Introduction
We respect your privacy and committed us to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
Controller
When we mention, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice, we are referring to:
Atelier Mel Weisweiler GmbH
Siegburger Straße 235w
50679 Köln
Company number HRA 91524
Mel Weisweiler GmbH is the controller for personal data collected via this website.
Personal Data Supervisor
We have appointed a personal data supervisor who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the personal data supervisor using the following details.
Personal Data Supervisor: Mel Weisweiler
Siegburger Straße 235w
50679 Köln
Fon +49 (0) 221 270 46 89-0
info@melweisweiler.com
Atelier Mel Weisweiler GmbH only responds to enquiries concerning data protection. Please send any communications in either English or German.
Supervisory Authority
You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the supervisory authority in the appropriate jurisdiction.
The data we collect about you
Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
· Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
· Contact Data includes address, email address and telephone numbers.
· Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
· Usage Data includes information about how you use our website.
· Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We do not collect any special categories of personal data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
How is your personal data collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
– Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Marketing and Communications Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise.
– Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.
– Third parties. We will receive personal data about you from following third parties (Adobe Analytics and Content Square).
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground, we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
Purpose-Activity / Notifying you about changes to our privacy notice
Type of data / (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Marketing and Communications.
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest / (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated)
Retention period / 12 months
Purpose-Activity / To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)
Type of data / (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest / (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganization or group restructuring exercise) (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
Retention period / 12 months
Purpose-Activity / To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences
Type of data / (a) Technical (b) Usage
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest / Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
Retention period / 25 months
Purpose-Activity / To provide you with marketing communication and information about our company and products
Type of data / (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Marketing and Communications
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest / (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business) (b) Consent
Retention period / Following notification that the data subject no longer wishes to receive marketing communications.
Change of purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fullfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are set out in the table above.
Marketing
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of activities/purposes 1-4 above.
Disclosure of your personal data
Subject to your consent, we may share your personal data with internal and external third parties.
In any case, we require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
International Transfers
We share your personal data within the Atelier Mel Weisweiler GmbH. This may involve transferring your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
Some of our external third parties are based outside the EEA so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission. For further details, see European Commission: Adequacy of the protection of personal data in non-EU countries.
Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries.
Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between Europe and the US. For further details, see European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield.
Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.
Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
Cookies & third-party links
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see here.
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit
Your legal rights
Under certain circumstances, you have the following rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:
– Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
– Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
– Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
– Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
– Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:
If you want us to establish the data’s accuracy. Where our use of the data is unlawful, but you do not want us to erase it. Where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. You have objected to our use of your data, but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
– Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
– Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact the personal data supervisor.
No fee usually required
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
What we may need from you
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
Time limit to respond
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made several requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
Your duty to inform us of changes
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
Contact
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, our privacy practices or your communication with us, please contact us in writing or by telephone:
Atelier Mel Weisweiler GmbH
Siegburger Straße 235w
50679 Köln
Fon +49 (0) 221 270 46 89-0
info@melweisweiler.com
Date that this Policy was updated: 10-2019
Google Web Fonts
This page uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google’s servers. This enables Google to know that your IP address has been used to access our website. The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online services. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.
Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Server Log Files
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:
– Date and time of the request
– Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
– the IP address
– the Internet service provider of the accessing system
– Contents of the request (concrete page)
– Access status/HTTP status code
– amount of data transferred in each case
– Website from which the request comes (referrer)
– Operating system and its interface
– Language and version of the browser software.
COOKIES
Purpose
This policy sets out the basis on which Atelier Mel Weisweiler GmbH (“we”, “our” or “us”) use cookies on our website www.melweisweiler.com.
Cookies & web beacons
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is stored on the hard drive of your device. Cookies are used to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to understand how you are using our website.
Amending cookies & web beacons
For our website, you can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you block or delete all cookies from our website, the website should still work. By continuing to browse our website, you are agreeing to the use of cookies.
First-party cookies
These cookies are set by melweisweiler.com, in order to ease your navigation and remember your settings.
You will find below the list of the first party cookies used on www.melweisweiler.com
Cookie-Name / Google Fonts
Duration / 365 days
Description / Display fonts on our website
https://policies.google.com/privacy
Cookie-Name / Wordfence
Dauer / 30 Tage
Description / Firewall for our site
Wordfence and GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation
Cookie-Name / _icl_visitor_lang_js
Duration/ 1 day
Description / Speech recognition of the page
Cookie-Name / hibext_instdsigdipv2
Duration/ 2 weeks
Description / Session cookie for registration
Cookie-Name / cookieAcceptance
Duration / 1 year
Description / Identifies whether a user has consented to the use of cookies after closing the cookie display.
Cookie-Name / wordpress_test_cookie
Dauer / After the end of the browser session
Description / Test cookie that checks whether cookies are allowed or not.
Cookie-Name / wp-settings-1
Duration / 1 day
Description / WordPress also sets some wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number displayed at the end is your individual user ID from the user database table. It is used to customize your view of the admin interface and, if necessary, the main page interface.
Performance cookies
Atelier Mel Weisweiler GmbH uses performance & tracking solutions to further improve our website in order to always provide you with the best possible online experience tailored to your needs.
Contact
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, our privacy practices or your communication with us, please contact us in writing or by telephone:
Atelier Mel Weisweiler GmbH
Siegburger Straße 235w
50679 Köln
Fon +49 (0) 221 270 46 89-0
info@melweisweiler.com
Rejection of cookies
Most browsers are set to accept the use of cookies.
If you reject the use of cookies, you must deactivate this function for the current session or permanently by setting your Internet browser. You can control how websites use cookies by configuring your browser’s privacy settings (see your browser’s Help for more information about cookie controls). If you disable cookies altogether, websites may no longer function properly.
The following links will tell you about this option for the most commonly used browsers:
· Explorer: support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookie
· Firefox: support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-informationen-websites-auf-ihrem-computer
· Google Chrome: www.support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py
· Safari: www.verbraucher-sicher-online.de/anleitung/cookies-verwalten-in-apple-safari
· Opera: www.help.opera.com/Linux/12.10/de/cookies.html
· More Info: www.meine-cookies.org/cookies_verwalten/index.html
You have the right and the possibility to reject our cookies. Your consent can also be revoked at any time, independently and with effect for the future.