Data Privacy Statement

1) Information on the collection of personal and contact data from the responsible person/entity

1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you very much for your interest. In the following, we shall provide you with information on how we handle your personal data if you make use of our website. In this context, personal data shall refer to any data which renders it possible to identify you personally.

1.2 The person/entity responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) is Martin Bruncken, Güntherstrasse 13-15, 28199 Bremen, Germany, Phone: +49 176 24811839, e-mail: mail@strainx.eu. The person/entity responsible for the processing of personal data is the private individual or legal entity who/which decides, on his/its own or together with others, on the purposes and means of personal data processing.

1.3 For security reasons and in order to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (such as purchase orders or inquiries submitted to the responsible person/entity), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You will be able to recognise any encrypted connection by the string of characters “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser bar.

2) Recording of data when you visit our website

If you use our website for purely informational purposes, i.e. if you do not sign up or otherwise transmit information to us, we shall only collect the data transmitted to our server by your browser (so-called “server logfiles”). If you retrieve our website, we shall collect the following data, which we require for technical reasons so that we may display the website to you:

The website used
Date and time of retrieval
Amount of transmitted data in bytes
The source or reference which led you to our website
Brower used browser
Operating system used
IP address (where applicable: in anonymised form)

The processing of this data takes place pursuant to Article 6 Subsection 1 Letter f of the EU GDPR, on the basis of our legitimate interest in enhancing the stability and functional capabilities of our website. The data will not be passed on or used in any other manner. However, we reserve the right to subsequently review the server logfiles if there are any specific indications of possible illegal use.

3) Cookies

To make our website more attractive to visitors and to render possible the utilisation of certain functions, we make use of so-called “cookies” on various pages. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session (so-called “Session Cookies”). Other cookies are stored on your device, enabling us or our partner companies (cookies from third-party providers) to recognise your browser when you next visit (“Persistent Cookies”). Where cookies are placed, they collect and process certain user information such as browser and location data and IP address data in accordance with their respective individual scope. Persistent Cookies are deleted automatically after a predetermined period of time, which may vary depending on the type of cookie.

In cases whereby our cookies also process personal data, such processing takes place pursuant to Article 6 Subsection 1 Letter f of the EU GDPR to protect our legitimate interest in the best possible functional capability of the website and to ensure that the website is as customer-friendly and effective as possible.

In certain circumstances, we cooperate with advertising partners that help us make our website/Internet offer more interesting for you. For this purpose and in this event, cookies from partner companies will also be stored on your hard disk when you visit our website (cookies from third-party providers). For cases whereby we cooperate with the aforementioned advertising partners, we shall inform you separately and individually, in the following sections of this statement, on the use of such cookies and on the scope of information that is collected in each respective case.

Please note that you may adjust your browser settings so that you will be informed when cookies are set, and will be able to decide individually whether to accept or reject them, in certain cases or in general. The way in which cookie settings are administered varies from browser to browser. This information is described in the Help menu of each browser, which will also provide you with instructions on changing your cookie settings. Please use the following links to access this information for the appropriate browser:

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=de&hlrm=en

Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=de_DE

Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html

Please note that, if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

4) Establishment of contact

If you make contact with us (e.g. via a contact form or by e-mail), your personal data will be collected. The respective contact form shall state which data are to be collected. These data are stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your inquiry or for getting in touch with you, and for the associated technical administration. The legal basis of such data processing is our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiry pursuant to Article 6 Subsection 1 Letter f of the EU GDPR. If you are contacting us to end a contract, Article 6 Subsection 1 Letter b of the EU GDPR will serve as an additional legal basis for data processing. Your data will be deleted following the final settlement of your inquiry. This is considered to be the case if the matter in question has been finally clarified, and if the deletion is not inconsistent with any statutory storage obligations.

5) Use of social media: videos

Use of YouTube videos

This website uses the YouTube embedding function to show and play videos from the provider “YouTube”, which is part of Google LLC., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).

