Privacy Policy

  1. An over­view of data protection

Gene­ral information

The fol­lo­wing infor­ma­ti­on will pro­vi­de you with an easy to navi­ga­te over­view of what will hap­pen with your per­so­nal data when you visit our web­site. The term “per­so­nal data” com­pri­ses all data that can be used to per­so­nal­ly iden­ti­fy you. For detail­ed infor­ma­ti­on about the sub­ject mat­ter of data pro­tec­tion, plea­se con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­ti­on, which we have included beneath this copy.

Data recor­ding on our website

Who is the respon­si­ble par­ty for the recor­ding of data on this web­site (i.e. the “con­trol­ler”)?

The data on this web­site is pro­ces­sed by the ope­ra­tor of the web­site, who­se cont­act infor­ma­ti­on is available under sec­tion “Infor­ma­ti­on Requi­red by Law” on this website.

How do we record your data?

We coll­ect your data as a result of your sha­ring of your data with us. This may, for ins­tance be infor­ma­ti­on you enter into our cont­act form.

Our IT sys­tems auto­ma­ti­cal­ly record other data when you visit our web­site. This data com­pri­ses pri­ma­ri­ly tech­ni­cal infor­ma­ti­on (e.g. web brow­ser, ope­ra­ting sys­tem or time the site was acces­sed). This infor­ma­ti­on is recor­ded auto­ma­ti­cal­ly when you access our website.

What are the pur­po­ses we use your data for?

A por­ti­on of the infor­ma­ti­on is gene­ra­ted to gua­ran­tee the error free pro­vi­si­on of the web­site. Other data may be used to ana­ly­se your user patterns.

What rights do you have as far as your infor­ma­ti­on is concerned?

You have the right to recei­ve infor­ma­ti­on about the source, reci­pi­ents and pur­po­ses of your archi­ved per­so­nal data at any time wit­hout having to pay a fee for such dis­clo­sures. You also have the right to demand that your data are rec­ti­fied, blo­cked or era­di­ca­ted. Plea­se do not hesi­ta­te to cont­act us at any time under the address dis­c­lo­sed in sec­tion “Infor­ma­ti­on Requi­red by Law” on this web­site if you have ques­ti­ons about this or any other data pro­tec­tion rela­ted issues. You also have the right to log a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent super­vi­sing agency.

Moreo­ver, under cer­tain cir­cum­s­tances, you have the right to demand the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data. For details, plea­se con­sult the Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­ti­on under sec­tion “Right to Rest­ric­tion of Data Processing.”

Ana­ly­sis tools and tools pro­vi­ded by third parties

The­re is a pos­si­bi­li­ty that your brow­sing pat­terns will be sta­tis­ti­cal­ly ana­ly­sed when your visit our web­site. Such ana­ly­ses are per­for­med pri­ma­ri­ly with coo­kies and with what we refer to as ana­ly­sis pro­gram­mes. As a rule, the ana­ly­ses of your brow­sing pat­terns are con­duc­ted anony­mously; i.e. the brow­sing pat­terns can­not be tra­ced back to you. You have the opti­on to object to such ana­ly­ses or you can pre­vent their per­for­mance by not using cer­tain tools. For detail­ed infor­ma­ti­on about this, plea­se con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­ti­on below.

You do have the opti­on to object to such ana­ly­ses. We will brief you on the objec­tion opti­ons in this Data Pro­tec­tion Declaration.

  1. Gene­ral infor­ma­ti­on and man­da­to­ry information

Data pro­tec­tion

The ope­ra­tors of this web­site and its pages take the pro­tec­tion of your per­so­nal data very serious­ly. Hence, we hand­le your per­so­nal data as con­fi­den­ti­al infor­ma­ti­on and in com­pli­ance with the sta­tu­to­ry data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons and this Data Pro­tec­tion Declaration.

When­ever you use this web­site, a varie­ty of per­so­nal infor­ma­ti­on will be coll­ec­ted. Per­so­nal data com­pri­ses data that can be used to per­so­nal­ly iden­ti­fy you. This Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­ti­on explains which data we coll­ect as well as the pur­po­ses we use this data for. It also explains how, and for which pur­po­se the infor­ma­ti­on is collected.

We here­wi­th advi­se you that the trans­mis­si­on of data via the Inter­net (i.e. through e‑mail com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons) may be pro­ne to secu­ri­ty gaps. It is not pos­si­ble to com­ple­te­ly pro­tect data against third par­ty access.

Infor­ma­ti­on about the respon­si­ble par­ty (refer­red to as the “con­trol­ler” in the GDPR)

The data pro­ces­sing con­trol­ler on this web­site is:

SEAWATER Cubes GmbH
In den Hal­len 16
66115 Saar­brü­cken

Pho­ne: +49 (0) 681 / 76168220
E‑mail: info@seawatercubes.de

The con­trol­ler is the natu­ral per­son or legal enti­ty that sin­gle-han­dedly or joint­ly with others makes decis­i­ons as to the pur­po­ses of and resour­ces for the pro­ces­sing of per­so­nal data (e.g. names, e‑mail addres­ses, etc.).

Desi­gna­ti­on of a data pro­tec­tion offi­cer as man­da­ted by law

We have appoin­ted a data pro­tec­tion offi­cer for our company.

