Data protection

General Notice and Mandatory Information

Naming of the responsible party

The party responsible for data processing on this website is:

VRT LLC

The responsible party decides, alone or jointly with others, on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, contact details, etc.).

Revocation of your consent to data processing

Some data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke your consent at any time. An informal email is sufficient to notify us of your revocation. The lawfulness of data processing carried out prior to the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority

In the event of a violation of data protection law, you as the data subject have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection matters is the data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is headquartered. The following link provides a list of data protection officers and their contact details: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to data portability

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party. The data will be provided in a machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.

Right to information, correction, blocking, deletion

Within the scope of applicable statutory provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin, its recipients, and the purpose of the data processing, and, if applicable, a right to correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time regarding this matter and other questions on the subject of personal data using the contact options listed in the legal notice.

SSL and TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content that you send to us as the site operator, our website uses SSL or TLS encryption. This means that data you transmit via this website cannot be read by third parties. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the "https://" prefix in your browser's address bar and the lock icon in the browser bar.

Contact form

Data submitted via the contact form, including your contact details, is stored in order to process your inquiry or to be available for follow-up questions. This data will not be shared without your consent.

The data entered into the contact form is processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You may revoke your consent at any time. An informal email is sufficient to notify us of your revocation. The lawfulness of the data processing operations carried out prior to the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Data submitted via the contact form remains with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to its storage, or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies. Mandatory statutory provisions – particularly retention periods – remain unaffected.

Subscribing to comments

As a user of our website, you can subscribe to comments after logging in. We verify whether you are the owner of the specified email address by sending a confirmation email. You can unsubscribe from the comment subscription feature at any time via a link contained in a subscription email. Data entered to set up the subscription is deleted if you unsubscribe. If this data was submitted to us for other purposes and in another context, it will remain with us.

Newsletter data

To send you our newsletter, we need your email address. Verification of the specified email address is required, and consent to receive the newsletter is necessary. Additional data is either not collected or is provided voluntarily. This data is used exclusively for sending the newsletter.

The data provided when signing up for the newsletter is processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You may revoke your consent at any time. An informal email is sufficient to notify us of your revocation, or you can unsubscribe via the "unsubscribe" link in the newsletter. The lawfulness of data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.

Data entered to set up the subscription is deleted if you unsubscribe. If this data was submitted to us for other purposes and in another context, it will remain with us.

YouTube

Our website uses YouTube plugins to integrate and display video content. The provider of the video portal is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

When you visit a page with an integrated YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube's servers is established. This lets YouTube know which of our pages you have visited.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out beforehand.

The use of YouTube is in the interest of presenting our online offerings in an appealing way. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Details on how user data is handled can be found in YouTube's privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Our website uses cookies. These are small text files that your web browser stores on your device. Cookies help us make our offering more user-friendly, effective, and secure.

Some cookies are "session cookies." Such cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your browser session. Other cookies, however, remain on your device until you delete them yourself. Such cookies help us recognize you when you return to our website.

With a modern web browser, you can monitor, restrict, or block the setting of cookies. Many web browsers can be configured to delete cookies automatically when the program is closed. Disabling cookies may result in limited functionality of our website.

The setting of cookies that are necessary for carrying out electronic communication processes or for providing certain functions you desire (e.g. shopping cart) is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. As the operator of this website, we have a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and smooth provision of our services. If other cookies (e.g. for analytics functions) are set, these are addressed separately in this privacy policy.

Google Analytics

Our website uses features of the web analytics service Google Analytics. The provider of this web analytics service is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses "cookies." These are small text files that your web browser stores on your device and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. Information generated by the cookie about your use of our website is transmitted to a Google server and stored there. The server location is generally the USA.

The setting of Google Analytics cookies is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. As the operator of this website, we have a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both our website and our advertising, where applicable.

IP anonymization

We use Google Analytics together with the IP anonymization function. This ensures that Google shortens your IP address within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to transmission to the USA. There may be exceptional cases in which Google transmits the full IP address to a server in the USA and shortens it there. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide us with other services relating to website and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.

Browser plugin

You can prevent your web browser from setting cookies. However, this may limit some functions of our website. You can also prevent the collection of data regarding your use of the website, including your IP address, and its subsequent processing by Google. This can be done by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Objection to data collection

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by clicking the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set, which prevents the collection of your data on future visits to our website: Disable Google Analytics.

Details on how Google Analytics handles user data can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Data processing agreement

To fully comply with statutory data protection requirements, we have entered into a data processing agreement with Google.

Demographic characteristics in Google Analytics

Our website uses the "demographic characteristics" feature of Google Analytics. This feature allows reports to be generated containing statements about the age, gender, and interests of site visitors. This data originates from Google's interest-based advertising and from third-party visitor data. It is not possible to associate this data with a specific person. You can disable this feature at any time via the ad settings in your Google account, or by generally prohibiting the collection of your data by Google Analytics as described under "Objection to data collection" above.

Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking

Our website uses Google AdWords. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States.

AdWords is an online advertising program. As part of this online advertising program, we use conversion tracking. After clicking on an ad served by Google, a cookie for conversion tracking is set. Cookies are small text files that your web browser stores on your device. Google AdWords cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification of users. Using the cookie, Google and we can recognize that you clicked on an ad and were redirected to our website.

Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. The cookies cannot be tracked across the websites of AdWords customers. Conversion cookies are used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who use conversion tracking. AdWords customers learn how many users clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, AdWords customers do not receive any information that would allow personal identification of users. If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can object to its use. To do so, disable the conversion cookie in your browser's user settings. This will also prevent it from being included in the conversion tracking statistics.

The storage of "conversion cookies" is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. As the website operator, we have a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize our website and our advertising.

Details on Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.

With a modern web browser, you can monitor, restrict, or block the setting of cookies. Disabling cookies may result in limited functionality of our website.