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General information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data that can be used to identify you personally. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy listed below this text.

Data collection on this website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find the operator's contact details in the section “Information on the responsible party” in this privacy policy.

How do we collect your data?

On the one hand, your data is collected when you provide it to us. This may, for example, be data that you enter into a contact form.

Other data is collected automatically or after your consent by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is mainly technical data, for example internet browser, operating system or time of the page request. This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter this website.

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure that the website is provided without errors. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour. If contracts can be concluded or initiated via the website, the transmitted data is also processed for contract offers, orders or other order requests.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right at any time to receive information free of charge about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data. If you have given consent to data processing, you can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future. You also have the right, under certain circumstances, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

You can contact us at any time about this and any other questions on the subject of data protection.

Analysis tools and third-party tools

When you visit this website, your surfing behaviour may be statistically evaluated. This is done mainly with so-called analysis programs.

Detailed information about these analysis programs can be found in the following privacy policy.

We host the content of our website with the following provider:

Vercel

This website uses the Vercel service. The provider is Vercel Inc., 340 S Lemon Ave #4133, Walnut, CA 91789, USA. Vercel is a cloud platform through which we provide our website. This means that your visit to our website is processed or routed through Vercel's servers. The data associated with your visit to our website is also transmitted to Vercel. This is necessary so that your browser request can be processed successfully. This data includes:

• the browser type/version,
• the operating system used,
• the referrer URL (the previously visited page),
• the IP address,
• the time of the server request
• cookies

Depending on the server location, this data is also transferred to the USA. We have concluded a data processing agreement with Vercel. In addition, Vercel is certified under the EU-US data privacy agreement and is therefore obliged to comply with EU data protection requirements.

You can find Vercel's privacy policy at https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Data processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The data transfer is necessary so that you can use our website.

Data protection

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is data that can be used to identify you personally. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the internet, for example when communicating by email, may have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Information on the responsible party

The party responsible for data processing on this website is:

Kristof Hulmann Webdesign Watzmannstraße 30 83451 Piding

Phone: 015223044787 Email: info@geminihorizon.de

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data, for example names, email addresses or similar.

Storage period

Unless a more specific storage period has been stated within this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for the data processing no longer applies. If you assert a justified request for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data, for example retention periods under tax or commercial law; in the latter case, deletion takes place once these reasons no longer apply.

General information on the legal bases for data processing on this website

If you have consented to data processing, we process your personal data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR or Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR if special categories of data under Art. 9(1) GDPR are processed. In the case of explicit consent to the transfer of personal data to third countries, data processing is also based on Art. 49(1)(a) GDPR. If you have consented to the storage of cookies or to access to information on your end device, for example via device fingerprinting, data processing is additionally based on § 25(1) TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time. If your data is required for the performance of a contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, we process your data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Furthermore, we process your data if it is required to fulfil a legal obligation on the basis of Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. Data processing may also be carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Information on the relevant legal bases in each individual case is provided in the following paragraphs of this privacy policy.

Recipients of personal data

In the course of our business activities, we work with various external parties. In some cases, this also requires the transfer of personal data to these external parties. We only pass on personal data to external parties if this is necessary for the performance of a contract, if we are legally obliged to do so, for example passing on data to tax authorities, if we have a legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR in passing it on, or if another legal basis permits the disclosure of data. When using processors, we only pass on our customers' personal data on the basis of a valid data processing agreement. In the case of joint processing, a joint processing agreement is concluded.

Revocation of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke consent you have already given at any time. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to object to data collection in special cases and to direct marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF DATA PROCESSING IS BASED ON ART. 6(1)(E) OR (F) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON GROUNDS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH PROCESSING IS BASED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA CONCERNED UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION UNDER ART. 21(1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING INSOFAR AS IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING (OBJECTION UNDER ART. 21(2) GDPR).

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority

In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of their habitual residence, their place of work or the place of the alleged violation. The right to lodge a complaint exists without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right to data portability

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

Information, correction and deletion

Within the framework of the applicable statutory provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing and, where applicable, a right to correction or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time about this and any other questions on the subject of personal data.

Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You can contact us about this at any time. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:

• If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we usually need time to verify this. For the duration of the verification, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
• If the processing of your personal data happened/is happening unlawfully, you can request the restriction of data processing instead of deletion.
• If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it to exercise, defend or assert legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of deletion.
• If you have lodged an objection under Art. 21(1) GDPR, a balance must be struck between your interests and ours. As long as it has not yet been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, this data – apart from its storage – may only be processed 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 important public interest of the European Union or of a member state.

SSL or TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or enquiries that you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Objection to advertising emails

We hereby object to the use of contact data published as part of the imprint obligation for sending advertising and information materials that have not been expressly requested. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited advertising information being sent, for example through spam emails.

Cookies

Our websites use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small data packets and do not cause any damage to your end device. They are stored on your end device either temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies). Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Permanent cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them yourself or they are automatically deleted by your web browser.