Caro­lin Acker­mann
In den Hal­len 16
66115 Saar­brü­cken

Pho­ne: +49 (0) 681 / 761 68 220
E‑mail: info@seawatercubes.de

Revo­ca­ti­on of your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of data

A wide ran­ge of data pro­ces­sing tran­sac­tions are pos­si­ble only sub­ject to your express con­sent. You can also revo­ke at any time any con­sent you have alre­a­dy given us. To do so, all you are requi­red to do is sent us an infor­mal noti­fi­ca­ti­on via e‑mail. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­di­ce to the lawful­ness of any data coll­ec­tion that occur­red pri­or to your revocation.

Right to object to the coll­ec­tion of data in spe­cial cases; right to object to direct adver­ti­sing (Art. 21 GDPR)

In the event that data are pro­ces­sed on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. e or f GDPR, you have the right to at any time object to the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data based on grounds ari­sing from your uni­que situa­ti­on. This also appli­es to any pro­fil­ing based on the­se pro­vi­si­ons. To deter­mi­ne the legal basis, on which any pro­ces­sing of data is based, plea­se con­sult this Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­ti­on. If you log an objec­tion, we will no lon­ger pro­cess your affec­ted per­so­nal data, unless we are in a posi­ti­on to pre­sent com­pel­ling pro­tec­tion wort­hy grounds for the pro­ces­sing of your data, that out­weigh your inte­rests, rights and free­doms or if the pur­po­se of the pro­ces­sing is the clai­ming, exer­cis­ing or defence of legal entit­le­ments (objec­tion pur­su­ant to Art. 21 Sect. 1 GDPR).

If your per­so­nal data is being pro­ces­sed in order to enga­ge in direct adver­ti­sing, you have the right to at any time object to the pro­ces­sing of your affec­ted per­so­nal data for the pur­po­ses of such adver­ti­sing. This also appli­es to pro­fil­ing to the ext­ent that it is affi­lia­ted with such direct adver­ti­sing. If you object, your per­so­nal data will sub­se­quent­ly no lon­ger be used for direct adver­ti­sing pur­po­ses (objec­tion pur­su­ant to Art. 21 Sect. 2 GDPR).

Right to log a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent super­vi­so­ry agency

In the event of vio­la­ti­ons of the GDPR, data sub­jects are entit­led to log a com­plaint with a super­vi­so­ry agen­cy, in par­ti­cu­lar in the mem­ber sta­te whe­re they usual­ly main­tain their domic­i­le, place of work or at the place whe­re the alle­ged vio­la­ti­on occur­red. The right to log a com­plaint is in effect regard­less of any other admi­nis­tra­ti­ve or court pro­cee­dings available as legal recourses.

Right to data portability

You have the right to demand that we hand over any data we auto­ma­ti­cal­ly pro­cess on the basis of your con­sent or in order to ful­fil a con­tract be han­ded over to you or a third par­ty in a com­mon­ly used, machi­ne rea­da­ble for­mat. If you should demand the direct trans­fer of the data to ano­ther con­trol­ler, this will be done only if it is tech­ni­cal­ly feasible.

SSL and/or TLS encryption

For secu­ri­ty reasons and to pro­tect the trans­mis­si­on of con­fi­den­ti­al con­tent, such as purcha­se orders or inqui­ries you sub­mit to us as the web­site ope­ra­tor, this web­site uses eit­her an SSL or a TLS encryp­ti­on pro­gram­me. You can reco­g­ni­se an encrypt­ed con­nec­tion by che­cking whe­ther the address line of the brow­ser swit­ches from “http://” to “https://” and also by the appearance of the lock icon in the brow­ser line.

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

Infor­ma­ti­on about, blocka­ge, rec­ti­fi­ca­ti­on and era­di­ca­ti­on of data

Within the scope of the appli­ca­ble sta­tu­to­ry pro­vi­si­ons, you have the right to at any time demand infor­ma­ti­on about your archi­ved per­so­nal data, their source and reci­pi­ents as well as the pur­po­se of the pro­ces­sing of your data. You may also have a right to have your data rec­ti­fied, blo­cked or era­di­ca­ted. If you have ques­ti­ons about this sub­ject mat­ter or any other ques­ti­ons about per­so­nal data, plea­se do not hesi­ta­te to cont­act us at any time at the address pro­vi­ded in sec­tion “Infor­ma­ti­on Requi­red by Law.”

Right to demand pro­ces­sing restrictions

You have the right to demand the impo­si­ti­on of rest­ric­tions as far as the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data is con­cer­ned. To do so, you may cont­act us at any time at the address pro­vi­ded in sec­tion “Infor­ma­ti­on Requi­red by Law.” The right to demand rest­ric­tion of pro­ces­sing appli­es in the fol­lo­wing cases:

  • In the event that you should dis­pu­te the cor­rect­ness of your data archi­ved by us, we will usual­ly need some time to veri­fy this cla­im. During the time that this inves­ti­ga­ti­on is ongo­ing, you have the right to demand that we rest­rict the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data.
  • If the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data was/is con­duc­ted in an unlawful man­ner, you have the opti­on to demand the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your data in lieu of deman­ding the era­di­ca­ti­on of this data.
  • If we do not need your per­so­nal data any lon­ger and you need it to exer­cise, defend or cla­im legal entit­le­ments, you have the right to demand the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data ins­tead of its eradication.
  • If you have rai­sed an objec­tion pur­su­ant to Art. 21 Sect. 1 GDPR, your rights and our rights will have to be weig­hed against each other. As long as it has not been deter­mi­ned who­se inte­rests pre­vail, you have the right to demand a rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data.

