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"Interprospekt BV Privacy statement of July 2019 for the website www.berlinbands.net"

We, Interprospekt BVBA, Vestingstraat 19, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium (“Interprospekt Belgium” or “we”), hereby inform you, by the present Privacy Statement, about all aspects under data protection law of the offering available on the berlinbands.net website (the “Website”).

We will collect, process, and use personal data concerning you exclusively in compliance with the following Privacy Statement. The term “personal data” is defined in this context as any item of individual information concerning the personal or material circumstances of an identified or identifiable person, e.g. your name, your telephone number, your address as well as other information you provide to us when registering with us, when using our services, or when communicating with us (“Personal Data”).

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I. CONTROLLER

Interprospekt BV will function as the “controller” within the meaning of Article 4 number 7 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, also known as the “General Data Protection Regulation” (“GDPR”).

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II. COLLECTION AND STORAGE OF PERSONAL DATA; MANNER AND PURPOSE OF THEIR USAGE

1. PROCESSING OF DATA FOR USAGE OF THE WEBSITE

Whenever you access our Website through your browser, respectively via your mobile terminal device, we will collect only the Personal Data which your browser, respectively your mobile terminal device, automatically transmits to us so as to allow you to visit the Website and to ensure system stability and security. This may include, in particular:

  • Your IP address;

  • Your device’s identifier, i.e. the unique ID number of your terminal device;

  • The content, date, and time of the access request;

  • The time zone of the requesting computer, respectively of the mobile terminal device;

  • The website from which the access request is being referred;

  • The web page for which access is being requested;

  • The http status code;

  • The data volume transmitted;

  • Your browser ID;

  • Your operating system;

  • The language and version of your browser software; as well as

  • The Advertising Identifier (IDFA).

  • Processing this data will serve the following purposes:

  • To establish a trouble-free connection to the Website;

  • To display our goods and services;

  • To ensure the usability of our Website;

  • To analyze system stability and security; and

  • To fulfill additional administrative objectives.

The legal basis for this processing of the Personal Data concerning you is Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. f) of the GDPR. Our legitimate interest in this context results from the aforementioned data processing purposes.

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2. DATA PROCESSING WHEN THE CONTACT FORM IS USED

We give you the option of contacting us by means of the “Contact” form provided on the Website. To use this form, you must fill in your name, a valid email address. Processing these data serves our legitimate interest in providing proper answers to your contact inquiries and is therefore performed on the basis of Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. f) of the GDPR.

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3. DATA PROCESSING FOR PURCHASING OUR GOODS AND USING OUR SERVICES

If you wish to purchase our goods and use our services, you may be asked at various times to provide us with Personal Data such as the following:

  • Your name;

  • Your date of birth;

  • Your postal address;

  • Your email address,

  • Your telephone number or mobile phone number; and

  • Your credit card information.

We will process the Personal Data concerning you for the following purposes, and said Personal Data are required for these purposes:

To fulfill contractual obligations, respectively to perform pre-contractual measures, in accordance with Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. b) of the GDPR, i.e. so as to be able to transact your purchases, process your payments, provide you with customer service, correspond with you, handle claims asserted by you or us, assure the technical administration of our Website, and manage our customer data;

To fulfill statutory requirements in accordance with Art 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. c) of the GDPR or to serve the public interest in accordance with Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. e) of the GDPR, i.e. so as to protect both you and us (including our affiliated enterprises) against fraud.

 

III. FORWARDING DATA CONCERNING YOU TO PROCESSORS AND THIRD PARTIES

In order to process the data concerning you, we reserve the right to make use of specialized external service providers, such as online-marketing providers, providers of automated marketing solutions, providers of web-analysis tools as well as IT-service providers. In such case, and at our sole discretion, we will carefully select these service providers and instruct them duly. If selected they will be bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored and checked.

In addition, we may transfer the Personal Data concerning you to third parties (couriers, freight forwarders, shipping companies, the credit institutions we have contracted for payment settlement, other payment service providers, collection agencies or our authorized optician customers) insofar as this is required for our contractual performance pursuant to Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. b) of the GDPR, respectively in order to pursue our legitimate interests pursuant to Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. f) of the GDPR.

Finally, we may also transfer your data to our affiliated enterprises, including, but not limited to Interprospekt Group AG, Interprospekt AG, Interprospekt Europe GmbH and/or Granada Gallery LLC[RH3] , insofar as this is permitted to pursue our legitimate interests within the meaning of Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. f) of the GDPR. These interests specifically include: processing your order, delivering the ordered goods, and ensuring efficient business operations.

In all other respects, the Personal Data concerning you will not be transferred to third parties unless you have first granted your consent pursuant to Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. a) of the GDPR or if doing so is legally permissible within the meaning of Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. c) of the GDPR.

 

IV. TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL DATA TO THIRD COUNTRIES

Insofar as we transmit Personal Data to countries located outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), we will ensure that the data recipient guarantees an adequate level of data protection within the meaning of Article 45 of the GDPR. If no adequacy decision is available, Interprospekt Belgium will strive to ensure that the data recipient has put in place appropriate safeguards within the meaning of Article 46 of the GDPR and specifically utilizes the standard contractual clauses of the European Union for the transfer of data into non-EU third countries in their respectively current version. When it comes to transferring data to the United States, Interprospekt  Belgium will strive to ensure that the data recipient enters into obligation to follow and observe the principles of the Privacy Shield Framework (i.e. principles setting forth minimum standards for the handling of Personal Data).

 

V. USE OF COOKIES

Interprospekt Belgium utilizes so-called “cookies” on its Website, i.e. small files containing text information that are placed on your hard drive (“Cookies”) whenever you call up the Website. The Cookie will be used to store certain information about the specific terminal device you are using. This does not mean, however, that we will obtain direct knowledge of your identity in the process.

One reason we use Cookies is to make the navigation and usage of our Website as user-friendly as possible. We require such Cookies to be able to identify and authorize you during your entire visit after you have successfully logged in. Said Cookies will be automatically erased from your hard drive once the browser session comes to an end (“Session Cookies”).

In addition, we utilize Cookies that will remain on your hard drive for a certain period also after the browser session is over (“Persistent Cookies”). These Cookies make it easier for you to use our Website and our services and to purchase our goods, e.g. by storing certain inputs and settings so that you will not have to constantly repeat them. Cookies also allow us to collect statistics on the usage of our Website while helping us to optimize our offering and to personalize our web pages and our goods and services for your benefit (also see Section VI of the present Privacy Statement). Persistent Cookies are stored on your hard drive and then erased by the browser after a predefined time, which may vary from Cookie to Cookie. The Cookies we use may also be sourced from third-party providers (Third-Party Cookies), given that we rely on a number of advertising partners to help us make our online offers and web pages more appealing to you (also see Section VI of the present Privacy Statement).

The data processed by the Cookies are required for the aforementioned purposes in order to allow us to pursue our legitimate interests and to allow third parties to purse their legitimate interests pursuant to Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. f) of the GDPR.

We will notify you concerning our use of Cookies when you (first) visit our Website. You may at any time block the use of Cookies with effect for the future by erasing the Cookies and by blocking the acceptance of Cookies in your browser. You can also configure your browser such that you will be alerted before Cookies are placed on it and will have the option to either accept the Cookies in individual cases, to rule out the storage of Cookies for certain cases or to rule it out as a general rule. Finally, you can activate the automatic erasure of Cookies following closure of your browser. If you change your browser settings in these ways, you may not be able to benefit from all the features of our Website, however. For further information on these setting changes, please see www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

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VI. DEPLOYMENT OF ANALYTICS AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

We use the analytics and tracking technologies, respectively technologies offered by third-party-provider, described below; we do so on the basis of Article 6 paragraph 1 lit. f) of the GDPR for the following purposes (among others):

  • To perform data analyses;

  • To collect statistics on the use of our Website and to evaluate them so as to optimize our offering;

  • To enhance and manage our offering on an ongoing basis;

  • To optimize our advertising measures and quantify their success; and

  • To provide you with advertising, specifically including personalized marketing information.

  • These are legitimate interests within the meaning of the aforementioned statutory provision.

 

  1. GOOGLE ANALYTICS

In order to configure our web pages as needed and to optimize them on an ongoing basis, we use Google Analytics, an advertising analysis service offered by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”)). This service generates pseudonymized usage profiles and uses Cookies (see Section V of the present Privacy Statement). The information about your use of our Website generated by the relevant Cookie (e.g. your IP address, browser type/version, operating system used, referring URL, time of the server request) is transferred to a Google server located in the United States and stored there. Google has been certified under the Privacy Shield Framework, meaning that an adequate level of data protection is in place in accordance with the corresponding Implementing Decision of the European Commission. The certificate is available online for inspection under https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI. However, your IP address will first be shortened on our Website by Google within Member States of the European Union or in other states signatory to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA). Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the Unites States and shortened there.

