Privacy Policy


We are very delighted that you have shown interest in our enterprise. Data protection is of a particularly high priority for the management of the VolcanoDiscovery GmbH (or in short: VolcanoDiscovery).

Notice:
The present text is a translated version of the original German text. In case of doubt, the German version applies.


The use of the Internet pages or apps of VolcanoDiscovery is possible without any indication of personal data; however, if a user wants to use special enterprise services via our website, processing of personal data could become necessary. If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no statutory basis for such processing, we generally obtain consent from the data subject.

The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to VolcanoDiscovery. By means of this data protection declaration, our enterprise would like to inform the general public of the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Furthermore, data subjects are informed, by means of this data protection declaration, of the rights to which they are entitled.

As the controller, VolcanoDiscovery has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through this website. However, Internet-based data transmissions may in principle have security gaps, so absolute protection may not be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transfer personal data to us via alternative means, e.g. by regular paper mail or telephone.

Scope

This text applies to all websites and mobile or webapps apps owned and run by VolcanoDiscovery, in particular but not necessarily exclusively:

Overview: data collection on our website

What data do we collect and how do we collect your data?
Some data are collected when you provide it to us voluntarily or as part of a contract between you and us. This could, for example, be data you enter on a contact form or data you provide to us when you book a tour with us or buy other services.

Buying goods or services, e.g. tours:
When you buy some goods or service from us, in particular when you book a tour with us, we will need more or less extensive personal information from you, depending on the nature of our contract and service in question. This likely includes your address and name, sometimes passport information, your age, or information about your physical condition, interests and more, in order to be able to provide the service. To provide these data becomes part of the contract you enter with us.
For legal and bookkeeping reasons, we are required to keep some or all of these data, or documents where they appear (e.g. invoices) for a minimum of the legal retention period. In Germany, this varies from 2-10 years, depending on the nature of the data. Invoices will need to be kept for 10 years.
This topic is described in more detail in our General Terms and Conditions.

This Privacy Policy is primarily referring to data collected from the use of our websites or apps, with the normal case in mind that we we do not know anything about you when you first arrive on this site.

Data collected from the use of our websites / app


Some personal data is collected automatically by our server provider's IT systems when you visit the website. These data are primarily technical data such as the browser and operating system you are using or when you accessed the page. These data are collected automatically as soon as you enter our website and normally deleted after a short time.
Other data is used to gather statistical insights on how users interact with the site (e.g. which pages are visited, how long a user stays on a site, how often visitors arrive from certain search terms on a search engine, and so on).

What do we use your data for?
We ourselves use data collected automatically from the sites only to assure the proper functioning of the site, protect it against misuse or attacks, monitor its performance, provide functionality and improve it.
Data collected is also being used by third party components on the site that provide technical and statistical services, added content, as well as advertising, which is the only direct funding source and without which the sites/app could not exist.
Note: The topics about advertising apply to the volcano- and earthquake-related websites only, while the website www.volcanoadventures.com about the tours we offer has no advertising; it finances itself through our travel product. Most sections will not be relevant for it.

Data you provide voluntarily
Data (e.g. your email address when you contact us) you provide voluntarily to us only collected for specific services you may request from us (e.g. newsletter, booking a tour and so on). We never share any personal data with 3rd parties except when this is part of a contract (for example, we book a hotel room for a client and need to share his/her name with the hotel).
Other data you provide us might even be intended to be published and thus shared with anyone: this applies to content users share with us with the expressed intention for us to publish the content (e.g. earthquake reports posted online). While we are not obliged to share or publish content submitted to us, when we do so, we never publish or share any associated personal information with such request (such as the visitor IP address, name, or an email if present), unless specifically requested to be included (e.g. if you want your name added to a public post).

What rights do you have regarding your data?
You always have the right to request information about your stored data, its origin, its recipients, and the purpose of its collection at no charge. You also have the right to request that it be corrected, blocked, or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in the legal notice if you have further questions about the issue of privacy and data protection. You may also, of course, file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities.

Analytics and third-party tools
When visiting our website, statistical analyses may be made of your surfing behavior. This happens primarily using cookies and analytics. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous, i.e. we will not be able to identify you from this data. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information can be found in the following privacy policy.
You can object to this analysis. We will inform you below about how to exercise your options in this regard.

