Data Protection Information

As the operator of the website at https://beammycar.com/ (also referred to as the “Website”), we are responsible for the personal data of the user (“you“) of this website within the meaning of the applicable data protection law, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). As part of our duty to provide information (Art. 13 ff. GDPR), we will inform you below about which data is processed when you visit our website and on what legal basis this is done. You will also receive information about your rights vis-à-vis us and the competent supervisory authority.

1. Information on the person responsible

BMC GmbH GmbH Spohrstraße 2 04103 Leipzig Germany E-Mail: <datenschutz@beammycar.com>

2. Informational use of our website

When you access our website merely to visit it, so-called log files are processed by being automatically recorded by our system. The following log files are processed automatically:

• IP address of the requesting computer
• Type of Internet browser used
• Language of the Internet browser used
• Version of the Internet browser used
• Operating system and its version
• Interface of the operating system
• Pages accessed
• Date and time of the visit
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Access status/http status code
• Amount of data transferred
• Success or error of the charging process
• Referrer
• Websites that are accessed by the visitor’s system via our website
• Internet service provider of the user

The log files contain your IP address and possibly other personal data. It is therefore generally possible to identify you. However, we only store your data temporarily and, in particular, not together with other personal data. The processing of the above-mentioned data is necessary for the provision of our website. We also store the data for the purpose of ensuring the security of our information technology systems. These purposes also justify our legitimate interest in processing the data on the legal basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. The log files, which also contain your IP address, are deleted or anonymised immediately after they are no longer required to achieve the aforementioned purposes, but after 180 days at the latest.

Website hosting:

Our website runs on the network of the provider Deutsche Telekom GmbH, Landgrabenweg 151, 53227 Bonn, with server location in Germany. This means that the data we collect when you visit and use this website is stored by our hoster. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, as it is in our legitimate interest to use the services of a professional provider for the secure and efficient provision of our website. We have concluded an order processing contract with the hosting provider.

3. Cookie Consent Management Tool

In order to obtain and document the consent of our visitors to the cookies and similar technologies we use, we use the cookie consent tool from Complianz B.V., Kalmarweg 14-5, 9723 JG Groningen, Netherlands. In this context, the cookie consent tool sets technically necessary cookies to save your cookie consents. These cookies store the consent you gave when you entered the website. If you wish to revoke this consent, simply delete the cookie in your browser. When you re-enter/reload the website, you will be asked for your cookie consent again. You can also change your cookie settings at any time by going back to the data protection settings on our website. The legal basis for the use of the cookie consent tool and the setting of technically necessary cookies is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c, f GDPR and § 25 para. 2 TTDSG. It is in our legitimate interest to use the services of a professional service provider to manage and document the cookie settings of our visitors.

4. Contact Form

You can contact us electronically via our contact form, e.g. to provide us with feedback, to send enquiries about the services we offer or to ask us general questions. If you use this option, you transmit the following data to us:

• E-mail address (to contact you)
• Name (to address you and for abuse prevention purposes)
• Telephone number (optional)
• Company (voluntary)
• Your message to us

The legal basis for the processing of your data for the purpose of processing your contact is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. It is our legitimate interest to process your data transmitted to us for the purpose of contacting you. The data will be stored until it is no longer required to fulfil the purpose of the conversation with you and your contact request has been fully clarified. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract with us, the additional legal basis for the processing of your personal data is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR. This data is stored for as long as it is required to fulfil the contract or pre-contractual measures. Beyond this, we only store your data in order to fulfil legal obligations (e.g. tax obligations) (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR). In addition to the data that you provide to us, we store the time (date and time) of the transmission of your data to us, as well as your IP address. The processing of this data is in our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR) in order to ensure the security of our systems and counteract misuse. This data, which we also collect when you contact us, will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required, at the latest when your contact request has been fully clarified. You can inform us at any time (see section 1 above) that we should delete the data provided during the conversation. In this case, to the extent permitted, all personal data from the conversation will be deleted and it will not be possible to continue the conversation.

5. Contact by E-mail or Telephone

You have the option of contacting us by e-mail or telephone. Your personal data transmitted in this way will be stored by us. The data is processed exclusively in order to process your contact appropriately, whereby this corresponds to our legitimate interest. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. The data will be stored until it is no longer required to fulfil the purpose of the conversation with you and your contact request has been fully clarified. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract with us, the additional legal basis for the processing of your personal data is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR. This data is stored for as long as it is required to fulfil the contract or pre-contractual measures. Beyond this, we only store your data in order to fulfil legal obligations (e.g. tax obligations) (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR). You can inform us at any time (see section 1 above) that we should delete the data provided during the conversation. In this case, to the extent permitted, all personal data from the conversation will be deleted and it will not be possible to continue the conversation.

6. Links to Social Networks

We use small icons and other links on our website that refer to our website on third-party platforms (Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn). These are hyperlinks, so no data is automatically transferred from you, but only when you click on the icons or the corresponding link and a new window opens in your browser with the website of the third-party provider.

6.1 Facebook page (formerly “Facebook fan page”)

We operate a so-called Facebook page on the social media platform Facebook (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Serpentine Avenue, Block J, Dublin 4 Ireland (hereinafter: “Meta“)), which we link to on our website via the Facebook icon. As long as you do not click on the link, Meta will not receive any data from you. If you click on the link, for example to view our company presence on Facebook or to “like” our Facebook page, Meta will receive data from you (which data Meta receives also depends on whether you are logged in to Meta with your user profile while clicking on the page or not). Meta also uses so-called cookies, which are stored on your device when you visit our Facebook page even if you do not have your own Facebook profile or are not logged into it during your visit to our Facebook page. These cookies allow Meta to create user profiles based on your preferences and interests and to show you customised advertising (inside and outside Facebook). Cookies remain on your end device until you delete them. You can find more information about the cookies used on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ According to its own information, Meta uses this data for a wide variety of purposes and transmits it worldwide, both internally to other Meta companies and to a wide variety of external partners. Meta bases this data processing on various legal bases, details of which can be found in Meta’s Data Policy. The data policy can be found at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php While Meta uses this data under its own responsibility for various purposes, we can only see aggregated data on our company Facebook page, i.e. statistics (e.g. user growth, user demographics, use of individual functionalities), which no longer have any personal reference. This data, which is called “page insights”, is created using so-called “events” logged by Meta. An “event” can be, for example, the fact that someone has marked a certain post with a “like”. As the website operator, we do not have access to the personal data that is processed as part of events, but only to the summarised page insights. Events that are used to create Page Insights do not store any IP addresses, cookie IDs or any other identifiers that are assigned to people or their devices, apart from a Facebook user ID for people logged in to Facebook. You can find more information about Page Insights at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data In accordance with the provisions of the GDPR, we are jointly responsible with Meta for data processing on our Facebook page (Art. 26 GDPR). Accordingly, we have concluded an agreement with Meta provided by Meta in which this joint responsibility is regulated. You can find the agreement in German at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum This means that Meta is primarily responsible for the aggregated Insight data. In addition, Meta will fulfil all obligations under the GDPR with regard to the processing of Insight data (including Art. 12, 13 GDPR, Art. 15-21 GDPR and Art. 32-34 GDPR). If you send us an enquiry regarding our Facebook page, we will inform Meta promptly. Meta will respond to the enquiry in accordance with our agreement. Our legitimate interests in the processing of personal data lie in the use and linking of various communication channels, marketing via high-reach social media platforms and analysing and evaluating the success of our communication and marketing efforts. The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. If you consent to data processing (in particular to the setting of cookies), the processing is also carried out on the basis of Section 25 (1) TTDSG or Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. If you use our Facebook page to contact us (e.g. by creating your own posts, responding to one of our posts or sending us private messages), we process the data you provide exclusively to process your contact. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is therefore Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. It is our legitimate interest to process your data transmitted to us in order to contact you. The data will be stored until it is no longer required to fulfil the purpose of the conversation with you and your contact request has been fully clarified. You can inform us at any time that we should delete the data provided in the course of the conversation. In this case, to the extent permitted, all personal data from the conversation will be deleted and it will not be possible to continue the conversation.

