Sonja Stotz-Brand

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Data Protection

The responsible body within the meaning of the data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Sonja Stotz-Brand

Friedensstr. 2/1
72224 Ebhausen
Tel: +49 (0)176 472 48 425

E-Mail: sonja.stotz-brand[at]ww-vat[dot]com

Relevant Legal Bases
In accordance with Article 13 GDPR, we will inform you of the legal basis of our data processing. If the legal basis is not mentioned in the data protection declaration, the following applies: The legal basis for obtaining consent is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a and Art. 7 GDPR, the legal basis for the processing for the fulfillment of our services and implementation of contractual measures as well as answering inquiries is Art. 6 para. 1 lit.b GDPR, the legal basis for the processing to fulfill our legal obligations is Art. 6 para. 1 lit.c GDPR, and the legal basis for the processing to safeguard our legitimate interests is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. In the event that vital interests of the data subject or another natural person require the processing of personal data, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. d GDPR serves as the legal basis.

Data Protection
The operators of these pages 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 data protection declaration.The use of our website is usually possible without providing personal data. Insofar as personal data (e.g. name, address or e-mail addresses) are collected on our pages, this is always done on a voluntary basis as far as possible. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent. We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.B. when communicating by e-mail) may have security gaps. A complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

Your Rights as a Data Subject
You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details
provided by our data protection officer:

  • Information about your data stored by us and their processing,
  • Correction of inaccurate personal data
  • Deletion of your data stored by 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 by us and
  • Data portability, provided that you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us.

If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future. You can contact the supervisory authority responsible for you at any time with a complaint. Your competent supervisory authority depends on the federal state of your place of 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 Body and Third Parties
We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this data protection declaration. Your personal data will not be transmitted to third parties for purposes other than those mentioned. We will only share your personal information with third parties if:

  • you have given your express consent to this,
  • the processing is necessary for the execution of a contract with you,
  • the processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation,
  • the processing is necessary to safeguard legitimate interests

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

Collection of general information when visiting our website
Internet pages sometimes use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and stored by your browser. When you access our website, information of a general nature can be collected automatically 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 the like. This is 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 content of websites requested by you and is mandatory when using the Internet. In particular, they are processed for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring a trouble-free connection to the website
  • Ensuring a smooth use of our website,
  • Evaluation of system security and stability as well as
  • for other administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest from the aforementioned purposes for data collection. We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Recipients of the data are only the responsible body and, if applicable, processors. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website. Anonymous information of this kind may be processed by us. statistically evaluated in order to optimize our website and the technology behind it.

Server Log Files
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

  • Browser type and browser version
  • Operating system used
  • Referrer URL
  • Host name of the accessing computer
  • Time of the server request

This data cannot be assigned to specific persons. This data is not merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of concrete indications of illegal use.

Contact Form
If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent. If you contact us with questions of any kind by e-mail or contact form, you give us your voluntary consent for the purpose of contacting us. For this purpose, the specification of a valid e-mail address is required. This serves to assign the request and then answer it. The specification of further data is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions. After completion of the request you have made, personal data will be automatically deleted.


Comment function on this website
In the event that we offer a comment function on this page, in addition to your comment, information about the time of creation of the comment, your e-mail address and, if you do not post anonymously, the username you have chosen will be stored.


Registration on our Website
When registering for the use of our personalized services, some personal data is collected, such as name, address, contact and communication data such as telephone number, e-mail address and, if applicable, personal images. If you are registered with us, you can access content and services that we only offer to registered users. Registered users also have the option of changing or deleting the data provided during registration at any time if necessary. Of course, we will also provide you with information about the personal data we have stored about you at any time. We are also happy to correct or delete them at your request, provided that there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary. To contact us in this context, please use the contact details provided at the end of this data protection declaration.


Provision of Fee-based Services
In order to provide fee-based services, we request additional data, such as .B payment details, in order to be able to execute your order. We store this data in our systems until the statutory retention periods have expired.


SSL Encryption
In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.B. SSL) via HTTPS.


