Source: https://www.designpost.de/en/contact/privacy-policy.html
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 08:34:44+00:00

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Protecting your personal data is important to us, which is why we want to inform you about which data we store when you visit our website, why we do it, and when the data is deleted. Personal data is all information relating to a named or identifiable person. This includes name, address and telephone number, as well as the IP address of the computer you use to access our website.
DESIGN POST KOELN GmbH & Co. KG, Deutz-Mülheimer-Strasse 22a, 50679 Cologne, Germany, Telephone: +49 221 690650, Telefax: +49 221 690651, E-Mail: info@designpost.de, is responsible for processing data collected on our website.
When you visit our website, general data and information is stored in the server’s log files. This may include your browser type and version, your operating system, the website from which you accessed our website, the date and time you accessed our website, your Internet Protocol address (IP address) used at the time of access, and your Internet Service Provider.
Collecting data is a technical requirement for correctly transferring website content requested by you, and is mandatory when using the Internet. The server log files’ data is stored separately from all other personal data entered elsewhere by data subject. We do not create any links to the data subject when using this general data and information.
The data is processed in accordance with Art. 1(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interest is based on the fact that you would be unable to access our website without the data being temporarily stored.
The aforementioned technical data is deleted after three days, unless we state in this privacy statement that the data may be needed for other purposes (e.g. analysis).
Providing this technical data is not required by law or contract, nor is it required for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obligated to provide the personal data. If your system does not provide all or part of the required information, it may be fully or partly impossible to access our website.
Cookies help track users’ activity on a website. When cookies are used, data to identify the user, even if anonymized, may sometimes be processed.
This processing occurs in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interest pursued by the processing lies in tailoring our website to market needs, and identifying the website pages accessed by you.
Insofar as cookies are used by us, they are automatically deleted at the end of the browser session or after a set time. Your browser provides detailed information on the cookies we use. Cookies can also be removed manually by your system using your browser’s delete function.
Our website contains integrated content provided not by us but by third parties. When you visit our website, this content is automatically retreived from an external server without you noticing. To ensure your web browser can display such information, it not only needs to access our website, but also the pages from which the content originates. As such, you also provide the technical data mentioned in no. 3 to the third-party.
We have also integrated fonts provided by fonts.com. The service is provided by the US company Monotype Imaging Inc. When our website’s content is displayed on the user’s display, fonts from Monotype Imaging Inc.‘s server are being retreived. If and which additional data is being transmitted to the provider by accessing its website and how it handles the data you can see in its privacy statement. You can use suitable technical means to prevent the embedding of Fonts. If you do this, our content will be displayed with a standard font.
We have also integrated fonts provided by Google Fonts. The service is provided by the US company Google LLC. When our website’s content is displayed on the user’s display, fonts from Google‘s server are being retreived. If and which additional data is being transmitted to the provider by accessing its website and how it handles the data you can see in its privacy statement. You can use suitable technical means to prevent the embedding of Google Fonts. If you do this, our content will be displayed with a standard font.
We have integrated the online map service Google Maps, namely a map section showing our location. This service is provided by the US company Google LLC. To find out which additional information you send to the provider when visiting the site, and how this provider handles the data, please see their privacy statement. Please note that any interactions with the integrated content (e.g. when calculating an access route) may collect additional data which is then not processed by us, but rather exclusively by Google Maps. You can take suitable technical measures to prevent map sections being embedded. By doing so, said map sections will not be displayed.
External content is embedded in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest in interating the virtual showroom is based on the fact that it allows us to present our exhibitors‘ products in an aesthetically pleasing manner. Our legitimate interest in integrating fonts.com and Google Fonts is based on the fact that it enables us to offer our website visitors an aesthetically appealing website. Our legitimate interest in integrating Google Maps is based on the fact that it allows us to easily explain to our customers how to find us at our location.
We ourselves do not collect any additional data through the embedding. The privacy statements issued by the aforementioned providers of the embedded information specifies when personal data collected when accessing third-party content is deleted.
Transmission of data to third-party providers as part of the embedding is not required by law or contract and is not required in order to conclude a contract with us.
Our website enables you to subscribe to a newsletter with advertising content. To do this, you can enter your email address and first name into a registration form. This data is then recorded and stored by us, and used to send future newsletters. For mailing purposes, the data entered by you is sent to an external service provider, with whom we have concluded a-processing contract.
When you subscribe to the newsletter, we also store your IP address and the date of subscription. This storage serves as proof in the event a third party misuses an email address and subscribes to the newsletter without the owner‘s knowledge.
We also obtain the recipient’s express consent to receive promotional messages in an electronic format according to Section 7(2)(3) UWG (German Act against Unfair Competition). In this context, we send the owner of the email address provided to us an email asking them to confirm their newsletter subscription by email. This response email, the IP address and the time of sending is also stored by us for evidentiary purposes (double opt-in process).
The data is processed in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Art. 6(1)(f)(47)(7) GDPR. Our legitimate interest here is based on the notion of informing our customers of our services through direct advertising, preventing the misuse of email addresses, and being able to prove that the newsletter recipient expressly gave consent to the mailing of electronic promotional messages.
We store your data until you unsubscribe from the newsletter or revoke your consent.
Providing your data for the newsletter mailing is not required by law or contract, and is not required in order to conclude a contract. If you do not provide your email address, however, we cannot send you a newsletter.
- in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR, to lodge a complaint to a supervisory authority.
Insofar as your personal data is processed based on legitimate interests as per Art. 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR, you are entitled, under Art. 21 GDPR, to object to the processing of your personal data, insofar as there are relevant grounds pertaining to your particular situation or the objection is against direct advertising. In the case of the latter, you have a general right of objection, which we implement without reference to a particular situation. If you wish to exercise your right of revocation or objection, simply let us know.
Our company uses technical and organisational security measures to protect your data managed by us against any accidental or deliberate tampering, loss or destruction, and against unauthorised access. Our security measures are constantly being improved in keeping with technological developments.
Whenever you are asked to enter data about yourself, your data shall be protected using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption to ensure it cannot be read by unauthorised parties when being sent over the Internet.
Please note that our website may contain links to other providers’ websites not covered by this privacy statement.

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