6.2 Internet presence on Instagram

We operate a corporate presence on the social media portal Instagram. The operator of Instagram is Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Serpentine Avenue, Block J, Dublin 4 Ireland, whereby the platforms Facebook and Instagram share the technical infrastructure according to Meta’s own information. In the following, the term “Instagram” is used for the social media portal and the term “Meta” for the operator of this portal. On our website, we link to our company presence on Instagram using the Instagram icon. As long as you do not click on the link, Meta will not receive any data from you. If you click on the link, for example to view or subscribe to our company presence on Instagram, Meta will receive data from you (which data Meta receives also depends on whether you are logged in to Instagram with your user profile while clicking on the page or not). In addition, Meta uses so-called cookies, which are stored on your device when you visit our corporate website even if you do not have your own Instagram profile or are not logged into it during your visit to our corporate website. These cookies allow Meta to create user profiles based on your preferences and interests and to show you customised advertising (inside and outside Instagram). Cookies remain on your device until you delete them. You can find more information about the cookies used by Meta at https://help.instagram.com/1896641480634370?ref=ig According to its own information, Meta uses this data for a wide variety of purposes and transmits it worldwide, both internally to other Meta companies and to various external partners. Meta bases this data processing on various legal bases, which you can find in detail in Instagram’s privacy policy and Facebook’s data policy. Instagram’s privacy policy can be found at the following link: https://www.instagram.com/legal/privacy/ Facebook’s data policy, which also applies to Instagram, can be found at https://www.facebook.com/policy While Meta uses this data under its own responsibility for various purposes, we can only see aggregated data on our company website, i.e. statistics (e.g. user growth, user demographics, use of individual functionalities), which no longer have any personal reference. These are called “Instagram Insights”. You can find more information about Instagram Insights on the corresponding Meta information page, which relates to all Meta products (and therefore also to Instagram). You can access this information page at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data In accordance with the provisions of the GDPR, we are jointly responsible with Meta for data processing on our Instagram corporate presence (Art. 26 GDPR). Accordingly, we have concluded an agreement with Meta provided by Meta in which this joint responsibility is regulated. You can find the agreement in German at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum This means that Meta is primarily responsible for the aggregated Insight data. In addition, Meta will fulfil all obligations under the GDPR with regard to the processing of Insight data (including Art. 12, 13 GDPR, Art. 15-21 GDPR and Art. 32-34 GDPR). If you send us an enquiry regarding our Instagram company presence, we will inform Meta promptly. Meta will respond to the enquiry in accordance with our agreement. Our legitimate interests in the processing of personal data lie in the use and linking of various communication channels, marketing via high-reach social media platforms and analysing and evaluating the success of our communication and marketing efforts. The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. If you consent to data processing (in particular to the setting of cookies), the processing is also carried out on the basis of Section 25 (1) TTDSG or Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. If you use our Instagram page to contact us (e.g. by creating your own posts, responding to one of our posts or sending us private messages), we will only process the data you provide in order to process your contact. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is therefore Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. It is our legitimate interest to process your data transmitted to us in order to contact you. The data will be stored until it is no longer required to fulfil the purpose of the conversation with you and your contact request has been fully clarified. You can inform us at any time that we should delete the data provided in the course of the conversation. In this case, to the extent permitted, all personal data from the conversation will be deleted and it will not be possible to continue the conversation.