Server access log files:
The website provider (*) automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us in "server log files". These are:

- Browser type and browser version
- Operating system used
- Referrer URL
- Host name of the accessing computer
- Time of the server request
- Your IP address

These data will not be combined with data from other sources. These data are mainly used for basic statistical purposes and to monitor the network for hacking attacks or other abuse.
This is an example entry a visit of a page could leave in our log files:
162.158.78.110 - - [15/Jan/2018:11:37:50 +0100] "GET /privacy.html HTTP/1.1" 200 15063 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.1.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Safari/600.1.25"

It includes the IP (in this case, a network node from the CDN provider CloudFlare that forwarded your request), date and time the server sent out the html response (the page you look at in your browser), the specific page address (in this case, the ".../privacy.html" page), protocol (HTTP/1.1) and response code (200 = success), byte length (15063) and the type of browser that sent the request (e.g. Safari in this example).

The server access data is deleted automatically after a short amount of time (14 days on our origin server).

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.

1. Definitions

The data protection declaration of VolcanoDiscovery is based on the terms used by the European legislator for the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our data protection declaration should be legible and understandable for the general public, as well as our customers and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to first explain the terminology used.

In this data protection declaration, we use, inter alia, the following terms:


2. Name and Address of the controller

Controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other data protection laws applicable in Member states of the European Union and other provisions related to data protection is:

Name: VolcanoDiscovery GmbH
Address: Heideweg 2, 66606 St. Wendel, Germany
Owner / CEO: Dr. Tom Pfeiffer
Trade Office registration number: HRB 103744
EU Tax Id: DE 297 465 123

Email: info (AT) volcanodiscovery (DOT) com
Websites: www.volcanodiscovery.com, allquakes.com, www.volcanoadventures.com

3. Cookies

Like almost all websites, our websites use cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser. Through the use of cookies, we can provide the users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting. Some functionality of the websites are only possible with the use of cookies.

What are cookies?


Cookies are plain text-strings in the form name:content where "name" is the unique identifyiny name of the cookie and "content" any text string containing an arbitrary amount of (usually encoded and unreadable) data. They are stored by the browser on your local computer when you visit a website that instructs it to save them. Cookies are only available to read and modify by the website on the same browser on the same computer. Typically, they contain information that makes it possible for the website to recognize you after a previous visit and deliver personalized content.
Each time your load a page of the same website, any present cookies that had been set previously will be added to the request and sent to the website or provider.
Example:
_ga:"GA1.1.1121936127.1713566799"

This is a cookie set by google analytics that stores a user ID used to generate statistical data on how the website is used.

What are cookies used for?


Most cookies contain unique strings that serve as an ID code which assigns the visit of a webpage with the specific browser and computer used, and enables the website or attached services to recognize the same user on following visits or sessions. This allows the user to to log in (and remain logged in) into various accounts, retain set preferences on a website, collect statistsics (e.g. how many pages are visited in one session, how often you have visited a site etc), and the website or advertisers to deliver personalized content, to mention the most typical usages of cookies.

What purposes do our websites use cookes for?


VolcanoDiscovery uses both first first-party (=own) cookies and third party cookies, provided you have given consent for their use. For 3d party cookies, please refer to the section further below. VolcanoDiscovery uses own cookies for the following purposes:

- provide users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the use of cookies. For example, cookies control whether certain parts of the website like welcome screens are shown or not, or whether advertising should be limited or not shown at all (e.g. users who install our paid app will be shown no or very limited advertising only);
- store your preferences regarding privacy choices.
We do not transmit any information contained in these cookies outside of your browser and we therefore cannot collect any personal data with them either.

Can cookies harm your computer?


To our knowledge, and provided you use a standard respectable browser that does adhere to accepted security standards (including Chrome, Internet Exporer, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Opera to mention a few) cookies cannot harm your computer or carry viruses. We cannot rule out, however, that there are future opportunities for malicious software or vulnerabilities so far unknown.

How to control cookies


You are in full control over which cookies are stored on your device if you use a reputable browser (e.g. Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Exporer etc). The implementation varies from browser to browser, but you can normally adjust the settings looking into the browser's settings under "privacy".
There, you can control and/or delete cookies as you wish - for more details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and some functionalities may not work.