Within this context, extended data protection mode is used which, according to information furnished by the provider, does not start storing any user information until a video is actually played. When the user starts playing an embedded YouTube video, the provider “YouTube” uses cookies to collect information on the user’s behaviour. According to information furnished by “YouTube”, the purposes of this information include recording of video statistics, enhancement of user-friendliness and the prevention of improper activities. If you are logged into your Google account, your data will be allocated to your account as soon as you click on a video. If you do not want your activities to be allocated to your YouTube profile, you will have to log out prior to activating the button. Google stores your data (even for users who are not logged in) in order to create and evaluate usage profiles. In particular, such evaluation takes place pursuant to Article 6 Subsection 1 Letter f of the EU GDPR on the basis of Google’s legitimate interest in showing personalised advertising, performing market research and/or ensuring that its website is tailored to user requirements. You are entitled to object to the creation of such user profiles. To exercise your right of objection, you will need to contact YouTube.

Regardless of whether any of the embedded videos are played, a connection with the Google network “DoubleClick” is established whenever YouTube is retrieved, which may trigger further data processing activities outside our scope of influence.

Google LLC, whose registered office is located in the USA, is certified under the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield”, which guarantees compliance with the data protection level applicable in the EU.

You can find further information on data privacy and “YouTube” in the provider’s data privacy statement, retrievable at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

6) Web analysis services

Google (Universal) Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, i.e. text files that are stored on your computer and make it possible to analyse of the way you utilise the website. The information generated by the cookies on your utilisation of this website (including the shortened IP address) are usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

This website uses Google Analytics exclusively with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”, which ensures anonymisation of the IP address by shortening it, and rules out any possibility of your being identified by means of the information collected. As a result of the extension, your IP address is shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting countries to the agreement in the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the complete IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. In these exceptional cases, such processing will take place pursuant to Article 6 Subsection 1 Letter f of the EU GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in the statistical analysis of user behaviours for optimisation and marketing purposes.

On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, collate reports on website activities and provide us with other services relating to website and Internet utilisation. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the context of Google Analytics will not be combined with any other data held by Google.

You may prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting the settings in your browser software; however we advise you that, in this event, you may not be able to use the full scope of all the functions of this website. In addition, you are able to prevent the collection/transmission of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of these data by Google; you can do this by downloading and installing the browser plugin that is available at the following link:

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

As an alternative to the browser plugin or when using browsers on mobile devices, please click on the following link to set an Opt-Out-Cookie, which will prevent the future collection of data by Google Analytics through this website (this Opt-Out-Cookie will work only in this browser and only for this domain. If you delete your cookies in this browser, you will have to click on this link again): <a onclick=”alert (‘Google Analytics was deactivated’);”href=”javascript:gaOptout()”>Deactivate Google Analytics</a>

Please find further information on the handling of user data by Google Analytics in Google’s data privacy statement, retrievable at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

7) Tools and miscellaneous information

Google Web Fonts

For a consistent display of fonts, this website uses so-called Web Fonts, made available by Google LLC., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Whenever a website is retrieved, your browser will upload the necessary Web Fonts into your browser cache to ensure the correct display of texts and fonts.

For this purpose, your browser will need to establish a connection with the Google servers. As a result, Google will obtain the information that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts occurs in the best interests of a consistent and attractive display of our online presence. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 Subsection 1 Letter f of the EU GDPR. If your browser does not support Web Fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.

Please find further information on Google Web Fonts at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s data privacy statement, retrievable at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

8) Rights of the person concerned

8.1 The applicable data protection law grants you comprehensive rights with regard to the person/entity responsible for the processing of your personal data (the rights to be informed and of intervention), the details of which are below:

