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Responsible for the website:

Matthias Lutz

Berliner Allee 158

13088 Berlin

0176/34474920

circlesingingberlin@gmx.de

Data protection

With this data protection declaration we would like to inform you about the type, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data (hereinafter also referred to as "data"). Personal data are all data that are personally related to you, e.g. B. Name, address, email address or your user behavior. The data protection declaration applies to all data processing operations carried out by us, both as part of our core activity and for our Internet presence, social media presence and for the mobile applications we offer.

Who is responsible for data processing with us

Responsible for data processing is:

Matthias Lutz
Berliner Allee 158
13088 Berlin
Germany
0176/34474920
circlesingingberlin@gmx.de
https://www.vonohrzuohr.de/impressum

Processing of your data as part of the core activity of our company

We process your personal data transferred to us within the framework of the contractual and pre-contractual relationships that exist between us. The scope, type, purpose and necessity of the processing depend on the respective underlying contractual relationship. For this purpose, we save and process your data in the computer systems we use. The data processed by us includes all data that were provided by you for the purpose of using the contractual or pre-contractual services and are required to process your request or the contract concluded between us.

This can include, in particular, the following data:

  • name and adress

  • Email address and phone number

  • Contract data

  • Payment details.

The processing is limited to those data that are necessary and expedient to answer inquiries and / or to fulfill a contract concluded between you and us. Personal data will only be passed on to third parties if this is necessary for the purpose of providing the service or in the context of the organization of our company for the processing of financial accounting and compliance with legal obligations. In this case, only those data will be transferred to external service providers that are necessary and expedient to fulfill the contract or to process financial accounting and to comply with legal obligations. The processing by us takes place in accordance with your instructions or the legal provisions. Legal basis: The processing of your personal data as well as the transfer to third parties takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR and serves to fulfill the contract between you and us. Otherwise, we only pass on data to third parties if there is a legal obligation to do so, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c) GDPR or if there is a legitimate interest in this, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit f. GDPR. This is the case, for example, if this is necessary to pursue our claims. Deletion: Your data will be deleted as soon as the data is no longer required to fulfill contractual or statutory welfare obligations and to deal with any warranty and comparable obligations. The statutory retention requirements remain unaffected by this.

Web hosting

We use an Internet service provider to maintain our online presence, on whose server the website is stored (hosting) and who makes our website available on the Internet. The internet service provider processes contact data, content data, contract data, usage data, inventory data as well as meta and communication data on our behalf. Name and address of the Internet service provider: wix.com 40 Namal Tel Aviv St., Israel You can view its data protection provisions here: https://de.wix.com/about/privacy The Internet service provider is based outside of the EU. It is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus offers a guarantee that it will comply with European data protection law. Legal basis: The internet service provider processes the aforementioned data on our behalf, Art. 28 GDPR. The data processing takes place on the basis of our legitimate interest in an efficient and secure provision of our website, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

If you only use our website for information purposes, our Internet service provider only collects the personal data that the browser you are using transmits to its server. These are the following data:

  • IP address

  • the date and time of access to our website

  • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

  • Access status (HTTP status)

  • the amount of data transferred

  • the internet service provider of the accessing system

  • the type of browser you are using and its version

  • the operating system you are using

  • the website from which you may have accessed our website

  • the pages or sub-pages that you visit on our website.

The aforementioned data are stored as log files on the servers of our Internet service provider. This is necessary in order to be able to display the website on the device you are using and to ensure stability and security. Our legitimate interest in data processing lies in the above purposes. Legal basis: The data processing takes place on the basis of our legitimate interest in an efficient and secure provision of our website, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Duration: The above data for the provision of our website are stored for a period of 7 days and then deleted.

Information on the contact options we have available

Insofar as you address us via e-mail, social media, telephone, fax, post, our contact form or in any other way and provide us with personal data such as your name, your telephone number or your e-mail address or other information about yourself or Make your request, this data will be stored and further processed in our company to process your request. Legal basis: If you make your request within the framework of contractual or pre-contractual relationships with us, the legal basis for processing your data is Article 6 (1) lit. b. GDPR. If your request does not fall under one of the aforementioned categories, our legitimate interest in the processing of your data lies in responding to your request properly and in your interests, Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Deletion: The personal data collected by us will be deleted if they are no longer required. We review the requirement every 2 years. You can also revoke data processing at any time.

Newsletter

We send out a newsletter at regular intervals to inform our customers, business partners and interested parties about our offers and related news. You have the option of registering for our newsletter on our website and consenting to receive the newsletter as part of the registration process. When you register for our newsletter, it is mandatory to provide your email address. We save the email address so that we can send you the newsletter. The provision of further data such as title or name is voluntary and is used in order to be able to address you personally. As soon as you register for our newsletter, you will receive a confirmation e-mail to the e-mail address stored when you registered using the so-called double opt-in procedure. This email contains a link. If you click on this link, you confirm that you want to receive the newsletter. This ensures that your email address has not been misused by a third party when you registered. For the same reason, we save the date and time of registration and the IP address assigned to you when you registered. We do not pass on the aforementioned data to third parties. Legal basis: The legal basis for processing your data is Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. Deletion: The email address is deleted either if you have not clicked on the confirmation link 1 month after sending the confirmation email using the double opt-in procedure, or immediately after you have unsubscribed from our newsletter. Revocation: You can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. We offer the following options by which you can declare your revocation:

  • Click on the link provided for this in the newsletter

  • through the contact details provided in the imprint of our website

Shipping by shipping service provider

We have commissioned the following shipping service provider to send our newsletter: wix.com, 40 Namal Tel Aviv Street, Israel. You can view its data protection provisions here: https://de.wix.com/about/privacy. The shipping service provider is based outside the EU. It is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus offers a guarantee that it will comply with European data protection law. The dispatch service provider can use your data in pseudonymous form, ie without assignment to a user, to optimize or improve its own services, e.g. for the technical optimization of dispatch and the presentation of the newsletter or for statistical purposes. However, the shipping service provider is not entitled to write to you itself or to pass on your data to third parties. Legal basis: The shipping service provider works for us on the basis of our legitimate interests in the proper dispatch of the newsletter in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit.f GDPR and within the framework of an order processing contract in accordance with Art. 28 Para. 3 S. 1 GDPR.

Evaluation of user behavior

If you have consented to this, we will evaluate your user behavior when sending the newsletter. For this purpose, our newsletter contains tracking pixels and tracking links. This enables us to see whether and when you have opened the newsletter and whether and which links you have clicked on in the newsletter. Purpose: We evaluate the newsletter as described above in order to be able to measure a statistical evaluation of the success or failure of our newsletter. Legal basis: The legal basis for processing your data is Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. Prevention: You can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time using the options given above. Deletion: We delete your data after you have revoked it.

Your rights under the GDPR

According to the GDPR, you have the following rights, which you can assert at any time from the person responsible named in Section 1 of this data protection declaration:

  • Right to information: According to Art. 15 GDPR, you can request confirmation as to whether and which personal data we are processing from you. In addition, you can free information from us about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the right to correction, deletion, restriction of processing or objection , the existence of a right to lodge a complaint and the origin of your data, unless we have collected them. You also have a right to information as to whether your personal data has been transmitted to a third country or to an international organization. If this is the case, you have the right to receive information about the appropriate guarantees in connection with the transmission.

  • Right to correction: According to Art. 16 GDPR, you can request the correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us and concerning you.

  • Right to deletion: According to Art. 17 GDPR, you have the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless we need their processing for the following purposes:

    • to fulfill a legal obligation,

    • to assert, exercise or defend legal claims,

    • to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information or

    • for reasons of the cases of public interest mentioned in Art. 17 Para. 3 lit c and d GDPR.

  • Right to restriction: According to Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted if

    • the correctness of the data is contested by you for a period that enables us to check the correctness of the personal data,

    • the processing of your data is unlawful, but you refuse to delete it and instead request that the use of the data be restricted,

    • we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of processing, but you need the data to assert, exercise or defend legal claims

    • You have objected to the processing of your data in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR, but it has not yet been determined whether the legitimate reasons that entitle us to further processing despite your objection outweigh your rights.

  • Right to information: If you have asserted the right to correction, deletion or restriction of processing against us, we are obliged to inform all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you has been disclosed of the correction or deletion of the data requested by you or their Notification of the restriction of processing, unless this proves to be impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed by us about these recipients.

  • Right to data portability: In accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, you can request that we receive the personal data relating to you that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or request that it be transmitted to another person responsible.

  • Right to lodge a complaint: According to Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. For this you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence, your place of work or our company headquarters.

Right of withdrawal

According to Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR, you have the right to revoke your consent to the processing of your data at any time. The revocation you have declared does not change the legality of the processing of your personal data up to the point of revocation.

Right to object

For reasons that arise from your particular situation, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data, which is based on a weighing of interests (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit.f GDPR). This is especially the case if the data processing is not necessary to fulfill a contract. If you make use of your right of objection, we ask you to explain the reasons. We will then no longer process your personal data unless we can prove to you that there are compelling legitimate reasons for data processing that outweigh your interests and rights.

