Privacy policy
The protection of your personal data (hereinafter referred to as "data") is a great and very important concern for us. In the following, we would therefore like to inform you in detail about the data we collect and how we process or use it. In addition, we will inform you about the accompanying protective measures we have also taken in technical and organizational terms. The responsible party according to Art. 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (DSGVO) and at the same time service provider in the sense of the German Telemedia Act (TMG) is
Gaus Architekten
Goeppingen | Rotterdam
Stuttgarter Straße 50
73033 Goeppingen
Federal Republic of Germany
Phone +49 (0)7161 40231-0
Fax +49 (0)7161 40231-99
E-mail datenschutz@gaus-architekten.de
Internet www.gaus-architekten.de
Collection and use of your data
We would like to inform our interested parties and customers about the storage of their personal data in our company. With the following information, we would like to give you an overview of the topic of personal data in our house and fulfill our information obligations according to Art. 13 of the DSGVO.
Note for customers to read as a PDF download
As an applicant, we would like to inform you about the storage of your personal data at our company. With the following information, we would like to give you an overview of the topic of personal data in our company and fulfill our information obligations according to Art. 13 of the DSGVO.
Note for applicants to read as PDF download
All personal data that we collect from you will only be collected, processed and used for the specified purpose. In doing so, we ensure that this is only done within the framework of the applicable legal provisions or otherwise only with your consent.
The extent and nature of the collection and use of your data differs depending on whether you visit our Internet presence (website) only to retrieve information or to make use of services offered by us. For the purely informational use of our website, it is generally not necessary for you to provide personal data. Rather, in this case we collect and use only those of your data that your Internet browser automatically transmits to us, such as:
- Date and time of access to one of our Internet pages
- your browser type
- the browser settings
- the operating system used
- the last page you visited
- the amount of data transferred and the access status (file transferred, file not found, etc.) as well as
- your IP address.
We collect and use this data during an informational visit exclusively in non-personal form. This is done in order to enable the use of the Internet pages you have accessed, for statistical purposes and to improve our Internet offering. We store the IP address only for the duration of your visit, a personal evaluation does not take place.
This data is not merged with other data sources, and the data is also deleted after a statistical analysis. According to the decision of the European Court of Justice of 19.10.2016 (Ref.: C 582/14), this is also permissible in view of the Telemedia Act.
If you wish to make use of services offered by us, it may be necessary for you to provide further data. This is the data that is required for the respective processing. You may provide further information voluntarily; it is marked as optional by us.
The collection or use of your data is for the purpose of providing the necessary service requested by you. Your data may be passed on to us and supporting service providers for the aforementioned purpose, which we have of course carefully selected and obliged to comply with data protection law. In particular, these may be technical service providers or shipping service providers (lettershop, etc.).
Your data will otherwise only be passed on to other third parties if this is permitted by law or we have received your explicit consent to do so.
Information on data processing
Your data processed during the use of our website will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of the storage no longer applies, the deletion of the data does not conflict with any statutory retention obligations and no other information on individual processing procedures is provided below.
Cookies use
We use so-called "cookies" on our website to recognize multiple use of our offer, by the same user / Internet connection owner. Cookies are small text files that your Internet browser stores on your computer. They serve to optimize our Internet presence and our offers. These are mostly so-called "session cookies", which are deleted after the end of your visit.
Partially, however, these cookies provide information to recognize you automatically. This recognition is based on the IP address stored in the cookies. The information obtained in this way is used to optimize our offers and to provide you with easier access to our site.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
Use of Google Analytics with anonymization function
We use "Google Analytics", a web analytics service provided by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter "Google", on our website.
Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by these cookies, for example time, place and frequency of your website visit including your IP address, is transmitted to Google in the USA and stored there.
We use Google Analytics with an IP anonymization function on our website. In this case, your IP address is already shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area and thereby anonymized.
Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.
Google will, according to its own information, in no case associate your IP address with other data from Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
Furthermore, Google offers a deactivation option for the most common browsers, which gives you more control over which data is collected and processed by Google. If you activate this option, no information about the website visit will be transmitted to Google Analytics. However, activation does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analytics services we may use.
Here is more information about the deactivation option provided by Google and how to activate it.
Use of Google Maps
We use the "Google Maps" component of the company Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter "Google", on our website.
With each individual call of the Google Maps component, a cookie is set by Google in order to process user settings and data when displaying the page on which the Google Maps component is integrated. This cookie is usually not deleted by closing the browser, but expires after a certain time, unless you delete it manually beforehand.
If you do not agree with this processing of your data, you have the option of deactivating the Google Maps service and thus preventing the transfer of data to Google. To do this, you must deactivate the Java Script function in your browser. However, we would like to point out that in this case you will not be able to use Google Maps or only to a limited extent.
