Data protection
We, PAULI & CO® Manufaktur GmbH, (hereinafter: “the company”, “we” or “us”) take the protection of your personal data seriously and would like to take this opportunity to inform you about data protection in our company.
As part of our responsibility under data protection law, additional obligations have been imposed on us by the entry into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679; hereinafter: “GDPR“) in order to ensure the protection of personal data of the person affected by processing (we also refer to you as the data subject as “customer”, “user”, “you”, “you” or “data subject” ).
Insofar as we decide either alone or jointly with others on the purposes and means of data processing, this includes above all the obligation to inform you transparently about the type, scope, purpose, duration and legal basis of the processing (cf. Art. 13 and 14 GDPR).
With this declaration (hereinafter: “data protection information”) we inform you about the way in which your personal data is processed by us.
1. general
Definitions
Following the example of Art. 4 GDPR, this data protection notice is based on the following definitions:
- “Personal data” (Art. 4 No. 1 GDPR) means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”).
A person is identifiable if they can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, an online identifier, location data or information relating to their physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.
Identifiability can also be achieved by linking such information or other additional knowledge.
The origin, form or embodiment of the information is irrelevant (photos, video or audio recordings can also contain personal data). - “Processing” (Art. 4 No. 2 GDPR) means any operation which is performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means (i.e. using technical specifications).
This includes, in particular, the collection (i.e. acquisition), recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction of personal data, or alteration of the purposes for which they were originally processed. - Controller” (Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR) means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
- “Third party” (Art. 4 No. 10 GDPR) means any natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorized to process personal data; this also includes other legal entities belonging to the group.
- “Processor” (Art. 4 No. 8 GDPR) is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller, in particular in accordance with the controller’s instructions (e.g. IT service provider).
In terms of data protection law, a processor is in particular not a third party. - “Consent” (Art. 4 No. 11 GDPR) of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.
Stuhtsweg 19
22159 Hamburg
E-mail: info@pauliundco.de
- 6 para.
1 sentence 1 lit.
a GDPR (“consent”): Where the data subject has voluntarily, in an informed and unambiguous manner, indicated by a statement or other unambiguous affirmative act that he or she consents to the processing of personal data relating to him or her for one or more specific purposes; - 6 para.
1 p. 1 lit.
b GDPR: If the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract; - 6 para.
1 p. 1 lit.
c GDPR: If processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject (e.g. a legal obligation to retain data); - 6 para.
1 p. 1 lit.
d GDPR: If processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person; - 6 para.
1 p. 1 lit.
e GDPR: If the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller, or - 6 para.
1 sentence 1 lit.
f GDPR (“Legitimate interests”): If the processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate (in particular legal or economic) interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or rights of the data subject (in particular where the data subject is a minor).
Processing can also be based on several legal bases.
Unless an explicit storage period is specified below, your personal data will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose or legal basis for storage no longer applies.
Your data will only be stored on our servers in Germany, subject to any disclosure in accordance with the provisions in Sections.
1.6 and para.
1.7.
If the storage period prescribed by the statutory provisions expires, the personal data will be blocked or deleted unless further storage by us is necessary and there is a legal basis for this.
Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.
These service providers only act in accordance with our instructions and are contractually obliged to comply with data protection regulations within the meaning of Art. 28 GDPR.
These may also be located outside the European Economic Area (EEA), i.e. in third countries.
Such processing takes place exclusively to fulfill contractual and business obligations and to maintain your business relationship with us.
We will inform you about the respective details of the transfer at the relevant points below.
If this is the case, we ensure that data protection is adequately guaranteed.
This is possible, for example, through binding corporate rules, standard contractual clauses of the European Commission for the protection of personal data, certificates or recognized codes of conduct.
As a customer, you are under no legal or contractual obligation to provide us with your personal data; however, we may only be able to provide certain services to a limited extent or not at all if you do not provide the necessary data.
If this should exceptionally be the case in the context of the products presented below and offered by us, you will be informed of this separately.
1.2 above at any time.
As the data subject, you have the right to
- to request information about your data processed by us in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR.
In particular, you can request information about the purposes of processing, the category of data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right to lodge a complaint, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us, and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about its details; - in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to immediately request the correction of incorrect data or the completion of your data stored by us;
- in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, to demand the deletion of your data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
- in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, to demand the restriction of the processing of your data if the accuracy of the data is disputed by you or the processing is unlawful;
- in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request that it be transferred to another controller (“data portability”);
- pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR to object to the processing if the processing is based on Art. 6 para.
1 sentence 1 lit.
e or lit.
f of the GDPR.
This is particularly the case if the processing is not necessary for the performance of a contract with you.
If it is not an objection to direct advertising, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your data as we have done when exercising such an objection.
In the event of your justified objection, we will examine the situation and either discontinue or adapt the data processing or point out to you our compelling reasons worthy of protection on the basis of which we will continue the processing; - pursuant to Art. 7 para.