Third party cookies


Where advertising or embedded content from 3rd parties is used (such as external content from X/Twitter, Facebook, Youtube), these 3rd parties usually set their own cookies. You can control how advertising partners may use data obtained through these cookies on our Consent Management Platform or disable the use of cookies or delete existing cookies through your browser.
For embedded content, you can use the switches provided in following corresponding sections to allow or disable such content on this website.

4. Collection of general data and information

The website of VolcanoDiscovery collects a series of general data and information when a data subject or automated system calls up the website. This general data and information are stored in the server log files. Collected may be (1) the browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrers), (4) the sub-websites, (5) the date and time of access to the Internet site, (6) an Internet protocol address (IP address), (7) the Internet service provider of the accessing system, (9) the geolocation of the internet access, and (10) any other similar data and information that may be used in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.

When using these general data and information, VolcanoDiscovery does not draw any conclusions about the data subject. Rather, this information is needed to (1) deliver the content of our website correctly, (2) optimize the content of our website as well as its advertisement, (3) ensure the long-term viability of our information technology systems and website technology, and (4) provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack. Therefore, VolcanoDiscovery analyzes anonymously collected data and information statistically, with the aim of increasing the data protection and data security of our enterprise, and to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.

Content Delivery Network (CDN)


To provide our websites, we use the Cloudflare content delivery network (Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107,USA). A content delivery network is a service that makes websites available in parallel on numerous servers spread in many locations around the world. This allows the page to be better and faster accessible on a global level and enables to serve more visitors than a single origin server.
Cloudflare CDN, as the operator of our servers, is the recipient of our visitors'personal data and acts as a processor for us. This is done on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSVGO), since we cannot run such a service ourselves.
In order to ensure data protection-compliant processing, a contract for order processing is part of our service agreement with Cloudflare.
Cloudflare does not store the personal data of each website request but rather forwards the data mentioned in the first paragraph to our servers. However, Cloudflare maintains log data about events on their network related to internet security. Some of this log data will include information about visitors to and/or authorized users of our websites, apps, and application programming interfaces (“APIs”). This metadata contains extremely limited personal data, most often in the form of IP addresses. Cloudflare processes this type of information on behalf of us in our data centers in the U.S. and Europe for a limited period of time. Learn more about Cloudflare's data processing and consult its privacy policy.

Server hosting provider


To physically store our website data and deliver it to the end user (through the CDN mentioned above), we use managed and dedicated servers provided and maintained by Hetzner Online GmbH (Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany).
Hetzner GmbH, as the operator of our servers, is the recipient of our visitors'personal data and acts as a processor for us. This is done on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSVGO), since we cannot run such a service ourselves.
In order to ensure data protection-compliant processing, a contract for order processing is part of our service agreement with Hetzner GmbH.
Hetzner does not use or sell any data stored on its servers used for our websites, but only provides and oversees their functionality, physical and cyber safety. Learn more about Hetzner's servers and Hetzner's privacy policy.

5. Subscription to our newsletters

VolcanoDiscovery offers users to receive our newsletter from time to time.
Users can contact us via email to request the newsletter from us. By doing so, the visitor implicitly gives us the right to store the contained personal information transmitted voluntarily, typically consisting of name and email address.
Alternatively, we provide an input mask where users can enter their email and optionally their name, to request the newsletter through this form. During the registration for the newsletter through the internet form, we also store the IP address of the computer system assigned by the Internet service provider (ISP) and used by the data subject at the time of the registration, as well as the date and time of the registration. The collection of this data is necessary in order to understand the (possible) misuse of the e-mail address of a data subject at a later date, and it therefore serves the aim of the legal protection of the controller.
The personal data collected as part of a registration for the newsletter will only be used to send our newsletter. In addition, subscribers to the newsletter may be informed by e-mail, as long as this is necessary for the operation of the newsletter service or a registration in question, as this could be the case in the event of modifications to the newsletter offer, or in the event of a change in technical circumstances. There will be no transfer of personal data collected by the newsletter service to third parties. The subscription to our newsletter may be terminated by the data subject at any time. The consent to the storage of personal data, which the data subject has given for shipping the newsletter, may be revoked at any time by contacting us. To unsubscribe from the newsletter, a corresponding link is found in each newsletter, or you can request to unsubscribe at any time by getting in touch and transmitting your request to us.


