Datenschutz
Data Protection and Legal Information
I. Name and Address of the Controller
The controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other national data protection laws of the member states, as well as other data protection regulations, is:
Christian Wedewardt
Kocherbachweg 52
50374 Erftstadt
Germany
Email: christian@karatepraxis.com
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II. Name and Address of the Data Protection Officer
The controller’s data protection officer is:
Daniel Leinweber
Kurfürstenstraße 37
50321 Brühl
Germany
Christian Wedewardt
Kocherbachweg 52
50374 Erftstadt
Germany
Email: (my first name) at karatepraxis.com
Website: www.karatepraxis.de
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III. General Information on Data Processing
1. Scope of the Processing of Personal Data
We generally process personal data of our users only to the extent necessary to provide a functional website and our content and services. As a rule, personal data are processed only with the user’s consent. An exception applies in cases where obtaining prior consent is not possible for factual reasons and the processing of data is permitted by statutory provisions.
2. Legal Basis for the Processing of Personal Data
Where we obtain the data subject’s consent for processing personal data, Article 6(1)(a) GDPR serves as the legal basis.
Where processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, Article 6(1)(b) GDPR serves as the legal basis. This also applies to processing operations necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures.
Where processing of personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, Article 6(1)(c) GDPR serves as the legal basis.
Where processing is necessary to protect vital interests of the data subject or another natural person, Article 6(1)(d) GDPR serves as the legal basis.
Where processing is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, and such interests are not overridden by the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR serves as the legal basis.
3. Data Deletion and Storage Period
The personal data of the data subject will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage ceases to apply. Storage may continue if provided for by European or national legislation in EU regulations, laws, or other provisions to which the controller is subject. Data will also be blocked or deleted if a statutory retention period expires, unless further storage is required for the conclusion or performance of a contract.
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IV. Provision of the Website and Creation of Log Files
1. Description and Scope of Data Processing
Each time our website is accessed, our system automatically collects data and information from the computer system of the accessing device.
The following data are collected:
• Information about the browser type and version
• The user’s operating system
• The user’s internet service provider
• The user’s IP address
• Date and time of access
• Websites from which the user’s system accesses our website
• Websites accessed by the user’s system via our website
The data are also stored in our system log files. These data are not stored together with other personal data of the user.
2. Legal Basis for Data Processing
The legal basis for the temporary storage of data and log files is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
3. Purpose of Data Processing
Temporary storage of the IP address by the system is necessary to deliver the website to the user’s device. For this purpose, the user’s IP address must be stored for the duration of the session.
Storage in log files is carried out to ensure the functionality of the website. The data also serve to optimize the website and to ensure the security of our IT systems. No evaluation of these data for marketing purposes takes place in this context.
These purposes also constitute our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
4. Storage Duration
The data are deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for achieving the purpose for which they were collected. In the case of data collected to provide the website, this is the case when the respective session has ended.
In the case of storage in log files, this occurs after no more than seven days. Longer storage is possible. In such cases, the users’ IP addresses are deleted or anonymized so that it is no longer possible to associate them with the accessing client.
5. Right to Object and Removal
The collection of data for providing the website and the storage of data in log files are strictly necessary for operating the website. Therefore, users have no right to object.
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V. Use of Cookies
a) Description and Scope of Data Processing
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in the internet browser or by the internet browser on the user’s computer system. When a user accesses a website, a cookie may be stored on the user’s operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string that allows the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is visited again.
The data collected in this way are pseudonymized by technical measures. Therefore, it is no longer possible to assign these data to the accessing user. The data are not stored together with other personal data.
When accessing our website, users are informed via an information banner about the use of cookies for analysis purposes and are referred to this privacy policy. Common browsers offer settings options to refuse cookies.
We use the consent tool “Real Cookie Banner” to manage the cookies used and the related consents. Details on how “Real Cookie Banner” works can be found here.
b) Legal Basis for Data Processing
The legal basis for the processing of personal data using cookies is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
c) Purpose of Data Processing
The purpose of technically necessary cookies is to make the use of websites easier for users. Some functions of our website cannot be provided without cookies. For these functions, it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after a page change.
We require cookies for the following application: saving user inputs in forms. The user data collected by technically necessary cookies are not used to create user profiles.
d) Storage Duration, Right to Object and Removal
Cookies are stored on the user’s device and transmitted to our website. Users therefore have full control over the use of cookies. By changing the settings in your internet browser, you can disable or restrict the transmission of cookies. Cookies that have already been stored can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are disabled for our website, some functions may no longer be fully usable.
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VI. Email Contact
1. Description and Scope of Data Processing
You may contact us via the email address provided. In this case, the personal data transmitted with the email will be stored.
No data are passed on to third parties in this context. The data are used exclusively to process the correspondence.
2. Legal Basis for Data Processing
If the user has given consent, the legal basis is Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.
The legal basis for processing data transmitted when sending an email is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. If the email contact is aimed at concluding a contract, an additional legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR.
