Privacy Policy
§ 1 Information about the collection of personal data
1. Information on the collection of personal data
(1) Below, we inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data are all data that can be related to you personally, such as name, address, email addresses, user behavior.
(2) Responsible party pursuant to Art. 4 para. 7 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is "Simon Fotografie," represented by Alena Simon, Solarstr2, 88046 Friedrichshafen, email a.simon.fotografie@gmail.com (see imprint).
(3) When you contact us by email or through a contact form, the data you provide (your email address, possibly your name and telephone number) will be stored by us to answer your questions. We delete the data collected in this context after storage is no longer necessary, or restrict processing if there are legal retention obligations.
(4) If we use commissioned service providers for individual functions of our offer or wish to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you below in detail about the respective processes. We also state the specified criteria for the storage period.
§ 2 Your rights
(1) You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
Right to information,
Right to correction or deletion,
Right to restriction of processing,
Right to object to processing,
Right to data portability.
(2) You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.
§ 3 Collection of personal data when visiting our website.
(1) When using the website for informational 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 want 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 GDPR):
IP address
Date and time of the request
Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Content of the request (specific page)
Access status/HTTP status code
Amount of data transferred in each case
Website from which the request comes
Browser
Operating system and its interface
Language and version of the browser software.
(2) In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. 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 site that sets the cookie (here by us). Cookies cannot execute programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet offer as a whole more user-friendly and effective.
(3) Use of cookies:
a) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functionality of which are explained below:
Transient cookies (see b)
Persistent cookies (see c).
b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. This includes in particular the session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the common session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.
c) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser.
d) You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.
e) We use cookies to identify you for subsequent visits if you have an account with us. Otherwise, you would have to log in again for each visit.
(4) This website uses the common SSL (Secure Socket Layer) procedure in connection with the highest encryption level supported by your browser. Whether a single page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form can be seen from the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.
§ 4 Further functions and offers of 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. For this purpose, you will generally need to provide further personal data, which we will use to provide the respective service and to which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.
(2) We partly 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) Furthermore, we may pass on personal data to third parties if we offer joint promotions, competitions, contract conclusions, or similar services together with partners. You can find more information on this when providing your personal data or below in the description of the offer.
(4) If our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you about the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the offer.
§ 5 Objection or revocation against the processing of your data
(1) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke this consent at any time. Such a revocation affects the permissibility of processing your personal data after you have given it to us.
(2) If we base the processing of your personal data on the weighing of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary for the fulfillment of a contract with you, which is described by us in each case in the following description of the functions. If you exercise 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 either stop or adjust the data processing or show you our compelling legitimate reasons for continuing the processing.
(3) Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes at any time. You can inform us about your advertising objection using the following contact details: "Simon Fotografie," represented by Alena and Nikolai Simon, Zum Zault 11, 40627 Düsseldorf, email: a.simon.fotografie@gmail.com
§ 6 Use of additional functions of our website
1. Use of our webshops
(1) If you want to place an order in our webshop, it is necessary for the conclusion of the contract that you provide your personal data, which we need to process your order. Mandatory information required for the processing of contracts is separately marked, further information is voluntary. We process the data you provide to process your order. For this purpose, we may pass on your payment data to our house bank. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b DS-GVO. You can voluntarily have your usage data stored for further visits to us, so that we can store your data for later purchases. The data you provide will be stored revocably. We may also process the data you provide to inform you about further interesting products from our portfolio or to send you emails with technical information.
(2) Due to commercial and tax regulations, we are obliged to store your address, payment and order data for a period of ten years. However, after two years, we restrict the processing, i.e. your data will only be used to comply with legal obligations.
(3) To prevent unauthorized access by third parties to your personal data, especially financial data, the ordering process is encrypted using TLS technology.
§ 7 Use of Web Analytics
1. Use of Google Analytics
(1) This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.
(2) The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.
(3) You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
(4) We use Google Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. With the statistics obtained, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DS-GVO.
(5) Third-party information: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. User conditions: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/en.html, Privacy overview: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/learn/privacy.html, and the privacy policy: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy.
(6) This website also uses Google Analytics for a cross-device analysis of visitor flows, which is carried out via a user ID. You can deactivate the cross-device analysis of your usage in your customer account under "My data", "Personal data".
2. Facebook Pixel, Custom Audiences and Facebook Conversion
(1) We use the so-called "Facebook Pixel" of the social network Facebook on our website within the scope of our interests in analysis, optimization and economic operation of our online offer and for these purposes, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or if you are located in the EU, Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Facebook").
(2) Facebook is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus offers a guarantee to comply with European data protection law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active).
(3) With the help of the Facebook pixel, Facebook can determine the visitors of our online offer as a target group for the presentation of advertisements (so-called "Facebook ads"). Therefore, we use the Facebook pixel to only display the Facebook ads we have placed to Facebook users who have also shown an interest in our online offering or who have certain characteristics (e.g. interests in certain topics or products determined by the websites visited) that we transmit to Facebook (so-called "Custom Audiences"). With the help of the Facebook pixel, we also want to ensure that our Facebook ads correspond to the potential interest of users and are not annoying. With the help of the Facebook pixel, we can also track the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes by seeing whether users were redirected to our website after clicking on a Facebook advertisement (so-called "conversion").
(4) The processing of data by Facebook is carried out within the framework of Facebook's data usage policy. For information on this, please refer to: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php. For specific information and details about the Facebook pixel and how it works, please visit the Facebook help section: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/651294705016616.
(5) You can object to the collection by the Facebook pixel and use of your data for the display of Facebook ads. To set which types of ads are displayed to you within Facebook, you can visit the page set up by Facebook and follow the instructions on the settings for usage-based advertising: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads. The settings are platform-independent, i.e. they are adopted for all devices, such as desktop computers or mobile devices.
§ 8 Social Media Plug-ins
1. Integration of Google Maps
(1) On this website, we utilize the services of Google Maps. This allows us to display interactive maps directly on the website and enables you to use the map function conveniently.
(2) By visiting the website, Google receives information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. Additionally, the data mentioned in section 3 of this statement is transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be directly associated with your account. If you do not wish for the association with your profile on Google, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for purposes of advertising, market research, and/or demand-oriented design of its website. Such an evaluation is carried out, in particular (even for users not logged in), to provide demand-oriented advertising 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 these user profiles, and you must contact Google to exercise this right.
(3) Further information about the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider can be found in the provider's privacy policies. There you will also find additional information about your related rights and options for protecting your privacy: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.
§ 9 Online Advertising
1. Facebook Custom Audiences
(1) The website also uses the remarketing function "Custom Audiences" of Facebook Inc. ("Facebook"). This allows users of the website to be shown interest-based advertisements ("Facebook Ads") during visits to the Facebook social network or other websites that also use the procedure. Our aim is to display advertising to you that is of interest to us in order to make our website more appealing to you.
(2) Due to the marketing tools used, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with Facebook's server. We have no influence on the scope and further use of the data collected by Facebook through the use of this tool and therefore inform you according to our level of knowledge: By integrating Facebook Custom Audiences, Facebook receives information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website or clicked on an advertisement from us. If you are registered with a service of Facebook, Facebook can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Facebook or have not logged in, there is a possibility that the provider will obtain and store your IP address and other identification features.
(3) The deactivation of the "Facebook Custom Audiences" function is possible [here and] for logged-in users at https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads#_.
(4) The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DS-GVO. Further information on data processing by Facebook can be found at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy.