Data privacy statement

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for the Legal Entity Identifier Register (LEIReg).

1. General

The

Bundesanzeiger Verlag GmbH
Amsterdamer Str. 192
50735 Köln

Tel.: +49 221 976680
Fax: +49 221 97668278
E-Mail: service(at)bundesanzeiger.de

operates this website for purposes of offering information and services.

We will process your personal data exclusively in accordance with the provisions of Data Privacy Legislation as amended. Please refer to a glossary under “Definitions” for data privacy terminology. The following provisions will inform you about the type, extent and purpose of collection, processing and use of personal data. This Data Privacy Statement applies exclusively to our Web pages. Should links on our Web pages take you to other Web pages, please refer to those pages for information on how your data will be handled there.

Your personal data will, wherever possible, be encrypted by digital security systems to protect them from damage, erasure or unauthorised access, using technical and organisational measures.

2. Collection and utilisation of personal data

We collect, process and store the personal data you are making available (for example: your name, address and phone number or e-mail address, also data needed for accounting) to the extent they are needed for processing of requests and orders (e.g. LEI applications, Challenge notifications or orders for newsletters) or for technical website administration or mandatory reasons. Article 6 (1) a), b), c), e) and f) GDPR provides the legal basis for processing such data.

To facilitate this task, your data may be exchanged with third parties involved in processing orders and invoices. In addition, we will not disclose your personal data to third parties unless we are obligated to do so due to mandatory regulations, this is necessary for collecting fees and charges, or you yourself stipulate this.

Your registered and accounting data (e.g. bank account details) are always encrypted before transfer to our systems. This protects communication between yourself and our web server and prevents abuse of data. We deploy SSL (Secure Socket Layer) for encryption, a recognised and widely used system on the Internet, as also used for instance by banks or online shops for business over the Internet and regarded as secure as amended.

3. Use of personal data

Your personal data will, to the extent required for justification, structuring of content or changes to a contractual or official user relationship (master data), be processed exclusively for such purposes. We reserve the right of recourse to authorised remedial action and legal grounds.

We may ask you for certain personal information should you contact us via e-mail, fax or by phone. We will ask only for data required for proper processing of your contact enquiry, including at least your surname and first name, your e-mail address and phone number. The legal basis pursuant to Article 6 (1) c), e) and f) GDPR will be a legitimate interest in processing. You may also in the course of your contact enquiry offer additional voluntary data. We will store the data and use them in responding to your contact enquiry. Voluntary provisioning of such data will signify your consent to their use as defined above. We will log your consent to the collection and use of data. The legal basis for data processing pursuant to Article 6 (1) a) GDPR includes consent by affected parties.

Your name and address must, for instance, be disclosed to accounting service providers for invoicing for chargeable services. Unless with your consent or mandatory, your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties not in a contractual or usage relationship.

We are permitted in specific cases and on request of authorised bodies to release master data for purposes of law enforcement, aversion of danger by police authorities of the states, execution of statutory tasks by Federal and State authorities for the protection of the constitution, Federal Information services, military counter-intelligence, or for assertion of intellectual property rights.

We will carefully examine any such requests using the means available to us and will not disclose your data unless our statutory obligation is abundantly clear. The legal basis of data processing pursuant to Article 6 (1) c) and e) GDPR would in such cases be compliance with our statutory obligations and pertinent special legislation.

4. Collection and processing of non-personal data

a. Browser data

Information that your Internet browser transmits to us will, for technical reasons and for reasons of maintaining and improving functionality, be automatically collected and stored here and we will transmit such data to third parties to the extent required. Our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) f) GDPR in processing such data would be operational reliability of the website.