3. Purpose of Data Processing
The processing of personal data serves solely to handle the contact request.
4. Storage Duration
The data are deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for achieving the purpose for which they were collected. For personal data sent by email, this is the case when the respective correspondence with the user has ended. Correspondence is considered ended when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter has been conclusively clarified.
Personal data additionally collected during the sending process will be deleted after no more than seven days.
5. Right to Object and Removal
Users may withdraw their consent to the processing of personal data at any time. If a user contacts us by email, the user may object to the storage of their personal data at any time. In such a case, the correspondence cannot be continued.
All personal data stored in the course of contacting us will be deleted in this case.
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VII. Rights of the Data Subject
If your personal data are processed, you are a data subject within the meaning of the GDPR and you have the following rights vis-à-vis the controller:
1. Right of Access
You may request confirmation as to whether personal data concerning you are processed by us.
If such processing exists, you may request information about:
• the purposes for which the personal data are processed;
• the categories of personal data processed;
• the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data concerning you have been disclosed or will be disclosed;
• the planned duration of storage of your personal data or, if specific information is not possible, criteria used to determine that duration;
• the existence of the right to rectification or erasure, the right to restriction of processing, or the right to object to such processing;
• the existence of the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
• all available information about the origin of the data if the personal data are not collected from the data subject;
• the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, pursuant to Article 22(1) and (4) GDPR and—at least in those cases—meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.
You have the right to be informed whether personal data concerning you are transferred to a third country or to an international organization. In this context, you may request information about appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 GDPR.
2. Right to Rectification
You have the right to obtain rectification and/or completion from the controller if the personal data concerning you are inaccurate or incomplete. The controller must rectify the data without undue delay.
3. Right to Restriction of Processing
You may request restriction of processing of your personal data under the following conditions:
• if you contest the accuracy of the personal data for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
• if the processing is unlawful and you oppose erasure of the personal data and request restriction of use instead;
• if the controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of processing, but you require them for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims; or
• if you have objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR and it has not yet been determined whether the controller’s legitimate grounds override yours.
Where processing has been restricted, such personal data may—apart from storage—only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person, or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or a member state.
If restriction is lifted, you will be informed in advance.
4. Right to Erasure
a) Obligation to Erase
You may request that personal data concerning you be erased without undue delay, and the controller is obliged to erase such data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies:
• the personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed;
• you withdraw consent on which the processing is based pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR and there is no other legal ground for processing;
• you object to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for processing, or you object pursuant to Article 21(2) GDPR;
• the personal data have been processed unlawfully;
• erasure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation under Union or member state law to which the controller is subject;
• the personal data were collected in relation to the offer of information society services pursuant to Article 8(1) GDPR.
b) Information to Third Parties
If the controller has made the personal data public and is obliged to erase it pursuant to Article 17(1) GDPR, the controller shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, to inform other controllers processing the personal data that you have requested the erasure of any links to, or copies or replications of, that personal data.
c) Exceptions
The right to erasure does not apply where processing is necessary:
• for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;
• for compliance with a legal obligation or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;
• for reasons of public interest in the area of public health pursuant to Article 9(2)(h) and (i) and Article 9(3) GDPR;
• for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) GDPR, insofar as the right referred to in (a) is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing; or
• for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
5. Right to Notification
If you have exercised your right to rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing, the controller shall notify all recipients to whom your personal data have been disclosed of such rectification or erasure or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort.
You have the right to be informed about those recipients.
6. Right to Data Portability
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to the controller in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data were provided, where:
• the processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) GDPR; and
• the processing is carried out by automated means.
In exercising this right, you also have the right to have your personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible. This shall not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
The right to data portability does not apply to processing necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.
7. Right to Object
You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Article 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR; this also applies to profiling based on those provisions.
The controller shall no longer process the personal data unless the controller demonstrates 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.
Where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing; this also applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing.
If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data will no longer be processed for such purposes.
In connection with the use of information society services, you may exercise your right to object by automated means using technical specifications, notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC.
8. Right to Withdraw Consent under Data Protection Law
You have the right to withdraw your data protection consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
9. Automated Individual Decision-Making, Including Profiling
You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing—including profiling—which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. This does not apply if the decision:
• is necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between you and the controller;
• is authorized by Union or member state law to which the controller is subject and which lays down suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests; or
• is based on your explicit consent.
Such decisions may not be based on special categories of personal data pursuant to Article 9(1) GDPR, unless Article 9(2)(a) or (g) GDPR applies and suitable measures are in place to protect your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests.
In the cases referred to in (1) and (3), the controller shall implement suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, including at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express your point of view, and to contest the decision.
10. Right to Lodge a Complaint with a Supervisory Authority
Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority—particularly in the member state of your habitual residence, place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement—if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR.
The supervisory authority with which the complaint has been lodged shall inform the complainant of the status and the outcome of the complaint, including the possibility of a judicial remedy pursuant to Article 78 GDPR