data protection.

Privacy statement

Responsible authority in the sense of the data protection laws, in particular the EU data protection basic regulation (DSGVO), is:

Spirit for Brands Markenberatung GmbH

Im Klapperhof 33

50670 Cologne, Germany

 

T. +49.221.474 438 - 0

M. info@spiritforbrands.com

Your rights of data subjects

You can exercise the following rights at any time:

Information about your data stored with us and their processing,

Correction of incorrect personal data,

Deletion of your data stored with us,

Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations,

Objection against the processing of your data by us and

Data transferability if you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us.

If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time.

You may at any time lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for you. Your responsible supervisory authority depends on the federal state of your residence, your work or the presumed violation. A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found here.

Purposes of data processing by the data controller and third parties

We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this data protection declaration. Your personal data will not be transmitted to third parties for purposes other than those mentioned. We will only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

you have given your express consent to this,

the processing is necessary to process a contract with you,

the processing is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation,

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

Collection of general information when you visit our website

When you access our pages, general information is automatically collected. This information includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider and the like. This is only information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.

This information is technically necessary for the correct delivery of content requested by you from websites and is mandatory when using the Internet. In particular, they shall be processed for the following purposes:

Ensuring a trouble-free connection to the website,

Ensuring the smooth use of our website,

Evaluation of system safety and stability as well as

for other administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest in the aforementioned purposes of data collection. We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person.  Anonymous information of this kind may be statistically evaluated by us in order to optimize our Internet presence and the technology behind it.

Cookies

This website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard drive. This automatically provides us with certain data such as IP address, browser used, operating system and your connection to the Internet. Cookies cannot be used to start programs or transfer viruses to a computer. The information contained in cookies enables us to make navigation easier for you and to display our web pages correctly. Under no circumstances will the data collected by us 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 the settings of your browser. Please use the help functions of your Internet browser to learn how to change these settings. Please note that some functions of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.

SSL encryption

In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption procedures (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Contact form

If you contact us with any questions by e-mail or contact form, give us your voluntary consent for the purpose of contacting. For this purpose it is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address. This is used to assign the query and then answer it. The specification of further data is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing your inquiry and for possible follow-up questions.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (following: Google). Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on these web pages, Google will previously shorten your IP address within Member States of the European Union or in other Contracting States to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google.

The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on activities on the website. On the basis of the use of the website and the Internet, further connected services are to be provided. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, how-ever please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this web-site. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: Browser Add On to disable Google Analytics.

In addition or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our pages by clicking this link. An opt-out cookie will be installed on your device. This will prevent Google Analytics from collecting cookies for this website and for this browser in the future as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

Cocial plugins

In the case of digital offers, so-called social plugins may be used by the social networks Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Xing. These features allow you to share or recommend content with your friends on social networks.

When using these social plugins such as Facebook Like-Button, LinkedIn, Twitter or Xing, personal data can be collected from the respective social network as described below.

If you call up a digital offer in which a social plugin is integrated, the social network immediately establishes a direct connection with your browser. This gives the social network, among other things, the information that you have visited this website with your IP address / device ID. This happens regardless of whether you are currently logged in to the social network or registered at all.

If you are logged in to the respective social network at the same time, the social network automatically assigns your page request to your profile. Even if you activate the respective social plugins and, for example, recommend articles and content, the social network can assign this information to your profile. If you do not wish the social network to assign your visit to our web-sites to your respective user account, log out of the respective network when using our digital services.

We would like to point out that the data collected in connection with the social plugins is only exchanged between your browser and the operator of the social networks. We have no knowledge of the content of the collected and provided data. Against this background, we recommend that you read the current data protection information of the social network operators listed below.

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always corresponds to the current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services. Your renewed visit will then be subject to the new data protection declaration.