Regardless of the above, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes at any time.

Please send your objection to the contact address given above for the person responsible.

Deletion of data

We delete the data we have collected if the consent given to us for data processing is withdrawn or the data processing is no longer covered by the statutory permit norms, for example because the purpose of the processing no longer applies. However, if this data has to be kept for other purposes because this is necessary for tax retention periods or the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims or the data is used to protect the rights of another natural or legal person, we limit the processing of the data on these purposes. Further information on the deletion of the data we have collected can be found in the individual data protection notices.

YouTube

We use YouTube on this website. The use of YouTube enables us to embed various videos and clips that are made available on the Internet platform www.youtube.de . After a page or subpage of our website is called up on which such embedding has taken place, the Internet browser you are using is prompted to play video components of the respective embedded video or clip. During your visit to our website and its sub-pages, both YouTube and Google are informed about which page or sub-page you have accessed by transmitting your IP address to Google's external servers in the USA. This information is transmitted regardless of whether the videos or clips displayed are actually viewed or clicked on, or whether you are logged into your YouTube or Google account. This information is collected and assigned to your Google account if you are logged in to it during your visit.

We would like to point out that if you use YouTube, the data specified below can be transferred to servers outside the European Union and processed. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection stipulated by the GDPR will not be complied with and that your rights will not be able to be enforced or can only be enforced with difficulty.

Affected data:

  • Inventory and contact details (e.g. name, address, telephone number, email address)

  • Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos)

  • Usage data (e.g. access times, websites clicked on)

  • Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address).

Purpose of processing: communication and marketing, tracking and analysis of user behavior

Legal basis: If you have been asked for your consent to data processing by one of the providers listed below, the legal basis for processing is Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. Otherwise, your data is processed on the basis of our legitimate interests in contacting you and communicating with you, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f. GDPR.

Opposition options: For information on the respective options for objection (opt-out), please refer to the information provided by the provider linked below. You can also prevent the data transfer at any time by logging out of your YouTube account, or by clicking on the following link https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated after logging into your Google account by clicking the logout button an opt-out cookie put.

Information on the third party provider: YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA. Headquarters within the EU: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001.

Data protection declaration: https://policies.google.com/privacy .

Google Maps

We use components from Google Maps on our website. Geographic information is displayed visually using Google Maps. Here, Google collects and processes the visitor's IP address. This is transmitted to Google regardless of whether you are actually using Google Maps or whether you are logged into your Google account. Your IP address will be assigned to your Google account if you are logged into it when you visit our website.

We would like to point out that if you use Google Maps, the data specified below can be transferred to servers outside the European Union and processed. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection stipulated by the GDPR will not be complied with and that your rights will not be able to be enforced or can only be enforced with difficulty.

Affected data:

• Usage data (e.g. access times, websites clicked on)

• Location data

• Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)

Processing purpose: Provision of our online offer as well as needs-based advertising, optimization of user-friendliness, improvement of service, market research.

Legal basis: If you have been asked for your consent to data processing by one of the providers listed below, the legal basis for processing is Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. In addition, the processing of your data takes place on the basis of our legitimate interests (in particular the interest in efficient, economical and recipient-friendly services) according to Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit.

Opposition options: For information on the respective options for objection (opt-out), please refer to the information provided by the provider linked below. Opt-Out-Plugin: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Third party information:

Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Data protection declaration: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google Web Fonts

We use the "Google Web Fonts" service on our website. This enables us to integrate the display of external fonts (web fonts) into the design of our website and to output them correctly when the website is displayed. This gives us certain design options with which we want to make the design of our website more user-friendly. The integration of these web fonts takes place via a server call. From this server, the fonts are passed on to your browser in compressed form and unpacked there. This server is regularly located in the USA. If you visit one of our pages on which we integrate Google Fonts, it will be transmitted to Google which of our websites you have visited. In addition, the IP address of the browser of the visitor's device is saved by Google.

Affected data:

• Usage data (e.g. access times, websites clicked on)
• Communication data (for example information about the device used, IP address).

Purpose of processing: Provision of our online offer and optimization of user-friendliness.

Legal basis: If you have been asked for your consent to data processing by one of the providers listed below, the legal basis for processing is Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. In addition, the processing of your data takes place on the basis of our legitimate interests (in particular the interest in efficient, economical and recipient-friendly services) according to Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit.

Third party information:

Google Web Fonts is a service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Headquarters within the EU: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001.

