Data Protection Declaration Datenschutzerklärung

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data that can be used to personally identify you. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy listed below.

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. Contact details can be found in the section "Information on the Responsible Party" in this privacy policy.

How do we collect your data?
Your data is collected on the one hand by you providing it to us — for example, data you enter into a contact form. Other data is collected automatically or with your consent when you visit the website by our IT systems. This is primarily technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system, or time of page access).

What do we use your data for?
Part of the data is collected to ensure error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour. If contracts can be concluded or initiated via the website, the transmitted data will also be processed for contract offers, orders or other contract enquiries.

What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data free of charge at any time. You also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data. You can revoke your consent to data processing at any time. You also have the right, under certain circumstances, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

This website is hosted externally. The personal data collected on this website is stored on the servers of the hosting provider. This may include IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website accesses and other data generated via a website.

External hosting is carried out for the purpose of fulfilling contracts with our potential and existing users and in the interest of a secure, fast and efficient provision of our online offering by a professional provider (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b and f GDPR).

Our hosting provider will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil its service obligations and follow our instructions regarding this data.

We use the following hosting provider:

Vercel is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, providing an adequate level of data protection for transfers of personal data from the EU to the USA.

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) may have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

The party responsible for data processing on this website is:

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data.

Unless a more specific retention period has been specified in this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for processing the data no longer applies. If you assert a legitimate request for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data.

Where we have obtained your consent to process personal data, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Where processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR. Where processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of their habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged violation. The right to lodge a complaint exists without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

The competent supervisory authority for Hamburg is: Hamburgischer Beauftragter für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, Ludwig-Erhard-Str. 22, 20459 Hamburg.

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a standard, machine-readable format.

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of data processing at any time, and, if applicable, a right to correction or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time for this purpose and for further questions on the subject of personal data.

You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You can contact us at any time for this purpose. This right exists in the following cases:

• If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we generally need time to verify this.
• If the processing of your personal data was or is being carried out unlawfully, you can request the restriction of data processing instead of deletion.
• If we no longer need your personal data but you need it to exercise, defend or assert legal claims.
• If you have lodged an objection pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR and it has not yet been determined whose interests prevail.

This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser line. When SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

If you contact us by e-mail, your request including all personal data arising from it (name, request) will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your request. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

The processing of this data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR if your request is related to the performance of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the requests addressed to us (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

The data you send to us via contact requests will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage, or the purpose for data storage no longer applies.

This website uses the browser's localStorage functionality solely to remember your display preference (light or dark mode). No personal data is stored in this way. This local storage entry never leaves your device and is not transmitted to any server.

This website uses Google Fonts for uniform display of typefaces. Google Fonts are installed locally on our server. No connection to Google servers takes place.

Further information on Google Fonts can be found at developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy.