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The protection of your personal data is of the utmost importance to us. In the following, we explain our data protection practices when using our electronic media.

F.A.Z. Business Media GmbH processes and uses your personal data exclusively in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations. Regulations in this regard include the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the German Telemedia Act (TMG). The following data is collected when you use the digital services of F.A.Z. Business Media GmbH (hereinafter also referred to as “F.A.Z. Business Media GmbH”):

  1. personal data that you voluntarily enter when you register for a newsletter or an event, place an order, take part in a survey, participate in discussion forums, or make use of similar services offered via our website.
  2. tracking information collected during the use of our websites.

Collection, processing and use of personal data

The personal data you provide will only be stored, processed and used without further consent for the purpose of establishing and processing the contract and for billing purposes. The data will only be passed on to service providers who handle the corresponding tasks (mailings etc.) on behalf of F.A.Z. BUSINESS MEDIA GmbH for the fulfillment of the aforementioned purposes.

The service providers are contractually bound to confidentiality and compliance with all necessary data protection measures. F.A.Z. BUSINESS MEDIA guarantees that your data will be treated confidentially. With your voluntary consent, F.A.Z. BUSINESS MEDIA is authorized to collect, process and store your personal data for the purpose of providing you with information about F.A.Z. BUSINESS MEDIA GmbH products, to combine it with other data, to archive it and to use it. Your consent is given either in writing or by clicking on the relevant declaration. In particular, personal data will only be passed on to third parties if you have given your express prior consent or if we are obliged to disclose the data, for example due to an official order.

The collection, processing and use of personal data takes place primarily in the following cases:

  1. newsletters:

On some F.A.Z. BUSINESS MEDIA GmbH websites, it is possible to subscribe to newsletters. After registration, the user’s e-mail address and personal data are stored on the F.A.Z. BUSINESS MEDIA GmbH server. The data is used exclusively for sending the subscribed newsletters. The user must agree to other regulations. After registration, the user receives a confirmation message containing a link for final registration (double opt-in). This ensures that the newsletter is explicitly desired. F.A.Z. BUSINESS MEDIA uses the email marketing software Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

Email marketing with consent

On our website or as part of promotions, you have the option of subscribing to a newsletter or consenting to the sending of information about our products and services. The type of personal data we collect in this context is determined by the form used for registration.  After registering, you will first receive an e-mail which you must confirm via a link contained therein (double opt-in). This procedure is used to check whether the owner of the e-mail address provided during registration has consented to receiving e-mail marketing communications. The date and time of confirmation are stored by us. The legal basis for the storage of this data is our legal obligation to document your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence lit. c) GDPR, Art. 7 para. 1 GDPR). If you do not confirm your registration, your data will be deleted. Otherwise, the data collected during registration (e-mail address and voluntary information) will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected. This is particularly the case if you withdraw your consent (e.g. by unsubscribing from a newsletter The legal basis for the processing of your data for the purpose of regularly sending you e-mail advertising is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence lit. a) GDPR). You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. To do so, please send a message to datenschutz@faz-bm.de or use the unsubscribe function provided in the email.

Email advertising without consent

If you have purchased a product or service from us by providing your e-mail address, we process this e-mail address for the purpose of informing you about such products and services that are similar to the products and services you have already purchased or that correspond to your interests – if you have communicated them to us. The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence lit. f) GDPR. Due to the existing customer relationship, the use of your data for further sales is reasonably foreseeable and your fundamental rights and freedoms are not affected by the receipt of e-mail advertising to an extent that outweighs your interest in refraining from processing. You can object to the processing of your data at any time with effect for the future without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic rates. To do so, please send a message to datenschutz@faz-bm.de or use the unsubscribe function provided in the e-mail.

  1. events:

You can register for events via the event websites of F.A.Z. BUSINESS MEDIA GmbH. After registration, the user’s personal data relevant to the event will be stored on the F.A.Z. BUSINESS MEDIA GmbH server. The data is used exclusively for the purpose of organizing the event. The user must agree to other regulations. After registration, the user will receive a confirmation message containing all information relevant to the event.