Data protection declaration: https://policies.google.com/privacy .

Our online presence on social networks

We operate online presences within the social networks listed below. If you visit one of these presences, the data listed below will be collected and processed by the respective provider. As a rule, this data is collected for advertising and market research purposes and usage profiles are created. In the usage profiles, data can be saved regardless of the device you are using. This is particularly the case if you are a member of the respective platform and logged in to it. The usage profiles can be used by the providers to show you interest-based advertising. You have a right of withdrawal against the creation of user profiles. In order to exercise this, you must contact the respective provider.

If you have an account with one of the providers listed below and are logged in there when you visit our website, the respective provider can collect data about your usage behavior on our website. To prevent your data from being linked in this way, you can log out of the provider's service before visiting our website.

For what purpose and to what extent data is collected by the provider, you can refer to the respective data protection declarations of the providers, which are communicated below.

We would like to point out that your user data can be transferred and processed outside of the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection stipulated by the GDPR will not be complied with and that your rights will not be able to be enforced or can only be enforced with difficulty.

Affected data:

  • Inventory and contact details (e.g. name, address, telephone number, email address)

  • Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos)

  • Usage data (e.g. access times, websites clicked on)

  • Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address).

Purpose of processing: communication and marketing, tracking and analysis of user behavior

Legal basis: If you have been asked for your consent to data processing by one of the providers listed below, the legal basis for processing is Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. Otherwise, your data is processed on the basis of our legitimate interests in contacting you and communicating with you, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f. GDPR.

Opposition options: For information on the respective options for objection (opt-out), please refer to the information provided by the provider linked below.

We maintain an online presence on the following social networks:

Instagram

Instagram is a service provided by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park CA 94025 - USA

Facebook

Facebook is a service provided by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025 - USA.

Headquarters in the EU: Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbor, Dublin 2 - Ireland

Google Analytics

We use "Google Analytics" on our website, a service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

We use Google Analytics to record and statistically evaluate the flow of visitors to our website. Among other things, Google Analytics collects data on the website from which you came to our website (so-called referrer), which sub-pages of the website you accessed or how often and for how long a sub-page was viewed and which interactions you made. In order to record and save this data, Google Analytics places a cookie on the device you are using (see the term above under the heading Cookies). We use the AnonymizeIP function to anonymize your IP address so that it is shortened and can no longer be assigned to your visit to our website. Further information transmitted will not be assigned or linked to the anonymized IP address by Google. The information generated in this way is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google may pass this personal data collected through the technical process on to third parties. We have concluded an order processing agreement with Google. According to this, Google is entitled and obliged to evaluate the information obtained for us and to create statistical reports for us on the type and extent of website use. These statistics enable us to continuously improve our offer, to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of our internet marketing and to make our internet presence more interesting and user-friendly for you as a user. Legal basis: We obtain your consent to the use of this service via a so-called opt-in. This means that the cookie, the tracking pixel or similar procedures with which your personal data are processed via this service are only activated if you have given your consent. The legal basis is Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. If you are in Germany and have not yet reached the age of 16 (in Austria and Switzerland the age of 14), according to the assessment of the respective national legislature, you are not yet in a position to give effective consent under data protection law. We value your opt-in as your reasonable expectation with regard to the use of cookies. In this case, we refer to Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. f GDPR as the legal basis. In this case, our legitimate interests lie in the user-friendly design of our online offer and our business interests in the collection, storage and evaluation of the data material. Deletion: The data collected and transmitted by us in this way will be automatically deleted after 26 months. Prevention: You can prevent the storage of cookies by downloading and installing the browser add-on provided by Google. This is available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de . However, you may then no longer be able to use all functions of our website to the full extent. Alternatively, you can prevent the storage of cookies by setting a so-called opt-out cookie, which prevents your data from being recorded on our website in the future. To do this, please click on the following <Link>. You also have the option of preventing the storage of cookies by setting this in your browser. You can delete cookies that have already been set at any time.

Third party information:

Headquarters within the EU: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001.

Safety measures

We also take state-of-the-art technical and organizational security measures in order to comply with the provisions of data protection laws and to protect your data against accidental or deliberate manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or against unauthorized access by third parties.

Up-to-dateness and changes to this data protection declaration

This data protection declaration is currently valid and has the status August 2020. Due to changed legal or official requirements, it may be necessary to adapt this data protection declaration.

This data protection declaration was created with the help of SOS Law. You can find the data protection declaration generator here. SOS Law is an offer from Mueller.legal Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft based in Berlin.

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