Google will use this information on our behalf in order to analyze your usage of our Website, to compile reports on Website activities for us, and to provide us with other services relating to Website and internet usage. In certain cases, this information may also be transferred to third parties, insofar as this is mandated by the law or insofar as third parties have been commissioned with processing the data. Google will not merge your IP address with other data held by Google.

You can block the storage of the relevant Cookie in your browser by configuring your browser settings accordingly. Please be advised, however, that this may prevent you from using all the functions of our Website to their full extent.

In addition, you can prevent Google from recording the data generated by the Cookie regarding your usage of the Website (including your IP address) and from processing such data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

For further information on data protection in connection with Google Analytics, please navigate to the “Help” section of Google Analytics via the following link: http://google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

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2. GOOGLE ADWORDS CONVERSION TRACKING AND REMARKETING TRACKING

In order to collect statistics on the use of our Website and in order to optimize our Website for your benefit, we also use Google Conversion Tracking. This is a service offered by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). To this end, Google places a Cookie (see Section V of the present Privacy Statement) on your computer whenever you reach our Website by way of a Google Ad. These Cookies become invalid after 90 days and cannot be used to identify you personally. If you visit one of our web pages and assuming the Cookie has not yet expired, both we and Google will be able to see that you clicked on the ad and that it referred you to our site. Each AdWords customer receives a different Cookie, so that the Cookies cannot be tracked across the websites of multiple AdWords customers.

Google will use this information on our behalf to generate visitor statistics for our Website. We will use these visitor statistics to determine the total number of users referred to us by AdWords advertisements and to optimize our AdWords advertising efforts accordingly. This information may also be transferred to third parties insofar as this is mandated by law or insofar as third parties process these data on a commissioned basis. Neither we nor any other advertising customers of Google AdWords will receive information from Google that allows you to be personally identified.

Moreover, our Website uses Google Remarketing Tracking as part of the Google AdWords service. This, too, is a service offered by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). The remarketing function allows advertising based on your personal interests to be displayed to you, as the user of our Website, on other websites within Google’s content network (on Google itself, so-called “Google Ads” or on other websites). To this end, your interaction with our Website will be analyzed, such as the offers that you took an interest in, so as to allow us to display targeted advertisements to you on other websites after you have terminated your visit to our website.

In the process, Google will place a Cookie on your computer (see Section V of the present Privacy Statement) insofar as you use certain Google services or visit certain websites forming part of the Google content network. These Cookies cannot be used to identify you personally.

The information generated by the Cookie so placed on your computer concerning your usage of our Website (including your IP address) will be transferred to a Google server located in the United States and stored there. As explained above, Google has been certified under the Privacy Shield Framework, meaning that an adequate level of data protection is in place in accordance with the corresponding Implementing Decision of the European Commission. The certificate is available online for inspection under: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI. However, your IP address will first be shortened on our Website by Google within Member States of the European Union or in other states signatory to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA). Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the United States and shortened there.

You can prevent the storage of these Cookies in your browser by configuring your browser settings accordingly. Please be advised, however, that this may prevent you from using all the functions of our Website to their full extent.

Furthermore, you can object against interest-based advertising from Google. To do this, you must call up www.google.de/settings/ads from each of the internet browsers you use and then make the desired setting changes.

For further information on Google’s data privacy policy, please see the following links: http://google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy and https://www.google.com/privacy/ads/.

 

3. GOOGLE TAG MANAGER

We also use Google Tag Manager. This service allows website tags to be managed by way of a user interface. Tags are small code elements the purpose of which includes measuring traffic and visitor behavior. Google Tag Manager merely implements such tags. This does not cause any Cookies to be placed, meaning that no Personal Data will be recorded. Google Tag Manager triggers other tags which may themselves record data under certain circumstances. Google Tag Manager does not access these data, however. Once the deactivation function has been selected at the domain or Cookie level, it will remain in effect for all tracking tags implemented by Google Tag Manager.

 

4. FACEBOOK CUSTOM AUDIENCES

Furthermore, we also utilize the “Custom Audiences” remarketing function offered by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Facebook”). This allows interest-based advertising to be displayed to users of our Website when they visit the social network Facebook or other websites that likewise employ this function (“Facebook-Ads”).

For this marketing function, we use the “Facebook Pixel” feature on our web pages, i.e. so-called “tracking pixels” are integrated onto our web pages. Whenever you visit our web pages, these tracking pixels serve to establish a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server.