If you have rest­ric­ted the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data, the­se data – with the excep­ti­on of their archi­ving – may be pro­ces­sed only sub­ject to your con­sent or to cla­im, exer­cise or defend legal entit­le­ments or to pro­tect the rights of other natu­ral per­sons or legal enti­ties or for important public inte­rest reasons cited by the Euro­pean Uni­on or a mem­ber sta­te of the EU.

Rejec­tion of unso­li­ci­ted e‑mails

We here­wi­th object to the use of cont­act infor­ma­ti­on published in con­junc­tion with the man­da­to­ry infor­ma­ti­on to be pro­vi­ded in sec­tion “Infor­ma­ti­on Requi­red by Law” to send us pro­mo­tio­nal and infor­ma­ti­on mate­ri­al that we have not express­ly reques­ted. The ope­ra­tors of this web­site and its pages reser­ve the express right to take legal action in the event of the unso­li­ci­ted sen­ding of pro­mo­tio­nal infor­ma­ti­on, for ins­tance via SPAM messages.

  1. Recor­ding of data on our website

Coo­kies

In some ins­tances, our web­site and its pages use so-cal­led coo­kies. Coo­kies do not cau­se any dama­ge to your com­pu­ter and do not con­tain viru­s­es. The pur­po­se of coo­kies is to make our web­site more user fri­end­ly, effec­ti­ve and more secu­re. Coo­kies are small text files that are pla­ced on your com­pu­ter and stored by your browser.

Most of the coo­kies we use are so-cal­led “ses­si­on coo­kies.” They are auto­ma­ti­cal­ly dele­ted after your lea­ve our site. Other coo­kies will remain archi­ved on your device until you dele­te them. The­se coo­kies enable us to reco­g­ni­se your brow­ser the next time you visit our website.

You can adjust the set­tings of your brow­ser to make sure that you are noti­fied every time coo­kies are pla­ced and to enable you to accept coo­kies only in spe­ci­fic cases or to exclude the accep­tance of coo­kies for spe­ci­fic situa­tions or in gene­ral and to acti­va­te the auto­ma­tic dele­ti­on of coo­kies when you clo­se your brow­ser. If you deac­ti­va­te coo­kies, the func­tions of this web­site may be limited.

Coo­kies that are requi­red for the per­for­mance of the elec­tro­nic com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons tran­sac­tion or to pro­vi­de cer­tain func­tions you want to use (e.g. the shop­ping cart func­tion), are stored on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in sto­ring coo­kies to ensu­re the tech­ni­cal­ly error free and opti­mi­sed pro­vi­si­on of the operator’s ser­vices. If other coo­kies (e.g. coo­kies for the ana­ly­sis of your brow­sing pat­terns) should be stored, they are addres­sed sepa­ra­te­ly in this Data Pro­tec­tion Declaration.

Cont­act form

If you sub­mit inqui­ries to us via our cont­act form, the infor­ma­ti­on pro­vi­ded in the cont­act form as well as any cont­act infor­ma­ti­on pro­vi­ded the­r­ein will be stored by us in order to hand­le your inquiry and in the event that we have fur­ther ques­ti­ons. We will not share this infor­ma­ti­on wit­hout your consent.

Hence, the pro­ces­sing of the data ente­red into the cont­act form occurs exclu­si­ve­ly based on your con­sent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR). You have the right to revo­ke at any time any con­sent you have alre­a­dy given us. To do so, all you are requi­red to do is sent us an infor­mal noti­fi­ca­ti­on via e‑mail. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­di­ce to the lawful­ness of any data coll­ec­tion that occur­red pri­or to your revocation.

The infor­ma­ti­on you have ente­red into the cont­act form shall remain with us until you ask us to era­di­ca­te the data, revo­ke your con­sent to the archi­ving of data or if the pur­po­se for which the infor­ma­ti­on is being archi­ved no lon­ger exists (e.g. after we have con­cluded our respon­se to your inquiry). This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­di­ce to any man­da­to­ry legal pro­vi­si­ons – in par­ti­cu­lar reten­ti­on periods.

Request by e‑mail, tele­pho­ne or fax

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

The pro­ces­sing of the­se data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, if your request is rela­ted to the exe­cu­ti­on of a con­tract or if it is neces­sa­ry to car­ry out pre-con­trac­tu­al mea­su­res. In all other cases, the pro­ces­sing is based on your con­sent (Artic­le 6 (1) a GDPR) and/or on our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rests (Artic­le 6 (1) (f) GDPR), sin­ce we have a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the effec­ti­ve pro­ces­sing of requests addres­sed to us.

The data sent by you to us via cont­act requests remain with us until you request us to dele­te, revo­ke your con­sent to the sto­rage or the pur­po­se for the data sto­rage lap­ses (e.g. after com­ple­ti­on of your request). Man­da­to­ry sta­tu­to­ry pro­vi­si­ons – in par­ti­cu­lar sta­tu­to­ry reten­ti­on peri­ods – remain unaffected.

