This is a translation for convenience. In case of doubt, the German version is legally binding: Datenschutzerklärung (German)
Privacy Policy
1. Data Protection 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 that can be used to identify you personally. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy set out 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?
On the one hand, your data is collected when you provide it to us. This may, for example, be data that you enter in a contact form.
Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is mainly technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of the page request). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.
What do we use your data for?
Part of the data is collected to ensure that the website is provided without errors. Other data is used to answer your enquiries. Your user behavior is not analyzed.
What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right at any time to receive information free of charge about the origin, recipients and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking or deletion of this data. For this purpose, and for any further questions on the subject of data protection, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice. 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 the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.
When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is data that can be used to identify you personally. This privacy policy explains what 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. when communicating by email) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
Note on the responsible party
The party responsible for data processing on this website is:
Bernd Behrens Automotive Consultant
Spreeweg 5
34131 Kassel
Phone: +49 172 5850212
Email: info@bernd-behrens.de
The responsible party is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on 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 can revoke consent you have already given at any time. An informal notification by email to us is sufficient for this. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority
In the event of violations of data protection law, the data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority in matters of data protection law is the data protection commissioner of the German federal state in which our company has its registered office. A list of the data protection commissioners and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.
Right to data portability
You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done insofar as it is technically feasible.
3. Data Collection on Our Website
Cookies
This website does not set any cookies itself and does not store any other data in your browser. There are no statistics or analysis of your user behavior.
Only when you load a video or the booking calendar may YouTube or meetergo use cookies or similar storage on your device. This only happens with your consent given by clicking (see section 4).
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) (f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in providing the website without technical errors and protecting it against attacks; the server log files are necessary for this.
Hosting
This website is hosted on a web server operated by IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany. When you visit the pages, IONOS processes the data listed above under “Server log files”. A data processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR is in place with IONOS.
Contact form
If you write to us using the contact form, we process the details you enter there: your name, your email address and your message (required fields) and, if you wish, your company and your phone number. We use these details solely to answer your enquiry.
The form sends your details by email to our mailbox. The mailbox is operated by Microsoft (Microsoft 365). Your message is not stored on the web server itself. The server only stores the time of sending, without any reference to you, in order to limit large numbers of automatically sent messages. Times older than one hour are deleted the next time a message is sent.
The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where your enquiry relates to a contract or serves to prepare a contract. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in answering enquiries addressed to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
We keep your message until your enquiry has been dealt with, you ask us to delete it, or the purpose of storage no longer applies. Statutory retention periods, in particular for business correspondence, remain unaffected.
4. Videos and Appointment Booking
YouTube videos with two-click solution
On some pages we show videos hosted on YouTube. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
When you open the page, only a preview image is loaded from our own server; there is no connection to YouTube at that point. Only when you click the preview image is the video loaded in the so-called privacy-enhanced mode from www.youtube-nocookie.com. In doing so, at least your IP address is transferred to YouTube, and YouTube may store or read information on your device. Data may also be transferred to Google LLC in the USA. Google LLC is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
The legal basis is your consent, which you give by clicking the preview image (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TDDDG). You can withdraw it at any time by reloading the page; videos are then only loaded after another click. You can find more information in Google’s privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy
Appointment booking with meetergo
On the contact page you can book an appointment for a conversation with us directly. For this we use the booking calendar of meetergo GmbH, Hauptstraße 44, 40789 Monheim am Rhein, Germany. meetergo processes the data on our behalf; a data processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR is in place with meetergo.
The calendar is only loaded when you click “Load the booking calendar” or open the booking page directly at meetergo via the link. Before that, there is no connection to meetergo. When it loads, technical data such as your IP address is transferred to meetergo. If you book an appointment, meetergo also processes the details you enter in the booking form, such as your name, your email address and the chosen time, and passes them on to us. The conversation takes place as a video conference via Microsoft Teams.
The legal basis for loading the calendar is your consent, which you give by clicking (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TDDDG). You can withdraw it at any time by reloading the page. The legal basis for the booking itself is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, as it serves to prepare a conversation or a contract. You can find more information in meetergo’s privacy policy: meetergo.com/de/datenschutz