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Privacy Policy

Preamble

With the following privacy policy, we would like to inform you about the types of your personal data (hereinafter also referred to as "data") we process, for what purposes and to what extent. The Privacy Policy applies to all processing of personal data carried out by us, both in the context of the provision of our services and in particular on our websites, in mobile applications and within external online presences, such as our social media profiles (hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Online Offer").

The terms used are not gender-specific.

As of June 25, 2025

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Controller

Andreas Reimann
Lagerlöfstr. 8
18106 Rostock, Germany

Email Address: business@areimann.de

Imprint: https://areimann.de/impress

Overview of processing

The following overview summarises the types of data processed and the purposes of their processing, and refers to the data subjects .

Types of data processed

categories of data subjects

purposes of processing

Relevant legal bases

Relevant legal bases under the GDPR: The following is an overview of the legal bases of the GDPR on the basis of which we process personal data. Please note that in addition to the regulations of the GDPR, national data protection regulations may apply in your or our country of residence or domicile. Furthermore, if more specific legal bases are relevant in individual cases, we will inform you of these in the privacy policy .

National data protection regulations in Germany: In addition to the data protection regulations of the GDPR, national regulations on data protection apply in Germany. These include, in particular, the Act on Protection against Misuse of Personal Data in Data Processing (Federal Data Protection Act – BDSG). In particular, the BDSG contains special provisions on the right to information, the right to erasure, the right to object, the processing of special categories of personal data, processing for other purposes and transmission as well as automated decision-making in individual cases, including profiling. In addition, state data protection laws of the individual federal states can be applied .

Note on the applicability of the GDPR and the Swiss Data Protection Act: This data protection notice serves both the provision of information in accordance with the Swiss Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For this reason, we ask you to note that due to the broader spatial application and comprehensibility, the terms of the GDPR are used. In particular, instead of the terms "processing" of "personal data", "overriding interest" and "particularly sensitive personal data" used in the Swiss FADP, the terms "processing" of "personal data" as well as "legitimate interest" and "special categories of data" used in the GDPR are used. However, the legal meaning of the terms will continue to be determined in accordance with the Swiss FADP within the scope of the Swiss FADP.

Security measures

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures in accordance with the legal requirements, taking into account the state of the art, the implementation costs and the type, scope, circumstances and purposes of the processing, as well as the different probabilities of occurrence and the extent of the threat to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk .

Measures shall include, in particular, safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data by controlling physical and electronic access to the data, as well as access, input, disclosure, availability and separation. We have also put in place procedures to ensure that the rights of data subjects are exercised, that data is deleted and that data is compromised. Furthermore, we take the protection of personal data into account as early as the development or selection of hardware, software and processes in accordance with the principle of data protection, through technical design and through data protection-friendly default settings.

Securing online connections with TLS/SSL encryption technology (HTTPS): In order to protect users' data transmitted via our online services from unauthorized access, we rely on TLS/SSL encryption technology. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) are the cornerstones of secure data transmission on the Internet. These technologies encrypt the information transmitted between the website or app and the user's browser (or between two servers), which protects the data from unauthorized access. TLS, as the evolved and more secure version of SSL, ensures that all data transfers meet the highest security standards. If a website is secured by an SSL/TLS certificate, this is signaled by the display of HTTPS in the URL. This serves as an indicator for users that their data is being transmitted securely and encrypted .

Transfer of personal data

As part of our processing of personal data, it happens that it is transmitted to other bodies, companies, legally independent organisational units or persons or disclosed to them. The recipients of this data may include, for example, service providers commissioned with IT tasks or providers of services and content that are integrated into a website. In such cases, we observe the legal requirements and, in particular, conclude appropriate contracts or agreements with the recipients of your data that serve to protect your data.

International data transfers

Data processing in third countries: Where we transfer data to a third country (i.e. outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)) or if this happens in the context of the use of third-party services or the disclosure or transfer of data to other persons, bodies or companies (which can be seen from the postal address of the respective provider or if the data protection declaration expressly refers to the transfer of data to third countries), this is always done in accordance with the legal requirements.

For data transfers to the USA, we primarily rely on the Data Privacy Framework (DPF), which was recognised as a secure legal framework by an adequacy decision of the EU Commission of 10.07.2023. In addition, we have concluded standard contractual clauses with the respective providers that comply with the requirements of the EU Commission and set out contractual obligations to protect your data .

