The following data protection declaration applies to the use of our online offer www.brennstein-ankauf.de (hereinafter referred to as „Website“).

We attach great importance to data protection. The collection and processing of your personal data is carried out in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

• Person in charge

The controller for the collection, processing, and use of your personal data within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR is

Brennstein Gold Buying

Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 18, 35440 Linden

Owner: Moris Üzel

Telephone: 0049 (0)6403-9297907

Email: kontakt@brennstein.de

If you wish to object to the collection, processing or use of your data by us in its entirety or for individual measures in accordance with this privacy policy, you can direct your objection to the controller.

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• General purposes of processing

We use personal data for the purpose of operating the website.

• What data we use and why
• Hosting

The hosting services we use are for the provision of the following services: infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space and database services, security services, and technical maintenance services, which we use for the purpose of operating the website.

In doing so, we or our hosting provider process inventory data, contact data, content data, contract data, usage data, meta and communication data of customers, prospective customers and visitors to this website based on our legitimate interest in an efficient and secure provision of our website in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR in conjunction with Art. 28 GDPR.

• • Access data

We collect information about you when you use this website. We automatically collect information about your usage patterns and your interaction with us, and record data about your computer or mobile device. We collect, store, and use data about every access to our website (so-called server logfiles). Access data includes:

• Name and URL of the retrieved file
• Date and time of retrieval
• Amount of data transferred
• Notification of successful retrieval (HTTP response code)
• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system
• Referer URL (i.e. the previously visited page)
• Websites accessed by the user's system via our website
• The user's Internet Service Provider
• IP address and the requesting provider

We use this log data without assigning it to your person or for any other profiling purposes for statistical evaluations concerning the operation, security, and optimisation of our website. It is also used for anonymous recording of the number of visitors to our website (traffic), as well as the scope and nature of the use of our website and services, and for billing purposes to measure the number of clicks received from cooperation partners. Based on this information, we can provide personalised and location-based content, analyse data traffic, search for and fix errors, and improve our services.

In this also lies our legitimate interest according to Art. 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR.

We reserve the right to check log data retrospectively if there are specific indications of a justified suspicion of unlawful use. We store IP addresses in log files for a limited period if this is necessary for security purposes or for the provision or billing of a service, e.g. if you use one of our offers. After cancellation of the order process or after receipt of payment, we delete the IP address if it is no longer required for security purposes. We also store IP addresses if we have a specific suspicion of a criminal offence in connection with the use of our website. Furthermore, as part of your account, we store the date of your last visit (e.g. upon registration, login, clicking on links, etc.).

• • Cookies

We use so-called session cookies to optimise our website. A session cookie is a small text file that is sent by the respective servers when a website is visited and temporarily stored on your hard drive. This file, as such, contains a so-called session ID, with which different requests from your browser can be assigned to the same session. This allows your computer to be recognised when you return to our website. These cookies are deleted after you close your browser. For example, they allow you to use the shopping cart function across multiple pages.

We also use persistent cookies to a small extent (also small text files that are placed on your device), which remain on your device and allow us to recognise your browser on your next visit. These cookies are stored on your hard drive and automatically delete themselves after a specified period. Their lifespan is from 1 month to 10 years. This allows us to present our services to you in a more user-friendly, effective and secure manner and, for example, to display information on the site that is specifically tailored to your interests.

Our legitimate interest in using cookies, in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, is to make our website more user-friendly, effective, and secure.

The cookies store approximately the following data and information:

• Login details
• Language settings
• Search terms entered
• Information on the number of visits to our website and the use of individual functions of our internet presence.

Upon activation of the cookie, an identification number will be assigned to it, and your personal data will not be associated with this identification number. Your name, IP address, or similar data that would allow the cookie to be linked to you will not be entered into the cookie. Based on cookie technology, we only receive pseudonymised information, for example, about which pages of our shop have been visited, which products have been viewed, etc.

You can set up your browser to be informed in advance about the setting of cookies and to decide in individual cases whether you want to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general, or whether cookies are completely prevented. This may limit the functionality of the website.

• • Data for the fulfilment of our contractual obligations

We process personal data that we require to fulfil our contractual obligations, such as name, address, email address, ordered products, and billing and payment details. The collection of this data is necessary for the conclusion of the contract.

Data will be deleted upon expiry of the warranty periods and statutory retention periods. Data linked to a user account (see below) will be retained for the duration of the operation of this account in any case.

The legal basis for processing this data is Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, as this data is necessary for us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you.

• • Email Contact

If you contact us (e.g. via contact form or email), we will process your details to handle your request and in case of follow-up questions.

Data processing will be carried out for the purpose of pre-contractual measures, which will be taken at your request, or, if you are already our customer, for the performance of the contract, the legal basis for this data processing is Article 6(1) sentence 1(b) of the GDPR.

We will only process further personal data if you consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) or if we have a legitimate interest in processing your data (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). A legitimate interest exists, for example, in responding to your email.

• Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. („Google“). Google Analytics uses „cookies“, which are text files placed on your computer, to help us analyse how you use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will usually be transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

In this also lies our legitimate interest according to Art. 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR.

Google has submitted to and been certified under the Privacy Shield agreement concluded between the European Union and the USA. This commits Google to complying with the standards and regulations of European data protection law. Further information can be found in the entry linked below: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.

We have enabled IP anonymisation on this website (anonymizeIp). However, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of Google, we will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide us with other services related to website and internet usage.

The IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website in their entirety.

You can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) for Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

As an alternative to browser plugins or within browsers on mobile devices, you can click the following link to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future (this opt-out cookie only works in this browser and only for this domain. If you delete your browser's cookies, you will need to click this link again): Disable Google Analytics

• Storage duration

Unless specifically stated, we will only store personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes pursued.

In some cases, the legislator stipulates the retention of personal data, for example under tax or commercial law. In these cases, the data is merely stored by us for these legal purposes, but not processed otherwise, and deleted once the statutory retention period has expired. 

• Your rights as a data subject

Under applicable laws, you have various rights concerning your personal data. If you wish to exercise these rights, please send your request by email or post to the address mentioned in Clause 1, clearly identifying yourself.

Below is an overview of your rights.

• • Right to confirmation and information

You have the right to clear information about the processing of your personal data.

In detail:

You have the right at any time to request confirmation from us as to whether personal data concerning you are being processed. If this is the case, you have the right to request information from us free of charge about the personal data stored about you, along with a copy of that data. Furthermore, you have the right to the following information:

• the processing purposes;
• the categories of personal data processed;
• the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations;
• if possible, the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored, or, if this is not possible, the criteria used to determine that duration;
• the existence of a right to rectify or erase your personal data, or to restrict its processing by the controller, or a right to object to such processing;
• The existence of a right of complaint to a supervisory authority.;
• if the personal data are not collected from you, all available information as to their source;
• the existence of automated decision-making including profiling pursuant to Art. 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR and – at least in these cases – meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the scope and the intended effects of such processing for you.

Where personal data are transferred to a third country or an international organisation, you shall have the right to be informed about the appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 GDPR relating to the transfer.

• • Right to rectification

You have the right to request that we correct and, if necessary, complete your personal data.

In detail:

You have the right to demand that we rectify any inaccurate personal data concerning you without undue delay. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you have the right to demand the completion of incomplete personal data, including by means of a supplementary statement.

• • Right to erasure („right to be forgotten“)

In a number of cases, we are obliged to delete personal data concerning you.

In detail:

You have the right under Article 17(1) of the GDPR to request that personal data concerning you be erased without undue delay, and we are obliged to erase personal data without undue delay if 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 your consent, on which the processing according to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR or Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR was based, and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
• You are objecting to the processing in accordance with Art. 21(1) GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or you are objecting to the processing in accordance with Art. 21(2) GDPR.
• The personal data have been processed unlawfully.
• The erasure of personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject under Union or Member State law.
• The personal data were collected in relation to information society services offered, in accordance with Article 8(1) of the GDPR.

If we have made personal data public and are obliged to erase it in accordance with Article 17(1) GDPR, we shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, having regard to the available technology and the cost of implementation, to inform controllers which are processing the personal data that you have requested the erasure by them of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data.

• • Right to restriction of processing

In a number of cases, you are entitled to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.

In detail:

You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data if one of the following conditions is met:

• you dispute the accuracy of the personal data, for a period that allows us to verify the accuracy of the personal data,
• the processing is unlawful and you opposed the erasure of personal data and requested restriction of its use instead;
• we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of processing, but you need the data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, or
• You have objected to the processing pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR as long as it is not yet established whether the legitimate grounds of our company outweigh yours.

• • Right to data portability

You have the right to receive your personal data in a machine-readable format, to transmit it, or to have us transmit it.

In detail:

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, common and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transfer this data to another controller without hindrance from us, provided that

• 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 using automated means.

When exercising your right to data portability under paragraph 1, you have the right to obtain the transfer of personal data directly from us to another controller, where technically feasible.

• • Right of objection

You have the right to object to the lawful processing of your personal data by us if it is justified by your particular situation and our interests in processing do not outweigh yours.

In detail:

You have the right, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of your personal data which is based on Art. 6(1)(e) or (f) of the GDPR; this also includes profiling based on these provisions. We shall no longer process the personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

If we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for such marketing purposes; this also applies to profiling, insofar as it is related to such direct marketing.

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) of the GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.

• • Automated 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.

Automated decision-making based on the personal data collected does not take place.

• • Right to withdraw consent at any time

You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of personal data at any time.

• • Right to complain to a supervisory authority

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you is unlawful.

• Data security

We endeavour to ensure the security of your data to the greatest extent possible within the framework of applicable data protection laws and technical capabilities.

Your personal data will be transmitted to us in encrypted form. This applies to your orders as well as your customer login. We use the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) coding system, but would like to point out that data transmission over the internet (e.g. when communicating by email) may have security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data from access by third parties is not possible.

To secure your data, we maintain technical and organisational security measures in accordance with Art. 32 GDPR, which we continually adapt to the state of the art.

We also do not guarantee that our service will be available at particular times; disruptions, interruptions, or failures cannot be ruled out. The servers we use are regularly backed up carefully.

• Data transfer to third parties, no data transfer outside the EU

Essentially, we only use your personal data within our company.

When and to the extent that we involve third parties in the performance of contracts (e.g., logistics service providers), they will only receive personal data to the extent that the transmission is necessary for the respective service.

In the event that we outsource certain parts of data processing („order processing“), we contractually oblige the order processors to use personal data only in accordance with the requirements of data protection laws and to ensure the protection of the rights of the data subject.

No data transfer to places or persons outside the EU will take place or is planned, except for the case mentioned in point 4 of this statement.