Privacy policy according to DSGVO

On 25 May 2018, the European General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter: GDPR) comes into force, which is directly applicable law in the member states of the European Union and thus also in Germany.

The following privacy policy provides you with an overview of the type and scope of the processing of your personal data when you visit our website in accordance with the new data protection law then in force.

We attach great importance to the protection and confidentiality of personal data. Personal data is collected and used by us exclusively on the basis of the statutory provisions of the applicable German and European data protection law. This data protection declaration informs site visitors about which personal data is collected and for what purpose the data is used, as well as about the options available to site visitors regarding the handling of their personal data.

1. MANDATORY DISCLOSURES AND GENERAL INFORMATION

This data protection information applies to data processing by (“controller” within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR):

Mike Gorden’s author page and HML Verlag
Responsible for content and authorised to deliver: Dr Detlef Moller
Phone: +49 (0)421 371430
Fax: +49 (0)421 374953
e-Mail: info{at}mikegorden.de

The term “controller” refers to the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

According to the requirements of the legislator, any data that enables the identification of a person is considered personal data. This data is protected by law in a special way, for which we provide you with the following explanations. Irrespective of the further information provided here, you will find an overview of your rights as a data subject in section 7 below.

We would like to point out that our company is not yet subject to the obligation to appoint a company data protection officer.

The supervisory authority for data protection matters at our company’s headquarters is the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen Arndtstraße 1, 27570 Bremerhaven, phone +49 471 596 2010 or +49 421 361 2010, fax +49 421 496 18495.

2. INFORMATION ON THE COLLECTION AND STORAGE OF PERSONAL DATA WHEN VISITING OUR WEBSITE AND ON THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE USE OF THIS DATA

a) VISITING THE WEBSITE

When you visit our website https://www.mikegorden.de, the browser used on your device automatically sends information to the server of our website. This information is stored in a log file for a limited period of time. The following information is collected without any action on your part and stored until it is automatically deleted:

IP address of the requesting end device or connection,
Date and time of access,
Name and URL of the retrieved file,
Website from which the access was made (referrer URL),
the browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer and the name of your access provider.

We process the aforementioned data for the following purposes:

Ensuring a smooth connection to the website,
Ensuring a comfortable use of our website,
analysing system security and stability and
for other administrative purposes.

The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. The legitimate interest in this data processing is derived from the purposes of data collection listed above. Under no circumstances do we use the data collected to draw conclusions about your person.

b) POSSIBILITY TO CONTACT US VIA THE INTERNET SITE BY EMAIL

Due to the legal requirement to enable fast electronic communication with us, our website offers the possibility of contacting us via so-called electronic mail (hereinafter: e-mail), for which purpose a general e-mail address is provided in this data protection declaration and in the imprint of the website.

If you contact us by e-mail, the personal data transmitted will be stored automatically. Such personal data voluntarily transmitted by you as the data subject to us as the data controller will be stored exclusively for the purpose of processing or contacting you. Storage and processing are carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR on the basis of your voluntarily given consent. Your data will not be passed on to third parties.

In any case, we strongly recommend that you do not transmit any sensitive data by e-mail and that you limit the use of e-mail communication to the mere initiation of contact.

3. DATA COLLECTION AND USE FOR CONTRACT PROCESSING

The data processed on behalf of Mike Gorden Autorenseite is used exclusively for the purposes commissioned by the customer – e.g. accounting, payment processing and risk management. Depending on the services commissioned, further data may be obtained from external sources – e.g. IP geolocation information or creditworthiness information.

a) DATA TRANSFER FOR PAYMENT PROCESSING

In order to fulfil the contract in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR, we pass on your data, depending on the choice of payment transaction or payment service provider for payment processing, the payment data collected for this purpose to the credit institution commissioned with the payment and, if applicable, to the payment service provider involved in the transaction. In some cases, the selected payment service providers also collect this data themselves if you create an account with them. In this case, you must log in to the payment service provider with your access data during the ordering process. In this respect, the privacy policy of the respective payment service provider applies.

