info@business-as-visual.com | +49 175 2273106
info@business-as-visual.com | +49 175 2273106
It is possible to use our website without providing personal data. Different regulations may apply to the use of individual services on our website, which are explained separately below. Your personal data (e.g. name, address, e-mail, telephone number, etc.) will only be processed by us in accordance with the provisions of German data protection law. Data is personal if it can be clearly assigned to a specific natural person. The legal basis for data protection can be found in the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Telemedia Act (TMG). In this respect, the following regulations inform you about the type, scope and purpose of the collection, use and processing of personal data by the provider
Christian Ridder
Tannenweg 3
14482 Potsdam
info@business-as-visual.com
We would like to point out that Internet-based data transmission is subject to security vulnerabilities, making complete protection against access by third parties impossible.
We offer you the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter on our website. With this newsletter we inform you about our offers at regular intervals. In order to receive our newsletter, you need a valid e-mail address. We will check the e-mail address you enter to ensure that you are actually the owner of the e-mail address provided or that the owner is authorized to receive the newsletter. When you register for our newsletter, we will save your IP address and the date and time of your registration. This serves as a safeguard on our part in the event that a third party misuses your e-mail address and subscribes to our newsletter without your knowledge. We do not collect any other data. The data collected in this way is used exclusively for the subscription to our newsletter. It will not be passed on to third parties. The data collected in this way is also not compared with data that may be collected by other components of our website. You can cancel your subscription to this newsletter at any time. Details can be found in the confirmation email and in each individual newsletter.
On our website, we offer you the opportunity to contact us by e-mail and/or via a contact form. In this case, the information provided by the user is stored for the purpose of processing the contact. It will not be passed on to third parties. The data collected in this way is also not compared with data that may be collected by other components of our website.
We offer you the opportunity to leave comments on individual posts on our website. The IP address of the author/contributor is stored. This storage is for our security in the event that the author’s comment infringes the rights of third parties and/or illegal content is posted. We therefore have a vested interest in the author’s stored data, especially as we may be prosecuted for such infringements. The data will not be passed on to third parties. The data collected in this way is also not compared with data that may be collected by other components of our site.
We use Google Analytics on our website, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google”. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site.
The information generated by these cookies, such as the time, place and frequency of your website visit, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google in the USA and stored there.
We use Google Analytics with an IP anonymization function on our website. In this case, your IP address will already be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area and thus anonymized.
Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.
Google states that it will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of our website.
Furthermore, Google offers a deactivation option for the most common browsers, which gives you more control over which data is collected and processed by Google. If you activate this option, no information about your website visit will be transmitted to Google Analytics. However, activation does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analysis services that we may use. For more information on the deactivation option provided by Google and how to activate this option, please click on the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
We use components of the provider facebook.com on our website. Facebook is a service of facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
Each time you access our website, which is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from facebook. This process informs facebook which specific page of our website you are currently visiting.
If you visit our website while you are logged in to facebook, facebook recognizes which specific page you are visiting through the information collected by the component and assigns this information to your personal account on facebook. For example, if you click on the “Like” button or make comments, this information is transmitted to your personal user account on facebook and stored there. In addition, the information that you have visited our site is passed on to facebook. This happens regardless of whether you click on the component or not.
If you want to prevent this transmission and storage of data about you and your behavior on our website by facebook, you must log out of facebook before you visit our site. Facebook’s data protection information provides more detailed information on this, in particular on the collection and use of data by Facebook, your rights in this regard and the setting options for protecting your privacy: https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/
You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
We use components of the provider Twitter on our website. Twitter is a service of Twitter Inc, 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.
Each time you access our website, which is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from Twitter. This process informs Twitter which specific page of our website is currently being visited.
We have no influence on the data that Twitter collects in this way, nor on the scope of the data collected by Twitter. To the best of our knowledge, Twitter collects the URL of the respective website accessed and the IP address of the user, but does not use it for purposes other than displaying the Twitter component. Further information on this can be found in Twitter’s privacy policy at http://twitter.com/privacy.
You can change your data protection settings in the account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.
We use components of the XING.com network on our website. These components are a service of XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.
Each time you access our website, which is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from XING.
To the best of our knowledge, XING does not store any personal user data when our website is accessed. XING also does not store any IP addresses. In addition, no evaluation of user behavior takes place via the use of cookies in connection with the “XING Share button”. Further information on this can be found in the data protection information for the XING share button at: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection
We use components of the LinkedIn network on our website. LinkedIn is a service of LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Each time you access our website, which is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the LinkedIn component.
This process informs LinkedIn which specific page of our website is currently being visited. If you click on the LinkedIn “Recommend button” while you are logged into your LinkedIn account, you can link the content of our pages to your LinkedIn profile. This enables LinkedIn to associate your visit to our pages with your LinkedIn user account.
