Privacy policy

Data protection is very important to Modest Maj, who is responsible for the content of this website. It is possible to use this website without providing personal data. However, if users of this website wish to make use of services on this website, it may be necessary to process personal data.

The processing of personal data, such as the name or email address, is always in line with the European General Data Protection Regulation and the applicable country-specific data protection provisions in Germany. With this data protection declaration, the person responsible for the content of this website would like to inform the public about the type, scope and purpose of the personal data collected, used and processed on this website. Furthermore, all data subjects are informed about their rights via the data protection declaration.

The controller responsible for the processing of personal data has implemented technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through this website. However, Internet-based data transmissions can generally have security gaps, so absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transmit personal data by alternative means, for example orally by telephone.

Definitions

This data protection declaration is based on the terms used by the European legislator for the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The data protection declaration should be legible and understandable. To ensure this, the terms used are explained in advance.

The following terms are used in this data protection declaration:

I) Personal data

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”). An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

II) Data subject

A data subject is any identified or identifiable natural person whose personal data is processed by the controller.

III) Processing

Processing is any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

IV) Restriction of processing

Restriction of processing is the marking of personal data in order to limit its future processing.

V) Pseudonymization

Pseudonymization is the processing of personal data in such a way that it can no longer be assigned to a specific data subject. Technical and organizational measures are used for this purpose so that this personal data can no longer be assigned to a specific natural person.

VI) Controller

The controller is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

VII) Processor

The processor is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

VIII) Recipient

A recipient is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body to which personal data is disclosed, regardless of whether or not it is a third party. However, public authorities that may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients.

IX) Third parties

Third parties are any natural or legal persons, authorities, institutions or other bodies other than the data subject, the controller, the processor and the persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or the processor, are authorized to process the personal data.

X) Consent

Consent of the data subject is any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

Name and Address of the responsible entity

Responsible entity (‘controller’) for the data collection and processing on this website is: Modest Maj, Gereut 14, 77933 Lahr, Germany
Phone: +49 176 631 989 79; Email: modest@posteo.com; Website: www.modestmaj.com

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website. This includes:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Websites you visited before visiting this website

  • Websites you visit on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace requires the data to operate this website and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a depersonalized form.

Squarespace's contact address and website:

Squarespace Ireland Limited, Squarespace House, Ship Street Great, Dublin 8, D08N12C, Ireland
Website: www.squarespace.com

Revocation of consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. Consent that has already been given can be revoked at any time. An informal message by e-mail is sufficient for this. The legality of the data processing carried out up to the point of revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority

In the event of violations of data protection legislation, the person affected may file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities. The competent regulatory authority for matters related to data protection legislation is the data protection officer of the German state in which our company is headquartered.

A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link:

https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to data portability

You have the right to have data which is processed based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract automatically delivered to yourself or to a third party in a standard, machine-readable format. If you require the direct transfer of data to another responsible party, this will only be done to the extent technically feasible.

This site uses SSL/TLS encryption for security reasons and for the protection of the transmission of confidential content (recognizable by https:// in the address line of the browser). If this is active, data cannot be read by third parties during transmission.

Information, blocking, deletion

As permitted by law, you have the right to be provided at any time with information free of charge about any of your personal data that is stored as well as its origin, the recipient and the purpose for which it has been processed. You also have the right to have this data corrected, blocked or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in our legal notice if you have further questions on the topic of personal data.

Data collection on this website

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or short pieces of text that are downloaded to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information on how to view the cookies placed on your device, see About the cookies used by Squarespace.

These necessary and required cookies are always used because they enable Squarespace, the hosting platform for this website, to provide this website to you securely.

These analytics and performance cookies, as described below, are only used on this website if you confirm our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to gain insight into website traffic, website activity and other data.

Cookies that are required for the performance of the electronic communications transaction or to provide certain functions you want to use (e.g. the shopping cart function), are stored on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies to ensure the technically error free and optimized provision of the operator's services. If other cookies (such as those used to analyze your surfing behavior) are also stored, they will be treated separately in this data protection declaration.