In the process, Facebook will receive, inter alia, the information from your browser that our Website was accessed by your terminal device. Please be advised that we have no control over the volume of data transferred in this context or over how Facebook proceeds to use it. Thus, we can only describe the operative process as we currently understand it to the best of our knowledge: The integration of Facebook Custom Audiences causes Facebook to be informed that you have called up a given web page of our internet presence or that you have clicked on one of our ads. If you are registered with a Facebook service, Facebook will be able to match up the visit with your user account. Even if you are not registered with Facebook, or have not logged onto Facebook, it is still possible that the provider may learn your IP address and other identifiers that relate to you and may store them.

Facebook has been certified under the Privacy Shield Framework, meaning that an adequate level of data protection is in place in accordance with the corresponding Implementing Decision of the European Commission. The certificate is available online for inspection under https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC.

You can at any time object to the usage of Facebook website Custom Audiences with effect for the future by using the following link: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads and http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/

For further information on data protection and your configuration options in this regard, please navigate to https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads or to https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy.

 

VII. USE OF SOCIAL PLUG-INS

Our Website makes use of the so-called “social plug-ins” of social networks, e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Vimeo and Pinterest (Facebook, Instagram, Vimeo and Pinterest being collectively referred to hereinbelow as “Social Networks” and the corresponding plug-ins as “Plug-ins”). With these Plug-ins, we offer you the option to interact with the Social Networks and with other users, which allows us to improve our offering and to make it more appealing to you, while at the same time raising awareness of our enterprise. The legal basis for the use of social Plug-ins is Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. f) of the GDPR. Responsibility for ensuring data protection-compliant operations lies with the respective provider.

We use the Plug-ins of the Facebook network, such as the “Like” button. These Plug-ins are offered and operated by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Facebook”), and are clearly designated by the Facebook logo. In addition, we utilize Plug-ins of the Instagram service, operated by Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Instagram”). These Plug-ins are designated by the Instagram logo. We also use the Plug-ins of the Vimeo network, which is owned by InterActiveCorp, New York City, New York, USA (“Vimeo”), whereby the YouTube logo serves as the designator. We furthermore utilize the Plug-ins of the Pinterest network, which is offered and operated by Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan St., San Francisco, CA 94103, USA (“Pinterest”); these Plug-ins are designated by the “Pin-it” button.

Whenever you access a web page of ours that contains this type of Plug-in, your browser will establish a direct connection to the server of the respective Social Network. The content of the Plug-in will be transferred directly to your browser from the corresponding Social Network and will be integrated into the Website without our being able to exercise any control over said content.

Regardless of whether you maintain a user account with a Social Network or whether you have logged on to the respective Social Network, web pages that contain Plug-ins from that Social Network will transfer information to the corresponding Social Network in the USA, where this information will be stored. This will include the type and version of your operating system and browser, respectively, as well as your IP address and the domain name and/or date stamp, respectively time stamp, associated with your visit. Each time the web page is called up, the respective Social Network will deposit a Cookie containing an identifier that will remain valid for two years. Since your browser automatically co-transmits this Cookie each time a connection is established with a server, the corresponding Social Network fundamentally would be able to generate a profile of the online web pages called up by the user associated with the identifier. If you have logged on to the respective Social Network at the time, said Social Network will be able to match up the profile to the user account you maintain with that Social Network and thus to you personally. But even if you are not logged in to the respective Social Network when you use our Website, this will not preclude such a match-up from occurring, for example when you log in with the corresponding Social Network at some later time.

Whenever you interact with these Plug-ins, e.g. by activating the “Like” button or by posting a comment, the corresponding information will be sent from your browser directly to the corresponding Social Network and stored there, without our being able to exert any influence in this regard. The information will also be published on the Social Network and will be displayed to your contacts on said network.

The respective Social Network may use the information thus obtained for advertising purposes, to perform market research, and to configure its web pages as needed. To this end, the Social Network will generate profiles of your usage, interests, and relationships, e.g. in order to analyze your usage of our Website in connection with the ads shown to you on the Social Network, to inform other users of the Social Network about your activities on our Website, and to provide additional services associated with usage of the Social Network. Please note that we do not obtain any precise knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its usage by the Social Network. For more detailed information on the nature, purposes, and scope of the subsequent processing and usage of your data by the respective Social Network, please consult the Privacy Policy of each Social Network:

The above links will also guide you to additional information on your relevant rights and configuration options when it comes to protecting your privacy. Facebook/Instagram, YouTube/Google, and Twitter are certified under the Privacy Shield Framework, meaning that an adequate level of data protection is in place in accordance with the corresponding Implementing Decision of the European Commission. The certificates are available online for inspection here:

If you, as the user of a Social Network, wish to prevent the corresponding Social Network from collecting information regarding you during your visit to our Website, you can log out of that Social Network when commencing your visit to the Website, erase the corresponding Social Network’s cookie (if one exists) from your browser, and select the “Block Third-Party Cookies” function on your browser. In this case, your browser will not transfer any Cookies to the servers in the event of embedded content of other providers. Note, however, that this configuration, besides blocking the Plug-ins, may also cause certain functions extending across webpages to become unavailable.