  1. personalized services:

If you decide to make use of services that require registration, we will collect, process and use the relevant data from you that we need to provide the services.

  1. surveys:

We survey experts on specific topics for our journalistic services. We collect data records from the experts for these surveys. Once consent has been given, the experts’ e-mail addresses and personal data are stored on the F.A.Z. BUSINESS MEDIA GmbH server. The data is used exclusively for sending the surveys. The user must agree to other regulations. After giving consent, the user receives a confirmation message containing a link for final inclusion in the data pool (double opt-in). This ensures that participation in the survey is explicitly desired. F.A.Z. BUSINESS MEDIA uses the email marketing software Salesforce Marketing Cloud and the survey software Limesurvey.

  1. plenigo:

In order to offer you various payment functions through an online payment channel, we use software from plenigo GmbH (Agnesstr. 37, 80798 Munich), which supports us in handling the payment process. The software also manages transactions and controls access control, billing, the checkout process, invoicing and payment transactions. It also supports our user, product and price management. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR. plenigo GmbH processes your personal master data (such as name, address data), your communication data (e.g. e-mail), order data, contract billing and payment data as well as our planning and control data on the basis of an order processing agreement in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR.

Right to information

Upon request, F.A.Z. BUSINESS MEDIA GmbH will inform you in writing, taking into account the legal requirements, whether and which personal data is stored. Please send inquiries to datenschutz@faz-bm.de.

Change of data and revocation

You can update, correct, supplement or delete your personal data at any time. If this is not technically possible at the address at which you have provided the data, you can contact us at any time at the following address: datenschutz@faz-bm.de. You can also use this address to revoke your consent to the use of your data. In this case, your data will be deleted immediately. If data has been transmitted to third parties with your consent, these third parties will be informed immediately and requested to delete the data. You are entitled to restrict your consent to the use of your data. In this case, deletion will only take place within the scope of the restriction. For technical reasons, it cannot be completely ruled out that there may be an overlap between revocation and use of your data as part of a campaign that has already started. As an alternative to the browser add-on, especially for browsers on mobile devices, you can also prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by clicking on the links below. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website. The opt-out cookie is only valid in this browser and only for our website and is stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in this browser, you must set the opt-out cookie again.

Cookies, tracking, similar technologies and GermanLawInternational Pure

When you visit our websites, certain data (information such as cookies, device ID, IP address) is automatically processed. Information is stored and retrieved on your device. The extent to which this happens depends on what you decide: As before, you can visit our website www.germanlawinternational.com and the corresponding articles on www.germanlawinternational.com free of charge. In this case, however, we are still dependent on being financed by advertising. This involves the use of personalized advertising, advertising tracking and usage analysis (see 1. below). Accordingly, in these cases we ask you to give your consent, which you can revoke at any time. On the other hand, you can also read our website www.germanlawinternational.com and corresponding articles on www.germanlawinternational.com without tracking and without advertising. To do this, please complete the GermanLawInternational Pur (see 2. below).

  1. with advertising and cookies

If you do not opt for GermanLawInternational Pur, we (F.A.Z. BUSINESS MEDIA GmbH) and our partners (providers) require your consent, which can be revoked at any time, to process data (information such as cookies, device ID, IP address) for personalized advertising, advertising tracking, usage analysis, display of external multimedia content (more details below under “Purposes”) prior to your use of our website www.germanlawinternational.com. For this purpose, information is stored and retrieved on your device. The legal basis is § 15 TMG, Art. 6 para. 1 a GDPR. In some cases, we and some of our partners also process the information on the basis of legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 f GDPR), namely in connection with so-called “functional purposes of use”. Legitimate interests are technical or legal requirements. Technical requirements include: Ensuring security, preventing fraud and correcting errors, technically providing ads or content, and necessary technologies. In principle, the following purposes are pursued with the processing, which you can read about in detail in our Cookie-Manager:

  • Essential cookies: Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the proper functioning of the website.
  • Statistics: Statistics cookies collect information anonymously. This information helps us to understand how our visitors use our website.
  • Marketing: Marketing cookies are used by third-party providers or publishers to display personalized advertising. They do this by tracking visitors across websites.
  • Externe Medien: Content from video platforms and social media platforms is blocked by default. If cookies from external media are accepted, access to this content no longer requires manual consent.

