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Information pursuant to § 5 TMG

Jakob Biehler
Rappenstockweg 1
79872 Bernau im Schwarzwald
Germany

Email: info@biehlerguitars.com
Phone: +49 157 36467145

Web design and development: Boran Biehler-Lee

Image credits
Photos: Henry Freitag, Jakob Biehler

Privacy Policy

1. Data Protection at a Glance

General Information
The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data means any data that can be used to personally identify you. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy listed below.

Data Collection on This Website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. The operator’s contact details can be found in the section “Information on the Responsible Party” in this privacy policy.

How do we collect your data?
Some data is collected when you provide it to us. This may include, for example, data that you enter into a contact form. Other data is collected automatically or after you have given your consent when you visit the website by our IT systems. This primarily concerns technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system, or time the page was accessed). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter this website.

What do we use your data for?
Some of the data is collected to ensure that the website is provided without errors. Other data may be used to analyze your user behavior. If contracts can be concluded or initiated via the website, the transmitted data will also be processed for contract offers, orders, or other customer inquiries.

What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right at any time to receive information free of charge about the origin, recipients, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data. If you have given your consent to data processing, you may revoke this consent at any time for the future. You also have the right, under certain circumstances, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. You can contact us at any time regarding this matter or any other questions relating to data protection.

2. Hosting

We host the content of our website with the following provider:
teuto.net Netzdienste GmbH

This website is hosted externally. The personal data collected on this website is stored on the servers of the hosting provider(s). This may include, in particular, IP addresses, contact requests, metadata and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website accesses, and other data generated via a website.

External hosting is carried out for the purpose of fulfilling contracts with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR) and in the interest of secure, fast, and efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). If consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and Section 25 para. 1 TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent may be revoked at any time.

Our hosting provider(s) will process your data only to the extent necessary to fulfill their service obligations and will follow our instructions regarding this data.

We use the following hosting provider:
teuto.net Netzdienste GmbH
Niedernstraße 26
D-33602 Bielefeld
Germany

Data Processing Agreement
We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) for the use of the above-mentioned service. This is a legally required data protection agreement that ensures that the provider processes the personal data of our website visitors only in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

3. General Information and Mandatory Information

Data Protection
The operators of these websites take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy. When you use this website, various types of personal data are collected. Personal data is information that can be used to personally identify you. This privacy policy explains which data we collect and for what purposes we use it. It also explains how and for what purpose this processing takes place.

Please note that data transmission over the internet (e.g. when communicating by email) may have security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties cannot be guaranteed.

Information on the Responsible Party
The party responsible for data processing on this website is:
Jakob Biehler
Rappenstockweg 1
79872 Bernau im Schwarzwald
Germany
Email: info@biehlerguitars.com

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, email addresses, or similar information).

Storage Duration
Unless a more specific storage period has been specified within this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for data processing no longer applies. If you submit a justified request for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g. tax or commercial law retention periods). In the latter case, deletion will take place after these reasons no longer apply.

General Information on the Legal Basis for Data Processing on This Website
If you have given your consent to data processing, we process your personal data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR or Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a GDPR, insofar as special categories of data are processed pursuant to Art. 9 para. 1 GDPR. In the event of explicit consent to the transfer of personal data to third countries, data processing is also carried out on the basis of Art. 49 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have consented to the storage of cookies or access to information on your device (e.g. via device fingerprinting), data processing is additionally carried out on the basis of Section 25 para. 1 TDDDG. Consent may be revoked at any time. If your data is required for contract fulfillment or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, we process your data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Furthermore, we process your data if this is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation, on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR. Data processing may also be carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Information on the specific legal bases applicable in individual cases is provided in the following sections of this privacy policy.

Recipients of Personal Data
As part of our business activities, we cooperate with various external parties. In some cases, it is necessary to transfer personal data to these external parties. We only disclose personal data to external parties if this is necessary for contract fulfillment, if we are legally obliged to do so (e.g. disclosure of data to tax authorities), if we have a legitimate interest in disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, or if another legal basis permits the transfer of data. When using data processors, we only disclose our customers’ personal data on the basis of a valid data processing agreement. In the event of joint processing, a joint processing agreement will be concluded.

