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 this web­site. Per­son­al data is any data by which you can be per­son­al­ly iden­ti­fied. Detailed infor­ma­tion on data pro­tec­tion can be found in the pri­va­cy pol­i­cy set out below.

Data Collection on This 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 sec­tion “Con­troller” of this Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy.

How do we col­lect your data?

Some data is col­lect­ed when you pro­vide it to us. This may, for exam­ple, be data that you enter into a con­tact form or pro­vide when reg­is­ter­ing on our web­site.

Oth­er data is col­lect­ed auto­mat­i­cal­ly or after your con­sent when you vis­it the web­site through our IT sys­tems. This is pri­mar­i­ly tech­ni­cal data (e.g. inter­net brows­er, oper­at­ing sys­tem, or time of page access). This data is col­lect­ed auto­mat­i­cal­ly as soon as you enter this web­site.

What do we use your data for?

  • to ensure the error-free pro­vi­sion of the web­site
  • to ana­lyze user behav­ior
  • to process inquiries
  • to ful­fill con­trac­tu­al oblig­a­tions

What rights do you have regard­ing your data?

You have the right at any time to obtain infor­ma­tion, free of charge, about the ori­gin, recip­i­ent and pur­pose of your stored per­son­al data. You also have the right to request the cor­rec­tion or dele­tion of this data. If you have giv­en your con­sent to data pro­cess­ing, you may revoke this con­sent at any time with effect for the future. You also have the right, under cer­tain cir­cum­stances, to request restric­tion of the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data. Fur­ther­more, you have the right to lodge a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent super­vi­so­ry author­i­ty.

2. Hosting and Data Security

SSL or TLS Encryption

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

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

3. Data Collection on This Website

Server Log Files

The web­site provider auto­mat­i­cal­ly col­lects and stores infor­ma­tion in so-called serv­er log files, which your brows­er trans­mits to us auto­mat­i­cal­ly.

  • brows­er type and brows­er ver­sion
  • oper­at­ing sys­tem used
  • refer­rer URL
  • host­name of the access­ing device
  • time of the serv­er request
  • IP address

This data is not merged with oth­er data sources.

The pro­cess­ing is car­ried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The web­site oper­a­tor has a legit­i­mate inter­est in the tech­ni­cal­ly error-free pre­sen­ta­tion and opti­miza­tion of the web­site.

Cookies

Our web­site uses so-called “cook­ies”. Cook­ies are small text files and do not cause any dam­age to your device. They are stored either tem­porar­i­ly for the dura­tion of a ses­sion (ses­sion cook­ies) or per­ma­nent­ly (per­ma­nent cook­ies) on your device.

Cook­ies have var­i­ous func­tions. Many cook­ies are tech­ni­cal­ly nec­es­sary, as cer­tain web­site func­tions would not work with­out them.

The pro­cess­ing is car­ried out 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. Where con­sent is required, pro­cess­ing is based exclu­sive­ly on Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; con­sent can be revoked at any time with effect for the future.

Contact Form

If you send us inquiries via the con­tact form, your details from the inquiry form, includ­ing the con­tact details you pro­vide there, will be stored by us for the pur­pose of pro­cess­ing the inquiry and in case of fol­low-up ques­tions.

The pro­cess­ing of this data is based on Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR (con­sent), or Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR if your inquiry is relat­ed to the per­for­mance of a con­tract or is nec­es­sary in order to take steps pri­or to enter­ing into a con­tract. You may revoke your con­sent at any time with effect for the future.

Registration on This Website

You can reg­is­ter on this web­site in order to use addi­tion­al fea­tures on the site. We will use the data entered only for the pur­pose of using the respec­tive offer or ser­vice for which you have reg­is­tered.

The pro­cess­ing is based on Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. If the reg­is­tra­tion serves the per­for­mance of a con­tract or the imple­men­ta­tion of pre-con­trac­tu­al mea­sures, the addi­tion­al legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

4. Newsletter

If you would like to receive the newslet­ter offered on the web­site, we require an email address from you as well as infor­ma­tion that allows us to ver­i­fy that you are the own­er of the email address pro­vid­ed and that you agree to receive the newslet­ter.