Regis­tra­ti­on on this website

You have the opti­on to regis­ter on our web­site to be able to use addi­tio­nal web­site func­tions. We shall use the data you enter only for the pur­po­se of using the respec­ti­ve offer or ser­vice you have regis­tered for. The requi­red infor­ma­ti­on we request at the time of regis­tra­ti­on must be ente­red in full. Other­wi­se we shall reject the registration.

To noti­fy you of any important chan­ges to the scope of our port­fo­lio or in the event of tech­ni­cal modi­fi­ca­ti­ons, we shall use the e‑mail address pro­vi­ded during the regis­tra­ti­on process.

We shall pro­cess the data ente­red during the regis­tra­ti­on pro­cess on the basis of your con­sent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR). You have the right to revo­ke at any time any con­sent you have alre­a­dy given us. To do so, all you are requi­red to do is sent us an infor­mal noti­fi­ca­ti­on via e‑mail. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­di­ce to the lawful­ness of any data coll­ec­tion that occur­red pri­or to your revocation.

The data recor­ded during the regis­tra­ti­on pro­cess shall be stored by us as long as you are regis­tered on our web­site. Sub­se­quent­ly, such data shall be dele­ted. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­di­ce to man­da­to­ry sta­tu­to­ry reten­ti­on obligations.

  1. Ana­ly­sis tools and advertising

Goog­le Analytics

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

Goog­le Ana­ly­tics uses so-cal­led coo­kies. Coo­kies are text files, which are stored on your com­pu­ter and that enable an ana­ly­sis of the use of the web­site by users. The infor­ma­ti­on gene­ra­ted by coo­kies on your use of this web­site is usual­ly trans­fer­red to a Goog­le ser­ver in the United Sta­tes, whe­re it is stored.

The sto­rage of Goog­le Ana­ly­tics coo­kies and the uti­liza­ti­on of this ana­ly­sis tool are based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The ope­ra­tor of this web­site has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the ana­ly­sis of user pat­terns to opti­mi­ze both, the ser­vices offe­red online and the operator’s adver­ti­sing activities.

IP anony­miza­ti­on

On this web­site, we have acti­va­ted the IP anony­miza­ti­on func­tion. As a result, your IP address will be abbre­via­ted by Goog­le within the mem­ber sta­tes of the Euro­pean Uni­on or in other sta­tes that have rati­fied the Con­ven­ti­on on the Euro­pean Eco­no­mic Area pri­or to its trans­mis­si­on to the United Sta­tes. The full IP address will be trans­mit­ted to one of Google’s ser­vers in the United Sta­tes and abbre­via­ted the­re only in excep­tio­nal cases. On behalf of the ope­ra­tor of this web­site, Goog­le shall use this infor­ma­ti­on to ana­ly­se your use of this web­site to gene­ra­te reports on web­site acti­vi­ties and to ren­der other ser­vices to the ope­ra­tor of this web­site that are rela­ted to the use of the web­site and the Inter­net. The IP address trans­mit­ted in con­junc­tion with Goog­le Ana­ly­tics from your brow­ser shall not be mer­ged with other data in Google’s possession.

Brow­ser plug-in

You do have the opti­on to pre­vent the archi­ving of coo­kies by making per­ti­nent chan­ges to the set­tings of your brow­ser soft­ware. Howe­ver, we have to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all of the func­tions of this web­site to their ful­lest ext­ent. Moreo­ver, you have the opti­on pre­vent the recor­ding of the data gene­ra­ted by the coo­kie and affi­lia­ted with your use of the web­site (inclu­ding your IP address) by Goog­le as well as the pro­ces­sing of this data by Goog­le by down­loa­ding and instal­ling the brow­ser plug-in available under the fol­lo­wing link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Objec­tion to the recor­ding of data

You have the opti­on to pre­vent the recor­ding of your data by Goog­le Ana­ly­tics by cli­cking on the fol­lo­wing link. This will result in the pla­ce­ment of an opt out coo­kie, which pre­vents the recor­ding of your data during future visits to this web­site: Goog­le Ana­ly­tics deactivation.

For more infor­ma­ti­on about the hand­ling of user data by Goog­le Ana­ly­tics, plea­se con­sult Google’s Data Pri­va­cy Decla­ra­ti­on at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Con­tract data processing

We have exe­cu­ted a con­tract data pro­ces­sing agree­ment with Goog­le and are imple­men­ting the strin­gent pro­vi­si­ons of the Ger­man data pro­tec­tion agen­ci­es to the ful­lest when using Goog­le Analytics.

Demo­gra­phic para­me­ters pro­vi­ded by Goog­le Analytics

This web­site uses the func­tion “demo­gra­phic para­me­ters” pro­vi­ded by Goog­le Ana­ly­tics. It makes it pos­si­ble to gene­ra­te reports pro­vi­ding infor­ma­ti­on on the age, gen­der and inte­rests of web­site visi­tors. The sources of this infor­ma­ti­on are inte­rest-rela­ted adver­ti­sing by Goog­le as well as visi­tor data obtai­ned from third par­ty pro­vi­ders. This data can­not be allo­ca­ted to a spe­ci­fic indi­vi­du­al. You have the opti­on to deac­ti­va­te this func­tion at any time by making per­ti­nent set­tings chan­ges for adver­ti­sing in your Goog­le account or you can gene­ral­ly pro­hi­bit the recor­ding of your data by Goog­le Ana­ly­tics as explai­ned in sec­tion “Objec­tion to the recor­ding of data.”

