Privacy Policy, MOCHNI Media Group

Last updated: May 6, 2024

Below we describe what data we collect on our website and for what purposes we want to collect, process and use it.

1. Person responsible and data protection officer

Responsible person according to Art. 4 Paragraph 7 Data Protection of the European General Regulation (GDPR) is the MOCHNI Media Group/Antonia Böhlke, Mansteinstraße 29, 20253 Hamburg, Germany. You can reach us at any time by post or email at info@mochni.com

If you have any concerns about data protection, you can reach our data protection officer (Mrs. Antonia Böhlke) at any time, for example by email to info@mochni.com or at our postal address with the addition “the data protection officer”.

2. Your rights

You have the following rights towards us with regard to personal data relating to you:

– Right to information (Article 15 GDPR),

– Right to report (Article 16 GDPR),

– Right to deletion (Article 17 GDPR),

– Right to restriction of processing (Article 18 GDPR),

– Right to object to processing (Article 21 GDPR),

– Right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR).

You also have the right to complain about our processing of your personal data if you believe that the processing concerns you, to a data protection supervisory authority in your authorized location, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement personal data is carried out unlawfully.

If you have given us your consent to process your data, you can revoke this at any time with future effect. The legality of the processing of your data until revocation remains unaffected.

To assert your rights or for other data protection concerns, you can contact us at any time using the contact methods listed in section 1 above and/or the contact details listed in our legal notice.

3. Additional information on your right to object

We would also like to point out that if your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interest as part of the balancing of interests in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 f) GDPR and/or your personal data is processed for direct advertising purposes, you You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time.

4. Processing of personal data when using the services offered

In the services offered, personal data from you is collected, processed or used (“used”). This is always done in compliance with data protection regulations. If we use your personal data for a purpose that requires your consent according to legal regulations, we will always ask you for your express consent.

We collect data, for example, in the following cases in order to provide you with the services of the respective offer: newsletter orders, participation in competitions, voting and similar campaigns.

a) Newsletter

You can subscribe to our MOCHNI newsletter on our website, in which we regularly inform you about current MOCHNI topics. To register for the newsletters listed above, you only need to provide your email address. Providing your title and your first and last name is voluntary and only serves to address you personally in the newsletter. The legal basis for the above-described processing is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 b. GDPR (processing is necessary for the fulfillment of a contract with the data subject).

To register for our newsletter, we use the so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that after you register, we will send you an email to the email address you provided, in which we will ask you to confirm that you would like to receive the newsletter. In addition, we store the times of registration and confirmation. The purpose of the procedure is to be able to prove your registration and, if necessary, to clarify any possible misuse of your personal data. The legal basis for this is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f) GDPR (processing is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the person responsible).

You can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can declare your revocation, for example, by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided in every newsletter email or, for example, by sending a message to the contact details provided in the legal notice.

b) Participation in competitions and similar promotions

If you take part in a competition on our website, we will collect the data from you that is necessary for participation in the competition. These are usually: first and last name, email address, address. We process this data for the purpose of enabling you to participate in the respective competition and to be able to notify you by email if you win. We need your address so that we can send you the prize if you win. The legal basis for the above-described processing is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 b. GDPR (processing is necessary for the fulfillment of a contractual relationship with the data subject).

c) Participation in (digital) events / booking of event tickets

If you take part in events organized by us, including digital/virtual events (e.g. Conscious Loft) and would like to book tickets for these events via our website, we collect the following data from you: first and last name, email address, Address and email address. For events that are also aimed at a B2B target group, we also ask you to specify your company/organization, although specifying your profession is only optional and not mandatory. If we also offer discounted tickets for students at some events, you will be asked to provide/prove your student ID to verify your eligibility to purchase a discounted ticket; Entering your college/university is only optional and not mandatory. To securely process your payment for booked event tickets, we use a payment service provider, please see the information below in section 5.

We process the data listed above in order to properly carry out your booking of tickets for the respective event and to enable you to participate in the desired event. After booking, you will receive a booking confirmation by email. The tickets you have booked will be sent to you by separate email after the contract has been concluded – unless otherwise agreed for an event. For digital events, this also contains your ticket access data for our digital event platform. The legal basis for the processing described above is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 b. GDPR (processing is necessary for the fulfillment of a contract with the data subject).

The following also applies to our digital event Conscious Loft: In order to support us with the technical implementation at events with regard to the registration and processing of ticket bookings by customers via our event platform, we use the service provider Eventbrite Inc. for our digital event Conscious Loft. , 95 Third Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, California, 94103 USA as part of so-called order processing. As part of the services Eventbrite provides to us, personal data is also processed by Eventrbite outside the EU/EEA in the USA. In order to ensure adequate protection of your data, we have concluded an order processing agreement with Eventbrite including EU standard contractual clauses.

d) Consent to use for advertising, market and opinion research

If you have expressly consented to us using your personal data, e.g. your email address and telephone number, for the purposes of advertising or market and opinion research, the following applies:

You can revoke your consent at any time and/or object to the future use of your data.

The wording we use to obtain your consent is: “Yes, I agree that the MOCHNI Media Group can inform me about its further offers and promotions by email, SMS and telephone. I can revoke this consent at any time.”

If your consent was obtained in connection with a joint action with a partner, the wording is: “Yes, I agree that [partner’s company name] and the MOCHNI Media Group can contact me via email, SMS and telephone about their further activities Inform about offers and promotions. I can revoke this consent at any time.” In accordance with legal requirements, we record the granting of consent.

The legal basis for the above-described processing is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 a. GDPR (the data subject has given their consent to processing for one or more specific purposes).

e) contact

When you contact us by e-mail, post or telephone using the contact methods listed in the legal notice, the data you provide (e.g. your e-mail address and your name as well as the content of your request) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions or . to process and answer your request.

We delete the data arising in this context after storage is no longer necessary (usually after your request has been fully resolved), or we restrict processing if there are statutory retention requirements. Depending on the content of your request, the legal basis for the above-described processing is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f of the GDPR (processing is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the person responsible).

f) Obligation to provide personal data

If you would like to use the services offered, you must provide the personal data required for the respective service. If you do not provide us with this information, we will not be able to provide you with the requested service.

g) Non-existence of automated decision-making

We would like to point out that when you use our website and take advantage of the services we offer, you will not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing – including profiling – that has legal effects on you or similarly significantly affects you.

5. Data transfer to third parties/recipients, use of service providers

We will only pass on your personal data to third parties if this is necessary to fulfill the contract with you, if there is a legitimate interest on our part, if you have given your consent and/or if we are required to do so by law or by official or court orders are obliged to do so. Your personal data will be transmitted by us to third parties in the cases described below and for the purposes described below.

If you take part in a competition organized on our website in cooperation with a competition partner and have been drawn as a winner, the competition partner will receive your first and last name and your address for the purpose of shipping the prize in question. The legal basis for the transfer is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter b) GDPR (processing is necessary to fulfill a contractual relationship).

In addition, we use service providers who provide web hosting services for us and also use cloud or web-based software solutions from third parties that enable us to manage and host personal data in the cloud with external service providers in order to fulfill our needs to relieve the load on your own server and to work effectively with new software solutions. We have concluded order processing agreements with the respective service providers, which ensure that the respective service providers do not process the data for their own purposes, but only in accordance with our instructions and on our behalf. The legal basis for the use of service providers is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f) GDPR (processing is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the person responsible) in conjunction with Article 28 GDPR (order processing).

Some of the service providers we use, who process personal data for us on our behalf and within the scope of our instructions as so-called processors in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR, are based outside the EU/EEA. Before transferring data to processors outside the EU/EEA, we ensure that the processor has an adequate level of data protection. For example, for processors in countries such as Canada and Israel, this results from an adequacy decision by the EU Commission (so-called safe third countries) and for other processors through the conclusion of the EU standard contractual clauses before the start of processing by the respective processor.

6. Storage period and deletion of data

Even without a special request, we naturally comply with our obligations to delete personal data (e.g. in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR) and therefore only store data for as long as is necessary to provide the desired service or the respective purpose.

For example, we only store the data related to sending our newsletter for as long as you are registered for the newsletter and we delete the data as soon as storage is no longer necessary, e.g. after you have unsubscribed from the newsletter or have withdrawn your consent. Data collected and processed when conducting competitions will be deleted – with the exception of the data of the winner(s) – after the competition has been completed and carried out.

Please note, however, that instead of deletion, processing will be blocked or restricted if deletion conflicts with statutory retention obligations that we must fulfill. For example, in accordance with the legal regulations in Section 257 of the German Commercial Code (HGB), we must store contract-related communications with you in connection with subscription orders for a period of up to ten years.

7. Log files/information transmitted by your browser

If you use our website for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not use one of our services offered on the website (see section 4 above), we only collect the data that your browser transmits to our server. For the use of cookies on our website, please see the separate information below in section 8.

Every time you use the Internet, your Internet browser automatically transmits certain information, which we store in so-called log files. This is the following data that is required to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security: IP address (Internet Protocol address), date and time of the request, content of the request (specific page), access status /HTTP status code, amount of data transferred, website from which the request comes, browser, operating system and its interface, language and version of the browser software. It is not possible for us to draw conclusions about individual people based on this data. We store this data for a short time for reasons of technical security, e.g. to prevent attacks on our web server. The legal basis for the above-described processing is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f) GDPR (processing is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the person responsible).

8. Use of cookies and similar technologies

a) What are cookies?

When you use our website, cookies are stored on your computer or device (e.g. smartphone, tablet). Cookies are small text files that store information about the use of our website (e.g. websites visited, number of visits, visiting times, length of time spent on individual pages, browser used, operating system used, etc.) on your computer or device when you Allow this via your browser settings. Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer.

In addition to cookies, so-called pixels (also called tracking pixels, tracking pixels or web beacons) and other similar technologies such as plug-ins are used on our website. Pixels are small, invisible graphics that are integrated on the website and can also be used to evaluate information about the use of our website by website visitors.

b) For what purposes and on what legal basis do we and third parties use cookies when you visit our website?

Cookies and similar technologies are used for the following purposes:

-To make navigation and use of our website user-friendly, in particular by storing user preferences (such as search or language settings) and user input. These cookies are absolutely necessary to be able to provide you with our offering.

-To display and play video content integrated on our website; to conduct surveys, quizzes, etc. on our website and to display article recommendations in order to make our services more attractive for our users.

-For statistical evaluation and analysis of the usage behavior (e.g. visited (sub)pages, length of stay, etc.) of our users (so-called web analysis cookies). We can use the insights gained to continuously optimize and improve our website. This also includes so-called A/B tests, in which different versions of our website are presented to different users in order, for example, to be able to test new features and user acceptance/interaction and to gain insights for the future design/adaptation of the website.

-To measure and evaluate the effectiveness and success of the advertising/ads integrated on our website (so-called advertising cookies).

-To display advertising tailored to your interests inside and outside our website by analyzing and recording your usage behavior in usage profiles, e.g. advertising banners clicked and how often an advertisement was played to you (so-called usage or interest-based advertising).

-To enable users to interact with social networks/platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc., e.g. by sharing and liking content on our website (so-called social plug-ins)

The cookies, pixels and similar technologies we use do not store any personal data about you, but instead, depending on the cookie or pixel used, purely pseudonymous or anonymous usage data that cannot be assigned to you personally.

The legal basis for the use of cookies and similar technologies on our website, which are absolutely necessary for the provision of our offer in accordance with the above, is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f) GDPR (processing is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the responsible persons).

Otherwise, we only use cookies and similar technologies with your express consent. When you first visit our website, you will be informed in a cookie banner about the individual purposes/categories and third-party providers and you can decide for yourself whether you only want to allow the absolutely necessary cookies or allow us and the third-party providers mentioned to use cookies too for further purposes/categories. You can only select individual categories/purposes by activating the buttons or accepting all with one click.

c) Revocation of your consent, deletion of cookies/browser settings

You can revoke your consent at any time by accessing the cookie banner again and changing your settings in the consent options and, for example, deactivating activated categories/purposes. To access the consent options in the Cookie Banner, you can click on the “Manage Cookie” icon that appears in the footer on every page of our website. To go directly to the icon without scrolling down, please click here.