These data comprise:

  • Browser type and version
  • Operating system
  • Website from where you arrived (referrer URL)
  • Website you are visiting
  • Date and time of access
  • Your Internet protocol data (IP address)
  • Transmitted data volumes
  • Access status (files transferred, file not found etc.)

b. Anonymised usage profiles

Unless otherwise indicated here, you will not be required to furnish personal data when using our website. Information will be stored in a log file when a user accesses the abovementioned websites or retrieves a file. We use such information to ensure technical functionality of your visit to our website. We will also use such information for statistical purposes towards improvement of our website design and layout. These data will not be used with reference to a person. Pursuant to Article 6 (1) f) GDPR, our legitimate interest for processing lies in the reliability and functionality of the website.

The following dataset will be stored on each retrieval specifically:

  • Name of the retrieved file
  • Date and time of retrieval
  • Transmitted data volume
  • Message whether retrieval was successful
  • Description of the type of Web browser used
  • Requesting domain
  • Country of domain origin

c. Creating a user profile (registration)

You may register on our website and create a user profile. Following your registration on our website we will collect and use the data your Internet browser transmits automatically together with the data below. Depending on processing requirement, this data is identified as mandatory or optional:

  • Date and time of registration
  • Your first name and surname / company name
  • Date of birth
  • Your e-mail address
  • Your phone number

The legal basis of data processing pursuant to Article 6 (1) a) and e) GDPR is the consent of the affected parties.

5. Use of Cookies and analysis tools

a. Cookies

We use Cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files our Web server sends to your computer to store certain information (e.g. attributes for identification).

If javascript is deactivated only the JSESSIONID cookie will be set and used.

If you use our website anonymously, Cookies will be used for statistical analysis of usage, including recording of new and recurring visits. We also use Cookies to assess the extent to which free content is used. To determine this figure our website will send a Unit ID to your browser. This is an anonymous code used exclusively to establish the free content that has been used already.

When you visit our website under your user profile, Cookies will be used to identify your browser for the duration of your visit, including the various Web pages you visited.

Our website can also be used without storing Cookies. You can block the storage of Cookies in your browser settings or tell your browser to inform you when a Web page intends to store Cookies. You will then decide to accept or reject Cookie storage. For our website to remain fully functional it is necessary for technical reasons, however, that storage of temporary Cookies will not be blocked. Even when Cookies are deactivated, our website will send the described Unit ID to your browser to determine the usage of free content. The legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) f) GDPR is the legal basis here.

Refer to the Help pages in your Internet browser for further information on blocking of Cookies. For example, look under windows.microsoft.com for Windows Internet Explorer and under support.mozilla.com for Firefox.

Technisch notwendige Cookies:

Publisher
Bundesanzeiger Verlags GmbH

Description
This is a technically necessary cookie.

Lifetime
1 day

What data is collected
None

Purpose of data collection
Administration of user-sessions

Legal basis
Art. 6 | 1 DSGVO.

Location of processing
Cologne

Publisher
Bundesanzeiger Verlags GmbH

Description
This is a technically necessary cookie.

Lifetime
Session

What data is collected
None

Purpose of data collection
Administration of user-sessions

Legal basis
Art. 6 | 1 DSGVO.

Location of processing
Cologne

Publisher
Bundesanzeiger Verlags GmbH

Description
This is a technically necessary cookie.

Lifetime
1 to 90 days

What data is collected
This is a technically necessary cookie.

Purpose of data collection
The cookie Consent settings are stored in this cookie.

Legal basis
Art. 6 | 1 DSGVO.

Location of processing
Cologne

b. Matomo

Matomo, an Open Source Web Analysis tool (https://matomo.org), will on this website collect and store data for optimisation purposes. These data may be used to create user profiles under pseudonyms. Cookies may be used here. Cookies are small text files stored locally in the website visitor’s Internet browser buffer. Cookies will allow recognition of the returning Internet browser. The data collected by Matomo will not be used to personally identify visitors to this website unless with the consent of the affected party and will also not be linked to personal data via the owner of the pseudonym.