Archi­ving period

Data on the user or inci­dent level stored by Goog­le lin­ked to coo­kies, user IDs or adver­ti­sing IDs (e.g. Dou­ble­Click coo­kies, Android adver­ti­sing ID) will be anony­mi­zed or dele­ted after 26 month. For details plea­se click the fol­lo­wing link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7667196?hl=de

Word­Press Stats

This web­site uses the Word­Press tool Stats in order to sta­tis­ti­cal­ly ana­ly­se user access infor­ma­ti­on. The pro­vi­der of the solu­ti­on is Auto­mat­tic Inc., 60 29th Street #343, San Fran­cis­co, CA 94110–4929, USA.

Word­Press Stats uses coo­kies that are stored on your com­pu­ter and that make it pos­si­ble to ana­ly­se the use of this web­site. The infor­ma­ti­on gene­ra­ted by the coo­kies con­cer­ning the use of our web­site is stored on ser­vers in the United Sta­tes. Your IP address is ren­de­red anony­mous after pro­ces­sing and pri­or to the sto­rage of the data.

“Word­Press Stats” coo­kies will 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 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the anony­mous ana­ly­sis of user pat­terns, in order to opti­mi­ze the operator’s web offe­rings and advertising.

You can set up your brow­ser in such a man­ner that you will be noti­fied any­ti­me coo­kies are pla­ced and you can per­mit coo­kies only in cer­tain cases or exclude the accep­tance of coo­kies in cer­tain ins­tances or in gene­ral and you can also acti­va­te the auto­ma­tic dele­ti­on of coo­kies upon clo­sing of the brow­ser. If you deac­ti­va­te coo­kies, the func­tions of this web­site may be limited.

You do have the opti­on to object to the coll­ec­tion and use of your data for future impli­ca­ti­ons by pla­cing an opt out coo­kie into your brow­ser by cli­cking on the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/.

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

Goog­le Ana­ly­tics Remarketing

Our web­sites use the func­tions of Goog­le Ana­ly­tics Remar­ke­ting in com­bi­na­ti­on with the func­tions of Goog­le AdWords and Goog­le Dou­ble­Click, which work on all devices. The pro­vi­der of the­se solu­ti­ons is Goog­le Ire­land Limi­t­ed (“Goog­le”), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ireland.

This func­tion makes it pos­si­ble to con­nect the adver­ti­sing tar­get groups gene­ra­ted with Goog­le Ana­ly­tics Remar­ke­ting with the func­tions of Goog­le AdWords and Goog­le Dou­ble­Click, which work on all devices. This makes it pos­si­ble to dis­play inte­rest-based cus­to­mi­zed adver­ti­sing mes­sa­ges, depen­ding on your pri­or usa­ge and brow­sing pat­terns on a device (e.g. cell pho­ne) in a man­ner tail­o­red to you as well as on any of your devices (e.g. tablet or PC).

If you have given us per­ti­nent con­sent, Goog­le will con­nect your web and app brow­ser pro­gres­si­ons with your Goog­le account for this pur­po­se. As a result, it is pos­si­ble to dis­play the same per­so­na­li­zed adver­ti­sing mes­sa­ges on every device you log into with your Goog­le account.

To sup­port this func­tion, Goog­le Ana­ly­tics records Goog­le authen­ti­ca­ted IDs of users that are tem­po­r­a­ri­ly con­nec­ted with our Goog­le Ana­ly­tics data to defi­ne and com­pi­le the tar­get groups for the ads to be dis­play­ed on all devices.

You have the opti­on to per­ma­nent­ly object to remar­ke­ting / tar­ge­ting across all devices by deac­ti­vat­ing per­so­na­li­zed adver­ti­sing in your Goog­le account. To do this, plea­se fol­low this link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.

The con­so­li­da­ti­on of the recor­ded data in your Goog­le account shall occur exclu­si­ve­ly based on your con­sent, which you may give to Goog­le and also revo­ke the­re (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR). Data recor­ding pro­ces­ses that are not con­so­li­da­ted in your Goog­le account (for ins­tance becau­se you do not have a Goog­le account or have objec­ted to the con­so­li­da­ti­on of data), the recor­ding of data is based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest ari­ses from the fact that the ope­ra­tor of the web­site has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the anony­mi­zed ana­ly­sis of web­site visi­tor for adver­ti­sing purposes.

For fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on and the per­ti­nent data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons, plea­se con­sult the Data Pri­va­cy Poli­ci­es of Goog­le at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en.

Goog­le AdWords and Goog­le Con­ver­si­on Tracking

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

In con­junc­tion with Goog­le AdWords, we use a tool cal­led Con­ver­si­on Track­ing. If you click on an ad pos­ted by Goog­le, a coo­kie for Con­ver­si­on Track­ing pur­po­ses will be pla­ced. Coo­kies are small text files the web brow­ser places on the user’s com­pu­ter. The­se coo­kies expi­re 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 will be able to reco­g­ni­se that the user has cli­cked on an ad and has been lin­ked to this page.

