Privacy policy

1) Information on the retrieval of personal data and contact info of the responsible party

1.1 We are happy that you are visiting our site and thank you for your interest. Below we will inform you of how your personal data are treated while you use our website. Personal data are all data connected to you as an individual.

1.2 The responsible party for data processing on this website as per Art. 4 para. 7 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is click it Bildsysteme GmbH, Am Heilbrunnen 141, 72766 Reutlingen, Deutschland, Tel.: +49 (0)7121 694 970, Fax: +49 (0)7121 694 9749, E-Mail: info@clickit-fotoaktionen.de. The party responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who, solely or together with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data.

1.3 This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries to the controller). You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string https:// and the lock symbol in your browser line.

2) Data retrieval while visiting our website

For purely informational usage of our website, namely when you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only retrieve the data that your browser provides to our server (“server logfiles”). When you visit our website we receive the following data, which are technically required in order to display the website for you:

  • Our page that you visited
  • Date and time of access
  • Amount of data sent in bytes
  • Volume of data sent in bytes
  • Source/reference from which you reached the page
  • Browser used
  • Operating system used
  • IP address (if possible: in anonymised format)

The processing occurs as per Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR on the basis of our justified interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. There is no forwarding or other usage of the data. However, we reserve the right to retroactively examine the server logfiles in the event of specific indications of illegal usage.

3) Cookies

We use cookies on various pages in order to make visiting our website more attractive and to facilitate the usage of specific functions. These are small text files that are installed on your end device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after your browser session, namely after closing your browser (session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and allow us or our partner companies (third-party provider cookies) to recognise your browser during your next visit (persistent cookies). If cookies are installed, they individually retrieve and process certain user information such as browser and location data and IP address values. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a certain period of time, which may vary by cookie.

If individual cookies that we have implemented process personal data as well, this processing occurs as per Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR to ensure our justified interests in the best possible functionality of the website, as well as a customer-friendly and effective configuration of the visit.

We sometimes work with advertising partners, who help us make our internet presence more interesting for you. For this purpose and in this event, cookies from partner companies are stored on your hard drive during your visit (third-party cookies). When we work with the aforementioned advertising partners, you will be individually and separately informed of the usage of such cookies and the extent of the respectively retrieved information in the following paragraphs.

Please note that you can adjust your browser settings such that you are informed of the installation of cookies and can individually decide on the acceptance thereof, or for certain instances, or may generally block them. Every browser differs in the manner in which it manages cookie settings. This is described in every browser’s Help menu, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find these for the respective browser through the following links:

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internetexplorer-delete-manage-cookies
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&hlrm=en
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=en_DE
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html

Please note that the deactivation of cookies may result in limited functionality of our website.

4) Tools, etc.

4.1 Google Web Fonts

In order to facilitate the consistent display of fonts, this website uses Web Fonts from Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). When visiting a website your browser loads the necessary Web Fonts in your browser cache in order to correctly display text and fonts.

For this purpose the browser you use must form a connection with Google’s servers. This allows Google to know that our website was visited through your IP address. The usage of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a consistent and attractive display of our webpages. This constitutes justified interest as per Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. If your browser does not support Web Fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer. Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified for the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield”, which ensures adherence to the level of data protection applicable in the EU.

Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

5) Rights of affected parties

5.1 Data protection law grants you extensive “rights of affected parties” (disclosure and intervention rights) over the responsible party with regard to the processing of your personal data. Below you will find more information:

  • Right of disclosure as per Art. 15 GDPR: in particular you have the right to disclosure of your personal data that we have processed; the purposes of processing; the categories of processed personal data; the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data were or will be disclosed; the planned storage period or criteria for the determination thereof; the existence of a right to correction, deletion or limitation of the processing; objection to the processing; file a complaint with a supervisory authority; the source of your data if we did not retrieve them from you; the existence of an automated decision-making process including profiling and any pertinent information on the logic involved as well as the scope pertaining to you and desired effects of such processing; and your right to instruction as to which guarantees apply to the forwarding of your data to third countries as per Art. 46 GDPR;
  • Right to correction as per Art. 16 GDPR: you have a right to immediate correction of incorrect data concerning you and/or completion of your incomplete data that we have stored;
  • Right to deletion as per Art. 17 GDPR: you have the right to request the deletion of your personal data pending the criteria of Art. 17 para. 1 GDPR. However, this right does not apply if the processing is required to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfil a legal obligation, for reasons of the public interest, or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
  • Right to limitation of the processing as per Art. 18 GDPR: you have the right to request the limitation of the processing of your personal data as long as the contested accuracy of your data is being examined; if you decline the deletion of your data due to impermissible data processing and instead request the limitation of said processing; if you require your data to assert, exercise or defend legal claims; after we no longer need these data to achieve our purposes; or if you have submitted an objection for special reasons, as long as it is not determined that our justified reasons take priority;
  • Right to instruction as per Art. 19 GDPR: if you have asserted to the responsible party the right to the correction, deletion or limitation of processing, the responsible party is obligated to notify all recipients of your personal data of this correction or deletion of the data or limitation of processing, unless this proves to be impossible or entails disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed of these recipients;
  • Right to transferability of data as per Art. 20 GDPR: you have the right to receive the personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format, or to request the forwarding thereof to other responsible parties if such is technically feasible;
  • Right to revocation of granted consent as per Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR: you have the right revoke one-time consent to the processing of data at any time, with effect for the future. In the event of revocation we will immediately delete the respective data, provided further processing is not based on the legal authority to process without consent. The revocation of consent will not affect the legality of the processing rendered up to the point of the revocation of consent;
  • Right to file a complaint as per Art. 77 GDPR: if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates GDPR, you – regardless of any other administrative or legal remedy – have the right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of your place of residence, place of work, or site of the alleged violation.

5.2 RIGHT OF OBJECTION

IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR OUTWEIGHING JUSTIFIED INTEREST FOR PURPOSES OF A CONSIDERATION OF INTERESTS, YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE FOR REASONS PERTAINING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION.
IF YOU UTILISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL END THE PROCESSING OF THE RESPECTIVE DATA. HOWEVER, FURTHER PROCESSING IS POSSIBLE IF WE ARE ABLE TO VERIFY COMPULSORY REASONS WORTHY OF PROTECTION FOR THE PROCESSING, NAMELY IF THESE REASONS OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND BASIC RIGHTS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES PURPOSES OF ASSERTING, EXERCISING OR DEFENDING LEGAL CLAIMS.

IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA TO MANAGE DIRECT ADVERTISING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR PURPOSES OF SUCH ADVERTISING AT ANY TIME. YOU MAY EXERCISE THIS OBJECTION IN THE MANNER DESCRIBED ABOVE. IF YOU UTILISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL END THE PROCESSING OF THE RESPECTIVE DATA FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING PURPOSES.

6) Duration of the storage of personal data

The duration of the storage of personal data is based on the respective legal retention period (e.g. commercial or tax law retention periods). After this period has expired, the respective data will be routinely deleted provided they are no longer required to fulfil or initiate a contract and/or we have no further justified interest in continued storage.