The use of Google Maps and the information obtained via Google Maps is subject to the Google Terms of Use and the Additional Terms and Conditions for Google Maps.
Use of Calenso for appointment bookings
This website uses Calenso. Provider is Braincept AG, Neuenkirchstrasse 19, 6203 Sempach-Station, Switzerland, Europe (website : https://www.calenso.com).
We use Calenso to make appointments and group appointments bookable online. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO.
When booking appointments, we ask for your name, e-mail address and in some cases your telephone number. The information sent to us remains with us until you request us to delete it or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies. Mandatory legal requirements - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected. If you prefer not to make appointments with us via Calenso, you can alternatively contact us by e-mail or telephone.
In addition, we have concluded a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) with Calenso. This ensures that Calenso only uses the user data within the framework of EU data protection standards exclusively for processing the requests and does not pass them on to third parties.
For more information about Calenso and the data collected, please refer to the Calenso privacy policy at the following link: https://calenso.com/datenschutz/
Use of Facebook components
We use components of the provider Facebook (facebook.com) on our website. "Facebook" is a service of facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
With each individual visit to our website that is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from Facebook. This process informs Facebook which specific page of our website you are currently visiting.
If you visit our site and are logged in to Facebook during this time, Facebook recognizes which specific page you are visiting through the information collected by the component and assigns this information to your personal account on Facebook. If, for example, you click on the "Like" button or make corresponding comments, this information is transmitted to your personal user account on Facebook and stored there. In addition, the information that you have visited our site is passed on to Facebook. This happens regardless of whether you click on the component or not.
If you want to prevent this transmission and storage of data about you and your behavior on our website by Facebook, you must log out of Facebook before you visit our site. Facebook's privacy policy provides more detailed information on this, in particular on the collection and use of data by Facebook, your rights in this regard, and the settings options for protecting your privacy. Here you can find the overview of the Facebook plugins.
Use of Twitter components
We use components of the provider Twitter on our website. "Twitter" is a service of Twitter Inc, 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.
With each individual visit to our website that is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from Twitter. This process informs Twitter which specific page of our website is currently being visited.
We have no influence on the data that Twitter collects through this, nor on the scope of this data collected by Twitter. To the best of our knowledge, Twitter collects the URL of the respective website accessed and the IP address of the user, but does not use it for purposes other than displaying the Twitter component. Further information on this can be found in Twitter's privacy policy at http://twitter.com/privacy. You can change your privacy settings in the account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.
Use of XING components
We use components of the XING network (XING.com) on our website. These "XING" components are a service of XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.
With each individual call-up of our website that is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from XING.
To our knowledge, XING does not store any personal data of the user about the call of our website. XING also does not store any IP addresses. In addition, there is also no evaluation of usage behavior via the use of cookies in connection with the "XING Share button". Further information on this can be found in the data protection information for the XING Share button at: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection
Use of LinkedIn components
We use components of the LinkedIn network on our website. "LinkedIn" is a service of LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
With each individual visit to our website that is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from LinkedIn. This process informs LinkedIn which specific page of our website is currently being visited. If you click the LinkedIn "Recommend Button" while logged into your LinkedIn account, you can link the content of our pages on your LinkedIn profile. This enables LinkedIn to assign the visit to our pages to your LinkedIn user account.
We have no influence on the data that LinkedIn collects through this, nor on the scope of this data collected by LinkedIn. We also have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted to LinkedIn. Details on data collection by LinkedIn as well as your rights and setting options can be found in LinkedIn's privacy notices. You can find this information here.
Use of Vimeo components
We use components of the provider Vimeo on our website. "Vimeo" is a service of Vimeo LCC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.
With each individual visit to our website that is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from Vimeo. If you visit our site and are logged in to Vimeo during this time, Vimeo recognizes which specific page you are visiting through the information collected by the component and assigns this information to your personal account with Vimeo.
If you click on the "Play" button, for example, or make corresponding comments, this information is transmitted to your personal user account with Vimeo and stored there. In addition, the information that you have visited our site is passed on to Vimeo. This happens regardless of whether you, for example, click on the component / make comments or not.
If you want to prevent this transmission and storage of data about you and your behavior on our website by Vimeo, you must log out of Vimeo before you visit our site. The privacy policy of Vimeo provides more detailed information on this, in particular on the collection and use of data by Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/privacy
Use of perspective funnels
We use Mobile Funnel (hereinafter: Funnel) for various purposes, operated by Perspective Software GmbH (hereinafter: Perspective), a company based in Germany, which offers software for the creation and operation of Mobile Funnel(https://perspective.co/impressum).
The data entered in the context of the use of Mobile Funnel are transmitted via SSL encryption and stored in a database. The operator of this website is solely responsible for this data within the meaning of Art. 24 DSGVO. Perspective is only the operator of the software and in this context is a processor according to Art. 28 DSGVO. The basis for processing by Perspective in this regard is a contract for commissioned processing between the controller and Perspective. In addition, Perspective Software GmbH processes further data for the provision of its services, in particular for the operation of the Mobile Funnel, some of which may also be personal data.
More details are given at this link.
Newsletter
If you register for our free newsletter, the data you requested for this purpose, i.e. your e-mail address and - optionally - your name, will be transmitted to us. At the same time, we store the IP address of the Internet connection from which you access our website as well as the date and time of your registration. During the further registration process, we will ask for your consent to send you the newsletter, describe the content in detail and refer to this privacy policy. We use the data collected in this process exclusively for sending the newsletter - in particular, they are therefore not passed on to third parties.
The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) DSGVO.
In accordance with Art. 7 (3) DSGVO, you can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time with effect for the future. To do so, you simply need to inform us of your revocation or click on the unsubscribe link contained in each newsletter.
Sendinblue
We offer you the possibility to subscribe to our free newsletter via our website.
We use Sendinblue to send newsletters. Sendinblue is a service of the company Sendinblue GmbH, Köpenicker Str. 126, 10179 Berlin, hereinafter referred to as "Sendinblue".
If you register for our newsletter, the data requested during the registration process (your e-mail address) will be processed by Sendinblue. In addition, your IP address and the date and time of your registration will be stored. In the course of the further registration process, your consent to the sending of the newsletter will be obtained, the content will be described in detail and reference will be made to this privacy policy.
In addition, Sendinblue offers info at
Information for recipients (Newsletter 2go)
Information for recipients (sendinblue)
further data protection information.
The newsletters sent by Sendinblue contain technologies that enable us to recognize in the analyses whether and when an e-mail was opened and whether and which links contained in the newsletter were followed. We store this data in addition to the technical data (system data and IP address) so that the respective newsletter can be optimally tailored to your wishes and interests. The data collected in this way is thus used to constantly improve the quality of our newsletters. The legal basis for the newsletter dispatch and analysis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a.) DSGVO.
In accordance with Art. 7 (3) DSGVO, you can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time with effect for the future. To do so, you simply need to inform us of your revocation or click on the unsubscribe link contained in each newsletter.
YouTube
We maintain an online presence on YouTube to present our company and our services and to communicate with customers/prospects. YouTube is a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA.
In this respect, we would like to point out that there is a possibility that user data may be processed outside the European Union, in particular in the USA. This may pose increased risks for users in that, for example, it may be more difficult to access user data at a later date. We also do not have access to this user data. The access option lies exclusively with YouTube.
You can find YouTube's privacy policy at
https://policies.google.com/privacy
Linking social media via graphic or text link
We also promote presences on the social networks listed below on our website. The integration takes place via a linked graphic of the respective network. The use of this linked graphic prevents the automatic establishment of a connection to the respective server of the social network when a website with a social media advertisement is called up in order to display a graphic of the respective network itself. Only by clicking on the corresponding graphic will the user be redirected to the service of the respective social network.
After the user has been forwarded, information about the user is collected by the respective network. It cannot be ruled out that the data collected in this way is processed in the USA.
This is initially data such as IP address, date, time and page visited. If the user is logged into his user account of the respective network during this time, the network operator may be able to assign the collected information of the specific visit of the user to the personal account of the user. If the user interacts via a "Share" button of the respective network, this information can be stored in the user's personal user account and may be published. If the user wants to prevent the collected information from being directly assigned to his user account, he must log out before clicking on the graphic. In addition, it is possible to configure the respective user account accordingly.
The following social networks are integrated into our site by linking:
YouTube
Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
We use YouTube on our website. This is a video portal of YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, hereinafter referred to as "YouTube".
YouTube is a subsidiary of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, hereinafter referred to as "Google".
We use YouTube in connection with the "Enhanced Privacy Mode" function to show you videos. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO. Our legitimate interest lies in improving the quality of our website. According to YouTube, the "enhanced data protection mode" function means that the data described in more detail below is only transmitted to the YouTube server when you actually start a video.
Without this "Enhanced Privacy", a connection to the YouTube server in the USA is established as soon as you call up one of our Internet pages on which a YouTube video is embedded.
This connection is necessary in order to display the respective video on our website via your internet browser. In the course of this, YouTube will at least record and process your IP address, the date and time, and the website you visited. In addition, a connection to Google's advertising network "DoubleClick" is established.