6. Newsletter-Tracking

The newsletter of VolcanoDiscovery does not contain any personal data or tracking codes.
The only personal information used is a link with an encrypted code with the only purpose to allow the recipient of the newsletter to unsubscribe. No personal information is contained in or can be extracted from this code and it can only be used to unsubscribe from the newsletter. If your email is hacked or if you forward this email to someone else, the only harm can be that the other person opens the link and unsubscribes you, but not get any personal information about you (such as your name).

7. Contact possibility via the website

The websites of VolcanoDiscovery contain information that enables a quick electronic contact to our enterprise, as well as direct communication with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic mail (e-mail address). If a data subject contacts the controller by e-mail or via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject are automatically stored. Such personal data transmitted on a voluntary basis by a data subject to the data controller are stored for the purpose of processing or contacting the data subject. There is no transfer of this personal data to third parties.

8. Routine erasure and blocking of personal data

The data controller shall process and store the personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of storage, or as far as this is granted by the European legislator or other legislators in laws or regulations to which the controller is subject to.
If the storage purpose is not applicable, or if a storage period prescribed by the European legislator or another competent legislator expires, the personal data are routinely blocked or erased in accordance with legal requirements.

9. Rights of the data subject


10. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Facebook

On certain pages of this website, we have integrated components (known as "plug-ins") of the enterprise Facebook, specifically embedded postsfrom Facebook to enrich content of these pages. Facebook is a social network.
A social network is a place for social meetings on the Internet, an online community, which usually allows users to communicate with each other and interact in a virtual space. A social network may serve as a platform for the exchange of opinions and experiences, or enable the Internet community to provide personal or business-related information. Facebook allows social network users to include the creation of private profiles, upload photos, and network through friend requests.
The operating company of Facebook is Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States. If a person lives outside of the United States or Canada, the controller is the Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

With each call-up to one of the (relatively few) individual pages of this Internet website, where a facebook component ("plug-in") is integrated (typically, pages in blog-style where news about earthquake or volcano events are gathered), the web browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download display of the corresponding Facebook component from Facebook through the Facebook component. An overview of all the Facebook Plug-ins may be accessed under developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins. During the course of this technical procedure, Facebook is made aware of what specific sub-site of our website was visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Facebook, Facebook detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-site of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Facebook component and associated with the respective Facebook account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Facebook buttons integrated into our website, e.g. the "Like" button, or if the data subject submits a comment, then Facebook matches this information with the personal Facebook user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.

Facebook always receives, through the Facebook component, information about a visit to our website by the data subject, whenever the data subject is logged in at the same time on Facebook during the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Facebook component or not. If such a transmission of information to Facebook is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their Facebook account before a call-up to our website is made.
The data protection guideline published by Facebook, which is available at https://facebook.com/about/privacy/, provides information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by Facebook. In addition, it is explained there what setting options Facebook offers to protect the privacy of the data subject. In addition, different configuration options are made available to allow the elimination of data transmission to Facebook. These applications may be used by the data subject to eliminate a data transmission to Facebook.
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    11. Advertising

    We use advertising partners listed below to show advertisements on our website and apps (see below). All of these advertising partners use cookies, tracking codes or similar technology in order to collect data and deliver the most relevant ads and create individual user profiles. We have no direct access to this data.
    If you visit the site from the areas where the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies (EU, Norway, Liechtenstein, Iceland and the United Kingdom), you will be prompted to choose your settings about whether and how third party advertising partners can use your data before any ads are shown. These settings will be valid by default for 365 days by using an anonymous cookie on your computer. However, they may need to be refreshed more often, for example if you delete cookies, if new advertising partners are chosen, new technologies or purposes of data processing arise, or other relevant settings have changed in the meantime. In this case, you will be re-prompted to confirm your privacy settings more often.
    You can always adjust your preferences, revoke or give consent partially or fully, either to individual providers or by selecting the same settings for all at once, using the integrated Consent Management Platform module, a link to which is also shown at the end of every page as "privacy settings".
    If you object the use of cookies or the use of personal data for advertising, advertising partners will normally still show non-personalized ads to you, which is typically based on the content of the page, general trends or statistics on what kind of advertising is likely to be most popular.

