IMPRINT & PRIVACY

IMPRINT & PRIVACY

With this privacy policy, we would like to inform you about the nature, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data (hereinafter also referred to as “data”). Personal data are all data that have a personal reference to you, e.g. name, address, e-mail address or your user behavior. The data protection declaration applies to all data processing operations carried out by us both within the scope of our core activities and for the online media provided by us.

Who is responsible for data processing at Midge's Pocket

Responsible for data processing is:

Midge’s Pocket
Bastian Schuhbeck
Saliterstr. 1
84570 Polling
Germany
+49 (0) 157 513 052 82
info@midgespocket.com

Processing of your data within the scope of the core activity of Midge's Pocket

If you are our customer or business partner or are interested in our services, the type, scope and purpose of the processing of your data depends on the contractual or pre-contractual relationship existing between us. In this sense, the data processed by us includes all those data that are or were provided by you for the purpose of using the contractual or pre-contractual services and that are required to process your inquiry or the contract concluded between us. Unless otherwise stated in the further notes to this data protection declaration, the processing of your data and its transfer to third parties is limited to those data that are necessary and expedient to answer your inquiries and/or to fulfill the contract concluded between you and us, to protect our rights and to fulfill legal obligations. We will inform you which data is required for this before or in the course of data collection. Insofar as we use third-party providers to provide our services, the data protection notices of the respective third-party providers apply.

Data concerned:

  • Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses)
  • Payment data (e.g. bank details, invoices)
  • Contact data (e.g. e-mail address, telephone number, postal address)
  • Contract data (e.g. subject matter of contract, duration of contract)

Affected persons: Interested parties, business and contractual partners

Purpose of processing: Processing of contractual services, communication as well as answering contact inquiries, office and organizational procedures

Legal basis: Contract performance and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, legal obligation, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR, legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Your rights under the GDPR

According to the GDPR, you are entitled to the rights listed below, which you can exercise at any time by contacting the controller named in section 1. of this privacy policy:

  • Right to information: You have the right to request information from us about whether and what data we process from you.
  • Right to rectification: You have the right to request the rectification of inaccurate or completion of incomplete data.
  • Right to erasure: You have the right to request the erasure of your data.
  • Right to restriction: in certain cases, you have the right to request that we only process your data in a restricted manner.
  • Right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer your data to you or another responsible party in a structured, common and machine-readable format.
  • Right to complain: You have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. The supervisory authority of your usual place of residence, your workplace or our company headquarters is responsible.

Right of withdrawal

You have the right to revoke your consent to data processing at any time.

Right of objection

You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your data, which we base on our legitimate interest according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. If you exercise your right to object, we ask you to explain the reasons. We will then no longer process your personal data unless we can prove to you that compelling reasons worthy of protection for the data processing outweigh your interests and rights.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for the purposes of advertising and data analysis.

Please address your objection to the contact address of the responsible person indicated above.

When do we delete your data?

We delete your data when we no longer need it or when you instruct us to do so. This means that – unless otherwise stated in the individual data protection notices of this data protection declaration – we delete your data,

  • if the purpose of the data processing has ceased to exist and thus the respective legal basis stated in the individual data protection notices no longer exists, for example:
    • after termination of the contractual or membership relations existing between us (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR) or
    • after our legitimate interest in the further processing or storage of your data has ceased to exist (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR),
  • if you exercise your right of revocation and no other legal basis for processing within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. b-f GDPR applies,
  • if you exercise your right to object and there are no compelling reasons worthy of protection against the deletion.

If, however, we still need to retain (certain parts of) your data for other purposes, for example because tax retention periods (generally 6 years for business correspondence or 10 years for accounting records) or the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims arising from contractual relationships (up to four years) make this necessary, or if the data is needed to protect the rights of another natural person or legal entity, we will delete (that part of) your data only after these periods have expired. However, until the expiration of these periods, we limit the processing of this data to these purposes (fulfillment of retention obligations).

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files consisting of a series of numbers and letters that are placed and stored on the terminal device you are using. Cookies are primarily used to exchange information between the terminal device you are using and our website. This includes, among other things, the language settings on a website, the login status or where a video was watched.

Two types of cookies are used when visiting our websites:

  • Temporary cookies (session cookies): These store a so-called session ID, which can be used to assign various requests from your browser to the joint session. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.
  • Permanent cookies: Permanent cookies remain stored even after you close your browser. This allows our website to recognize your computer again when you return to our website. For example, information on language settings or log-in information is stored in these cookies. In addition, these cookies can be used to document and store your surfing behavior. This data can be used for statistical, marketing and personalization purposes.

