Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

1. An overview of data protection

General

The following gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our website. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy below.

Data collection on our website

Who is responsible for the data collection on this website

The data collected on this website are processed by the website operator. The operator's contact details can be found in the website's legal notice.

How do we collect your data?

Some data are collected when you provide it to us. This could, for example, be data you enter on a contact form.

Other data are collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. These data are primarily technical data such as the browser and operating system you are using or when you accessed the page. These data are collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Other data can be used to analyze how visitors use the site.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You always have the right to request information about your stored data, its origin, its recipients, and the purpose of its collection at no charge. You also have the right to request that it be corrected, blocked, or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in the legal notice if you have further questions about the issue of privacy and data protection. You may also, of course, file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities.

Furthermore you have under certain circumstances the right to ask for restricted processing of your personal data. Please find details in the privacy policy under “Right of restricted processing of personal data”

2. General information and mandatory information

Data protection

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

If you use this website, various pieces of personal data will be collected. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what information we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

Please note that data transmitted via the internet (e.g. via email communication) may be subject to security breaches. Complete protection of your data from third-party access is not possible.

Notice concerning the party responsible for this website

The party responsible for processing data on this website is:

TREND Redaktions- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

Pearl-Straße 1-3,

D-79426 Buggingen,

E-Mail: trendservice@trendverlag.de

http://www.trendverlag.de/

The operational privacy officer could be contacted as follows:

TREND Redaktions- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

z. H. der Datenschutzbeauftragten Frau Anja Hofbauer,

Pearl-Straße 1-3,

D-79426 Buggingen,

Or datenschutz@trendverlag.de.

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (names, email addresses, etc.).

Right of objection to the processing of data in particular cases and direct advertising (Art.21GDPR)

In case that data processing is in accordance with Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. e or f GDPR you are entitled anytimetoobject against the processing of your personal data if required by your particular situation. This is also applicable for profiling based on these regulations. Please refer to this privacy policy for the respective legal basis. We will process your relevant personal data not any longer if you enter an objectionunless we can plead reasons stringently worth to be protected and which prevail your interests, rights and personal freedom or the processing serves as claim, exercise defenseof legal titles. (Objection according Art. 21 Abs. 1 GDPR)

If your personal data are processed to practice direct advertising you are entitled anytime to object against the processing of your personal datafor the purpose of such advertising. This applies to profiling as well if associated with such direct advertising. In case you object your personal data will be used not any longer for direct advertising after that. (Objection according Art. 21 Abs. 2 GDPR)

Right to file complaints with the competent regulatory authorities

In case of a violation of the GDPR, the person affected is entitled to file a complaint with regulatory authorities, especially in the member state of the habitual residence, the place of employment or the place of the probable violation. The right of complaint subsists regardless of other administrative or legal remedies.

In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects are entitled to log a complaint with a supervisory agency, in particular in the member state where they usually maintain their domicile, place of work or at the place where the alleged violation occurred. The right to log a complaint is in effect regardless of any other administrative or court proceedings available as legal recourses.

Right to data portability

You have the right to get data which we process based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract automatically delivered to yourself or to a third party in a standard, machine-readable format. If you require the direct transfer of data to another responsible party, this will only be done to the extent technically feasible.

Information, blocking, deletion and eradication of data

As permitted by law, you have the right to be provided at any time with information free of charge about any of your personal data that is stored as well as its origin, the recipient and the purpose for which it has been processed. You also have the right to have this data corrected, blocked or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in our legal notice if you have further questions on the topic of personal data.

Right of restricted processing of personal data

You have the right to ask for restricted processing of your personal data. You may contact at any time the address stated in the site notice (Impressum). In the following cases you may ask for the right of restricted processing:

· In case you deny the accuracy of your personal data stored by us we ask for some time for checking. For the duration of the review you have the right to ask for restricted processing of your personal data.

· In case of wrongful processing of your personal data you may ask for restricted processing of your personal data instead of cancellation.

· If your personal data are not required any longer by us but are needed by you to plead, exercise or claim legal titlesor demands you may ask for restricted processing of your personal data instead of cancellation.

· If you have lodged an objection according Art. 21 Abs. 1 GDPR a weighing of your and our interests is indispensable. As long as it is unclear whose interests will prevailyou may ask for restricted processing of your personal data.

