Data protection settings
Here you will find an overview of your cookie settings, your user ID and what types of cookies are used here.
Absolute transparency is very important to me, which is why you have a full overview of the tools used in this blog.
Your user ID (UID) – No IP addresses are stored!
We use the “Real Cookie Banner” consent tool to manage the cookies and similar technologies used (tracking pixels, web beacons, etc.) and related consents. Details on how “Real Cookie Banner” works can be found at https://devowl.io/de/rcb/datenverarbeitung/.
The legal basis for the processing of personal data in this context is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR and Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the management of the cookies and similar technologies used and the related consents.
The provision of personal data is neither contractually required nor necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide the personal data. If you do not provide the personal data, we will not be able to manage your consents.
Data protection regulations
Privacy policy and consents
Table of contents
- 1. objective and responsible body
- 2. basic information on data processing
- 3. processing of personal data
- 4. collection of access data
- 5. cookies & reach measurement
- 6. Newsletter
- 7. integration of third-party services and content
- 8 User rights and deletion
- 9. changes to the privacy policy
1.
Objective and responsible body
This privacy policy clarifies the nature, scope and purpose of the processing (including collection, processing and use as well as obtaining consent) of personal data within our online offer and the associated websites, functions and content (hereinafter collectively referred to as “online offer” or “website”). The privacy policy applies regardless of the domains, systems, platforms and devices used (e.g. desktop or mobile) on which the online offering is executed.
The provider of the online offer and the body responsible for data protection is SecureBits, owner: Marcel Dellmann, Lindental 8, 94032 Passau (hereinafter referred to as “provider”, “we” or “us”). For contact details, please refer to our legal notice
The term “user” includes all customers and visitors to our online offering. The terms used, such as “user”, are to be understood as gender-neutral.
2.
Basic information on data processing
We only process users’ personal data in compliance with the relevant data protection regulations in accordance with the principles of data minimization and data avoidance. This means that user data is only processed if there is legal permission, in particular if the data is required for the provision of our contractual services and online services or is required by law or if consent has been given.
We take organizational, contractual and technical security measures in accordance with the state of the art to ensure that the provisions of data protection laws are complied with and to protect the data processed by us against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons.
If content, tools or other means from other providers (hereinafter jointly referred to as “third-party providers”) are used within the scope of this privacy policy and their registered office is abroad, it can be assumed that data will be transferred to the countries in which the third-party providers are based. The transfer of data to third countries takes place either on the basis of legal permission, user consent or special contractual clauses that guarantee the legally required security of the data.
3.
Processing of personal data
In addition to the uses expressly stated in this privacy policy, personal data is processed for the following purposes on the basis of legal permissions or user consent:
– The provision, execution, maintenance, optimization and security of our services and user services;
– Ensuring effective customer service and technical support.
We only transfer user data to third parties if this is necessary for billing purposes (e.g. to a payment service provider) or for other purposes if these are necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to the users (e.g. address notification to suppliers).
When contacting us (via contact form or email), the user’s details are stored for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in the event that follow-up questions arise.
Personal data is deleted if it has fulfilled its intended purpose and there are no retention obligations to the contrary.
4. collection of access data
We collect data about every access to the server on which this service is located (so-called server log files). 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.
We use the log data without allocation to the person of the user or other profiling in accordance with the statutory provisions only for statistical evaluations for the purpose of the operation, security and optimization of our online offer. However, we reserve the right to check the log data retrospectively if there is a justified suspicion of unlawful use based on concrete evidence.
5. cookies & reach measurement
Cookies are pieces of information that are transferred from our web server or third-party web servers to the user’s web browser and stored there for later retrieval. Users are informed about the use of cookies in the context of pseudonymous reach measurement as part of this privacy policy.
It is also possible to view this online offer without cookies. 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. Stored cookies can be deleted in the system settings of the browser. The exclusion of cookies can lead to functional restrictions of this online offer.
It is possible to manage many online advertising cookies from companies via the US site http://www.aboutads.info/choices or the EU site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/.
