Privacy

1) Data protection

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

Your personal data (e.g. name, address, e-mail, telephone number, etc.) will only be processed by us in accordance with the provisions of German data protection law. Data are personal if they can be clearly assigned to a specific natural person.
The legal basis for data protection can be found in the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), the German Telemedia Act (TMG) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DSVGO). The following regulations inform you in this respect about the type, scope and purpose of the collection, use and processing of personal data by us as website operator. datenschutz(at)meydenbauer.net / Subject: #Datenschutz.

However, we would like to point out that Internet-based data transmission (e.g. when visiting websites or communicating by e-mail) is subject to security vulnerabilities and that complete protection against access by third parties is therefore impossible.

We try to act consciously sustainable and ecological in all matters. That is why we trust also with our website on a Webhosting - Service that shares our philosophy. This also refers to the handling of sensitive or personal data. In order to protect your personal data, there is a contract between us and our web hoster for order processing in accordance with Art. 28 DSVGO. The web hosting service we use, 'Biohost', is a German provider whose servers are located in 'Germany' and are operated exclusively with green electricity.

2) Comments

When visitors post comments on the site, we collect the data displayed in the comment form, as well as the visitor's IP address and user agent string (this identifies the browser) to help detect spam.

An anonymized string (also called a hash) may be created from your email address and passed to the Gravatar service to verify that you are using it. The privacy policy of the Gravatar service can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is publicly visible in the context of your comment.

3) General information about cookies

This website uses so-called cookies to recognize multiple use of our offer, by the same user / Internet connection owner. Cookies are small text files that your Internet browser stores on your computer. They serve to optimize our Internet presence and our offers. These are mostly so-called "session cookies", which are deleted after the end of your visit.

However, in some cases, these cookies provide information to automatically recognize you. This recognition is based on the IP address stored in the cookies. The information obtained in this way is used to optimize our offers and provide you with easier access to our site. Cookies help, for example, to reduce the loading times of our pages during future visits.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies or so that cookies are only set in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser.

Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings.

You can find these for the respective browsers under the following links:

Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647 Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=de_DE 
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html 

However, we would also like to point out that if you deactivate cookies, you may not be able to use all the functions of our website to their full extent.

When you post a comment on our website, this may be consent to store your name, email address and website in cookies. This is a convenience feature so that when you write another comment, you don't have to enter all this data again. These cookies are stored for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you sign up, we will set up some cookies to store your login information and viewing options. Login cookies expire after two days and display option cookies expire after one year. If you select "Stay logged in" when you sign up, your login will be kept for two weeks. When you log out of your account, the login cookies are deleted.

3.1) Information about plugins and their use of cookies

There are plugins installed on this website that also use cookies. The following plugins also use cookies for ensuring performance / service (S), functional / functionality (F), marketing / data collection (D) and / or the essential cookies / required cookies for site use (U) cookies:

- Ant Spam Bee (status: not active) (U)
- Meta Box (status: not active) (F, U)

(U) Essential-Cookies
Essential cookies ensure that this website, or the service, functions properly. That is, without these cookies, this website, respectively the service, is not usable as intended. First party cookies and the information collected by the cookies are managed on our host and only plugins marked with * are forwarded to the provider of the plugin to ensure their functions (see information on the respective plugins in the privacy policy).

The use of strictly necessary cookies on this website is possible without the consent of the user. For this reason, it is also not possible to deactivate or activate absolutely necessary cookies individually. This function is only available for cookies that require consent, i.e. functional cookies, performance cookies and marketing cookies. However, the user has the option to generally deactivate cookies in his browser at any time (see above links to the respective browsers).

The legal basis for the use of first party cookies is a legitimate interest (i.e. interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of this website and services) within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

(F) Functionale-Cookies
Functional cookies enable this website to store information provided, such as the user name or language selection, and to offer the user improved and personalized functions based on this information. These cookies collect and store only anonymized information. The user has the option to deactivate cookies in his browser (see above links to the respective browsers).

The legal basis for the use of first party cookies is a legitimate interest (i.e. interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of this website and services) within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

(S) Performance-Cookies
Performance cookies collect information about how our websites are used in order to improve their attractiveness, content and functionality. These cookies help us to determine, for example, whether and which subpages of our website are visited and which content users are particularly interested in. We record the number of times a page is accessed, the number of sub-pages accessed, the time spent on our website, the order of the pages visited, which search terms led you to us, the country, region and, if applicable, the city from which access is made, as well as the proportion of mobile devices accessing our websites. The IP address of your computer transmitted for technical reasons is automatically anonymized and does not allow us to draw any conclusions about the individual user.

The user of the website also has the right to object, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning him or her which is carried out for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89 (1) of the GDPR. 
For the above case, the user has the option to disable cookies in his browser (see above links to the respective browsers) or to contact the indicated contact address about the processing and/or deletion of possible personal data.

The legal basis for the use of first party cookies is a legitimate interest (i.e. interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our website and services) within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

(D) Marketing Cookies / Third Party Cookies
Marketing cookies come from external advertising companies (third party cookies) and are used to collect information about the websites visited by the user in order to create targeted advertisements for the user.

The user can object to the use of marketing cookies at any time by adjusting his cookie settings via his browser (see above links to the respective browsers) .

