Privacy Policy

Responsible entity within the meaning of data protection laws is:

GitterGewitter UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

Im Löwental 60
45239 Essen
Germany

Authorized Managing Director: Christoph Seiler

 

Your rights as a data subject

Under the contact details provided for our data protection officer, you can exercise the following rights at any time:

• Information about your stored data with us and its processing,
• correction of incorrect personal data,
• deletion of your stored data with us,
• restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations,
• objection to the processing of your data with us, and
• data portability, provided you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us.

If you have given us consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

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

 

Purposes of data processing by the responsible entity and third parties

We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. Your personal data will not be transmitted to third parties for purposes other than those mentioned. We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

• You have given your express consent to do so,
• processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you,
• processing is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation,

Processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests and there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not disclosing your data.

 

Deletion or blocking of data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data minimization. Therefore, we only store your personal data for as long as necessary to achieve the purposes mentioned here or as required by the various storage periods provided by the legislator. After the respective purpose has ceased to apply or these periods have expired, the relevant data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with legal requirements.

 

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 (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 details. These are exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.

This information is technically necessary in order to correctly deliver the contents of websites requested by you and is mandatory when using the Internet. It is processed in particular for the following purposes:

• Ensuring a smooth connection setup of the website,
• ensuring smooth use of our website,
• evaluation of system security and stability, and
• for other administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest from the aforementioned purposes of data collection. We do not use your data to draw conclusions about you personally. The recipients of the data are only the responsible entity and, if applicable, contract processors.

Information of this kind is evaluated statistically by us if necessary, in order to optimize our website and the underlying technology.

 

Cookies

Like many other websites, we also use so-called "cookies." Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard drive. This automatically provides us with certain data such as IP address, browser used, operating system, and your connection to the Internet.

Cookies cannot be used to start programs or transmit viruses to a computer. Based on the information contained in cookies, we can facilitate navigation for you and ensure the correct display of our web pages.

Under no circumstances will the data we collect be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.

Of course, you can view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. You can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via the settings of your browser. Please use the help functions of your internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

 

SSL encryption

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

 

Comment function

When users leave comments on our website, not only are these details stored, but also the time of their creation and the user name previously chosen by the website visitor. This serves our security, as we can be held liable for illegal content on our website, even if it was created by users.

 

Embedded YouTube Videos

On some of our web pages, we embed YouTube videos. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube's servers is established. This informs YouTube about which pages you visit. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can associate your browsing behavior with you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

When a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies to collect information about user behavior.

Those who have disabled the storage of cookies for the Google Ad program will not have to expect such cookies when watching YouTube videos. However, YouTube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you want to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in your browser.

You can find further information on data protection at "YouTube" in the provider's privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

 

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to adjust this privacy policy to always comply with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, for example when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will apply to your next visit.

 

Questions for the Data Protection Officer

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

info@gittergewitter.de