Privacy Notices
The responsible handling of your data is important to us. The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union places particular emphasis on the transparency of the processing of personal data.
If you would like to take a look at the GDPR yourself, you can find it on the Internet
Against this background, we would like to provide you with some information on the protection of your personal data, as provided for in the GDPR. Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. As a visitor to the website mediativeleadership.com/martin-michaelis.com, you may also be affected in this sense.
I. Our Responsibility for Data Protection and Your Contacts
1. 1. The processing of your data as a visitor to our website is the responsibility of
MacoopA eG
Heidtorstr. 35, 31547 Rehburg-Loccum
Email: services@macoopa.one
II. Information on the Processing of Personal Data
1. 1. Automatically Collected Data When Visiting the Website
When you visit our website, the following information is usually automatically transmitted from your browser to our server:
- Internet address (IP address) of the requesting computer at the time of access
- Date and time of access
- Retrieved web pages or files
- Amount of data transferred
- Notification of whether the retrieval was successful or why it may have failed (error code)
- Operating system and browser software of the requesting computer, including the version
- Screen resolution and color depth of the accessing computer
- Browser settings such as the set language
- Browser plugins (JavaScript, Flash Player, Java, Silverlight, Adobe Acrobat Reader, etc.)
- The previously visited website (referrer URL)
- Search term used to find the website, e.g., via Google.
We process this data on the basis of our legitimate interests within the meaning of Article 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR, namely
- to provide our website,
- to maintain the technical stability and security of our website, including the detection and elimination of malfunctions (e.g., by blocking a denial-of-service attack originating from a specific IP address),
- for statistical evaluation of the use of the website with the aim of its needs-based design and improvement, as well as
- to check whether there are concrete indications of illegal use (e.g., in the event of suspected insult in the context of a provided blog or fraud in the context of the online shop).
When you visit our website, this data is collected automatically. Without this collection, the use of our website is not possible. We do not use this data to draw conclusions about your identity as a visitor to our website, unless there are concrete indications of illegal use.
The collected data is usually deleted after 7 days or completely anonymized by deleting at least parts of the IP address, unless we exceptionally need it for the above-mentioned purposes for a longer period. In such a case, we will delete or completely anonymize the data immediately after the purpose ceases to apply.
III. Your Rights as a Data Subject
1. 1. As a person affected by data processing, you have numerous rights. These include in particular:
- Right to information (Article 15 GDPR): You have the right to obtain information about the data stored by us about you.
- Right to rectification (Article 16 GDPR): You can request us to correct incorrect data.
- Right to erasure (Article 17 GDPR): You can request us to delete data, especially data that has been processed unlawfully.
- Restriction of processing (Article 18 GDPR): You can request us to restrict the processing of your data, in particular to have data "blocked" whose processing is disputed.
- Data portability (Article 20 GDPR): If you have provided us with data on the basis of a contract or consent, you can request that you receive the data you have provided in a structured, common, and machine-readable format or that we transmit it to another controller.
- Objection to data processing on the legal basis of "legitimate interest" (Article 21 GDPR): You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to data processing by us, insofar as this is based on the legal basis of "legitimate interest". If you make use of your right to object, we will stop processing your data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for further processing that override your rights. In the case of direct advertising or the use of cookies based on legitimate interests, we will generally comply with your objection and stop processing your data accordingly. If you object to cookies, please note that you must take certain precautions in your browser, as described above.
- Withdrawal of consent (Article 7(3) GDPR): If you have given us consent to process your data, you can withdraw this consent at any time with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing of your data until the withdrawal remains unaffected.
- Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (Article 77 GDPR): You can also lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your data violates applicable law. For this purpose, you can contact the supervisory authority for data protection that is responsible for your place of residence or your country or the supervisory authority responsible for us.
2. 2. We are also obliged to inform all recipients to whom we have disclosed data about any correction or deletion of data or the restriction of processing that is carried out on the basis of Articles 16, 17(1), 18 GDPR (right to be forgotten). However, this obligation does not exist if this notification is impossible or involves disproportionate effort. Regardless, you have a right to information about these recipients.
3. 3. The rights described above are only available to you on the condition that the applicable legal requirements are met, even if this is not explicitly mentioned in the above description.
4. 4. You must assert all your data subject rights against Martin Michaelis. You can also contact our data protection officer regarding your rights.
2. Cookies are small text files (with the identification code) that are stored on the visitor's computer when accessing a website. As pure text files, cookies cannot contain viruses or other malware.
Cookies are used to make websites more user-friendly, effective, and secure. We use both so-called transient and persistent cookies:
a) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include in particular session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the common session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser. A session cookie can, for example, be used to manage your shopping cart in our online shop.
b) Persistent cookies are stored beyond a browser session, but automatically deleted after a specified period, which can vary depending on the cookie. You can also delete cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser.
In general, we do not use cookies to draw conclusions about your identity, but only to identify your computer for the purposes just described. In exceptional cases, the visitor can also be identified if they have entered their contact details during their visit to our website, during which our cookie was set (e.g., in the online shop or when downloading the press).
We process the data in connection with cookies on the basis of our legitimate interests within the meaning of Article 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR, namely
- to provide certain functionalities of our website and
- for statistical evaluation of the use of the website with the aim of its needs-based design and improvement.
Most browsers offer the option to display a warning before saving a cookie, to completely refuse the acceptance of cookies, and/or to delete existing cookies. However, the usability of the website may be limited by such settings.
If you wish to object to the processing of your data in connection with cookies, please refuse the acceptance of cookies via your browser or proceed as described in the following section on Google Analytics.
In particular, ePortrait.de uses cookies for Google Analytics, as described below.
If you confirm the active cookie notice when you access our website, which is displayed to you independently of accessing this privacy notice, with 'Ok, understood.', we can also set a cookie that results in this notice no longer being displayed to you for a period of one month.
3. 3. Contact form and other contact requests
If you contact us via the contact form or by email, the information you provide will be used for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions. The provision of the data is necessary for processing and answering your request – without its provision, we cannot or can only partially answer your request.
The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6(1)(1)(b) GDPR, as the processing of the relevant data is necessary for the implementation of (pre-)contractual measures at your request.
Your data will be deleted if your request has been answered conclusively and there are no legal retention obligations to prevent deletion, such as commercial and tax retention obligations.
4. 4. Recipients of personal data
We only pass on your personal data to external third parties if this is necessary to process your request, if there is another legal permission, or if we have your consent to do so. External recipients may in particular be service providers that we use to provide services, for example in the areas of technical infrastructure and maintenance of our website. Such processors are carefully selected and regularly checked by us. They may only use the data for the purposes specified by us and according to our instructions.
If data is transferred to locations whose registered office or place of data processing is not located in a member state of the European Union or in another contracting state of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, we ensure before the transfer that, outside of legally permitted exceptions, either an adequate level of data protection exists at the recipient or you have given your consent to the data transfer.
5. 5. Duration of storage
We only store your personal data for as long as this is necessary to fulfill the purposes or – in the case of consent – as long as you do not withdraw your consent. In the event of an objection, we will delete your personal data unless its further processing is permitted or even mandatory under the relevant legal provisions (e.g., in the context of commercial and tax retention obligations). We will also delete your personal data if we are obliged to do so for legal reasons.