In the following, we would like to inform you about the data processing on our website, in particular about which categories of data we process for which purposes when you visit our website.
Please note, however, that we may amend our privacy policy from time to time, for example due to the implementation of new technologies or due to changes in the law.
The data protection controller pursuant to Art. 4 No. 7, Art. 26 EU General Data Protection Regulation
("GDPR") is the
Geek Cell GmbH, Alte Molkerei 1A, 53343 Wachtberg, Germany
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, data protection or data processing on this website in general, please contact us by e-mail at datenschutz@base64-image.de or by mail at the above-mentioned address.
In the following, we would like to inform you about your rights, which you can assert free of charge against the data controller in accordance with the statutory provisions:
If you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR or any other data protection law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority of your choice pursuant to Art. 77 (1) of the GDPR.
In order to assert your rights and claims, please contact us at the above-mentioned contact details of the Controller.
Please note that complete data security cannot be guaranteed by us when communicating by e-mail, so we recommend that you send confidential information to us by post.
In principle, your data only will be processed if there is a legal basis for doing so. In the following, we will go into more detail about the individual legal bases for the respective data processing, but in general the following applies:
Your data will be deleted, or its processing restricted in accordance with the statutory provision, in particular in accordance with Art. 17 and 18 GDPR. Your data will therefore generally be deleted, if it is no longer required for the intended purpose, unless otherwise stated in this privacy policy. Data processing beyond these purposes will only take place if this is necessary for other and legally permissible purposes or if we have to retain your data due to legal retention periods. In these cases, processing will be restricted, i.e. blocked, and your data will not be further processed for other purposes.
Legal storage obligations result, for example, from:
In the following, you will find information about the third parties and processors to whom we transfer personal data. If we use various third-party services on our website, we will go into more detail later. However, in principle these services are used to make the website functional, secure, and visually appealing as well as to optimize its content. In general, we transfer personal data to the following categories of third parties:
Telecommunications service providers, service providers for hosting and other services in connection with our website, public authorities, insofar as a legitimate request has been made, credit institutions and payment service providers for the processing of payments, billing service providers, printing and postal service providers, insurance companies, insurance brokers and experts for the examination and settlement of claims, external accountants, auditors, legal advisors, and auditors.
If we transfer your personal data to a third country or an international organization, you will be informed separately about the transfer and the underlying legal basis. The data transfer will be legally secured with standard contractual clauses according to Art. 46 GDPR or other appropriate transfer safeguards according to Art. 44 et seq. GDPR.
Insofar as we use data processors for data processing, they are of course bound by our instructions and are carefully selected, commissioned, and regularly monitored by us. The assignments are based on data processing agreements in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. The processors do not process data for their own purposes.
In particular, processors include:
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. Please note that we are not responsible for the processing of your personal data on these websites within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR, but the respective website operator. Therefore, please inform yourself in the privacy policies of the respective websites before disclosing personal data.
For reasons of data security, we use technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against loss, manipulation, destruction, or other attacks by unauthorized persons. Our security measures are continuously adapted to the current state of the art. On our website, we use the technology of transport encryption (TLS) in the transmission of your personal data, which you can recognize by the "https".
When accessing content on our website, data is temporarily stored via so-called log files, which may allow identification. The following data is collected:
The temporary storage is necessary for the retrieval and the course of a website visit to enable the delivery of the website. Furthermore, the log data is stored to ensure the functionality of the website and the security of the information technology systems. Your IP address will be shortened as quickly as possible so that identification is no longer possible.
The legal basis for the temporary storage is Art. 6 (1) lit. b) GDPR. The legal basis for the further storage of the shortened IP address is our legitimate interest in protecting our information technology systems (in particular in the event of abusive attacks) in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. No personal evaluation of your data, in particular for marketing purposes, will take place without prior consent.
As soon as your data is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected, your data is deleted. In the case of the provision of the website, this is given when the respective session has ended. In general the log data is only kept accessible for administrators.
For the technical provision and operation of our website, we use the hosting provider Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestrasse 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany. For this purpose, Hetzner processes meta and communication data on our behalf and based on our legitimate interests in an efficient and secure provision of our website according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. For this purpose, we have concluded an order processing agreement with Hetzner pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR.
On our website we use the fonts Google Fonts of the company Google (service provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Parent company: Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). Google Fonts is an interactive directory of more than 800 fonts provided by Google LLC free to use.
As an important component, Google Fonts serves to keep the quality of our website high. By using Google Fonts, we can use fonts without having to upload them to our own server. The Google fonts are automatically optimized for the web, which saves data volume and thus ensures faster loading times.
Google Fonts is supported by all major browsers and works reliably on most modern mobile operating systems.
The legal basis for the use of Google Fonts is our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. Legitimate interest is understood to be both legal and economic or ideal interests recognized by the legal system. Our legitimate interest in this case is to present our website in an aesthetically pleasing, consistent and secure manner as possible.
