Privacy policy

The following data protection declaration applies to the use of our online offer www.blitzrind.de (hereinafter “website”).

The protection of your privacy and the protection of your personal data when using our website is an important concern for us. The collection and processing of your personal data is carried out in accordance with the applicable data protection regulations, in particular the Basic Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO).

1 Responsible person

Responsible for the collection, processing and use of your personal data within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 DSGVO is:

Holger Rindermann
Friedensallee 94
22763 Hamburg
E-mail: info[at]blitzrind.de

If you wish to object to the collection, processing or use of your data by us in accordance with these data protection provisions, either as a whole or for individual measures, you can address your objection to the person responsible.

You can save and print out this data protection declaration at any time.

2 General purposes of processing

We use personal data for the purpose of operating the website.

3 Which data we use and why

3.1 Hosting

The hosting services we use serve to provide the following services: Infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space and database services, security services and technical maintenance services that we use for the purpose of operating the website.

In doing so, we or our hosting provider process inventory data, contact data, content data, contract data, usage data, meta and communication data of customers, interested parties and visitors of this website on the basis of our legitimate interests in an efficient and secure provision of our website in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f) DSGVO in conjunction with Art. 28 DSGVO.

3.2 Access data

We collect information about you when you use this website. We automatically collect information about your usage pattern and your interaction with us and register data about your computer or mobile device. We collect, store and use data about every access to our website (so-called server log files). The access data includes:

  • Name and URL of the retrieved file
  • Date and time of retrieval
  • Amount of data transmitted
  • Message about successful retrieval (HTTP response code)
  • Browser type and version
  • Operating system
  • Referer URL (i.e. the previously visited page)
  • Websites that are called up by the user’s system via our website
  • Internet service provider of the user
  • IP address and the requesting provider

We use this log data without allocation to your person or other profiling for statistical evaluations for the purpose of operating, security and optimisation of our website, but also for anonymous recording of the number of visitors to our website (traffic) and the extent and type of use of our website and services. This information allows us to provide personalized and location-based content and to analyze traffic, troubleshoot and correct errors, and improve our services.

This is also our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f) DSGVO.

We reserve the right to subsequently check the log data if there is a justified suspicion of illegal use based on concrete evidence. We store IP addresses in the log files for a limited period of time if this is necessary for security purposes. We also store IP addresses if we have a concrete suspicion of a criminal offence in connection with the use of our website.

3.3 Cookies

We use so-called session cookies to optimise our website. A session cookie is a small text file that is sent by the respective servers when you visit a website and is temporarily stored on your hard drive. This file as such contains a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the common session. This enables your computer to be recognised when you return to our website. These cookies are deleted after you close your browser.

Our legitimate interest in the use of cookies pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f) DSGVO is to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure.

You can set your browser so that you are informed in advance about the setting of cookies and can decide in individual cases whether you want to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally, or that cookies are completely prevented. This may restrict the functionality of the website.

3.4 E-mail contact

If you contact us (e.g. via contact form or e-mail), we will process your data to process the enquiry and in the event that follow-up questions arise.

If the data processing is carried out in order to carry out pre-contractual measures, which are carried out at your request, or, if you are already our customer, in order to carry out the contract, the legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 b) DSGVO.

We only process other personal data if you give your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 a) DSGVO) or if we have a legitimate interest in processing your data (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f) DSGVO). A legitimate interest is, for example, to reply to your e-mail.

4 Storage duration

Unless specifically stated, we only store personal data for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes pursued.

In some cases the legislator provides for the retention of personal data, for example in tax or commercial law. In these cases, the data will only be further stored by us for these legal purposes, but will not be processed in any other way and will be deleted after the legal retention period has expired.

5 Your rights as data subject

Under applicable laws, you have various rights regarding your personal information. If you wish to exercise these rights, please send your request by e-mail or by post, clearly identifying yourself, to the address mentioned in point 1.

Below you will find an overview of your rights.

5.1 Right of confirmation and information

You have the right to receive clear information about the processing of your personal data.

In detail:
You have the right to obtain confirmation from us at any time as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed. If this is the case, you have the right to request information free of charge about the personal data stored about you, together with a copy of this data.
In addition, there is a right to the following information:

  1. the processing purposes;
  2. the categories of personal data processed;
  3. the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular to recipients in third countries or to international organisations;
  4. if possible, the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining this duration;
  5. the existence of a right of rectification or erasure of personal data relating to you or of a right of opposition to or limitation of the processing by the controller;
  6. the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority;
  7. if the personal data is not collected from you, all available information about the origin of the data;
  8. the existence of an automated decision-making process, including profiling in accordance with Art. 22 para. 1 and 4 DSGVO and – at least in these cases – meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing for you.