You may decide here whether a unique Web analysis Cookie may be stored in your browser, allowing the website operator to capture and analyse various statistical data. Should you decide against this, click the following link to store the Matomo deactivation Cookie in your browser.

Statistik-Cookies:

Publisher
Bundesanzeiger Verlags GmbH

Description
This is a necessary cookie for the operation of matomo.

Lifetime
13 months

What data is collected
visitorID.cookieCreationTimestamp
visitsCount.currentVisitTimestamp
lastVisitTimestamp.lastEcommerceOrderTimestamp

Purpose of data collection
Is used to store details about the user, such as the unique visitor ID.

Legal basis
Art. 6 | 1 DSGVO.

Location of processing
Cologne

Publisher
Bundesanzeiger Verlags GmbH

Description
This is a necessary cookie for the operation of matomo.

Lifetime
6 months

What data is collected
Referer URL

Purpose of data collection
Is used to store the attribution information, the referrer that was originally used to visit the website.

Legal basis
Art. 6 | 1 DSGVO.

Location of processing
Cologne

Publisher
Bundesanzeiger Verlags GmbH

Description
This is a necessary cookie for the operation of matomo.

Lifetime
30 minutes

What data is collected
Matomo sessionId, if not set on visit, then visitCount in _pk_id is increased

Purpose of data collection
Used to temporarily store the user's data while visiting the site.

Legal basis
Art. 6 | 1 DSGVO.

Location of processing
Cologne

Publisher
Bundesanzeiger Verlags GmbH

Description
This is a necessary cookie for the operation of matomo.

Lifetime
30 minutes

What data is collected
Page-specific variable keys and values

Purpose of data collection
Used to temporarily store the user's data while visiting the site.

Legal basis
Art. 6 | 1 DSGVO.

Location of processing
Cologne

Publisher
Bundesanzeiger Verlags GmbH

Description
This is a necessary cookie for the operation of matomo.

Lifetime
30 minutes

What data is collected
Matomo Heatmap session recording data

Purpose of data collection
Used to temporarily store the user's data while visiting the site.

Legal basis
Art. 6 | 1 DSGVO.

Location of processing
Cologne

Publisher
Bundesanzeiger Verlags GmbH

Description
This is a necessary cookie for the operation of matomo.

Lifetime
briefly (< 1 second)

What data is collected
Testdata

Purpose of data collection
Is created an deleted directly to test if the user's browser supports cookies.

Legal basis
Art. 6 | 1 DSGVO.

Location of processing
Cologne

This website uses the Matomo Tag Manager. The Matomo Tag Manager is a solution that allows marketers to manage website tags via an interface. Only tracking tags are implemented via the tag manager itself. Neither cookies are set nor personal data is collected. The tool triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data, but Matomo Tag Manager does not access this data.

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c. Google Ads & Google Ads conversion tracking

We use Google Ads to advertise our products, offers and services online with a view to making more people aware of the high-quality products and services we offer online. In the scope of our advertising activities using Google Ads, we use the conversion tracking tool from Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google") on our website. Conversion tracking helps us tailor our products and services to your interests and needs far better. Below we provide further details about why we use conversion tracking, what data is stored in the process and how you can stop this data storage. The legal basis for using Google Ads conversion tracking is Article 6 (1) a (consent).

What is Google Ads?

The in-house Google Ads platform makes it possible to create online ads to inform interested people about our products and services.

What is a conversion?

A conversion occurs when website visitors become active visitors. This happens whenever you click on our ad and then perform another action, such as visiting our website. Google's conversion tracking tool allows us to record what happens after a user clicks on our Google Ads advertisement. For instance, we can see whether products are purchased, services are used or whether visitors have signed up for our newsletter.

Why have we opted to use Google Ads conversion tracking?

We use Google Ads to publicize our products and services on other websites as well, with the aim of ensuring that our advertising campaigns only target those people who are interested in our products and services. The conversion tracking tool allows us to see which keywords, ads, ad groups and campaigns generate the desired customer actions. We see how many customers interact with our ads on a device or in a browser and then make a conversion. This data allows us to calculate our cost-benefit factor, measure the success of individual advertising activities and subsequently optimize our online marketing activities and make our website more attractive.

