General Information
Usage Data
When visiting the website, general technical information is collected. This includes the used IP address, time, duration of the visit, browser type, and possibly the referrer page. This usage data is registered in a log file for technical reasons and can be used and stored for statistical evaluation of this website. There is no connection of this usage data with your other personal data.
What are Personal Data
Personal data are details that reveal or can reveal the identity of the user. We adhere to the principle of data avoidance. Personal data is collected only when absolutely necessary.
Handling of Personal Data
Personal data is used exclusively for establishing, structuring, implementing, or processing the contractual relationship (Art. 6 I S. 1 b GDPR). Furthermore, personal data is processed only if we have obtained your consent (Art. 6 I S. 1 a GDPR). They are not passed on to third parties. The processing of your personal data takes place exclusively within the EU, unless otherwise stated below.
Storage Duration
We store your personal data only as long as it is required for the purpose for which it was collected or as long as it is necessary due to legal (especially tax law) regulations.
Your Rights
Information
You can request information from us about whether we process personal data about you and, if so, you have a right to be informed about this personal data and the additional information listed in Art. 15 GDPR.
Right to Rectification
You have the right to demand the correction of incorrect personal data concerning you and to request the completion of incomplete personal data in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR.
Right to Deletion
You have the right to demand that we delete the personal data concerning you immediately. We are obliged to delete it immediately, especially if one of the following reasons applies:
- Your personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.
- You withdraw your consent on which the processing was based, and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
- Your data was processed unlawfully.
The right to deletion does not exist insofar as your personal data is necessary for the assertion, exercise, or defense of our legal claims.
Right to Restriction of Processing
You have the right to demand that we restrict the processing of your personal data if
- You dispute the accuracy of the data and we therefore check the accuracy,
- the processing is unlawful and you refuse the deletion and instead demand the restriction of use,
- we no longer need the data, but you need it for asserting, exercising, or defending legal claims, or
- you have objected to the processing of your data, and it has not yet been determined whether our legitimate reasons outweigh your reasons.
Right to Data Portability
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and you have the right to transfer this data to another controller without hindrance from us, provided that the processing is based on consent or a contract and the processing is carried out by automated means.
Right to Withdraw Consent
Insofar as the processing of your personal data is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.
General Information and Right to Complain
The exercise of your above rights is generally free of charge for you. You have the right to lodge a complaint directly with the supervisory authority responsible for us, the State Data Protection Commissioner.
Data Security
Data Security
All data on our website is secured by technical and organizational measures against loss, destruction, access, modification, and distribution.
Sessions and Cookies
Newsletter
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use the required or separately provided data to send you our email newsletter regularly. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time, either by sending us a message via the contact options provided in the imprint or via the link provided in the newsletter.
Third-Party Services
Google Tag Manager
This website uses Google Tag Manager. Google Tag Manager by Google Inc. is a solution that allows companies to manage website tags through an interface. The tool itself is a cookie-less domain and does not store any personal data. Google Tag Manager only triggers other tags that may collect data, but it does not access this data. If deactivation has been made at the domain or cookie level, it remains for all tracking tags implemented with Google Tag Manager.
Google Analytics (via Google Tag Manager)
If you have consented to the use of Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, a web analytics service of Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), is used on this website. The use includes the mode "Universal Analytics". This makes it possible to assign data, sessions, and interactions across multiple devices to a pseudonymous user ID and thus analyze the activities of a user across devices.
We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended to include IP anonymization to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). The IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. Further information on terms of use and data protection can be found at
https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/en/
or at
https://policies.google.com/?hl=en
.
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 activities, and to provide other services related to website and internet usage to the website operator.
The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is your consent to the use of Google Tag Manager in accordance with
Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR
.
The recipient of the collected data is Google.
The personal data will be transferred to the USA under the EU-US Privacy Shield on the basis of the European Commission's adequacy decision. The certificate can be accessed
here.
The data sent by us and linked to cookies, user IDs, or advertising IDs are automatically deleted after 14 months. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached occurs automatically once a month.
You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by preventing the storage of cookies through an appropriate setting of your
browser software; however, we would like to point out that in this case, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent.
You can also prevent the collection of the 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 add-on
. To prevent the collection by Universal Analytics across different devices, you must perform the opt-out for Google Tag Manager on all systems used.
You can press the following button to manage your cookie settings:
Use of Google Maps
This website uses Google Maps, a map service provided by Google, operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). When using Google Maps, data on the use of the Maps functions by visitors to the websites is also collected, processed, and used. Here, the interests of the users do not outweigh the technical necessity of integrating the videos (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR). You can view Google's privacy policy
here.
You can view the additional usage terms for Google Maps
here.
Social Media Links
We have our own social media pages at third-party providers accessible via links from this website. By using the links, you access the respective websites of the third-party providers (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Google+). As soon as you access the page of the third-party providers, you are within the responsibility of the respective third-party provider, so their privacy policy or statements on data use apply. We have no influence on this, but we recommend logging out of the respective third-party provider before using a corresponding link to avoid unnecessary data transfer, so that no usage profiles can be created by the third-party provider through the use of the link.
Contact and Data Protection Officer
You are welcome to contact us regarding data protection using the contact details provided below. Controller within the meaning of the GDPR:
Explicatis GmbH
Max-Planck-Str. 6 - 8, 50858 Cologne, Germany
Email:
info@explicatis.com
Phone: +49 2234 99303-0
Our Data Protection Officer is also available to assist you:
Jascha Bräuer
Max-Planck-Str. 6 - 8, 50858 Cologne, Germany
Email:
info@explicatis.com
Phone: +49 2234 99303-0