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VIII. NEWSLETTER

Subject to your consent, which you may give as part of your registration on our website, we will email you our newsletter regarding our goods and services or goods and services of our affiliated companies (including INTERPROSPEKT) which we believe may be of interest to you. This includes in particular new products, promotions, price advantages, services, events or other interesting news from Interprospekt Belgium and its affiliated companies.

You can object at any time against having data concerning you used for direct advertising purposes with effect for the future, and you can unsubscribe from the newsletter by clicking the corresponding link included in each newsletter email, or by emailing a corresponding declaration to: [email protected].

We reserve the right to email you offers for goods and services also without your consent insofar as they are similar to ones you have already purchased. You have the right to object at any time against having your data processed for advertising purposes by emailing us a corresponding declaration at [email protected], or by clicking on the corresponding link in our newsletter. This will not give rise to any costs other than the base rate of transmission costs.

The legal basis for processing your data for purposes of sending out newsletters is Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. a), respectively lit. f), of the GDPR.

 

IX. DURATION OF STORAGE

We will store the Personal Data concerning you for as long as required to fulfill the respective storage purpose. Once this is no longer the case, we will erase your data unless we are bound to observe a longer retention period in accordance with Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. c) of the GDPR, namely on the basis of tax laws, commercial laws, or other statutory archiving/documentation obligations, or unless you have consented to an extended storage period in accordance with Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. a) of the GDPR.

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X. YOUR RIGHTS

In accordance with Article 15 of the GDPR, you are entitled to obtain access at any time to any Personal Data of yours that are being stored by us. In particular, you may request information about any of following matters: the processing purposes involved; the categories of data regarding you being stored; the categories of recipients of such data; the planned storage period; the existence of a right to demand rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or a right to object; the existence of a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; the origin of your data, insofar as they were not obtained from you; as well as the existence of an automated decision-making process, including profiling; you also have the right to request explanatory details.

In addition, you can demand the rectification of incorrect data pursuant to Article 16 of the GDPR, as well as the erasure of Personal Data pursuant to Article 17 of the GDPR insofar as their processing is not required to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a statutory obligation, to serve the public interest, or to assert, enforce or defend legal claims.

You furthermore have the right, pursuant to Article 18 of the GDPR, to demand that a block or restriction be placed on the processing of the Personal Data concerning you insofar as: their correctness is disputed by you; the processing is unlawful but you object to the erasure of the data; we no longer require the data but you still require it in order to assert, enforce or defend legal claims; or you have expressly objected against the data being processed pursuant to Article 21 of the GDPR.

Furthermore, you are entitled pursuant to Article 20 of the GDPR to obtain the Personal Data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, or to demand that such data be transmitted to some other authorized party.

Finally, insofar as the Personal Data concerning you are being processed on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. f) of the GDPR, you have the right, pursuant to Article 21 of the GDPR, to at any time object to having the Personal Data concerning you processed, on grounds relating to your particular situation or insofar as your objection specifically refers to processing for purposes of direct advertising. In the latter case, you will enjoy a fundamental right to object that will be honored by GRANADA GALLERY without your having to state grounds in connection with a particular personal situation.

If you believe that our processing of the Personal Data concerning you is not consistent with applicable law, you may lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority pursuant to Article 77 of the GDPR.

If the processing of your data is based on a declaration of consent you have granted pursuant to Article 6 paragraph 1 lit. a) of the GDPR, you have the right to any time withdraw said consent with effect for the future.

 

XI. DATA SECURITY

In the course of visits to our Website, we employ the widely-used SSL process in conjunction with the respectively highest level of encryption supported by your browser.

In all other respects, we take appropriate technical and organizational security measures in order to protect your data against manipulation, loss, destruction, and unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are kept consistently up-to-date based on the latest state of the technical art.

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XII. YOUR CONTACT FOR DATA PROTECTION MATTERS

If you have questions about how the Personal Data concerning you is collected, processed or used, if you wish to obtain information regarding your data or to have them rectified, blocked or erased, or if you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us via [email protected].​