Data Privacy Policy

1. Protection of your Data at a Glance

General pointers
The following pointers are intended as a simple overview of the treatment of your personal data on visiting this website. Personal data are all data that serve to personally identify you. For more detailed information on data protection please consult our data privacy statement below.

Collection of Data on this website
Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data processing on this website is handled by the website operator whose contacts you may consult in our website credits.

How do we gather your data?

Some data is gathered by you telling us about it. This may be data that you entered on a contact form for example.

Other data is automatically gathered by our IT systems when you visit our website. These are mainly technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or the time of the page view). The capture of these data happens automatically as soon as you enter this website.

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is gathered in order to ensure a smooth functioning of the website. Other data may be used to analyze your user behavior.

What are your rights as regards your data?

At any time you have the right to information, free of charge, on the origin, recipient and reason behind your saved personal data. You also have the right to demand the correction or deletion of that data. In this respect as well as regards other questions on data protection feel free to talk to us at any time using the address provided in the website credits. Furthermore you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant regulatory authority.

In addition you enjoy the right, given certain circumstances, to demand a restriction of the processing of your personal data. For details please see the data privacy statement for ‘Right to Restriction of Processing Data’.

2. Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

External Hosting
This website is hosted by an external service provider (host). The personal data gathered on this website are stored on the host’s servers. This concerns mainly IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contractual data, contact details, names, website views and other data generated through a website.

Using a host serves to fulfill our contractual obligations towards our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 para 1 section b DSGVO/GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation) and is in the interest of a safe, fast and efficient provision of our online service through a professional provider (Art. 6 par. 1 section f GDPR).

Our host will only process your data as in far as necessary to fulfill their service obligations and follow our instructions as regards those data.

3. General Pointers and Mandatory Information

Data Protection
The people running these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and according to the legal data protection legislation, as well as in terms of the present data privacy statement.

On using this website, various personal data is compiled. Personal data is information that serves to personally identify you. The current data protection statement explains what kind of data we gather and what we use it for. It also explains the how and wherefore of this process.

We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (in communication by email for instance) may be affected by security flaws. Total protection from third-party access cannot be granted.

Information on Data Controller

Control of the data processing on this website lies with:

Frank Scheffler

Frankfurter Straße 24

61231 Bad Nauheim

GERMANY

Telephone: +49 (0)6032 970734

Email: info@frank-scheffler.com

The data controller is the natural or juridical person, who on their own, or together with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, email addresses or similar).

Revoking your agreement to data compilation
Many data processing procedures are only possible with your explicit agreement. You are always at liberty to revoke an already given agreement. All you need to do is send us an informal message by email. The lawfulness of the data processed up to the revocation remains unaffected by this.

Right of objection to data compilation in particular cases, as well as to direct marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)
IF DATA PROCESSING TAKES PLACE BASED ON ART. 6 PARA 1 section E OR F GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME AND FOR REASONS RESULTING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION TO REVOKE THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO ANY PROFILING RESULTING FROM THESE REGULATIONS. FOR THE RELEVANT LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PLEASE SEE THE CURRENT DATA PRIVACY STATEMENT. SHOULD YOU LODGE AN OBJECTION, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA, UNLESS WE ARE ABLE TO PROVE BINDING REASONS WORTHY OF PROTECTION FOR PROCESSING WHICH TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF PROCESSING SHOULD SERVE THE ASSERTION, EXECUTION OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION IN LINE WITH ART. 21 PARA 1 DSGVO).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS USED TO ENGAGE IN DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO LODGE AN OBJECTION TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA DESTINED FOR SUCH ADVERTISING PURPOSES; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING, INSOFAR AS IT IS RELATED TO THIS KIND OF DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE USED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 PAR. 2 GDPR).

Right of Appeal to the Regulatory Authority
In the case of violations of the GDPR the aggrieved parties have the right to lodge a complaint with a regulatory authority, in the member state of their habitual residence, place of work or the place of the alleged violation, in particular. Your right to legal remedy is not affected, regardless of any other administrative or judicial legal redress.

Right to Data Portability
You have the right to demand that data that we process automatically on the basis of your agreement or in fulfillment of a contract be handed over to you or to a third party, in a current, machine-readable format. Should you demand the direct transfer of the data to another person, this can only occur in as far as technically feasible.