    Note: If you object to the use of cookies (storage of data on your device) at all, a normal visit to the website is unfortunately not possible in the current legal situation: after all, it must at least be possible to to store (using a cookie) your decision about not allowing (other) cookies that contain personal data.

    Opt-out from companies using your personal data


    This applies not only to our website, but most other websites as well: You can manage many advertising companies'cookies used for online advertising via the consumer choice tools created under self-regulation programs in many countries, such as the US-based aboutads.info choices page or the EU-based Your Online Choices. To learn more about interest-based (personalized) advertising, techniques used, and how to opt out from it, you can consult the website optout.networkadvertising.org (NAI), an association of advertising and analytics companies providing such services but also offering consumers to opt-out from their use.

    Google AdSense and Google AdMob


    On this website, we show advertising from Google AdSense and Google AdMob. Google AdSense is an online service which allows the placement of advertising on third-party sites. Google AdMod is the same product for mobile apps. The following text applies for both AdSense and AdMob, but for simplicity will only name AdSense.
    Google AdSense is based on an algorithm that selects advertisements displayed on third-party sites to match with the content of the respective third-party site. Google AdSense allows an interest-based targeting of the Internet user, which is implemented by means of generating individual user profiles.
    The operating company of Google's AdSense component is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland. The parent company is Alphabet Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

    The purpose of Google's AdSense component is the integration of advertisements on our website. Google and its advertising partners place cookies on the user's computer to serve ads based on a user's prior visits and other factors.
    Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve personalized ads. With the setting of the cookie, Google / Alphabet Inc. is enabled to analyze the use of our website. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of our website where a Google AdSense component is integrated, your Internet browser will automatically submit data through the Google AdSense component for the purpose of online advertising and the settlement of commissions to Google / Alphabet Inc.
    With this technical procedure, the Google / Alphabet Inc. gain knowledge of personal data, such as the IP address of the visitor, which serves Alphabet Inc., among other purposes, to understand the origin of visitors and clicks and subsequently create commission settlements.
    You can prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used (as described earlier) and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Google / Alphabet Inc. from setting a cookie on your computer. Additionally, cookies already in use by Google / Alphabet Inc. may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.

    Furthermore, AdSense also uses so-called tracking pixels. A tracking pixel is a miniature graphic that is embedded in web pages to enable a log file recording and a log file analysis through which a statistical analysis may be performed. Based on the embedded tracking pixels, Alphabet Inc. is able to determine if and when you visited a website, and which links you clicked. Tracking pixels serve, inter alia, to analyze the flow of visitors on a website.

    Through AdSense, personal data and information—which also includes the IP address, and is necessary for the collection and accounting of the displayed advertisements—is transmitted to Alphabet Inc. in the United States of America. These personal data will be stored and processed in the United States of America. The Alphabet Inc. may disclose the collected personal data through this technical procedure to third parties.
    Google AdSense is further explained under the following link https://www.google.com/intl/en/adsense/start/. Google also provides more information of its various features and the option to opt-out from personalized advertising at https://www.google.com/settings/ads and at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
    Google AdSense itself uses several other advertising technology providers who have been certified by Google to comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation as well. What has been described about how Google Adsense uses cookies and similar technology to collect personal data applies analogously for all network partners that Google Adsense uses as well. The list changes continuously, but the current version (according to Google) is found at https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9012903?hl=en.

    Publift


    We have integrated advertising provided by Publift on this website. Publift is an international advertising company based in Australia. The operating company is Publift Publift Pty Ltd, The Mill 41-43 Bourke Road, Alexandria, NSW 2015, Australia.

    Publift uses Google AdManager and own technologies to provide digital advertising on websites. Publift and its advertising partners use cookies and related tracking technologies to collect data from website users with the aim to provide personalized and non-personalized advertisements and content. .
    The tracking cookies from Publift store, among other information, a unique identification of the advertiser, the website where it was places and the visitor (you) who opened it, along with personal information such as the IP address, type of browser used, screen size, device type, the duration of the visit and similar data . Such cookies can be used to track a visitor's navigation through multiple pages and sessions and thus create personalized ad profiles as well as gather statistical data.

