Privacy Policy

1. Data Protection at a Glance

General Information
The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data by which you can be personally identified. Detailed information on data protection can be found in the privacy policy listed below this text.

Data Collection on This Website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. The contact details can be found in the section “Information on the Responsible Party” in this privacy policy.

How do we collect your data?
Your data is collected in part by you providing it to us, e.g., data you enter into a contact form.
Other data is collected automatically or after your consent when you visit the website via our IT systems. This includes primarily technical data (such as your Internet browser, operating system, or time of access). The collection of this data occurs automatically as soon as you enter this website.

What do we use your data for?
Some of the data is collected to ensure the error-free provision of the website. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior. If contracts are concluded or initiated via the website, the submitted data is also processed for contract offers, orders, or other inquiries.

What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right at any time to receive information free of charge about the origin, recipients, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data. If you have given consent to data processing, you can revoke this consent at any time for the future. You also have the right, under certain circumstances, to request the restriction of processing of your personal data. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. For this and other questions regarding data protection, you can contact us at any time.

Analysis Tools and Third-Party Tools
When visiting this website, your surfing behavior can be statistically evaluated using so-called analysis programs. Detailed information about these analysis programs can be found in the following privacy policy.

2. Hosting

We host the content of our website with the following provider:
Hostinger
Provider is HOSTINGER operations, UAB, Švitrigailos str. 34, Vilnius 03230, Lithuania.
Hostinger is a tool for creating and hosting websites. When you visit our website, Hostinger analyzes user behavior, visitor sources, visitor regions, and visitor numbers. Hostinger stores cookies on your browser which are necessary for displaying the website and ensuring security (essential cookies).
The data collected by Hostinger may be stored on servers worldwide.

Details can be found in Hostinger's privacy policy: https://www.hostinger.de/legal/datenschutz-bestimmungen

The use of Hostinger is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in a reliable presentation of our website. If appropriate consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG, as far as the consent covers the storage of cookies or access to information on the user's device (e.g., device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time.

Data Processing Agreement
We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) for the use of the above service. This is a legally required contract that ensures Hostinger processes the personal data of our website visitors only according to our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

3. General Notes and Mandatory Information

Data Protection
The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is data by which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

We point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g., communication by e-mail) can have security gaps. Complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

Information on the Responsible Party

The responsible party for data processing on this website is:
Karen Kretschmann
Türkenstraße 2
E-mail: kretschmann@kretschmannpr.de

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (such as names, e-mail addresses, etc.).

Storage Duration
Unless a more specific storage period is specified within this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for data processing no longer applies. If you assert a legitimate request for erasure or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted, provided we have no other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g., tax or commercial retention periods); in the latter case, deletion will take place after these reasons cease to apply.

General Information on Legal Bases for Data Processing on This Website

If you have consented to data processing, we process your personal data based on Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR if special data categories are processed according to Art. 9(1) GDPR. If there is explicit consent to the transfer of personal data to third countries, data processing is also based on Art. 49(1)(a) GDPR. If you have consented to the storage of cookies or access to information in your device (e.g., via device fingerprinting), data processing is additionally based on § 25(1) TDDDG. Consent may be revoked at any time. If your data is required for contract fulfillment or pre-contractual measures, we process your data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Furthermore, we process your data if it is required to fulfill a legal obligation on the basis of Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. Data processing may also be carried out based on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Specific legal bases are indicated in the relevant paragraphs of this privacy policy.

Recipients of Personal Data
As part of our business activities, we cooperate with various external parties. The transfer of personal data to these external parties may be required. We only share personal data with external parties if necessary for contract fulfillment, if required by law (e.g., transfer to tax authorities), if we have a legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, or if another legal basis permits data sharing. For service providers we contract for processing, personal data is only shared based on a valid data processing agreement. In the event of joint processing, a contract for joint processing is concluded.

Revocation of Your Consent to Data Processing
Many data processing operations are only possible with your explicit consent. You may revoke your consent at any time. The legality of data processing prior to revocation remains unaffected.

Right to Object to Data Collection in Special Cases and to Direct Marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF DATA PROCESSING IS BASED ON ART. 6(1)(E) OR (F) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME, FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. DETAILS OF THE LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, 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 IS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE, OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21(1) GDPR).

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

Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority
In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects have a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in the member state of their habitual residence, their workplace, or the location of the alleged infringement. This right is without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right to Data Portability
You have the right to receive data which we process based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to have it transmitted to another controller, where technically feasible.

Access, Rectification, and Erasure
Within the framework of the legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free access to your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of the data processing and, where applicable, a right to rectification or erasure of this data. For questions about personal data, you can contact us at any time.

Right to Restrict Processing
You have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal data. You can contact us at any time for this. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:

• If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored with us, we usually need time to verify this. For the duration of the verification, you have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal data.

• If the processing of your personal data was/is unlawful, you may request restriction of processing instead of erasure.

• If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it for the exercise, defense, or establishment of legal claims, you may request restriction of processing instead of erasure.

• If you have objected under Art. 21(1) GDPR, a balance must be struck between your interests and ours. As long as it has not been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal data.
  If processing has been restricted, such data may – with the exception of storage – only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or a member state.

4. Data Collection on This Website

Cookies
Our web pages use so-called "cookies." Cookies are small data packets that do no harm to your device. They may be stored temporarily for the duration of a session ("session cookies") or permanently ("persistent cookies") on your device. Session cookies are deleted automatically after your visit. Persistent cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them or an automatic deletion occurs through your web browser.
Cookies can originate from us ("first-party cookies") or from third-party companies ("third-party cookies"). Third-party cookies allow for integration of certain services from third-party companies within websites (e.g., cookies for handling payment services).
Cookies serve various purposes. Many cookies are technically necessary, as certain website features would not work without them (e.g., the shopping cart function or video display). Other cookies may be used to analyze user behavior or for advertising purposes.

Cookies necessary for electronic communication, providing certain functions you require (e.g., shopping cart function), or optimizing the website (e.g., audience measurement cookies) are stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR unless another legal basis is specified. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing necessary cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of services. If consent to store cookies and similar recognition technologies has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on this basis (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and §25(1) TDDDG); consent may be revoked at any time.

You can set your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies, to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general, and to activate automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. By disabling cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited. Details on which cookies and services are used on this website can be found in this privacy policy