6. Newsletter
The following information explains the content of our newsletter as well as the registration, dispatch and statistical evaluation procedure and your rights of objection. By subscribing to our newsletter, you agree to receive it and to the procedures described.
Content of the newsletter: We only send newsletters, emails and other electronic notifications with advertising information (hereinafter “newsletter”) with the consent of the recipient or legal permission. If the contents of the newsletter are specifically described when registering for the newsletter, they are decisive for the user’s consent. In addition, our newsletters contain the following information: our products, offers, promotions and our company.
Double opt-in and logging: Registration for our newsletter takes place in a so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that after registering you will receive an e-mail asking you to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary so that no one can register with other people’s e-mail addresses. Subscriptions to the newsletter are logged in order to be able to prove the registration process in accordance with legal requirements. This includes storing the time of registration and confirmation as well as the IP address. Changes to your data stored with the shipping service provider are also logged.
The email addresses of our newsletter recipients, as well as their other data described in this notice, are stored on the servers of the mailing service provider. The mailing service provider uses this information to send and evaluate the newsletter on our behalf. Furthermore, according to its own information, the mailing service provider may use this data to optimize or improve its own services, e.g. to technically optimize the mailing and presentation of the newsletter or for economic purposes in order to determine which countries the recipients come from. However, the mailing service provider does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to write to them itself or pass it on to third parties.
Registration data: To subscribe to the newsletter, simply enter your e-mail address.
Statistical survey and analyses – The newsletters contain a so-called “web-beacon”, i.e. a pixel-sized file that is retrieved from the server of the mailing service provider when the newsletter is opened. As part of this retrieval, technical information, such as information about the browser and your system, as well as your IP address and time of retrieval, is initially collected. This information is used for the technical improvement of the services based on the technical data or the target groups and their reading behavior based on their retrieval locations (which can be determined with the help of the IP address) or the access times. The statistical surveys also include determining whether the newsletters are opened, when they are opened and which links are clicked. For technical reasons, this information can be assigned to individual newsletter recipients. However, it is neither our intention nor that of the mailing service provider to observe individual users. The evaluations serve us much more to recognize the reading habits of our users and to adapt our content to them or to send different content according to the interests of our users.
Cancellation/revocation – You can cancel the receipt of our newsletter at any time, i.e. revoke your consent. At the same time, your consent to the sending of the newsletter by the mailing service provider and the statistical analyses will expire. Unfortunately, it is not possible to separately revoke your consent to the newsletter being sent by the mailing service provider or to the statistical analysis. You will find a link to unsubscribe from the newsletter at the end of each newsletter.
7. integration of third-party services and content
It may happen that content or services from third-party providers, such as city maps or fonts from other websites, are integrated into our online offering. The integration of content from third-party providers always requires that the third-party providers are aware of the user’s IP address, as they would not be able to send the content to the user’s browser without the IP address. The IP address is therefore required to display this content. Furthermore, the providers of third-party content can set their own cookies and process user data for their own purposes. User profiles can be created from the processed data. We will use this content as sparingly as possible and in a data-avoiding manner and select reliable third-party providers with regard to data security.
The following presentation provides an overview of third-party providers and their content, together with links to their data protection declarations, which contain further information on the processing of data and, in some cases already mentioned here, options for objection (so-called opt-out):
– Videos der Plattform “YouTube” des Dritt-Anbieters Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Datenschutzerklärung: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, Opt-Out: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/.
Brevo
This website uses Brevo to send newsletters. The provider is Sendinblue GmbH, Köpenicker Straße 126, 10179 Berlin, Germany.
Brevo is a service with which, among other things, the sending of newsletters can be organized and analyzed. The data you enter for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter is stored on the servers of Sendinblue GmbH in Germany.
Data analysis by Brevo
With the help of Brevo, we are able to analyze our newsletter campaigns. For example, we can see whether a newsletter message has been opened and which links have been clicked on. In this way, we can determine, among other things, which links were clicked on particularly often.