Encrypted Payment Transactions on this Website
Payment transactions via the usual means of payment (Visa/Mastercard, direct debit) take place exclusively via an encrypted SSL connection. You can recognize 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. In the case of encrypted communication, your payment data cannot be read by third parties. We only transmit personal data to third parties if this is necessary in the context of the execution of the contract, for example to the bank commissioned with the payment processing. A further transmission of your data, for example for advertising purposes, does not take place. You can object to the use of the e-mail address stored in the context of the order at any time free of charge.


Newsletter
On the basis of your expressly given consent, we will send you our newsletter or comparable information by e-mail to your specified e-mail address.To receive the newsletter, it is sufficient to provide your e-mail address. When registering to receive our newsletter, the data you provide will be used exclusively for this purpose. Subscribers may also be informed by e-mail of circumstances relevant to the service or registration (for example, changes to the newsletter offer or technical circumstances). For an effective registration we need a valid e-mail address. In order to verify that a registration is actually made by the owner of an e-mail address, we use the "double opt-in" procedure. For this purpose, we log the order of the newsletter, the sending of a confirmation e-mail and the receipt of the response requested herewith. No further data will be collected. The data will be used exclusively for sending the newsletter and will not be passed on to third parties. You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time. In each newsletter you will find a corresponding link. In addition, you can unsubscribe at any time directly on this website or inform us of your corresponding request via the contact option given at the end of this data protection information.

Google Analytics
This website may use functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are 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 usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. More information on the handling of user data by Google Analytics can be found in Google's privacy policy:

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

Use of Script Libraries (Google Webfonts)
In order to display our content correctly and graphically appealing across browsers, we use script libraries and font libraries such as Google Webfonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts/) on this website. Google web fonts are transferred to your browser's cache to avoid multiple loading. If the browser does not support Google web fonts or prevents access, content is displayed in a standard font. Calling script libraries or font libraries automatically triggers a connection to the operator of the library. It is theoretically possible – but currently also unclear whether and, if so, for what purposes – that operators of corresponding libraries collect data. The privacy policy of the library operator Google can be found here:

https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Use of Google Maps
This website uses Google Maps API to visually display geographical information. When using Google Maps, Google also collects, processes and uses data about the use of the map functions by visitors. Further information about data processing by Google can be found in google's privacy policy. There you can also change your personal data protection settings in the data protection center. Detailed instructions on how to manage your own data in connection with Google products can be found at Google.

Embedded YouTube Videos
On some of our websites 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 servers is established. Youtube is informed which pages you visit. If you are logged in to your Youtube account, YouTube can assign your surfing behavior to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your Youtube account beforehand. If a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behavior. Anyone who has deactivated 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 the browser. Further information on data protection at "Youtube" can be found in the provider's privacy policy at:

https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Changes to our Data Protection Regulations
We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always complies with the current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.B. when introducing new services. The new data protection declaration will then apply to your new visit.

Objection to Data Collection by Google
You can prevent google from collecting the data generated by the Google cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. By setting this opt-out cookie, the collection of your data on future visits to this website is prevented.

Right of Objection and Information
You have the right at any time to free information about your personal data stored by us, their origin and recipient and the purpose of the data processing as well as a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data.

Deletion of Data
The data processed by us will be deleted or restricted in their processing in accordance with Articles 17 and 18 GDPR. Unless expressly stated in this data protection declaration, the data stored by us will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for their intended purpose and the deletion does not conflict with any statutory retention obligations.

If the data is not deleted because it is necessary for other and legally permissible purposes, their processing will be restricted. This means that the data will be blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies i.e.to data that must be stored for commercial or tax reasons.

In accordance with legal requirements in Germany, storage takes place in particular for 10 years in accordance with §§ 147 (1) AO, 257 (1) no. 1 and (4) and (4) HGB (books, records, management reports, accounting documents, trading books, documents relevant for taxation, etc.) and 6 years in accordance with § 257 (1) no. 2 and 3, (4) HGB (commercial letters).


Questions to the Data Protection Officer
If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an e-mail or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization directly:

Sonja Stotz-Brand

Friedensstr. 2/1
72224 Ebhausen
Tel: +49 (0)176 472 48 425
E-Mail: sonja.stotz-brand[at]ww-vat[dot]com


The privacy policy was created with the privacy policy generators of activeMind AG and eRecht24 and is regularly adjusted.