3 GDPR, you have the right to withdraw your consent once given to us at any time (including before the GDPR came into force, i.e. before May 25, 2018) – i.e. your voluntary, informed and unequivocal consent to the processing of the personal data concerned for one or more specific purposes by means of a declaration or other unambiguous confirmatory act – if you have given such consent.
The consequence of this is that we may no longer continue the data processing based on this consent in the future and - in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR, to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data in our company, for example to the data protection supervisory authority responsible for us: The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Kurt-Schumacher-Allee 4, 20097 Hamburg, Tel.
040 / 42854 – 4040, fax 040 / 42854 – 4000, e-mail mailbox@datenschutz.hamburg.de.
You will be informed of any changes, in particular on our German website at www.pauliundco.de.
This data protection notice was last updated in September 2020.
2. visiting websites
When you visit our websites, your personal data may be processed.
- “Log data”: When you visit our websites, a so-called log data record (so-called server log files) is temporarily and anonymously stored on our web server.
This consists of: - the page from which the page was requested (so-called referrer URL)
- the name and URL of the requested page
- the date and time of the call
- the description of the type, language and version of the web browser used
- the IP address of the requesting computer, which is shortened so that a personal reference can no longer be established
- the amount of data transferred
- the operating system
- the message whether the call was successful (access status/Http status code)
- the GMT time zone difference
“Contact form data”: When contact forms are used, the data transmitted through them is processed (e.g. gender, surname and first name, address, company, e-mail address and the time of transmission).
- In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer a subscription to our newsletter, which we use to inform you about current developments in commercial law and events.
If you subscribe to our newsletter, the following “newsletter data” will be collected, stored and processed by us: - the page from which the page was requested (so-called referrer URL)
- the date and time of the call
- the description of the type of web browser used
- the IP address of the requesting computer, which is shortened so that a personal reference can no longer be established
- the e-mail address
- the date and time of registration and confirmation
- We would like to point out that we evaluate your user behavior when sending the newsletter.
For this analysis, the emails sent contain so-called web beacons or tracking pixels, which are one-pixel image files stored on our website.
For the evaluations, we link the aforementioned data and the web beacons with your e-mail address and an individual ID.
Links contained in the newsletter also contain this ID.
The data is collected exclusively in pseudonymized form, i.e. the IDs are not linked to your other personal data, and direct personal identification is excluded.
- We process the personal data specified above in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR, the other relevant data protection regulations and only to the extent necessary.
Insofar as the processing of personal data is based on Art. 6 para.
1 sentence 1 lit.
f GDPR, the aforementioned purposes also represent our legitimate interests. - The processing of log data serves statistical purposes and to improve the quality of our website, in particular the stability and security of the connection (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR).
- The processing of contact form data is carried out to process customer inquiries (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b or lit. f GDPR).
- The newsletter data is processed for the purpose of sending the newsletter.
When registering for our newsletter, you consent to the processing of your personal data (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR).
We use the so-called double opt-in procedure to subscribe to our newsletter.
This means that after you have registered, we will send you an email to the email address you have provided in which we ask you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter.
The purpose of this procedure is to be able to prove your registration and, if necessary, to clarify any possible misuse of your personal data.
You can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter.
You can declare your revocation by clicking on the link provided in every newsletter e-mail, by e-mail to info@pauliundco.de or by sending a message to the contact details given in the imprint.
With regard to the use and storage duration of cookies, please refer to Sect.
1.4 and para.
2.6.
1.4 and para.
2.6.
- The following categories of recipients, which are usually processors (see section 1.6), may have access to your personal data:
- Service providers for the operation of our website and the processing of data stored or transmitted by the systems (e.g. for data center services, payment processing, IT security).
The legal basis for the transfer is then Art. 6 para.
1 sentence 1 lit.
b or lit.
f GDPR, insofar as it does not concern processors; - Government agencies/authorities, insofar as this is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation.
The legal basis for the disclosure is then Art. 6 para.
1 sentence 1 lit.
c GDPR; - Persons employed to carry out our business operations (e.g. auditors, banks, insurance companies, legal advisors, supervisory authorities, parties involved in company acquisitions or the establishment of joint ventures).
The legal basis for the disclosure is then Art. 6 para.
1 sentence 1 lit.
b or lit.
f GDPR. - For the guarantees of an appropriate level of data protection when transferring data to third countries, see para.
1.7. - In addition, we will only pass on your personal data to third parties if you have given your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para.
1 p. 1 lit.
a GDPR have given your express consent to this.
Cookies are small text files that are assigned to the browser you are using and stored on your hard disk by means of a characteristic string of characters and through which certain information flows to the site that sets the cookie.
Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer and therefore cannot cause any damage.
They serve to make the website more user-friendly and effective overall, i.e. more pleasant for you.
In some cases, however, cookies only contain information on certain settings that are not personally identifiable.