You can also set your web browser to notify you before a cookie is set. You can also set your web browser to reject all cookies or only cookies from third parties. You can also delete cookies that have already been set at any time via your web browser settings.

In connection with cookies and similar technologies that are used by some advertisers, advertising agencies and marketers for the purpose of displaying usage or interest-based advertising when you visit websites, you can also access the following preference managers and there be tracked by all or some of them contradict the services stored there:

-Preference manager of the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA): http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/

-Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) Preference Manager: – http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1#!/

In the following section you will find further detailed information about the individual cookies, tools and similar technologies used on our website.

d. Which cookies are set when you visit our website?

aa. Types of cookies

-Session cookies: Session cookies are only stored on your computer or device during your visit to our website and are automatically deleted after you leave our website. Session cookies are used, among other things, to recognize the user during the visit. Session cookies are also used to maintain security when you visit our website.

-Permanent cookies: Permanent cookies remain stored on your computer or device until their preset “lifespan” expires or you delete them from your browser yourself. Permanent cookies are primarily used for the purposes of web analysis, to display interest-based advertising and to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of advertising. The permanent first-party cookies we use (see below) have a lifespan of one or more days to months or years, although the cookies we set generally have a maximum lifespan of around two years and then automatically be deleted from your computer or your device.

-First-party cookies and third-party cookies: Whether a cookie is a first- or third-party cookie depends on which domain sets a cookie on your computer or device. First-party cookies are cookies set by the website that you see in the address bar of your web browser. Third-party cookies, in turn, are cookies that are set by a domain other than the one the visitor is currently visiting. Advertising cookies, especially those set by third parties (e.g. media agencies, marketers and advertisers), are often third-party cookies.

bb. Cookies, pixels and similar technologies used

Below you will find information about the individual first- and third-party cookies and tools used by us and third parties on our website for these purposes. Under each tool used, you will also find information on how you can object to the use of cookies and similar technologies for web analysis and advertising purposes (so-called “opt-out”). General information on deleting cookies can also be found below in Section 8 e.

-Facebook conversions:

In order to be able to understand whether our Facebook advertisement was successful, i.e. an advertisement for a magazine subscription on Facebook led to a contract being concluded on our website, we use “Facebook Conversions”. The Facebook Conversions service is provided by the social network Facebook (Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland). Facebook uses pixels for this. We only receive statistical data from Facebook without reference to a specific person. 

You can object to the collection of data by Facebook at any time by adjusting your advertising preferences at https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads.

 

-Facebook Website Custom Audience:

Our website uses the “Website Custom Audience” retargeting technology from the social network Facebook, which enables us to also send our website visitors who have already shown interest in our website and content and are Facebook members to Facebook via the Facebook Advertiser. Network to display advertising and offers relevant to you on Facebook. For this purpose, so-called Facebook retargeting pixels are integrated into our websites.

You can object to the collection of data by Facebook Website Custom Audience in the future via https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads.

-Google Adwords Remarketing/Conversion Tracking:

Our website uses the Google Adwords service. Google AdWords is an online advertising program from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). With the remarketing function, we can present users of our website with advertisements based on their interests on other websites within the Google display network (on Google itself, so-called “Google Ads” or on other websites). As part of so-called conversion tracking, a cookie is stored on your computer/device when you click on an ad placed by Google. These cookies expire after 30 days, do not contain any personal data and are therefore not used for personal identification.

You can deactivate interest-based ads on Google and interest-based Google ads on the web (within the Google display network) in your browser by activating the “Off” button at http://www.google.de/settings/ads.

