Privacy policy

General information

(1) Below we inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website. (2) With reference to the definition in Art. 4 No. 1 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘General Data Protection Regulation’ or ‘GDPR’ for short), the term ‘personal data’ means all data that can be related to you personally. This includes, for example, your name, address, email address and user behavior. With regard to other terms, in particular the terms ‘processing’, ‘controller’, ‘processor’ and ‘consent’, we refer to the statutory data protection definitions in Art. 4 GDPR. (3) We only process personal data to the extent necessary to provide a functional website and the content and services we offer. The processing of personal data only takes place regularly if you have given us your consent within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR or if the processing is permitted by legal regulations, in particular by one of the legal bases mentioned in Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) to lit. f) GDPR. (4) Your personal data will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage no longer applies. Data may also be stored if this is provided for by national or European regulations to which we are subject. In this case, the data will be blocked or erased when the storage period prescribed by the respective regulations has expired. The latter does not apply if further storage of the data is necessary for the conclusion or fulfillment of a contract. (5) If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our website or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail below about the respective processes.

Responsible body

(1) Details of the responsible body can be found in our legal notice.

Your rights

(1) You have the following rights vis-à-vis us with regard to your personal data:

• the right to information,
• the right to rectification and erasure,
• the right to restriction of processing,
• the right to object to the processing,>
• the right to data portability.

(2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

Processing of personal data when using our website for information purposes

(1) If you visit our website without registering or otherwise providing us with information (‘informational use’), we only collect the personal data that your web browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to enable you to view our website and to ensure stability and security: IP address, date and time of the request, time zone difference to GMT, content of the website, access status (HTTP status), amount of data transferred, request website, web browser, operating system, language and version of the browser. (2) The aforementioned data is also stored in so-called log files on our servers. This data is not stored together with your other personal data. (3) The storage of the above-mentioned data in log files serves to ensure the functionality and optimization of our website and to ensure the security of our information technology systems. (4) This data is not analyzed for marketing purposes; our legitimate interest in data processing lies in the aforementioned purposes. The legal basis for the collection and temporary storage of the aforementioned data and log files is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR and the aforementioned data for the provision of our website will be deleted when the respective session has ended. The collection of the above data for the provision of our website is absolutely necessary for the operation of our website. There is no possibility of objection.

Processing of personal data through cookies

(1) We use so-called cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on the storage medium of your end device, for example on a hard disk, and through which certain information flows to us as the body that sets the cookie. Cookies cannot execute programs or transmit viruses to your end device. This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and function of which are explained below. (2) Cookies that are stored associated with your web browser:

• Persistent cookies: These cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete these cookies at any time in the settings of your web browser.

(3) The processing of personal data by the aforementioned cookies serves to make our website more user-friendly and effective for you. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of these cookies. In particular, some functions of our website require that your web browser can be identified even after a page change. If you have an account, we use cookies to identify you for subsequent visits. This prevents you from having to log in again each time you visit our website. The data processed by cookies that are required to provide the functions of our website are not used to create user profiles. Where cookies are used for analysis purposes, they are used to improve the quality and user-friendliness of our website, its content and functions. They enable us to understand how the website, which functions are used and how often they are used. This enables us to continuously optimize our offer. (4) Insofar as cookies are not technically mandatory, we only set them with your previously declared consent, which you can also revoke at any time. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. (5) The aforementioned cookies are stored on your end device and transmitted by it to our server. You can therefore configure the processing of data and information by cookies yourself. You can make appropriate configurations in the settings of your web browser, through which you can, for example, reject third-party cookies or cookies altogether. In this context, we would like to point out that you may then not be able to use all the functions of our website properly. We also recommend that you regularly delete cookies and your browser history manually.

Other functions and offers on our website

(1) In addition to the aforementioned informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. This usually requires the provision of further personal data. We require this data to provide the respective service. The above data processing principles apply. (2) In some cases, we use external service providers who have been carefully selected and commissioned by us to process this data. These service providers are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored by us. Insofar as personal data is passed on to third parties in the course of services that we offer together with partners, you can find more detailed information in the following descriptions of the individual services. If these third parties are based in a country outside the European Economic Area, you can find more detailed information about the consequences of this circumstance in the following descriptions of the individual services.

Contact us

(1) If you contact us by e-mail, the personal data you send us with your e-mail will be stored. (2) We also have a contact form on our website that you can use to contact us. The data you enter in the input mask will be transmitted to us and stored: Title, first name, surname, e-mail address, telephone. (3) The data will only be used to answer your questions. Unless explicitly stated in this privacy policy, the data will not be passed on to third parties. We also record your IP address and the time of sending. (4) The processing of the above personal data serves solely to process your inquiries. (5) The processing of other personal data collected through the use of the contact form provided on our website serves to prevent misuse and to ensure the security of our information technology systems. (6) This also constitutes our legitimate interest in the processing of your personal data. Insofar as you have given us your consent for this, the legal basis for the processing of this data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. Otherwise, the legal basis for the processing of this data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR, in particular in the event that you send us the data by e-mail. Insofar as you wish to work towards the conclusion of a contract through your e-mail, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR constitutes an additional legal basis. (7) Subject to statutory retention periods, the data will be deleted as soon as we have finally processed your request. If you contact us by e-mail, you can object to the storage of your personal data at any time. We would like to point out that in this case your request cannot be processed any further. You can declare your revocation or objection by sending an e-mail to the e-mail address given in our legal notice.

Borlabs Cookie

We use the service on our website. No personal data is processed when using the service. Provider: Benjamin A. Bornschein, Rübenkamp 32, 22305 Hamburg, Germany https://de.borlabs.io/ https://de.borlabs.io/impressum/

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We use the service on our website. The service stores and processes information about your user behavior on our website. For this purpose, the service uses, among other things, cookies, i.e. small text files that are stored locally in the cache of your web browser on your end device and that enable an analysis of your use of our website. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR (consent). We use the service to analyze the use of our website and to continuously improve individual functions and offers as well as the user experience. By statistically evaluating user behavior, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. Provider: Aut O’Mattic A8C Ireland Ltd. Grand Canal Dock, 25 Herbert Pl D02 AY86 Dublin Ireland