Responsible person/owner

Öykü Canpolat Rest
Heresbachstr. 1

40223 Düsseldorf


oyku_canpolat@hotmail.com
49 173 6931266

This data protection declaration explains the type, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data (hereinafter referred to as “data”) in the context of providing our services as well as within our online offering and the associated websites, functions and content as well as external online presences, such as our social media profile (hereinafter collectively referred to as “online offering”). With regard to the terms used, such as “processing” or “person responsible”, we refer to the definitions in Article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

A notice:
All rights reserved. The content, graphics and layout of the pages are protected by copyright. Reproductions are only permitted for private purposes and require prior consent. Your distribution, modification, commercial use or use in other websites or media is not permitted.

Types of data processed

- Inventory data (e.g. personal master data, names or addresses).
- Contact details (e.g., email, telephone numbers).
- Content data (e.g., text entries, photographs, videos).
- Usage data (e.g., websites visited, interest in content, access times).
- Meta/communication data (e.g., device information, IP addresses).

Categories of data subjects

Visitors and users of the online offering (hereinafter we refer to the affected persons collectively as “users”).

Purpose of processing

- Provision of the online offer, its functions and content.
- Answering contact requests and communicating with users.
- Safety measures.
- Reach measurement/marketing

Terms used

“Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter “data subject”); A natural person is considered identifiable if he or she can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier (e.g. cookie) or one or more special features, which are an expression of the physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

“Processing” means any operation or series of operations relating to personal data, carried out with or without the aid of automated procedures. The term is broad and encompasses virtually every way data is handled.

“Pseudonymization” means the processing of personal data in such a way that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that this additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organizational measures that ensure that the personal data not be assigned to an identified or identifiable natural person.

“Profiling” means any type of automated processing of personal data, which consists in using that personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular aspects relating to work performance, economic situation, health, personal Analyze or predict the preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or movements of that natural person.

The “controller” is the natural or legal person, public authority, institution or other body that alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data.

“Processor” means a natural or legal person, public authority, institution or other body that processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

Relevant legal bases

In accordance with Art. 13 GDPR, we will inform you of the legal basis for our data processing. For users from the scope of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), i.e. the EU and the EEC, the following applies, unless the legal basis is stated in the data protection declaration:
The legal basis for obtaining consent is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter a and Article 7 GDPR;
The legal basis for processing to fulfill our services and carry out contractual measures as well as answer inquiries is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter b GDPR;
The legal basis for processing to fulfill our legal obligations is Article 6 (1) (c) GDPR;
In the event that the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person require the processing of personal data, Article 6 (1) (d) GDPR serves as the legal basis.
The legal basis for the processing necessary to carry out a task that is in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the person responsible is Article 6 (1) (e) GDPR.
The legal basis for processing to protect our legitimate interests is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
The processing of data for purposes other than those for which they were collected is determined in accordance with the provisions of Article 6 (4) GDPR.
The processing of special categories of data (according to Art. 9 Para. 1 GDPR) is determined in accordance with the provisions of Art. 9 Para. 2 GDPR.

Safety measures

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures in accordance with the legal requirements, taking into account the state of the art, the implementation costs and the type, scope, circumstances and purposes of the processing as well as the different probability of occurrence and severity of the risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk.

The measures include, in particular, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data by controlling physical access to the data, as well as the access, input, distribution, ensuring availability and its separation. We have also set up procedures to ensure the exercise of the rights of those affected, the deletion of data and the response to threats to data. Furthermore, we take the protection of personal data into account when developing or selecting hardware, software and processes, in accordance with the principle of data protection through technology design and through data protection-friendly default settings.

Collaboration with processors, joint controllers and third parties

If, as part of our processing, we disclose data to other people and companies (processors, joint controllers or third parties), transfer it to them or otherwise grant them access to the data, this only takes place on the basis of legal permission (e.g. if a transfer of the data to third parties, such as payment service providers, is necessary for the fulfillment of the contract), users have consented, a legal obligation requires this or on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. when using agents, web hosts, etc.).

