Privacy Policy

§ 1 INFORMATION ABOUT THE COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA 

(1) The following information concerns the collection of personal data while using this website. Personal data is all data that can be personally related to you, e.g. name, address, email addresses, user behaviour. 

(2) The controller pursuant to Art. 4 (7) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK-GDPR) is the BAHLSEN LLP, Randall House, Chiltern Park, Chiltern Hill, Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, SL9 9 FG. 

(3) You can contact our data protection officer Dr Volker Wodianka, LL.M. at volker.wodianka@privacy-legal.de or at our postal address with the addition "the data protection officer".

(4) When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, your name and telephone number, if applicable, and the content of your message) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. Your data will be processed as part of pre-contractual measures or on the basis of your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) and b) UK GDPR. We delete the data arising in this context after storage is no longer necessary, or restrict processing if there are statutory retention obligations.

§ 2 YOUR RIGHTS 

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

• Right to information, 

• Right to correction or deletion, 

• Right to restriction of processing, 

• Right to refusal of processing, 

• Right to data portability. 

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

§ 3 REVOCATION OR WITHDRAWAL OF CONSENT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR DATA 

(1) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke it at any time. Such a revocation affects the permissibility of the processing of your personal data after you have given it to us.

(2) Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balancing of interests, you can object to the processing. This is the case if, in particular, the processing is not necessary for the fulfilment of a contract with you, which is described by us in the following description of the 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 will either discontinue or adapt the data processing or show you our compelling reasons worthy of protection on the basis of which we will continue the processing.

§ 4 DELETION AND STORAGE OF PERSONAL DATA 

(1) The data processed by us will be deleted in accordance with the legal requirements if the purpose for processing your data no longer applies or if it is no longer required for the purpose. Your data will also be deleted if the processing was based on your consent and you have withdrawn it.

(2) It may be that the storage of your data is necessary for other legally permissible purposes, such as the fulfilment of a legal obligation, the exercise of legal claims or for tax law reasons. In these cases, your personal data will only be processed for these purposes.

§ 5 COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA WHEN YOU VISIT OUR WEBSITE 

(1) If you use the website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, 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 to you and to ensure stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) UK GDPR):

• Date and time of the enquiry

• Web browser type and version and operating system used

• Hostname (IP address) of the requesting provider (visitor)

(2) In addition to the aforementioned data, technically necessary and, optionally, technically unnecessary cookies are stored on your computer if you give your consent. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive assigned to the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the body that sets the cookie (in this case us). They are used to make the website more user-friendly and effective overall. 

(3) If cookies are set on our website that require your consent, we will inform you about this separately within this privacy policy. If you have given your consent to this, you can revoke it at any time via the cookie banner on our website.

(4) To protect your data, we use SSIL encryption. You can recognise this by the prefix https:// in the address bar of your browser.

(5) You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future here.

§ 6 OTHER FUNCTIONS AND OFFERS ON OUR WEBSITE 

(1) In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. To do so, you must generally provide additional personal data that we use to provide the respective service and for which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.

(2) In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored.

(3) If our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the UK we will inform you of the consequences of this circumstance at the appropriate point in this privacy policy.

§ 7 CONSENT MANAGER 

We use the Headless Content Management System of the following provider:

Storyblok GmbH, Peter-Behrens-Platz 2, 4020 Linz, Austria.

The images contained in our website are hosted and made available via this provider's systems. Your IP address is sent to Storyblok and is stored there for up to seven days for system-related reasons.

§ 8 CATEGORIES OF RECIPIENTS OF PERSONAL DATA

(1) To process our business transactions, we use external domestic and foreign service providers (e.g. for IT, logistics, telecommunications, sales and marketing) who may also gain knowledge of your personal data. We have concluded order processing contracts with these providers in accordance with Art. 28 UK GDPR, which ensure that data processing is carried out in a permissible manner.

(2) If your personal data is passed on by us to our subsidiaries or is passed on to us by our subsidiaries (e.g. for advertising purposes), this is also done on the basis of existing order processing relationships.

§ 9 CONDITIONS FOR THE TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA TO THIRD COUNTRIES

(1) For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to countries outside the UK, i.e. to third countries, this is done under the conditions of Art. 44 et seq. UK GDPR. We will inform you about the respective details of the transfer at the relevant points below.

(2) The Commissioner certifies that some third countries have a level of data protection comparable to the UK standard by means of so-called adequacy decisions. However, in other third countries to which personal data may be transferred, there may not be a consistently high level of data protection due to a lack of legal provisions. If this is the case, we ensure that data protection is adequately guaranteed. This is possible via binding corporate rules, standard data protection clauses of the Commissioner for the protection of personal data pursuant to Art. 46 para. 1, 2 lit. c) UK GDPR, certificates or recognised codes of conduct.

§ 10 LINKS

(1) We use links to content on websites of other websites operators.

(2) We have no influence on the data collected there or the data processing procedures, nor do we know the entire scope of the data collection, the purpose of the processing of the retention periods.

(3) We also have no information about the deletion of the collected data by the linked provider. In this respect, we are not responsible under data protection law for the data processing on the linked website. 

(4) Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by the website operator can be found in the following data protection statements. There you will also find further information on your rights in this regard and the settings options for protecting your privacy. 

§ 11 UPDATING THE PRIVACY POLICY

We amend this privacy policy from time to time if this is necessary due to changes in data processing. Please make sure you keep updated with the content of our privacy policy and also about the latest updates on contact information from third parties.