    As already described, you can prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by adjusting the appropriate settings on your Internet browser used and thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. Such a setting would also prevent Publift from placing a personal cookie on your computer. In addition, cookies already set by Publift can be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software programs.
    Alternatively, you can opt-out from personalization of advertising and the use of your data by adjusting the corresponding settings in the Consent Management Platform embedded on this website, as described earlier as well.

    Publift's privacy policy can be found at https://www.publift.com/privacy-policy.

    Setupad


    We have integrated advertising provided by Setupad on this website. Setupad is an advertising company based in Lithuania. The operating company is Setupad Inc, Antakalnio str. 17, "Vilnius Tech Park" - building Nr.12, LT-10312, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Setupad uses Google AdManager and own technologies to provide digital advertising on websites. Setupad and its advertising partners use cookies and related tracking technologies to collect data from website users with the aim to provide both personalized and non-personalized advertisements. .
    The tracking cookies from Setupad store, among other information, a unique identification of the advertiser, the website where it was places and the visitor (you) who opened it, along with personal information such as the IP address, type of browser used, screen size, device type, the duration of the visit and similar data. Such cookies can be used to track a visitor's navigation through multiple pages and sessions and thus create personalized ad profiles as well as gather statistical data.

    As already described, you can prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by adjusting the appropriate settings on your Internet browser used and thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. Such a setting would also prevent Setupad from placing a personal cookie on your computer. In addition, cookies already set by Setupad can be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software programs.
    Alternatively, you can opt-out from personalization of advertising and the use of your data by adjusting the corresponding settings in the Consent Management Platform embedded on this website, as described earlier as well.

    Setupad's privacy policy can be found at https://setupad.com/privacy-policy/.

    12. Website Analytics

    We no longer use Google Analytics, but instead use Simple Analytics to gather analytical data about the use of our website. Simple Analytics is a privacy-friendly tool and does not collect any personal data. You can learn more about the way Simple Analytics processes data on its website.

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    14. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Twitter

    On this website, the controller has integrated components of Twitter. Twitter is a multilingual, publicly-accessible microblogging service on which users may publish and spread so-called 'tweets,'e.g. short messages, which are limited to 280 characters. These short messages are available for everyone, including those who are not logged on to Twitter. The tweets are also displayed to so-called followers of the respective user. Followers are other Twitter users who follow a user's tweets. Furthermore, Twitter allows you to address a wide audience via hashtags, links or retweets.


    The operating company of Twitter is Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland.


    With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a Twitter component (Twitter button) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding Twitter component of Twitter. Further information about the Twitter buttons is available under https://about.twitter.com/de/resources/buttons. During the course of this technical procedure, Twitter gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject. The purpose of the integration of the Twitter component is a retransmission of the contents of this website to allow our users to introduce this web page to the digital world and increase our visitor numbers.


    If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Twitter, Twitter detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Twitter component and associated with the respective Twitter account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Twitter buttons integrated on our website, then Twitter assigns this information to the personal Twitter user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.


    Twitter receives information via the Twitter component that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in on Twitter at the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the Twitter component or not. If such a transmission of information to Twitter is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their Twitter account before a call-up to our website is made.
    The applicable data protection provisions of Twitter may be accessed under https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en.
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    15. Data protection provisions about the application and use of YouTube

    On this website, the controller has integrated components of YouTube. YouTube is an Internet video portal that enables video publishers to set video clips and other users free of charge, which also provides free viewing, review and commenting on them. YouTube allows you to publish all kinds of videos, so you can access both full movies and TV broadcasts, as well as music videos, trailers, and videos made by users via the Internet portal.


    The operating company of YouTube is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.


    With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a YouTube component (YouTube video) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding YouTube component. Further information about YouTube may be obtained under https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/en/. During the course of this technical procedure, YouTube and Google gain knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.


    If the data subject is logged in on YouTube, YouTube recognizes with each call-up to a sub-page that contains a YouTube video, which specific sub-page of our Internet site was visited by the data subject. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to the respective YouTube account of the data subject.