SSL/TLS Encryption
For security reasons and in order to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or information requests you send us in our capacity as website operator, this page uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer) or TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption. You may recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of your browser changes from ‘http://’ to ‘https://’ and by the padlock symbol in your browser bar. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transfer to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, Deletion and Correction
Within the current legal framework you have the right to demand, at any time, free information on your stored personal data, its origin and recipient and the purpose of the data processing, and if applicable the right to a correction or deletion of said data. Feel free to contact us about this issue or any other questions you might have on the subject of personal data at any time, using the address listed in the website credits.

Right to Restrict Data Processing
You have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data. Feel free to contact us as regards this issue at the address listed in the website credits. The right to a limitation of data processing applies in the following cases:

  • If you are challenging the accuracy of your personal data stored with us, we will normally require some time to review this. For the duration of the review you have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
  • If the processing of your personal data took/is taking place unlawfully, you may request the restriction of data processing instead of erasure.
  • If we no longer require your personal data, you however need them to exercise, defend or enforce legal claims, you have the right to demand the limiting of the processing of your personal data instead of its erasure.
  • If you have lodged an objection according to Art. 21 par. 1 GDPR, your interests will have to be weighed against ours. As long as there is no confirmation of whose interests take precedence, you have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, that data – beyond its storage – may only be processed with your consent or in order to enforce, exercise, or defend legal claims, or in order to protect the rights of another natural or judicial person, or for reasons of important public interest to the European Union or a member state.

4. Data Capture on this Website

Cookies
Our internet pages use what are known as ‘Cookies’. Cookies are small text files that do not harm your device. They are stored on your device either temporarily for the duration of one session on your device (Session-Cookies) or permanently (permanent Cookies). Session Cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit to a website. Permanent Cookies remain stored on your device until you yourself delete them or your web browser deletes them automatically.

In some cases Cookies by third-party companies may be stored on your device on entering our site (third-party Cookies). These allow us or you to take advantage of certain services provided by third-party companies (e.g. Cookies enabling the processing of payment services).

Cookies serve several purposes. Many Cookies are technically necessary, as certain website features would not function without them (e.g. the shopping cart function or streaming videos). Other Cookies serve to analyze user behavior or to show advertising.

Cookies required for the execution of the electronic communication procedure or in order to provide certain features desired by yourself (such as the shopping cart function) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para 1 section f GDPR. The website operator has a valid interest in the storage of Cookies to ensure optimized service provision free of technical errors. In as far a relevant consent was requested (e.g. an agreement to the storage of Cookies), processing occurs exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Abs. 1 section a GDPR; consent is revocable at any time.

You can set up your browser in such as way that you are informed about the placing of Cookies, and either only allow Cookies in specific cases, exclude the acceptance of Cookies in certain cases or generally, as well as activate the automatic deletion of Cookies on closing the browser. Deactivating Cookies may result in a limited functioning of this website.

In as far as Cookies are used by third-party companies or for analyzing purposes, we will inform you accordingly and separately in the framework of this data privacy statement and if applicable ask for your consent.

Server Log Files
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in server log files that your browser automatically sends us. Those are:

  • browser type and browser version
  • operating system used
  • referrer URL
  • host name of the computer accessing the data
  • time of the server request
  • IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources.

The capture of those data is carried out based on Art. 6 par. 1 section f DSGVO. The website operator has a justified interest in a technically flawless presentation and optimization of their website – the capture of the server log files serves this purpose.

5. Plugins and Tools

Adobe Fonts
For consistent representation of certain fonts, this website uses web fonts provided by Adobe Systems Incorporated, 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704, USA (Adobe).

When you call up this website, your browser downloads the necessary fonts directly from Adobe, in order to display them correctly on your device. In so doing, your browser establishes a connection with Adobe’s servers in the U.S. In this way, Adobe is notified of the fact that this website was accessed via your IP address. Adobe states that providing fonts does not involve the storing of Cookies.

Adobe boasts a certification according to the EU-US Privacy Shield. The Privacy Shield is an agreement between the United States of America and the European Union, intended to safeguard compliance with European data protection standards. For more information please consult https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/eudatatransfers.html.

The storage and analysis of the data is effected based on art. 6 par. 1 section f GDPR. The website operator has a justified interest in the standardized presentation of the typeface on their website. In case relevant consent was requested (e.g. consent to the placing of Cookies), processing takes place exclusively on the basis of art. 6 par. 1 section a GDPR; consent can be revoked at any moment.

For further information on Adobe Fonts please see: https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policies/adobe-fonts.html.

You can find Adobe’s data privacy statement at: https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policy.html