What data is stored during Google Ads conversion tracking?

We have incorporated a conversion tracking tag into our website to better analyze certain visitor actions. If you then click on one of our Google Ads advertisements, the "conversion" cookie is stored on your computer (usually in the browser) or mobile device by a Google domain. Cookies are small text files that store information on your computer. The following cookie is set during conversion tracking:

Name: conversion

Value: EhMI_aySuoyv4gIVled3Ch0llweVGAEgt-mr6aXd7dYlSAGQ331656656213-3

Purpose: This cookie stores every conversion you make on our site after visiting us via a Google Ad.

Expiry date: after 3 months

As soon as you complete an action on our website, Google recognizes the cookie and saves your action as what is known as a conversion. If you surf our website whilst the cookie is still active, we and Google recognize that you found us via our Google Ads advertisement. The cookie is read and sent back to Google Ads with the conversion data.

For more information on how Google uses conversion data and Google's privacy policy see: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/93148?ctx=tltp

http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

Google Analytics 4

If you have given your consent, this website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC. The controller for users in the EU/EEA and Switzerland is Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google").

Nature and purpose of the processing

Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of our websites. The information collected by means of the cookies about your use of this website is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

In Google Analytics 4, the anonymization of IP addresses is activated by default. Due to IP anonymization, your IP address will be truncated by Google within Member States of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. According to Google, the IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

During your website visit, your user behavior is recorded in the form of "events". Events can be:

  • Page views
  • First visit to the website
  • Start of session
  • Web pages visited
  • Your "click path", interaction with the website
  • Scrolls (whenever a user scrolls to the end of the page (90%))
  • Clicks on external links
  • internal search queries
  • Interaction with videos
  • file downloads
  • seen / clicked ads
  • language settings

Also recorded:

  • Your approximate location (region)
  • date and time of your visit
  • Your IP address (in shortened form)
  • technical information about your browser and the terminal devices you use (e.g. language setting, screen resolution)
  • your internet service provider
  • the referrer URL (via which website/ via which advertising medium you came to this website)

Purposes of the processing

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity. The reports provided by Google Analytics are used to analyze the performance of our website and the success of our marketing campaigns].

Recipients

Recipients of the data are/may be

- Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (as processor according to Art. 28 DSGVO).

  • Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
  • Alphabet Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

Third country transfer

For the USA, the European Commission adopted its adequacy decision on July 10, 2023. Google LLC is certified under the EU-US Privacy Framework. Since Google servers are distributed worldwide and a transfer to third countries (for example, Singapore) cannot be completely ruled out, we have also concluded the EU standard contractual clauses with the provider.

Storage period

The data sent by us and linked to cookies are automatically deleted after 14 months. The maximum lifespan of Google Analytics cookies is 2 years. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached takes place automatically once a month.

Legal basis

The legal basis for this data processing is your consent pursuant to Art.6 para.1 p.1 lit.a DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 p.1 TTDSG.

Revocation

You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by calling up the cookie settings for our products at the bottom left of the screen and changing your selection there. The legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation remains unaffected.

You can also prevent the storage of cookies from the outset by setting your browser software accordingly. However, if you configure your browser to reject all cookies, this may result in a restriction of functionalities on this and other websites. In addition, you can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google, by

  1. Not giving your consent to the setting of the cookie or
  2. downloading and installing the browser add-on to disable Google Analytics HERE.

For more information on Google Analytics' terms of use and Google's privacy policy, please visit https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/de/  and https://policies.google.com/?hl=de .

d. Microsoft Ads

Microsoft Ads is an online advertising service provided by Microsoft that enables advertisers to deliver their ads on Microsoft sites and services such as Bing, MSN, Outlook.com, and others. Microsoft Ads uses various technologies and data collection methods to display and optimize personalized ads. This privacy statement explains what personal data is collected in connection with the use of Microsoft Ads and how Microsoft uses that data.