This dual protection ensures comprehensive protection of your data: the DPF is the primary layer of protection, while the standard contractual clauses serve as additional security. Should changes occur within the framework of the DPF, the standard contractual clauses intervene as a reliable fallback option. In this way, we ensure that your data is always adequately protected, even in the event of any political or legal changes .

In the case of the individual service providers, we will inform you whether they are certified according to the DPF and whether standard contractual clauses exist. For more information on the DPF and a list of certified companies, please visit the U.S. Department of Commerce's website at https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/.

Appropriate security measures apply to data transfers to other third countries, in particular standard contractual clauses, explicit consents or transfers required by law. Information on third-country transfers and applicable adequacy decisions can be found in the EU Commission's information service: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection_en?prefLang=de.

General information on data storage and deletion

We delete personal data that we process in accordance with the legal provisions as soon as the underlying consents are revoked or there are no other legal bases for the processing. This applies to cases in which the original purpose of processing no longer applies or the data is no longer needed. Exceptions to this regulation exist if legal obligations or special interests require longer storage or archiving of the data .

In particular, data that must be retained for commercial or tax law reasons or the storage of which is necessary for legal prosecution or for the protection of the rights of other natural or legal persons must be archived accordingly .

Our Privacy Notice contains additional information on the retention and deletion of data that applies specifically to certain processing operations .

If there is more information about the retention period or deletion periods of a date, the longest period is always decisive. We process data that is no longer stored for the originally intended purpose, but due to legal requirements or other reasons, exclusively for the reasons that justify its storage .

Retention and deletion of data: The following general periods apply to retention and archiving under German law:

Rights of data subjects

Rights of data subjects under the GDPR: As a data subject, you have various rights under the GDPR, which result in particular from Art. 15 to 21 GDPR:

Provision of the online offer and web hosting

We process the data of the users in order to be able to provide them with our online services. For this purpose, we process the user's IP address, which is necessary to transmit the content and functions of our online services to the user's browser or device .

Further information on processing processes, procedures and services:

Use of cookies

The term "cookies" refers to functions that store information on users' end devices and read them out of them. Cookies can also be used in relation to various concerns, such as for the purposes of the functionality, security and convenience of online offers as well as the creation of analyses of visitor flows. We use cookies in accordance with the law. To do this, we obtain the consent of the users in advance, if necessary. If consent is not necessary, we rely on our legitimate interests. This applies if the storage and reading of information is essential in order to be able to provide explicitly requested content and functions. This includes, for example, the storage of settings and the assurance of the functionality and security of our online offer. Consent can be revoked at any time. We provide clear information about their scope and which cookies are used .

Information on data protection legal bases: Whether we process personal data using cookies depends on consent. If consent is given, it serves as the legal basis. Without consent, we rely on our legitimate interests, which are explained above in this section and in the context of the relevant services and procedures.

Storage period: With regard to the storage period, a distinction is made between the following types of cookies:

General information on revocation and objection (opt-out): users can revoke the consent they have given at any time and also declare an objection to the processing in accordance with the legal requirements, also by means of the privacy settings of their browser.

Further information on processing processes, procedures and services:

Contact and enquiry management

When contacting us (e.g. by post, contact form, e-mail, telephone or via social media) as well as in the context of existing user and business relationships, the information of the enquiring persons will be processed insofar as this is necessary to answer the contact enquiries and any measures requested .

Communication via Messenger

We use messengers for communication purposes and therefore ask you to observe the following information on the functionality of the messengers, encryption, the use of the metadata of the communication and your objection options .

You can also contact us by alternative means, e.g. by phone or e-mail. Please use the contact options provided to you or the contact options provided within our online offer .

In the case of end-to-end encryption of content (i.e., the content of your message and attachments), please note that the content of the communication (i.e., the content of the message and attached images) is encrypted from end to end. This means that the content of the messages cannot be viewed, not even by the messenger providers themselves. You should always use an up-to-date version of Messenger with encryption enabled to ensure that message content is encrypted.

However, we would also like to point out to our communication partners that although the providers of the messengers do not view the content, they can find out that and when communication partners communicate with us and that technical information about the device used by the communication partners and, depending on the settings of their device, location information (so-called metadata) is processed.

