Data Protection Information

We would like to inform you about which personal data is collected, to what extent and for what purpose during your visit to our website, processed and, if necessary, transmitted. This also applies to the services and offers accessible via the website.

As far as this website refers to external pages of other providers (links), you leave our internet offer through these links. The operators of these linked sites are solely responsible for compliance with data protection regulations.

Controller and data protection officer

Controller within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

HvS Consulting AG
Parkring 20
85748 Garching near Munich
Executive Board: Frank von Stetten, Michael Hochenrieder
Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Peter Möllersmann
Registration Court: Traunstein, HRB 20104

If you have any questions about data protection, please write us an e-mail or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organisation directly.

Our data protection officer is:
Dr. Eddie Kohfeldt
Phone: +49 (0)89 890 63 62 - 0
E-mail: datenschutz@hvs-consulting.de

Your rights as data subject

You can exercise the following rights at any time by contacting our data protection officer:

  • Information about your data stored with us and their processing,
  • Correction of incorrect personal data,
  • Deletion of your data stored with us,
  • Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations,
  • Objection to the processing of your data by us and
  • Data transferability if you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us.

If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

You can contact your local supervisory authority at any time with a complaint. Your competent supervisory authority depends on your state of residence, your work or the alleged infringement.

Purposes of data processing by the controller and third parties

We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this data protection information. Your personal data will not be passed on to third parties for purposes other than those mentioned. We will only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

  • you have given your express consent,
  • processing is necessary to process a contract with you,
  • the processing is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation,
  • the processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests and there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in not disclosing your data.

Deletion or blocking of data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data minimization. We therefore only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here or according to storage periods provided by law. After the respective purpose or expiry of these periods, the corresponding data will be blocked or deleted in accordance with statutory regulations.

Collection of general information when you visit our website

When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected by cookies. This information (server log files) includes the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider and similar information. This is exclusively information which does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.

This information is technically necessary in order to correctly deliver the content you have requested from websites and is mandatory when using the Internet. They are processed in particular for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring a trouble-free connection of the website,
  • Ensuring a smooth use of our website,
  • evaluation of system security and stability as well as
  • for other administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest from the aforementioned purposes for data collection. We do not use your data to draw conclusions about you personally. The recipients of the data are only the controller and, if applicable, the processor.

Anonymous information of this kind may be statistically evaluated by us in order to optimize our Internet presence and the technology behind it.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we also use so-called "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard drive. This automatically provides us with certain data such as IP address, browser used, operating system and your connection to the Internet.

Cookies cannot be used to start programs or to transmit viruses to a computer. Based on the information contained in cookies, we can make navigation easier for you and enable the correct display of our web pages.

We use technical cookies to make visits to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions. We use these essential cookies on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Under no circumstances will the data we collect be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.

Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via the settings of your browser. Please use the help functions of your Internet browser to find out how you can change these settings. Please note that some features of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.

Contact form

On our website there is a contact form and e-mail addresses that can be used for electronic contact. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide your name, a validatable e-mail address and, if necessary, further data for contacting you. If contact is established via these communication channels, the personal data transmitted will be stored. The data will not be passed on to third parties. Your data will be processed exclusively for the processing of your inquiry and for possible follow-up questions

Please note: Requests via our contact form are transmitted to us in a secure encrypted form. Communication via e-mail can have security gaps despite transport encryption.

The legal basis for the processing of data transmitted in the course of a contact is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. After completion of your request, the personal data will be deleted, unless there are legal reasons (obligation to retain data, obligation to provide evidence).

Registration on our website

When registering to use our personalised services, some personal data is collected, such as name, address, contact and communication data such as telephone number and e-mail address. If you are registered, you can access content and services that we only offer to registered users. Of course, we will provide you with information about the personal data we have stored about you at any time. We will be happy to correct or delete them at your request, provided that there are no legal storage obligations to the contrary.

Provision of chargeable services

For the provision of chargeable services, we ask for additional data, e.g. payment details, in order to be able to execute your order. We store this data in our systems until the legal retention periods have expired.

SSL encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (following: Google). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on these websites, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities and to provide the website operator with further services associated with website and Internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.

The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on activities on the website. Other related services will then be provided based on the use of the website and the Internet. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. 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 Add On to disable Google Analytics.

Embedded YouTube videos

On some of our websites we embed YouTube videos. YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA is the operator of the corresponding plug-ins. When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to Youtube servers is established. Youtube will be informed which pages you visit. If you are logged into your Youtube account, Youtube can assign your surfing behavior to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

If a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behavior.

If you have deactivated the storage of cookies for the Google Ad program, you will not have to reckon with such cookies when viewing YouTube videos. Youtube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you want to prevent this, you must block the saving of cookies in your browser.

Further information on data protection at "Youtube" can be found in the provider's data protection information at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Changes to our data protection regulations

We reserve the right to adapt this data protection information so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data protection information, e.g. when introducing new services. The new data protection information will then apply for your next visit.

Garching, December 2020