Data protection
Data protection
1) Introduction and contact details of the controller
1.1 We are delighted that you are visiting our website and would like to thank you for your interest. Below, we explain how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data refers to any data that can be used to identify you personally.
1.2 The data controller for this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:
LanCologne UG (limited liability)
Horbeller Str. 19
50858 Cologne
Germany
Telephone: +49 (0) 221 64306610
Fax: +49 (0) 221 64306611
E-mail: info@lancologne.de
The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
1.3 We have appointed an external data protection officer.
Our Data Protection Officer is:
Konrad Mauermann
Mauermann Expert Services
10 Tulip Lane
83083 Riedering
Telephone: +49 (0) 8036 3031 999
Email: info@it-forensik.bayern
If you have any questions regarding data protection or the processing of your personal data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer directly. This applies in particular to matters relating to your rights as a data subject under the General Data Protection Regulation.
2) Data collection when visiting our website
2.1 When you use our website purely for information purposes – that is, if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information – we only collect the data that your browser transmits to the website server (so-called „Server log files“). When you visit our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:
- Our visited website
- Date and time at the time of access
- Amount of data sent in bytes
- Source/reference from which you reached the page
- Browser used
- Operating system used
- IP address used (if applicable: in anonymised form)
Data processing is carried out in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be disclosed or used for any other purpose. However, we reserve the right to review the Server log files retrospectively should there be concrete indications of unlawful use.
2.2 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or enquiries to the data controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the string „https://“ and the padlock icon in your browser address bar.
3) Cookies
To make your visit to our website more enjoyable and to enable you to use certain features, we use cookies – small text files that are stored on your device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser (so-called „session cookies“), whilst others remain on your device for longer and enable page settings to be saved (so-called „persistent cookies“). In the latter case, you can find the storage period in the overview of your web browser’s cookie settings.
Where personal data is also processed by individual cookies we use, such processing is carried out in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, either for the performance of a contract; in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR where consent has been given; or in accordance with Article 6( (1)(f) of the GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in ensuring the best possible functionality of the website and a user-friendly and effective experience for visitors.
You can configure your browser so that you are notified when cookies are set and can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept them, or you can choose to block cookies in specific cases or generally.
Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.
4) Making contact
Personal data is collected when you contact us (e.g. via the contact form or by email). The data collected when using a contact form is specified on the relevant contact form. This data is stored and used solely for the purpose of responding to your enquiry or for establishing contact and the associated technical administration.
The legal basis for the processing of this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your enquiry in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. If the purpose of your enquiry is to enter into a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR. Your data will be deleted once your enquiry has been fully processed. This is the case when it is clear from the circumstances that the matter in question has been definitively resolved and provided that there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary.
5) Web analysis services
Google Analytics 4
This website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland („Google“), which enables us to analyse your use of our website.
By default, when you visit the website, Google Analytics 4 sets cookies, which are small text files stored on your device and used to collect certain information. This information includes your IP address; however, Google truncates the last few digits of this address to prevent it from being directly linked to you personally.
The information is transferred to Google’s Server and processed there. This may also involve transfers to Google LLC, which is based in the USA.
Google uses the information collected on our behalf to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity for us, and to provide other services relating to website and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics and truncated is not combined with any other data held by Google. The data collected through the use of Google Analytics 4 is stored for a period of two months and then deleted.
All the processing operations described above, in particular the setting of cookies on the device you are using, will only take place if you have given us your explicit consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR.
Without your consent, Google Analytics 4 will not be used whilst you are visiting the site. You may withdraw your consent at any time with future effect. To exercise your right to withdraw consent, please disable this service using the „Cookie Consent Tool“ provided on the website.
We have concluded an order processing contract with Google, which ensures the protection of the data of our website visitors and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.
Further legal information on Google Analytics 4 can be found at https://business.safety.google
Demographic characteristics
Google Analytics 4 uses the specific „demographic characteristics“ feature and can use this to generate statistics that provide insights into the age, gender and interests of website visitors. This is achieved by analysing advertising and information from third-party providers. This enables target groups to be identified for marketing activities. However, the data collected cannot be linked to any specific individual and is deleted after being stored for a period of two months.
Google Signals
As an extension to Google Analytics 4, Google Signals may be used on this website to generate cross-device reports. If you have enabled personalised adverts and linked your devices to your Google Account, Google may – subject to your consent to the use of Google Analytics in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR – analyse your usage behaviour across devices and create database models, including those relating to cross-device conversions. We do not receive any personal data from Google, only statistics. If you wish to stop cross-device analysis, you can disable the „Personalised ads“ feature in your Google Account settings. To do so, follow the instructions on this page: https://support.google.com
UserIDs
As an extension to Google Analytics 4, the „UserIDs“ feature may be used on this website. If you have consented to the use of Google Analytics 4 in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, have set up an account on this website and log in to this account on different devices, your activities – including conversions – may be analysed across devices.