Information on legal bases: If we ask communication partners for permission before communicating with them via messenger, the legal basis for our processing of their data is their consent. In addition, if we do not ask for consent and you contact us on your own initiative, for example, we use Messenger as a contractual measure in relation to our contractual partners as well as in the context of the initiation of a contract and, in the case of other interested parties and communication partners, on the basis of our legitimate interests in fast and efficient communication and fulfilment of the needs of our communication partners in communication via Messenger. Furthermore, we would like to point out that we will not transmit the contact details provided to us to the messengers for the first time without your consent.

Revocation, objection and deletion: You can revoke your consent at any time and - This text area must be unlocked with a premium license.

Affiliate Programs and Affiliate Links

In our online offer, we integrate so-called affiliate links or other references (which may include, for example, search masks, widgets or discount codes) to the offers and services of third-party providers (collectively referred to as "Affiliate Links"). If users follow the affiliate links or subsequently take advantage of the offers, we may receive a commission or other benefits from these third parties (collectively, "commission").

In order to be able to track whether users have taken advantage of the offers of an affiliate link used by us, it is necessary for the respective third-party providers to know that the users have followed an affiliate link used within our online offer. The assignment of the affiliate links to the respective business transactions or to other actions (e.g. purchases) serves the sole purpose of commission settlement and will be cancelled as soon as it is no longer necessary for the purpose.

For the purposes of the aforementioned assignment of the Affiliate Links, the Affiliate Links may be supplemented by certain values that are part of the Link or may otherwise be stored, e.g. in a cookie. The values may include, in particular, the source website (referrer), the time, an online identifier of the operators of the website on which the affiliate link was located, an online identifier of the respective offer, the type of link used, the type of offer and an online identifier of the user .

Notes on legal bases: If we ask users for their consent to the use of third-party providers, the legal basis for processing data is consent. Otherwise, the users' data will be processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in efficient, economical and recipient-friendly services). In this context, we would also like to draw your attention to the information on the use of cookies in this privacy policy.

Additional Processing, Procedures, and Services Notices:

Presence in social networks (social media)

We maintain online presences within social networks and process user data in this context in order to communicate with the users active there or to offer information about us.

We would like to point out that user data may be processed outside the area of the European Union. This can result in risks for users, for example, because it could make it more difficult to enforce user rights .

Furthermore, the data of users within social networks is usually processed for market research and advertising purposes. For example, usage profiles can be created based on the user behavior and the resulting interests of the users. The latter may in turn be used, for example, to place advertisements inside and outside the networks that presumably correspond to the interests of the users. Therefore, cookies are usually stored on the users' computers, in which the user's usage behaviour and interests are stored. In addition, data can also be stored in the user profiles regardless of the devices used by the users (in particular if they are members of the respective platforms and logged in there).

For a detailed description of the respective forms of processing and the options for objection (opt-out), we refer to the data protection declarations and information provided by the operators of the respective networks.

In the case of requests for information and the assertion of data subject rights, we would like to point out that these can be asserted most effectively with the providers. Only the latter have access to the user data and can directly take appropriate measures and provide information. If you still need help, you can contact us .

Further information on processing processes, procedures and services:

plug-ins and embedded functions as well as content

We integrate functional and content elements into our online offer that are obtained from the servers of their respective providers (hereinafter referred to as "third-party providers"). This can be, for example, graphics, videos or city maps (hereinafter referred to uniformly as "content").

The integration always requires that the third-party providers of this content process the IP address of the users, as they would not be able to send the content to their browser without an IP address. The IP address is therefore required for the display of these contents or functions. We make every effort to use only content whose respective providers use the IP address only for the delivery of the content. Third-party service providers may also use pixel tags (invisible graphics, also known as "web beacons") for statistical or marketing purposes. The "pixel tags" can be used to evaluate information, such as visitor traffic to the pages of this website. The pseudonymous information may also be stored in cookies on the user's device and may contain, among other things, technical information on the browser and operating system, referring websites, the time of visit and other information on the use of our online offer, but may also be combined with such information from other sources .

Information on legal bases: If we ask users for their consent to the use of third-party providers, the legal basis for data processing is permission. Otherwise, the user data will be processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in efficient, economical and recipient-friendly services). In this context, we would also like to draw your attention to the information on the use of cookies in this privacy policy.

Further information on processing processes, procedures and services:

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