing, mar­ket rese­arch and demand-ori­en­ted design of its web­site. You are entit­led to object to the crea­ti­on of the­se user pro­files. If you want to do so, you must cont­act Goog­le to exer­cise this right.

Goog­le LLC, based in the United Sta­tes, is cer­ti­fied for the US-Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion agree­ment ‘Pri­va­cy Shield’, which gua­ran­tees com­pli­ance with the data pro­tec­tion level appli­ca­ble in the EU.

If you dis­agree with the future trans­mis­si­on of your data to Goog­le when using Goog­le Maps, you can also disable the Goog­le Maps web ser­vice enti­re­ly by tur­ning off the Java­Script appli­ca­ti­on in your brow­ser. In this case, Goog­le Maps, as well as the map dis­play on this web­site, can­not be used.

The Goog­le terms of use can be found here. The addi­tio­nal terms of use can be found here.

You can find detail­ed infor­ma­ti­on on data pro­tec­tion in con­nec­tion with the use of Goog­le Maps on Google’s web­site (Goog­le Pri­va­cy Policy)

14) Rights of the affec­ted persons

14.1 The appli­ca­ble data pro­tec­tion law grants you the right to infor­ma­ti­on and inter­ven­ti­on from the respon­si­ble enti­ty con­cer­ning the pro­ces­sing of your data, about which we inform you below:

  • Right of access by the affec­ted per­sons accor­ding to Sec­tion 15 GDPR: In par­ti­cu­lar, you have a right to infor­ma­ti­on about the per­so­nal data pro­ces­sed by us, the pro­ces­sing pur­po­ses, the cate­go­ries of pro­ces­sed per­so­nal data, the reci­pi­ents or types of reci­pi­ents to whom your data has been dis­c­lo­sed or will be plan­ned sto­rage peri­od or the cri­te­ria for deter­mi­ning the sto­rage peri­od, the right of rec­ti­fi­ca­ti­on, dele­ti­on, limi­ta­ti­on of pro­ces­sing, objec­tion to the pro­ces­sing, com­plaint to a super­vi­so­ry aut­ho­ri­ty, the ori­gin of your data, if we did not coll­ect them, the exis­tence of auto­ma­ted decis­i­on-making, inclu­ding pro­fil­ing, and, whe­re appro­pria­te, meaningful infor­ma­ti­on about the logic invol­ved and the scope invol­ved and the inten­ded effects of such pro­ces­sing, as well as your right to be infor­med, which gua­ran­tees accor­ding to Sec­tion 46 GDPR app­ly when your data is for­ward­ed to third countries;
  • Right to cor­rec­tion accor­ding to Sec­tion 16 GDPR: You have the right to imme­dia­te cor­rec­tion of incor­rect data con­cer­ning you or com­ple­ti­on of your incom­ple­te data stored by us;
  • Right to dele­ti­on accor­ding to Sec­tion 17 GDPR: You have the right to demand the rem­oval of your data if the requi­re­ments of Sec­tion 17(1) GDPR are met. Howe­ver, that power does not app­ly, in par­ti­cu­lar, whe­re the pro­ces­sing is neces­sa­ry for the exer­cise of the right to free­dom of expres­si­on and infor­ma­ti­on, for the ful­film­ent of a legal obli­ga­ti­on, for reasons of public inte­rest, or for the pur­su­it, exer­cise, or defence of rights;
  • Right to rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing accor­ding to Sec­tion 18 GDPR: You have the right to demand the curtail­ing of the pro­ces­sing of your data, as long as the cor­rect­ness of your data, which you con­tes­ted, is review­ed, if you refu­se a dele­ti­on of your data due to inad­mis­si­ble data pro­ces­sing and ins­tead requi­re the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your data, if you need your data for the asser­ti­on, exer­cise or defence of legal rights, after we no lon­ger need the­se data after pur­po­se or if you have objec­tions based on your par­ti­cu­lar situa­ti­on, as long as it is not sure, if our legi­ti­ma­te reasons prevail;
  • Right to infor­ma­ti­on fol­lo­wing Sec­tion 19 GDPR: If you avai­led of your right to rec­ti­fy, dele­te, or limit the pro­ces­sing, the respon­si­ble enti­ty is obli­ged to noti­fy all reci­pi­ents to whom the per­so­nal data were dis­c­lo­sed about this cor­rec­tion unless this pro­ves to be impos­si­ble or dis­pro­por­tio­na­te. You have the right to be infor­med about the­se recipients;
  • Right to data por­ta­bi­li­ty accor­ding to Sec­tion 20 GDPR: You have the right to recei­ve your data pro­vi­ded to us in a struc­tu­red, com­mon and machi­ne-rea­da­ble for­mat or to request the trans­fer to ano­ther per­son respon­si­ble, as far as this is tech­ni­cal­ly feasible;
  •  The right of revo­ca­ti­on of gran­ted con­sent accor­ding to Sec­tion 7(3) GDPR: You have the right to revo­ke the per­mis­si­on to pro­cess your data at any time with effect for the future. In the event of revo­ca­ti­on, we will dele­te the data con­cer­ned wit­hout delay, unless fur­ther pro­ces­sing can be based on a legal basis for pro­ces­sing wit­hout con­sent. The repeal of appr­oval does not affect the lawful­ness of the pro­ces­sing car­ri­ed out from the per­mis­si­on until the revocation;
  • Right to com­plain accor­ding to Sec­tion 77 GDPR: If you belie­ve that the pro­ces­sing of your data is in breach with the GDPR, you have the right to com­plain to the super­vi­so­ry aut­ho­ri­ty, in par­ti­cu­lar, in the coun­try of your resi­den­cy, employ­ment, or place of the alle­ged infringement.

14.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT

IF WE PROCESS YOUR DATA BY OUR PREDOMINANT LEGITIMATE INTEREST, WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF A CONSIDERATION OF INTERESTS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING AT ANY TIME WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE BASED ON YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION.