Privacy Policy

The responsible body in accordance to data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

tm studios visuelle medien GmbH
Flugplatzstraße 70
90768 Fürth

Your rights as the person affected

Using the contact details of our data protection officer, you can exercise the following rights at any time:

  • Access information about your data stored by us and the processing (Art. 15 GDPR),
  • Rectification of inaccurate personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),
  • Erasure of personal data stored by us (Art. 17 GDPR),
  • Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR),
  • Objection against the processing of your personal data by us (Art. 21 GDPR) and
  • Data portability, if you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR).

If you have given us your consent, you may revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

You may submit a complaint to a supervisory authority at any time, e.g. to supervisory authority in charge of the state of your residence or to the authority in charge of us as the responsible body.

Here you can find a list of the supervisory authorities (of the non-public field) with addresses: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/EN/Service/Anschriften/Laender/Laender-node.html.

 

Collection of general information when visiting our website

Type and purpose of processing:

If you access our website, i.e. if you do not register yourself or convey information in any other way, generic information will automatically be collected. This information (server log files) contains for instance the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider, your IP address, etc.

The information is processed in particular for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring an unproblematic connection of the website,
  • Ensuring a smooth use of our website
  • Evaluation of the system security and stability as well as
  • Optimizing our website

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about you. Information like that may be anonymized and statistically analysed to improve our internet presence and the technology behind it.

Legal basis and legitimate interest:

The processing happens in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Recipient:

Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as commissioned processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Third country transfer:

The collected data may be transferred to the following third countries:

No

Duration of storage:

The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for the purpose of collection. This is generally the case for the data used for the provision of the website once the respective session has ended.

If the data is stored in log files, this is the case after 14 days at the latest. Storage beyond this is possible. In this case, the IP addresses of the users are anonymized so that an identification of the client is no longer possible.

Provision mandatory or required:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither required by law nor by contract. Without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website is, however, not guaranteed. In addition, individual services may be inaccessible or restricted. Therefore, any objection is impossible.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we also use so-called Cookies. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website.

You can delete individual cookies or the entire cookie selection. In addition, you will receive information and instructions on how to delete those cookies or block their storage in advance.

Depending on the provider of your browser, you will find the necessary information under the following links:

Duration of storage and cookies used:

If you give us your permission to use cookies through your browser settings or consent, the following cookies may be used on our websites:

borlabs-cookie: 182 days

 

Technically necessary cookies

Type and purpose of processing:

We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require the browser to be identifiable after a change of sites.

The purpose of technically essential cookies is to simplify the usage of websites for the visitors. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these, it is necessary that the browser can be reidentified after a change of sites.

We need cookies for the following applications:

 

Legal basis and legitimate interest:

The processing happens in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in a user-friendly design of our website.

Recipient:

Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as commissioned processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Provision mandatory or required:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither required by law nor by contract. Without these data, the service and functionality of our website is, however, not guaranteed. In addition, individual services may be inaccessible or restricted.

Objection

Please read the information about your right to object in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR below.

Contact form

Type and purpose of processing:

The data you enter will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. This requires you to provide a valid email address and your name. This serves to categorize the request and then answer it. The provision of further data is optional.

Legal basis:

The processing of data entered in the contact form takes place in accordance with a legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

By providing the contact form, we want to enable you to contact us easily. Your data will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions.

If you contact us to request an offer, the data entered in the contact form will be processed to carry out pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR).

Recipient:

Recipient of the data may be commissioned processors.

Duration of storage:

Data will be deleted no later than 6 months after processing the request.

If it comes to a contractual relationship, we are subject to the statutory retention periods according to the German Commercial Code (HGB) and will delete your data after expiry of these periods.

Provision mandatory or required:

The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your request if you provide us with your name, e-mail address and the reason for your request.

Use of Google Maps

On this website we use the services of Google Maps. Google Maps is operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter referred to as Google). This allows us to display interactive maps directly on the website and enable you to conveniently use the map function. For further information about the data processing by Google please refer to the Google data protection notice: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. There you can also manage the settings of your personal data in the data protection centre.

Detailed instructions on managing your own data in connection with Google products can be found here: https://www.dataliberation.org

By visiting the website, Google receives information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. This is done regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether there is no user account. If you are logged into Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account.

If you don’t want the assignment in your profile with Google, you must log out of Google before activating the button. Google stores your data as user profiles and uses them for the purpose of advertisement, market research and/or customized design of their websites. Such evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users not logged in) to provide customized advertisement and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of the user profiles, although you must contact Google to exercise this right.

Withdrawal of consent:

The provider currently offers no option for a simple opt-out or blocking of data transmission. If you wish to prevent your activities being tracked on our website, please withdraw your consent for the respective cookie category or for all technically non-essential cookies and data transmissions in the cookie consent tool. In this case, however, you may be unable to access our website, or it will only be possible to a limited extent.

SSL encryption

In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Information regarding your right to object in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR

Right to object on a case-by-case basis

You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object to the processing of your personal data which is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (data processing on the basis of balancing interests); this also applies to profiling based on this regulation within the meaning of Art. 4 (4) GDPR.

If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can verify compelling legitimate reasons for the processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the enforcement, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Recipient of objections

tm studios visuelle medien GmbH
Flugplatzstraße 70
90768 Fürth

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy to ensure that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g., when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

Questions to the data protection officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email to:

datenschutz@tmstudios.de