Privacy Policy
1) Introduction and contact details of the responsible party
1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following, we will inform you about how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data is all data with which you can be personally identified.
1.2 The responsible party for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Andreas Hackl, Ahornstraße 38, 87787 Wolfertschwenden, Germany, Tel.: +4915253436833, E-Mail: andreas@pizglobal.com. The responsible party 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 processing personal data.
2) Data collection when visiting our website
2.1 If you use our website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the data that your browser transmits to the site server (so-called "server log files"). When you visit our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:
Our visited website
Date and time at the time 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 anonymised form)
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 will not be passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to subsequently check the server log files if there are concrete indications of unlawful use.
2.2 This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or enquiries to the responsible party). You can recognise an encrypted connection by the character string "https://" and the lock symbol in your browser line.
3) Hosting & Content Delivery Network
3.1 Amazon Web Services
We use the system of the following provider to host our website and display the page content: 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 an order processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of the data of our website visitors and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has signed up to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (EU-US Data Privacy Framework), which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission. European level of data protection.
Amazon Web Services is used by our main hosting provider Wix as a third-party sub-processor. For this purpose, Wix concludes a written contract with the sub-processor, which ensures compliance with the applicable data protection laws.
3.2 Wix
We use the system of the following provider to host our website and display the page content: Wix HQ, 6350671, Nemal Tel Aviv St 40, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Data is also transferred to: Wix Inc, 500 Terry A. Francois Boulevard, San Francisco, California 94158, USA
All data collected on our website is processed on the provider's servers.
We have concluded an order processing contract with the provider, which ensures the protection of the data of our website visitors and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.
When data is transferred to the provider's location, an appropriate level of data protection is guaranteed by an adequacy decision of the European Commission.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
3.3 Google Cloud CDN
We use a content delivery network from the following provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland. This service enables us to deliver large media files such as graphics, page content or scripts more quickly 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.
Data may also be transferred to Google LLC, USA
We have concluded an order processing contract with the provider, which ensures the protection of the data of our website visitors and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
Google Cloud CDN is used by our main hosting provider Wix as a third-party sub-processor. For this purpose, Wix concludes a written contract with the sub-processor, which ensures compliance with the applicable data protection laws.
3.4 Social media plug-ins
The social media buttons on our website merely provide links to the respective providers. As long as these buttons are not clicked, there is no transmission to these providers. If you click on these buttons, you will be redirected to the website of the respective provider. Depending on whether you were logged in to the respective provider at the time you clicked on the button, your data will be processed in accordance with the data protection guidelines of these providers and may be used for profiling, which is not within our sphere of influence and/or responsibility.
4) Cookies
In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, i.e. small text files that are stored on your end device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted after closing the browser (so-called "session cookies"), while others remain on your device for longer and enable page settings to be saved (so-called "persistent cookies"). In the latter case, you can find the storage period in the cookie settings overview of your web browser.
If personal data is also processed by individual cookies used by us, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR either for the execution of the contract, in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in the case of consent given or in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the page visit.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general.
Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be restricted.
5) Making contact
Personal information is collected when you contact us (e.g. via contact form or email). The information collected when using a contact form is specified on the contact form itself. This data is stored and used solely for the purpose of responding to your enquiry or for contacting you and for the related technical administration.
The legal basis for the processing of this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If the purpose of your contact is the conclusion of a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted after the final processing of your request. This is the case if it can be deduced from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and if there are no legal retention obligations to the contrary.
You may revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by sending an email to andreas@pizglobal.com.
6) Page functionalities
Google reCAPTCHA
On this website, we use the CAPTCHA service of the following provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland
Data may also be transmitted to: Google LLC, USA. The provider uses "Google Fonts", i.e. fonts downloaded from the Internet by Google, for the visual design of the Captcha window. For the processing of information other than that mentioned above, which is already transmitted to Google via the functionality of
ReCaptcha functionality to Google does not occur.
The service checks whether an input is made by a natural person or abusively by machine and automated processing, and blocks spam, DDoS attacks and similar automated malicious access.
To ensure that an action is carried out by a human and not by an automated bot, the provider collects the IP address of the end device used, identification data of the browser and operating system type used as well as the date and duration of the visit and transmits these to the provider's servers for evaluation.
The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest in determining individual
responsibility on the Internet and the prevention of misuse and spam in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
We have concluded an order processing contract with the provider, which ensures the protection of the data of our website visitors and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has complied with the EU-US
data protection framework (EU-US Data Privacy Framework), which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
7) Web analytics services
Polyfill
This website uses the service of the following provider: The Financial Times Ltd, Bracken House, 1 Friday Street, London, England, EC4M 9BT.
This service installs a script on our site that allows content to be displayed in high quality on older browser versions by providing and delivering polyfill files during the browser request to bridge missing browser functionality. For this purpose, certain technical information such as browser details and connection data, including your IP address, is automatically transmitted to the provider in an anonymised form.