We have no influence over the data that LinkedIn collects in this way, nor over the scope of this data collected by LinkedIn. We also have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted to LinkedIn. Details on data collection by LinkedIn as well as your rights and settings options can be found in LinkedIn’s privacy policy. You can find this information at http://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
On our website, we use components (videos) from YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave, 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, a company of Google Inc, Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
We use the ” – extended data protection mode – ” option provided by YouTube.
When you access a page that has an embedded video, a connection to the YouTube servers is established and the content is displayed on the website by notifying your browser.
According to the information provided by YouTube, in ” – extended data protection mode -” only data is transmitted to the YouTube server, in particular which of our Internet pages you have visited when you watch the video. If you are logged in to YouTube at the same time, this information will be assigned to your YouTube member account. You can prevent this by logging out of your member account before visiting our website.
Further information on data protection from YouTube is provided by Google under the following link:
https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/
We use components from the provider Vimeo on our website. Vimeo is a service of Vimeo LCC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. Each time you access our website, which is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the Vimeo component. If you visit our website while you are logged in to Vimeo, Vimeo recognizes which specific page you are visiting through the information collected by the component and assigns this information to your personal Vimeo account. For example, if you click on the “Play” button or make comments, this information is transmitted to your personal user account at Vimeo and stored there. In addition, the information that you have visited our site will be passed on to Vimeo. This happens regardless of whether you click on the component/post comments or not.
If you want to prevent this transmission and storage of data about you and your behavior on our website by Vimeo, you must log out of Vimeo before you visit our site. Vimeo’s privacy policy provides more detailed information on this, in particular on the collection and use of data by Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/privacy
With regard to the use of your personal data to receive our newsletter, you will be asked for your consent as follows:
“I have taken note of the privacy policy, in particular I agree that the data processing is carried out by a service provider in the USA.”.
We use the newsletter to inform you about our offers at regular intervals. In order to receive our newsletter, you need a valid e-mail address. We will check the e-mail address you have entered to ensure that you are actually the owner of the e-mail address provided or that the owner is authorized to receive the newsletter. When you register for our newsletter, we will save your IP address and the date and time of your registration. This serves as a safeguard for us in the event that a third party misuses your e-mail address and subscribes to our newsletter without your knowledge.
The data collected in this way is also not compared with data that may be collected by other components of our website.
We use the MailChimp component to send our newsletter. MailChimp is a service provided by The Rocket Science Group, LLC, 512 Means Street, Suite 404, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA.
Your data stored when you register for the newsletter (e-mail address, if applicable name, IP address, date and time of your registration) will be transferred to a server of The Rocket Science Group in the USA and stored there in compliance with the “EU-US Privacy Shield”.
Further information on data protection at MailChimp can be found at:
http://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
Further information on the “EU-US Privacy Shield” can be found at:
The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
You can cancel or revoke your subscription to this newsletter and thus your consent to the storage of your data at any time for the future. Details on this can be found in the confirmation email and in each individual newsletter.
Our newsletters contain so-called tracking pixels (web bugs), which enable us to recognize whether and when an e-mail was opened and which links in the e-mail were followed by the personalized recipient.
We store this data so that we can tailor our newsletters to the wishes and interests of our subscribers. Accordingly, the data collected in this way is used to send personalized newsletters to the respective recipient.
We ask for your consent in this regard at the appropriate point as follows:
“I agree that my data and my usage behavior will be stored electronically by the newsletter tracking in order to send me an individualized newsletter. With the revocation of consent to receive the newsletter, the consent to the aforementioned tracking is also revoked.”
With the revocation of consent to receive the newsletter, the consent to the aforementioned tracking is also revoked.
We also use the Google advertising tool “Google Adwords” to advertise our website. As part of this, we use the “Conversion Tracking” analysis service of Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter “Google”, on our website. If you have reached our website via a Google ad, a cookie will be stored on your computer. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser stores on your computer. These so-called “conversion cookies” lose their validity after 30 days and are not used to identify you personally. If you visit certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that you as a user have clicked on one of our ads placed on Google and have been redirected to our site.
The information collected with the help of the “conversion cookies” is used by Google to compile visit statistics for our website. These statistics tell us the total number of users who have clicked on our ad and also which pages of our website were subsequently accessed by the respective user. However, we or other advertisers via “Google Adwords” do not receive any information with which users can be personally identified.
You can prevent the installation of “conversion cookies” by setting your browser accordingly, for example by using a browser setting that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies or specifically blocks only cookies from the domain “googleadservices.com”.
You can find Google’s privacy policy in this regard at the following link: https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html
In accordance with the Federal Data Protection Act, you can contact us free of charge if you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data and the correction, blocking, deletion or revocation of your consent. We would like to point out that you have the right to have incorrect data corrected or personal data deleted if this claim does not conflict with any legal obligation to retain data.
Sample data protection declaration of the law firm Weiß & Partner
