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Privacy Policy

The party responsible within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

TEC Competence GmbH & Co. KG
Andreas Rieser
Universitätsstraße 3
56070 Koblenz, Germany

Your rights as a data subject

Using the contact details of our data protection officer given below, you may exercise the following rights at any time:

Information about your data stored with us and its processing,
Correction of inaccurate personal data,
Deletion of your data stored with us,
Restriction of data processing, insofar as we are not yet permitted to delete your data due to legal obligations,
Objection to the processing of your data by us, and
Data portability, provided you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us.

If you have given us your consent, you may revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

You may lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for you at any time. Your responsible supervisory authority depends on the federal state of your residence, your work, or the alleged infringement. A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with their addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Purposes of data processing by the responsible party and third parties

We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those stated. We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

you have given your express consent to do so,
the processing is necessary to fulfil a contract with you,
the processing is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation,

or the processing is necessary to safeguard legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding, legitimate interest in your data not being disclosed.

Deletion or blocking of data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data minimization. We therefore only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here, or as long as required by the various retention periods provided for by law. Once the respective purpose no longer applies, or these periods expire, the corresponding data is routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with statutory provisions.

Collection of general information when visiting our website

When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected via a cookie. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider, and similar information. This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your identity.

This information is technically necessary to correctly deliver content from web pages that you have requested, and is inevitably generated when using the internet. It is processed in particular for the following purposes:

Ensuring a smooth connection to the website,
Ensuring smooth use of our website,
Evaluating system security and stability, and
for further administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest in the aforementioned data collection purposes. We do not use your data to draw any conclusions about your identity. Recipients of the data are only the responsible party and, where applicable, processors acting on our behalf.

We may statistically evaluate anonymous information of this kind in order to optimize our website and the technology behind it.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we also use so-called "cookies." Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard drive. This automatically provides us with certain data, such as IP address, browser used, operating system, and your internet connection.

Cookies cannot be used to launch programs or transfer viruses to a computer. The information contained in cookies enables us to make navigation easier for you and to allow our web pages to be displayed correctly.

Under no circumstances is the data we collect passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.

Of course, you can generally also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set up to accept cookies. You can generally deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings. Please use your internet browser's help functions to find out how to change these settings. Please note that some functions of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.

SSL encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use encryption methods that reflect the current state of the art (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

On the basis of your expressly given consent, we regularly send you our newsletter or comparable information by email to your specified email address.

Providing your email address is sufficient to receive the newsletter. When you sign up to receive our newsletter, the data you provide is used exclusively for this purpose. Subscribers may also be informed by email about circumstances relevant to the service or registration (for example, changes to the newsletter offering or technical matters).

For an effective registration, we require a valid email address. To verify that a registration is actually being made by the owner of an email address, we use the "double opt-in" procedure. For this purpose, we log the newsletter order, the sending of a confirmation email, and the receipt of the requested response. No further data is collected. The data is used exclusively for sending the newsletter and is not passed on to third parties.

You may revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time. A corresponding link can be found in every newsletter. You may also unsubscribe directly on this website at any time, or notify us of your wish via the contact option given at the end of this privacy policy.

Contact form

If you contact us by email or via the contact form regarding any kind of question, you give us your voluntary consent for the purpose of establishing contact. A valid email address is required for this. This serves to assign the request and to subsequently answer it. Providing further data is optional. The information you provide is stored for the purpose of processing the request and for any follow-up questions. Once your request has been dealt with, personal data is automatically deleted.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (hereinafter: "Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies," text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is generally transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the USA. Because IP anonymization is activated on this website, however, your IP address is shortened by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services related to website and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other data held by Google.

The purposes of the data processing are the evaluation of website usage and the compilation of reports on website activity. Further related services are then to be provided on the basis of the use of the website and the internet. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly; however, we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting and processing the data generated by the cookie relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: browser add-on to disable Google Analytics.

In addition, or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our pages by clicking this link. This installs an opt-out cookie on your device. This prevents Google Analytics from collecting data for this website and this browser in future, for as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

Use of script libraries (Google Web Fonts)

To display our content correctly and in a visually appealing way across browsers, we use script libraries and font libraries on this website, such as Google Web Fonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts/). Google Web Fonts are transferred to your browser's cache to avoid loading them multiple times. If the browser does not support Google Web Fonts or denies access, content is displayed in a standard font.

Calling script libraries or font libraries automatically triggers a connection to the operator of the library. It is theoretically possible — although currently unclear whether, and if so for what purposes — that operators of such libraries collect data.

The privacy policy of the library operator, Google, can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Use of Google Maps

This website uses the Google Maps API to visually display geographic information. When using Google Maps, Google also collects, processes, and uses data about visitors' use of the map functions. Further information on data processing by Google can be found in Google's privacy notices. There you can also change your personal privacy settings in the Privacy Center.

Detailed instructions on managing your own data in connection with Google products can be found here.

Embedded YouTube videos

On some of our web pages, we embed YouTube videos. The provider of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection is established to YouTube's servers. This tells YouTube 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 of your YouTube account beforehand.

When a YouTube video is started, the provider sets cookies that collect information about user behavior.

Anyone who has deactivated the storage of cookies for the Google Ad program will also not have to expect such cookies when watching YouTube videos. However, YouTube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you wish to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in your browser.

Further information on data protection at "YouTube" can be found in the provider's privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Changes to this privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements, or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

Questions for the data protection officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please email us or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization directly:

support@horseshape.com

This privacy policy was created using the privacy policy generator of activeMind AG.