PRIVACY POLICY

We appreciate your interest in our website. The protection of your personal data during the collection, processing and use during your visit to our website is very important to us. Your data is protected in accordance with the legal regulations. Please take a moment and read the information below. It provides information about how we handle personal data, for what purpose this data is used, to whom we forward this data and how we protect your personal data. Your personal rights are our top priority and we make every effort to protect and guarantee these rights.

RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IN THE SENSE OF THE DATA PROTECTION BASIC REGULATION IS:

STR8 GmbH & Co. KG
Callinstraße 43
30167 Hannover
+49 511 390 890 – 0
8@STR8.de

DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

If you have any questions regarding data protection, please contact our data protection officer Dr. Bittner Consulting GmbH & Co. KG, Podbielskistraße 386, 30659 Hannover, Germany (datenschutzteam018@drbg.de).

COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF DATA

Every access to our website and every retrieval of a file stored on the website is logged.
The storage serves internal system-related and statistical purposes.

Logged are:

Name of the retrieved file
Date and time of retrieval,
transferred data volume,
Message about successful retrieval,
operating system used,
Browser and browser type,
the website from which the redirection was made,
the Internet service provider,
visited pages and
requesting domain.

Additionally, the IP addresses of the requesting computers are logged. The responsible, however, does not draw conculsions on a person.

These data is only required to properly display the contents on our website, to optimise the content permanently for you and to support criminal prosecution in the case of hacker attacks. The data is processed on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) GDPR. The processing of the data is necessary for the operation of the website.

Insofar as personal data (such as name, address, e-mail address, etc.) is collected on this website, this is done in voluntary agreement with you and in your knowledge.

The personal data is collected and processed by us in accordance with the provisions of the Digital Services Act (DDG), the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). A revocation is possible at any time.

USE AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA

As far as you have provided us with personal data, we will only use them in accordance with the European and German data protection regulations to answer your inquiries, to establish, process and terminate contracts concluded with you, for technical administration and possibly for advertising our products and services, if you have given your consent or if a legal provision permits this.your personal data will only be passed on or otherwise transmitted to third parties if this is necessary for the purpose of fulfilling the contract – in particular the passing on of order or contract data when integrating service providers and/or suppliers etc. – or if this is necessary for billing purposes or if you have given your prior consent. You have the right to revoke your consent with effect for the future at any time.

Rights of affected persons

According to Article 15 GDPR, you have the right to request information about the processing of your personal data.

Furthermore, you are free to claim your rights on the correction, deletion or, if deletion is not possible, on the restriction of the processing and on data portability according to Article 16-18, 20 GDPR. If you want to claim this right, please refer to our data protection officer.

Furthermore, you have the right to make complaints at the responsible supervisory authority at any time. Should you think that the processing of your personal data does not take place within the observance of the data protection laws, we kindly ask you to contact our data protection officer.

Furthermore, according to Article 13 (2) lit. b) GDPR, you have the right to contradict the processing of your personal data at any time.

PROTECTION OF STORED DATA

We use technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal data from manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorised persons. Our security measures are continously improved and adapted according to the state-of-the-art. It cannot be excluded that data that you transfer unecrypted cannot be accessed by third parties during transmission. We point out that regarding the data transmission via the Internet (e. g. at the communication by e-mail) no final secure transmission can be guaranteed. Sensitive data should therefore either not be transferred at all or only via a secure connection (SSL) via the Internet.

PROTECTION OF MINORS

The consent to the processing of personal data can only be given by a person of legal age. For information society services, the consent of a child from the age of sixteen is permitted under Art. 8 GDPR.

Email contact and phone

You can contact us via the email address provided on our website. You can also contact us via the telephone number provided on the website. If you use these options, the personal data transmitted will be stored and collected and processed solely for the purpose of processing and responding to your enquiry.

By contacting us, you give your consent to data processing in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.

If you are interested in an offer, your personal data will be processed for the purpose of initiating a contract in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. If you do not provide this information, we will unfortunately not be able to process your request.

No automated decision-making takes place.

Your personal data will not be passed on to external third parties. The personal data you provide will not be transferred to a third country or an international organisation, nor are there any plans to do so.
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time with future effect. The legality of the data processing carried out until the withdrawal remains unaffected.

Your personal data that you provide to us will be stored by us for the duration of the processing of your request until the expiry of the relevant statutory periods.

Contact form

All your personal data and other information that you provide to us via the contact form on our website will only be collected and processed for the purpose of processing and responding to your enquiries.

By contacting us, you give your consent to data processing in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.

If you are interested in an offer, your personal data will be processed for the purpose of initiating a contract in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR.

Your data will be forwarded to us by email via our provider. If you do not provide this information, we will unfortunately not be able to contact you and process your request.

No automated decision-making takes place.

You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. The legality of the data processing carried out until the withdrawal remains unaffected.

Your personal data, which you provide to us via the contact form, will be stored by us for the duration of the processing of your request and retained until the expiry of the relevant statutory periods.

Technically necessary cookies (Session Cookies)

We use technical cookies on our website to make it more user-friendly. For technical reasons, it is therefore necessary to allow session cookies in order to use the full functionality of our website.

The purpose of using such cookies is to enable you to use the website in a simplified and more user-friendly manner. It is therefore necessary for the browser to be able to identify you even after you have changed pages.

The data is not used to create a user profile of you. The legal basis for the use of technical cookies is Section 25 (2) TDDDG. It is not possible to use the website without session cookies.

STORAGE OF ANONYMIZED DATA/COOKIES

On this website, usage data is collected and stored in an anonymous form. So-called “cookies” can be used for this purpose. These are text files which are stored on your computer and which enable an analysis of your use of the website. However, these collect and store the data exclusively in pseudonymous form. They are not used to identify you personally and are not combined with data about the bearer of the pseudonym. We use this information to determine the attractiveness of our website and to continuously improve its content.

It is also possible to use the website without cookies. If you do not give your consent, no cookies will be set.

Instagram (Link)

On our website we use a reference (link) to the Instagram social network (Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA).

We expressly point out that we, as the provider of the site, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Instagram. For more information about Instagram’s privacy policy, please visit: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388.

LinkedIn (Link)

On our website we use a reference (link) to the LinkedIn social network (LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Irland).

YouTube (Videos)

This site incorporates video through Youtube.de/Youtube.com, a service of YouTube (LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066 USA), represented by Google Inc. When you view videos on YouTube, a connection is established to the YouTube servers. When you view videos on YouTube, a connection is made to the YouTube servers, and the information about which of our sites you visited is transmitted to the YouTube server. If you are logged in as a member of YouTube, YouTube is able to associate this information (videos viewed and comments made) with your personal account. You can avoid the collection of your data by logging out. YouTube’s privacy policy can be accessed at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Google Maps

Our website uses Google Maps API (Application Programming Interface) for the visual display of geographical information (location maps). Google Maps is operated by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. By using Google Maps, you consent to the collection, processing and use of the data automatically collected during the use of Google Maps as well as the data entered by you by Google or one of its representatives or third parties.

When using Google Maps, information about the use of our website including your IP address is transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The transmission of data to the USA is associated with risks under data protection law. If you do not wish to do so, it is possible to deactivate the Google Maps service and prevent the transfer of data to Google. To do so, you must deactivate JavaScript in your browser. However, we would like to point out that in this case you will not be able to use the map display.

You can find more information about the collection and processing of your data by Google as well as your rights of data subjects in this regard in Google’s privacy policy at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/?hl=de and in the additional terms of use for Google Maps and Google Earth at https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html.