A dif­fe­rent coo­kie is allo­ca­ted to every Goog­le AdWords cus­to­mer. The­se coo­kies can­not be tra­cked via web­sites of AdWords cus­to­mers. The infor­ma­ti­on obtai­ned with the assis­tance of the Con­ver­si­on coo­kie is used to gene­ra­te Con­ver­si­on sta­tis­tics for AdWords cus­to­mers who have opted to use Con­ver­si­on Track­ing. The users recei­ve the total num­ber of users that have cli­cked on their ads and have been lin­ked to a page equip­ped with a Con­ver­si­on Track­ing tag. Howe­ver, they do not recei­ve any infor­ma­ti­on that would allow them to per­so­nal­ly iden­ti­fy the­se users. If you do not want to par­ti­ci­pa­te in track­ing, you have the opti­on to object to this use by easi­ly deac­ti­vat­ing the Goog­le Con­ver­si­on Track­ing coo­kie via your web brow­ser under user set­tings. If you do this, you will 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 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the ana­ly­sis of user pat­terns, in order to opti­mi­ze the operator’s web offe­rings and advertising.

To review more detail­ed infor­ma­ti­on about Goog­le AdWords and Goog­le Con­ver­si­on Track­ing, plea­se con­sult the Data Pri­va­cy Poli­ci­es of Goog­le at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

You can set up your brow­ser in such a man­ner that you will be noti­fied any­ti­me coo­kies are pla­ced and you can per­mit coo­kies only in cer­tain cases or exclude the accep­tance of coo­kies in cer­tain ins­tances or in gene­ral and you can also acti­va­te the auto­ma­tic dele­ti­on of coo­kies upon clo­sing of the brow­ser. If you deac­ti­va­te coo­kies, the func­tions of this web­site may be limited.

Face­book Pixel

To mea­su­re our con­ver­si­on rates, our web­site uses the visi­tor acti­vi­ty pixel of Face­book, Face­book Inc., 1601 S. Cali­for­nia Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Face­book”).

This tool allows the track­ing of page visi­tors after they have been lin­ked to the web­site of the pro­vi­der after cli­cking on a Face­book ad. This makes it pos­si­ble to ana­ly­se the effec­ti­ve­ness of Face­book ads for sta­tis­ti­cal and mar­ket rese­arch pur­po­ses and to opti­mi­ze future adver­ti­sing campaigns.

For us as the ope­ra­tors of this web­site, the coll­ec­ted data is anony­mous. We are not in a posi­ti­on to arri­ve at any con­clu­si­ons as to the iden­ti­ty of users. Howe­ver, Face­book archi­ves the infor­ma­ti­on and pro­ces­ses it, so that it is pos­si­ble to make a con­nec­tion to the respec­ti­ve user pro­fi­le and Face­book is in a posi­ti­on to use the data for its own pro­mo­tio­nal pur­po­ses in com­pli­ance with the Face­book Data Usa­ge Poli­cy. This enables Face­book to dis­play ads on Face­book pages as well as in loca­ti­ons out­side of Face­book. We as the ope­ra­tor of this web­site have no con­trol over the use of such data.

The use of Face­book Pixel is based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The ope­ra­tor of the web­site has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in effec­ti­ve adver­ti­sing cam­paigns, which also include social media.

In Facebook’s Data Pri­va­cy Poli­ci­es, you will find addi­tio­nal infor­ma­ti­on about the pro­tec­tion of your pri­va­cy at: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

You also have the opti­on to deac­ti­va­te the remar­ke­ting func­tion “Cus­tom Audi­en­ces” in the ad set­tings sec­tion under  https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. To do this, you first have to log into Facebook.

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

  1. Newsletter

News­let­ter data

If you would like to sub­scri­be to the news­let­ter offe­red on this web­site, we will need from you an e‑mail address as well as infor­ma­ti­on that allow us to veri­fy that you are the owner of the e‑mail address pro­vi­ded and con­sent to the receipt of the news­let­ter. No fur­ther data shall be coll­ec­ted or shall be coll­ec­ted only on a vol­un­t­a­ry basis. We shall use such data only for the sen­ding of the reques­ted infor­ma­ti­on and shall not share such data with any third parties.

The pro­ces­sing of the infor­ma­ti­on ente­red into the news­let­ter sub­scrip­ti­on form shall occur exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of your con­sent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR). You may revo­ke the con­sent you have given to the archi­ving of data, the e‑mail address and the use of this infor­ma­ti­on for the sen­ding of the news­let­ter at any time, for ins­tance by cli­cking on the „Unsub­scri­be“ link in the news­let­ter. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­di­ce to the lawful­ness of any data pro­ces­sing tran­sac­tions that have taken place to date.

The data you archi­ve with us for the pur­po­se of the news­let­ter sub­scrip­ti­on shall be archi­ved by us until you unsub­scri­be from the news­let­ter. Once you can­cel your sub­scrip­ti­on to the news­let­ter, the data shall be dele­ted. This shall not affect data we have been archi­ving for other purposes.

MailChimp

This web­site uses the ser­vices of MailChimp to send out its news­let­ters. The pro­vi­der is the Rocket Sci­ence Group LLC, 675 Pon­ce De Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlan­ta, GA 30308, USA.

Among other things, MailChimp is a ser­vice that can be deploy­ed to orga­ni­se and ana­ly­se the sen­ding of news­let­ters. When­ever you enter data for the pur­po­se of sub­scrib­ing to a news­let­ter (e.g. your e‑mail address), the infor­ma­ti­on is stored on MailChimp ser­vers in the United States.

