Privacy policies

Privacy policies

We collect, use and store your personal data exclusively within the framework of the provisions of the valid data protection regulations of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the following, we will inform you about the type, scope and purpose of data collection and application.

1. Responsible unit

The operator of the website is responsible for the domain “https://faama-gmbh.com and https://faama-gmbh.de ” and thus responsible at the following address:

FAAMA GmbH
Wittekamp 19 30177 Hannover

2. Retrieval and processing of general data

Each access to our website and each retrieval of any file stored on this website are logged. The storage is served for the internal system-related and statistical purposes. The following information are logged: name of retrieved file, date and time of retrieval, amount of data transferred, notification of successful retrieval, web browser and requesting domain. In addition, the IP addresses of the requesting computers are logged. The additional personal data is only recorded, when you as a user and/or customer of the website provide the information voluntarily, for example as part of inquiry or registration or to conclude a contract or via the settings of your browser.

3. Retrieval of personal data

Personal data within the meaning of these data protection regulations are individual details about your personal or factual circumstances. This includes in particular your name, your email address, your telephone number and, if applicable, your address if you have given us the latter. Also the personal data includes information about your use of our website. In this context, we collect personal data from you as follows: Information about your visits to our website, such as the extent of data transfer, the location from which you retrieve data from our website and other connection data and sources that you retrieve. This is usually done through the use of log files and cookies. Further information on log files and cookies are discussed in the following.

4. Purposes and legal basis

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

In order to provide the online services, which you have requested,
To ensure that our website is presented to you in the most effective and interesting manner,
To perform our obligations under any contract that we may have with you,
To notify you about changes to our services.

The data is collected on the legal basis in the provisions of Article 6 GDPR.

5. Information about your computer and cookies

Every time you access our website, we collect the following information about your computer: IP address of your computer, the request from your browser and the time of this request. In addition, the status and the amount of data transferred are recorded as part of this request. We also collect product and version information about the browser used and the operating system of your computer. We also record by which location our website was accessed from. The IP address of your computer is only saved for the time you are using the website and then immediately deleted or made anonymous by shortening it. The remaining data is stored for a limited period of time. We use this data for the operation of our website, in particular to identify and eliminate errors on the website, to determine the utilization of the website and to make adjustments or improvements.

We may also collect information about your use of our website through the use of so-called browser cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your data carrier and that save certain settings and data for exchange with our system via your browser. A cookie usually contains the name of the domain from which the cookie data was sent, information about the age of the cookie and an alphanumeric identifier. Cookies enable our systems to recognize the user’s device and make any default settings available immediately. As soon as a user accesses the platform, a cookie is transferred to the hard drive of the user’s computer. Cookies help us to improve our website and to be able to offer you a better and even more customized service. They enable us to recognize your computer when you return to our website and thereby store information about your preferred activities on the website and thus tailor our website to your individual interests.

Only the data explained above about your use of the website is stored in the cookies we use. This is not done by assigning you personally, but by assigning an identification number to the cookie (“cookie ID”). The cookie ID is not combined with your name, your IP address or with similar data that would enable the cookie to be assigned to you. If you do not want browser cookies to be used, you can set your browser so that cookies are not saved. Please note that in this case you may only be able to use our website to a limited extent or not at all.

If we ask you for your consent to the processing of your personal data, the legal basis for the processing is your consent in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. Otherwise, storage takes place on the legal basis of Article 6 (1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the improvement, stability, functionality and security of our website.

6. Data Security

All information that you submit to us is stored on servers within the European Union. Unfortunately, the transmission of information over the Internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted over the Internet to our website. However, we secure our website and other systems through technical and organizational measures against loss, destruction, access, modification or distribution of your data by unauthorized persons. In particular, your personal data will be encrypted before being transmitted to us. We use the coding system SSL (Secure Socket Layer) or TLS (Transport Layer Security).

7. Disclosure/provision of your personal data

We do not pass on your personal data to third parties unless you have consented to the data being passed on/provisioned or we are entitled or obliged to pass on data due to legal provisions and/or official or court orders. In particular, this may involve providing your data for the purpose of concluding or fulfilling contracts, providing information for the purposes of criminal prosecution, averting risk or enforcing intellectual property rights.

If we then do not provide your data in such events, this could result for you and/or us, for example, in the non-performance of contractual services, extraordinary termination of the respective contract, claims for compensation of costs and losses (also by third parties), and/or fines or even criminal prosecution may result in violations of the law associated with the failure to provide the data.

8. Privacy Policy and Other Third-Party Websites

The website may contain, among other things, hyperlinks to and from the websites of other third parties. If you follow a hyperlink to one of these websites, please note that we cannot assume any responsibility or guarantee for third-party content or data protection conditions. Therefore, please make sure you also check the applicable data protection conditions here before you transmit personal data to these third-party websites.

9. Contact form

If you use our contact form to send us contact requests, your details there, including the contact details given there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the request and in the event that additional questions arise. We do not pass this data on to third parties without your prior consent.

By giving your consent, Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR is the legal basis for data processing.

10. Data that we receive as part of individual communication, e.g. through email inquiries or as part of the creation or use of a customer account

Data that we receive from you as part of individual communication is stored by us for the following purposes:

a) In order to fulfill our obligations under any contracts concluded between you and us or to initiate such contracts

b) To process the request and in the event of any queries that may arise.

