Data protection

Personal data (hereinafter usually simply referred to as ‘data’) will only be processed by us to the extent necessary and for the purpose of providing a functional and user-friendly website, including its content and the services.

In accordance with Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, i.e. the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter referred to as ‘GDPR’), ‘processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data – whether or not by automated means – such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

With the following data protection declaration, we inform you in particular about the type, scope, purpose, duration, and legal basis of the processing of personal data, insofar as we decide either alone or together with others on the purposes and means of processing. In addition, we inform you below about the third-party components we use for optimization purposes and to increase the quality of use, insofar as this leads to third parties processing data according to their own responsibilities.

I. Information about us as the responsible party:

The responsible provider of this website in terms of data protection law is:

Petra Czysewsky
Viktoriastraße 19
76133 Karlsruhe

II. Rights of users and data subjects:

With regard to the data processing described in more detail below, users and data subjects have the right to confirmation as to whether data concerning them is being processed, to information about the processed data, to further information about the data processing, and to copies of the data (Art. 15 GDPR); to rectification or completion of incorrect or incomplete data (Art. 16 GDPR); to immediate erasure of the data concerning them (Art. 17 GDPR), or, alternatively, if further processing is required pursuant to Art. 17(3) GDPR, to restriction of processing in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR; to receive the data concerning them and provided by them and to transfer this data to other providers/controllers (Art. 20 GDPR); to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority if they believe that the data concerning them is being processed by the provider in breach of data protection regulations (Art. 77 GDPR).

In addition, the provider is obliged to inform all recipients to whom data has been disclosed by the provider of any correction or deletion of data or the restriction of processing that occurs on the basis of Articles 16, 17(1), 18 GDPR. However, this obligation does not apply if this notification is impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. Notwithstanding this, the user has a right to information about these recipients.

Users and data subjects also have the right to object to the future processing of data concerning them in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR, provided that the data is processed by the provider in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) lit. In particular, an objection to data processing for the purpose of direct advertising is permitted.

III. Information on data processing:

Your data processed when using our website will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage no longer applies, the deletion of the data does not conflict with any statutory storage obligations, and no other information is provided below on individual processing procedures.

Server data:

For technical reasons, in particular to ensure a secure and stable internet presence, data is transmitted to us or to our webspace provider by your internet browser. With these so-called server log files, the type and version of your internet browser, the operating system, the website from which you have switched to our internet presence (referrer URL), the website(s) of our internet presence that you visit, the date and time of the respective access, and the IP address of the internet connection from which our internet presence is used are collected, among other things.

The data collected in this way is stored temporarily, but not together with other data about you.

This storage takes place on the legal basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the improvement, stability, functionality, and security of our website.

The data will be deleted after seven days at the latest, unless further storage is required for evidence purposes. Otherwise, the data is excluded from deletion in whole or in part until an incident has been finally clarified.