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Privacy Policy, Disclaimer and certain functions of the webpage


Data Protection
Wherever the website offers the possibility to enter personal or business data (email addresses, names, postal addresses), the disclosure of such data by the user takes place on an expressly voluntary basis. All offered services can – insofar as technically possible and reasonable – also be used without providing such data, or by providing anonymized data or a pseudonym.
The use of contact data published within the imprint or comparable information (such as postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and email addresses) by third parties for the transmission of information not expressly requested is not permitted. The operator expressly reserves the right to take legal action against senders of so-called spam emails in the event of violations of this prohibition.

Questions on Data Protection
If you have any questions about data protection, please contact us via email or directly reach out to the person responsible for data protection in our organization.

Data Security Official
The data security official within the meaning of the data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Inga Zillmer | Lawyer (Germany), Certified Tax Lawyer
Koenigstrasse 82, 70173 Stuttgart
Telephone: +49 711 23735888
E-Mail: office@zillmer.tax

Your Rights as a Data Subject

You may exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details of our data protection officer provided above:

  • Access to the data stored about you and its processing,
  • Rectification of inaccurate personal data,
  • Erasure of your data stored with us,
  • Restriction of data processing where we are not yet permitted to delete your data due to legal obligations,
  • Objection to the processing of your data by us, and
  • Data portability, if you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us.

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

You may at any time lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for you. Your competent supervisory authority depends on your state of residence, your workplace, or the alleged infringement. A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Purposes of Data Processing by the Controller and Third Parties
We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those mentioned. We only share your personal data with third parties if:

  • you have given your explicit consent,
  • the processing is necessary to perform a contract with you,
  • the processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation,
  • the processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests, and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in the non-disclosure of your data.

Contact Form and E-Mail
If you contact us by email or via the contact form, you give us your voluntary consent for the purpose of contacting you. A valid email address is required for this purpose; it is used to assign your request and respond to it. Further data is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the inquiry and for possible follow-up questions. After your request has been dealt with, personal data will be automatically deleted.

Deletion or Blocking of Data
We adhere to the principles of data minimization. We therefore store your personal data only as long as necessary to achieve the purposes stated here or as required by the legislator under various retention periods. Once the purpose no longer applies or the respective periods expire, the relevant data will be routinely deleted or blocked in accordance with statutory provisions.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to reflect changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g., when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply for your next visit.

Copyright and trademark law
The author endeavors to respect the copyrights of images, graphics, audio documents, video sequences, and texts used in all publications, to use self-created images, graphics, audio documents, video sequences, and texts, or to make use of license-free graphics, audio documents, video sequences, and texts.

All brands and trademarks mentioned within the website and possibly protected by third parties are subject without restriction to the provisions of the applicable trademark law and the ownership rights of the respective registered owners. The mere mention does not imply that trademarks are not protected by the rights of third parties.

The copyright for published objects created by the author remains solely with the author of the website. Reproduction or use of such graphics, audio documents, video sequences, and texts in other electronic or printed publications is not permitted without the express consent of the author.

Disclaimer of Liability for Website Content
The author assumes no liability for the up-to-dateness, accuracy, completeness, or quality of the information provided. Liability claims against the author relating to material or non-material damages caused by the use or non-use of the provided information or by the use of incorrect or incomplete information are excluded, unless the author can be proven to have acted with intent or gross negligence.

All offers are subject to change and non-binding. The author expressly reserves the right to change, supplement, delete parts of the website, or the entire offer without separate announcement, or to cease publication temporarily or permanently.

This disclaimer is to be regarded as part of the website. Should parts or individual formulations of this text not, no longer, or not fully comply with applicable law, the remaining parts of the document shall remain unaffected in their content and validity.

Disclaimer of Liability for References and Links
In the case of direct or indirect references to external websites (“hyperlinks”) that lie outside the author’s area of responsibility, liability would only arise in the event that the author has knowledge of the content and it would be technically possible and reasonable to prevent the use of illegal content.

The author hereby expressly declares that at the time of setting the links, no illegal content was recognizable on the linked pages. The author has no influence on the current and future design, content, or authorship of the linked pages. He therefore expressly distances himself from all contents of all linked pages that were changed after the link was set. This statement applies to all links and references set within the website as well as to third-party entries in guest books, discussion forums, link directories, mailing lists, and in all other forms of databases to which external writing access is possible. For illegal, incorrect, or incomplete content, and in particular for damages resulting from the use or non-use of such information, the provider of the page to which reference was made is solely liable, not the person who merely refers to the respective publication via links.
This disclaimer is part of the website. Should parts or individual formulations of this text not, no longer, or not fully comply with applicable law, the remaining parts of the document shall remain unaffected in their content and validity.

SSL Encryption
To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use encryption procedures (such as SSL) via HTTPS according to the state of the art.

Cookies
Our website uses cookies. Cookies help make our offer more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Cookies are small text files stored on your device and used by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are “session cookies,” which are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser during your next visit.

You can configure your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies, allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and activate automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.

Cookies necessary for carrying out electronic communication or for providing certain functions you request (e.g., contact form) are stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. Other cookies (e.g., for analyzing your browsing behavior) are dealt with separately in this privacy policy.

Use of Script Libraries (Google Webfonts)
To display our content correctly and graphically appealing across browsers, we use script and font libraries such as Google Webfonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts/Google Webfonts are transferred to your browser cache to avoid multiple loading. If the browser does not support Google Webfonts or blocks access, content will be displayed in a default font.

Calling up script or font libraries automatically triggers a connection to the operator of the library. It is theoretically possible – and currently unclear if and for what purposes – that operators of such libraries collect data.

The privacy policy of the library operator Google can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/