Cookies can come from us (first-party cookies) or from third-party companies (so-called third-party cookies). Third-party cookies enable the integration of certain services from third-party companies within websites, for example cookies for handling payment services.

Cookies have various functions. Many cookies are technically necessary, as certain website functions would not work without them, for example the shopping cart function or the display of videos. Other cookies may be used to evaluate user behaviour or for advertising purposes.

Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process, to provide certain functions you have requested, for example the shopping cart function, or to optimise the website, for example cookies for measuring the web audience (necessary cookies), are stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, unless another legal basis is specified. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing necessary cookies for the technically error-free and optimised provision of its services. If consent to the storage of cookies and comparable recognition technologies has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of this consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG); consent can be revoked at any time.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.

You can find out which cookies and services are used on this website in this privacy policy.

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:

• browser type and browser version
• operating system used
• referrer URL
• host name of the accessing computer
• time of the server request
• IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources.

This data is collected on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and optimisation of its website – for this purpose, the server log files must be recorded.

Contact form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact details you provided there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

This data is processed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR if your enquiry is related to the performance of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of enquiries addressed to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) if this has been requested; consent can be revoked at any time.

The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies, for example after your enquiry has been processed. Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.

Enquiries by email, phone or fax

If you contact us by email, phone or fax, your enquiry, including all resulting personal data (name, enquiry), will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of handling your request. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

This data is processed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR if your enquiry is related to the performance of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of enquiries addressed to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) if this has been requested; consent can be revoked at any time.

The data you send to us via contact enquiries will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies, for example after your request has been processed. Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular statutory retention periods – remain unaffected.

Google Tag Manager

We use Google Tag Manager on our website. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Tag Manager is a tool that allows website tags to be managed and integrated via an interface.

To our knowledge, Google Tag Manager itself does not create any user profiles of its own and does not evaluate any personal data for analysis purposes. It is used to manage and deliver other services, in particular analytics and marketing services. If other services are integrated via Google Tag Manager, these services may in turn collect and process data.

Google Tag Manager is only loaded on this website after your consent. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time via the cookie settings on this website.

The provider is: Google Ireland Limited Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4 Ireland

Further information on data protection at Google can be found at: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Further information on Google Tag Manager can be found at: https://support.google.com/tagmanager/answer/9323295

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics on our website, a web analytics service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Analytics enables us to statistically evaluate the use of our website and to improve our offering technically and in terms of content.

Google Analytics may collect information about the use of our website, for example pages visited, time spent, devices used, browser information, approximate location information, referrer URLs and interactions with the website. This information may be transferred to Google servers and processed there.

Google Analytics may use cookies or comparable technologies if you have consented to their use. Processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time via the cookie settings on this website.

Google processes the data on our behalf. We have concluded the corresponding data processing terms with Google. Google may also process data in third countries, in particular in the USA.

The provider is: Google Ireland Limited Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4 Ireland

Further information on data protection at Google can be found at: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Further information on data protection and data security at Google Analytics can be found at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

Vercel Analytics

We use Vercel Web Analytics on our website, an analytics service of Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Ave #4133, Covina, CA 91723, USA.

Vercel Analytics enables us to statistically evaluate the use of our website and to obtain technical information about page views, referrers, browsers used, operating systems, device categories and approximate location information. This information helps us to improve the website technically and in terms of content.

According to Vercel, Vercel Web Analytics does not use third-party cookies. Visitors are not identified via classic tracking cookies, but via a hash of the incoming request. According to Vercel, the lifetime of a visitor session is not stored permanently and is automatically discarded after 24 hours.

Vercel Analytics is only used after your consent. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time via the cookie settings on this website.

The provider is: Vercel Inc. 440 N Barranca Ave #4133 Covina, CA 91723 USA

Further information on data protection and compliance at Vercel Web Analytics can be found at: https://vercel.com/docs/analytics/privacy-policy

Vercel's general privacy policy can be found at: https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy

Vercel Speed Insights

We use Vercel Speed Insights on our website, a service of Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Ave #4133, Covina, CA 91723, USA.

Vercel Speed Insights is used to measure and evaluate the technical performance of our website. In particular, so-called Web Vitals and technical performance data are collected, for example loading times, browser used, device type, operating system, network speed, country, URL or route accessed and technical information on the display and performance of individual page elements.

According to Vercel, the data points are collected anonymously. According to its own information, Vercel Speed Insights does not collect or store any information that would make it possible to reconstruct a browsing session across multiple pages or to identify individual users.

Vercel Speed Insights is only used after your consent. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time via the cookie settings on this website.

The provider is: Vercel Inc. 440 N Barranca Ave #4133 Covina, CA 91723 USA

Further information on data protection and compliance at Vercel Speed Insights can be found at: https://vercel.com/docs/speed-insights/privacy-policy

Vercel's general privacy policy can be found at: https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy

Our own audience measurement (GeminiHorizon Insights)

To understand which content is helpful and where our website needs to improve, we use an audience measurement we built ourselves. It runs on our own server at Hostinger in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. No data is passed on to third parties or used for advertising.

