YOUR DATA IS TREATED CONFIDENTIALLY
Privacy policy
for the processing of data within the framework of our website and the data collected here.
We will first give you a brief overview and then provide you with comprehensive information.
A.Brief overview
When you visit our website, your IP address is only processed for the purpose of delivering the website, but is not stored.
We do not use cookies.
Our site uses SSL-encrypted data transmission to you.
When you use the contact form, the personal data visible there is transmitted so that we can reply to you. Without conclusion of a contract, we store this for a maximum of 3 months.
B.Comprehensive information
Basic information on data processing
With the simple parenthesis quotation of a regulation, we want to express on the basis of which norm the data processing is justified (legal basis), should personal data be processed in the respective operation.
I. Subject matter of data protection
The subject of data protection is personal data. This is information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Unless otherwise apparent from this document or other circumstances, we do not consider ourselves to be in a position to identify you.
Insofar as we obtain the consent of the data subject for processing operations involving personal data, Article 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) serves as the legal basis for the processing of personal data.
When processing personal data that is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, Art. 6 (1) p. 1 lit. b GDPR serves as the legal basis. This also applies to processing operations that are necessary for the performance of pre-contractual measures.
Insofar as the processing of personal data is necessary for the fulfilment of a legal obligation to which our company is subject, Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. c GDPR serves as the legal basis.
In the event that vital interests of the data subject or another natural person make processing of personal data necessary, Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. d GDPR serves as the legal basis.
If the processing is necessary to protect a legitimate interest of our company or a third party and the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject do not outweigh the first-mentioned interest, Art. 6 (1) p. 1 lit. f GDPR serves as the legal basis for the processing.
The personal data of the data subject will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of the storage no longer applies. In addition, storage may take place if this has been provided for by the European or national legislator in Union regulations, laws or other provisions to which the controller is subject. The data will also be blocked or deleted if a storage period prescribed by the aforementioned standards expires, unless there is a need for further storage of the data for the conclusion or fulfilment of a contract.
II.Collection, use and storage of data when visiting our website
1. „Our“ servers
DomainKing
We host our website with DomainKing, a brand of HOSTAFRICA (Pty) Ltd, 12 Helena Ave., Helena Heights, Somerset West, 7130, South Africa (hereafter: DomainKing). When you visit our website, DomainKing collects various log files including your IP addresses.
When you visit our website, we receive your full IP address from your computer. Only with this IP address can we transmit our website data to you so that the website can be displayed to you (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 b and f GDPR). The temporary storage of the IP address by the system is necessary to enable delivery of the website to your computer. For this purpose, your IP address may have to remain stored for the duration of the session. As you have requested the website, this is in our common legitimate interest.
Beyond the processing to transmit the retrieved data, the full IP address is not processed or stored.
There is no possibility to object, as these processes are absolutely necessary for the operation of the website. Please do not visit our site if you wish to object.
Any use of your personal data will only be for the purposes stated and to the extent necessary to achieve these purposes.
Personal data is only transferred to state institutions and authorities within the framework of mandatory national legal provisions or if the transfer is necessary for legal or criminal prosecution in the event of attacks on our network infrastructure. Data will not be passed on to third parties for any other purpose.
2.Third party providers
2.1 Contact form
When using the contact form, the information listed there is transmitted to us and stored.
We use the data exclusively to answer your enquiry and, if the enquiry relates to a contractual relationship or a contractual relationship arises from it, to initiate and process the contractual relationship (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b, f GDPR). If you are already our customer or will become one in the future, we may collect, store, modify and transmit the data for the purpose of establishing, implementing or terminating the contractual relationship without requiring your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b GDPR) and for as long as the law allows us to do so, i.e. generally beyond the statutory retention periods at the relevant time, which is currently up to 10 years. In other cases, i.e. also as long as the contractual relationship has not yet come into existence, we will not store your data for longer than three months.
III.Your rights to information, correction, blocking, deletion, completion, restriction and data transferability
In the following, we will inform you of those rights that are even remotely relevant to our website. Please note that you may be entitled to more extensive rights in the context of other data processing operations. You have the right
In accordance with Art. 7 (3) GDPR, to revoke your consent once given to us at any time. This means that we may no longer continue the data processing based on this consent in the future;
to request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR. In particular, you can request information about the purposes of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of complaint, the origin of your data if it was not received by us.
to demand the correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data stored by us without undue delay in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR;
in accordance with Article 17 of the GDPR, to request the erasure of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful, but you object to its erasure and we no longer require the data, but you need it for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims or you have objected to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request that it be transferred to another controller;
revoke your consent at any time in accordance with Art. 7 (3) GDPR. This has the consequence that we may no longer continue the data processing based on this consent in the future; and
complain to a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace for this purpose.
If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR, insofar as there are grounds for doing so that arise from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right of objection, which is implemented by us without specifying a particular situation. If you would like to make use of your right of revocation or objection, a message to the data according to our imprint is sufficient.
We explain your rights and restrictions of your rights in more detail as follows:
- Right to information
You may request confirmation from the controller as to whether personal data relating to you is being processed by us.
If such processing is taking place, you may request the controller to provide you with the following information:
(1) the purposes for which the personal data are processed;
(2) the categories of personal data which are processed;
(3) the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data concerning you have been or will be disclosed;
(4) the envisaged duration of the storage of the personal data concerning you or, if specific information on this is not possible, criteria for determining the storage period;
(5) the existence of a right to obtain the rectification or erasure of personal data concerning you, a right to obtain the restriction of processing by the controller or a right to object to such processing;
(6) the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority;
(7) any available information on the origin of the data, if the personal data are not collected from the data subject;
(8) the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, pursuant to Article 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR and, at least in these cases, meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing for the data subject.
You have the right to request information on whether personal data concerning you are transferred to a third country or to an international organisation. In this context, you may request to be informed about the appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 of the GDPR in connection with the transfer.
2. Right to rectification
You have a right to rectification and/or completion vis-à-vis the controller if the personal data processed concerning you is inaccurate or incomplete. The controller must make the rectification without undue delay.
3. Right to restriction of processing
You may request the restriction of the processing of personal data concerning you under the following conditions:
(1) if you contest the accuracy of the personal data concerning you for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
(2) the processing is unlawful and you object to the erasure of the personal data and request instead the restriction of the use of the personal data;
(3) the controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing but you need it for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or
(4) if you have objected to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR and it is not yet clear whether the controller’s legitimate grounds override your grounds.
Where the processing of personal data relating to you has been restricted, such data may be processed – apart from being stored – only with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of substantial public interest of the Union or a Member State.
If the restriction of processing has been restricted in accordance with the above conditions, you will be informed by the controller before the restriction is lifted.Right to rectification
You have the right to obtain rectification and/or completion from the controller if the personal data processed concerning you is inaccurate or incomplete. The controller must carry out the rectification without delay.
4. Right to erasure
a)Obligation to erase
You may request the controller to erase the personal data concerning you without undue delay and the controller is obliged to erase such data without undue delay if one of the following reasons applies:
(1) The personal data concerning you are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
(2) You withdraw your consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Art. 6 (1) a or Art. 9 (2) a GDPR and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
(3) You object to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or you object to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) of the GDPR.
(4) The personal data concerning you have been processed unlawfully.
(5) The erasure of the personal data concerning you is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject.
(6) The personal data concerning you has been collected in relation to information society services offered pursuant to Article 8(1) GDPR.
b) Information to third parties
If the controller has made the personal data concerning you public and is obliged to erase it pursuant to Article 17(1) of the GDPR, it shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, having regard to the available technology and the cost of implementation, to inform data controllers that process the personal data that you, as the data subject, have requested them to erase all links to, or copies or replications of, that personal data.
c) Exceptions
The right to erasure does not apply insofar as the processing is necessary
(1) for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information;
(2) for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject, or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;
(3) for reasons of public interest in the area of public health pursuant to Article 9(2)(h) and (i) and Article 9(3) of the GDPR;
(4) for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes pursuant to Art. 89(1) GDPR, insofar as the right referred to in section (a) is likely to render impossible or seriously prejudice the achievement of the purposes of such processing; or
(5) for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.
5. Right to information
If you have asserted the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing against the controller, the controller is obliged to inform all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you have been disclosed of this rectification or erasure of the data or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort.
You have the right to be informed of these recipients by the controller.
6. Right to data portability
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to the controller in a structured, common and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transmit this data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to whom the personal data has been provided, provided that.
(1) the processing is based on consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR or Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR and
(2) the processing is carried out with the aid of automated procedures.
In exercising this right, you also have the right to have the personal data concerning you transferred directly from one controller to another controller, insofar as this is technically feasible. This must not affect the freedoms and rights of other persons.
The right to data portability does not apply to the processing of personal data necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.
7. General information on your right to object
You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions.
We shall no longer process the personal data relating to you unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
If the personal data concerning you is processed for the purposes of direct marketing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purposes of such marketing; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct marketing.
If you object to the processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data concerning you will no longer be processed for these purposes.
You have the possibility, in connection with the use of information society services, notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, to exercise your right to object by means of automated procedures using technical specifications.
8. Right to revoke your consent under data protection law
You have the right to revoke your declaration of consent under data protection law at any time. The revocation of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation.
IV. Links to websites of other providers
Our website may contain links to websites of other providers. We would like to point out that this data protection declaration applies exclusively to our website. We have no influence on and do not control that other providers comply with the applicable data protection regulations.
V. Data protection officer, complaints, responsible body
In the event of complaints regarding data protection, you may contact any data protection supervisory authority in the EU.
Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have this right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, place of work or the place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning you infringes the GDPR. The supervisory authority to which the complaint has been lodged shall inform the complainant of the status and outcome of the complaint, including the possibility of a judicial remedy under Article 78 GDPR.
The responsible body is us, i.e. the operator of this website according to the imprint.
VI.Your questions and update notice
We will be happy to answer any further questions you may have about our information on data protection and the processing of your personal data. Please note that data protection regulations and practices can change constantly. It is therefore advisable to inform yourself about changes to the legal regulations and our practice.
The data protection declaration is currently valid and dated 29.08.2023.