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Privacy policy

We are very pleased to welcome you on our website and want to thank you very much for your interest in our services. The protection of your privacy while using this page is very important to us. Therefore the following page will notify you about the collection and usage of personal data.

Responsibility

Responsible controller in accordance with the data protection laws and regulations, in particular the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), is:

KEY MESSAGE Thomas Wree
Wildentenweg 9a
86938 Schondorf am Ammersee
Germany

Your rights as the data subject

You can always exercise the following rights under the contact details of our data protection officer:

  • Information about your personal data stored at us and their respective processing,
  • correction of incorrect personal data,
  • deletion of your stored personal data,
  • restriction of the data processing, if we are not yet allowed to delete your personal data due to legal obligations,
  • objection to the processing of your personal data by us, and
  • data portability, if you have consented to the processing of your personal data or have concluded a contract with us.

If you have given us your consent, you can withdraw it at any time with effect for the future. You can always contact the supervisory authority responsible for you with a complaint. Your responsible supervisory authority will depend on the state of your domicile, work or alleged violation. A list of supervisory authorities (non-public area) with addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Purposes of processing by the controller and third parties

We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this data privacy statement. A transfer of your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those mentioned does not take place. We only transfer your personal information to third parties if:

  • You have given your express consent,
  • the processing is required to complete a contract with you,
  • the processing is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation,
  • processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests and there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not disclosing your personal data.

Deletion or restriction of personal data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. Therefore, we only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes mentioned here or as provided for by the various legal retention periods. After fulfilling the respective purpose or expiration of these deadlines, the corresponding personal data will routinely be blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.

Collection of general information when visiting our website

When you access our website, a cookie automatically records general information. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider and information alike. This is only information that does not allow conclusions about your person.

This information is technically necessary to correctly deliver the contents of websites requested by you and is mandatory when using the internet. They are processed in particular for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring a frictionle connection setup of the website,
  • ensuring a frictionless usage of our website,
  • evaluation of system security and stability, and
  • for further administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest for the aforementioned purposes of data collection. We do not use your information to draw conclusions about you. The recipient of the data is only the controller and possibly the processor. Anonymous information of this kind may be statistically evaluated by us to optimize our website and the underlying technology.

Cookies

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

Cookies can not be used to launch programs or to transfer viruses to a computer. Based on the information contained in cookies, we can facilitate navigation and enable the correct display of our websites.

In no case will the personal data collected by us be transferred to third parties or a link with personal data will be established 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 disable the use of cookies at any time through the settings of your browser. Please use the help features of your internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that some features of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (following: Google). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, ie text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on these websites, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US 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 related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

The purposes of the data processing are the evaluation of the use of the website and the compilation of reports on activities on the website. Based on the use of the website and the Internet, other related services will be provided. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible. In addition, you may prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install: 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 the collection by Google Analytics for this website and for this browser in the future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

Changes to our data privacy regulations

We reserve the right to amend this data privacy statement to always comply with the latest legal requirements or to implement changes to our services subject to the data privacy statement, e.g. introduction of new services. Your new visit will be subject to the new data privacy statement.

Questions to the data privacy officer

If you have any privacy concerns, please email us or contact the person responsible for data privacy in our organization: info@key-message.com