 

-Google Analytics:

To analyze the use of our website, we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, which we obtain from Adswerve, Inc. If you have given your consent, cookies will be set for this purpose. Your use of the website is evaluated in order to compile reports on website activity, which we use to analyze the performance of our website. During your use of the website, the following data is processed: page views, first visit to the website, start of the session, interactions with the website, scrolls, clicks on external links, internal search queries, interaction with videos, file downloads, ads seen/clicked, language settings, your approximate standard, your IP address (in shortened form), technical information about your browser and the devices you use (e.g. language setting, screen resolution), your Internet provider and the referrer URL (via which website/which advertising medium you used to access this website arrived). We would like to point out that Google Analytics on our website has been expanded to include the code “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). You can object to the processing of your data at any time,

for example, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

We also use Google Analytics to evaluate data from AdWords and the DoubleClick cookie as well as data from the Google advertising functions for purely statistical purposes.

You can deactivate this evaluation at any time via http://www.google.de/settings/ads. Further information about data protection at Google can be found at https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.

-Google Doubleclick (including SafeFrame and Publisher Tags):

Using the DoubleClick service/platform provided by Google Inc. (Google), advertising based on your interests is delivered, processed, controlled and optimized by advertisers on publishers’ websites. Cookies are set for this. When using Doubleclick, we also use the Google Publisher Tags functionality, which allows the targeting to be optimally adapted to the content of the website, and Google SafeFrame to optimize the delivery of advertising.

You can deactivate interest-based ads from Google in your browser by clicking on the “deactivate” link in the “Deactivation Settings” subsection at http://www.google.de/settings/ads or – if you use the Google Chrome browser, If you use Firefox or Internet Explorer – deactivate the DoubleClick cookie by installing the extension offered on http://www.google.de/settings/ads for your browser

-Google Tag Manager:

We use the Google Tag Manager from the provider Google Inc., which enables us to integrate and manage so-called website tags or markings on our website interface (we can use this, for example, to use the services described above such as Google Analytics and other Google services). -Integrate marketing services into our website). Website tags themselves are small code elements that can be used, for example, to measure traffic on our website and user behavior. The tag manager itself (which implements the tags) is a cookieless domain and does not process any user data.

-Social plugins:

In order to give our website visitors the opportunity to interact with social networks/platforms (e.g. through share, like, tweet and pin buttons) and to make our offering more interesting and user-friendly for you, we use so-called social plug-ins the following social networks/platforms:

-Facebook (Facebook Ireland Limited,

4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland; Information on data protection: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation)

-Instagram (Instagram Inc., 181 South Park Street, Suite 2, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA; data protection information: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875)

-Twitter (Twitter Inc.,1355 Market Street Suite 900 San Francisco, CA 94103, USA; information on data protection: https://twitter.com/privacy)

-Pinterest (Pinterest Inc., 808 Brennan St., San Francisco, CA 94103, USA; information on data protection: https://policy.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy)

We would like to point out that accessing our website leads to a connection to the above-mentioned social networks/platforms and that they receive, among other things, the information that the user has accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. If you interact with one of the integrated plug-ins, e.g. click on it and are logged in to the respective social network/platform, your data may be assigned directly to your existing user account on the respective social network/platform.

We have no influence on the data and data processing operations collected by the social networks/platforms, nor are we aware of the full extent of data collection, the purposes of processing or the storage periods of the social networks/platforms. We also have no information regarding the deletion of the collected data.

We recommend that you inform yourself about the types of data covered by this as well as the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the social networks/platforms as well as about your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy by reading the above Read the linked data protection information.

You can prevent the plug-ins from loading and thus the collection of data by installing add-ons (so-called browser extensions) / script blockers in your browser.

-TikTok Custom Audience Pixel:

On our website we use the TikTok pixel from the social network TikTok (TikTok Technology Limited, 10 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, D02 T380, Ireland), which allows us to identify our website visitors who have already shown an interest in our website and content TikTok members are also entitled to display advertising and offers that are relevant to them on TickTok. With the help of the TikTok pixel, we can also measure the effectiveness and success of our advertisements on TikTok by tracking whether a user was redirected to our website after clicking on a TikTok advertisement.

