Source: https://rantzen.net/privacy/
Timestamp: 2020-02-29 07:26:37
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Privacy Policy – Rantzen.net
Status: January 25, 2020
Imprint: https://rantzen.net/impressum
Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. a. GDPR) – The data subject has given his or her consent to the processing of personal data concerning him or her for one or more specific purposes.
Fulfilment of a contract and pre-contractual enquiries (Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. b. GDPR) – Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures taken at the request of the data subject.
Protection of vital interests (Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. d. GDPR) – Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person.
Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. f. GDPR) – Processing is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the controller or of a third party unless the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require the protection of personal data prevail.
National data protection regulations in Germany: In addition to the data protection regulations of the basic data protection regulation, national regulations on data protection apply in Germany. These include in particular the law on protection against misuse of personal data in data processing (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz – BDSG). In particular, the BDSG contains special regulations on the right to information, the right to deletion, the right of objection, the processing of special categories of personal data, processing for other purposes and transmission as well as automated decision making in individual cases including profiling. Furthermore, it regulates data processing for the purposes of the employment relationship (§ 26 BDSG), in particular with regard to the establishment, implementation or termination of employment relationships and the consent of employees. Furthermore, state data protection laws of the individual federal states may apply.
Subject to express consent or to any transfer required by contract or by law, we process or allow the data to be processed only in third countries with a recognised level of data protection, including the US processors certified under the Privacy Shield, or on the basis of specific guarantees, such as contractual obligation through so-called standard protection clauses of the EU Commission, the existence of certifications or binding internal data protection regulations (Art. 44 to 49 GDPR, information page of the EU Commission: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection_en ).
Notes on legal bases: The legal basis on which we process your personal data with the help of cookies depends on whether we ask you for your consent. If this is the case and you consent to the use of cookies, the legal basis for processing your data is the declared consent. Otherwise, the data processed with the aid of cookies will be processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. in the business operation of our online offer and its improvement) or, if the use of cookies is necessary to fulfil our contractual obligations.
Cookie settings/confirmation option:
Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. a GDPR), legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. f. GDPR)
Comments and contributions: If users leave comments or other contributions, their IP addresses may be stored on the basis of our legitimate interests. This is done for our security in case someone leaves illegal content in comments and contributions (insults, prohibited political propaganda etc.). In this case we can be prosecuted ourselves for the comment or contribution and are therefore interested in the identity of the author.
Comment subscriptions: Users can subscribe to the follow-up comments with their consent. Users will receive a confirmation email to check if they are the owner of the email address entered. Users can unsubscribe current comment subscriptions at any time. The confirmation email will contain information about the cancellation options. For the purpose of proving the users’ consent, we store the time of subscription together with the users’ IP address and delete this information when users unsubscribe from the subscription.
Gravatar is a service where users can register and store profile pictures and their e-mail addresses. If users leave contributions or comments on other online presences (especially blogs) with their respective e-mail addresses, their profile pictures can be displayed next to the contributions or comments. For this purpose, the e-mail address provided by users is transmitted in encrypted form to Gravatar for the purpose of checking whether a profile is stored for it. This is the only purpose of transmitting the e-mail address. It will not be used for other purposes, but will be deleted afterwards.
The use of Gravatar is based on our legitimate interests, as Gravatar enables us to offer the authors of contributions and comments the possibility of personalising their contributions with a profile picture.
By displaying the images, Gravatar is able to find out the IP address of the user, as this is necessary for communication between a browser and an online service.
If users do not want a user picture linked to their email address to appear in their comments on Gravatar, they should use an email address that is not registered with Gravatar. We would also like to point out that it is also possible to use an anonymous e-mail address or no e-mail address at all, if users do not want their own e-mail address to be sent to Gravatar. Users can completely prevent the transmission of data by not using our comment system.
Purposes of processing: Contractual services and service, feedback (e.g. collecting feedback via online form), security measures, administration and answering of inquiries, contact inquiries and communication, provision of our online offer and user-friendliness, server monitoring and error detection, firewall.
Legal bases: Fulfilment of contract and pre-contractual enquiries (Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. b. GDPR), legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. f. GDPR), consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR), protection of vital interests (Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. d. GDPR).
Profile pictures of Gravatar: Profile pictures; Service provider: Automattic Inc, 60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA; website: https://automattic.com; privacy policy: https://automattic.com/privacy.
Sucuri: Firewall and security and error detection functions; service provider: Sucuri LLC, parent company: GoDaddy Media Temple, Inc. d/b/a Sucuri, 6060 Center Dr. Suite 500, Los Angeles CA 90045, USA; Privacy Policy: https://sucuri.net/privacy.
