Data protection
Your privacy is our concern
We appreciate your interest and would like you to feel safe when
visiting our website, also with regard to the protection of your
personal data. Because we take the protection of your personal data
very seriously. Compliance with the provisions of the European General
Data Protection Regulation (EU-GDPR) and the Federal Data Protection
Act (BDSG) is a matter of course for us. We want you to know when
we collect which data and how we use it. We have taken technical
and organizational measures to ensure that the regulations on data
protection and data security are observed both by us and by our
external service providers.
§ 1 Information about the collection of personal data
(1) In the following we inform you about the collection of personal
data when using our website. Personal data is all data about your
identity or that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address,
e-mail addresses, user behavior and IP address.
(2) The person responsible in accordance with Article 4 (7) of
the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is as stated in
the imprint).
In accordance with legal requirements, we do not need to appoint
a representative.
(3) It is not necessary for you to disclose personal data in order
to use our website. In certain cases, however, we need your name
and address and other information so that we can provide the requested
services.
(4) When you contact us by e-mail, the data you provide (your e-mail
address, possibly your name and telephone number) will be stored
by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data arising
in this context after the storage is no longer necessary, or restrict
the processing if there are statutory storage obligations.
(5) If we use commissioned service providers for individual functions
of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes,
we will inform you in detail below about the respective processes.
We also state the specified criteria for the storage period.
(6) Children and young people
Persons under the age of 18 should not transmit any personal data
to us without the consent of their parents or guardians. We do not
request any personal data from children and young people, do not
collect it and do not pass it on to third parties.
§ 2 Purpose of the personal data and purposeful processing
(1) The processing of personal data takes place exclusively to
fulfill the requested service and to protect our own legitimate
business interests.
(2) We generally use the personal data you provide to answer your
inquiries, process your orders or give you access to certain information
or offers. For member administration or organization of association
activities, it may also be necessary for us or a service company
commissioned by us to use this personal data to inform you about
campaigns or to conduct online surveys in order to better meet the
tasks and requirements of our members .
(3) Of course, we respect it if you do not want to give us your
personal data for direct marketing or market research purposes.
We will neither sell your personal data to third parties nor market
it in any other way.
(4) We will only collect, process and use the personal data you
provide online for the purposes communicated to you. Your personal
data will not be passed on to third parties without your necessary
consent.
(5) Personal data is collected and transmitted to state institutions
and authorities entitled to receive information only within the
framework of the relevant laws or if we are obliged to do so by
a court decision. Our data-processing members and the service companies
commissioned by us are bound by us to maintain secrecy and to comply
with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation.
§ 3 Your rights
(1) You have the following rights towards us with regard to your
personal data:
• right to information,
• right to rectification or erasure,
• right to restriction of processing,
• right to object to processing,
• Right to data portability.
(2) You have the right to revoke your consent within the meaning
of Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR at any time without
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