Privacy and Data Protection

1. Data Protection at a Glance

General

The following gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data refers to any data that can be used to identify you personally. Comprehensive information on the subject of data protection is given in the data protection notice below.

Data collection on this website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
Data collection on this website is conducted by the website provider, whose contact data can be found in this site’s Legal Notice.

How are your data collected?
On the one hand, data is collected on this website by your providing it, for example if you enter it into a contact form.
Other data are collected automatically by our IT systems any time you visit this website. Such data are primarily technical (e.g., internet browser, operating system, and time the site was accessed). Data collection occurs automatically when the website is accessed.

What are your data used for?
Some data are collected to ensure that the website can be rendered without errors. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior on the site.

What rights do you have concerning your data?
You have the right to receive, at any time and free of charge, information about the origin, recipient, and purpose of personal data collected about you. You further have the right to demand correction, blocking, or deletion of this personal data. To do so, and for answers to other questions on data security, you can contact us at the address listed in the Legal Notice. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

Analysis tools and third-party tools

When visiting our website, your surfing behavior can be analyzed statistically. This is done primarily using cookies or so-called analysis programs. This analysis is generally anonymous; the pattern of website use cannot be traced back to you. You can object to such analysis or prevent it by using specific tools. Detailed information can be found in the Data Protection Notice below.

You can object to this analysis. We will inform you about options for objection in this Data Protection Notice.

2. General and Mandatory Information

Data Protection

The site operators take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in compliance with legal data protection norms as well as this Data Protection Notice.

When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data are data that can be used to identify you personally. This Data Protection Notice clarifies which data are collected and for what they are used. It also explains how and to what purpose data collection occurs.

We call your attention to the fact that data transmission online (such as via email) is subject to security loopholes. Data can never be fully protected against access by third parties, and no such guarantee is made.

Responsible party for data collection

The party responsible for data collection and processing on this website is:

Peter Dahm Robertson
Translator M.A.
Deutzer Freiheit 116
50679 Cologne
Germany

Tel.: +49 (0)160 573 6024
Email: peter@dahmrobertson.de

The party responsible is the person or legal entity which, alone or in conjunction with others, decides how and for what purposes personal data (such as names, email adresses, etc.) are collected and processed.

Withdrawal of data processing consent

Many data processing activities require your express consent. If you have already consented, you may withdraw this consent at any time by way of a simple message to us by email. All data processing which has taken place prior to receipt of the notice of withdrawal remains legal and unaffected by the withdrawal.

Right of complaint to the competent supervisory authority

In cases of violations of data protection laws, victims have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority in questions of data protection and privacy is the Landesdatenschutzbeauftragter (Federal State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information) of the German Federal State in which the relevant company is based. A list of the Landesdatenschutzbeauftragten and their contact data, in German, can be accessed via the following link:https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to transferability of data

You have the right to receive, in a common machine-readable format, any data we process either with your consent or automatically in completion of a contract. Should you request the direct transfer of data to a different service or provider, this need only be complied with where technologically feasible.

SSL-/TLS encryption

For reasons of safety and to protect the transmission of confidential contents such as orders or quote requests sent to the website provider, this site uses SSL/TLS encryption. An encrypted connection can be recognized by the fact that your browser’s address bar shows “https://” (as well as a lock icon in some cases) rather than “http://”.

Active SSL/TLS encryption prevents third parties from accessing data you transmit to us.

Information, blocking, deletion

Within the framework of extant legal provisions, you have the right to receive, at any time and free of charge, information about the origin, recipient, and purpose of personal data collected about you, as well as, where applicable, the right to correction, blocking, or deletion of this personal data. To exercise these rights, and for answers to other questions on data security, you can contact us at the address listed in the Legal Notice.

Objection to advertising emails

We hereby expressly prohibit the use of Legal Notice contact data for sending advertising and information material unless specifically requested. The website providers expressly reserve the right to take legal action if targeted by spam emails or other unrequested advertising offers.

3. Data collection on this website

Cookies

Some of the web pages provided use so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your device and do not contain viruses, but are ways of making our website more user-friendly, effective, and safe. Cookies are small text files sent to your device and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies used are known as “session cookies.” These are deleted automatically after you leave the site. Other cookies remain on your device until deleted by you. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit the site.

You can configure your browser to inform you whenever a cookie is placed and to allow cookies only on a case-by-case basis, to block cookies in specific cases or in general, or to delete cookies automatically whenever the browser window is closed. If cookies are deactivated, the website functionality may suffer.

Cookies used to enable an electronic communication process or to fulfill specific functions requested by you (such as a shopping cart in an online store) are stored pursuant Article 6(1)f GDPR. The website provider has a legitimate interest in storing cookies to provide services optimally and free of technical errors. Any other cookies (such as cookies for analyzing your browsing behavior) are treated separately in this Data Protection Notice.

Server log files

The hosting provider automatically records and stores information sent by your browser to so-called server log files. This information includes:

Browser type and version
Operating system used
Referrer URL
Hostname of the accessing computer
Date and time of the server request
IP address

These data are not combined or cross-referenced with data from other sources.

Such data processing occurs pursuant Article 6(1)f GDPR, which permits processing data to fulfill a contract or precontractual conditions.

Contact form

If you send us a message using a contact form, we process and store the information you enter, including the contact data you list, in order to process your message and in case of subsequent questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

Data entered into the contact form is thus processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Article 6(1)a GDPR). You can withdraw this consent at any time by way of a simple message to us by email. All data processing which has taken place prior to receipt of the notice of withdrawal remains legal and unaffected by the withdrawal.

We store any data you enter into the contact form until you request its deletion, withdraw your consent to such storage, or the purpose of storing the data has been fulfilled (e.g., after dealing with the issue raised in your message). Mandatory legal periods, especially legally mandated storage periods, are not affected.

4. Plugins and Tools

Google Web Fonts

This website uses only locally hosted versions of fonts provided by Google. There is no transfer of user data to Google servers. Further technical information can be obtained from the website provider.