6.3 Internet presence on LinkedIn

We operate a website on the social media portal LinkedIn (LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (hereinafter referred to as “LinkedIn“)), which we link to on our website via the LinkedIn icon. As long as you do not click on the link, LinkedIn will not receive any data from you. If you click on the link, for example to view our website on LinkedIn, LinkedIn will receive data from you (which data LinkedIn receives also depends on whether you are logged in to LinkedIn with your user profile while you click on the page or not). LinkedIn also uses so-called cookies, which are stored on your end device when you visit our company website, even if you do not have your own LinkedIn profile or are not logged into it during your visit to our company website. These cookies allow LinkedIn to provide its own services, determine the performance of the services and display relevant adverts (including job advertisements) within and outside LinkedIn. Cookies remain on your device until you delete them. You can find more information about the cookies used by LinkedIn at https://de.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-cookie-policy According to its own information, LinkedIn uses this data for a wide variety of purposes and transmits it to a wide variety of recipients, including recipients who are not based in the EU. LinkedIn bases this data processing on various legal bases, which you can find in LinkedIn’s privacy policy. The privacy policy can be found at the following link: https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy While LinkedIn uses this data under its own responsibility for various purposes, we can only see aggregated data on our LinkedIn website, i.e. statistics that no longer have any personal reference. These are called “page analytics”. You can find more information on “Page Analytics” on the corresponding LinkedIn information page at https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/4499/linkedin-page-analytics-overview?lang=de In addition, if you decide to become a follower when you visit our LinkedIn website, we will also receive your name and your position in the company according to the information in your LinkedIn user profile, as well as the time at which you became our follower. https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/4499/linkedin-page-analytics-overview?lang=en In accordance with the provisions of the GDPR, we are jointly responsible with LinkedIn for data processing on our LinkedIn website (Art. 26 GDPR). Accordingly, we have concluded an agreement with LinkedIn provided by LinkedIn in which this joint responsibility is regulated. You can find the agreement at the following link: https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum This means that LinkedIn is primarily responsible for the aggregated Insight data. In addition, LinkedIn will fulfil all obligations under the GDPR with regard to the processing of Insight data (including Art. 12 -22 GDPR and Art. 32-34 GDPR). If you send us an enquiry regarding our LinkedIn website, we will inform LinkedIn promptly. LinkedIn will respond to the enquiry in accordance with our agreement. Our legitimate interests in the processing of personal data lie in the use and linking of various communication channels, marketing via high-reach social media platforms and analysing and evaluating the success of our communication and marketing efforts. The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. If you consent to data processing (in particular to the setting of cookies), the processing is also carried out on the basis of Section 25 (1) TTDSG or Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR If you use our LinkedIn presence to contact us (e.g. by creating your own posts, responding to one of our posts or sending us private messages), we process the data you provide exclusively to process your contact. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is therefore Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. It is our legitimate interest to process your data transmitted to us in order to contact you. The data will be stored until it is no longer required to fulfil the purpose of the conversation with you and your contact request has been fully clarified. You can inform us at any time (see section 1 above) that we should delete the data provided in the course of the conversation. In this case, all personal data of the conversation will be deleted, as far as permissible, and it will not be possible to continue the conversation.

7. Google Analytics

The analytics service Google Analytics 4 is implemented on our website, which is offered for users from the European Economic Area, Switzerland and Liechtenstein by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland and for all other users by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter: “Google Analytics 4“). We have concluded an order processing contract with Google Ireland Limited in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. Google Analytics 4 can record the following information, among others:

• Type of Internet browser used
• Version of the internet browser
• The operating system you are using
• Selected language
• Data on the requesting end device
• Referrer (previously visited website)
• Your IP address (according to Google, the IP address is only used temporarily to determine a rough location of the requesting end device (city level) and then deleted)
• (Rough) location data, i.e. city (including its longitude and latitude), continent, country, region and subcontinent of the requesting end device
• Date and time of the server request
• The duration of the session
• Click and scroll behaviour, including media playback, internal searches and content sharing
• Webshop interactions, such as product views and orders