  1. responsible party

The data controller for Microsoft Ads within the meaning of data protection law is Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA. If you have any questions about Microsoft's privacy practices, you can contact Microsoft's Privacy Officer at: Microsoft Privacy, Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA.

  1. What data is collected?

Microsoft Ads collects several types of data to deliver and optimize personalized ads:

- Device and Usage Data: Microsoft Ads collects information about the device you use to access Microsoft services, such as device type, IP address, browser type and version, device settings and configurations, and usage data, such as pages visited and search queries.

- Location Data: If you allow access to location services, Microsoft Ads collects your location to display ads that are relevant to your location.

- Demographic Data: Microsoft Ads may collect information about your age, gender, and other demographic data to provide personalized ads.

- Interest-Based Data: Microsoft Ads may collect data about what ads you have clicked on, what searches you have performed, and what pages you have visited in order to understand your interest in certain topics and deliver personalized ads.

- Cookies and similar technologies: Microsoft Ads uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and store information about your activities on Microsoft services. For more information, please see Microsoft's Cookie Policy.

  1. How is the data used?

Microsoft Ads uses the data it collects to deliver and optimize personalized ads. In doing so, the data may also be linked to other Microsoft services and products, such as Microsoft Advertising, Microsoft Analytics, and Microsoft Dynamics 365. Microsoft Ads also uses the data for analytics purposes to measure and improve the effectiveness of ads and to generate reports.

  1. How is the data shared?

Microsoft may share personal data within Microsoft Ads with third parties to deliver and optimize personalized ads. These third parties may include advertising networks, marketers

 

We have chosen to use Microsoft Ads conversion tracking to target our ads to potential customers on other websites. Using the conversion tracking tool, we can see which keywords, ads, ad groups, and campaigns lead to desired customer actions. We can measure how many customers interact with our ads on a device or in a browser and subsequently make a conversion. Based on this data, we can evaluate the success of individual advertising efforts and optimize our online marketing efforts as well as make our website more appealing to achieve a higher return on investment (ROI).

We have included a conversion tracking tag on our website to better analyze specific visitor actions. Now, when you click on one of our Bing ads, a UET tag from a Bing domain is stored on your computer or mobile device. UET tags are small snippets of code that store information on your computer or mobile device.

Once you complete an action on our website, Bing recognizes the UET tag and saves your action as a so-called conversion. As long as you are browsing our website and the UET tag has not expired, we and Bing recognize that you found us through our Bing ad. The UET tag is read and sent back to Bing Ads with the conversion data.

For more information about how Microsoft Ads uses conversion data and Microsoft's privacy policy, please visit: https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/privacy-and-data-protection-policies

 

e. Mouseflow

This website uses Mouseflow, a web analysis tool from Mouseflow ApS, Flaesketorvet 68, 1711 Copenhagen, Denmark, to record randomly selected individual visits (only with anonymous IP address). For this purpose, data is collected and stored for optimization purposes.

These data are:

Clicks, mouse movements, hovering, scrolling
Browser
Device (Desktop/Tablet/Mobile)
Language
Operating system
Screen resolution
Visit duration
Navigation (URLs)
Page content (HTML)
ISP & Location (City, State/Region, Country)
Type of visitor (first visitor/returnee)
Individual tags or variables
This creates a log of mouse movements and clicks with the intention of randomly replaying individual website visits and deriving potential improvements for the website.

Furthermore, feedback campaigns are played out via mouseflow, which are intended to record the satisfaction with the website or certain specific contents. The play of such feedback campaigns and participation are also recorded in the cookie.