For data transfers to the US, the provider has adhered to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which, on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission, ensures compliance with European data protection standards.
6) Page features
Youtube
This website uses plugins to display and play videos from the following provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland
Data may also be transferred to: Google LLC, USA
When you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the provider’s Servern in order to load the plugin. In doing so, certain information, including your IP address, is transmitted to the provider.
If playback of embedded videos is initiated via the plugin, the provider also uses cookies to collect information about user behaviour, compile playback statistics and prevent abusive behaviour.
If you are logged into a user account with the provider whilst visiting the site, your data will be directly linked to your account when you click on a video. If you do not wish for your data to be linked to your account, you must log out before clicking the play button.
All the aforementioned processing activities, in particular the setting of cookies to retrieve information from the device you are using, will only take place if you have given us your explicit consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. You may withdraw the consent you have given at any time with future effect by deactivating this service via the „Cookie Consent Tool“ provided on the website.
For data transfers to the US, the provider has adhered to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which, on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission, ensures compliance with European data protection standards.
7) Tools and miscellaneous
Cookie Consent Tool
This website uses a so-called „cookie consent tool“ to obtain valid user consent for cookies and cookie-based applications that require consent. The „cookie consent tool“ is displayed to users when they visit the site in the form of an interactive user interface, on which they can give their consent to specific cookies and/or cookie-based applications by ticking the relevant boxes. Through the use of this tool, all cookies and services requiring consent are only loaded once the user has given the relevant consent by ticking the appropriate boxes. This ensures that such cookies are only set on the user’s device once consent has been given.
The tool sets technically necessary cookies to save your cookie preferences. Personal user data is not processed in this context.
Should the processing of personal data (such as the IP address) nevertheless take place in individual cases for the purpose of storing, assigning or logging cookie settings, this is carried out in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in ensuring that our cookie consent management is legally compliant, user-specific and user-friendly, and consequently in ensuring that our website is designed in a legally compliant manner.
A further legal basis for the processing is Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR. As the data controller, we are subject to a legal obligation to make the use of cookies that are not technically necessary conditional upon the user’s consent.
Where necessary, we have concluded an order processing contract with the provider, which ensures the protection of the data of our website visitors and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.
Further information about the operator and the settings options for the cookie consent tool can be found directly in the relevant user interface on our website.
8) Rights of the data subject
8.1 Under current data protection law, you are entitled to the following data subject rights (rights of access and intervention) vis-à-vis the data controller with regard to the processing of your personal data; please refer to the legal basis cited for the respective conditions for exercising these rights:
- Right of access under Article 15 of the GDPR;
- Right to rectification under Article 16 of the GDPR;
- Right to erasure under Article 17 of the GDPR;
- Right to restriction of processing under Article 18 of the GDPR;
- Right to be informed under Article 19 of the GDPR;
- Right to data portability under Article 20 of the GDPR;
- Right to withdraw consent already given in accordance with Article 7(3) of the GDPR;
- Right to lodge a complaint under Article 77 of the GDPR.
8.2 RIGHT OF OBJECTION
IF, AS PART OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME, ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, to object to such processing with effect for the future.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE PROCESSING THE DATA IN QUESTION. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CONTINUE PROCESSING, HOWEVER, IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING IS NECESSARY FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.
IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING. YOU MAY EXERCISE THIS RIGHT AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.
9) Duration of storage of personal data
The period for which personal data is stored is determined by the relevant legal basis, the purpose of the processing and – where applicable – the relevant statutory retention period (e.g. retention periods under commercial and tax law).
When processing personal data on the basis of explicit consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, the data in question will be stored until you withdraw your consent.
Where statutory retention periods apply to data processed in the context of contractual or quasi-contractual obligations on the basis of Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, such data is routinely deleted upon expiry of the retention periods, provided that it is no longer required for the performance of a contract or for entering into a contract and/or we no longer have a legitimate interest in continuing to store it.
Where personal data is processed on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, such data will be stored until you exercise your right to object under Article 21(1) of the GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
When personal data is processed for the purposes of direct marketing on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right to object under Article 21(2) of the GDPR.
Unless otherwise specified in the other information contained in this statement regarding specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be erased when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.