Google Analytics 4 only uses the IP address to derive location data. According to Google, IP addresses are otherwise not logged or stored. We are only shown statistics via Google Analytics 4, which we use to optimise our website and offers. We have also configured Google Analytics 4 so that Google is not permitted to use the data to analyse its own online trends or to improve its own products and services. Before we use Google Analytics 4 to analyse your website visit, we obtain your consent to the processing of your personal data (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR) and the setting of the necessary cookies (§ 25 para. 1 TTDSG). You can withdraw your consent in accordance with the aforementioned legal bases at any time by changing the data protection settings on our website. Further information on the cookies used can be found in our cookie information. Note on data transfers to the USA: The use of Google Analytics is based on a contract that we have concluded with Google Ireland Ltd. However, Google Ireland Ltd. is a subsidiary of the US Google Group, which means that your personal data may also be transferred to US Google Group companies (in particular Google LLC) and Google servers located in the USA. The USA is a third country within the meaning of the GDPR for which the EU Commission has issued an adequacy decision (the so-called “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” or “EU-US DPF”). Google LLC is certified as a US company under the EU-US DPF, see https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participant-detail?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active. You can also prevent the collection of your personal data by Google Analytics 4 and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser add-on available at the following link (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de) to deactivate Google Analytics. You can also prevent your data from being processed by Google Analytics 4 by clicking on the following link and opting out: (“Deactivate Google Analytics” with javascript:gaOptout(). This sets an “opt-out cookie” that prevents the future collection of your user data on this website unless the opt-out cookie is deleted. Finally, you can also prevent the storage of Google cookies yourself by making the appropriate settings in your browser settings.

8. Google Tag Manager

We use the Google Tag Manager tag management system on our website (hereinafter: “Google Tag Manager“), which is offered for users from the European Economic Area, Switzerland and Liechtenstein by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland and for all other users by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Tag Manager is a tag management platform that allows us to load additional tools using a so-called “tag”. According to Google’s own information, Google Tag Manager collects certain aggregated data for tag triggering in order to monitor the stability, performance and installation quality of the system and to obtain data for diagnosis. According to Google, this data does not contain any IP addresses or measurement IDs that are linked to a specific person. Unlike data in standard HTTP request logs, which are all deleted within 14 days of receipt, and the diagnostic data described above, Google Tag Manager does not collect, store or share any information about visitors to our website. This also applies to the URLs of visited pages. If the tools loaded by Google Tag Manager collect data for their part, Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If deactivation has been carried out at domain or cookie level, this remains in place for all tracking tags that are implemented with Google Tag Manager. The legal basis for the processing of this data is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence lit. a GDPR. You can withdraw your consent in accordance with the aforementioned legal bases at any time by changing the data protection settings on our website. We have concluded an order processing contract with Google, available at https://business.safety.google/adsprocessorterms/. Note on data transfers to the USA: Please note the following: The use of Google Tag Manager is based on a contract that we have concluded with Google Ireland. However, Google Ireland Ltd. is a subsidiary of the US Google Group, which means that your personal data may also be transferred to US Google Group companies (in particular Google LLC) and Google servers located in the USA. The USA is a third country within the meaning of the GDPR for which the EU Commission has issued an adequacy decision (the so-called “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” or “EU-US DPF”). Google LLC is certified as a US company under the EU-US DPF, see https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participant-detail?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.

9. Utilisation of Service Providers

We would like to point out that when processing your personal data, we may use service providers with whom we have concluded order processing contracts (e.g. for website hosting). If processors in a third country (not within the EU) carry out data processing, we ensure that the level of protection of your data guaranteed by the GDPR is not undermined (Art. 44 ff. GDPR). The legal basis for the use of service providers is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. The commissioning of service providers (specialists or other service providers in areas that we cannot serve ourselves) is in our legitimate interest. If you would like to receive a copy of the suitable or appropriate guarantees, please let us know (see section 1 above).

10. Your Rights

If we process your data, you are a “data subject” within the meaning of the GDPR. You have the following rights: right of access, right to rectification, right to restriction of processing, right to erasure, right to information and right to data portability. In addition, you have a right to object, a right of cancellation and the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. Below you will find some details on the individual rights:

10.1 Right to information

You have the right to request confirmation from us as to whether we are processing your personal data. If we process your personal data, you have the right to obtain information in particular about the processing purposes, categories of personal data, recipients or categories of recipients and, if applicable, the storage period.

10.2 Right of rectification

You have the right to correct and/or complete the data that we have stored about you if this data is incorrect or incomplete. We will make the correction or completion without delay.

