Privacy Policy

1. General Information and Mandatory Details

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with legal data protection regulations as well as this privacy policy. When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data are data that can be used to personally identify you. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and for what purposes we use it. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done. We point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g., in communication via email) may have security gaps. Complete protection of data from access by third parties is not possible.

Responsible Entity

Revocation of Your Consent to Data Processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your explicit consent. You can revoke a consent already given at any time. This can be done through a simple notification via email to us. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to Complain to the Competent Supervisory Authority

In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, especially in the member state of their habitual residence, workplace, or the place of the alleged violation. The right to complain exists without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

For Hamburg, this is: The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.

Right to Access, Deletion, and Correction

You have the right, within the scope of applicable legal provisions, to obtain free information about your stored personal data, their origin and recipient, and the purpose of data processing at any time, and if necessary, to have this data corrected or deleted. For this and for further questions regarding personal data, you can contact us at any time.

SSL or TLS Encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as inquiries you send to us as site operators. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the padlock symbol in your browser’s address bar.

When SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

2. Hosting and Infrastructure

Raidboxes

We host our website with the provider Raidboxes GmbH, Hafenstraße 32, 48153 Münster (hereinafter Raidboxes). When you visit our website, Raidboxes collects various log files including your IP addresses.

The use of Raidboxes is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in providing our website as reliably and securely as possible. We have concluded a contract for order processing (AVV) with Raidboxes. This is a data protection-compliant agreement that ensures Raidboxes processes the personal data of our website visitors only according to our instructions and in compliance with GDPR.

3. Cookie Consent and Data Processing

Cookies

Our websites use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small data packages that do no harm to your device. They are used to make our offer more user-friendly, effective, and secure.

The legal basis for storing technically necessary cookies is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest in the error-free provision of our services). For all other cookies (e.g., analytics or functional scripts from third parties), we ask for your permission via a cookie consent banner (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR) in conjunction with § 25 para. 1 TDDG.

Complianz (Consent Management)

Our website uses the cookie consent tool “Complianz” to obtain your consent to store certain cookies on your device or to use certain technologies and to document this in a privacy-compliant manner.

When you visit our website, a connection is established with Complianz to request your consents. Complianz stores a cookie in your browser to associate the consents you have given or the revocation of these consents. The collected data are stored until you request us to delete them, delete the Complianz cookie yourself, or the purpose of data storage no longer applies. The data processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR to fulfill a legal obligation.

4. Embedded Tools, Forms, and Third Parties

Europace (Financing Calculator)

We embed an interactive calculator interface from EUROPACE AG (Mevissenstraße 14, 50668 Cologne) on our website. When you start the calculator or perform calculations, a direct connection to Europace’s servers is established. Your entered financing data (e.g., purchase price, equity) as well as your IP address are transmitted to Europace.

The use of Europace is for providing a targeted financing comparison and the digital processing of pre-contractual calculations. This is a legitimate interest of ours and serves the purpose of conducting pre-contractual measures. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b and lit. f GDPR.

Forminator (Contact Forms)

If you contact us via the contact form (implemented via the “Forminator” plugin), your details from the inquiry form, including the contact data provided there, are stored for processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not share this data without your consent.

The processing of this data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, provided your inquiry relates to the fulfillment of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in effectively processing inquiries addressed to us (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

Cloudflare Turnstile (Spam Protection)

To protect our forms from automated access, spam, and bots, we use the “Cloudflare Turnstile” service by Cloudflare Inc. (101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA). Turnstile analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various features (e.g., IP address, dwell time, mouse movements) without displaying visible puzzles (captchas). The data is transmitted to Cloudflare servers. The use is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in protecting our web forms from misuse and spam. Data transfer to the USA is secured by the EU Commission’s standard contractual clauses and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

RankMath (SEO Optimization)

We use the WordPress plugin “RankMath” on this website to optimize our site’s visibility in search engines. RankMath itself does not collect, store, or track personal data of website visitors in its standard operation. It works solely locally on our server for structural text and meta-analysis.

Font Awesome Icons

This site uses Font Awesome fonts for the consistent display of icons (provider: Fonticons Inc., 6 dojo place, Icontopia, USA). To avoid data protection violations due to external connections, the Font Awesome icons are hosted locally on our own web server. No data is transmitted to Fonticons Inc. servers when loading the icons.