Data privacy policy
The use of our website is generally possible without providing personal data. Insofar as personal data (for example, name and e-mail addresses) are collected on our pages, this is always done, as far as possible, on a voluntary basis. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent, unless you have entered it in order to make it public.
Right to information, deletion, blocking
You have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, their origin and recipient and the purpose of data processing, as well as the right to correct, block or delete this data.
Use of forms
If you send us inquiries or information via the contact form or a cooperation form, the information you provide in the form, including the contact data you provide there, will be sent to us by mail and will not be stored on the website. We do not pass on this data without your consent.
The e-mail address and your name or the name of your company as well as the telephone number are used to contact you and to answer the message sent to us. Access to the personal data stored within the scope of this offer is only possible for the persons who are responsible for the technical or editorial maintenance of the website. Your data will be deleted after the successfully processed request, but no later than 1 month after sending the form.
Cookies
The internet pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, more effective and safer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted after the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.
Server log files
This website is located on a server in Germany. 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 / browser version
Operating system used
referrer URL
Host name of the accessing computer
Time of the server request
This data cannot be assigned to specific persons. This data is not merged with other data sources. The information is stored for error analysis and we do not have direct access to it.
Use of YouTube
Our website uses plugins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.
If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
For more information on the handling of user data, please see YouTube’s privacy policy at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
Privacy Policy Open Street Map
Some pages on this website contain maps provided by the OpenStreetMap Foundation, 132 Maney Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B72 1JU, United Kingdom. OpenStreetMap is an open source mapping tool. The integration of the map on our website is done by means of an iframe or by retrieving the so-called tiles (map images) from the provider’s server. As a result, your IP address is transmitted to the Openstreetmap server. Furthermore, a session cookie is set (for information on cookies, see above in this privacy policy).
When integrating the map data, we invoke Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO, i.e. as a website operator, we have a legitimate interest in improving the user-friendliness of our website.
Information on data protection and legal conditions at Openstreetmap can be found under the following links.
https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Pri … y#Map_Data
https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Lic … _Legal_FAQ
Google Web Fonts
This site uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google’s servers. This enables Google to know that our website has been accessed via your IP address. Google Web Fonts are used in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.
For more information on Google Web Fonts, please visit https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and see Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Privacy policy for the use of Matomo
This website uses the open source web analytics service Matomo. Matomo is installed on our server in Hamburg and uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and allow an analysis of your use of the website. For this purpose, the information generated by the cookie about the use of this website is stored on our server. The IP address is anonymized before storage.
The information generated by the cookie about the use of this website will not be disclosed to third parties. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
If you do not agree to the storage and use of your data, you can deactivate the storage and use here. In this case, an opt-out cookie will be stored in your browser that prevents Matomo from storing usage data. If you delete your cookies, the Matomo opt-out cookie will also be deleted. The opt-out must be reactivated when you visit our site again.
Change of our privacy policy
We reserve the right to change our security and data protection measures as far as this becomes necessary due to technical developments. In these cases, we will also adapt our data protection information accordingly. Please therefore refer to the current version of our data protection statement.
Right to information and right to object
We will be happy to provide you with information about the data we have stored about you or to accept your requests for blocking, deletion or correction. You can revoke your consent to the collection and storage of your personal data by us at any time free of charge.
Right to complain to a supervisory authority
Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, every data subject shall have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of his or her residence, place of work or the place of the alleged infringement, if the data subject considers that the processing of personal data relating to him or her infringes this Regulation.
State Data Protection Commissioner Berlin
Friedrichstr. 219
10969 Berlin
Visitor entrance:
Puttkamerstr. 16-18
Phone: +49 30 13889-0
Fax: +49 30 2155050
E-mail: mailbox@datenschutz-berlin.de
The supervisory authority to which the complaint has been submitted shall inform the complainant of the status and outcome of the complaint, including the possibility of a judicial remedy under Article 78.
Questions for the data protection officer
If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an e-mail or contact our data protection officer directly: Diana Ebel,
Mail: datenschutz@life-online.de
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