In case you have restricted the processing of your personal data these data could only beprocessed with your consent, storage excepted, to plead, exercise or claim legal titles or demands orto protect the rights of a natural or legal person oran important public interest of the European Union or one of their member states.

3. Data collection on our website

Cookies

Some of our web pages use cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies." They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain in your device's memory until you delete them. These cookies make it possible to recognize your browser when you next visit the site.

You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Cookies which are necessary to allow electronic communications or to provide certain functions you wish to use (such as the shopping cart) are stored pursuant to Art. 6 paragraph 1, letter f of DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure an optimized service provided free of technical errors. If other cookies (such as those used to analyze your surfing behavior) are also stored, they will be treated separately in this privacy policy.

Server log files

The website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us in "server log files". These are:

  • Browser type and browser version
  • Operating system used
  • Referrer URL
  • Host name of the accessing computer
  • Time of the server request
  • IP address

These data will not be combined with data from other sources.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.

Registration on this website

You can register on our website in order to access additional functions offered here. The input data will only be used for the purpose of using the respective site or service for which you have registered. The mandatory information requested during registration must be provided in full. Otherwise, we will reject your registration.

To inform you about important changes such as those within the scope of our site or technical changes, we will use the email address specified during registration.

Basis for processing of personal data is Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, which allows processing of data to fulfilla contract or pre-contractual duties.

We will continue to store the data collected during registration for as long as you remain registered on our website. Statutory retention periods remain unaffected.

Processing of data (customer and contract data)

We collect, process, and use personal data only insofar as it is necessary to establish, or modify legal relationships with us (master data). This is done based on Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract. We collect process and use your personal data when accessing our website (usage data) only to the extent required to enable you to access our service. Collected customer data will be deleted after completion of the order or termination of the business relationship. Legal retention periods remain unaffected.

Data transferred when signing up for services and digital content

We transmit personally identifiable data to third parties only to the extent required to fulfill the terms of your contract with us, for example, to the support of the Trendverlag, if requested.

Your data will not be transmitted for any other purpose unless you have given your express permission to do so. Your data will not be disclosed to third parties for advertising purposes without your express consent.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.

4. Plugins and Tools

Google reCAPTCHA

We use "Google reCAPTCHA" (hereinafter "reCAPTCHA") on our websites. This service is provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google").

reCAPTCHA is used to check whether the data entered on our website (such as on a contact form) has been entered by a human or by an automated program. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website, or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analyses take place completely in the background. Website visitors are not advised that such an analysis is taking place.

Data processing is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its site from abusive automated crawling and spam.

For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google's privacy policy, please visit the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.

Google Web Fonts

This website uses the so called Web Fonts supplied by Google, to ensure homogeneous appearance. By accessing the site the necessary web fonts will be loaded into the browser cache to ensure correct display of context and fonts.

For this purpose your browser has to contact the Google servers. As a consequence Google will be aware of the contact between your IP-address and our website

To ensure consistent and attractive presentation of our online appearance the use of Google Web Fonts is of general interest. This is according Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR a legitimate interest.

Standard fonts of your computer will be used if your browser will not support Web Fonts

Please find further information under https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the privacy policies of Google https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

YouTube

Our website uses plugins of the site YouTube run by Google. Maintainer of this site is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you access one of our pages with the YouTube plugin the YouTube servers will be connected. Thus YouTube will be aware which of our pages you have visited.

Furthermore YouTube may store cookies on your computer. This cookies will enable YouTube to collect pieces of information on the visitors of our website to collect video statistics, enhance user friendliness and prevent fraud attempts. Cookies remain on your computer until they will be deleted.

If you are logged in with your YouTube account it is possible for YouTube to track your browsing manner and assign it to your personal profile.

The usage of YouTube ensures an attractive presentation of our online presence. This is according Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR a legitimate interest.

Please read the privacy policy of YouTube for further pieces of information regarding the use of user data:https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

5. Actuality and revision of this Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is actual valid and the revision status is June2018. Due to ongoing development of our web site and the included offers or due to modified legal or regulatory stipulations future revisions of this privacy policy may become necessary.

The privacy policy may be saved and printed by using the browser functions "file" -> "save as" or "page" -> "save as”

Privacy Policy | Release 1.1| valid after 03.07.2018