MailChimp is in pos­ses­si­on of a cer­ti­fi­ca­ti­on that is in com­pli­ance with the “EU-US-Pri­va­cy-Shield.” The “Pri­va­cy-Shield” is a com­pact bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on (EU) and the United Sta­tes of Ame­ri­ca (USA) that aims to war­rant the com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards in the United States.

With the assis­tance of the MailChimp tool, we can ana­ly­se the per­for­mance of our news­let­ter cam­paigns. If you open an e‑mail that has been sent through the MailChimp tool, a file that has been inte­gra­ted into the e‑mail (a so-cal­led web-bea­con) con­nects to MailChimp’s ser­vers in the United Sta­tes. As a result, it can be deter­mi­ned whe­ther a news­let­ter mes­sa­ge has been ope­ned and which links the reci­pi­ent pos­si­bly cli­cked on. Tech­ni­cal infor­ma­ti­on is also recor­ded at that time (e.g. the time of access, the IP address, type of brow­ser and ope­ra­ting sys­tem). This infor­ma­ti­on can­not be allo­ca­ted to the respec­ti­ve news­let­ter reci­pi­ent. Their sole pur­po­se is the per­for­mance of sta­tis­ti­cal ana­ly­ses of news­let­ter cam­paigns. The results of such ana­ly­ses can be used to tail­or future news­let­ters to the inte­rests of their reci­pi­ents more effectively.

If you do not want to per­mit an ana­ly­sis by MailChimp, you must unsub­scri­be from the news­let­ter. We pro­vi­de a link for you to do this in every news­let­ter mes­sa­ge. Moreo­ver, you can also unsub­scri­be from the news­let­ter right on the website.

The data is pro­ces­sed based on your con­sent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR).  You may revo­ke any con­sent you have given at any time by unsub­scrib­ing from the news­let­ter. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­di­ce to the lawful­ness of any data pro­ces­sing tran­sac­tions that have taken place pri­or to your revocation.

The data you archi­ve with us for the pur­po­se of the news­let­ter sub­scrip­ti­on shall be archi­ved by us until you unsub­scri­be from the news­let­ter. Once you can­cel your sub­scrip­ti­on to the news­let­ter, the data shall be dele­ted from our ser­vers as well as tho­se of MailChimp. This shall not affect data we have been archi­ving for other purposes.

For more details, plea­se con­sult the Data Pri­va­cy Poli­ci­es of MailChimp at: https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/.

Exe­cu­ti­on of a con­tract data pro­ces­sing agreement

We have exe­cu­ted a so-cal­led “Data Pro­ces­sing Agree­ment” with MailChimp, in which we man­da­te that MailChimp under­ta­kes to pro­tect the data of our cus­to­mers and to refrain from sha­ring it with third parties.

  1. Plug-ins and Tools

You­Tube

Our web­site uses plug-ins of the You­Tube plat­form, which is ope­ra­ted by Goog­le. The web­site ope­ra­tor is Goog­le Ire­land Limi­t­ed (“Goog­le”), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ireland.

If you visit a page on our web­site into which a You­Tube plug-in has been inte­gra­ted, a con­nec­tion with YouTube’s ser­vers will be estab­lished. As a result, the You­Tube ser­ver will be noti­fied, which of our pages you have visited.

Fur­ther­mo­re, You­Tube will be able to place various coo­kies on your device. With the assis­tance of the­se coo­kies, You­Tube will be able to obtain infor­ma­ti­on about our web­site visi­tor. Among other things, this infor­ma­ti­on will be used to gene­ra­te video sta­tis­tics with the aim of impro­ving the user fri­end­li­ne­ss of the site and to pre­vent attempts to com­mit fraud. The­se coo­kies will stay on your device until you dele­te them.

If you are log­ged into your You­Tube account while you visit our site, you enable You­Tube to direct­ly allo­ca­te your brow­sing pat­terns to your per­so­nal pro­fi­le. You have the opti­on to pre­vent this by log­ging out of your You­Tube account.

The use of You­Tube is based on our inte­rest in pre­sen­ting our online con­tent in an appe­al­ing man­ner. Pur­su­ant to Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR, this is a legi­ti­ma­te interest.

For more infor­ma­ti­on on how You­Tube hand­les user data, plea­se con­sult the You­Tube Data Pri­va­cy Poli­cy under: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Goog­le Web Fonts

To ensu­re that fonts used on this web­site are uni­form, this web­site uses so-cal­led Web Fonts pro­vi­ded by Goog­le. When you access a page on our web­site, your brow­ser will load the requi­red web fonts into your brow­ser cache to cor­rect­ly dis­play text and fonts.

To do this, the brow­ser you use will have to estab­lish a con­nec­tion with Google’s ser­vers. As a result, Goog­le will learn that your IP address was used to access our web­site. The use of Goog­le Web Fonts is based on our inte­rest in pre­sen­ting our online con­tent in a uni­form and appe­al­ing way. Accor­ding to Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR, this is a legi­ti­ma­te interest.

If your brow­ser should not sup­port Web Fonts, a stan­dard font instal­led on your com­pu­ter will be used.