The data collected with Mouseflow will not be used to personally identify the visitor of this website and will not be merged with personal data about the bearer of the pseudonym without the separately given consent of the person concerned. The processing is based on your consent in accordance with Article 6 paragraph (1) a) GDPR. You have the right to revoke your consent at any time.

If you do not wish a recording, you can deactivate it on all websites that use mouseflow by clicking on the following link: www.mouseflow.de/opt-out/. Alternatively, you can revoke the cookie settings on this page.


The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for the purpose of their collection and no legal retention periods exist. Deletion usually takes place after 12 months.

In detail, the following cookies are used:

Cookie Name: Mf_[website-id]
Purpose: 1st party cookie,
identifies the current session on the website
Lifetime: Duration of the session

Cookie Name: Mf_user
Purpose: 1st party cookie,
checks whether a new or returning user is entering the site
Lifetime: persistent

6. YouTube

We have incorporated YouTube videos into our website, which are stored on https://www.YouTube.com and can be played directly from our website. These are all incorporated in “extended data protection mode”, i.e. no data about you as a user is transmitted to YouTube if you do not play the videos. Only when you play the videos is the data cited in paragraph 2 transmitted. We have no influence over this data transmission.

When you visit the website, YouTube is informed that you have accessed the relevant subpage of our website. In addition to this, the data listed in the passage "Collection and processing of non-personal data" is transmitted. This happens regardless of whether you have a YouTube account via which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged into Google, your data will be directly linked to your account. If you do not wish to have your data associated with your YouTube profile, you need to log out before activating the button. YouTube stores your data as use profiles and uses these for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its website. Analysis of this kind is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide demand-oriented advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, though you will need to contact YouTube to exercise this right.

For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by YouTube, please refer to its privacy policy. This also provides further information on your rights and setting options to protect your privacy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the US using Standard Contractual Clauses as the legal basis. https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

7. Your rights / contact details / objection

Objection and revocation

You may object to the use of your data without prior consent at any time, with future effect.

We point out that you may also at any time revoke (even partially) any consent you may have given, with future effect. In this case, send an e-mail to

Data Privacy Officer, Bundesanzeiger Verlag GmbH, Amsterdamer Straße 192, 50735 Cologne, Tel.: +49 221 976680, dsb(at)bundesanzeiger.de

You also have the following rights:

  • Article 13, 14 EU-GDPR – Right to information
  • Article 15 EU GDPR – Right of access: We shall gladly on request inform you about your stored personal data. The information will be in text form. Contact – see below.
  • Article 16 EU GDPR – Right to rectification
  • Article 17 EU GDPR – Right to erasure, with restrictions, especially Art. 17 (3) b)
  • Article 18 EU GDPR – Right to restriction of processing
  • Article 19 EU GDPR – Notification
  • Article 20 EU GDPR – Right to data portability
  • Article 21 EU GDPR – Objection
  • Article 22 EU GDPR – Automated individual decision-making, including profiling
  • Article 23 EU GDPR – Restrictions
  • Article 77 EU GDPR – Right to lodge a complaint

The registration authority processes personal and other data on this website to meet its statutory obligations, to perform its official responsibilities and to exercise its public authority. Legislature has furthermore promulgated various obligations and periods of retention e.g. § 147 Abgabenordnung. Erasure of data will be subject exclusively to these statutory provisions.

Note:

We endeavour to take technical and organisational steps allowing us to store your personal data in a way to render them inaccessible to third parties. Since we cannot guarantee full data security during communication by e-mail, we recommend mailing confidential information by post.

8. Scope

This Data Privacy Statement is applicable to the domain www.leireg.de and all subdomains.

9. Amendments and currentness of this Data Privacy Statement

Amendments to the Data Privacy Statement will be published on this website and will apply from the date of publication. The intended use of these data will not change unless by consent.

This Data Privacy Statement is dated 03 November 2022 and currently valid.

10. Definition / Glossary

“Anonymisation” means that personal data will be changed such that personal or material details cannot be assigned to a specific or determinable natural person unless with unreasonably high cost of time, effort and labour.