LINKS TO OTHER PAYMENT SERVICE PROVIDERS:

https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-prev?locale.x=de_DE

https://www.mollie.com/de/privacy

aa) PAYPAL AS EXTERNAL PAYMENT SERVICE PROVIDER

We use the service provider PayPal to process payments for orders placed. We offer payment via PayPal, as well as payment by credit card via PayPal and payment by direct debit via PayPal. For the aforementioned payment options, we pass on your payment data to PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter “PayPal”) as part of the payment processing.

PayPal reserves the right to perform a credit check for the payment methods credit card via PayPal and direct debit via PayPal. PayPal uses the result of the credit check with regard to the statistical probability of non-payment to decide whether to provide the relevant payment method. The credit report may contain probability values (known as scores). If score values are included in the result of the credit report, they are based on a scientifically recognised mathematical-statistical procedure. Among other things, address data is included in the calculation of the scores. However, the data entered is only processed and stored by the payment service provider. We do not receive any account or credit card information, only information confirming or denying the payment.

As part of the ordering process, you will be asked to consent to your data being passed on to third parties.

The basis for the transfer of data to the payment service provider is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b. GDPR.

The payment transactions are subject to the terms and conditions and the data protection information of the payment service provider, which you can find in the PayPal privacy policy at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full. We also refer to these for further information and the assertion of cancellation, information and other data subject rights.

bb) MOLLIE AS EXTERNAL PAYMENT SERVICE PROVIDER

On our website we offer, among other things, payment to the payment service provider Mollie B.v., Keizersgracht 313, 1016 EE Amsterdam (Netherlands), phone: +493022409020 / e-mail: info@mollie.com.

We use the services of Mollie for the payment of goods and services purchased through us. When you make a payment using Mollie’s services, Mollie collects various transaction data and forwards it to the bank. In addition to the data required for payment, Mollie may collect further data such as addresses or individual items in the shopping basket as part of the transaction processing.

Mollie then authenticates the transaction using the authentication procedure stored with the bank for this purpose. Neither we nor third parties have access to your account details.

Details on payment with your chosen payment method via Mollie can be found in Mollie’s terms and conditions and privacy policy.

The legal basis for the transfer of your data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR (processing for the fulfilment of a contract) and Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR (protection of justified interests in the case of advance performance).

You have the option to revoke your consent to data processing at any time. A revocation does not affect the effectiveness of data processing operations in the past.

All data processed on behalf of the client will be stored in accordance with the client’s specifications and deleted at the client’s request – at the latest, however, after expiry of the statutory periods. If a customer requests the deletion of their personal data before the expiry of these deadlines, the data is usually blocked instead of deleted.

4) CONTRACT PROCESSING

The data transmitted by you to utilise our range of goods and/or services will be processed by us for the purpose of processing the contract and are necessary in this respect. Conclusion and fulfilment of the contract are not possible without the provision of your data. The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.

We delete the data once the contract has been fully processed, but must observe the retention periods under tax and commercial law. As part of the contract processing, we pass on your data to the transport company commissioned with the delivery of goods or to the financial service provider, insofar as the transfer is necessary for the delivery of goods or for payment purposes. The legal basis for the transfer of data is then Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.

5) E-MAIL ADVERTISING WITH NEWSLETTER REGISTRATION

If you register for our newsletter, we will use the data required for this purpose and provided separately by you (e-mail address) to send you our e-mail newsletter on a regular basis. This is done on the basis of your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR.

Unsubscribing from the newsletter is possible at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact option above or via a link provided for this purpose in the newsletter. After cancellation, we will delete your e-mail address unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration.

6. DISCLOSURE OF DATA

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed below.

We will only pass on your personal data to third parties if

you have given your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR,
the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in the non-disclosure of your data,
there is a legal obligation to disclose data pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR,
this is legally permissible and necessary for the processing of contractual relationships with you in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR.

7. COOKIES

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are text files that are placed and stored on a computer system via an Internet browser.

Numerous websites and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier for the cookie. It consists of a character string that allows websites and servers to be assigned to the specific internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This enables the websites and servers visited to distinguish the individual browser of the data subject from other Internet browsers that contain other cookies. A specific internet browser can be recognised and identified via the unique cookie ID.