The pro­cess­ing of the data entered into the newslet­ter sign-up form is based exclu­sive­ly on your con­sent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).

You may revoke your con­sent at any time, for exam­ple via the “unsub­scribe” link in the newslet­ter.

Newsletter Delivery via Amazon Web Services

The newslet­ter is deliv­ered using Ama­zon Web Ser­vices (AWS), a ser­vice pro­vid­ed by Amazon.com, Inc. or affil­i­at­ed com­pa­nies.

AWS is used on the basis of a data pro­cess­ing agree­ment pur­suant to Art. 28 GDPR.

We reserve the right to store unsub­scribed email address­es for up to three years on the basis of our legit­i­mate inter­ests in order to be able to demon­strate that con­sent had pre­vi­ous­ly been giv­en. In this case, pro­cess­ing is lim­it­ed to the pur­pose of defend­ing against poten­tial claims. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

5. Analytics and Advertising Tools

This web­site may use the fol­low­ing ser­vices:

  • Google Ana­lyt­ics
  • Google Ads and Con­ver­sion Track­ing
  • Google AdSense
  • Face­book Pix­el
  • Google reCAPTCHA

These ser­vices may use cook­ies or sim­i­lar tech­nolo­gies to ana­lyze the use of the web­site and to mea­sure the effec­tive­ness of adver­tis­ing.

The pro­cess­ing is based on Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR (con­sent) or Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legit­i­mate inter­est), depend­ing on the spe­cif­ic ser­vice and imple­men­ta­tion. Where legal­ly required, these ser­vices are only used on the basis of your pri­or con­sent.

6. Programmatic Advertising

Our web­site uses adver­tis­ing tech­nolo­gies from third-par­ty providers in order to dis­play adver­tis­ing and mea­sure its effec­tive­ness.

These may include in par­tic­u­lar:

  • Ströer SSP
  • Smart AdServ­er
  • Smart­clip

These ser­vices may col­lect pseu­do­nymized infor­ma­tion about your device, brows­er, usage behav­ior and inter­ac­tions with adver­tis­ing con­tent in order to deliv­er per­son­al­ized adver­tis­ing and to mea­sure cam­paign per­for­mance.

Depend­ing on the spe­cif­ic imple­men­ta­tion, pro­cess­ing is based on Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR (con­sent) or Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legit­i­mate inter­est). Where required by law, such tech­nolo­gies are used only after obtain­ing your con­sent via a con­sent man­age­ment plat­form.

7. Plugins and Tools

YouTube

This web­site embeds videos from the YouTube plat­form. The provider is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cher­ry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

When you vis­it one of our pages on which YouTube is inte­grat­ed, a con­nec­tion to YouTube’s servers may be estab­lished. In the process, the YouTube serv­er is informed which of our pages you have vis­it­ed.

Google Web Fonts

This site uses web fonts pro­vid­ed by Google for the uni­form dis­play of fonts. When you access a page, your brows­er loads the required fonts into its brows­er cache in order to dis­play text and fonts cor­rect­ly.

Google Maps

This site uses the Google Maps ser­vice via an API. To use the func­tions of Google Maps, it is nec­es­sary to store your IP address.

SoundCloud

Plu­g­ins of the Sound­Cloud net­work may be inte­grat­ed on our pages. When you vis­it our pages, a direct con­nec­tion between your brows­er and the Sound­Cloud serv­er may be estab­lished after acti­va­tion.

Spotify

Our pages may include fea­tures of the music ser­vice Spo­ti­fy. When you vis­it our pages, a direct con­nec­tion between your brows­er and the Spo­ti­fy serv­er may be estab­lished.

