§ 1 Information on the collection of personal data
(1) In the following I inform you about the collection of personal data when using my website. Personal data are all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, email addresses, user behaviour.
(2) The controller pursuant to art. 4 point 7 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Georg Varentsov, lawyer (law firm name: Anwaltskanzlei Varentsov), Bleichstraße 27, 66111 Saarbrücken, datenschutz@vvlaw.de.
(3) In addition to providing my website for purely informational use, I may also offer various other services on my website that you can use if you are interested. To do so, you will generally have to provide additional personal data that will be used to provide the respective service and to which the data processing principles stated in this declaration apply.
(4) When you contact me by email or via the contact form, the data you provide (in particular your email address, your name and, if applicable, your telephone number) will be stored by me in order to answer your questions. I delete the data arising in this context after storage is no longer necessary or restrict processing if there are statutory retention periods.
(5) I partially use external service providers to process your data. The service providers I commission are carefully selected and monitored by me and are bound by my instructions. If my service provider or partner is based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), I will inform you of the consequences of this circumstance in this declaration.
§ 2 Your rights
(1) You have the following rights vis-à-vis me with regard to the personal data concerning you:
Right of access,
Right to rectification,
Right to restriction of processing,
Right to object to processing,
Right to data portability
(2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by me.
(3) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke this at any time. Such a revocation affects the permissibility of the processing of your personal data after you expressed it towards me.
(4) Insofar as I base the processing of your personal data on a weighting of interests, you can object to the processing. This is the case if, in particular, the processing is not necessary for the fulfilment of a contract with you, whereat the necessity is explained by me in the description of the functions in this declaration. When exercising such an objection, I ask you to explain the reasons why I should not process your personal data as I have done. In the event of your substantiated objection, I will examine the situation and will either discontinue or adapt the data processing or point out to you my compelling and legitimate reasons, on the basis of which I will continue the processing.
(5) You can object to the processing of your personal data for the purposes of advertising and data analysis at any time, if and insofar as this takes place. You can inform me about your objection in this regard at datenschutz@vvlaw.de.
§ 3 Collection of personal data when visiting my website
(1) When using the website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not transmit any specific information, I only collect the personal data that your browser transmits. If you wish to visit my website, I collect the following data, which is technically necessary for me to display my website to you and to ensure its stability and security (legal basis is art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 point f GDPR):
IP address
Content of the request (specific page)
Date and time of the request
Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Access status/HTTP status code
Amount of data transferred in each case
Website from which the request originates
Browser
Operating system and its interface
Language and version of the browser software.
(2) In addition to the aforementioned data, website cookies may be stored on your computer when you use the website, without prejudice to subsection 4. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive – assigned to the browser you are using – and through which certain information flows to the party that sets the cookie (i.e. me as the website operator). Cookies cannot execute programmes or transfer viruses to your computer. They serve to make the website more user-friendly and effective overall.
(3) Use of cookies:
Without prejudice to subsection 4, this website may use the following types of cookies, the scope and function of which are explained below: transient cookies (see next bullet point), persistent cookies (see next but one bullet point).
Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include session cookies in particular. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the joint session. This allows your computer to be recognised when you return to my website. The session cookies are deleted when the website visitor closes the browser.
Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser.
You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse to accept cookies or only third-party cookies.
(4) This website does not currently use any cookies (neither those of the CDN provider mentioned in subsection 6).
(5) This website is hosted externally by Hostinger (Hostinger International Ltd, Private Limited Company [Cyprus], 61 Lordou Vironos Str., 6023 Larnaca, Cyprus). The external hosting is in the interest of a fast, secure and efficient provision of my website by a professional provider (art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 point f GDPR) and for the purpose of contract fulfilment towards potential and existing customers (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 point b GDPR). The personal data collected on this website is processed on the servers of the hoster mentioned in sentence 1. The processed data may include, in particular, the data referred to in subsection 1. The hoster named in sentence 1 will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil its contractual obligations. The data protection declaration of the hoster named in sentence 1 can be found at: https://www.hostinger.co.uk/legal/privacy-policy.
(6) As part of the fulfilment of its contractual obligations, the hoster mentioned in subsection 5 uses the Content Delivery Network (CDN) of Cloudflare Inc (101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA). On the one hand, a CDN makes it possible to improve loading times by using regionally and globally distributed servers. On the other hand, the services of Cloudflare Inc. (besides the enhancement of the fetch of my website) serve, in particular, the security of its provision. Cloudflare Inc. may process the data mentioned in subsection 1. Cloudflare Inc. processes your data only to the extent necessary to fulfil its service obligations. Cloudflare Inc. is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (and can be found in the relevant list: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/list). Its data protection declaration is available at: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.