We can also recognize whether certain previously defined actions were carried out after opening/clicking (conversion rate). For example, we can see whether you have made a purchase after clicking on the newsletter.
Brevo also enables us to divide newsletter recipients into different categories (“clustering”). The newsletter recipients can be subdivided according to age, gender or place of residence, for example. In this way, the newsletters can be better adapted to the respective target groups.
If you do not wish to be analyzed by Brevo, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter. We provide a corresponding link for this purpose in every newsletter message.
You can find detailed information on the functions of Brevo at the following link: https://www.brevo.com/de/newsletter-software/.
Legal basis
The data processing takes place on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can withdraw this consent at any time. The legality of the data processing operations that have already taken place remains unaffected by the revocation.
Speicherdauer
The data you provide us with for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter will be stored by us or the newsletter service provider until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and deleted from the newsletter distribution list after you unsubscribe from the newsletter. Data stored by us for other purposes remains unaffected by this.
After you unsubscribe from the newsletter distribution list, your e-mail address may be stored by us or the newsletter service provider in a blacklist if this is necessary to prevent future mailings. The data from the blacklist will only be used for this purpose and will not be merged with other data. This serves both your interest and our interest in complying with the legal requirements when sending newsletters (legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). Storage in the blacklist is not limited in time. You can object to the storage if your interests outweigh our legitimate interest.
For more information, please refer to Brevo’s privacy policy at: https://www.brevo.com/de/datenschutz-uebersicht/ and https://www.brevo.com/de/legal/privacypolicy/.
Content-Delivery-Network
Cloudflare CDN
On our website we use a so-called Content Delivery Network (“CDN”) of the technology service provider Cloudflare Inc, 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107, USA (“Cloudflare”). A content delivery network is an online service that is used to deliver large media files (such as graphics, page content or scripts) through a network of regionally distributed servers connected via the Internet. The use of Cloudflare’s content delivery network helps us to optimize the loading speed of our website.
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in the secure and efficient provision and improvement of the stability and functionality of our website.
We have concluded a data processing agreement with Cloudfare (Data Processing Addendum, available at https://www.cloudflare.com/media/pdf/cloudflare-customer-dpa.pdf), which obliges Cloudfare to protect the data of our website visitors and not to pass it on to third parties. For the transfer of data from the EU to the USA, Cloudfare relies on so-called standard data protection clauses of the European Commission, which are intended to ensure compliance with the European level of data protection in the USA.
Further information can be found in Cloudflare’s privacy policy at: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
8. User rights and deletion of data
Users have the right, upon request and free of charge, to receive information about the personal data that we have stored about them.
In addition, users have the right to correct incorrect data, revoke consent, block and delete their personal data as well as the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority in the event of the assumption of unlawful data processing.
The data stored by us will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for its intended purpose and the deletion does not conflict with any statutory retention obligations.
9. changes to the privacy policy
We reserve the right to amend the privacy policy in order to adapt it to changed legal situations or in the event of changes to the service and data processing. However, this only applies with regard to declarations on data processing. If user consent is required or components of the privacy policy contain provisions of the contractual relationship with the users, the changes will only be made with the consent of the users.
Users are requested to inform themselves regularly about the content of the privacy policy.
Stand: 01.03.2023
General cookies
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Cookies from
WordPress
| Name | Zweck | Gültigkeit |
| wordpress_test_cookie | This cookie determines whether the use of cookies has been deactivated in the browser. Storage duration: Until the end of the browser session (is deleted when you close your Internet browser). | Session |
| PHPSESSID | This cookie saves your current session with regard to PHP applications and thus ensures that all functions of this website that are based on the PHP programming language can be displayed in full. Storage duration: Until the end of the browser session (is deleted when you close your Internet browser). | Session |
| wordpress_akm_mobile | These cookies are only used for the WordPress administration area. | 1 year |
| wordpress_logged_in_akm_mobile | These cookies are only used for the administration area of WordPress and do not apply to other site visitors. | Session |
| wp-settings-akm_mobile | These cookies are only used for the administration area of WordPress and do not apply to other site visitors. | Session |
| wp-settings-time-akm_mobile | These cookies are only used for the administration area of WordPress and do not apply to other site visitors. | Session |
| ab | is used for A/B testing of new functions. | Session |
| akm_mobile | speichert, ob der Besucher die Mobilversion einer Website angezeigt bekommen möchte. | 1 Tag |
Amazon affiliate program
We are a participant in the Amazon Partner Program, which enables the placement of Amazon advertisements and partner links on websites. This placement of Amazon advertising generates a reimbursement of advertising costs.