8. Social Media Plugins

Our web­site may include social media plu­g­ins, for exam­ple from Face­book, Insta­gram or YouTube. When vis­it­ing pages con­tain­ing such plu­g­ins, a direct con­nec­tion may be estab­lished between your brows­er and the servers of the respec­tive provider.

Please note that we have no influ­ence on the scope, con­tent or use of the data col­lect­ed by the respec­tive provider. For more infor­ma­tion, please con­sult the pri­va­cy poli­cies of the respec­tive providers.

9. Affiliate Programs

Amazon Affiliate Program

The oper­a­tors of this web­site par­tic­i­pate in the Ama­zon EU Affil­i­ate Pro­gram. Adver­tise­ments and links to Ama­zon web­sites may be inte­grat­ed on our pages, from which we may earn adver­tis­ing fees.

Ama­zon uses cook­ies or sim­i­lar tech­nolo­gies to track the ori­gin of orders. This allows Ama­zon to rec­og­nize that you have clicked an affil­i­ate link on our web­site.

The use of such tech­nolo­gies is based on Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR where con­sent is required, or on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR where legal­ly per­mis­si­ble. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the eco­nom­ic oper­a­tion of our online offer­ing.

10. Payment Providers

PayPal

We offer pay­ment via Pay­Pal on this web­site.

The provider is Pay­Pal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22–24 Boule­vard Roy­al, L‑2449 Lux­em­bourg.

If you select pay­ment via Pay­Pal, the pay­ment data you enter will be trans­mit­ted to Pay­Pal.

The trans­fer of your data to Pay­Pal is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (pro­cess­ing for the per­for­mance of a con­tract). Where con­sent is obtained, the addi­tion­al legal basis is Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

11. Customer and Contract Data

We col­lect, process and use per­son­al data only to the extent nec­es­sary to estab­lish, struc­ture, per­form or amend con­trac­tu­al rela­tion­ships.

The legal basis for this pro­cess­ing is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Per­son­al data relat­ed to the use of this web­site is col­lect­ed only inso­far as this is nec­es­sary to enable you to use the ser­vice or to bill you for it.

Cus­tomer data will be delet­ed after com­ple­tion of the order or ter­mi­na­tion of the busi­ness rela­tion­ship, unless statu­to­ry reten­tion oblig­a­tions apply.

12. Contests and Promotions

When you par­tic­i­pate in con­tests, give­aways, votes or oth­er pro­mo­tions, we may process per­son­al data such as name, address, age ver­i­fi­ca­tion data and con­tact details for the pur­pose of con­duct­ing the respec­tive pro­mo­tion.

Depend­ing on the spe­cif­ic pro­mo­tion, we may also process par­tic­i­pa­tion data, answers to com­pe­ti­tion ques­tions, appli­ca­tion data or vot­ing infor­ma­tion.

The pro­cess­ing is gen­er­al­ly based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, inso­far as the pro­cess­ing is nec­es­sary to car­ry out the respec­tive con­test or pro­mo­tion.

13. Your Rights Under the GDPR

You have the right:

  • to obtain infor­ma­tion about your stored per­son­al data,
  • to request the cor­rec­tion of inac­cu­rate data,
  • to request the dele­tion of your per­son­al data,
  • to request restric­tion of pro­cess­ing,
  • to receive your data in a struc­tured, com­mon­ly used and machine-read­able for­mat,
  • to with­draw con­sent at any time with effect for the future, and
  • to lodge a com­plaint with a super­vi­so­ry author­i­ty.

14. Objection to Promotional Emails

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

15. Automated Decision-Making

Auto­mat­ed deci­sion-mak­ing or pro­fil­ing with­in the mean­ing of Art. 22 GDPR does not take place on this web­site.

16. Controller

The con­troller respon­si­ble for data pro­cess­ing on this web­site is:

Rid­dim Ver­lags-GmbH
Lux­em­burg­er Str. 264a
50937 Cologne
Ger­many

Phone: +49 221 / 41 21 79
Email: redaktion@riddim.de

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