“Personal data” comprise all information referring to a specific or determinable natural person (“affected person”); a determinable person is a person who can be directly or indirectly identified, especially by linking to identifiers such as name, identification number and other special characteristics describing physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

A “Responsible body” is any person or entity collecting, processing or using personal data for own purposes or commissions others to do so.

“Special types of personal data” is defined as data on racial and ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical convictions, trade union memberships, health or sex life.

“Consent by the affected person” constitutes any clear statement of the person’s wish, given without coercion, relating to a particular case and cognizant of the situation, by way of a statement or other clear action, whereby the affected person demonstrates that he/she agrees to processing of the specific personal data.

A “Recipient” is any person or entity receiving data. A “Third party” is any person or entity external to the responsible body. The affected persons or entities or persons and entities commissioned to collect, process or utilise personal data inland, in another member state of the European Union or in another member country under the Treaty of the European Economic Area are not deemed third parties.

“Collection” is defined as the acquisition of data about the affected person or entity.

A “third party” is a natural or legal person, public authority, institution or body other than the affected person, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process personal data;

“Pseudonymization” is defined as the substitution of the name and other identifying features with a code designed to exclude or considerably complicate identification of the entity concerned.

“Company” is every natural person and legal entity performing a commercial activity, irrespective of its legal form, including private companies or associations carrying out regular commercial activities.

“Group of companies” is a group comprising a controlling company and its dependent companies.

“Processing” is defined as storing, changing, transmitting, blocking and deleting personal data. The following definitions also apply, irrespective of the processes used:

  1. Storage – the acquisition, recording or storing of personal data on data carriers for purposes of further processing or use,
  2. Changing – the editing of stored personal data,
  3. Transmission – the disclosure to third parties of stored personal data or personal data obtained through data processing, in a manner to allow
    a) passing on the data to a third party or
    b) third parties to view or retrieve the data
  4. Blocking – marking stored personal data to restrict their further processing or utilisation,
  5. Deletion – rendering stored personal data not recognisable.

11. Amicable online dispute resolution

The European Commission provides a platform for amicable online dispute resolution (OS platform) at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/. We point out that we do not participate in dispute resolution before a consumer dispute resolution authority.

12. Newsletter

We offer you the possibility to subscribe to our newsletter on our online offer. You can order a newsletter by registering online with your e-mail address to receive the newsletter. You will then receive a confirmation email with a link. From then on, we will send you the newsletter to the registered e-mail address.

When you register for a newsletter in our online offer, we always record your title, first and last name as well as your e-mail address, IP address and a time stamp. We need this information to prove that you have consented to receive the newsletter. If you subscribe to the newsletter, we store this information for as long as you receive our newsletter and beyond that for as long as we need to prove the consent you have given, i.e. until any claims become time-barred.

For the technical delivery of the newsletter, we use our service provider Mailingwork GmbH (Birkenweg 7, 09569 Oederan, Germany). Through our service provider, we only record the reach and determine, among other things, which links were clicked on particularly often. Furthermore, our service provider also enables us to subdivide ("cluster") the newsletter recipients according to various categories. The newsletter recipients can be subdivided by region (city) or device, for example. In this way, we can better adapt our newsletters to target groups. Our service provider helps us with the technical implementation of the newsletter dispatch.

The legal basis for our data processing when sending newsletters is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 a DSGVO). For the other data, the IP address and the time stamp, the basis for permission lies in our legitimate interest according to Art. 6 Para. 1 f DSGVO, to be able to prove that you have consented to receive the newsletter.

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time and revoke your consent to receive it by simply clicking on the corresponding link at the end of the respective newsletter. We will block your personal data immediately upon your revocation and only use it for legitimate verification interests as long as there is a basis for permission to do so, for example to be able to prove that you had consented to receiving the newsletter until the expiry of limitation periods.