General and mandatory information

Information on responsibility
The agency responsible for data processing on this website is:

Skupin Design GmbH
Frederick Skupin
Gutenbergstrasse 48
D-41564  Kaarst
Germany

The responsible agency shall decide, alone or together with other people, about the purposes for and methods of processing personal data (e.g., name, contact data etc.).

Revoking your consent to data processing

A number of the data processing procedures are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke the consent you have already provided at any time. In order to do so, all that is necessary on your part is an informal notification by email. The legality of any data processing prior to this date shall not be affected by this revocation.
Whatever the case, as the affected party, you are definitely entitled to complain to the responsible supervisory body. The supervisory body responsible for questions relating to data protection is the state data protection officer for the federal state in which our company has its registered offices. The following link provides a list of data protection officers and their contact details: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to data transferability

You are entitled to have the data about you that we process automatically on the basis of your agreement or in order to fulfill a contract surrendered to you or to third parties. This data shall be provided in a machine-readable format. If you have requested for the data in question to be transferred directly to another responsible party this will only be effected if it is technically feasible.

SSL or TLS encryption

For reasons of safety and the protection of any confidential content that you send to us as site operators our website uses either SSL or TLS encryption. This means that the data that you transmit via this website cannot be read by third parties. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the “https://” address line in your browser and by the padlock symbol in the browser line.
Server log files
In server log files the provider of the website automatically collects and stores information which your browser automatically transfers to us. This is:
Browser type and browser version
Operating system used
Referrer URL
Host name of the accessing computer
Time of server inquiry
IP address
This data will not be merged with other data sources. The data in question is processed on the basis of art. 6 para. 1 lit. b of DSGVO, the German Data Protection Regulation, which regulates the processing of contracts or pre-contractual measures.

YouTube

in order to integrate or display video content our website uses YouTube plug-ins. The provider of this video portal is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
When you retrieve a site with an integrated YouTube plug-in a connection is established with the YouTube server. This informs YouTube of which of our sites you have retrieved.
YouTube can relate your surfing pattern directly to your personal profile. By logging out beforehand, you have the option of preventing this.
The purpose of using YouTube is to make for an appealing presentation of our Internet services. This represents a justifiable interest in the sense of art. 6 para. 1 lit. f of DSGVO, the German Data Protection Regulation.
You can find details of the way we treat user data in YouTube’s data privacy statement on: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. These are little text files which your web browser stores on your terminal. Cookies help us to make what we offer more user-friendly, effective and secure.
A number of cookies are “session cookies”. Such cookies remain on your terminal until you yourself delete them. Such cookies help us to recognize you when you visit our website again.
With a modern web browser you can monitor cookie settings, restrict them or block them. Many web browsers can be configured in such a way that cookies delete themselves when you close the program. Deactivating cookies can restrict the functionality of our website.
Cookies that are set in order to perform electronic communication functions or to provide certain functions that you require (e.g., shopping baskets) do what they do on the basis of art. 6 para. 1 lit. f of DSGVO, the German Data Protection Regulation. As the provider of this website, we have a justified interest in setting cookies to ensure that the services we provide are free of technical defects and function smoothly. If other cookies are set (e.g., for analysis purposes) these will be handled separately in thisdata privacy statement.

Google Analytics

Our website uses functions provided by the online analytics service provider Google Analytics. The provider of this web-based analytics service is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics users “cookies”. These are little text files that your web browser stores on your terminal and that allow your use of the website to be analyzed. Information about your use of our website produced by means of cookies is communicated to one of Google’s servers and stored there. As a rule, Google’s servers are located in the United States.
Google Analytics cookies are set on the basis of art. 6 para. 1 lit. f of DSGVO, the German Data Protection Regulation. As the providers of this website, we have a justified interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize the information it provides and, if necessary, the advertising on it.

IP Anonymization

We use Google Analytics in combination with the function IP anonymization. This ensures that Google shortens your IP address for IP addresses within member states of the European Union or for other states that are signatories to the Abkommen über den Europäischen Wirtschaftsraum vor der Übermittlung in die USA (??) Exceptional cases may exist in which Google communicates the entire IP address to a server in the United States and only then shortens this address. Google uses this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, in order to produce reports on website activities, and to perform other services for us connected with website use and Internet use. The IP address transmitted by Google Analytics will not be collated with other Google data.

Browser Plugins

Your web browser can be prevented from setting cookies. However, this might restrict a number of our website’s functions. You can also prevent not only the gathering of data relating to your website use including your IP address, but also their processing by Google. This is possible if you use the following link to download and install the following browser plugin:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Objection to Data Gathering

You can prevent Google Analytics from gathering data relating to you by clicking on the following link. This sets an opt-out cookie which prevents your data from being gathered when you visit our site in future: Deactivate Google Analytics.
Details of how Google Analytics handles user-related data are available from Google’s data privacy statement: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Processing of Data

We have signed an agreement with Google about data processing in order to completely meet the statutory data protection regulations.
Demographic features with Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics’ function “demographic features”. This allows us to produce reports containing information about the age, sex and interests of visitors to the site. These data are derived from interest-related advertising by Google and from the visitor data from third-party vendors. It is not possible to relate this data to any particular person. You can deactivate this function at any time. This is possible using the advertising settings in your Google account or if you generally prevent your data from being gathered by Google Analytics as explained in the section “Objection to Data Gathering”.