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 how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data means any data by 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 Jürgen Pankonin, Panko Consulting, Happach 20
, 51545 Waldbröl, Germany, Tel.: 01607217111, Email: juergen@pankonin-cw.com. The controller responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.

2) Data Collection When Visiting Our Website

2.1 When you use our website for purely informational purposes, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to the website 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 visited
• Date and time of access
• Amount of data sent in bytes
• Source/referrer from which you accessed the website
• Browser used
• Operating system used
• IP address used (where applicable: in anonymised form)

Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be disclosed or used for any other purpose. However, we reserve the right to subsequently review the server log files if there are 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 enquiries sent to the controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the character string “https://” and the padlock symbol in your browser’s address bar.

3) Cookies

To make your visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, which are small text files stored on your device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted after you close your browser (so-called “session cookies”), while others remain on your device for a longer period and enable website settings to be saved (so-called “persistent cookies”). In the latter case, you can find the storage duration in the overview of your web browser’s cookie settings.

Where personal data is also processed by individual cookies used by us, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR either for the performance of a contract, in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR where consent has been granted, or in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in ensuring the best possible functionality of the website and a user-friendly and effective design of the website visit.

You can configure your browser so that you are informed when cookies are set and can decide individually whether to accept them, or exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general.

Please note that the functionality of our website may be restricted if cookies are not accepted.

4) Contacting Us

When you contact us (e.g. via a contact form or email), personal data is collected. The data collected when using a contact form can be seen in the respective contact form. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your enquiry or contacting you and for the associated technical administration.

The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your enquiry in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR serves as an additional legal basis for processing. Your data will be deleted once your enquiry has been conclusively processed. This is the case when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter concerned has been conclusively resolved, provided that no statutory retention obligations prevent deletion.

5) Rights of the Data Subject

5.1 Applicable data protection law grants you the following rights as a data subject vis-à-vis the controller regarding the processing of your personal data (rights of access and intervention), whereby reference is made to the stated legal basis for the respective requirements for exercising these rights:

• Right of access 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(3) GDPR;
• Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR.

5.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT

IF, AS PART OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO SUCH PROCESSING AT ANY TIME, ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE.

IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED. HOWEVER, FURTHER PROCESSING REMAINS RESERVED IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES 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 PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING. YOU MAY EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.

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

6) Duration of Storage of Personal Data

The duration for which personal data is stored is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and, where applicable, additionally by the relevant statutory retention period (e.g. retention periods under commercial and tax law).

Where personal data is processed on the basis of explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, the data concerned will be stored until you withdraw your consent.

If statutory retention periods exist for data processed in the context of legal or similar obligations on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, such data will be routinely deleted after the retention periods have expired, provided that it is no longer required for the performance or initiation of a contract and/or we have no legitimate interest in its continued storage.

Where personal data is processed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, such data will be stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Where personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, such data will be stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21(2) GDPR.

Unless otherwise indicated in the other information contained in this privacy policy regarding specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.