Data Protection

Disclaimer – legal information

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§ 2 External links
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§ 4 Special conditions of use
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Data protection

We will inform you below in accordance with the legal requirements of data protection law (in particular BDSG nF and the European General Data Protection Regulation 'GDPR') about the type, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data by our company. This privacy policy also applies to our websites and social media profiles. Regarding the definition of terms such as “personal data” or “processing”, we refer to Art. 4 GDPR.

Name and contact details of the person responsible
Our person responsible (hereinafter “person responsible”) within the meaning of Art. 4 para. 7 GDPR is:

Sabine Koop
Rhinower Straße 10
10437 Berlin
Email address: hello@sabinekoop.com

Types of data, purposes of processing and categories of data subjects

Below we will inform you about the type, scope and purpose of the collection, processing and use of personal data.

1. Types of data that we process
Usage data (access times, websites visited, etc.), inventory data (name, address, etc.), contact data (telephone number, email, fax, etc.), content data (text entries, videos, photos, etc.). ), communication data (IP address, etc.),

2. Purposes of processing according to Art. 13 Para. 1 c) GDPR
Optimize the website technically and economically, optimization and statistical evaluation of our services, improve user experience, marketing / sales / advertising, Creation of statistics, customer service and customer care, processing contact requests,

3. Categories of data subjects according to Art. 13 Para. 1 e) GDPR
visitors/users of the website, interested parties,

The affected persons are collectively referred to as “users”.

Legal basis for processing personal data

Below we inform you about the legal basis for processing personal data:

If we have obtained your consent for the processing of personal data, Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter a) GDPR is the legal basis.

If the processing is necessary to fulfill a contract or to carry out pre-contractual measures at your request, Art. 6 Para. 1 Sentence 1 Letter b) GDPR is the legal basis.

If processing is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation to which we are subject (e.g. statutory retention obligations), Art. 6 Para. 1 Sentence 1 Letter c) GDPR is the legal basis.

If the processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person, Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter d) GDPR is the legal basis.

If the processing is necessary to protect our or a third party's legitimate interests and your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms do not outweigh this, Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f) GDPR is the legal basis.

Transfer of personal data to third parties and processors

As a general rule, we do not pass on any data to third parties without your consent. If this is the case, then the transfer takes place on the basis of the aforementioned legal bases, for example when transferring data to online payment providers to fulfill the contract or due to a court order or due to a legal obligation to release the data for the purpose of criminal prosecution or to avert danger or to enforce intellectual property rights.
We also use contract processors (external service providers, e.g. for web hosting of our websites and databases) to process your data. If data is passed on to the processor as part of an order processing agreement, this is always done in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. We carefully select our processors, check them regularly and have been granted the right to issue instructions regarding the data. In addition, the processors must have taken appropriate technical and organizational measures and comply with the data protection regulations in accordance with the new version of the BDSG and the GDPR.

Data transfer to third countries

The adoption of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) created a uniform basis for data protection in Europe. Your data will therefore primarily be processed by companies to which GDPR applies. If the processing takes place by third-party services outside the European Union or the European Economic Area, they must meet the special requirements of Art. 44 ff. GDPR. This means that the processing takes place on the basis of special guarantees, such as the determination of a data protection level that corresponds to the EU officially recognized by the EU Commission or compliance with officially recognized special contractual obligations, the so-called “standard contractual clauses”. For US companies, submission to the so-called “Privacy Shield”, the data protection agreement between the EU and the USA, meets these requirements.

Deletion of data and storage period

Unless expressly stated in this data protection declaration, your personal data will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose for storage no longer applies, unless further storage is necessary for evidentiary purposes or this conflicts with statutory retention obligations. This includes, for example, commercial law retention obligations for business letters in accordance with Section 257 Paragraph 1 of the German Commercial Code (6 years) and tax law retention obligations for receipts in accordance with Section 147 Paragraph 1 AO (10 years). When the prescribed retention period expires, your data will be blocked or deleted, unless storage is still necessary to conclude a contract or to fulfill the contract.

Existence of automated decision making

We do not use automatic decision-making or profiling.

Provision of our website and creation of log files

If you only use our website for information purposes (i.e. no registration or any other transmission of information), we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you choose to view our website, we collect the following information:

• IP address;
• User's Internet service provider;
• Date and time of retrieval;
• Browser type;
• Language and browser version;
• Content of the retrieval;
• time zone;
• Access status/HTTP status code;
• Amount of data;
• Websites from which the request comes;
• Operating system.

This data will not be stored together with your other personal data.

This data serves the purpose of delivering our website to you in a user-friendly, functional and secure manner with functions and content as well as its optimization and statistical evaluation.

The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest in data processing in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Sentence 1 Letter f) GDPR, which also lies in the above purposes.

For security reasons, we store this data in server log files for a storage period of days. After this period has expired, they will be automatically deleted unless we need them to be retained for evidence purposes in the event of attacks on the server infrastructure or other legal violations.

We use so-called cookies when you visit our website. Cookies are small text files that your Internet browser places and saves on your computer. When you visit our website again, these cookies provide information to automatically recognize you. The information obtained in this way serves the purpose of technically and economically optimizing our web offerings and enabling you to access our website more easily and securely. When you access our website, we will inform you by referring to our data protection declaration about the use of cookies for the aforementioned purposes and how you can object to them or prevent them from being stored (“opt-out”). Our website uses session cookies, persistent cookies and third-party cookies:

• Session cookies: We use so-called cookies to recognize multiple uses of an offer by the same user (e.g. if you have logged in to determine your login status). When you visit our site again, these cookies provide information to automatically recognize you. The information obtained in this way is used to optimize our offers and to give you easier access to our site. When you close the browser or log out, the session cookies are deleted.

