Privacy Police

Welcome to our website and thank you for your interest in our company. To ensure that you can feel confident that we are handling your personal data appropriately, we would like to explain to you what we do with the data we collect and which security measures we take to protect it. Personal data include all data that can be attributed to you personally, e.g. name, e-mail address or user behaviour. We will also provide you with information about your statutory rights in connection with the processing of this data.

1. DATA CONTROLLER AND DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

The data controller within the meaning of Article 13 GDPR is Nölle & Stoevesandt, Rechtsanwälte-Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB, Birkenstraße 37, 28195 Bremen, Germany, Telephone +49 (421) 3013-165, Fax +49 (421) 3013-166, e-mail: info@noelle-stoevesandt.de. Our data protection officer is HUBIT Datenschutz GmbH & Co. KG, Lise-Meitner-Str. 2, 28359 Bremen, Telephone: +49 (421) 331 143 00, e-mail address: info@hubit.de.

2. INFORMATION ABOUT THE COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

When you contact us via the contact form or by direct e-mail, the data you provide (e.g. surname, first name, company, e-mail address and content of the message) will be transmitted to us and stored by us. The data is processed exclusively for the purpose of answering your questions or processing your request. The legal basis for the processing of personal data is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in processing the data subject’s request from the contact for a specific purpose.

Contact is expressly made on a voluntary basis. Failure to provide this data has no effect on you.

We will only store your personal data for as long as is necessary for the intended purpose of data collection or as required by law.

In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data for specific purposes. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored.

3. COOKIES

Occasionally we use so-called cookies to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser, provided that the acceptance of cookies is activated in your browser. Cookies cannot be assigned to specific persons and do not contain any personal data. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain any viruses.

 4. YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to obtain information about the processing of your personal data and the information specified in Article 15 GDPR. If the personal data in question are incorrect or incomplete, you may request their correction or completion (Article 16 GDPR). If one of the reasons listed in Article 17 GDPR applies, you have the right to demand the immediate erasure of your personal data. You may also demand the restriction of processing in accordance with the conditions set forth in Article 18 GDPR and are also entitled to data portability pursuant to Article 20 GDPR.

In accordance with Article 21 GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.

If you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data violates the provisions of the GDPR, you may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, e.g. with the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in Bremerhaven (Article 77 GDPR).

5. SECURITY

We have taken appropriate technical and organisational measures (e.g. HTTPS encryption) in order to protect the personal data stored by us from accidental or deliberate manipulation, loss, destruction, or unauthorized access. The appropriateness of such protective measures is reviewed continuously in cooperation with security experts and they are adapted regularly to new security standards.

 6. STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF VISITS TO THIS WEBSITE

If you use the website for purely informational purposes, i.e. if you do not send us any information, we only collect the data that your browser sends to the web server (e.g. IP address, date and time of the request and the language and version of the browser software). Technical use of this data on the web server is limited in time for the duration of your use of the website. The processing is necessary to ensure the sustainable operation of our website.

Use of Google Analytics

We use the data collected to analyze the use of our website. The legal basis for the processing of personal data is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest). We can use the information obtained to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

Anonymisation of the IP address: On this website, Google Analytics has been extended by the code “gaTracker(‘set’, ‘anonymizeIp’, true)” in order to implement the anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

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

Switch off tracking.

Information from the third-party provider: Terms of use: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, overview of data protection: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html, and the privacy policy: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.