Privacy Policy

Responsible party pursuant to data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is

Vogt, van Zyl, Ernst GbR
Raderberger Straße 175
50968 Köln
Germany

You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details of our data protection officer

Information on your data stored by us and the processing thereof (Art. 15 GDPR),

Rectification of inaccurate personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),

Deletion of your data stored by us (Art. 17 GDPR),

Restriction of the data processing, provided that we may not delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR),

Objection to the processing of your data with us (Art. 21 GDPR) and
Data portability, provide that you have consented to the data processing or have entered into a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR).

If you have given us consent, you may withdraw it at any time, which will remain in effect in the future.
You can contact a supervisory authority with a complaint at any time, e.g. the supervisory authority of the state of your residence or the authority that oversees us as the responsible party.

You’ll find a list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public area) with their respective addresses at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Collecting general information during a visit to our website

Type and purpose of the processing

When you access our website – i.e. if you do not register or submit information – information of a general nature will be collected automatically. This information (server log files) contains the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, your IP address and the like.

It is processed in particular for the following purposes:

Ensuring an unproblematic website connection
Ensuring seamless use of our website
Analysis of system security and stability as well as
For additional administrative purposes.

We will not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. This type of information will be statistically analysed by us if necessary to optimise our website and its underlying technology.

The processing occurs according to Art. 6 Para. 1 (f) GDPR, based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Recipients of the data may be technical service providers, who work on the operation and maintenance of our website as the processor.

The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for the reason they were collected. This is generally the case, after the respective session has ended, for data that are used to make the website available.

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually mandatory. Without the IP address however, the service and functionality of our website are not guaranteed. Furthermore, individual services can be unavailable or limited. For this reason, an objection is excluded.

The data you enter are used for individual communication with you. A valid e-mail address and your name are required for this communication, which serves to organize your inquiry and the respective subsequent reply. Providing additional information is optional.

The processing of the data entered in the contact form occurs on the basis of a legitimate interest (Art. 6 Para. 1 (f) GDPR).

By providing the contact form, our aim is to facilitate an uncomplicated means for you to contact us. The information you enter will be used to process the inquiry and saved for possible follow-up questions.

If you contact us to request an offer, the processing of the information provided in the contact form will occur in order to implement pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 Para. 1 (b) GDPR).

Recipients of the data may be processors.

The data will be deleted no later than 6 months after processing the inquiry.

Provided that we enter into a contract together, we will use the statutory retention periods in the German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch) and delete your data according to the respective stipulated deadlines.

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

We use Adobe Fonts for the visual design of our website. Adobe Fonts is a service of Adobe Systems Software Ireland Companies (4-6 Riverwalk, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, Republic of Ireland; hereinafter ‘Adobe’), which grants us access to a font library. To incorporate the fonts we use, your browser must connect to an Adobe server in the U.S. and download the fonts we require for our website. Thereby, Adobe receives the information that our website retrieved from your IP address. For more information about Adobe Fonts, see the Adobe privacy policy available at: https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policy.html

Your consent is the legal basis for the integration of Adobe Fonts and the associated data transfer to Adobe (Art. 6 Para. 1 (a) GDPR).

The use of script libraries or font libraries automatically triggers a connection to the operator of the library. You’ll find information on the use of your data by Adobe Fonts Web Fonts at https://fonts.adobe.com and in the privacy policy of Adobe Fonts: https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policies/adobe-fonts.html

We do not collect any personal data via the integration of Adobe Fonts.

The provision of your personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, the correct presentation of standard-fonts content is not possible without this provision.

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (such as SSL) via HTTPS.

The following organizations, companies or people were commissioned with data processing by the operator of this website:

Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited
4-6 Riverwalk
Citywest Business Campus
Dublin 24
Republic of Ireland

Vimeo, Inc.
555 West 18th Street
New York, New York 10011, 
USA

We don't use cookies ourself to track you or to share your personal information with any advertising-network.
But the services (Adobe Portfolio, Adobe Fonts and Vimeo) we use to host and run our website may use cookies to enhance the user-experience and the speed of our website. They might also collect data about your usage to improve their services. Informations about that you'll find in their privacy policies:

Adobe Portfolio:
https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policy.html

Adobe Fonts:
https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policies/adobe-fonts.html

Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/privacy

With using our website you accept the use of cookies!

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy so 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. Your next visit will be subject to the new privacy policy.

If you have any questions pertaining to data protection, please send us an e-mail:
E-Mail: kontakt@nilsvanernst.com

The privacy policy was created via the activeMind AG privacy policy generator (Version: #2018-09-24) and has been modified to our needs.