10.3 Right to restriction of processing

Under certain circumstances, you have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data. An example of this is if you dispute the accuracy of your personal data and we need to verify the accuracy for a certain period of time. Your data will only be processed to a limited extent for the duration of the check. Another example of restriction is if we no longer need your data, but you need it for a legal dispute.

10.4 Right of cancellation

In certain situations, you have the right to request that we delete your personal data immediately. This is the case, for example, if we no longer need your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it or if we have processed your data unlawfully. Another example would be if we process your data on the basis of your consent, you withdraw your consent and we do not process the data on any other legal basis. However, your right to erasure does not always apply. For example, we may process your personal data in order to fulfil a legal obligation or because we need it for a legal dispute.

10.5 Right to information

If you have exercised your right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing against us, we are obliged to notify all recipients to whom we have disclosed your personal data of the rectification, erasure or restriction of processing of your data, unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort.

10.6 Right to data portability

Under certain conditions, you have the right to receive the personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and the right to have this data transmitted to another controller. This is the case if we process the data either on the basis of your consent or on the basis of a contract with you and that we process the data using automated procedures. You have the right to obtain that we transfer your personal data directly to another controller, insofar as this is technically feasible and the freedoms and rights of other persons are not affected by this.

10.7 Right of objection

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of your personal data which is based on point (e) or (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions. Following an objection, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. If we process your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of such marketing. This also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with direct advertising. If you object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes, we will no longer process it for these purposes.

10.8 Right of cancellation

In accordance with Art. 7 (3) GDPR, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent does not retroactively invalidate the lawfulness of the processing.

10.9 Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy. In particular, you may exercise your right to lodge a complaint in the Member State of your place of residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement if you believe that the processing of your personal data infringes the GDPR. You can find an overview of the respective state data protection officers and their contact details under the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Anschriften/Laender/Laender-node.html

11. Status and up-to-dateness of this data protection information : Status: October 2023

Cookie information

We use cookies on our website. Cookies are text files that are sent to your browser by our web server when you visit our website and are stored on your computer for later retrieval. Cookies are then sent to the server of our website with every server enquiry or page request. A cookie can therefore be used to identify your Internet browser when you visit the website again. Some of the functions that we have integrated into our website also use web storage objects. These work in a similar way to cookies, but are temporarily stored in your browser and are generally not transmitted to the server. There are session cookies, which are deleted when the browser is closed, and there are persistent cookies, which are stored on the hard drive until their preset expiry date is reached or until they are actively removed by you. Web storage objects are divided into local storage objects, which never expire, and session storage objects, which are deleted when the browser is closed. A distinction is made between first party cookies (only visible from the domain you are currently visiting) and third party cookies (visible across domains and regularly set by third parties). Cookies and web storage objects are categorised as follows: Technically necessary: These are absolutely necessary to move around the website, use basic functions and ensure the security of the website; they do not collect information about you for marketing purposes or store which web pages you have visited. The legal basis for the setting of technically necessary cookies and web storage objects is § 25 para. 2 TTDSG. Optional: These are used, for example, for analysis and marketing purposes and to display external content such as videos. Analysis cookies and web storage objects collect information about how you use a website, which pages you visit and, for example, whether errors occur when using the website. Marketing cookies and web storage objects are used to show you customised advertising on the website or offers from third parties and to measure the effectiveness of these offers. These are technologies that are not technically necessary. The legal basis for setting these cookies and web storage objects is therefore your consent in accordance with Section 25 (1) of the German Data Protection Act (TTDSG). Please note the following: You can ensure yourself that no cookies and similar technologies are stored on your computer at all, or that the storage of only certain cookies is permitted. You can select this in your Internet browser settings. You can also view and delete the stored cookies there. If you block all cookies, it is possible that not all functions of our website will be available to you.

Right of cancellation and removal

As stated at the beginning of this section, you can enable or restrict the transmission of cookies and similar technologies by changing the settings in your Internet browser. You can delete cookies and web storage objects that have already been saved by your internet browser at any time. If cookies and web storage objects are restricted or deactivated for our website, it is possible that not all functionalities can be used.

Information about the cookies and web storage objects on our website:

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Status and topicality of this cookie information:

Status: October 2023