Data Protection Declaration

1. Privacy at a Glance

General Information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data by which you can be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy listed below this text.

Data Collection on Our Website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find the operator’s contact details in the legal notice of this website.

How do we collect your data?

Some data is collected when you provide it to us. This may, for example, include data that you send to us via email.

Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This mainly includes technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system, or time of page access). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?

Some of the data is collected to ensure the error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyze user behavior.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right to obtain information free of charge at any time about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction, restriction, or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time using the address provided in the legal notice if you have further questions on the subject of data protection. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

2. General Information and Mandatory Information

Data Protection

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is any data by which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains which data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

Please note that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. communication by email) may have security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Information about the Responsible Party

The responsible party for data processing on this website is:

Katharina Palt
Translating and Interpreting Services
Mühlweg 10a
85092 Kösching
Germany

Email: Katharina.Palt@web.de

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, email addresses, etc.).

Revocation of Your Consent to Data Processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke your consent at any time. An informal notification by email is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out before the revocation remains unaffected.

Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority

In the event of violations of data protection law, the affected person has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection matters is the state data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at:

https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to receive data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract in a commonly used, machine-readable format, either for yourself or for a third party. If you request the direct transfer of data to another responsible party, this will only be done insofar as it is technically feasible.

SSL or TLS Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries that you send to us as the website operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the change in the browser’s address line from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, Restriction, Deletion

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to obtain free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient, and the purpose of data processing, and, if applicable, a right to correction, restriction, or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time at the address provided in the legal notice regarding this and any other questions on the subject of personal data.

Objection to Advertising Emails

The use of contact data published within the scope of the legal notice obligation for sending unsolicited advertising and informational materials is hereby prohibited. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited advertising information, such as spam emails.

3. Data Collection on Our Website

Cookies

Some of the web pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Cookies are small text files stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are “session cookies.” They 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 upon your next visit.

You can configure your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or generally, and activate automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Cookies required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions requested by you (e.g. shopping cart function) 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. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies for analyzing your surfing behavior) are stored, these are treated separately in this privacy policy.

Server Log Files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL
• Host name of the accessing computer
• Time of the server request
• IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Hosting

The hosting services we use from 1&1 serve to provide the following services: infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space and database services, security services, and technical maintenance services that we use for the operation of this website.

In doing so, we or our hosting provider process inventory data, contact data, content data, contract data, usage data, meta and communication data of customers, interested parties, and visitors to this online offer on the basis of our legitimate interests in the efficient and secure provision of this online offer pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR in conjunction with Art. 28 GDPR.

Contact Form

If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact data you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not pass this data on without your consent.

The processing of the data entered into the contact form is therefore carried out exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You may revoke this consent at any time. An informal notification by email is sufficient. The legality of the data processing operations carried out before the revocation remains unaffected.

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

Processing of Data (Customer and Contract Data)

We collect, process, and use personal data only insofar as this is necessary for the establishment, content design, or modification of the legal relationship (inventory data). This is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures. We collect, process, and use personal data concerning the use of our websites (usage data) only insofar as this is necessary to enable the user to use the service or to bill for it.

The collected customer data will be deleted after completion of the order or termination of the business relationship. Statutory retention periods remain unaffected.

Data Transfer upon Conclusion of Contracts for Services and Digital Content

We only transfer personal data to third parties if this is necessary within the framework of contract processing.

No further transfer of data takes place unless you have expressly consented to the transfer. Your data will not be passed on to third parties for advertising purposes without your explicit consent.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

4. Data Security

We make every effort to ensure the security of your data within the framework of applicable data protection laws and technical possibilities.

To protect your data, we maintain technical and organizational security measures in accordance with Art. 32 GDPR, which we continuously adapt to the current state of technology.

We also do not guarantee that our online presence will be available at specific times; disruptions, interruptions, or failures cannot be excluded.

5. Disclosure of Data to Third Parties, No Data Transfer to Non-EU Countries

As a matter of principle, we use your personal data only within our company.

If and insofar as we involve third parties in the fulfillment of contracts, they receive personal data only to the extent necessary for the corresponding service.

In the event that we outsource certain parts of data processing (“data processing on behalf”), we contractually oblige processors to use personal data only in accordance with the requirements of data protection laws and to ensure the protection of the rights of the data subject.

No transfer of data to bodies or persons outside the EU takes place beyond the cases mentioned in this declaration and is not planned.