In addition to the above classification, cookies can also be distinguished in terms of their purpose:

  • Necessary cookies: These are cookies that are absolutely necessary for the operation of our website, to store logins or shopping carts for the duration of your session or cookies that are set for security reasons.
  • Statistics, marketing and personalization cookies: In particular, information on search terms entered or the frequency of page views may be stored via such “tracking” cookies. In addition, the surfing behavior of an individual user (e.g. viewing of certain content, use of functions, etc.) can also be stored in a user profile. Such profiles are used to display content to users that corresponds to their potential interests. Insofar as we use services that store cookies on your terminal device for statistical, marketing and personalization purposes, we will inform you separately in the following sections of our data protection statement or in the context of obtaining your consent.

Data concerned:

  • Usage data (e.g. access times, web pages clicked on)
  • Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)

Persons concerned: Users of our internet presence

Processing purpose: Displaying our internet pages, ensuring the operation of our internet pages, improving our internet offer, communication and marketing.

Legal basis:
Legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
Unless we obtain consent from you to set the cookies, we base the processing of your data on our legitimate interest in improving the quality and user-friendliness of our Internet presence, in particular the content and functions. You have via the security settings of your browser to object to the use of cookies set by us in the context of our legitimate interest. There you have the option of specifying whether you do not accept cookies from the outset or only on request, or whether you specify that cookies are deleted each time you close your browser. If cookies are deactivated for our website, it may no longer be possible to use all functions of the website to their full extent.

Webhosting

To maintain our Internet pages, we use a provider on whose server our Internet pages are stored and made available for retrieval on the Internet (hosting). In this context, the provider may process all data transmitted via the browser used by you, which is generated during the use of our Internet pages. This includes, in particular, your IP address, which the provider needs in order to be able to deliver our online offer to the browser you are using, as well as all entries you make via our website. In addition, the provider used by us may also record

  • the date and time of access to our website
  • time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • access status (HTTP status)
  • the amount of data transferred
  • the Internet service provider of the accessing system
  • the type of browser you are using and its version
  • the operating system you are using
  • the website from which you may have accessed our website
  • the pages or sub-pages that you visit on our website.

collect. The aforementioned data is stored as log files on the servers of our provider. This is necessary to ensure the stability and security of the operation of our website.

Data concerned:

  • Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos)
  • Usage data (e.g. access times, web pages clicked on)
  • Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)

Persons concerned: Users of our internet presence

Purpose of processing: Displaying our internet pages, ensuring the operation of our internet pages

Legal basis: Legitimate interest, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR

Web hoster(s) commissioned by us:

STRATO

Service provider: STRATO AG, Pascalstr. 10, 10587 Berlin
Website: https://www.strato.de/hosting/
Privacy policy: https://www.strato.de/datenschutz/

Contact

If you contact us via e-mail, social media, telephone, fax, mail, our contact form or otherwise and in doing so provide us with personal data such as your name, telephone number or e-mail address, or provide further information about yourself or your request, we will process this data to respond to your inquiry within the scope of the pre-contractual or contractual relationship existing between us.

Data concerned:

  • Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses)
  • Contact data (e.g. e-mail address, telephone number, postal address)
  • Content data (texts, photos, videos)
  • Contract data (e.g., subject matter of the contract, duration of the contract)

Persons concerned: Interested parties, customers, business and contractual partners

Purpose of processing: Communication as well as answering contact requests, office and organization procedures

Legal basis: Contract execution and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Web analytics and statistics

In order to record and statistically evaluate the flow of visitors to our Internet presence, we use web analysis services. Such services collect, among other things, data about the website from which you have accessed our website (so-called referrers), which pages of our website you have accessed, how long you have visited our pages and which interactions you have carried out there. In addition, data on the browser you use, computer system and type of device are collected. In addition, demographic information such as age or gender can be collected as pseudonymous values via such a service. If you have consented to the collection of your location data, this may also be processed, depending on the provider.

In order to collect and store this data, the web analysis service we use usually sets a cookie on the terminal device you use, which also collects the IP address assigned to you. However, this is shortened via a so-called IP masking procedure, so that the IP address can no longer be assigned to your visit to our website. In addition, no clear data such as names or e-mail addresses are stored. Neither we nor the service we use know the identity of visitors to our website.

We would like to point out that, depending on the country of domicile of the service provider mentioned below, the data collected via the service may be transmitted and processed outside the area of the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR may not be complied with and that the enforcement of your rights may not be possible or may be difficult.

Data concerned:

  • Usage data (e.g. access times, web pages clicked on)
  • Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)

Persons concerned: Users of our internet presence

Purpose of processing: Reach measurement, campaign success monitoring, remarketing and interest and behavior-based marketing.