Unlike for users with GermanLawInternational Pur, “external media” cannot be optionally rejected here. In the Cookie Manager you can read about partners (providers), cookies and similar technologies:

Cookie-Manager

You can revoke your consent below:

 

Note: You will be logged out if you are logged into your user account. We also refer you to section 3 below, which explains how you can (partially) object to the use of cookies and corresponding data processing. Information” refers to certain data that you can read about in the Cookie-Manager Neither your name nor your address or other data that directly identifies you will be processed in this context. The Cookie-Manager

is made available to us by a contracted IT service provider, who may have access to the information for this purpose. If you give your consent or have a legitimate interest, this applies to us and our partners for our website www.deutscheranwaltspiegel.de. Your consent also includes the processing of information outside the European Economic Area (Art. 49 para. 1 a GDPR), where there may not be a comparable level of data protection, e.g. in the USA. With regard to the USA, there is a particular risk that the information will be processed by US authorities for surveillance purposes, possibly without the enforceability of your rights and corresponding legal remedies. Your consent will also be stored on your end device for retrieval with a cookie for technical documentation.

  1. GermanLawInternational Pure

You can also read our articles on www.germanlawinternational.com without tracking and practically without advertising. In this case, only cookies and other technologies are used or information is processed to ensure absolutely necessary functionality, to measure reach and for internal usage analysis. You can read more details here. You can prevent the use or processing for the future by unsubscribing from GermanLawInternational Pure. To do this, send an email to kundenservice@faz-bm.de

or cancel via “Subscriptions & Purchases” in the self-service. In addition, as described in 3. below, terminate the corresponding use of cookies already stored via the cookie settings of your browser by deleting cookies stored for this purpose. The legal basis for this use or corresponding processing is our legitimate interest, namely the provision of content that is as suitable as possible for our readers, author remuneration and/or technical or legal requirements (Art. 6 para. 1 f GDPR). Some of the information may be processed outside the European Economic Area by our analytics service provider, where there may not be a comparable level of data protection, e.g. in the USA. With regard to the USA, there is a particular risk that the information may be processed by US authorities for surveillance purposes, possibly without enforceability of your rights and corresponding legal remedies. However, corresponding standard contractual clauses have been concluded insofar as such a third country transfer is envisaged. You can find out how we process the personal data that you actively provide to us when registering for GermanLawInternational Pur in the section “Collection, processing and use of personal data” under “5. Plenigo” above. In the Cookie Manager you can read about partners (providers), cookies and similar technologies:

Cookie-Manager

You can revoke your consent below:

 

Note: You will be logged out if you are logged into your user account.

  1. individual cookie settings via your browser

In addition to controlling the cookies that can be used and the corresponding data processing in our Cookie-Manager (see 1. and 2. above), you also have the general option of making cookie settings via your web browser. You can set your web browser so that it notifies you when cookies are set or generally rejects cookies. However, if you deactivate or restrict the use of cookies using your browser, you will no longer be able to use various functions on our website. You can delete cookies, even automatically. Deleting cookies also deletes any consent you may have given (see 1. and 2. above). You can use the following links to find out about the possibility of making individual cookie settings via your browser for the most commonly used browsers:

Further information

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact us at any time.

F.A.Z. BUSINESS MEDIA GmbH – Ein Unternehmen der F.A.Z.-Gruppe
Datenschutz
Pariser Straße 1
60486 Frankfurt/Main
E-mail: datenschutz@faz-bm.de

Changes to the data protection regulations

F.A.Z. BUSINESS MEDIA GmbH reserves the right to amend these general data protection provisions within the framework of the applicable data protection regulations. Status: June 07, 2024

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