Privacy Policy

Unless otherwise stated below, the provision of your personal data is neither required by law or contract, nor is it necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide the data. Failure to provide the data will have no consequences. This only applies insofar as no other information is provided in the following processing operations.
“Personal data” is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Server log files
You can visit our websites without providing any personal information.
Each time you access our website, usage data is transmitted to us or our web host/IT service provider by your internet browser and stored in log files (so-called server log files). This stored data includes, for example, the name of the page accessed, the date and time of access, the IP address, the amount of data transferred, and the requesting provider.
The processing is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR due to our overriding legitimate interest in ensuring the smooth operation of our website and improving our offering.

Your data may be transferred to third countries outside the European Union for which an adequacy decision has been issued by the EU Commission.

Contact

Please contact us if you wish. The person responsible for data processing is: Dr. Martin Andree, +49 151 14302409, office@martinandree.com

Proactive contact by the customer via email
If you proactively contact us via email, we will only collect your personal data (name, email address, message text) to the extent that you provide it. The data processing serves to process and respond to your contact request.
If the contact serves to carry out pre-contractual measures (e.g., advice on purchase interest, preparation of an offer) or relates to a contract already concluded between you and us, this data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR.
If the contact is made for other reasons, this data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR due to our overriding legitimate interest in processing and responding to your request. In this case, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR for reasons arising from your particular situation.
We only use your email address to process your request. Your data will then be deleted in accordance with statutory retention periods, unless you have consented to further processing and use.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the Internet browser or by the Internet browser on a user’s computer system. When a user visits a website, a cookie may be stored on the user’s operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string of characters that enables the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is visited again.

Cookies are stored on your computer. Therefore, you have full control over the use of cookies. By selecting the appropriate technical settings in your Internet browser, you can be notified before cookies are set and decide individually whether to accept them, as well as prevent the storage of cookies and the transmission of the data they contain. Cookies that have already been stored can be deleted at any time. However, we would like to point out that you may then not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent.

The links below provide information on how to manage (including deactivate) cookies in the most popular browsers:
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de
Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-edge/cookies-in-microsoft-edge-lB6schen-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac

Technically necessary cookies
Unless otherwise stated in the privacy policy below, we only use these technically necessary cookies for the purpose of making our website more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Furthermore, cookies enable our systems to recognize your browser even after you have changed pages and to offer you services. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these, it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after a page change.

The use of cookies or comparable technologies is based on Section 25 (2) TDDDG. Your personal data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR due to our overriding legitimate interest in ensuring the optimal functionality of the website and a user-friendly and effective design of our website.

You have the right to object to this processing of personal data concerning you at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation.

Use of the Cookie Consent Manager CCM19

We use the Cookie Consent Manager CCM19 from Papoo Software & Media GmbH (Auguststr. 4, 53229 Bonn; “CCM19”) on our website.
The plug-in allows you to give your consent to data processing via the website, in particular the setting of cookies, and to exercise your right of withdrawal for consents already given. The purpose of data processing is to obtain and document the necessary consent to data processing and thus to comply with legal obligations.
Cookies are used for this purpose. The following information, among other things, may be collected, stored, and, if necessary, transmitted to CCM19: randomly assigned ID, consent status, date and time of consent/rejection. The data is stored for 1 year and 1 month and then deleted. This data is not passed on to other third parties.
Data processing is carried out to fulfill a legal obligation based on Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR.
For more information on data protection at CCM19, please visit: : https://www.ccm19.de/datenschutzerklaerung.html.

Analysis

Use of Matomo
We use the Matomo analysis tool from InnoCraft Ltd. (150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand; “Matomo”) on our website.
Data processing serves the purpose of analyzing this website and its visitors. The following information, among other things, may be collected: (anonymized) IP address, information about the browser and device you are using, files you have clicked on or downloaded, clicks on links to third-party websites, referrer URL (website from which you accessed our website), URL of our website, number of your visits, time of your first visit, date and time of the visit, time zone, location data. This data can be used to create usage profiles under a pseudonym. The data collected using Matomo technologies is not used to personally identify visitors to this website and is not merged with personal data about the bearer of the pseudonym.

No cookies are used for this purpose. Data collection is carried out using privacy-friendly fingerprinting, whereby the visitor ID is renewed after a maximum of 24 hours.

Your personal data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR due to our overriding legitimate interest in the needs-based and targeted design of the website. You have the right to object to this processing of personal data concerning you at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation. The use of Matomo and the associated data collection and storage can be deactivated at any time with future effect:

You have the option of preventing the actions you take here from being analyzed and linked. This will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and improving usability for you and other users. Your visit to this website is currently being tracked by Matomo web analytics. Uncheck this box to opt out:

For more information about data protection at Matomo, please visit https://matomo.org/matomo-cloud-privacy-policy/ und https://matomo.org/gdpr-analytics/.

Rights of data subjects and storage period

Duration of storage

The data will be stored in accordance with statutory retention periods and then deleted after the expiry of these periods, unless you have consented to further processing and use.

Rights of the data subject
If the legal requirements are met, you have the following rights under Articles 15 to 20 of the GDPR: Right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability.
In addition, according to Art. 21 (1) GDPR, you have the right to object to processing based on Art. 6 (1) f GDPR, as well as to processing for the purpose of direct marketing.

Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority
Pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data is not lawful.

You can lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for us, which you can reach at the following contact details:

State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information North Rhine-Westphalia
P.O. Box 20 04 44
40102 Düsseldorf
Tel.: +49 211 384240
Fax: +49 211 38424999
Email: poststelle@ldi.nrw.de

Right to object
If the processing of personal data listed here is based on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object to this processing at any time with effect for the future for reasons arising from your particular situation.
Once you have objected, the processing of the data concerned will be terminated unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that outweigh your interests, rights, and freedoms, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Last update: November 29, 2023