If we disclose, transmit or otherwise grant access to data to other companies in our group of companies, this is done in particular for administrative purposes as a legitimate interest and, moreover, on a basis that complies with legal requirements.

Transfers to third countries

If we process data in a third country (i.e. outside the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) or the Swiss Confederation) or in the context of using third-party services or disclosing or transferring data to other people or companies If this happens, this will only occur if it is to fulfill our (pre-)contractual obligations, based on your consent, based on a legal obligation or based on our legitimate interests. Subject to legal or contractual permissions, we will only process or leave the data in a third country if the legal requirements are met. This means that the processing is carried out, for example, on the basis of special guarantees, such as the officially recognized determination of a data protection level that corresponds to the EU (e.g. for the USA through the “Privacy Shield”) or compliance with officially recognized special contractual obligations.

Rights of data subjects

You have the right to request confirmation as to whether the data in question is being processed and to receive information about this data as well as further information and a copy of the data in accordance with legal requirements.

You have accordingly. In accordance with legal requirements, you have the right to request that the data concerning you be completed or that incorrect data concerning you be corrected.

In accordance with the legal requirements, you have the right to demand that the relevant data be deleted immediately, or alternatively, in accordance with the legal requirements, to request a restriction on the processing of the data.

You have the right to request that the data concerning you that you have provided to us be received in accordance with the legal requirements and to request that it be transmitted to other responsible parties.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority in accordance with legal requirements.

Right of withdrawal

You have the right to revoke your consent with effect for the future.

Right to object

You can object to the future processing of your data at any time in accordance with legal requirements. The objection can in particular be made against processing for direct advertising purposes.

Cookies and right to object to direct advertising

“Cookies” are small files that are stored on users’ computers. Different information can be stored within the cookies. A cookie is primarily used to store information about a user (or the device on which the cookie is stored) during or after their visit to an online offering. Temporary cookies, or “session cookies” or “transient cookies,” are cookies that are deleted after a user leaves an online offering and closes their browser. Such a cookie can, for example, store the contents of a shopping cart in an online shop or a login status. Cookies that remain stored even after the browser is closed are referred to as “permanent” or “persistent”. For example, the login status can be saved if users visit it after several days. The interests of users can also be stored in such a cookie, which is used for range measurement or marketing purposes. “Third-party cookies” are cookies that are offered by providers other than the person responsible for operating the online offering (otherwise, if they are only their cookies, they are referred to as “first-party cookies”).

We can use temporary and permanent cookies and explain this in our data protection declaration.

If users do not want cookies to be stored on their computer, they are asked to deactivate the corresponding option in the system settings of their browser. Saved cookies can be deleted in the browser's system settings. The exclusion of cookies can lead to functional restrictions of this online offer.

A general objection to the use of cookies used for online marketing purposes can be made for a large number of services, especially in the case of tracking, via the US websitehttp://www.aboutads.info/choices/or the EU sidehttp://www.youronlinechoices.com/be explained. Furthermore, the storage of cookies can be achieved by switching them off in the browser settings. Please note that not all functions of this online offer may then be able to be used.

Deletion of data

The data we process will be deleted or its processing restricted in accordance with legal requirements. Unless expressly stated in this data protection declaration, the data stored by us will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for their intended purpose and the deletion does not conflict with any legal retention obligations.

Unless the data is deleted because it is required for other legally permissible purposes, its processing will be restricted. This means that the data is blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to data that must be retained for commercial or tax reasons.

Changes and updates to the privacy policy

We ask you to regularly inform yourself about the content of our data protection declaration. We will adapt the data protection declaration as soon as changes to the data processing we carry out make this necessary. We will inform you as soon as the changes require your cooperation (e.g. consent) or other individual notification.

Newsletter - ActiveCampaign

The newsletter is sent using the shipping service provider “ActiveCampaign”, a newsletter delivery platform from the US provider ActiveCampaign, Inc., 1 N Dearborn, 5th Floor Chicago, Illinois 60602, USA. You can view the data protection regulations of the shipping service provider here:https://www.activecampaign.com/privacy-policy/. ActiveCampaign is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thereby offers a guarantee that it will comply with European data protection standards (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnH6AAK&status=Active). The shipping service provider is used on the basis of our legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f of the GDPR and an order processing agreement in accordance with Article 28 Paragraph 3 Sentence 1 of the GDPR.

