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Privacy Policy

We are pleased that you are visiting our website sybillepostel.com and that you are interested in our company and our offers. Despite careful control of the content, we assume no liability for external links to third-party content since we did not initiate the transmission of this information, nor did we select or change the addressee of the transmitted information or the transmitted information.

The protection of your personal data when it is collected, processed and used during your visit to our website is important to us and takes place within the framework of the statutory provisions, which you can find out about at www.bfd.bund.de, for example.

In the following, we explain what information we collect during your visit to our website and how it is used:

 

1. Collection and storage of personal data and the type and purpose of their use

a) When visiting the website

Every time a customer (or another visitor) accesses our website, the Internet browser on your device (computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) automatically sends information to our website server. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file.

The following data is recorded without your intervention and stored until it is automatically deleted:

• IP address of the requesting computer, as well as a device ID or individual device identifier and device type,

• Name of the retrieved file and amount of data transferred as well as the date and time of the retrieval,

• Notification of successful retrieval,

• Requesting domain,

• Description of the type of Internet browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your device and the name of your access provider,

• Your browser history data, as well as your standard weblog information,

• Location data, including location data from your mobile device. Please note that on most mobile devices, you can control or disable the location services in the mobile device settings menu.

 

Our legitimate interest in collecting the data under Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit.

Under no circumstances do we use the collected data to draw conclusions about your person.

b) When using our contact form

If you have any questions, we offer you the opportunity to contact us using a form provided on the website. At least the following information is required: e-mail, name, telephone, etc. so that we know who sent the request and can answer it. Further information can be provided voluntarily.

Data processing to contact us takes place under Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter a GDPR based on your voluntarily given consent.

The personal data collected by us for the use of the contact form will be automatically deleted after the request you have made has been dealt with.

c) Upon conclusion of a contractual relationship

When concluding a contractual relationship on our website, we ask you to provide the following personal data:

- Data that identify you personally, such as name and e-mail address - Date of birth - Contact information, such as an address, billing and delivery address and telephone number - Photos - Data that identify your company, such as company, address, communication data (e-mail address, telephone, fax number), if applicable VAT ID or tax number) - information about your means of payment

- Other personal data that we are required or authorized by law to collect and process and that we need to authenticate or identify you or verify the data we have collected.

The data mentioned will be processed to process the contractual relationship. The data is processed based on Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR. The storage period is limited to the purpose of the contract and, if applicable, to statutory and contractual retention requirements.

d) Use of payment service providers

We also work with payment service providers to pay for contracts concluded with us that are subject to a fee. We pass on your payment data to the commissioned payment service provider within the framework of payment processing - earmarked for the payment - if this is necessary for payment processing. The legal basis for the transfer of data is Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR.

e) When registering for our newsletter

If you have given your express consent under Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter a GDPR, we will use your e-mail address to send you our newsletter regularly.

You can unsubscribe at any time, for example, via a link at the end of a newsletter. Alternatively, you can send your unsubscribe request any time by e-mail (preferably with the subject: "Unsubscribe newsletter").

 

2. Disclosure of Personal Data

Your data will not be transmitted to third parties for purposes other than those listed below.

We only pass on your data to third parties if:

• You have given your express consent under (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a GDPR),

• this is necessary for the processing of contractual relationships with you (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b DSGVO),

• there is a legal obligation to pass it on (Article 6 (1) (c) GDPR),

• the disclosure is necessary to assert, exercise or defend legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in the non-disclosure of your data (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR).

In these cases, however, the scope of the transmitted data is limited to the necessary minimum.

Our data protection regulations are under the applicable data protection regulations, and the data will only be processed in the Federal Republic of Germany / European Union. A transfer to third countries does not take place and is not intended.

 

3. Data subject rights

Upon request, we will be happy to inform you whether and which personal data is stored about you (Art. 15 GDPR), in particular about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data was or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of your data if it was not collected from us, and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling.

You also have the right to have any incorrectly collected personal data corrected or to have incomplete data completed (Art. 16 GDPR).

Furthermore, you have the right to demand that we restrict the processing of your data, provided that the legal requirements for this are met (Article 18 GDPR).

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request transmission to another person responsible (Article 20 GDPR).