Due to the described purposes of use (see § 6. a.), the legal basis for the processing of personal data using cookies is Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. If the user has given consent to the use of cookies on the basis of a notice issued by us on the website ("cookie banner"), the lawfulness of the use is additionally based on Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR.

4) Contact possibilities

We offer you the possibility on our site to contact us by e-mail. In this case, the information provided by the user will be stored for the purpose of processing his contact. The legal basis for the processing of the data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The data will not be passed on to third parties. A comparison of the data collected in this way with data that may be collected by other components of our site also does not take place.

Further aspects when contacting us via email: If you send us an email to our email addresses marked with #(at)meydenbauer.net, we receive this email through our hoster and email provider BIOHOST. The emails are saved by us for administrative reasons on the email server (within Germany) and also on our internal systems for processing.

Emails are 'not' managed by an external provider or third party. All emails are managed by ourselves. We delete the emails on the server at irregular intervals. Relevant emails, however, are kept here for security reasons for the period of processing. We always try to delete emails with irrelevant content or emails with sensitive, such as personal data, from the server promptly or to archive them on internal systems.

If you have sent us an email with personal data, you can request immediate deletion of your data from the email server. In this case you should send us an email as described in point 5) / III.I. 1).

5) Right to information, deletion, blocking

The applicable data protection law grants you comprehensive data subject rights (rights of access and intervention) vis-à-vis the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data, which we inform you about below:

I) Right of access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR:
In particular, you have the right to obtain information about your personal data processed by us, the processing purposes, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the intended storage period or the criteria for determining the storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection to processing, complaint to a supervisory authority, the origin of your data if it has not been collected from you by us, the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, and, if applicable, meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing concerning you, as well as your right to be informed about which guarantees exist in accordance with Art. 46 GDPR when your data is transferred to third countries.

II) Right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR:
You have a right to immediate correction of incorrect data concerning you and/or completion of your incomplete data stored by us

III) Right to erasure pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR:
You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data if the requirements of Art. 17 (1)GDPR are met. However, this right does not exist in particular if the processing is necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims 

III.I.) Request for deletion of personal data: If you have submitted personal data to us on our website, in an email or in any other way and you would like it to be deleted, please proceed as follows.

Delete the data by email:

You can always send us an email with the subject: 'Delete my data'. Then copy the text below into your email and complete the marked fields.

EMAIL MESSAGE: >> With this email I request that you delete all my personal data -.
#Your last name, #Your name #Your email address
Please delete all data concerning the above-mentioned person now - furthermore you are not obliged by law to keep this data. Send me to: #your email address a confirmation once you have deleted the data. <<

IV) Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR:
You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data as long as the accuracy of your data, which you dispute, is verified, if you refuse the deletion of your data due to unauthorized data processing and instead request the restriction of the processing of your data, if you need your data for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims after we no longer need this data after the purpose has been achieved or if you have objected on the grounds of your particular situation, as long as it has not yet been determined whether our legitimate reasons prevail

V) Right to information pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR:
If you have asserted the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing against the controller, the controller is obliged to notify all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you has been disclosed of this rectification or erasure of the data or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed about these recipients.

VI) Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR:
You have the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request that it be transferred to another controller, insofar as this is technically feasible

VII) Right to revoke consent granted pursuant to Art. 7 (3) GDPR:
You have the right to revoke your consent to the processing of data at any time with effect for the future. In the event of revocation, we will immediately delete the data concerned unless further processing can be based on a legal basis for processing without consent. The revocation of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent up to the revocation

VIII) Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR:
Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, workplace or the place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning you infringes the GDPR.

For further information or questions you can contact us at any time with an email to datenschutz(at)meydenbauer.net.

5.1) Right of objection 

If we process your personal data within the framework of a balancing of interests on the basis of our predominantly legitimate interest, you have the right at any time to object to this processing with effect for the future for reasons arising from your particular situation.

If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the data concerned. However, we reserve the right to continue processing if we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, fundamental rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

If your personal data is processed by us for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such marketing. You can exercise the objection as described above.

If you exercise your right to object, we will immediately stop processing the data concerned for direct marketing purposes.

6) Server-Log-Files 

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. 

These are:
– Browsertyp and Browserversion
- Operating system used
– Referrer URL
- Host name of the accessing computer
- Date and time of the server request

This data cannot be assigned to specific persons. This data is not merged with other data sources.
We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of specific indications of unlawful use.

7) SSL encryption

This site uses SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as requests that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser line. If SSL encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

8) Duration of data storage

The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective statutory retention period (e.g. retention periods under commercial and tax law). After expiry of the period, the corresponding data is routinely deleted, unless we have a legitimate interest in continuing to store it.

9) We share or forward data

If this site offers services that allow the creation of user accounts, your IP address will be included in the reset email when you request a password reset. This email may be processed by your email provider without encryption.

Visitor comments could be examined by an automated service for spam detection. This is for the protection of this website and to ensure the service of the website. A check is performed on this site by the plugin AntiSpam Bee. This was developed in the EU and meets the requirements of GDPR, as it does not store any personal data. You can find out how the plugin works on the site of the plugin provider at: https://antispambee.pluginkollektiv.org/documentation/