1. Privacy at a Glance
General Information The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data that can be used to identify you personally. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy 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. You can find their contact details in the legal notice of this website.
How do we collect your data? Some data is collected when you provide it to us. This could be data you enter into a contact form, for example. Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This data is primarily technical (e.g., internet browser, operating system, or time of the page request). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.
What do we use your data for? Part of the data is collected to ensure the website is provided without errors. Other data may be used to analyze your user behavior.
What rights do you have regarding your data? You always have the right to request information about the origin, recipients, and purpose of your stored personal data free of charge. You also have the right to request the correction, restriction of processing, or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice for this and other questions regarding data protection. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
2. General Notes and Mandatory Information
Data Protection The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy. When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is data that can be used to identify you personally. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens. We point out that data transmission over the internet (e.g., communication by email) can have security gaps. A complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
Information on the Data Controller The Data Controller responsible for data processing on this website is:
COMTEC STUDIOS GMBH Eriagstrasse 46 85053 Ingolstadt, Germany Phone: +49 (0) 841 88 56 36 0 Email: comtec@comtec-studios.de
The Data Controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g., names, email addresses, etc.).
Revocation of Your Consent to Data Processing Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke your consent at any time. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out before the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority In the event of violations of data protection law, the data subject 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 that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done if it is 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. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Information, Restriction of Processing, 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 and recipients, and the purpose of the data processing and, if applicable, a right to correction, restriction of processing, or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice for this and other questions regarding personal data.
Objection to Promotional Emails We hereby object to the use of contact data published within the scope of the legal notice obligation for sending unsolicited advertising and information materials. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, for example through spam emails.
3. Data Collection on Our Website
Cookies
The internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage 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 stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Deactivating cookies may limit the functionality of this website.
Cookies that are necessary to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions you desire (e.g., shopping cart function) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR in conjunction with Section 25 (2) TDDDG. 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 for analyzing 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:
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Browser type and browser version
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Operating system used
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Referrer URL
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Hostname of the accessing computer
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Time of the server request
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IP address
This data is not merged with other data sources. The basis for data processing is our legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and optimization of our website pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
WP Statistics (Client-Side) We use the analytics plugin “WP Statistics” from VeronaLabs on our website. We use the tool in the “Client Side Tracking” configuration. The analysis is triggered via JavaScript in your browser. With this plugin, we can analyze the reach of our website and collect technical data, such as the device type used (mobile/desktop), the browser, and the origin of the visitors. The data is processed exclusively on our own server and is not passed on to the provider or third parties. IP addresses are anonymized during collection, meaning no personal reference can be made. The use of this analysis tool is based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR and Section 25 (1) TDDDG via our cookie consent tool (Borlabs Cookie). You can revoke your consent at any time via the cookie settings on our website.
4. Plugins and Tools
Data transfer to third countries:
If personal data is transferred to servers of providers in the United States, this is done on the basis of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, provided that the respective provider is certified under this framework. In addition, Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) of the European Commission have been concluded with the providers to ensure an adequate level of data protection.
Please note that when data is transferred to the United States, there is a general risk that US authorities may access personal data without you having effective legal remedies against such access.
The use of the aforementioned services is based exclusively on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.
Vimeo Our website uses plugins from the video portal Vimeo. The provider is Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. When you visit one of our pages equipped with a Vimeo plugin, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established. The Vimeo server is informed which of our pages you have visited. Vimeo also obtains your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged into Vimeo or do not have a Vimeo account. The information collected by Vimeo is transmitted to the Vimeo server in the USA. Vimeo is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). Data transmission to the US is based on the adequacy decision of the EU Commission pursuant to Art. 45 GDPR. If you are logged into your Vimeo account, you enable Vimeo to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account. Further information on the handling of user data can be found in Vimeo’s privacy policy at: https://vimeo.com/privacy.
