Privacy Policy

What is personal data?

Personal data is information that allows the identification of a natural person or relates to an identifiable natural person. It is therefore about your identity. This includes, for example, your name, but also your telephone number, your address and other data, e.g. by means of allocation to an identification number, to location data, to an online identification.

The legal basis for our data processing can be found in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In the following note we refer to the corresponding regulations as the respective legal basis for our processing.

Contact

If you contact us via our contact options, we will save your name and contact data as well as your request. The data is used to process your request and to communicate with you. We use your e-mail to be able to reply to you by e-mail (legal basis Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit a and b GDPR). Personal data will be deleted automatically after your request has been dealt with. By submitting your data in our inquiry form, you agree to the data processing by K-PRO GmbH to the apparent extent.

Newsletter

On the basis of your expressly given consent, we will regularly send you our newsletter or comparable information by e-mail to your specified e-mail address.

To receive the newsletter, it is sufficient to enter your e-mail address. If you register to receive our newsletter, the data you provide will be used exclusively for this purpose. Subscribers can also be informed by e-mail about circumstances that are relevant for the service or registration (for example changes to the newsletter offer or technical conditions).

For an effective registration we need a valid e-mail address. In order to verify that a registration is actually made by the owner of an e-mail address, we use the "double-opt-in" procedure. You will then receive a confirmation and authorisation e-mail from us, asking you to click on the link contained in this e-mail, thus confirming that you wish to receive our newsletter. For this purpose, we log the order for the newsletter. No further data is collected. The data will be used exclusively for the newsletter dispatch and will not be passed on to third parties.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for the newsletter dispatch at any time. In every newsletter you will find a corresponding link. You can also unsubscribe at any time directly on this website or inform us of your wish via the contact option at the beginning of this data protection notice.

Use of your data when visiting our site

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (following Google). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on these websites, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide further services to the website operator in connection with website and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not merged with other data from Google.

The purposes of the data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on activities on the website. Based on the use of the website and the Internet, further related services will then be provided. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link Browser Add On to deactivate Google Analytics.

Your technical objection options

Regardless of the set duration, you can manually delete cookies in your browser. In some browser settings the acceptance of cookies is pre-set without restrictions. You can allow or forbid temporary and stored cookies independently of each other in the security settings of your browser. You can also deactivate cookies, except for browser settings that generally disable the automatic setting of cookies.

If you are using a mobile device, you can enable the "No ad tracking" (iOS) or "Disable personalized advertising" (Android) setting on the device with the appropriate operating system. This is to prevent the Advertising ID (a non-personal device identifier) from being used to deliver interest-driven advertising.

If you use the option of deleting all cookies or setting blocking cookies in your browser, please remember that the corresponding settings or setting blocking cookies may have to be made again!

The acceptance of cookies is not a prerequisite for visiting our online offer. However, if you do not accept or deactivate cookies, certain options (e.g. services, purchasing options, a shopping cart storage and information) may not be available to you on our site and some web pages may not be displayed correctly.

Right of objection and revocation for user profiles and cookies

In accordance with Art. 21 para. 4 GDPR, among other things, you have a right of objection to the creation of user profiles, especially if they are created for advertising purposes. You can revoke your consent to the setting and use of cookies at any time with effect for the future. Previous uses remain unaffected. Any personal data will no longer be evaluated. We have described how you can technically affect your objection in the information on data collection under the heading "Your technical objection options".

If you have any questions about the above technical objection possibilities or our other protective measures, please contact us.

How do we protect your personal data?

General protective measures: The law requires companies to establish an adequate level of data protection. This involves, among other things, balancing the respective risk for the data, the probability of occurrence, the state of the art and the costs. We have taken appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the security of your data and its processing in accordance with the legal requirements. If you have security concerns regarding data entry or any other questions or suggestions, please contact us.

What rights do I have?

As a data subject, you can legally assert certain rights.

Right to confirmation and information

In accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, you have the right to request confirmation from us as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed. In the event that we process such data, you have the right to receive information about your stored data free of charge.

Right of rectification

You have the right to obtain from the data controller the rectification and/or integration of any personal data processed concerning you if it is incorrect or incomplete. The data controller shall make the correction without delay.

Right of objection

You have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 letter e or letter f GDPR; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

In the event of an objection to data processing for direct advertising (Art. 21 para. 2 GDPR), such processing shall be terminated as soon as possible after receipt of the objection.

An objection to other processing (according to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR) based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e or lit. f GDPR can only be made for reasons arising from your particular situation, whereby in turn compelling overriding reasons worthy of protection may justify our further processing.

Right of cancellation and right to be forgotten

You have the right to request the deletion of personal data concerning you. Please note that a right to immediate deletion (Art. 17 GDPR) ("right to be forgotten") exists only if one of the following reasons applies:

• The personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.

• They revoke their consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR or Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a GDPR, and there is no other legal basis for the processing.

• You object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR and there are no legitimate overriding reasons for the processing, or you object to the processing for direct marketing purposes pursuant to Art. 21 para. 2 GDPR.

• The personal data concerning you have been processed unlawfully.

• The deletion of personal data is necessary to comply with a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the Member States to which the controller is subject.

• The personal data concerning you has been collected in relation to information society services offered in accordance with Art. 8 para. 1 GDPR.

Right to restrict processing

You have the right to limit the processing if you dispute the accuracy of personal data for a period of time that allows us to verify the accuracy of the personal data or if you refuse to delete them in the event of unlawful processing and request instead that the use of personal data be limited. You also have this right if we no longer need the data, if you need the personal data to assert, exercise or defend legal claims. Finally, you can exercise this right if you have lodged an objection to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 Para. 1 GDPR and it is not yet clear whether the legitimate reasons of the person responsible outweigh your reasons.

Where processing has been restricted, such data may be processed only with your consent or for the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims or protecting the rights of another natural or legal person or on grounds of an important public interest of the Union or a Member State. The possibility of continued storage shall remain unaffected. If the restriction on processing has been restricted in accordance with the above conditions, you will be informed by us before the restriction is lifted.

Right to data portability

You also have the right to transfer to you in a "structured, common and machine-readable format" the data you have provided to us, which we have processed on the basis of an effective consent or whose processing was necessary for the conclusion or fulfilment of an effective contract. You also have the right to request direct transmission to another responsible party, insofar as this is technically feasible.

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always meets the current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services. The new data protection declaration then applies to your next visit.

Please contact us if you have any questions or to assert your rights.