Withdrawal of Your Consent to Data Processing
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may withdraw consent that has already been granted at any time. The lawfulness of data processing carried out until the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Right to Object to Data Collection in Special Cases and to Direct Marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)
IF DATA PROCESSING IS BASED ON ART. 6 PARA. 1 LIT. E OR F GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME, FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. The respective legal basis on which processing is based can be found in this privacy policy. If you object, we will no longer process your affected personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or unless the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims (objection pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR). If your personal data is processed for the purpose of direct advertising, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for such advertising purposes; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct marketing. If you object, your personal data will subsequently no longer be used for direct advertising purposes (objection pursuant to Art. 21 para. 2 GDPR).

Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority
In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement. The right to lodge a complaint is without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right to Data Portability
You have the right to receive data that we process automatically based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract, either for yourself or for a third party, in a commonly used and machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of data to another controller, this will only be carried out where technically feasible.

Access, Correction and Deletion
Within the framework of applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to receive free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of the data processing. You also have the right, where applicable, to request the correction or deletion of this data. For this purpose, as well as for any further questions regarding personal data, you can contact us at any time.

Right to Restriction of Processing
You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You can contact us at any time for this purpose. The right to restriction of processing applies in the following cases:

• If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we generally need time to verify this. For the duration of the review, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
• If the processing of your personal data was/is unlawful, you may request restriction of data processing instead of deletion.
• If we no longer need your personal data, but you require it for the exercise, defense, or assertion of legal claims, you have the right to request restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of deletion.
• If you have lodged an objection pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, your interests and our interests must be weighed against each other. As long as it has not yet been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to request restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, such data may — apart from storage — only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person, or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or a Member State.

4. Data Collection on This Website

Cookies
Our websites use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small data packets and do not cause any damage to your device. They are either stored temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (persistent cookies) on your device. Session cookies are automatically deleted after you leave the website. Persistent cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them yourself or they are automatically removed by your web browser.

Cookies may originate from us (first-party cookies) or from third-party companies (third-party cookies). Third-party cookies enable the integration of certain services from third-party companies within websites (e.g. cookies for processing payment services). Cookies have various functions. Many cookies are technically necessary because certain website functions would not work without them (e.g. shopping cart functionality or video display). Other cookies may be used to analyze user behavior or for advertising purposes.

Cookies that are required for carrying out electronic communication processes, providing certain functions requested by you (e.g. shopping cart functionality), or optimizing the website (e.g. cookies for measuring website traffic) (necessary cookies) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, unless another legal basis is specified. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing necessary cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. If consent has been requested for the storage of cookies and similar recognition technologies, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of this consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and Section 25 para. 1 TDDDG). Consent may be revoked at any time.

You can configure 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 your browser. If cookies are disabled, the functionality of this website may be restricted. If additional cookies and services are used on this website, these will be described in this privacy policy.

5. Plugins and Tools

YouTube with Enhanced Privacy Mode
This website embeds videos from the website YouTube. The operator of the website is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

When you visit one of our websites on which YouTube is integrated, a connection to YouTube’s servers is established. The YouTube server is informed which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

We use YouTube in enhanced privacy mode. According to YouTube, videos played in enhanced privacy mode are not used to personalize browsing behavior on YouTube. Advertisements displayed in enhanced privacy mode are also not personalized. No cookies are set in enhanced privacy mode. Instead, so-called Local Storage elements are stored in the user’s browser. Similar to cookies, these may contain personal data and can be used for recognition purposes.

Further information about enhanced privacy mode can be found here:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171780

After activating a YouTube video, additional data processing operations may be triggered over which we have no influence. The use of YouTube is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online services. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and Section 25 para. 1 TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent may be revoked at any time.

Further information about data protection at YouTube can be found in Google’s privacy policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

The company is certified under the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the United States intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards when processing data in the United States. Every company certified under the DPF undertakes to comply with these data protection standards. Further information can be obtained from the provider at:
https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780

Google Fonts
This website uses Google Fonts, a service for displaying fonts provided by Google Ireland Limited. When a page is accessed, your browser may load the required fonts directly from Google’s servers. During this process, your IP address may be transmitted to Google. The use of Google Fonts is intended to ensure a consistent and visually appealing presentation of the website. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The legitimate interest lies in the technically and aesthetically optimized presentation of the website.

Further information about Google Fonts can be found at:
https://fonts.google.com/
https://policies.google.com/privacy

Source:
https://www.datenschutzerklaerung.de