privacy policy

1. We are responsible for your data

As a visitor to our website, you expect a high level of quality and competence not only from our publishing products, but also from the processing of your personal data.

We are responsible for the handling of your data, which we process in accordance with your wishes and the requirements of the EU Data Protection Basic Regulation (DSGVO) and the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). Personal data is data that identifies you or makes you identifiable. Your personal data will only be processed by us if this is permitted by law or if you have given your prior consent.

We, the OB//CC online business & community communication GmbH & Co. KG, Frankfurter Str. 8, 36043 Fulda, and our service providers, who process your data on our behalf for the purposes stated below (hereinafter: OBCC, we, ourselves).

Our service providers include, for example, lettershops, logistics companies and computer centres. Our service providers are prohibited from processing your data for other purposes or for themselves.

In addition to the above postal address, you can also contact us by e-mail at info∂obcc.de.

It is important to us that you can find out at any time from the following information which personal data is collected during your visit to our website and when using our services and how we process it afterwards.

2. Our data protection officer

3. How secure is your data?

We take technical and organisational security precautions to protect your personal data against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or against access by unauthorised persons and to guarantee the protection of your rights and compliance with the applicable data protection regulations of the EU and the Federal Republic of Germany (Art. 32 DSGVO).

The measures taken should guarantee the confidentiality and integrity of your data as well as the availability and resilience of the systems and services when processing your data in the long term. They should also quickly restore the availability of the data and access to them in the event of a physical or technical incident.

Our security measures also include encryption of your data. All information that you enter online is technically encrypted and only then transmitted.

Our data processing and security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

Our employees are obliged in writing to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the data protection requirements of the DSGVO.

4. What are mandatory fields and informations?

If certain data fields are designated as mandatory fields and/or marked with an asterisk ( * ), the provision of this data is either required by law or contract, or we need this data for the conclusion of the contract, the desired service or the stated purpose. Of course, you also have the right to specify the data in the mandatory fields at your discretion. Failure to provide this information may result in the contract not being fulfilled by us or the desired service not being provided or the stated purpose not being achieved.

5. What is your data processed for?

a) Contact / Inquiries

If you have any questions or requests, please do not hesitate to contact us. We process your data to answer your inquiries (Art. 6 Para. 1 b, f DSGVO). The communication of address and telecommunication data marked as mandatory data is necessary in order to process and answer your request. The voluntary provision of further data makes it easier for us to process your enquiry. After answering your enquiry, we generally store the information from your enquiry for three months in the event of further enquiries, unless it is a matter of commercial or business letters, in which case we store it for at least six years (§ 257 para. 4 HGB, § 147 para. 3 AO, Art. 6 para. 1 c DSGVO).

b) Orders and subscriptions

In the case of an order, a subscription or other contractual enquiries, we initially process your personal registration, address, telecommunications, order and/or financial data for the processing of the order, the subscription or other contractual enquiry and for the corresponding invoicing (Art. 6 para. 1 b DSGVO). Insofar as data are marked as mandatory data, they are required for the processing or settlement of the corresponding contract or for invoicing. For certain orders and subscriptions, you must first register (see b.). Your data relevant to the order, your subscription or other contract-related enquiries and the associated documents (e.g. commercial letters, invoices) will be stored for six years after conclusion of the contract in accordance with the statutory provisions (§ 257 Para. 4 HGB) or ten years (§ 147 Abs. 3 AO).

c) Extended storage periods

The storage periods stated can be extended accordingly if in individual cases, in particular if the data are processed for different purposes, a longer legal or contractual storage period exists.

6. Right of objection and revocation at any time

You have the right to object to the processing of your data at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation if the legal requirements are met (Art. 21 para. 1 DSGVO).

If you object to the processing of your data for advertising purposes or wish to revoke your consent (Art. 21 para. 2 DSGVO), a brief message to our data protection officer by e-mail to datenschutz∂obcc.de or by post to OB//CC online business & community communication GmbH & Co. KG, Data Protection Department, Frankfurter Str. 8, 36043 Fulda. Your data will then no longer be processed for the advertising purposes covered by the advertising objection or the revocation of consent.

This does not affect the legality of the processing carried out up to the point of objection or revocation.

Following your objection to the processing of your personal data for advertising purposes or the revocation of your consent, we are obliged under data protection law pursuant to Art. 21 para. 3 DSGVO to include the data required for this purpose (name, address, e-mail address) in our internal advertising blacklist and to store (block) it permanently - only for this purpose - and to use it for comparison with our future advertising files (Art. 6 para. 1 c, f DSGVO). This will ensure that your advertising objection or the revocation of your consent is observed on a permanent basis.

7. What are cookies and what are they used for?

a) Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are transferred to the memory of your terminal device (e.g. computer, mobile phone, tablet) using your web browser or other programs. These are stored locally in the memory of your terminal device and kept ready for later retrieval.

If you click on or off the consent banner on our entry website, you declare your revocable consent to the use of cookies described there at any time (Art. 6 para. 1 a DSGVO).

b) Use of cookies

Cookies are used on this website,

to enable and ensure the necessary technical functions (Art. 6 para. 1 b, f DSGVO)
to make our Internet presence user-friendly and to adapt it optimally to your needs (Art. 6 para. 1 a DSGVO) and
in order to consider the rejection of cookies and / or the revocation of your consent to the use of cookies ("Do not track" cookies).

Session cookies are only used for the respective session. These cookies are deleted after the end of the session, i.e. after leaving our website or when closing the browser window.

Other cookies remain on your end device for a longer period of time and enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit, see also point 8.

c) Deactivation of cookies /. Revocation of your consent

You can set your web browser so that it notifies you when cookies are set or rejects all or at least certain cookies (e.g. only third party cookies) in order to generally prohibit web tracking. If you deactivate cookies using your browser, however, various functions on our website will no longer be usable for you or will only be usable to a limited extent.

The following links will inform you about this possibility for the most frequently used browsers:

8. Recording

Each time a visitor accesses this website, data on this process is temporarily stored in a log file (server log files) and processed (Art. 6 Para. 1 c, f DSGVO). These are:

a description of the type and version of the web browser used
the operating system
the referrer URL category
Host name of the accessing mobile device
Date and time of the server request
IP address

The processing of this so-called server log data is necessary for the provision of the service for technical reasons and thereafter to ensure system security or for documentation purposes. The data is anonymised for processing for technical purposes or to ensure system security at the latest after seven days by shortening the IP address, unless further storage of the IP address is required for documentation purposes (Art. 6 para. 1 c, Art. 5 para. 2, Art. 7 para. 1 DSGVO).

9. YouTube-Videos

10. How can you exercise your data protection rights?

If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data by us, we will of course be happy to provide you with information about the data concerning you (Art. 15 DSGVO).

You also have a right to correction (Art. 16 DSGVO), deletion (Art. 17 DSGVO), restriction of processing (Art. 18 DSGVO) and objection to processing (Art. 21 DSGVO) and the right to data transferability (Art. 20 DSGVO) if the legal requirements are met.

In all these cases, please contact our data protection officer (see above 3.) at the communication addresses listed there.

Finally, you have the right to complain to a competent data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 DSGVO, § 19 BDSG).

11. Changes

Status: July 2018