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This English version of the Privacy Policy is for informational purposes only. It is a translation of the German version and not legally binding since our place of jurisdiction is in Berlin.

General

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We want you to know what data we collect and what we use it for. We are processing your personal data within the scope of the legal requirements in Germany DSGVO (EU-General Data Protection Regulation, telemedia law).

The continued development of our website and the implementation of new technologies can bring changes to our policy. We are therefore suggesting to read our Privacy Policy occasionally again to keep up to date. You can find this policy on our website.

This Policy explains the scope and purpose of the processed collected personal data within our online offer and website, functions and contents.

We are explicitly advising that any data transfer in the internet (in example via Mail) is not guaranteed secure and therefore not seamlessly protected from access through a third party. 

If you have any questions concerning the data collection, processing or use of your personal data, as well as changes to, corrections or deletion of your personal data please contact: Konstruktiv GmbH Ella-Barowsky-Straße 11-12 10829 Berlin info@konstruktiv-berlin.de

Legal Foundation

The Processing of data follows the legal requirements and the following legal foundations:

In order to insure a justified interest:

  • consent
  • fulfillment of a contract or precontractual measures
  • legal commitment
  • the interests, fundamental rights, and fundamental freedoms of the user do not outweigh the before mentioned justified interest.

Our concern (justified interest – according to the EU-General Data Protection Regulation) is the optimization of our services and web presence. Your IP-address is immediately anonymised during this process. 

Personal Data

Personal data means all information that is needed to identify you, such as your name, your mail address and your phone number so long as you have given us this information. We are referencing article 4 of the EU-DSGVO, concerning the used terminology “personal data” and the “processing” of the same. 

You can visit our website without entering any personal data, unless you use our online tool for an inquiry. The collection and use of your personal data through our website happens on a voluntary basis, wherever possible. The collected personal data will not be shared with a third party without your explicit consent. Provided you request a quote or do an online inquiry, or there is a contractual relationship between you and us that is being developed or needs changing, your personal data will be collected and used as needed for those purposes. We are collecting, processing and using your personal data as it is necessary in order to allow you to utilize our online services. All personal data is only saved for the time necessary to fulfill the before mentioned purposes (Processing of your inquiry or execution of a contract). Commercial law and fiscal retention periods are taken into account.

Cookies

Our website is using cookies, which entails that small text files are stored on your device through the web browser. These cookies are not damaging to your device. 

We are using cookies to create a user-friendly web presence through analyzing the usage of our website. Some cookies are saved on your device until purposefully deleted by you. Those help us to recognise your web browser during your next visit to our website. 

If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can change your browser settings to inform you about any cookies, allowing you to choose on a case-by-case basis how to handle specific cookies. The functionality of our website can be limited, if you deactivate cookies.

Access Data

Our webspace-provider is collecting data concerning accesses / visits to our website and is saving those as “server log files”. The following data is recorded in this way:

  • visited website
  • date and time of access
  • amount of send data in Byte
  • information on how the website was found
  • used web browser
  • used operating system
  • used IP address

The hereby collected data is only used for statistical analysis and for improvement of the website. We are reserving the right to check the before mentioned log files, in case specific indications point to an unlawful usage. 

Google Analytics

This website is using Google Analytics, which is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. Google Analytics is using cookies (textfiles, that are saved on your device) to allow the analysis of your usage of the website. The information created through those cookies about your usage of the website is generally sent to a server in the USA and is saved there. We are hereby notifying you that we have added “anonymizeIp” to Google Analytics on this website to ensure that your IP address is anonymized (IP-Masking). Your IP address is therefore shortened by Google before being shared within member nations of the European Union or in countries which are contracting parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Your full IP address is only in exceptional cases first sent to the USA and then shortened. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google is using the collected data to analyze the usage of the website, to create reports on activities on the website and to perform further services associated with usage of the internet and website. Your collected IP address is not bundled with other data from google. You can prevent cookies from being saved on your device, by making corresponding changes to your web browser settings. We are informing you that the functionality of the website can be impaired when cookies have been deactivated. By installing the following browser-plugin, you can inhibit the collection and processing of data collected through google: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

More information on terms of use and data protection concerning Google Analytics can be found under the following link: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/

or here https://policies.google.com/?hl=en-US.

Google Webfonts

We are using web fonts provided by Google on our website, to create a uniform and consistent image. Those fonts are automatically saved in your browser cache, in order to enable the wanted presentation of our content. If your browser does not support the used web fonts, the content might be displayed with a standard font of your device. No user interests are affected that outweigh the technical necessity (Art. 6 paragraph 1 Page 1 of DSGVO). 

The Privacy Policy of Google can be found under the following link: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

More information on Google web fonts can be found here: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq?hl=en

Google Maps 

This website is using Google Maps and Route planner functionality of Google Inc., to provide geographic information and to allow journey calculations. Through Google Maps, data on your usage of our website can be collected, processed and used by Google. To inhibit data being collected by Google Maps, deactivate “Javascript” in your browser. This will also inhibit any maps to display. 

You are giving your consent to Google collecting and processing your data as mentioned above, by using this website and not deactivating “Javascript”. 

More information about how Google Maps and the planning of a journey through Google Maps uses your data, as well as on their Privacy Policy can be found here: https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html

Google reCAPTCHA

We are using reCHAPTCHA provided by Google Inc. on our website. ReCAPTCHA helps to determine whether any information input in our website is done by a human or an automatized program. ReCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the user based on certain criteria. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the user visits the website. Information such as IP address, stay on the website and movement of the user’s computer mouse are used for that analysis. The collected data is transferred to Google. The reCAPTCHA analysis happens completely in the background and users are not informed that an analysis is taking place. The processing of data follows Art. 6 Paragraph 1 of the DSGVO. We have a justified interest in protecting our web offers and presence from fraudulent automatic spying and spam. More on Google reCAPTCHA and their Privacy Policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.

Youtube

This website is integrating Youtube videos. The integrated clips are saving cookies on your device when the website is visited. If you deactivate cookies for the Google advertising program, you have successfully avoided the before mentioned cookies. Youtube is also saving other non-personal usage data. If you want to inhibit that, you have to block such cookies in your browser. 

User rights: disclosure and deletion

You have always the right to enquire cost-free about the personal data about your person that has been collected and processed by us. Furthermore, you have the right to revoke your consent to collect and process your data at any given time. In any case please contact us through the above mentioned details. 

Last updated on January 1st 2023.