Privacy policy

1. Information about the collection of personal data

   (1) In the following, we inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, ex: name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.

   (2) The responsible person pursuant to Article 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO) is Sven Bauhaus, Dahlweg 120a, 48153 Münster, Germany, e-mail: post@svenbauhaus.de (see our imprint). You can reach our data protection officer at the above mail address or our postal address with the addition "the data protection officer".

   (3) When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, name and telephone number, if applicable) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data accruing in this context after the storage is no longer necessary or restrict the processing if there are legal retention obligations.

   (4) If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below. In doing so, we will also state the defined criteria for the storage period.

2. Your rights
   

   (1) You have the following rights vis-à-vis us with regard to the personal data concerning you:

   • Right to information,
   • Right to correction or deletion,
   • Right to restriction of processing,
   • Right to object to processing,
   • right to data portability.

   (2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

    

3. Collection of personal data when visiting our website

   (1) In the case of merely informative use of the website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure its stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DS-GVO):

   • IP address
   • Date and time of the request
   • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
   • Content of the request (specific page)
   • Access status/HTTP status code
   • Amount of data transferred in each case
   • Website from which the request comes
   • Browser
   • Operating system and its interface
   • Language and version of the browser software.

   (2) In addition to the data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive associated with the browser you are using and through which the entity that sets the cookie (in this case by us) receives certain information. Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet offer as a whole more user-friendly and effective.

   (3) Use of cookies:

   (a) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functioning of which are explained below:

   Transient cookies (for this purpose b)

   Persistent cookies (c).

   • b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include, in particular, session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests of your browser can be assigned to the common session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.
   • c) Persistent cookies are deleted automatically after a specified period of time, which may differ depending on the cookie. You can delete the cookies in the security settings of your browser at any time.
   • d) You can configure your browser settings according to your preferences and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.

     

4. Further functions and offers of our website

   (1) In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. For this purpose, you will usually have to provide further personal data, which we use to provide the respective service and for which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.

   (2) In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored.

   (3) Furthermore, we may pass on your personal data to third parties if we offer participation in promotions, competitions, conclusion of contracts or similar services together with partners. You will receive more information on this when you provide your personal data or below in the description of the offer.

   (4) If our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you about the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the offer.

    

5. Objection or revocation against the processing of your data

   (1) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you may revoke this consent at any time. Such revocation affects the permissibility of the processing of your personal data after you have expressed it to us.

   (2) Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balance of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary, specifically, for the performance of a contract with you, which is shown by us in each case in the following description of the functions. When exercising such an objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified objection, we will review the situation and either discontinue or adjust the data processing or show you our compelling reasons worthy of protection on the basis of which we will continue the processing.

   (3) Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for purposes of advertising and data analysis at any time. You can inform us of your advertising objection using the following contact details: [all contact details].

    

6. Privacy policy for the contact form

   The personal data that you provide to us as part of this contact request will only be used to respond to your inquiry or contact and for the associated technical administration. The data will not be passed on to third parties.

   You have the right to revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. In this case, your personal data will be deleted immediately.

   Your personal data will also be deleted without your revocation if we have processed your request or if you revoke the consent granted here for storage. This also happens if the storage is inadmissible for other legal reasons.

   You can obtain information about the data stored about you at any time.

   Detailed information on data protection and the handling of personal data can be found in the general privacy policy of this website.

    

7. Integration of Google Maps

   (1) On this website we use the offer of Google Maps. This allows us to display interactive maps directly on the website and enables you to conveniently use the map function.

   (2) By visiting the website, Google receives the information that you have called up the corresponding sub-page of our website. In addition, the data mentioned under § 3 of this declaration are transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether there is no user account. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be directly assigned to your account. If you do not want the assignment with your profile at Google, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its website. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact Google to exercise this right.

   (3) For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider, please refer to the provider’s privacy policy. There you will also find further information on your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

8. Analysis by Matomo
   

   We use the analysis software Matomo (formerly Piwik) on our pages.

   Through special settings, this installation waives the use of persistent cookies. Any collection of your IP address is done anonymously and does not allow any conclusion about your identity.

   If you have set a do-not-track setting in your browser, this will of course be considered.