UpdraftPlus: Backup software and backup storage; service provider: Simba Hosting Ltd, 11, Barringer Way, St. Neots, Cambs., PE19 1LW, UK; Website: https://updraftplus.com/.
Wordfence: Firewall and security and error detection features; Service Provider: Defiant, Inc., 800 5th Ave Ste 4100, Seattle, WA 98104, USA; Web site: https://www.wordfence.com; Privacy Policy: https://www.wordfence.com/privacy-policy/; Standard Contractual Clauses (ensuring level of data protection when processing in a third country): https://www.wordfence.com/gdpr/dpa.pdf.
Legal basis: Fulfilment of contract and pre-contractual enquiries (Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. b. GDPR), legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. f. GDPR).
Content Delivery Network: We use a “Content Delivery Network” (CDN). A CDN is a service that allows the content of an online offer, especially large media files such as graphics or program scripts, to be delivered faster and more securely by means of regionally distributed servers connected via the Internet.
Purposes of the processing: Content Delivery Network (CDN).
Vertigo Studio: Image hosting; service provider: SRL. Povernei Street 20, 4th floor, apartment no. 9 010641 Bucharest, Romania ; Website: https://optimole.com/; Privacy policy: https://optimole.com/privacy-policy/.
Purposes of processing: Reach measurement (e.g. access statistics, recognition of returning visitors), tracking (e.g. interest/behaviour-related profiling, use of cookies), visitor action evaluation, profiling (creation of user profiles).
Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. a GDPR), legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. f. GDPR).
Matomo: The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will only be stored on our server and will not be disclosed to third parties; service provider: Web analysis/range measurement in self-hosting; deletion of data: The cookies have a maximum storage period of 13 months; Opt-out: Users can object to the processing of their data by Matomo at any time with effect for the future by clicking on the link below. In this case, a so-called opt-out cookie is stored in their browser, which has the consequence that Matomo no longer collects any session data. However, if users delete their cookies, the opt-out cookie will also be deleted and must therefore be reactivated by the users.
Integration of third-party software, scripts or frameworks (e.g. jQuery): We integrate software into our online offering that we call up from servers of other providers (e.g. function libraries that we use for the purpose of displaying or making our online offering user-friendly). The respective providers collect the IP addresses of the users and can process these for the purpose of transmitting the software to the user’s browser and for security purposes, as well as for the evaluation and optimisation of their offer.
Legal bases: Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. f. GDPR), consent (Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. a GDPR), contract performance and pre-contractual enquiries (Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. b. GDPR)
YouTube videos: Video content; service provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; website: https://www.youtube.com; Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy; Privacy Shield (ensuring the level of data protection when processing data in the USA): https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active; opt-out: opt-out plugin: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en, settings for the display of advertising inserts: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.
Conversion Tracking: “Conversion Tracking” refers to a procedure that can be used to determine the effectiveness of marketing measures. To this end, a cookie is usually stored on the user’s devices within the websites on which the marketing measures are carried out and then retrieved again on the target website. For example, we can use this to track whether the ads we have placed on other websites have been successful).
Content Delivery Network (CDN): A “Content Delivery Network” (CDN) is a service by means of which the contents of an online offer, in particular large media files such as graphics or program scripts, can be delivered faster and more securely with the help of regionally distributed servers connected via the Internet.
Firewall: A “firewall” is a security system that protects a computer network or an individual computer from unwanted network access.
IP-Masking: IP masking is a method in which the last octet, i.e. the last two digits of an IP address, are deleted so that the IP address can no longer be used to uniquely identify a person. IP masking is therefore a means of pseudonymising processing procedures, especially in online marketing
Personal data: “Personal data” shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter referred to as “data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an on-line identifier (e.g. a cookie) or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person
Profiling: “Profiling” is any automated processing of personal data that consists of using personal data to analyse, evaluate or predict certain personal aspects relating to a natural person (depending on the type of profiling, this may include information on age, gender, location and movement data, interaction with websites and their content, shopping behaviour, social interactions with other people). Cookies and web beacons are often used for profiling purposes.
Server monitoring and error detection: With the help of server monitoring and error detection we ensure the availability and integrity of our online offer and use the processed data to technically optimise our online offer. Performance, capacity and comparable technical values are processed, which provide information about the stability and any conspicuous features of our online offer. In the event of errors and anomalies, individual enquiries from users of our online service are recorded in order to identify and eliminate sources of problems.
Tracking: One speaks of “tracking” when the behaviour of users can be traced across several online offers. As a rule, behavioral and interest information regarding the online offers used is stored in cookies or on servers of the providers of the tracking technologies (so-called profiling). This information can then be used, for example, to display advertisements to users that are likely to correspond to their interests.
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