Without consent (anonymous counting): We do not set cookies and do not read anything from your device. We record the page viewed, the referring website or campaign parameters (e.g. utm_source), device type, browser, operating system, language, country, region and city (roughly derived from the IP address by our host Vercel, coordinates rounded to about 10 km), screen size, light or dark colour scheme, the time of active use, page loading times (e.g. how fast the main content appears), technical error messages of the page (without e-mail addresses or number sequences) and completed goals such as a sent contact form. To group several page views of the same day, we create a hash from the IP address, the browser identifier and a random value that changes every day. The IP address itself is never stored, and the random value is deleted when the day ends, so you cannot be recognised across days. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in designing the website according to its visitors' needs (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

With consent (detailed analysis): If you accept all services in the cookie settings, we additionally store a random session ID in your browser's session storage (deleted when the tab is closed) and a random ID in local storage (at most 30 days, to recognise returning visits). We then also record scroll depth, how long individual sections were visible, click positions and clicked elements (for click heatmaps), repeated or ineffective clicks, mouse movements (combined into a coarse grid for attention heatmaps), swiping in sliders, opening menus and expandable sections, language changes, clicks on external links and downloads, how long and how far videos play, whether text was copied (only the kind, e.g. e-mail address or phone number, never the content), and which form fields were selected. What you type into form fields is never transmitted. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, Section 25(1) TDDDG), which you can withdraw at any time in the cookie settings. If Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track is active in your browser, we do not carry out the detailed analysis.

When you send an inquiry or book an appointment: If you send us the contact form or book an appointment, the random ID of the current page view is sent along with your request. With your inquiry we then store only the channel and campaign you came from (e.g. Google search or a specific ad), the landing page, the number of pages viewed and the country. The audience measurement itself never receives your name or e-mail address. This shows us which advertising actually leads to inquiries. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in evaluating our advertising (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Click, movement, section, video and form data as well as error messages are deleted after 90 days, all other visit data after 25 months at the latest.

Facebook

Elements of the social network Facebook are integrated on this website. The provider of this service is Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, D04 X2K5, Ireland. According to Facebook, however, the collected data is also transferred to the USA and other third countries.

An overview of the Facebook social media elements can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=de_DE.

When the social media element is active, a direct connection is established between your end device and the Facebook server. Facebook thereby receives the information that you have visited this website with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “Like button” while logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of this website to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to assign the visit to this website to your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. Further information can be found in Facebook's privacy policy at: https://de-de.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

This service is used on the basis of your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time.

Insofar as personal data is collected on our website with the help of the tool described here and forwarded to Facebook, we and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland are jointly responsible for this data processing (Art. 26 GDPR). Joint responsibility is limited exclusively to the collection of the data and its forwarding to Facebook. Processing by Facebook that takes place after the forwarding is not part of the joint responsibility. The obligations incumbent on us jointly have been set out in a joint processing agreement. The wording of the agreement can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum. According to this agreement, we are responsible for providing the privacy information when using the Facebook tool and for the privacy-compliant, secure implementation of the tool on our website. Facebook is responsible for the data security of Facebook products. You can assert data subject rights, for example requests for information, regarding the data processed by Facebook directly with Facebook. If you assert data subject rights with us, we are obliged to forward them to Facebook.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum, https://de-de.facebook.com/help/566994660333381 and https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

The company is certified under the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the USA intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards for data processing in the USA. Every company certified under the DPF undertakes to comply with these data protection standards. Further information can be obtained from the provider at the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/4452.

Google Fonts (local hosting)

For the uniform display of fonts, this site uses so-called Google Fonts, which are provided by Google. The Google Fonts are installed locally. No connection to Google servers is established in the process.

Further information on Google Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Font Awesome (local hosting)

For the uniform display of fonts, this site uses Font Awesome. Font Awesome is installed locally. No connection to the servers of Fonticons, Inc. is established in the process.

Further information on Font Awesome can be found in the privacy policy for Font Awesome at: https://fontawesome.com/privacy.

Cloudflare Turnstile

We use Cloudflare Turnstile on our website, a service of Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. Turnstile is used to protect our forms from spam, abuse and automated requests. It checks whether the input is made by a human or by an automated program.

For this purpose, technical information, such as in particular IP address, browser and device information, interaction data with the website and other technical signals, may be transmitted to Cloudflare and processed there.

Processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in protecting our website, our IT systems and our contact forms against misuse and spam.

The provider is: Cloudflare, Inc. 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107 USA

Further information on data processing by Cloudflare Turnstile can be found in Cloudflare's Turnstile privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/turnstile-privacy-policy/

Cloudflare's general privacy policy can be found at: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

Source: https://www.e-recht24.de