If personal data is transferred to a third country or to an international organisation, you have the right to be informed of the appropriate guarantees under Art. 46 DSGVO in connection with the transfer.

5.2 Right of rectification

You have the right to ask us to correct and, if necessary, complete personal data concerning you.

In detail:
You have the right to ask us to correct incorrect personal data concerning you without delay. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you have the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data, also by means of a supplementary declaration.

5.3 Right of cancellation (“right to be forgotten”)

In a number of cases we are obliged to delete personal data concerning you.

In detail:
In accordance with Art. 17 para. 1 DSGVO, you have the right to demand that we delete personal data relating to you without delay, and we are obliged to delete personal data without delay if one of the following reasons applies:

  1. The personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
  2. You lodge an objection to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 DSGVO and there are no overriding legitimate reasons for the processing, or you lodge an objection to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 para. 2 DSGVO.
  3. The personal data were processed unlawfully.
  4. Deletion of the personal data is necessary to comply with a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the Member States to which we are subject.
  5. The personal data were collected in relation to information society services offered in accordance with Art. 8 para. 1 DSGVO.

If we have made the personal data public and are obliged to delete them pursuant to Art. 17 para. 1 DSGVO, we will take reasonable measures, including technical measures, taking into account available technology and implementation costs, to inform data controllers who process the personal data that you have requested them to delete all links to these personal data or copies or replications of these personal data.

5.4 Right to limit processing

In a number of cases, you are entitled to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data.

In detail:
You have the right to request us to restrict processing if one of the following conditions is met:

  1. The accuracy of personal data is disputed by you, for a period of time that allows us to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
  2. the processing is unlawful and you refused to delete the personal data and instead requested the restriction of the use of the personal data;
  3. we no longer require the personal data for the purposes of processing, but you require the data for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims, or
  4. you have lodged an objection to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 para. 1 DSGVO, as long as it has not yet been established whether the legitimate reasons of our company outweigh yours.

5.5 Right of data transferability

You have the right to receive, transmit or have us transmit personal data concerning you in machine-readable form.

In detail:
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format and you have the right to transfer this data to another responsible person without hindrance from us, provided that

  1. the processing is based on a consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 a) DSGVO or Art. 9 para. 2 a) DSGVO or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 b) DSGVO and
  2. the processing is carried out by means of automated procedures.

When exercising your right to data transferability in accordance with paragraph 1, you have the right to request that the personal data be transferred directly from us to another responsible party, insofar as this is technically feasible.

5.6 Right of objection

You have the right to object to the lawful processing of your personal data by us if this is justified by your particular situation and if our interests in the processing do not outweigh the processing.

In detail:
You have the right to object at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you that is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1, sentence 1 e) or f) DSGVO; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. We will no longer process personal data unless we can prove compelling reasons for processing worthy of protection that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or unless the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

Where personal data are processed by us for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data relating to you for the purpose of such marketing, including profiling, insofar as it relates to such direct marketing.

You have the right to object, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out for the purposes of scientific or historical research or for statistical purposes in accordance with Art. 89 para. 1 DSGVO, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest.

5.7 Automated decisions including profiling

You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, that has legal effect on you or significantly affects you in a similar manner.

There is no automated decision making on the basis of the personal data collected.

5.8 Right to revoke a data protection consent

You have the right to revoke your consent to process personal data at any time.

5.9 Right of appeal to a supervisory authority

You have the right to complain to a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, place of employment or place of suspected infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning you is unlawful.

6 Data security

We make every effort to ensure the security of your data within the framework of the applicable data protection laws and technical possibilities.

Your personal data will be transmitted encrypted. We use the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) coding system, but we would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. A complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

To secure your data, we maintain technical and organisational security measures in accordance with Art. 32 DSGVO, which we continually adapt to the state of the art.

Furthermore, we do not guarantee that our offer is available at certain times; disturbances, interruptions or failures cannot be excluded. The servers used by us are regularly and carefully backed up.

7 Transfer of data to third parties, no data transfer to non-EU countries

In principle we use your personal data only within our company.

If and insofar as we involve third parties in the fulfilment of contracts, these third parties will only receive personal data to the extent that the transmission is necessary for the corresponding service.

In the event that we outsource certain parts of data processing (“contract processing”), we contractually oblige contract processors to use personal data only in accordance with the requirements of data protection laws and to ensure the protection of the rights of the data subject.

A data transfer to places or persons outside the EU does not take place and is not planned.