However, cookies cannot directly identify a user.
In terms of their function, a distinction is made between cookies:
- Technical cookies: These are strictly necessary to move around the website, use basic functions and ensure the security of the website; they do not collect information about you for marketing purposes or store which websites you have visited;
- Performance cookies: These collect information about how you use our website, which pages you visit and, for example, whether errors occur when using the website; they do not collect any information that could identify you – all information collected is anonymous and is only used to improve our website and to find out what interests our users;
- Advertising cookies, targeting cookies: These are used to offer the website user needs-based advertising on the website or offers from third parties and to measure the effectiveness of these offers; advertising and targeting cookies are stored for a maximum of 13 months;
- Sharing cookies: These are used to improve the interactivity of our website with other services (e.g. social networks); sharing cookies are stored for a maximum of 13 months.
Art. 6 para.
1 sentence 1 lit.
a GDPR is permitted.
This applies in particular to the use of advertising, targeting or sharing cookies.
With regard to technically necessary cookies, the legal basis is Art. 6 para.
1 sentence 1 lit.
f GDPR.
Our legitimate interest is to enable you to visit our website.
1 p. 1 lit.
a GDPR have given your express consent to this.
Google Analytics uses targeting cookies that are stored on your end device and can be read by us.
In this way, we are able to recognize and count returning visitors and find out how often our websites are accessed by different users.
Data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para.
1 lit.
a GDPR (consent).
However, since we have activated IP anonymization on our website, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union.
Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and only shortened there (for more information on the purpose and scope of data collection, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de). We have also concluded an order processing contract with Google LLC (USA) in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR.
Google will therefore only use all information strictly for the purpose of evaluating the use of our websites for us and compiling reports on website activity.
Please use one of the following options to do so:
- You inform us that you wish to withdraw your consent.
- 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 this website.
- You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of our websites (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).
In addition, the data mentioned in sec.
2 of this privacy policy are transmitted.
This takes place regardless of whether YouTube provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists.
If you are logged in to Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account.
If you do not wish your data to be associated with your YouTube profile, you must log out before activating the button.
YouTube stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or the needs-based design of its website.
Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website.
You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact YouTube to exercise this right.
There you will also find further information on your rights and setting options to protect your privacy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
We use the so-called two-click solution.
This means that when you visit our website, no personal data is initially passed on to the providers of the plug-ins.
You can recognize the provider of the plug-in by the marking on the box above its initial letter or the logo.
We give you the option of communicating directly with the provider of the plug-in via the button.
Only if you click on the marked field and thereby activate it will the plug-in provider receive the information that you have accessed the corresponding website of our online offering.
In addition, the data mentioned under no.
2 of this data protection notice are transmitted.
In the case of Facebook and Xing, according to the respective providers in Germany, the IP address is anonymized immediately after collection.
By activating the plug-in, your personal data is therefore transmitted to the respective plug-in provider and stored there (for US providers in the USA).
As the plug-in provider collects data in particular via cookies, we recommend that you delete all cookies via your browser’s security settings before clicking on the grayed-out box.
We also have no information on the deletion of the data collected by the plug-in provider.
Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to display needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website.
You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact the respective plug-in provider to exercise this right.
We offer you the opportunity to interact with the social networks and other users via the plug-ins so that we can improve our offering and make it more interesting for you as a user.
The legal basis for the use of the plug-ins is Art. 6 para.
1 sentence 1 lit.
a GDPR (consent).
If you are logged in with the plug-in provider, your data collected by us will be assigned directly to your existing account with the plug-in provider.
If you click the activated button and, for example, link the page, the plug-in provider also saves this information in your user account and shares it publicly with your contacts.
We recommend that you log out regularly after using a social network, but especially before activating the button, as this will prevent you from being assigned to your profile with the plug-in provider.
There you will also find further information on your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy.
This service is provided free of charge by PAULI & CO Manufaktur GmbH and is intended for use without restrictions.
The personal information we collect will be used to provide and improve the Service.
We will only use or share your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
The information we request will be stored by us and used as described in this Privacy Policy.
This Log Data may include information such as your device’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the App when you use our Service, the time and date of your use of the Service, and other statistics.
They are sent to your browser by the websites you visit and stored in your device’s internal memory.
However, the app may use third-party code and libraries that use “cookies” to collect information and improve its services.
You have the option to either accept or decline these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your device.
If you choose to decline our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of this Service.
- To facilitate our service;
- To provide the service on our behalf;
- for the provision of service-related services; or
- To help us analyze the use of our service.
The reason for this is that they perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf.
However, they are obliged not to pass on or use the information for other purposes.
However, remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site.
Please note that these external sites are not operated by us.
We therefore strongly advise you to read the privacy policies of these websites.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.
If we become aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information, we will delete it from our servers immediately.
If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we can take appropriate action.
We therefore recommend that you check this page regularly for changes.
We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page.