• Persistent cookies: These are automatically deleted after a specified period of time, which may differ depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in your browser's security settings.

• Third-party cookies: According to your wishes, you can configure your browser settings and e.g. B. Decline to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. However, we would like to point out that you may then not be able to use all of the functions of this website. Read more about these cookies in the respective data protection declarations of the third-party providers.

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence b) GDPR, if the cookies are set to initiate a contract, for example when placing orders, and otherwise we have a legitimate interest in the effective functionality of the website, so that in this case Art 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f) GDPR is the legal basis.

Objection and “opt-out”: You can generally prevent cookies from being stored on your hard drive by selecting “do not accept cookies” in your browser settings. However, this can result in a functional restriction of our offers. You can opt out of the use of third-party cookies for advertising purposes via a so-called “opt-out” via this American website ( https://optout.aboutads.info ) or this European website ( http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de /preference management/ ).

When you contact us via post or email, your details will be processed for the purpose of processing the contact request.

The legal basis for processing the data, if you have given your consent, is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter a) GDPR. The legal basis for the processing of data transmitted in the course of an email or letter is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f) GDPR. The person responsible has a legitimate interest in processing and storing the data in order to be able to answer user inquiries, to preserve evidence for liability reasons and, if necessary, to be able to fulfill his legal retention obligations for business letters. If the contact is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter b) GDPR.

We may store your information and contact request in our Customer Relationship Management System (“CRM System”) or a comparable system.

The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. For the personal data from the input mask of the contact form and those that were sent by email, this is the case when the respective conversation with you has ended. The conversation ends when it can be seen from the circumstances that the matter in question has been finally clarified. We store inquiries from users who have an account or contract with us for a period of two years after termination of the contract. In the case of legal archiving obligations, deletion takes place after their expiry: end of the commercial law (6 years) and tax law (10 years) retention obligation.

You have the option at any time to revoke your consent to the processing of personal data in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter a) GDPR. If you contact us by email, you can object to the storage of your personal data at any time.

Social media presence

We maintain profiles or fan pages on social media in order to communicate with the users connected and registered there and to provide information about our products, offers and services. The US providers are certified according to the so-called Privacy Shield and are therefore obliged to comply with European data protection. When you use and access our profile in the respective network, the respective data protection information and terms of use of the respective network apply.

We process the data that you send to us via these networks in order to communicate with you and to respond to your messages there.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data is our legitimate interest in communicating with users and our external representation for advertising purposes in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f) GDPR. If you have given the person responsible for the social network your consent to the processing of your personal data, the legal basis is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter a) and Article 7 GDPR.

The data protection information, information options and objection options (opt-out) of the respective networks can be found here:

• XING (XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany) - Data protection declaration/opt-out: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung .

• LinkedIn (LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland) – Privacy Policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy , Cookie Policy and Opt-Out: https://www.linkedin .com/legal/cookie-policy , Privacy Shield of the US company LinkedIn Inc.: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L0UZAA0&status=Active .

Rights of the data subject

Objection or revocation against the processing of your data

If the processing is based on your consent in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter a), Article 7 GDPR, you have the right to revoke your consent at any time. This does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out based on consent until its revocation.

If we base the processing of your personal data on the balancing of interests in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f) GDPR, you can object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary to fulfill a contract with you, which is explained by us in the following description of the functions. If you exercise such an objection, we will ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we do. In the event of your justified objection, we will examine the situation and will either stop or adjust data processing or show you our compelling legitimate reasons on the basis of which we continue processing.

You can object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes at any time. You can exercise your right to object free of charge. You can inform us about your objection to advertising using the following contact details:

Sabine Koop

Rhinower Straße 10

10437 Berlin

Email address: hello@sabinekoop.com

Right to information

You have the right to request confirmation from us as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed. If this is the case, you have the right to information about your personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR. This includes, in particular, information about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the origin of your data, if it was not collected directly from you.

Right to correction
You have the right to correct incorrect data or to complete correct data in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR.

Right to deletion
You have the right to delete your data stored by us in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, unless statutory or contractual retention periods or other legal obligations or rights to further storage conflict with this.

Right to restriction
You have the right to request a restriction in the processing of your personal data if one of the requirements in Article 18 Paragraph 1 Letters a) to d) GDPR is met:
• If you verify the accuracy of the data dispute the personal data concerned for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data;

• the processing is unlawful and you refuse the deletion of the personal data and instead request the restriction of the use of the personal data;

• the person responsible no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of processing, but you need them to assert, exercise or defend legal claims, or

• if you have objected to the processing in accordance with Article 21 Para. 1 GDPR and still It is not clear whether the legitimate reasons of the person responsible outweigh your reasons.

Right to data portability

You have a right to data portability in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, which means that you can receive the personal data we store about you in a structured, common and machine-readable format or can request that it be transmitted to another person responsible.

Right to complain
You have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority in particular in the Member State of your place of residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged violation.

Data security

In order to protect all personal data transmitted to us and to ensure that data protection regulations are complied with by us and our external service providers, we have taken appropriate technical and organizational security measures. That's why, among other things, all data between your browser and our server is transmitted encrypted via a secure SSL connection.

As of: 30.05.24