Privacy Policy

Data Controller within the meaning of data protection legislation, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Ralph Robroek

Your Data Subject Rights

Using the contact details provided for our Data Protection Officer, you may exercise the following rights at any time:

• Access to the data we store about you and information about its processing;
• Rectification of inaccurate personal data;
• Erasure of the data we store about you;
• Restriction of data processing, where we are not yet permitted to erase your data due to legal obligations;
• Objection to the processing of your data by us; and
• Data portability, where you have consented to the data processing or have entered into a contract with us.

If you have given us your consent, you may withdraw it at any time with effect for the future.

You may lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for you at any time. The supervisory authority responsible for you depends on the federal state of your place of residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement. A list of supervisory authorities for the non-public sector, including their addresses, can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Purposes of Data Processing by the Data Controller and Third Parties

We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those stated. We will disclose your personal data to third parties only if:

• you have given your explicit consent;
• processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you;
• processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation; or

processing is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in your data not being disclosed.

Erasure and Blocking of Data

We observe the principles of data avoidance and data minimisation. We therefore store your personal data only for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here or for as long as required by the various retention periods prescribed by law. Once the respective purpose no longer applies or these periods have expired, the corresponding data will be routinely blocked or erased in accordance with the statutory provisions.

Collection of General Information When Visiting Our Website

When you access our website, general information is automatically collected by means of a cookie. This information, known as server log files, includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider and similar information. This information does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your identity.

This information is technically necessary in order to correctly deliver the website content you have requested and is inevitably generated when using the internet. It is processed in particular for the following purposes:

• ensuring a smooth connection to the website;
• ensuring the smooth use of our website;
• evaluating system security and stability; and
• for other administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest arising from the purposes of data collection mentioned above. We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your identity. Recipients of the data are only the data controller and, where applicable, processors acting on our behalf.

Anonymous information of this kind may be evaluated statistically by us in order to optimise our website and the technology behind it.

SSL Encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use encryption methods that correspond to the current state of the art, such as SSL via HTTPS.

Newsletter

On the basis of your explicit consent, we will regularly send you our newsletter or comparable information by email to the email address you have provided.

Providing your email address is sufficient to receive the newsletter. When you register to receive our newsletter, the data you provide will be used exclusively for this purpose. Subscribers may also be informed by email about circumstances relevant to the service or registration, for example changes to the newsletter offering or technical matters.

For effective registration, we require a valid email address. In order to verify that a registration has actually been made by the owner of an email address, we use the double opt-in procedure. For this purpose, we record the newsletter subscription request, the sending of the confirmation email and the receipt of the response requested in that email. No further data is collected. The data is used exclusively for sending the newsletter and is not disclosed to third parties.

You may withdraw your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time. A corresponding unsubscribe link is included in every newsletter. You may also unsubscribe directly on this website at any time or inform us of your request using the contact option provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.

Contact Form

If you contact us by email or via the contact form with questions of any kind, you give us your voluntary consent for the purpose of contacting you. For this purpose, a valid email address is required. This is used to assign the enquiry and subsequently respond to it. Providing further data is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the enquiry and for any follow-up questions. Once your enquiry has been dealt with, personal data will be deleted automatically.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (hereinafter: Google). Google Analytics uses so-called cookies, which are text files stored on your computer and which enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is generally transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the United States. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on these websites, your IP address will first 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 transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and provide the website operator with further services relating to website use and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be combined with other Google data.

The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on activity on the website. Further related services may then be provided on the basis of the use of the website and the internet. Processing is based on the website operator's legitimate interest.

You may prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software. Please note, however, that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website in full. You may 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 downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

In addition to or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our pages by clicking this link. This will install an opt-out cookie on your device. This will prevent data from being collected by Google Analytics for this website and this browser in the future, for as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

Use of Script Libraries (Google Web Fonts)

In order to display our content correctly across browsers and in a visually appealing way, we use script libraries and font libraries on this website, such as Google Web Fonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts/). Google Web Fonts are transferred to your browser's cache to avoid repeated loading. If your browser does not support Google Web Fonts or prevents access to them, content will be displayed in a standard font.

Accessing script libraries or font libraries automatically establishes a connection to the operator of the library. In theory, it is possible — although currently unclear whether and, if so, for what purposes — that operators of such libraries may collect data.

Google's Privacy Policy can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Use of Google Maps

This website uses the Google Maps API to display geographical information visually. When Google Maps is used, Google also collects, processes and uses data about visitors' use of the map functions. Further information about data processing by Google can be found in Google's Privacy Policy. You can also change your personal privacy settings in the Privacy Centre.

Detailed instructions on managing your own data in connection with Google products can be found here.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or in order to implement changes to our services in the Privacy Policy, for example when introducing new services. The new Privacy Policy will then apply to your next visit.

Questions for the Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organisation directly:

Tina & Ralph Robroek