Privacy Policy

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

Christoph Hofmann

Your rights as a data subject

You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details of our data protection officer given below:

• information about the data we store about you and how it is processed,
• correction of inaccurate personal data,
• deletion of the data we store about you,
• restriction of processing where 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 you have consented to the processing or have concluded a contract with us.

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

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

Purposes of data processing by the controller and third parties

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

• you have given your express consent,
• the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you,
• the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation,

the processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in your data not being passed on.

Deletion or blocking of data

We follow the principles of data avoidance and data minimisation. We therefore store your personal data only for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here or as required by the various retention periods provided for by law. Once the respective purpose no longer applies or these periods have expired, the data concerned is routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.

Collection of general information when you visit our website

When you access our website, information of a general nature is 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 similar. This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.

This information is technically necessary to deliver the content of web pages you request correctly and is generated whenever the internet is used. It is processed in particular for the following purposes:

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

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest in the purposes of data collection stated above. We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. The recipients of the data are only the controller and, where applicable, processors.

We may evaluate anonymous information of this kind statistically in order to optimise our website and the technology behind it.

Cookies

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

Cookies cannot be used to start programs or to transfer viruses to a computer. Using the information contained in cookies, we can make navigation easier for you and ensure that our web pages are displayed correctly.

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

Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are usually set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time in your browser settings. Please use the help function of your internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that some 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 state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Use of Matomo

This website uses Matomo (formerly Piwik), an open-source software for the statistical analysis of visitor access. Matomo uses so-called cookies, i.e. text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of your use of the website.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is stored on a server in Germany.

The IP address is anonymised immediately after processing and before it is stored. You can prevent the installation of cookies by changing the settings of your browser software. Please note that with such a setting, not all functions of this website may be available.

You can decide whether a unique web analytics cookie may be stored in your browser to allow the operator of the website to collect and analyse various statistical data.

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to reflect changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

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 organisation directly:

info@its-hofmann.de