If you are a member of TikTok, you can stop the processing of data for the above purposes at any time via your Tik-Tok app settings under “Privacy and security” and then under “Personalization and data” and “Ads based on data received from partners”. deactivate. Further information on data protection at Tik-Tok can be found here: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy?lang=de.

d. Delete third-party cookies related to usage or interest-based advertising

In connection with cookies and similar technologies that are used by some advertisers, advertising agencies and marketers for the purpose of displaying usage or interest-based advertising when you visit websites, you can also access the following preference managers and there be tracked by all or some of them contradict the services stored there:

-Preference manager of the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA): http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/

-Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) Preference Manager: -http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1#!/

e. Deleting cookies/browser settings

If you do not want websites to place cookies on your computer or mobile device, you can set your web browser so that you are notified before a cookie is set.

You can also set your web browser to reject all cookies or only cookies from third parties.

You can also delete cookies that have already been set at any time via your web browser settings.

9. Additional information on data processing within the context of our presence on social media platforms

We maintain so-called fan pages or accounts on the social networks Facebook (facebook.com), Instagram (instagram.com), Twitter (twitter.com) and Pinterest (pinterest.com) to provide you with information within social networks and offers and to offer you further ways to contact us and find out about our media and publishing offers. Below we will inform you about which data we or the respective social network process from you in connection with the access and use of our fan pages/accounts.

a) Data that we process about you

aa) Participation in competitions/promotions

If you have a user account on the respective social network and, for example, take part in a competition or similar campaign organized by us on Facebook or Instagram and/or would like to contact us via the messenger functions offered, we collect this data from you , which are necessary for participation and implementation in the competition including notification of the prize and its dispatch. These are usually the user name of the participant, and the winners will also be asked for their real name and address as well as their email address after the winner has been sent the notification of their winnings. The legal basis is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 b) GDPR (processing is necessary for the fulfillment of a contract-like relationship with the data subject).

bb) Contact via messenger/direct message

If you would like to contact us via messenger or direct message via the respective social network, we will usually process your user name, which you use to contact us, and, if necessary, store other data you have provided (e.g. if you have questions about something you have booked Subscription: your name/address) if this is necessary to process/answer your request. The legal basis is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 f) GDPR (processing is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the person responsible).

b) (Static) usage data that we receive from social networks

In the case of Facebook and Instagram, we automatically receive daily statistics regarding our fan pages/accounts via the Facebook Insights and Instagram Insights functionalities from Facebook and Instagram. The statistics include, among other things, the total number of page views, likes, information on page activity and post interactions, reach, video views/views and information on the proportion of men/women among our fans/followers.

The statistics only contain aggregated data that cannot be related to individual people. You cannot be identified by us.

c) What data the social networks process about you

In order to view the contents of our fan pages or accounts, you do not have to be a member of the respective social network and a user account for the respective social network is not required.

Please note, however, that when you access the respective social network, the social networks also collect and store data from website visitors without a user account (e.g. technical data in order to be able to show you the website) and use cookies and similar technologies, over which we have no influence have. Details can be found in the data protection regulations of the respective social network (see the relevant links below at the end of this section).

If you want to interact with the content on our fan pages/accounts, e.g. comment on, share or like our postings/contributions and/or would like to take part in competitions or similar campaigns organized by us on the fan pages/accounts and/or via If you would like to contact us using messenger functions, you must first register with the respective social network and provide personal data.

We have no influence on the data processing by the social networks when you use them. To the best of our knowledge, your data will be stored and processed in particular in connection with the provision of the services of the respective social network, as well as to analyze usage behavior (using cookies, pixels/web beacons and similar technologies) based on yours Interest-based advertising is displayed both within and outside the respective social network. It cannot be ruled out that your data will also be stored by social networks outside the EU/EEA and passed on to third parties.

Information on, among other things, the exact scope and purposes of the processing of your personal data, the storage period/deletion as well as guidelines on the use of cookies and similar technologies as part of the registration and use of the social networks can be found in the data protection regulations/cookie guidelines of the social networks. There you will also find information about your rights and objection options:

– https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation /https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/

– https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875 /https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ [FF6]

– https://twitter.com/privacy / https://help.twitter.com/de/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies

Note: If you are a California resident, please visit our separate California Resident Privacy Policy.