Privacy policy

Status as of 31 May 2025 – Version 1.0

Section 1 Information on the Collection of Personal Data

(1) Below we provide information about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data means any data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, email addresses, user behavior.

(2) The controller pursuant to Art. 4 para. 7 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

Complianceberater.Team
Karl-Ulrich-Straße 3
67547 Worms
Telephone: +49 (0) 6241 93 800-0
Email address: info@complianceberater.team

You can contact our Data Protection Officer as follows:

Attorney at Law Jens Gmerek
GREWE Law Firm
Erzbergerstr. 17
68165 Mannheim
info@grewe-kanzlei.de

Tel.: +49 (0) 621 377036 40

(3) When you contact us by email or via a contact form, the data you provide (your email address and, if applicable, your name and telephone number) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data arising in this context once storage is no longer necessary, or restrict processing if statutory retention obligations exist.

(4) If we use commissioned service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail below about the respective processes. In doing so, we will also specify the defined criteria for the storage period.

Section 2 Your Rights

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

• Right of access
• Right to rectification or erasure
• Right to restriction of processing
• Right to object to processing
• Right to data portability

(2) You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority regarding our processing of your personal data.

Section 3 Collection of Personal Data When Visiting Our Website

(1) When you use the website for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website and to ensure stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR):

• IP address
• Date and time of the request
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Content of the request (specific page)
• Access status/HTTP status code
• Amount of data transferred in each case
• Website from which the request originates
• Browser
• Operating system and its interface
• Language and version of the browser software

(2) In addition to the data mentioned above, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive and assigned to the browser you use, through which certain information flows to the entity that sets the cookie (in this case, us). Cookies cannot execute programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the website more user-friendly and effective overall.

(3) Use of cookies:

• a) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and function of which are explained below:
  • Transient cookies (see b)
• b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. These include, in particular, session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, which allows various requests from your browser to be assigned to the joint session. This enables your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.
• d) You can configure your browser settings according to your preferences and, for example, refuse the acceptance of third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all functions of this website. You have the option to prevent the actions you take here from being analyzed and linked. This will protect your privacy but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and improving usability for you and other users.

Section 4 Objection or Withdrawal Regarding the Processing of Your Data

(1) If you have given consent to the processing of your data, you may withdraw it at any time. Such withdrawal affects the lawfulness of the processing of your personal data after you have expressed it to us.

(2) Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on a balancing of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is, in particular, not necessary for the performance of a contract with you, which we describe in each case in the following description of functions. When exercising such an objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified objection, we will examine the situation and either stop or adjust the data processing or demonstrate our compelling legitimate grounds for continuing the processing.

(3) Of course, you may object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes at any time. You can inform us of your objection to advertising using the following contact details:

Complianceberater.Team
Karl-Ulrich-Straße 3
67547 Worms
Telephone: +49 (0) 6241 93 800-0
Email address: info@complianceberater.team

Section 5 WPML

(1) We use the WPML plugin of OnTheGoSystems Limited, 22/F 3 Lockhart Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong (hereinafter referred to as: WPML). WPML is a multilingual plugin for WordPress. We use WPML to display our website in different languages. When you visit our website, WPML stores a cookie on your device in order to save your selected language setting. As a result, personal data may be processed by WPML, in particular user activity (especially which pages have been visited and which elements have been clicked) as well as device and browser information (in particular the IP address and information about the operating system). Further information on the collection and storage of data by WPML can be found here: https://wpml.org/documentation/privacy-policy-and-gdpr-compliance

(2) You can prevent the collection and processing of your personal data by WPML by blocking the storage of third-party cookies on your computer, using the “Do Not Track” function of a supported browser, disabling the execution of script code in your browser, or installing a script blocker such as NoScript (www.noscript.net) or Ghostery (www.ghostery.com) in your browser. Further information on objection and removal options regarding WPML can be found at: https://wpml.org/documentation/privacy-policy-and-gdpr-compliance