Right to be informed pursuant to Article 15 of the EU GDPR: In particular, you are entitled to be informed about the personal data we have processed, the purposes of data processing, on the categories of processed personal data, on the recipients or categories of recipients to which your data were or are disclosed, on the planned storage period or the criteria for determining the storage period, on the existence of a right of correction, deletion, restriction of processing, objection to processing and submission of a complaint to a supervisory authority, on the origin of your data if they were not collected from you by us, on the existence of an automated decision-making process including profiling and, where applicable, your right to be provided with meaningful information on the involved logic and the consequences and aspired effects of such data-processing activities in relation to you, as well as on your right to be notified of which guarantees are in place pursuant to Article 46 of the EU GDPR when it comes to the transfer of your data to third countries;
Right to correction pursuant to Article 16 of the EU GDPR: you are entitled to the immediate correction of any incorrect personal data stored by us and/or to the completion of any incomplete personal data stored by us;
Right to deletion pursuant to Article 17 of the EU GDPR: you are entitled to demand the deletion of your personal data, provided the requirements under Article 17 Subsection 1 of the EU GDPR are in place. This right shall not be in place, however, if the data processing is required in order to exercise the right of free speech and information, to fulfil a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
Right to restriction of data processing pursuant to Article 18 of the EU GDPR: you are entitled to demand the restriction of processing of your personal data as long as the correctness of your data – which has been disputed by you – has been reviewed, but you reject the deletion of your data due to inadmissible data processing and instead demand a restriction of the processing of your data; if you require your data to assert, exercise or defend legal claims after we no longer require these data to achieve their original purpose; or if you have raised an objection against the data-processing activities for reasons related to your particular situation; these shall apply as long as it has not been firmly established that our legitimate reasons for processing your data outweigh your interests/concerns;
Right to notification pursuant to Article 19 of the EU GDPR: Where you have asserted the right of correction, deletion or restriction of data processing with regard to the responsible person/entity, the latter shall be under obligation to notify all recipients to whom your personal data have been disclosed of this correction or deletion of the data or of the restrictions imposed on data processing, unless this turns out to be impossible or is associated with disproportionate expenditure. You are entitled to be notified of the identity of these recipients;
Right to data portability pursuant to Article 20 of the EU GDPR: You are entitled to receive your personal data, which you have made available to us, in a structured, well-established and machine-readable format, or to demand its transmission to another responsible person/entity as far as this is technically feasible;
Right to revoke provided declarations of consent pursuant to Article 7 Subsection 3 of the EU GDPR: You are entitled to revoke any provided declaration of consent with the processing of data at any time with effect for the future. In the event of revocation, we will delete the respective data without delay unless they can be further processed on a legal basis that does not require consent. The revocation of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of any data processing activities performed on the basis of the declaration of consent until the time of revocation;
Right to make a complaint, pursuant to Article 77 of the EU GDPR: If you are of the opinion that the processing of personal data relating to you represents a breach of the EU GDPR, you are entitled – without prejudice to any other legal remedy in terms of administrative law or legal remedy in court – to submit a complaint to a supervisory authority, especially in the member state of your place of residence, your place of work or the location where the suspected infringement took place.

8.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT

IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA, IN THE FRAMEWORK OF WEIGHING INTERESTS, ON THE GROUNDS OF OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU SHALL BE ENTITLED AT ANY TIME, FOR REASONS RESULTING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO RAISE AN OBJECTION TO SUCH DATA PROCESSING IN FUTURE.

IF YOU MAKE USE OF YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE SHALL CEASE PROCESSING THE RESPECTIVE DATA. FURTHER PROCESSING OF THE DATA REMAINS RESERVED, HOWEVER, IF WE ARE ABLE TO PROVE COMPELLING REASONS, WHICH MUST BE WORTHY OF PROTECTION, FOR THE DATA PROCESSING THAT OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, BASIC RIGHTS AND BASIC FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PURPOSE OF THE DATA-PROCESSING ACTIVITIES IS TO ASSERT, EXERCISE OR DEFEND LEGAL CLAIMS.

WHERE YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING PURPOSES, YOU SHALL BE ENTITLED TO RAISE AN OBJECTION AT ANY TIME AGAINST SUCH ACTIVITIES. YOU MAY EXERCISE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.

IF YOU MAKE USE OF YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE SHALL CEASE PROCESSING THE RESPECTIVE DATA FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING PURPOSES.

9) Duration of the storage of personal data

The duration period for the storage of personal data is governed by the respective statutory storage period (for example storage periods under commercial and taxation law). Following expiry of that period, the corresponding data will be deleted as a matter of routine, provided they are no longer required for contract performance or contract initiation purposes and/or provided we do not have any continued legitimate interest in their further storage.