The legal basis for the collection of this data is either your consent to the processing pursuant to Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter a) GDPR, the fact that the processing pursuant to Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter b) GDPR is necessary for the fulfillment of a contract to which the data subject is a party, or to carry out pre-contractual measures that are carried out at your request and/or the processing is required to fulfill a legal obligation to which we are subject pursuant to Article 6 (1) (c) GDPR. These are in particular commercial retention requirements for business correspondence. Furthermore, an ongoing customer relationship between you and us represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6, Para. 1(f). GDPR.

You can revoke your consent at any time by sending a short message to our contact details given in the imprint.

11. Deletion of Data

The data processed by us will be deleted or their processing restricted in accordance with Article 17 and 18 GDPR. Unless expressly stated in this data protection declaration, the data stored by us will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for their intended purpose and the deletion does not conflict with any statutory storage requirements. If the data is not deleted because it is required for other and legally permissible purposes, its processing will be restricted. This means that the data will be blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to data that must be retained for commercial or tax reasons.

According to legal requirements in Germany, storage takes place in particular for 10 years in accordance with §§ 147 Paragraph 1 AO, 257 Paragraph 1 No. 1 and 4, Paragraph 4 HGB (books, records, management reports, accounting documents, trading books, relevant for taxation documents, etc.) and 6 years in accordance with Section 257 Paragraph 1 Nos. 2 and 3, Paragraph 4 HGB (commercial letters).

12. Newsletters

By the newsletters, we inform you about our company and our offers.

If you would like to receive the newsletter, we need a valid email address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the email address provided or that the owner agrees to receive the newsletters. After your registration, we will send an email with a validation link to the email address you provided. After the validation link contained in the email has been clicked, you will receive our newsletter in the future. The data you provide will only be used to send the newsletter and will not be passed on to third parties.

When you register for the newsletters, we save your IP address and the date of registration. This storage serves solely as proof in the event that a third party misuses an email address and registers to receive the newsletter without the knowledge of the authorized party.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the email address and their use for sending the newsletter at any time. The revocation can be made via a link in the newsletter itself or by sending a message to the contact options under “Your rights and contacts”.

By fiving your consent, Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR is the legal basis for data processing.

13. Using Google Analytics

Our website uses the analysis service Google Analytics. This web analysis service is operated by Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, 4 Barrow St., Dublin, D04 E5W4, Ireland (hereinafter referred to as: Google). This analysis tool works on the basis of cookies. A cookie is a text file that is sent when you visit a website and is temporarily stored on the hard drive of the website user to enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information stored by the cookie is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and then stored there.

As a part of the IP anonymization, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within a member state of the EU or another contracting state of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. On our behalf, Google will use the information transmitted to create a report on the use of the website. The IP address transmitted as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. If you want to prevent the use of cookies, you can do this by making local changes to your settings in the Internet browser used on your computer (e.g. Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox, etc.), i.e. the program for opening and displaying internet pages. Furthermore, you can prevent the collection and processing of your data by the Google cookie by downloading and installing a browser plug-in offered by Google under the following link:

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

For more information, see Google’s privacy policy, which you can access here: www.google.com/policies/privacy/

If we ask you for your consent to the use of third-party providers, your consent is the legal basis for processing in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. Otherwise, the legal basis for processing is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in optimizing the functionality of our website.

14. Using Twitter

Functions of the Twitter service are integrated on our sites. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the “Re-Tweet” function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users. This data is also transmitted to Twitter. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it is used by Twitter. For more information, see Twitter’s privacy policy at http://twitter.com/privacy.

You can change your privacy settings on Twitter in the account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.

15. Using Facebook plugin

Plugins from the social network Facebook, provider Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland, are integrated on our website. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like button” (“I like”) on our site. You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/ .

When you visit our pages, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Facebook server via the plugin. Facebook receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “Like” button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate your visit to our site with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it is used by Facebook. You can find more information on this in Facebook’s privacy policy at http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php .

If you do not want Facebook to be able to associate your visit to our site with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account. If we ask you for your consent to the use of third-party providers, your consent is the legal basis for processing in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. Otherwise, the legal basis for processing is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in optimizing the functionality of our website.

16. Instagram Social Plugin

We use the “Instagram” platform plugin operated by Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.

The purpose and scope of the processing of personal data by Instagram may go beyond the scope of this data protection declaration. Please note Instagram’s privacy policy at https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388 .

17. Changes of this privacy policy

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time with effect for the future. A current version is available on the website. Please visit the website regularly and find out about the applicable data protection regulations.

18. Your rights and contact information

You can view your personal data free of charge at any time and, if necessary, also request its correction and/or if the presence of the data storage is not required for the purpose of fulfilling the contract, as deletion or just blocking can become compulsory as mentioned in the articles of regulations or by law. We recommend that you back up your data, before requesting us for deletion. Also you may have the right to restrict processing, to object to processing and to transfer data, which is stipulated in Articles 15-21 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If the processing is based on your separate consent, you can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future.

For the aforementioned purposes and/or to receive more detailed information about this, please send an email to info@faama-gmbh.com or to our contact and address details given in the imprint of this website. If you have any questions, comments or inquiries regarding the collection, processing and use of your personal data by us, please contact us via the contact details given in the imprint of this website. If you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data by us is unlawful, also you have the right to complain in the case of data according to Article 77 GDPR to one of the supervisory authorities responsible under this provision as well.

End of the privacy policy