Amazon uses cookies to track the origin of orders.
The responsible body within the meaning of data protection laws is Amazon Europe Core S.à.r.l., Amazon EU S.à.r.l., Amazon Services Europe S.à.r.l. and Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., all four located at 5, Rue Plaetis, L-2338 Luxembourg and Amazon Instant Video Germany GmbH, Domagkstr. 28, 80807 Munich. Amazon Deutschland Services GmbH, Marcel-Breuer-Str. 12, 80807 Munich, acts as data processor on their behalf.
The privacy policy, what information Amazon collects and how they use it can be found at https://www.amazon.de/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=footer_privacy?ie=UTF8&nodeId=3312401.
YouTube
We use the video service YouTube, YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA, on this website.
By accessing pages of our website that have integrated YouTube videos, data is transmitted to YouTube, stored and analyzed.
If you have a YouTube account and are logged in, this data is assigned to your personal account and the data stored in it.
You can find out what data is collected by Google and what this data is used for at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
Vimeo
Plugins from the Vimeo video portal of Vimeo, LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA are integrated on our website. Each time you access a page that offers one or more Vimeo video clips, a direct connection is established between your browser and a Vimeo server in the USA. Information about your visit and your IP address is stored there. Through interactions with the Vimeo plugins (e.g. clicking the start button), this information is also transmitted to Vimeo and stored there. The privacy policy for Vimeo with more detailed information on the collection and use of your data by Vimeo can be found in Vimeo’s privacy policy
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If you have a Vimeo user account and do not want Vimeo to collect data about you via this website and link it to your membership data stored with Vimeo, you must log out of Vimeo before visiting this website.
Vimeo also calls up the Google Analytics tracker via an iFrame in which the video is called up. This is Vimeo’s own tracking, to which we have no access. You can prevent tracking by Google Analytics by using the deactivation tools that Google offers for some Internet browsers. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by Google Analytics and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Cookies von Vimeo
| Name | Zweck | Gültigkeit |
| vimeo | Video Hosting: Authentication Token. | Session |
| uid | Traffic Analyse: Analytics Tracking ID. | Session |
| vuid | Traffic Analyse: Analytics Unique ID. | 2 years |
| player | Traffic Analyse. | 1 year |
| _uetsid | Traffic Analyse. | 30 minutes |
Cloudflare
We use the Content Delivery Network (CDN) of Cloudflare Germany GmbH, Rosental 7, c/o Mindspace, 80331 Munich Germany (Cloudflare) to increase the security and delivery speed of our website. This corresponds to our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). A CDN is a network of [globally] distributed servers that is able to deliver optimized content to the website user. For this purpose, Cloudflare may process personal data in server log files. Please compare the explanations under “Hosting”.
Cloudflare is the recipient of your personal data and acts as a processor for us. This corresponds to our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR not to operate a content delivery network ourselves.
You have the right to object to the processing. Whether the objection is successful must be determined as part of a balancing of interests.
The processing of the data specified in this section is neither legally nor contractually required. The functionality of the website is not guaranteed without the processing.
Your personal data will be stored by Cloudflare for as long as is necessary for the purposes described.
Further information on objection and removal options vis-à-vis Cloudflare can be found at: Cloudflare DPA
Cloudflare has implemented compliance measures for international data transfers. These apply to all global activities where Cloudflare processes personal data of natural persons in the EU. These measures are based on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs). Further information can be found at https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudflare_customer_SCCs-German.pdf