data protection

Data policy

Data policy statement 

1. Data protection at a glance 

General information 
The following notes give you a simple overview of what happens with your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is all data with which you can be personally identified. Detailed information about data protection can be found in our data protection policy below this text. 

Data collection on our website 
Who is responsible for data collection on this website? 
The data from this website is processed by the website owner. Their contact details are available on our legal notice. 

How do we collect your data? 
Firstly, your data is collected because you share it with us. This is, for example, the case for data you enter into a contact form. 
Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit our website. This is mostly technical data (e.g., internet browser, operating system or the time you viewed a page). This data is automatically collected when you visit our website. 

What do we use your data for? 
Some data is collected to ensure that the website functions without error. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour. 

What are your rights concerning your data? 
You have the right at any time to obtain information free of charge about the origin, recipient and purpose of your saved personal data. You also have the right to demand that this data is corrected, blocked or deleted. You can contact us about this or with any other questions about data protection at any time via the email address in our legal notice. You also have the right to appeal to the responsible regulatory authority. 

Analysis tools and third-party tools 
Your surfing behaviour may be statistically analysed when you visit our website. This is done through cookies and so-called analysis programmes. Your surfing behaviour is generally analysed anonymously and cannot be traced back to you. 
You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. You will find further information about this in the following data policy. You can object to this analysis. We aim to inform you of the different objection possibilities in our data policy. 

2. General notices and required information

Data protection 
This website’s owner takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and according to the legal data security regulations and this data policy. 
Different personal data is collected when you use this website. Personal data is all data with which you can be personally identified. This data policy statement explains which data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and why that happens. 
We draw your attention to the fact that data transmission over the internet (e.g., when communicating by email) may involve gaps in security. It is not possible to completely protect such data against access by third parties. 

About the responsible body 
Die verantwortliche Stelle für die Datenverarbeitung auf dieser Website ist:
S4-Analytics GmbH & Co. KG
Im Nieber 4
88090 Immenstaad am Bodensee
Germany
Telefon: 49 1514 64 72 034
The responsible body is the natural or legal person which decides, alone or with others, the purpose and means of the processing of personal data (e.g., names, email addresses, etc.) 

Withdrawal of consent to data processing 
Many data processing processes are only possible with your explicit consent. Once consent is given, you can withdraw it at any time. You just need to send us a simple email. Withdrawal does not affect the legality of data processing which occurred before consent was withdrawn. 

Right to appeal to the responsible regulatory authority 
In the event of infringements on data protection rights, the parties concerned have the right to appeal to the responsible regulatory authority. The responsible regulatory authority for data protection is the “Landesdatenschutzbeauftragte” (data protection representative) for the German state in which our HQ is located. A list of data protection representatives and their contact details is available here: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html. 

Right to data portability 
You have the right to receive or have sent to a third party data that we have processed based on your consent or automatically in the performance of a contract, in a common format that is readable by a machine. If you request to have it sent directly to a third party, this will only be done if it is technically possible. 

SSL/TLS encryption 
This website uses SSL/TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content such as orders or requests that you sent to us as the site owner. You can check that your connection is encrypted as the URL address on your browser will change from http:// to https:// and the padlock symbol will appear in the status bar. 
When the SSL/TLS encryption is activated, third parties cannot read the data you transmit to us. 

Access, blocking, deletion 
Within the applicable legal regulations, you have the right at any time to obtain information about your saved personal data and its origin, recipient and the purpose of the data processing, as well as the right to have this data corrected, blocked or deleted. You can contact us about this or with any other questions about data protection at any time via the email address in our legal notice.  

Objection to receiving advertising emails 
We hereby prohibit the use of the contact data that we are required to publish for the purpose of sending us any advertising or informational materials that we have not expressly requested. The operator of this website shall retain the right to undertake legal steps if we are sent unsolicited advertisements, for example, in the form of spam emails. 

3. Data protection officer

Legally required data protection officer 
We have not yet hired an external data protection officer for our company. 

4. Data collection using cookies on our website 

Websites use so-called cookies on several pages. Cookies do not damage your computer in any way and do not contain any viruses. Cookies serve the purpose of making our offer more user-friendly, effective and safer. Cookies are small text files which are copied onto your hard disk by a website and saved on your browser. 
Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies" which are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies will remain on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognise your browser on your next visit. 
You can configure your browser so as to be informed about the placement of cookies, to decide to accept them on a case-by-case basis, refuse to accept cookies in certain cases or generally and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when you close your browser. The deactivation or rejection of cookies may restrict this website’s functionality. 
Cookies that are required for electronic communication or certain functionalities which are useful to you (e.g., basket function) are saved according to GDPR article 6 clause 1 point f. The website owner has a legitimate interest in saving cookies to provide an optimised, error-free service. In the event that other cookies (e.g., cookies to analyse your surfing behaviour) are saved, they are addressed separately in this data policy. 

Server log files 
The website’s provider automatically collects and saves information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transfers to us. This information is: 

Browser type and browser version 
Operating system used 
Referrer URL 
Host name of the accessing computer 
Time of the server request 
IP address 

None of this data will be merged with other data sources. 
Data processing is based on GDPR article 6 clause 1 point f, which allows data processing to fulfil a contract or pre-contract measures. 
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