Data protection
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Privacy Policy

The controller for the purposes of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

KölnSKY GmbH

Managing Directors: Dr. Rudolf von Borries, Christoph von Borries

Ottoplatz 1
D-50679 Cologne

Tel.: +49 (0)221 888897 0
Fax: +49 (0)221 888897 0

E-mail: datenschutz@koelnsky.com

Purposes of data processing

We will only process your personal data for the purposes stated in this privacy policy.

When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, information about the browser type and version used, the operating system used, the user's internet service provider, date and time of access, the user's IP address, and similar data.

The data is also stored in our system's log files. This data is not stored together with other personal data of the user.

This information is technically necessary to correctly deliver the content you request from websites and is necessarily generated when using the internet. It is processed for the following purposes in particular:

Ensuring seamless website connectivity.,
Ensuring smooth use of our website,
Evaluation of system security and stability, as well as
for further administrative purposes.

The legal basis for the temporary storage of data and log files is Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your identity. Recipients of the data are, in principle, only processors commissioned by us, if applicable.

We will only share your personal data with third parties on a case-by-case basis if:

you have given your express consent ,
it is necessary for processing in order to conclude a contract with you,
the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation or to perform pre-contractual measures,
the processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us and there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding interest in not having your data processed.

For the aforementioned processing, Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, Article 6(1)(c) or Article 6(1)(c) GDPR serve as the legal basis.

Biscuits

The websites use what are known as cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies are used to make our service more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and are saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted after the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser on your next visit.

You can set your browser to inform you when cookies are being set, to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. The functionality of this website may be restricted if cookies are deactivated.

Cookies that are necessary for the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions desired by you are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically flawless and optimised provision of its services. Where other cookies (e.g. cookies for analysing your surfing behaviour) are stored, these are treated separately in this privacy policy.

Contact form

Please contact us via email or through our contact form for any questions. The data entered into the input mask will be transmitted to us and stored. You voluntarily consent to us contacting you for this purpose. You must provide a valid email address, which will be used to assign your request and respond to it. Mandatory fields are marked with an asterisk (*). Providing further details is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing your request and for any follow-up questions.

The legal basis for the processing of your data is Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time. A simple notification by email to us is sufficient. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out up to the point of revocation shall not be affected by the revocation.

The data you enter into the contact form will be stored by us until you request its deletion, revoke your consent for storage, or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been fully processed). Mandatory statutory provisions, particularly retention periods, remain unaffected.

Booking form

Please contact us via our reservation form. The data you enter into the input mask will be transmitted and stored by us. You are giving us your voluntary consent for the purpose of making contact and for the purpose of reservation. To do this, you must provide your first and last name and a valid email address. This will be used to associate your request, respond to it, and process your reservation. Mandatory fields are marked with an asterisk (*). Providing further details is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing your request and reservation, as well as for any follow-up questions.

The data you enter in the reservation form will be stored by us until you request its deletion, withdraw your consent to storage, or the purpose for data storage ceases to apply (e.g. after your request has been processed or, for reservations, after your visit has concluded). Mandatory legal provisions – particularly retention periods – remain unaffected.

Newsletter

If you wish to subscribe to the newsletter offered on the website, we require your email address and information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the specified email address and that you agree to receive the newsletter. No further data will be collected, or only on a voluntary basis. We will use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and will not pass it on to third parties.

The processing of the data entered into the newsletter subscription form is based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw your consent to the storage of your data, your email address, and its use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example, via the „unsubscribe“ link in the newsletter. The legality of any data processing operations that have already taken place remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

The data you have provided to us for the purpose of newsletter subscription will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will be deleted after you unsubscribe. Data stored by us for other purposes (e.g. email addresses for the member area) will remain unaffected by this.

CleverReach

This website uses CleverReach for sending newsletters. The provider is CleverReach GmbH & Co. KG, Mühlenstr. 43, 26180 Rastede. CleverReach is a service with which newsletter dispatch can be organised and analysed. The data you enter for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter (e.g. email address) is stored on CleverReach's servers in Germany or Ireland.

Our newsletters, sent via CleverReach, allow us to analyse the behaviour of newsletter recipients. This includes analysing how many recipients opened the newsletter and how often each link within the newsletter was clicked. Furthermore, using so-called conversion tracking, it's possible to analyse whether a pre-defined action (e.g., purchasing a product on our website) took place after clicking a link in the newsletter. For more information on data analysis by CleverReach newsletters, please visit: https://www.cleverreach.com/de/funktionen/reporting-und-tracking/.

Data processing is carried out on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw this consent at any time by unsubscribing from the newsletter. The lawfulness of any data processing that has already occurred will remain unaffected by the withdrawal.