    YouTube and Google will receive information through the YouTube component that the data subject has visited our website, if the data subject at the time of the call to our website is logged in on YouTube; this occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on a YouTube video or not. If such a transmission of this information to YouTube and Google is not desirable for the data subject, the delivery may be prevented if the data subject logs off from their own YouTube account before a call-up to our website is made.
    YouTube's data protection provisions, available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/, provide information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.
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    16. Payment Method: Data protection provisions about the use of PayPal as a payment processor

    On this website, the controller has integrated components of PayPal. PayPal is an online payment service provider. Payments are processed via so-called PayPal accounts, which represent virtual private or business accounts. PayPal is also able to process virtual payments through credit cards when a user does not have a PayPal account. A PayPal account is managed via an e-mail address, which is why there are no classic account numbers. PayPal makes it possible to trigger online payments to third parties or to receive payments. PayPal also accepts trustee functions and offers buyer protection services.


    The European operating company of PayPal is PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal L-2449, Luxemburg.


    If the data subject chooses "PayPal" as the payment option in the online shop during the ordering process, we automatically transmit the data of the data subject to PayPal. By selecting this payment option, the data subject agrees to the transfer of personal data required for payment processing.


    The personal data transmitted to PayPal is usually first name, last name, address, email address, IP address, telephone number, mobile phone number, or other data necessary for payment processing. The processing of the purchase contract also requires such personal data, which are in connection with the respective order.


    The transmission of the data is aimed at payment processing and fraud prevention. The controller will transfer personal data to PayPal, in particular, if a legitimate interest in the transmission is given. The personal data exchanged between PayPal and the controller for the processing of the data will be transmitted by PayPal to economic credit agencies. This transmission is intended for identity and creditworthiness checks.


    PayPal will, if necessary, pass on personal data to affiliates and service providers or subcontractors to the extent that this is necessary to fulfill contractual obligations or for data to be processed in the order.


    The data subject has the possibility to revoke consent for the handling of personal data at any time from PayPal. A revocation shall not have any effect on personal data which must be processed, used or transmitted in accordance with (contractual) payment processing.
    The applicable data protection provisions of PayPal may be retrieved under https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.

    17. Legal basis for the processing

    Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing operations for which we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose. If the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party, as is the case, for example, when processing operations are necessary for the supply of goods or to provide any other service, the processing is based on Article 6(1) lit. b GDPR. The same applies to such processing operations which are necessary for carrying out pre-contractual measures, for example in the case of inquiries concerning our products or services. Is our company subject to a legal obligation by which processing of personal data is required, such as for the fulfillment of tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6(1) lit. c GDPR.
    In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were injured in our company and his name, age, health insurance data or other vital information would have to be passed on to a doctor, hospital or other third party. Then the processing would be based on Art. 6(1) lit. d GDPR.
    Finally, processing operations could be based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR. This legal basis is used for processing operations which are not covered by any of the abovementioned legal grounds, if processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by our company or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data. Such processing operations are particularly permissible because they have been specifically mentioned by the European legislator. He considered that a legitimate interest could be assumed if the data subject is a client of the controller (Recital 47 Sentence 2 GDPR).

    18. The legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party

    Where the processing of personal data is based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR our legitimate interest is to carry out our business in favor of the well-being of all our employees and the shareholders.

    19. Period for which the personal data will be stored

    The criteria used to determine the period of storage of personal data is the respective statutory retention period. After expiration of that period, the corresponding data is routinely deleted, as long as it is no longer necessary for the fulfillment of the contract or the initiation of a contract.

    20. Provision of personal data as statutory or contractual requirement; Requirement necessary to enter into a contract; Obligation of the data subject to provide the personal data; possible consequences of failure to provide such data

    We clarify that the provision of personal data is partly required by law (e.g. tax regulations) or can also result from contractual provisions (e.g. information on the contractual partner).

    Sometimes it may be necessary to conclude a contract that the data subject provides us with personal data, which must subsequently be processed by us. The data subject is, for example, obliged to provide us with personal data when our company signs a contract with him or her. The non-provision of the personal data would have the consequence that the contract with the data subject could not be concluded.

    Before personal data is provided by the data subject, the data subject must contact any employee. The employee clarifies to the data subject whether the provision of the personal data is required by law or contract or is necessary for the conclusion of the contract, whether there is an obligation to provide the personal data and the consequences of non-provision of the personal data.

    21. Existence of automated decision-making

    As a responsible company, we do not use automatic decision-making or profiling.

    The above legal texts have been adapted from a template provided and published by Prof. Dr. h.c. Heiko Jonny Maniero from the German Association for Data Protection and Christian Solmecke from WBS law.

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