When using Google Fonts, no cookies are stored in your browser. The font files are requested through the Google domains fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com, which Google says are separated from all other Google services, including your Google account if you have one.
Google records the use of so-called CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and the fonts used and stores this data securely. Google stores requests for CSS assets for one day on your servers, which are mainly located outside the EU. Insofar as Google Ireland Limited transfers personal data to the US parent company Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, Google guarantees by means of standard contractual clauses to maintain the EU level of data protection. Google thus pursues the goal of fundamentally improving the loading time of websites by having the fonts already in the cache when millions of websites refer to the same fonts.
In addition, each Google Fonts request also automatically transmits information such as IP address, language settings, screen resolution, browser name and version to Google servers to ensure correct graphical display.
On the base of our legitimate interest (analysis, optimization and economic operation of our website; Art 6.1f GDPR) we use Carbons Ads - a service of BuySellAds, P.O. Box 55071 #30027, Boston, MA 02205-5071.
We use Carbon Ads to display ads on our website. We receive a payment in return. For this purpose we transfer the following data to BuySellAds:
A detailed description of the collected data and the reasons can be found here: https://content.buysellads.com/articles/what-data-does-buysellads-collect/. The Privacy Policy of Carbon Ads can be found here: https://carbonads.net/privacy.php
This website uses Google AdSense, a service for integrating advertisements from Google Inc. ("Google"). The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google AdSense uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and which enable an analysis of the use of the website. Google AdSense also uses so-called web beacons (invisible graphics). These web beacons can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on these pages.
The information generated by cookies and web beacons about the use of this website (including your IP address) and the delivery of advertising formats are transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. This information may be passed on by Google to contractual partners of Google. However, Google will not combine your IP address with other data.
The storage of AdSense cookies is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising.
You can prevent the installation of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. By using this website, you agree to the processing of the data collected about you by Google in the manner and manner and for the aforementioned purpose.
Our websites use the functions of Google Analytics Remarketing in conjunction with the cross-device functions of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. The provider is Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
This function allows you to link the advertising target groups created with Google Analytics Remarketing to the cross-device functions of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. This way interest-based, personalized advertising messages that have been customized for you based on your previous usage and surfing behavior on one device (e.g. mobile phone) can also be displayed on other of your devices (e.g. tablet or PC).
If you have given your consent, Google will link your web and app browsing history with your Google account. This means that the same personalized advertising messages can be displayed on any device on which you log in to your Google account, the same personalized advertising messages can be displayed.
To support this function, Google Analytics records Google-authenticated IDs of users that temporarily linked to our Google Analytics data to define and create target groups for cross-device ad targeting.
You can permanently opt out of cross-device remarketing/targeting by deactivate personalized advertising in your Google account; to do this, follow this link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.
The summary of the data collected in your Google account is based solely on your consent, which you can give or revoke at Google (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). In data collection processes that are not merged into your Google account (e.g. because you do not have a Google account or have objected to the merging) the collection of data is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The legitimate interest arises from the fact that the website operator has an has an interest in the anonymized analysis of website visitors for advertising purposes.
For more information and the data protection provisions, please refer to the data protection declaration of Google at: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.
This website uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising program provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States ("Google").
We use conversion tracking as part of Google AdWords. When you click on an Google ad, a cookie is set for conversion tracking. Cookies are small text files that the internet browser stores on the user's computer. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used to personally identify the user. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can recognize that the user has clicked on the ad and has been redirected to this page .
Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. The cookies cannot be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to compile conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers are provided with the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they no information that personally identifies users. If you do not want to participate in tracking, you can object to this use by easily deactivating the Google conversion tracking cookie via your internet browser under user settings. You will not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.
The storage of "conversion cookies" is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its website and advertising.
For more information on Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking, please refer to the Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.
You can set your browser to inform you when cookies are set and allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general exclude them, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed. In the deactivation of cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.
We use the Cookiebot CMP Consent solution from Usercentrics to obtain your legally to store certain cookies on your device or to use certain technologies and to document this. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1c GDPR.
The following data is transferred to Usercentrics for this purpose:
Usercentrics itself also sets a cookie to be able to assign your settings.
The provider of the Consent solution is Usercentrics A/S, Havnegade 39, 1058 Copenhagen, Denmark.
You can contact us by email to request a quote or conduct other correspondence.
In the context of email correspondence, we process your name, email address and the content of your inquiry (e.g. name of your company, position) as well as mandatory information that is absolutely necessary for the preparation of an offer. In the context of contacting by email, we process your personal data based on our legitimate interest in providing good customer service in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR or in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. b) GDPR if the contact is in connection with contractual performance obligations.
Your contact requests are deleted immediately after processing unless legal retention periods require further storage. After we have answered your inquiry, we archive it immediately so that it can only be viewed to a very limited extent. Purely informative inquiries, i.e., inquiries that do not lead to a contract or contain other content that must be retained, are deleted at the end of the year in which the inquiry was made. See "Retention period" for more information.
Status: August 2024
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