Privacy Policy

1) Introduction and contact details of the controller

1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following, we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data with which you can be personally identified.

1.2 The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Oliver Siegmar, IT Consulting, Putzbrunner Str. 170, 81739 Munich, Germany, Tel.: 089/67908852, E-mail: service@siegmar-it.de. The controller responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

1.3 The controller has appointed a data protection officer, who can be contacted as follows: "IITR Datenschutz GmbH, Marienplatz 2, 80331 Munich, 089/18917360, email@iitr.de"

2) Data collection when visiting our website

2.1 When using our website for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect such data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called "server log files"). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

The website you visited
Date and time at the moment of access
Amount of data sent in bytes
Source/reference from which you reached the page
Browser used
Operating system used
IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data is not passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to subsequently check the server log files should there be concrete indications of unlawful use.

2.2 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries to the controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string "https://" and the lock symbol in your browser bar.

3) Hosting & Content Delivery Network

3.1 Amazon Web Services

For the hosting of our website and the display of the page content, we use the system of the following provider: AWS EMEA SARL, 38 avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg

Data may also be transmitted to: Amazon Web Services, Inc., 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109, USA

All data collected on our website is processed on the provider's servers. We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our site visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which, on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission, ensures compliance with the European level of data protection.

3.2 AWS-CloudFront

We use a content delivery network of the following provider: AWS EMEA SARL, 38 avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg

This service enables us to deliver large media files such as graphics, page content or scripts faster via a network of regionally distributed servers. The processing is carried out to safeguard our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our site visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

Data may also be transmitted to: Amazon Web Services, Inc., 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109, USA

4) Contacting us

When you contact us (e.g. via contact form or e-mail), personal data is processed – exclusively for the purpose of handling and responding to your request and only to the extent necessary for this purpose.

The legal basis for the processing of this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter concerned has been conclusively clarified, provided that no statutory retention obligations conflict with this.

5) Web analysis services

Plausible

This website uses "Plausible", a web analysis tool from the company Plausible Insights OÜ, Västriku tn 2, 50403, Tartu, Estonia.

Interactions of randomly selected individual visitors with the website are recorded and analyzed anonymously in order to collect information about the use of the site (such as visitor numbers, page views, bounce rates and dwell time).

At no time is personal data processed in this context. When using this website, Plausible only collects non-personal data such as information about the browser and the user agent. This is stored in a non-personally-identifiable form and analyzed for statistical purposes. Deletion takes place as soon as the data is no longer required for our evaluation purposes.

If, in individual cases, personal data is processed after all, the processing is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest in the statistical evaluation of usage behavior for optimization purposes pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

6) Rights of the data subject

6.1 The applicable data protection law grants you the following data subject rights (rights to information and intervention) towards the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data, whereby reference is made to the legal basis cited for the respective conditions for exercising them:

Right to information pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR;
Right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR;
Right to erasure pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR;
Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR;
Right to notification pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR;
Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR;
Right to withdraw consent granted pursuant to Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR;
Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR.

6.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT

IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE, FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION.

IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED. HOWEVER, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO FURTHER PROCESSING IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING. YOU MAY EXERCISE THE OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.

IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.

7) Duration of storage of personal data

The duration of the storage of personal data is determined on the basis of the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and – where applicable – additionally on the basis of the respective statutory retention period (e.g. retention periods under commercial and tax law).

When personal data is processed on the basis of express consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, the data concerned is stored until you withdraw your consent.

If statutory retention periods exist for data that is processed within the framework of legal or quasi-legal obligations on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, this data is routinely deleted after the retention periods have expired, provided that it is no longer required for the fulfillment or initiation of a contract and/or we no longer have a legitimate interest in its continued storage.

When personal data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data is stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

When personal data is processed for the purpose of direct marketing on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data is stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21 para. 2 GDPR.

Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this declaration regarding specific processing situations, stored personal data is otherwise deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.

As of: 02.06.2026