In addition, you have the so-called "right to be forgotten", i.e. you can request us to delete your data if the legal requirements for this are met (Article 17 GDPR).

Irrespective of this, your data will be automatically deleted by us if the purpose of the data collection no longer applies or if the data processing has been carried out unlawfully.

Under Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR, you have the right to revoke the consent you have given us at any time. As a result, we are no longer allowed to continue the data processing based on this consent in the future.

You also have the right to object to the processing of your data at any time, provided that a right to object is provided for by law. In the event of an effective revocation, your data will also be automatically deleted by us (Article 21 GDPR).

If you would like to make use of your right of revocation or objection, an e-mail to: info@sybillepostel.com is sufficient.

In the event of violations of data protection regulations, you have the option of complaining to a supervisory authority under Article 77 GDPR.

 

4. Duration of data storage

The data collected will be stored by us for as long as this is necessary for the execution of the contracts entered into with us or you have not exercised your right to deletion or your right to data transfer to another company.

 

5. Cookies

We use cookies on our website. These are small text files that your browser creates automatically and that are stored on your end device when you visit our website. Information is stored in the cookie that arises in connection with the specific end device used. However, this does not mean that we are immediately informed of your identity. The use of cookies initially serves to make the use of our offer more pleasant for you:

We use so-called session cookies to recognize that you have already visited individual sub-pages of our website. If you have registered, your password will be saved for the duration of your visit to our website and when you change sub-pages so that you do not have to re-enter it each time. These session cookies are automatically deleted after you leave our website.

To optimize user-friendliness, we use temporary cookies that are stored on your end device for a specific period. If you visit our site again to make use of our services, it will automatically be recognized that you have already been with us and what inputs and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.

On the other hand, we use cookies to statistically record and evaluate the use of our website and to optimize our offer for you. These cookies enable us to automatically recognize when you visit our website again that you have already been with us. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period. The data processed by cookies are required for the stated purposes to protect our legitimate interests and those of third parties under Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. If you do not want us to recognize information about your computer, please set your Internet browser so that it deletes cookies from your computer's hard drive, blocks all cookies or warns you before a cookie is saved. You can find out how to delete or block cookies in the help and support area of ​​your internet browser. There you will find instructions on how to find the file or directory where cookies are stored. In any case, please note that the complete deactivation of cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website.

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6. Online Marketing/Analytical Tools

The tracking measures we use are carried out based on Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR, Section 15 Para. 3 TMG. With the tracking measures used, we want to ensure a needs-based design and the continuous optimization of our website. On the other hand, we use the tracking measures to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate and optimize our Internet presence. These interests are to be regarded as legitimate within the meaning of the aforementioned provision.

 

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (https://www.google.de/intl/de/about/) (1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter "Google").  In this context, pseudonymised user profiles are created and cookies (see also Section 5) are set. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website, such as browser type/version, operating system used, referrer URL (the previously visited page), host name of the accessing computer (IP address) and the time of the server request is sent to a Transferred to and stored by Google servers in the USA. The information is used to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and provide other services related to website and internet use for market research and needs-based design of these websites. Our legitimate interest in data processing also lies in these purposes. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Section 15 (3) TMG in conjunction with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on our behalf. Under no circumstances will your IP address be merged with other Google data. The IP addresses are anonymized so that an assignment is not possible (so-called IP masking).

The data sent by us and linked to cookies, user IDs (e.g. user ID) or advertising IDs are automatically deleted after 14 months. Data that has reached the end of its retention period is automatically deleted once a month.

You can find more information on the terms of use and data protection of Google Analytics at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview. html.

You can prevent the installation and storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; we would like to point out to you however that in this case, you will if applicable, not be able to use all functions of this website in full.

You can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and installing https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

As an alternative to the browser add-on, especially for browsers on mobile devices, you can also prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent future collection of your data when you visit this website: Disable Google Analytics. The opt-out cookie is only valid in this browser and only for our website and is stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in this browser, you must set the opt-out cookie again.

