Privacy Policy

1. Data protection at a glance

General notes

The following notes are a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data means any data by which you can be identified personally. You can find detailed information on data protection in the Privacy Policy below this text.


Data recording on this website
Who is the controller responsible for the data recording on this website?

Data processing on this website is effected by the website operator whose contact details can be found in the “Note on the controller” section in this Privacy Policy.


How do we record your data?

For one thing, your data is collected when you provide it to us. This may include any data you enter into a contact form.

Other data is recorded automatically or, after you have given your consent when visiting our website, by our IT systems. This is mostly technical data (e.g. web browser, operating system or time of page view). This data is recorded automatically as soon as you access this website.


What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure an error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour.


What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right to obtain at any time, free of charge, access to information about source, recipient(s) and purpose of your personal data retained. Moreover, you have the right to obtain rectification or erasure of this data. If you have given any consent to data processing, you may withdraw this consent at any time for the future. You also have the right to obtain restriction of processing of your personal data under certain circumstances. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority in charge.

Regarding this as well as in case of any further questions on data protection, you may contact us at any time.


2. Hosting

We host the contents of our website with the following provider:


IONOS

The provider is IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur (hereinafter IONOS). When you visit our website, IONOS records various log files including your IP addresses. Please see the IONOS Privacy Policy at https://www.ionos.com/terms-gtc/privacy-policyfor details.

IONOS is used on the basis of point (f) of Art. 6(1) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in our website being displayed as reliably as possible. Where any consent to that effect has been sought, any data is processed exclusively on the basis of point (a) of Art. 6(1) GDPR and sect. 25(1) TTDSG (German Telecommunications Telemedia Data Protection Act) to the extent that the consent covers the retention of cookies or the access to information in the user’s terminal (e.g. device fingerprinting) in terms of the TTDSG. The consent may be revoked at any time.


3. General notes and mandatory information
Data protection

The operators of these websites take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in line with the statutory data protection regulations as well as this Privacy Policy.

Various personal data is collected when you use this website. Personal data means any data by which you can be identified personally. The kinds of data we collect and what we use it for is explained in this Privacy Policy. Just as the manner and purpose of such collection and use.

Please note that any data transfer on the Internet (e.g. in e-mail communications) may be subject to security gaps. It is not possible to protect the data from any access by third parties without a gap.


Note on the controller

The controller for data processing on this website is:

Skalli GmbH
Managing director: Houcine Skalli
Großer Hirschgraben 15 (next to Goethe-Haus)
60311 Frankfurt am Main

Telephone: +49 69 – 47 866 200
E-mail: skalli@biztranslate.de

The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing of personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses or the like).


Duration of retention

Unless any more specific duration of retention has been specified in this Privacy Policy, your personal data remains with us until the purpose for its processing ceases to exist. If you assert a legitimate request for erasure or withdraw any consent given to data processing, your data is erased, unless we have any other legally admissible reasons for retaining your personal data (e.g. safekeeping periods under tax or commercial law); in the latter case, the data is erased once these reasons have ceased to exist.


General notes on the legal bases of data processing on this website

Where you have given your consent to data processing, we process your personal data on the basis of point (a) of Art. 6(1) GDPR or point (a) of Art. 9(2) GDPR where special categories of data pursuant to Art. 9(1) GDPR are processed. In the event of an explicit consent to the transfer of personal data to third countries, the data is also processed on the basis of point (a) of Art. 49(1) GDPR. Where you have given your consent to the retention of cookies or to the access to information in your terminal (e.g. via device fingerprinting), the data is additionally processed on the basis of sect. 25(1) TTDSG. The consent may be revoked at any time. If your data is necessary for the performance of a contract or in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract, we process your data on the basis of point (b) of Art. 6(1) GDPR. Where your data is necessary to perform a legal obligation, we also process it on the basis of point (c) of Art. 6(1) GDPR. Furthermore, data may be processed on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to point (f) of Art. 6(1) GDPR. The following paragraphs of this Privacy Policy include information on the respective legal bases relevant in each individual case.


Withdrawal of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are possible only with your explicit consent. You may withdraw any consent already given at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of data processing before its withdrawal.


Right to object to data collection in particular cases as well as to direct marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF DATA IS PROCESSED ON THE BASIS OF POINT (E) OR (F) OF ART. 6(1) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR DATA AT ANY TIME ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, INCLUDING PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH ANY DATA IS PROCESSED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR RELEVANT PERSONAL DATA, UNLESS WE DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21(1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING AT ANY TIME, WHICH INCLUDES PROFILING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21(2) GDPR).


Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority in charge

In case of any infringements of the GDPR, the 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 infringement. The right to lodge a complaint is without prejudice to any other administrative or legal remedies.

Right to data portability

You have the right to receive any data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in performing a contract in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. Where you request direct transmission of the data to any other controller, this will be done only where technically feasible.


Access, erasure and rectification

You have the right to obtain at any time, free of charge, access to your personal data retained, its origin and recipients and the purpose of data processing as well as, where appropriate, a right to rectification or erasure of this data under the applicable statutory provisions. Regarding this as well as in case of any further questions on personal data, you may contact us at any time.


Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to obtain restriction of processing of your personal data. To that end, you may contact us at any time. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:

  • If you contest the accuracy of your personal data retained with us, we usually need time to verify this. You have the right to obtain restriction of processing of your personal data for the duration of such verification.
  • If your personal data was/is processed unlawfully, you may obtain restriction of data processing instead of erasure.
  • If we no longer need your personal data, but it is required by you for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, you have the right to obtain restriction of processing of your personal data instead of erasure.
  • If you objected pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, we must strike a balance between your and our interests. As long as it is not yet clear whose interests prevail, you have the right to obtain restriction of processing of your personal data.

Where you have restricted the processing of your personal data, this personal data may, with the exception of retention, only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or of a Member State.


SSL and/or TLS encryption

This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transfer of confidential contents, such as purchase orders or queries which you send to us as website operator. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line in the browser changes from “http://” to “https://”, and by the lock icon in your browser line.

If the SSL and/or TLS encryption is enabled, the data you transfer to us cannot be read along by third parties.


4. Data recording on this website
Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small data packets and do not harm your terminal. They are either stored temporarily on your terminal for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies). Session cookies are automatically deleted after the end of your visit. Permanent cookies remain stored on your terminal until you delete them yourself or they are deleted automatically by your web browser.

Cookies may originate from us (first-party cookies) or from third-party companies (third-party cookies). Third-party cookies enable the integration of certain services of third-party companies within websites (e.g. cookies to transact payment services).

Cookies have various functions. Numerous cookies are technically necessary, since certain website functions would not work without them (e.g. the shopping cart function or displaying videos). Other cookies can be used to evaluate the user behaviour or for advertising purposes.

Cookies required (necessary cookies) to carry out the electronic communication process, to provide certain functions requested by you (e.g. for the shopping cart function) or to optimise the website (e.g. cookies to measure the web audience) are stored on the basis of point (f) of Art. 6(1) GDPR, unless any other legal basis is specified. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure a technically error-free and optimised provision of its services. Where any consent to the storage of cookies and comparable recognition technologies has been sought, any data is processed exclusively on the basis of this consent (point (a) of Art. 6(1) GDPR and sect. 25(1) TTDSG) which may be withdrawn at any time.

You can set your browser to inform you when cookies are being placed and to allow cookies only on a case-by-case basis, to disable the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general as well as to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed. The deactivation of cookies may result in the full functionality of this website being reduced.

Information on the cookies and services used on this website can be found in this Privacy Policy.


Contact form

If you send us requests via contact form, your details from the request form, including the contact data stated by you there, are retained by us for the purpose of dealing with your request and any follow-up questions. We do not share this data without your consent.

This data is processed on the basis of point (b) of Art. 6(1) GDPR, where your request is related to the performance of a contract or necessary in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract. In all remaining cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective handling of the requests addressed to us (point (f) of Art. 6(1) GDPR) or on your consent (point (a) of Art. 6(1) GDPR), where sought; the consent may be withdrawn at any time.

The data entered by you into the contact form remains with us until you ask us to erase it, withdraw your consent to its retention or the purpose for the data retention ceases to exist (e.g. after handling your request has been completed). Any mandatory statutory provisions, especially safekeeping periods, remain unaffected.


Request by e-mail, telephone or telefax

If you contact us by e-mail, telephone or telefax, your request, including all resultant personal data (name, request), is retained with and processed by us for the purpose of handling your request. We do not share this data without your consent.

This data is processed on the basis of point (b) of Art. 6(1) GDPR, where your request is related to the performance of a contract or necessary in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract. In all remaining cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective handling of the requests addressed to us (point (f) of Art. 6(1) GDPR) or on your consent (point (a) of Art. 6(1) GDPR), where sought; the consent may be withdrawn at any time.

The data you sent to us via contact requests remains with us until you ask us to erase it, withdraw your consent to its retention or the purpose for the data retention ceases to exist (e.g. after handling your issue has been completed). Any mandatory statutory provisions, especially statutory safekeeping periods, remain unaffected.

Source: https://www.e-recht24.de