Data Protection

I treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection policy.

I use the data I collect to operate my business and provide (including improving and personalizing) the products I offer and to send communications, including promotional communications.

The personal data I collect might include your name, address, email address, IP address, phone number and other similar data. You normally provide this data directly, such as when you contact me or interact with my website.

I generally do not share your personal data with third parties unless I have your explicit consent to do so. But in some cases it may be required to share some of your personal data. For example, I may be required to share your data to comply with applicable laws or to complete any transaction that you have requested. I also may share personal data with companies working on my behalf. In such cases, these companies must abide by my data protection and security requirements and are not allowed to use personal data they receive from me for any other purpose.

You have the right to view, correct and restrict your personal data, or to delete it once it is no longer required. You can also make choices about our collection and use of your data, including whether you wish to receive promotional communications from us. Please contact me if you wish to access or delete your personal data; I will respond within 30 days.

I will hold your personal information on my system for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with me.

I have taken the required technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, modification or loss.

Please note that my website may include links to websites that belong to third parties whose data protection practices differ from mine. If you provide personal data to any of those websites, your data is governed by their data protection statements.

Similarly, I may integrate services of third parties on my website. These services have their own data protection policies and include:

Google Analytics
Google Karten
YouTube
Vimeo

Use of Cookies

I use "cookies", which are small text files placed on your device by a web server. Cookies contain text that can be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. That text often consists of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely identifies your computer, but may contain other information as well.

I may use cookies for:

Storing your Preferences, Settings or other Data that you provide through the website.

Sign-in and Authentication

When you sign in to a site or service, I store your unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your hard disk. This cookie allows you to move from page to page at the site without having to sign in again on each page. When you sign out, these cookies are deleted from your computer. I also use cookies to improve the sign-in experience. For example, your e-mail address may be stored in a cookie that will remain on your computer after you sign out. This cookie allows your e-mail address to be pre-populated, so that you will only need to type your password the next time you sign in.

Site Analytics

I may use cookies to count the number of unique visitors to a web page or service or to develop other aggregate statistics about the operations of our sites and services. These analytics help me operate and improve the performance of these sites and services.

Security

I use cookies to detect fraud and abuse of my websites and services.

In addition to the first-party cookies I may set when you visit my website, third parties may also set certain cookies on your hard drive when you visit my site. In some cases, that is because I have hired the third party to provide certain services on my behalf, such as site analytics. In other cases, it is because my web pages contain content from third parties, such as maps, videos, news content or ads delivered by ad networks. Because your browser connects to those third parties’ web servers to retrieve that content, those third parties are able to set or read their own cookies on your device and may collect information about your online activities across websites or online services. You can usually configure your browser to reject third party cookies.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use other interactive features of our webiste and services that depend on cookies, and some preferences that are dependent on cookies may not be able to be respected.

If you choose to accept cookies, you also have the ability to later delete cookies that you have accepted.

Instructions for blocking or deleting cookies are available in your browser's privacy or help documentation. For the most common browsers:

Apple Safari
Apple Safari on iOS (iPhone, iPad)
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
Mozilla Firefox

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