Legal basis: If we have asked you for your consent before using the respective service, this is the legal basis, Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR. In addition, we use the respective service on the basis of our legitimate interest in analyzing the flow of visitors to our website in order to be able to continuously improve the functions, offers and user experience, Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

We use the following web analysis services:

Google Analytics

Service provider: Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Headquarters within the EU: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Website: https://marketingplatform.google.com/intl/de/about/analytics/
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Opt-Out-Option: If you do not want your data to be used by Google Analytics, you can set a so-called opt-out plugin, which will prevent data from being collected from you on our website in the future. You can obtain this plugin here:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Our online presence on social networks

We operate online presences within the social networks listed below. If you visit one of these presences, the data listed in more detail below will be collected and processed by the respective provider. As a rule, this data is collected for advertising and market research purposes and usage profiles are created. In the usage profiles, data can be stored regardless of the device you use. This is particularly the case if you are a member of the respective platform and logged in to it. The usage profiles can be used by the providers to play interest-based advertising to you. You have a right of revocation against the creation of user profiles. To exercise this right, you must contact the respective provider.

If you have an account with one of the providers listed below and are logged in there when you visit our website, the respective provider may collect data about your usage behavior on our website. To prevent such a linking of your data, you can log out of the provider’s service before visiting our site.

For what purpose and to what extent data is collected by the provider, you can see the respective, in the following communicated, privacy statements of the providers.

We would like to point out that, depending on the country of domicile of the provider named below, the data collected via its platform may be transmitted and processed outside the area of the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR may not be complied with and that the enforcement of your rights may not be possible or may be difficult.

Data concerned:

  • Inventory and contact data (e.g., name, address, phone number, email address)
  • Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos)
  • Usage data (e.g. access times, web pages clicked on)
  • Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)

Purpose of processing: Communication and marketing, tracking and analysis of user behavior.

Legal basis: Consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, legitimate interests Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Objection options: For the respective objection options (opt-out), we refer to the information of the providers linked below.

We maintain online presences on the following social networks:

Facebook

Service provider: Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Headquarters in the EU: Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Irland
Website: https://www.facebook.com/
Privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Privacy policy for Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data

Instagram

Service provider: Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park CA 94025, USA
Parent company: Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Headquarters in the EU: Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland
Website: https://www.instagram.com/
Privacy policy: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy

Content services

We use certain services to be able to play out certain content or graphics (videos, images, music, fonts, maps) via our Internet presence. In doing so, the services we use process the IP address assigned to you at the time of your visit to our Internet pages, as this is the only way the respective content can be displayed in the browser you are using. In addition, the providers of these services may place further cookies on your terminal device, which are used to collect information about your usage behavior, your interests, the device and browser you are using, as well as the time and duration of your session. The providers regularly use this data for analysis, statistical and marketing purposes. In addition, this information may also be combined with information from other sources. This applies in particular if you yourself maintain an account with the service provider and are logged in there at the time of the session.

We would like to point out that, depending on the country of domicile of the service provider named below, the data named in more detail below may be transferred to and processed on servers outside the area of the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR will not be complied with and that the enforcement of your rights may not be possible or may be difficult.

Data concerned:

  • Usage data (e.g., access times, web pages clicked on)
  • Communication data (e.g., information about the device used, IP address)

Data subjects: Users of our internet presence

Purpose of processing: Displaying our internet pages, offering content, ensuring the operation of our internet pages

Legal basis: Consent via cookie consent banner, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, legitimate interests, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

We use the following content services:

YouTube

We use YouTube components on this website to embed videos on our internet pages so that they can be played via your internet browser when you visit our internet pages. During your visit to our website, both YouTube and Google are informed about which page or subpage you have called up by transmitting your IP address to Google’s external servers in the USA. This information transfer takes place regardless of whether the videos displayed are actually viewed or clicked on or whether you are logged into your YouTube or Google account. This information is collected and assigned to your Google account, provided you are logged in there when you call up our Internet pages..

Service provider: YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA
Website: https://www.youtube.com/
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Opt-Out-Option: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

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Security measures

We also take state-of-the-art technical and organizational security measures to comply with the provisions of data protection laws and to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or against unauthorized third-party access.

Relevance and modification of this privacy policy

This privacy policy is currently valid and has the status of March 2023. Due to changes in legal or regulatory requirements, it may become necessary to adapt this privacy policy.

This data protection declaration was created with the help of the data protection generator of SOS Recht. SOS Recht is a service of Mueller.legal Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft, based in Berlin.