privacy
Data protection
We are pleased that you are interested in our online offer. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. Below we inform you in detail about the handling of your data.
1. Access Data and Hosting
You can visit our website without providing any personal information. Each time a website is called up, the web server automatically saves a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, the date and time of the call, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data) and documents the call.
This access data is evaluated exclusively for the purpose of ensuring trouble-free operation of the site and improving our offer. In accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f GDPR, this serves to protect our legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offer, which predominate within the framework of a weighing of interests. All access data will be deleted no later than seven days after the end of your visit to the site.
Hosting services by a third party As part of processing on our behalf, a third party provides the services for hosting and displaying the website. This serves to protect our overriding legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offer within the framework of a balancing of interests. All data collected as part of the use of this website or in the forms provided for this purpose, as described below, are processed on its servers. Processing on other servers only takes place within the framework explained here.
This service provider is located within a country of the European Union or the European Economic Area.
2. Data collection and use when opening a user account
We collect personal data if you voluntarily provide it to us when contacting us (e.g. via contact form or e-mail) or when opening a user account. Mandatory fields are marked as such, since in these cases we need the data to process your contact or to open a user account and you cannot complete the order and/or open an account or send the contact without providing them. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms. We use the data provided by you in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. b GDPR to process the contract and your inquiries. After the contract has been completed or your user account has been deleted, your data will be restricted for further processing and deleted after the retention periods under tax and commercial law have expired, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use the data beyond that is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this statement. The deletion of your user account is possible at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact option described below or using a function provided for this purpose in the user account.
3. Email Newsletters and Postal Promotions
E-mail advertising with registration for the newsletter If you register for our newsletter, we use the data required for this or separately provided by you in order to regularly send you our e-mail newsletter based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a GDPR.
Unsubscribing from the newsletter is possible at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a link provided for this purpose in the newsletter. After you have unsubscribed, we will delete your e-mail address, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we will inform you in this declaration.
Postal advertising and your right to object. In addition, we reserve the right to use your first and last name as well as your postal address for our own advertising purposes, e.g. to send interesting offers and information about our products by post. This serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in advertising to our customers in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.
The advertising mail is provided as part of processing on our behalf by a service provider to whom we pass on your data for this purpose. You can object to the storage and use of your data for these purposes at any time by sending a message to the contact option described below.
4. Cookies and web analysis
In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, to display suitable products or for market research, we use so-called cookies on various pages. This serves to protect our overriding legitimate interests in an optimized presentation of our offer in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Cookies are small text files that are automatically saved on your end device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e. after closing your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies). You can see the duration of storage in the overview in the cookie settings of your web browser. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually whether to accept them or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. These can be found for the respective browsers under the following links:
Internet Explorer™️: http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Safari™️: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=de_DE
Chrome™️: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647
Firefox™️: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-allow-and-reject
Opera™️ : http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html
If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be restricted.
Use of Google (Universal) Analytics for web analysis
If you have given your consent to this in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter a GDPR, this website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (www.google.de), for the purpose of website analysis. Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that enable an analysis of your use of the website, such as cookies. The automatically collected information about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. By activating IP anonymization on this website, the IP address is shortened before transmission within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is generally not merged with other Google data. After the end of our use of Google Analytics, the data collected in this context will be deleted.
Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.
You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de . This prevents the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google.
As an alternative to the browser plugin, you can click this link to prevent future detection by Google Analytics on this website. An opt-out cookie is stored on your end device. If you delete your cookies, you will be asked again to give your consent.
5. Social Media Plugins
Use of social plugins from Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest using the “2-click solution”So-called social plugins (“plugins”) from social networks are used on our website. In order to increase the protection of your data when you visit our website, the plugins are integrated into the page using a so-called "2-click solution". This integration ensures that when you visit a page on our website that contains such plugins, no connection to the servers of the respective social network is established. Only when you activate the plugins does your browser establish a direct connection to the servers of the respective social network.
The content of the respective plugin is then transmitted directly to your browser by the associated provider and integrated into the page. By integrating the plugins, the providers receive the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a profile with the relevant provider or are not currently logged in. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a server of the respective provider (possibly in the USA) and stored there. If you interact with the plugins, for example by pressing the "Like" or "Share" button, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a server of the provider and stored there. The information is also published on the social network and displayed to your contacts there. This serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in optimal marketing of our offer in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.
The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers as well as a contact option and your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in the data protection information of the providers:
http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
https://twitter.com/privacy
http://www.google.com/intl/de/ /policy/ 1button.html
https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388
https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy
Vimeo Video PluginsContent from third-party providers is integrated on this website. This content is provided by Vimeo LLC ("Provider"). The integration of Videso serves to protect our overriding legitimate interests in optimal marketing of our offer in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Vimeo is operated by Vimeo LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York 10011, USA ("Vimeo"). The Google Analytics tracking tool is automatically integrated into videos from Vimeo that are integrated on our site. We have no influence on the tracking settings or the analysis results collected and cannot view them. In addition, web beacons are set for website visitors by embedding Vimeo videos.
In order to prevent the setting of the Google Analytics tracking cookies, you can prevent the storage of the cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de As an alternative to the browser plug-in, you can use this Click the link to prevent future collection by Google Analytics on this website. An opt-out cookie is stored on your end device. If you delete your cookies, you must click the link again. The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in the Vimeo data protection information
6. Contact options and your rights
As a data subject, you have the following rights:
pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR, the right to request information about your personal data processed by us to the extent specified there;
pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR, you have the right to immediately request the correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us;
pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR, you have the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless further processing is required
– to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information;
– to fulfill a legal obligation;
– for reasons of public interest or
- is required to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
according to Art. 18 DSGVO the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as
– the accuracy of the data is contested by you;
– the processing is unlawful but you oppose its erasure;
- we no longer need the data, but you need them to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or
– you have lodged an objection to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request transmission to another person responsible;
according to Art. 77 DSGVO the right to complain to a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or work or our company headquarters.
If you have any questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, information, correction, blocking or deletion of data, as well as revocation of consent given or objection to a specific use of data, please contact us directly using the contact details in our imprint.
Right to object
Insofar as we process personal data as explained above in order to protect our legitimate interests, which prevail in the context of a balancing of interests, you can object to this processing with effect for the future. If the processing is for direct marketing purposes, you can exercise this right at any time as described above. If the processing is for other purposes, you only have the right to object if there are reasons that arise from your particular situation.
After you have exercised your right to object, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of serves legal claims.
This does not apply if the processing is for direct marketing purposes. Then we will no longer process your personal data for this purpose.
Contact option for inquiries
If you have any questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, information, correction, blocking or deletion of data and revocation of any consent given or objection to a specific use of data, please contact: G! - Lounge piano by Gero!, Dipl.-Ing. Gero Wolter, Leonhardstrasse 3, 38102 Braunschweig, gero[at]loungepiano.de.
References: eRecht24, Facebook Disclaimer, data protection declaration for Google Analytics, data protection declaration for Google Adsense, Google 1 conditions, data protection declaration for Twitter, Google Analytics, social plugins
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