Soundcloud Music for release or selection is stored on the “Soundcloud” platform, provided by SoundCloud Limited, Rheinsberger Str. 76/77, 10115 Berlin, Germany, and played from this platform. For this purpose, we integrate so-called Soundcloud widgets into our website. This is playback software that allows users to play the podcasts. Soundcloud can measure which podcasts are listened to and to what extent, and process this information pseudonymously for statistical and business purposes. For this purpose, cookies can be stored in users’ browsers and processed to create user profiles, e.g., for the purpose of displaying ads that correspond to users’ potential interests. In the case of users registered with Soundcloud, Soundcloud can assign the listening information to their profiles. The use is based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR and Section 25 (1) TDDDG. You can revoke this consent at any time via our cookie settings. Further information and options to object can be found in Soundcloud’s privacy policy: https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.
Google Maps This website uses Google Maps to display maps and create directions. Google Maps is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The company is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). Data transmission to the US is based on the adequacy decision of the EU Commission pursuant to Art. 45 GDPR. By using Google Maps on this website, you consent to the collection, processing, and use of automatically collected data and data entered by you by Google, one of its representatives, or third-party providers. The terms of use for Google Maps can be found here. You can view the Google Maps privacy policy here.
Use of Google Tag Manager and Google Ads Google Tag Manager Our website uses the Google Tag Manager, a service of Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Tag Manager is a solution that allows marketers to manage website tags through a single interface. The Tag Manager tool itself (which implements the tags) is a cookie-less domain and does not collect any personal data. The tool triggers other tags, which may themselves collect data. Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If a deactivation has been made at the domain or cookie level, this remains in place for all tracking tags implemented with Google Tag Manager.
Google Ads Our website uses the online advertising program “Google Ads” and, as part of this, conversion tracking. Google Ads is a service of Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). Data transmission to the US is based on the adequacy decision of the EU Commission pursuant to Art. 45 GDPR. We use Google Ads to draw attention to our attractive offers on external websites with the help of advertising materials (so-called Google Ads). We can determine how successful the individual advertising measures are in relation to the data of the advertising campaigns. We are interested in showing you advertisements that are of interest to you, making our website more interesting for you, and achieving a fair calculation of advertising costs. The cookie for conversion tracking is set when a user clicks on an ad placed by Google. These cookies are small text files stored on your computer system. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Every Google Ads customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot therefore be tracked across the websites of Ads customers. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for Ads customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that personally identifies users.
Consent and Opt-Out We only use the Google Tag Manager and Google Ads conversion tracking with your consent. You can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future. The legality of the data processing carried out before the revocation remains unaffected. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: Browser Plugin. Further information on data protection at Google can be found here: Google Privacy Policy.
Use of Cloudflare Turnstile Our website uses the Cloudflare Turnstile Captcha to ensure that users of our contact form and admin login are real people and not bots. Cloudflare Turnstile is a service provided by Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. This Captcha helps us improve the security of our website and prevent abuse. Cloudflare is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). Data transmission to the US is based on the adequacy decision of the EU Commission pursuant to Art. 45 GDPR. Processing of Personal Data As part of the use of Cloudflare Turnstile, personal data such as IP addresses and other information necessary for verification may be transferred to Cloudflare. This data is used exclusively for the purpose of distinguishing human users from automated bots. The processing is based on our legitimate interest in ensuring the security and integrity of our website pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Further information on data protection at Cloudflare can be found here: Cloudflare Privacy Policy.
Use of Polylang Our website uses the Polylang plugin to enable the multilingualism of our content. Polylang is a service of WP SYNTEX, 28, rue Jean Sébastien Bach, 38090 Villefontaine, France. With Polylang, we can offer our website in different languages and improve the user experience for international visitors. Processing of Personal Data Polylang itself does not store any personal data of website visitors. A functional cookie is used to remember the language chosen by the user and to restore the language preferences on the next visit to the website. This cookie is necessary to enable the multilingual functionality of the website and is deleted after the browser is closed. Further information on data protection at Polylang can be found here: Polylang Privacy Policy.