For more infor­ma­ti­on on Goog­le Web Fonts, plea­se fol­low this link: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and con­sult Google’s Data Pri­va­cy Decla­ra­ti­on under: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Goog­le Maps

Via an API, this web­site uses the map­ping ser­vice Goog­le Maps. The pro­vi­der is Goog­le Ire­land Limi­t­ed (“Goog­le”), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ireland.

To enable the use of the Goog­le Maps fea­tures, your IP address must be stored. As a rule, this infor­ma­ti­on is trans­fer­red to one of Google’s ser­vers in the United Sta­tes, whe­re it is archi­ved. The ope­ra­tor of this web­site has no con­trol over the data transfer.

We use Goog­le Maps to pre­sent our online con­tent in an appe­al­ing man­ner and to make the loca­ti­ons dis­c­lo­sed on our web­site easy to find. This con­sti­tu­tes a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest as defi­ned in Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR.

For more infor­ma­ti­on on the hand­ling of user data, plea­se review Google’s Data Pri­va­cy Decla­ra­ti­on under: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

The Insta­gram Feed from Smash Balloon

This page uses the Cus­tom Insta­gram Feed plug­in from smash bal­loon (https://smashballoon.com/gdpr-and-our-plugins/) to give you an over­view of the latest posts, pho­to albums and events on Insta­gram. Even if you’­re not on Insta­gram, you can still view the posts. The plug­in binds social net­work Insta­gram con­tent. Insta­gram is ope­ra­ted by Insta­gram LLC, repre­sen­ted by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krie­ger, 1601 Wil­low Rd, Men­lo Park CA 94025, USA.

When you visit this page, the plug­in estab­lishes a direct con­nec­tion bet­ween your brow­ser and the Insta­gram ser­ver, as this is the only way to get the latest Insta­gram con­tent. Insta­gram recei­ves the infor­ma­ti­on that you have visi­ted this site with your IP address. We would like to point out that as the pro­vi­der of this site, we do not have any know­ledge of the con­tent of the trans­mit­ted data or of its use by Insta­gram. For more infor­ma­ti­on and to review Instagram’s pri­va­cy poli­cy, plea­se visit https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388 and https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/

  1. Cus­tom Services

Job Appli­ca­ti­ons

We offer web­site visi­tors the oppor­tu­ni­ty to sub­mit job appli­ca­ti­ons to us (e.g. via e‑mail, via pos­tal ser­vices on by sub­mit­ting the online job appli­ca­ti­on form). Below, we will brief you on the scope, pur­po­se and use of the per­so­nal data coll­ec­ted from you in con­junc­tion with the appli­ca­ti­on pro­cess. We assu­re you that the coll­ec­tion, pro­ces­sing and use of your data will occur in com­pli­ance with the appli­ca­ble data pri­va­cy rights and all other sta­tu­to­ry pro­vi­si­ons and that your data will always be trea­ted as strict­ly confidential.

Scope and pur­po­se of the coll­ec­tion of data

If you sub­mit a job appli­ca­ti­on to us, we will pro­cess any affi­lia­ted per­so­nal data (e.g. cont­act and com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons data, appli­ca­ti­on docu­ments, notes taken during job inter­views, etc.), if they are requi­red to make a decis­i­on con­cer­ning the estab­lish­ment or an employ­ment rela­ti­onship. The legal grounds for the afo­re­men­tio­ned are § 26 New GDPR accor­ding to Ger­man Law (Nego­tia­ti­on of an Employ­ment Rela­ti­onship), Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR (Gene­ral Con­tract Nego­tia­ti­ons) and – pro­vi­ded you have given us your con­sent – Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR. You may revo­ke any con­sent given at any time. Within our com­pa­ny, your per­so­nal data will only be shared with indi­vi­du­als who are invol­ved in the pro­ces­sing of your job application.

If your job appli­ca­ti­on should result in your recruit­ment, the data you have sub­mit­ted will be archi­ved on the grounds of § 26 New GDPR and Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR for the pur­po­se of imple­men­ting the employ­ment rela­ti­onship in our data pro­ces­sing system.

Data Archi­ving Period

If we should not be able to offer you a posi­ti­on, if you refu­se a job offer, retract your appli­ca­ti­on, revo­ke your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of your data or ask us to dele­te your data, we will store your trans­fer­red data, incl. any phy­si­cal­ly sub­mit­ted appli­ca­ti­on docu­ments for a maxi­mum of 6 months after the con­clu­si­on of the appli­ca­ti­on pro­cess (reten­ti­on peri­od) to enable us to track the details of the appli­ca­ti­on pro­cess in the event of dis­pa­ri­ties (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR).

YOU HAVE THE OPTION TO OBJECT TO THIS STORAGE/RETENTION OF YOUR DATA IF YOU HAVE LEGITIMATE INTERESTS TO DO SO THAT OUTWEIGH OUR INTERESTS.

Once the reten­ti­on peri­od has expi­red, the data will be dele­ted, unless we are sub­ject to any other sta­tu­to­ry reten­ti­on obli­ga­ti­ons or if any other legal grounds exist to con­ti­nue to store the data. If it should be fore­seeable that the reten­ti­on of your data will be neces­sa­ry after the reten­ti­on peri­od has expi­red (e.g. due to immi­nent or pen­ding liti­ga­ti­on), the data shall not be dele­ted until the data have beco­me irrele­vant. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­di­ce to any other sta­tu­to­ry reten­ti­on periods.