This information is used to determine which polyfill files are required by your browser to display the page content correctly.
If personal data is processed in this context, this is done on the basis of our legitimate interest in the optimal presentation of our website and the optimisation of the user experience in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
In the case of data transfer to the provider's location, an adequate level of data protection is guaranteed by an adequacy decision of the European Commission.
8) Tools and Miscellaneous
Cookie Consent Tool
We use the Content-Manager-Tool from CCM19.
This website uses a "cookie consent tool" to obtain effective user consent for cookies and cookie-based applications that require consent. The "cookie consent tool" is presented to users when they access the website in the form of an interactive user interface where they can tick a box to consent to certain cookies and/or cookie-based applications. By using the tool, any cookies/services requiring consent will only be loaded if the user consents by ticking the appropriate box. This ensures that such cookies are only set on the user's device if consent has been given.
The tool sets technically necessary cookies to store your cookie preferences. No personal user data is processed in this context.
If, in individual cases, personal data (such as the IP address) is processed for the purpose of storing, assigning or logging cookie settings, this is done in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in a legally compliant, user-specific and user-friendly consent management for cookies and thus in a legally compliant design of our website.
Another legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR. As the responsible party, we are legally obliged to make the use of technically unnecessary cookies dependent on the user's consent.
Where necessary, we have entered into an order processing contract with the provider, which ensures the protection of the data of our website visitors and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.
You can find more information about the provider and the settings of the cookie consent tool directly in the relevant user interface on our website.
9) Rights of the affected person
9.1 The applicable data protection legislation grants you the following rights (rights of access and intervention) vis-à-vis the party responsible for the processing of your personal data, whereby reference is made to the stated legal basis for the exercise of each of these rights:
Right of access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR;
Right of rectification under Art. 16 GDPR;
Right to erasure under Art. 17 GDPR;
Right to restriction of processing under Art. 18 GDPR;
Right of access under Art. 19 GDPR;
Right to data portability under Art. 20 GDPR;
Right to withdraw consent pursuant to Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR;
Right to lodge a complaint under Art. 77 GDPR
In the event of a breach of data protection law, the data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the
competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection matters is the data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. A list of Data Protection Officers and their contact details can be found at the following link
https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.
9.2 RIGHT OF OBJECTION
IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA AS PART OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS ON THE BASIS OF OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING AT ANY TIME WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED. HOWEVER, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CONTINUE PROCESSING IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING IS NECESSARY FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.
IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US FOR THE PURPOSES OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSES OF SUCH MARKETING. YOU MAY EXERCISE YOUR OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.
10) Duration of storage of personal data
The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of the processing and - if applicable - additionally by the respective legal retention period (e.g. retention periods under commercial and tax law). When processing personal data on the basis of express consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, the relevant data will be stored until you revoke your consent.
If there are legal retention periods for data that are processed within the scope of legal or similar obligations on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, this data will be routinely deleted upon expiration of the retention periods, provided that it is no longer required for contract fulfilment or contract initiation and/or we no longer have a legitimate interest in its further storage.
When processing personal data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data is stored until you exercise your right to object in accordance with 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 defence of legal claims.
When processing personal data for the purposes of direct marketing pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data is stored until you exercise your right to object in accordance with Art. 21 (2) GDPR.
Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this statement on specific processing situations, stored personal data will be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.
Disclaimer of liability:
Liability for content
The content of our website has been compiled with the greatest of care. However, we cannot accept any liability for the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the content. As a service provider, we are responsible for our own content on these pages in accordance with Section 7 (1) of the German Telemedia Act (TMG) and general laws. According to §§ 8 to 10 TMG, however, we as a service provider are not obligated to monitor transmitted or stored third-party information or to investigate circumstances that indicate illegal activity. Obligations to remove or block the use of information according to general laws remain unaffected by this. However, liability in this respect is only possible from the time of knowledge of a specific infringement. We will remove such content immediately upon becoming aware that it violates the law.
Liability for links
Our website contains links to external third party websites over which we have no control. Therefore, we cannot accept any liability for this third-party content. The respective provider or operator is always responsible for the content of the linked pages. The linked pages were checked for possible legal violations at the time of linking. Illegal content was not apparent at the time of linking. However, we cannot reasonably be expected to monitor the content of the linked pages on an ongoing basis without concrete evidence of a violation of the law. Should we become aware of any legal infringements, we will remove such links immediately.
Copyright notice
The content and works provided on these pages are governed by the copyright laws of Germany. Duplication, processing, distribution, or any form of commercialisation of such material beyond the scope of the copyright law shall require the prior written consent of its respective author or creator. Downloads and copies of these pages are only permitted for private, non-commercial use. Insofar as the content on this site has not been created by the operator, the copyright of third parties is respected. In particular, third-party content is identified as such. Should you nevertheless become aware of a copyright infringement, please inform us. If we become aware of any legal infringements, we will remove such content immediately.