If you do not wish to be analysed by CleverReach, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter. For this purpose, we provide a corresponding link in every newsletter message. You can also unsubscribe from the newsletter directly on the website.

The data you have provided to us for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will be deleted from both our servers and CleverReach's servers after you unsubscribe. Data stored by us for other purposes (e.g. e-mail addresses for the members' area) will remain unaffected.

Further details can be found in CleverReach's data protection regulations at: https://www.cleverreach.com/de/datenschutz/.

Conclusion of a contract for order data processing

We have concluded a contract for order data processing with CleverReach and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using CleverReach.

SSL encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use current, state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Data deletion

We only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here or as stipulated by the various retention periods provided for by law. Once the respective purpose ceases to apply or these periods expire, the corresponding data will be routinely deleted or its processing restricted in accordance with legal regulations.

Your rights as an affected person

To the extent that we process personal data about you on our website, you generally have the following rights under the GDPR, subject to the respective conditions:

Information about your personal data stored with us and its processing,
Correction of incorrect personal data,
Deletion of your personal data stored with us,
Restriction of data processing, unless we are still legally obliged to retain your data,
Data portability, provided you have consented to the processing of your data or entered into a contract with us.

If you have given us your consent, you can withdraw it at any time with effect for the future. Withdrawing your consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out with your consent up to the point of withdrawal.

You can always lodge a complaint with your competent supervisory authority. Your competent supervisory authority will depend on the federal state of your residence, your employment, or the alleged infringement.

Informationen über das Widerspruchsrecht nach Artikel 21 der Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO)

Individual right of objection

You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Article 6(1)(e) of the GDPR (processing for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority) and Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR (processing for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by the controller). This also applies to profiling based on these provisions within the meaning of Article 4(4) of the GDPR.

If an objection is raised, we will no longer process the personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

The assertion of the aforementioned data subject rights can be made without a specific form and should be directed to: datenschutz@koelnsky.com

Google Ads and Google Conversion Tracking

This website uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising programme run by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”).

Within Google AdWords, we use so-called conversion tracking. If you click on an advertisement placed by Google, a cookie for conversion tracking is set. Cookies are small text files that the internet browser stores on the user's computer. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for the personal identification of users. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can recognise that the user clicked on the advertisement and was redirected to this page.

Each Google Ads customer receives a different cookie. The cookies cannot be tracked across the websites of Ads customers. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to provide conversion statistics to Ads customers who have opted in to conversion tracking. Customers are informed of the total number of users who have clicked on their ad and been redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users. If you do not wish to be tracked, you can opt out of this use by easily disabling the Google Conversion Tracking cookie via your internet browser under user settings. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.

The storage of “conversion cookies” and the use of this tracking tool are based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour in order to optimise both its web offering and its advertising.

More information about Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking can be found in Google's Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Google YouTube

YouTube with enhanced privacy
Our website uses plugins from the YouTube website. The pages are operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

We use YouTube in enhanced privacy mode. According to YouTube, this mode means that YouTube does not store any information about visitors to this website before they watch the video. However, the transfer of data to YouTube partners is not necessarily excluded by the enhanced privacy mode. In this way, YouTube establishes a connection to the Google DoubleClick network, regardless of whether you watch a video.

As soon as you start a YouTube video on our website, a connection to YouTube's servers is established. This informs the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to directly associate your browsing behaviour with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

Furthermore, YouTube can store various cookies on your device when you start a video. With the help of these cookies, YouTube can obtain information about visitors to our website. This information is used, among other things, to collect video statistics, improve user-friendliness, and prevent fraudulent activities. The cookies remain on your device until you delete them.

If applicable, further data processing operations may be triggered after starting a YouTube video, over which we have no influence.

The use of YouTube is for the purpose of presenting our online services in an engaging way. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.

For further information about YouTube's data protection policy, please refer to their privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Using Google reCAPTCHA

We use the Google reCaptcha service to determine whether a human or a computer is making a specific entry in our contact or newsletter form. Google checks the following data to determine whether you are human or a computer: IP address of the end device used, the website you are visiting with us and on which reCaptcha is integrated, the date and duration of the visit, the detection data of the type of browser and operating system used, Google account if you are logged into Google, mouse movements on the reCaptcha areas, as well as tasks where you have to identify images. The legal basis for the described data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in this data processing to ensure the security of our website and protect us from automated entries (attacks).

Automated decision-making

This website does not use automated decision-making, including profiling, in accordance with Article 22 GDPR.

Change to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy to ensure it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your subsequent visits.

Data Protection Questions

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email or contact us directly at: datenschutz@koelnsky.com or Tel.: +49 (0)221 888897 0

This privacy policy was created with the eRecht24 privacy policy generator (version 1.0.0 of 12.02.2018) and the Privacy Policy Generator from activeMind AG created.

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