The shipping service provider can use the recipient's data in a pseudonymous form, ie without assigning it to a user, to optimize or improve its own services, for example to technically optimize shipping and the presentation of the newsletter or for statistical purposes. However, the shipping service provider does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to write to them itself or to pass the data on to third parties.

Hosting and email delivery

The hosting services we use serve to provide the following services: infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space and database services, email delivery, security services and technical maintenance services, which we use for the purpose of operating this online offering.

In doing so, we, or our hosting provider, process inventory data, contact data, content data, contract data, usage data, meta and communication data from customers, interested parties and visitors to this online offering based on our legitimate interests in the efficient and secure provision of this online offering in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR in conjunction with Art. 28 GDPR (conclusion of order processing contract).

Collection of access data and log files

We, or our hosting provider, collect data about every access to the server on which this service is located (so-called server log files) based on our legitimate interests within the meaning of Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f of the GDPR. The access data includes the name of the website accessed, file, date and time of access, amount of data transferred, notification of successful access, browser type and version, the user's operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page), IP address and the requesting provider .

Log file information is stored for security reasons (e.g. to investigate acts of abuse or fraud) for a maximum of 7 days and then deleted. Data whose further storage is necessary for evidentiary purposes is excluded from deletion until the respective incident has been finally clarified.

New Relic - Server monitoring and error tracking

With the help of server monitoring and error tracking, we ensure the availability and integrity of our online offering and use the data processed to technically optimize our online offering.

For these purposes we use the service New Relic, Inc. Attn: Legal Department 188 Spear Street, Suite 1200 San Francisco, CA 94105, USA. New Relic is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thereby offers a guarantee of compliance with European data protection law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TNPiAAO&status=Active).

New Relic processes aggregated performance data, i.e. performance, utilization and comparable technical values, which provide information about the stability and any anomalies of our online offering. In the event of errors or anomalies, individual requests from users of our online offering are recorded pseudonymously in order to identify and resolve the sources of problems. In this case, pseudonym means in particular that the users' IP addresses are stored shortened by the last two digits (so-called IP masking). The aggregated data is deleted after three months, the pseudonymized data after seven days.

We use New Relic based on our legitimate interests in the security, accuracy and optimization of our online offering in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

For more information about New Relic's processing of personal data, please see the service's privacy policy: https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/privacy.

Integration of third-party services and content

Within our online offering, we use content or service offerings from third-party providers based on our legitimate interests (ie interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our online offering within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f. GDPR) in order to improve their content and To integrate services such as videos or fonts (hereinafter referred to as “content”).

This always assumes that the third party providers of this content are aware of the user's IP address, as without the IP address they would not be able to send the content to their browser. The IP address is therefore required to display this content. We strive to only use content whose respective providers only use the IP address to deliver the content. Third parties may also use so-called pixel tags (invisible graphics, also known as “web beacons”) for statistical or marketing purposes. The “pixel tags” can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on the pages of this website. The pseudonymous information can also be stored in cookies on the user's device and may contain, among other things, technical information about the browser and operating system, referring websites, visiting time and other information about the use of our online offering, as well as being linked to such information from other sources.

Vimeo

We can integrate videos from the “Vimeo” platform of the provider Vimeo Inc., Attention: Legal Department, 555 West 18th Street New York, New York 10011, USA. Data protection:https://vimeo.com/privacy. We would like to point out that Vimeo can use Google Analytics and refer to the data protection declaration (https://policies.google.com/privacy) as well as opt-out options for Google Analytics (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de) or Google's settings for data use for marketing purposes (https://adssettings.google.com/).

Youtube

We integrate the videos from the “YouTube” platform of the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Data protection:https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, Opt Out:https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

Google Fonts

We incorporate the fonts (“Google Fonts”) from the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Data protection:https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, Opt Out:https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

Google ReCaptcha

We include the function to detect bots, e.g. when entering online forms ("ReCaptcha") from the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Data protection:https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, Opt Out:https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.