Privacy policy

1. General Information

The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data includes all data that can be used to personally identify you. For detailed information on data protection, please refer to our privacy policy listed below.

Data collection on our website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. The contact details of the operator can be found in the imprint (legal notice) of this website.

How do we collect your data?

Your data is collected firstly by you providing it to us. This can be data that you enter in a contact form, for example.

Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit the website. This mainly includes technical data (e.g., internet browser, operating system, or the time the page was accessed). The collection of this data occurs automatically as soon as you access our website.

For what purposes do we use your data?

Some of the data is collected to ensure error-free provision of the website. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right at any time to receive information, free of charge, about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. For this purpose, and for further questions regarding data protection, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint. Additionally, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority.

Analysis tools and tools from third-party providers

When you visit our website, your surfing behavior may be statistically evaluated. This is mainly done using cookies and so-called analysis programs. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous; the surfing behavior cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Details on this can be found in our privacy policy under the heading “Third-party modules and analysis tools”.

You can object to this analysis. We will inform you about the objection options in this privacy policy.

2. General information and mandatory notices

Data protection

The operators of this site take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and according to legal data protection regulations as well as this privacy policy.

When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is information with which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains which data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

We would like to point out that data transmission on the internet (e.g., communication by e-mail) can have security gaps. Complete protection of the data from access by third parties is not possible.

Information on the responsible party

The responsible party for data processing on this website is:

Pascal Kaufhold
Mitteldorf 5
37355 Niederorschel
Germany

Contact:
Email: contact@silicon-vortex.com
Mobile: +49 170 4565653

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g., names, e-mail addresses, etc.).

Revocation of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your explicit consent. You can revoke your consent at any time. An informal message by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority

In the event of data protection violations, the person concerned has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection issues is the state data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. 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 we process based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract, automatically delivered to yourself or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another responsible party, this will only be done if technically feasible.

SSL or TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries that you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. An encrypted connection can be recognized by the fact that the browser’s address line changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

If SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Access, blocking, deletion

Within the scope of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin, recipients, and the purpose of data processing and, if applicable, a right to correct, block, or delete this data. For this, as well as for further questions on the subject of personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address stated in the imprint.

Objection to promotional emails

We hereby object to the use of contact data published as part of the imprint obligation for sending unsolicited advertising and information materials. The operators of the site expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited sending of advertising information, for example, via spam e-mails.

3. Data collection on our website

Cookies

Some of the internet pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies.” They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit.

You can set your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or generally, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. The functionality of this website may be restricted when cookies are deactivated.

Cookies required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions requested by you (e.g., shopping cart function) are stored based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. If other cookies (e.g., cookies to analyze your surfing behavior) are stored, they are treated separately in this privacy policy.

Server log files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

– Browser type and browser version
– Operating system used
– Referrer URL
– Hostname of the accessing computer
– Time of the server request
– IP address

These data are not merged with other data sources.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, which allows the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

4. Additional tools and plugins

Use of Google Web Fonts

This site uses so-called web fonts provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”) for the uniform display of fonts. When you access a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly. For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google’s servers. This informs Google that our website has been accessed via your IP address.

Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified for the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield”, which guarantees compliance with the data protection level applicable in the EU. Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Use of a YouTube Plugin

This website includes at least one plugin from YouTube, part of Google Inc., based in San Bruno, California, USA. When you visit a page of our website that contains a YouTube plugin, a connection is established to the YouTube servers. The YouTube server is informed of which specific page of our website you visited. If you are also logged into your YouTube account, you would allow YouTube to directly associate your browsing behavior with your personal profile. You can prevent this association by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand. For more information on how YouTube collects and uses your data, please refer to YouTube’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

5. Social Media

Use of Facebook Plugins (Like Button)

Plugins of the social network Facebook, provider Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA, are integrated on our pages. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like button” (“Like”) on our site. An overview of the Facebook plugins can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

When you visit our pages, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. As a result, Facebook receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “Like button” while 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 pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. For more information, please see Facebook’s privacy policy at https://facebook.com/policy.php.

If you do not want Facebook to associate your visit to our pages with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

Use of Instagram

Functions of the Instagram service are integrated on this website. These functions are provided by Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content of this website to your Instagram profile by clicking the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate your visit to this website with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Instagram.

The storage and analysis of the data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the widest possible visibility in social media. If consent has been requested (e.g., consent to store cookies), processing is based exclusively on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; consent may be revoked at any time.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the EU Commission’s standard contractual clauses. Details can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum, https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875, and https://facebook.com/help/566994660333381.

For more information, please see Instagram’s privacy policy: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

6. Analytics Tools

Use of Google Analytics

Based on our legitimate interests (i.e., interest in analyzing, optimizing, and economically operating our online offering within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR), we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC (“Google”). Google uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about users’ use of the online offering is generally transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the USA.

Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement, which guarantees compliance with European data protection law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active).

Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our online offering by users, to compile reports on activities within this online offering, and to provide further services related to the use of this online offering and internet usage. Pseudonymous user profiles can be created from the processed data.

We only use Google Analytics with IP anonymization enabled. This means that users’ IP addresses are shortened by Google within the 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 transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

The IP address transmitted by the user’s browser is not merged with other data from Google. Users can prevent the storage of cookies by setting their browser software accordingly; users can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to their use of the online offering to Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

For more information on Google’s data usage, settings, and opt-out options, please see Google’s privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads) and the settings for displaying ads by Google (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated).

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