Maximilian
Hachtmann

Your Rights as Data Subject:

Under the provided contact details of our data protection officer, you can exercise the following rights at any time:

  • Information about your stored data and its processing (Art. 15 GDPR)
  • Correction of incorrect personal data (Art. 16 GDPR)
  • Deletion of your stored data (Art. 17 GDPR)
  • Restriction of data processing, if we are not allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR)
  • Objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 GDPR)
  • Data portability, if you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR)

If you have given us consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

You can address a complaint to a supervisory authority at any time, e.g., to the competent supervisory authority of your place of residence or to the authority responsible for us as the responsible entity.

A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Anschriften/Laender/Laender-node.html.

 

Collection of General Information when Visiting our Website

Type and Purpose of Processing:

When you access our website, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise transmit information, general information of a non-personal nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider, your IP address, and similar.

These are processed for the following purposes in particular:

  • Ensuring a smooth connection setup of the website
  • Ensuring seamless use of our website
  • Evaluation of system security and stability
  • Optimization of our website

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Information of this kind is statistically evaluated by us if necessary, in order to optimize our internet presence and the technology behind it.

Legal Basis and Legitimate Interest:

Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Recipient:

Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as contract processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Storage Duration:

The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose of collection. For data used to provide the website, this is generally the case when the respective session is ended.

Provision Required or Necessary:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website are not guaranteed. Additionally, individual services and services may not be available or may be restricted. For this reason, an objection is excluded.

 

Cookies

Like many other websites, we also use so-called “cookies.” Cookies are small text files that are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website.

You can delete individual cookies or the entire cookie inventory. You also receive information and instructions on how these cookies can be deleted or their storage can be blocked in advance. Depending on the provider of your browser, you can find the necessary information under the following links:

Storage Duration and Cookies Used:

If you allow us to use cookies through your browser settings or consent, the following cookies may be used on our websites:

 

Technically necessary cookies

Type and Purpose of Processing:

We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the calling browser can also be identified after a page change.

The purpose of using technically necessary cookies is to simplify the use of websites for users. Some functions of our internet page cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these, it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after a page change.

We need cookies for the following applications:

Legal Basis and Legitimate Interest:

Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR based on our legitimate interest in a user-friendly design of our website.

Recipient:

Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as contract processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Provision Required or Necessary:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. Without this data, however, the service and functionality of our website are not guaranteed. Additionally, individual services and services may not be available or may be restricted.

Objection:

Read the information about your right to object according to Art. 21 GDPR below for this.

 

Provision of Chargeable Services

Type and Purpose of Processing:

To provide chargeable services, we request additional data from you, such as payment information, to process your order.

Legal Basis:

The processing of data necessary for the conclusion of the contract is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

Recipient:

Recipients of the data may be contract processors.

Storage Duration:

We store this data in our systems until the statutory retention periods have expired. These are generally 6 or 10 years for reasons of proper accounting and tax requirements.

Provision Required or Necessary:

The provision of your personal data is voluntary. Without providing your personal data, we cannot grant you access to our offered content and services.

 

Newsletter

Type and Purpose of Processing:

For the delivery of our newsletter, we collect personal data transmitted to us through an input mask.

For effective registration, we need a valid email address. To verify that registration is actually made by the owner of an email address, we use the “double-opt-in” procedure. For this, we log the registration for the newsletter, the sending of a confirmation email, and the receipt of the requested response. No further data is collected.

Legal Basis:

Based on your expressly given consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), we regularly send you our newsletter or comparable information via email to your specified email address.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time with effect for the future. Each newsletter contains a corresponding link. In addition, you can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time directly on the website or inform us of your revocation via the contact option given at the end of this data protection notice.

Recipient:

Recipients of the data may be contract processors.

Storage Duration:

The data is processed in this context only as long as the corresponding consent is available. After that, it will be deleted.

Provision Required or Necessary:

The provision of your personal data is voluntary, based solely on your consent. Without existing consent, we cannot send you our newsletter.

Revocation of Consent:

You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time with effect for the future. The revocation can be made via the link provided in each newsletter or by contacting the data protection officer or responsible person for data protection mentioned at the end of this data protection notice.

 

Contact Form

Type and Purpose of Processing:

The data you enter will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide a valid email address and your name. This serves to assign the request and the subsequent answering of the same. The specification of further data is optional.

Legal Basis:

The processing of the data entered into the contact form occurs on the basis of a legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

By providing the contact form, we want to enable you to contact us in an uncomplicated manner. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions.

If you contact us to request an offer, the processing of the data entered into the contact form will take place to implement pre-contractual measures (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).

Recipient:

Recipients of the data may be contract processors.

Storage Duration:

Data will be deleted no later than 6 months after processing the request.

If it comes to a contractual relationship, we are subject to the statutory retention periods according to HGB and delete your data after expiration of these periods.

Provision Required or Necessary:

The provision of your personal data is voluntary. We can only process your request if you provide us with your name, your email address, and the reason for the request.

 

Use of Script Libraries (Google Web Fonts)

To display our content correctly and graphically appealing across browsers, we use “Google Web Fonts” on this website provided by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter “Google”) to display fonts.

For more information about Google Web Fonts, see https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

 

Embedded YouTube Videos

On our website, we embed YouTube videos. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (hereinafter “YouTube”). YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter “Google”). When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube servers is established. YouTube is then informed which pages you visit. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can associate your surfing behavior with you personally. This can be prevented by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

If a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect hints about user behavior.

For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by YouTube, please refer to the provider’s privacy policies, where you will also find further information on your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy (https://policies.google.com/privacy).

Revocation of Consent:

The provider currently does not offer an option for simple opt-out or blocking of data transmission. If you want to prevent tracking of your activities on our website, please revoke your consent for the corresponding cookie category or all technically unnecessary cookies and data transmissions in the cookie consent tool. In this case, you may not be able to use our website, however.

 

SSL Encryption

To ensure the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g., SSL) via HTTPS.

 

Information about Your Right to Object under Art. 21 GDPR

Individual Right of Objection:

You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of your personal data based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (data processing based on a balance of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 GDPR.

If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Recipient of an Objection:

Maximilian Hachtmann

Changes to Our Data Protection Regulations

We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g., when introducing new services. For your renewed visit, the new data protection declaration will then apply.

 

Questions to the Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization directly:

mail@maximilianhachtmann.com