Data Protection

Thank you for visiting our Website. Please consider our data-protection rules. 

Data protection

1. Information concerning the collection of personal data

(1) In the following we would like to inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data are all data which refer specifically to you personally, e.g. name, address, email addresses, user conduct.

(2) We appoint the company named in the legal notice with its contact data as responsible entity according to Section 4 paragraph 7 EU -General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

 (3) On taking up contact with us per email or via a contact form, the data you transmit to us (your email address, in some cases also your name and your telephone number will be stored by us in order to respond to your questions. We will delete the data which are collected in this connection when storage is no longer necessary, or restrict the processing if there is a statutory obligation to keep such data stored.

(4) In case we resort to commissioned service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you below in detail about the respective processes. In this context we will also state the stipulated criteria for the duration of storage.

2. Your rights

(1) You have the following rights vis-à-vis us concerning personal data relating to your person:

  • right to information,
  • right to correction or deletion,
  • right to restriction of the processing,
  • right to object to the processing,
  • right to transferability of data.

(2) In addition, you have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about processing by us of your personal data.
The competent supervisory authority is:

The State Officer for Data Protection in Lower Saxony
Prinzenstr. 5
30159 Hannover
Telephone: 0049 (0) 511 120 45 00
Telefax: 0049 (0) 511 120 45 99
Email: poststelle(at) lfd.niedersachsen.de

3. Collection of personal data when visiting our website

(1) If you only use our website for information purposes, i.e. if you do not register or do not transfer information to us in any other way, we only collect the personal data which your browser transmits to our server. If you would like to observe our website, we collect the following data, which are technically necessary for us to show you our website and to guarantee its stability and security (legal basis Section 6, paragraph 1, p. 1 lit. f, GDPR):

  • IP address
  • Date and time of enquiry
  • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Content of the request (specific page)
  • Access status/HTTP status code
  • Quantity of data transferred in each case
  • Website from which the request comes
  • Browser
  • Operating system and its interface
  • Language and version of the browser software.

(2) In addition to the data mentioned above cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your hard disk and attributed to the browser which you use, and by means of which certain information is transmitted to the point which sets the cookie (in this case it is us). Cookies cannot execute programmes or transfer viruses to your computer. They serve the purpose of making the internet offer more user-friendly and more effective overall.

(3) Use of cookies:
This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and method of functioning of which are explained in the following:

  • Transient cookies (see a on this)
  • Persistent cookies (see b on this).

a) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include, in particular, the session cookies. Such cookies store a so-called session ID, by means of which different enquiries via your browser can be allocated to the joint session. In this way your computer can be recognised again when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log yourself out or close the browser.
b) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a pre-set duration which can vary according to the cookie. You can delete the cookies at any time in the safety settings of your browser.

You can configure your browser setting as you wish. This also enables you to stipulate whether you only want to permit the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally. You can configure your browser setting as you wish and, for example, decline to accept third party cookies or all cookies. We would like to point out that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.

4. Further functions and offers of our website

(1) In addition to using our website for exclusively informative purposes, we offer a variety services which you can use if you are interested. For this purpose you usually have to indicate additional personal data which we use for the provision of the respective service and to which the above-mentioned basic principles on data processing apply.

(2) In some cases, we make use of external service providers to process your data. These providers have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are checked on a regular basis.

(3) Furthermore, we can pass your personal data on to third parties if participation in sales promotions, competitions, conclusions of contracts or similar services is offered by us in collaboration with partners. You will receive further information on this when you enter your personal data, or below in the description of the offer.

(4) In so far as our service providers or partners have their head office in a state outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we shall inform you about the consequences of this situation in the description of the offer.

5. Objection to or revocation of the processing of your data

(1) If you have granted consent to the processing of your data, you are entitled to revoke this at any time. After informing us of such a revocation, this influences permissibility of the processing of your personal data.

(2) In so far as we base the processing of your personal data on the weighing up of interests, you are entitled to raise an objection to the processing. This is the case, in particular, if the processing is not necessary for the fulfilment of a contract with you. This is described by us in each case in the ensuing description of the functions. If you submit such an objection, we would request you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data in the way we have been doing. In the case of an objection indicating reasons, we check the circumstances of the case and will either stop or adjust the data processing or explain to you our compelling legitimate grounds on the basis of which we continue to process the data.

(3) Naturally you are entitled, at any time, to object to the processing of your personal data for the purposes of advertising and data analysis. You can inform us about your objection to advertising via the contact data stated in the Legal notice.