Cookies enable us to optimise the information and offers on our website for the benefit of the user. Cookies enable us to recognise the users of our website. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to use our website.

The data subject can prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. Furthermore, cookies that have already been set can be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programmes. This is possible in all common internet browsers. If the data subject deactivates the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all functions of our website may be fully usable, including the web shop.

A) COOKIES AND ACCESS REPORTS

We use “session cookies” from VG Wort, Munich, to measure access to texts in order to record the probability of copying. Session cookies are small units of information that a provider stores in the working memory of the visitor’s computer. A randomly generated unique identification number, a so-called session ID, is stored in a session cookie. A cookie also contains information about its origin and the storage period. Session cookies cannot store any other data. These measurements are carried out by Kantar Germany GmbH using the Scalable Central Measurement Method (SZM). They help to determine the likelihood of individual texts being copied for the purpose of compensating authors and publishers for their legal claims. We do not collect any personal data via cookies.

Many of our pages are equipped with JavaScript calls, which we use to report access to the collecting society Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort (VG Wort). In this way, we enable our authors to participate in the distributions of VG Wort, which ensure the statutory remuneration for the use of copyrighted works in accordance with Section 53 of the German Copyright Act (UrhG)

Our website can also be used without cookies. Most browsers are set to accept cookies automatically. However, you can deactivate the storage of cookies or set your browser so that it notifies you as soon as cookies are sent.

B) PRIVACY POLICY ON THE USE OF THE SCALABLE CENTRAL MEASUREMENT METHOD

Our website and our mobile website use the “Scalable Central Measurement Method” (SZM) of Kantar Germany GmbH to determine statistical parameters for determining the copy probability of texts.

Anonymous measurement values are collected. To recognise computer systems, the access number measurement alternatively uses a session cookie or a signature that is created from various automatically transmitted information from your browser. IP addresses are only processed in anonymised form.

The process was developed with data protection in mind. The sole aim of the procedure is to determine the copy probability of individual texts.

At no time are individual users identified. Their identity is always protected. You will not receive any advertising via the system.

8. ANALYSE-TOOLS

We do not currently use any analysis tools.

9. SOCIAL MEDIA

Our website does not use any social media plug-ins. The following social networks are integrated into our site through links:

FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM

Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Irland, ein Tochterunternehmen der Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

EU-US data protection certification (“EU-US Privacy Shield”) https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active

EU-US data protection certification (“EU-US Privacy Shield”) https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO&status=Active

YOUTUBE

Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA

EU-US data protection certification (“EU-US Privacy Shield”) https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

11. AFFECTED RIGHTS

As a person affected by data processing when visiting this website within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 1 GDPR, you have various so-called data subject rights. These include in particular the right

in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, to request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you can request information about the purposes of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on its details; [right to information]
in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to immediately request the rectification of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us; [right to rectification]
to request the erasure of your personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; [right to erasure]
in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data if the accuracy of the data is contested by you, the processing is unlawful but you oppose its erasure and we no longer need the data, but you require it for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or you have objected to processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR; [right to restriction of processing]
in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request its transmission to another controller; [right to data portability]
in accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR, to revoke your consent once given to us at any time. As a result, we may no longer continue the data processing that was based on this consent in the future; [right to withdraw consent]
If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, you also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR, provided that there are reasons for this arising from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right to object, which must and will be implemented by us without stating specific reasons. [Right to object]
to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our registered office. [Right to lodge a complaint]

If you wish to exercise your right of cancellation or objection, simply send an email to info{at}mikegorden.de.

12. DATA SECURITY

As a provider within the meaning of the Telemedia Act, suitable organisational, contractual and technical measures have been taken to ensure that data protection regulations are complied with and that manipulation, whether unintentional or deliberate, loss, destruction and, in particular, access by unauthorised persons is prevented. Nevertheless, the security of data transmissions on the Internet can never be 100% guaranteed.

This site currently uses SSL encryption.

13. UPDATING AND AMENDMENT OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy is valid from 02/08/2018 and has the status January 2022.

Due to the further development of our website and offers or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to change this privacy policy. The current privacy policy can be accessed and printed out at any time on the website https://www.mikegorden.de.

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