 

Google Adwords / Conversion Tracking

We also use the online advertising program "Google AdWords" as part of Google AdWords conversion tracking. Google Conversion Tracking is an analysis service provided by Google. If you click on an ad placed by Google, a conversion tracking cookie will be placed on your device. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days, do not contain any personal data and are therefore not used for personal identification. If you visit certain web pages on our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that you clicked on the ad and were forwarded to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. This means that there is no way that cookies can be tracked via AdWords customers' websites. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Here, customers find out the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information with which users can be personally identified. Our legitimate interest in data processing also lies in these purposes. The legal basis for the use of Google Adwords/Conversion Tracking is Section 15 (3) TMG in conjunction with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can object to this use by preventing the installation of cookies from the "googleadservices.com" domain by setting your browser software accordingly (deactivation option). You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. Further information and Google's data protection declaration can be found at: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/, http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.

 

Facebook

Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) from the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA (“Facebook”). When you open our website with the plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Facebook servers. This transmits the information to Facebook that you have accessed the page.

If you are logged in with your Facebook account, by clicking on the plugin the visit to our website can be assigned directly to your profile. Even if you do not have a profile, it cannot be ruled out that your IP address will be saved by Facebook.

The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in Facebook's data protection information (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/).

If you are a member of Facebook and do not want Facebook to collect data about you via our online offer and link it to your member data stored on Facebook, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website and delete the corresponding Facebook cookies. It is also possible to block Facebook social plugins with add-ons for the browser, for example with the “Facebook Blocker”.

 

Instagram

Plugins from the social network Instagram (Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA) are integrated into our website. You can recognize the Instagram plugin by the “Instagram button” on our website. If you click the Instagram button while you are logged into the Instagram account, you can link the content of our website to your Instagram profile. This allows Instagram to associate your visit to our site with your user account.

We would like to point out that as the provider of our website, we do not know the content of the data transmitted or how it is used by Instagram. For more information on Instagram's privacy policy, visit http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

 

Xing

Plugins from the social network XING (XING AG, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany) are integrated into our website. When you click on the XING button on our website, a short-term connection to the XING servers is established via your browser, with which the "XING Share Button" functions (in particular the calculation/display of the counter value) are provided to possibly share your Observing visitor behaviour with the “XING Share Button”.

We would like to point out that as the provider of the website, we do not know the content of the data transmitted or how it is used by XING. Further information and the latest version of the data protection declaration for the “XING Share Button” can be found at: https://dev.xing.com/plugins/share_button/privacy_policy

 

LinkedIn

Plugins from the social network LinkedIn are integrated into our website. The provider is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. When you click the LinkedIn button, a connection to the LinkedIn servers is established. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from LinkedIn to your browser, which integrates it into the website. As a result, the information that you have visited our website is forwarded to LinkedIn.

If you are logged in with your LinkedIn account, by clicking on the LinkedIn button, your visit to our website can be directly assigned to your profile. Even if you do not have a profile, it cannot be ruled out that your IP address will be saved by LinkedIn.

We would like to point out that as the provider of the website, we do not know the content of the data transmitted or how it is used by LinkedIn. For more information on LinkedIn's privacy policy, visit https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

 

YouTube

Plugins from YouTube (belonging to Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) are used on our website. When you open our website, your browser establishes a direct connection to the YouTube servers. This transmits the information to YouTube that you have accessed our website. If you are logged into your YouTube account, visiting our website and all your interactions in connection with the plugin (e.g. clicking the YouTube button) can be assigned to your YouTube profile and stored on YouTube - even if you do not If you have a YouTube profile, it cannot be ruled out that YouTube will store your IP address. In this respect, please also note the YouTube data protection guidelines: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

To prevent YouTube from collecting data when you visit our website, log out of YouTube before visiting. To prevent YouTube from generally accessing your data via websites, you can exclude YouTube plugins with an add-on for your browser (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/user/disconnecters).

 

Data security

We endeavour to take all necessary technical and organizational security measures to store your data in such a way that they are not accessible to third parties or the public. If you want to contact us by e-mail, we would like to point out that the confidentiality of the information transmitted cannot be completely guaranteed with this communication channel. We, therefore, recommend that you only send us confidential information by post.

Updating and changing this data protection declaration

This data protection declaration is currently valid.

Due to the further development of our website and offers or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to change this data protection declaration. You can access and print out the current data protection declaration at any time on the website at www.sybillepostel.com/privacy.

Name and contact details of the person responsible for processing are below.

This data protection information applies to data processing by:

Sybille Postel, Hermann-Löns- Straβe20 in  5746 Heide / Holstein

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