Analytics

This website collects personal data that serves as the basis for website analytics. This includes:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Websites you visited before visiting this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Visited pages

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

This information is shared with Squarespace, the host of this website and provider of website analytics, to learn more about the traffic and activity on this website.

Server log files

The website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us in “server log files”. 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.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Contact form

Enquiries submitted via the contact form, including the contact data provided there, are stored for the purpose of processing the enquiry and for possible follow-up or return questions. These data are always treated confidentially by the operator of this website.

This information is shared with Squarespace, our provider for the hosting of this website, so that they can provide these website services.

The processing of the data entered into the contact form occurs exclusively based on your consent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR). You have the right to revoke at any time any consent you have already given me. To do so, all you are required to do is submit an informal notification via e-mail. The data processed before I received your request may still be legally processed.

The data entered by you in the contact form remain with the operator of this website until he is requested to delete them, the consent to storage is revoked or the purpose for the data storage lapses (e.g. after completion of the processing of the respective request). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.

Newsletter

On this website, visitors are given the opportunity to subscribe to the newsletter of the controller responsible for the content of this website. To do this, the name and email address of the data subject are requested in an input mask. The Squarespace system, which also hosts this website, is used for the newsletter of this website (for the address, see above in this data protection declaration, “Name and address of the controller responsible for data collection”). The subscribers' data is stored on Squarespace's server.

The newsletter is used by the controller to transmit information to its subscribers at regular intervals. It can only be received if the data subject has a valid email address and the data subject registers to receive the newsletter.

When registering for the newsletter, the IP address of the computer system used by the data subject at the time of registration is stored, as well as the date and time of registration. The collection of this data is necessary in order to understand any possible misuse of the data subject's email address at a later date and therefore serves as a legal safeguard for the controller.

The personal data collected during registration for the newsletter will be used exclusively for sending the newsletter. There is no disclosure of personal data collected in the context of the newsletter service to third parties. The subscription to the newsletter can be terminated at any time via a link in the newsletter. Thus, the personal data of the data subject collected in the context of the newsletter service will be deleted, if necessary after expiry of legal retention requirements.

The controller automatically regards a withdrawal from the newsletter as a revocation of the consent to the processing of personal data within the scope of the newsletter service.

Data protection provisions about the application and use of YouTube

The data controller has integrated YouTube components into this website. YouTube is an online video portal that allows video publishers to upload video clips free of charge and other users to view, rate and comment on them, also free of charge. YouTube allows the publication of all types of videos, which is why complete film or TV programs, as well as videos made by users themselves, can be accessed via YouTube.

YouTube is operated by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.

Each time a page of this website is accessed, which is operated by the data controller and on which a YouTube component (“YouTube video”) has been integrated, the internet browser on the internet-enabled device of the data subject with which this website is visited is automatically prompted by the respective YouTube component to download a representation of the corresponding YouTube component from YouTube. Further information about YouTube may be obtained under https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/de. During the course of this technical procedure, YouTube and Google gain knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in on YouTube, YouTube recognizes with each call-up to a sub-page that contains a YouTube video, which specific sub-page of our Internet site was visited by the data subject. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to the respective YouTube account of the data subject.

YouTube and Google will receive information through the YouTube component that the data subject has visited this website, if the data subject at the time of the call to this website is logged in on YouTube - this occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on a YouTube video or not. If the data subject does not want this information to be transmitted to YouTube and Google, he or she can prevent the transmission by logging out of his or her YouTube account before accessing this website.

YouTube's data protection provisions, available at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/, provide information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.

Analysis, tools and advertising

Google reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).

reCAPTCHA is used to check whether the data entered on our websites (e.g. in a contact form) has been entered by a human or by an automated program. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website, or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analyses take place completely in the background. Website visitors are not advised that an analysis is taking place.

Data processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offerings from abusive automated spying and from SPAM.

For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google's privacy policy, please see the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.

Plugins and tools

Fonts

This site provides and displays font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. In order to properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network or device.

  • Information about this site and the page you are visiting on the site

  • Your IP address

Google Web Fonts

This site uses so-called web fonts, provided by Google, for the uniform display of fonts. When you access a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

To do this, the browser you use has to connect to Google's servers. This enables Google to know that this website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a consistent and attractive presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.

Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.