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Privacy Policy

The responsible party within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Jörg Nachtwein

Your rights as a data subject

Using the contact details of our data protection officer provided below, you may exercise the following rights at any time:

  • Information about your data stored with us and its processing,
  • Rectification of inaccurate personal data,
  • Erasure of your data stored with us,
  • Restriction of data processing, where we are not yet permitted to erase your data due to legal obligations,
  • Objection to the processing of your data by us, and
  • Data portability, provided you have consented to data processing or have entered into a contract with us.

If you have provided us with consent, you may withdraw it at any time with effect for the future.

You may at any time lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for you. The competent supervisory authority depends on the federal state of your residence, place of work or the alleged infringement. A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Purposes of data processing by the responsible party and third parties

We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those stated. We only share your personal data with third parties if:

  • you have given your explicit consent,
  • processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you,
  • processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation,

processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in the non-disclosure of your data.

Deletion and blocking of data

We adhere to the principles of data minimisation and storage limitation. We therefore store your personal data only for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here, or for as long as the various storage periods prescribed by law require. After the relevant purpose ceases to apply or upon expiry of these periods, the corresponding data is routinely blocked or erased in accordance with statutory provisions.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we also use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files transferred from a website server to your hard drive. This allows us to automatically receive certain data such as IP address, browser used, operating system and your connection to the Internet.

Cookies cannot be used to launch programmes or transfer viruses to a computer. The information contained in cookies enables us to facilitate navigation and to ensure the correct display of our web pages.

Under no circumstances will the data we collect be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.

Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings. Please use the help functions of your internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that some functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

Registration on our website

When registering to use our personalised services, some personal data is collected, such as name, address, contact and communication data such as telephone number and email address. If you are registered with us, you can access content and services that we offer exclusively to registered users. Registered users also have the option of changing or deleting the data provided at registration at any time. We will of course also provide you with information about the personal data we have stored about you at any time. We will gladly correct or delete this data at your request, provided no statutory retention obligations stand in the way. Please use the contact details provided at the end of this privacy policy to get in touch in this regard.

SSL encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Comment function

When users leave comments on our website, in addition to this information, the time of their creation and the username previously chosen by the website visitor are also stored. This serves our security, as we can be held liable for unlawful content on our website, even if it was created by users.

Use of Google Maps

This website uses the Google Maps API to visually display geographic information. When using Google Maps, Google also collects, processes and uses data about the use of the map functions by visitors. Further information on data processing by Google can be found in Google’s privacy policy. There you can also change your personal privacy settings in the Privacy Centre.

Detailed instructions on managing your own data in connection with Google products can be found here.

Embedded YouTube videos

On some of our web pages we embed YouTube videos. The operator of the relevant plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube’s servers is established. YouTube is informed which pages you visit. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can associate your browsing behaviour with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

When a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behaviour.

Anyone who has deactivated the storage of cookies for the Google Ad programme will not have to expect such cookies when watching YouTube videos either. However, YouTube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you wish to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in your browser.

Further information on data protection at YouTube can be found in the provider’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

reCAPTCHA

In order to ensure adequate data security when submitting forms, we use the reCAPTCHA service provided by Google Inc. in certain cases. This serves primarily to distinguish whether input is made by a natural person or abusively by automated processing. The service includes the transmission of the IP address and, if applicable, other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service. The separate privacy policy of Google Inc. applies. Further information on the privacy policy of Google Inc. can be found at https://www.google.de/intl/de/privacy or https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. Your next visit will then be governed by the new privacy policy.

Questions to the data protection officer

If you have questions about data protection, please send us an email or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organisation directly:

Contact: privacy-policy@topcat-community.com

This privacy policy was created using the privacy policy generator of activeMind AG.