If you are logged into YouTube at the same time, YouTube will assign the connection information to your YouTube account. If you want to prevent this, you must either log out of YouTube before visiting our website or make the appropriate settings in your YouTube user account.
For the purpose of functionality and analysis of user behavior, YouTube permanently stores cookies on your end device via your Internet browser. If you do not agree with this processing, you have the option to prevent the storage of cookies by a setting in your Internet browser. You can find more information on this above under "Cookies".
Google provides further information on the collection and use of data as well as your rights and protection options in this regard in the information available at
https://policies.google.com/privacy
data protection information that can be downloaded from our website.
Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland, a subsidiary of Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
Privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Pinterest Inc, 651 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA, 94107, USA.
Here is the privacy policy.
LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, a subsidiary of LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W. Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 USA.
Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland, a subsidiary of Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
"Facebook" social plug-in
We use the plug-in of the social network Facebook on our website. Facebook is an internet service of facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. In the EU, this service is in turn operated by Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland, hereinafter both referred to as "Facebook".
The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO. Our legitimate interest lies in the quality improvement of our website.
Further information about the possible plug-ins and their respective functions is available from Facebook.
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If the plug-in is stored on one of the pages of our website that you visit, your internet browser downloads a representation of the plug-in from Facebook's servers in the USA. For technical reasons, it is necessary for Facebook to process your IP address. In addition, the date and time of your visit to our website are also recorded.
If you are logged in to Facebook while visiting one of our websites with the plug-in, the information collected by the plug-in from your specific visit will be recognized by Facebook. Facebook may assign the information collected in this way to your personal user account there. If, for example, you use the so-called "Like" button of Facebook, this information will be stored in your Facebook user account and possibly published via the platform of Facebook. If you wish to prevent this, you must either log out of Facebook before visiting our website or prevent the loading of the Facebook plug-in by using an add-on for your internet browser.
Facebook provides further information on the collection and use of data as well as your rights and protection options in this regard in the privacy policy available at
https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
data protection information that can be downloaded from our website.
"Twitter" social plug-in
We use the plug-in of the social network Twitter on our website. Twitter is an Internet service of Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA, hereinafter referred to as "Twitter".
The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO. Our legitimate interest lies in the quality improvement of our website.
If the plug-in is stored on one of the pages of our website that you visit, your internet browser downloads a representation of the plug-in from the servers of Twitter in the USA. For technical reasons, it is necessary for Twitter to process your IP address. In addition, the date and time of your visit to our website are also recorded.
If you are logged into Twitter while visiting one of our websites with the plug-in, the information collected by the plug-in from your specific visit will be recognized by Twitter. Twitter may assign the information collected in this way to your personal user account there. If you use, for example, the so-called "Share" button of Twitter, this information will be stored in your Twitter user account and possibly published via the platform of Twitter. If you want to prevent this, you must either log out of Twitter before visiting our website or make the appropriate settings in your Twitter user account.
Further information on the collection and use of data as well as your rights and protection options in this regard is available from Twitter in the privacy policy available at
data protection information that can be downloaded from our website.
Vimeo
We use "Vimeo" on our website to display videos. This is a service of Vimeo, LL C, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA, hereinafter referred to as "Vimeo".
Partial processing of user data takes place on Vimeo servers in the USA.
The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO. Our legitimate interest lies in the quality improvement of our website.
If you visit a page of our website in which a video is embedded, a connection to the servers of Vimeo in the USA is established to display the video. For technical reasons, it is necessary that Vimeo processes your IP address. In addition, the date and time of your visit to our website are also recorded.
If you are logged in to Vimeo at the same time as you visit one of our websites in which a Vimeo video is embedded, Vimeo may assign the information collected in this way to your personal user account there. If you want to prevent this, you must either log out of Vimeo before visiting our website or configure your user account with Vimeo accordingly.
For the purpose of functionality and usage analysis, Vimeo uses the web analytics service Google Analytics. Google Analytics stores cookies on your end device via your Internet browser and sends information about the use of our website, in which a Vimeo video is embedded, to Google. It cannot be ruled out that Google processes this information in the USA.
If you do not agree to this processing, you have the option of preventing the installation of cookies by making the appropriate settings in your Internet browser. Details on this can be found above under the item "Cookies".
The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO. Our legitimate interest lies in the quality improvement of our website and in the legitimate interest of Vimeo to statistically analyze user behavior for optimization and marketing purposes.
Vimeo offers under
for further information on the collection and use of data and on your rights and options for protecting your privacy.
Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
This website is hosted by an external service provider (hoster). We would like to point out that the operation of our website and the servers are hosted by our contracted provider Webflow, Inc., 398 11th Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103 in the USA. Further information on Webflow's privacy policy can be found under the following link: https://webflow.com/privacy.
The personal data collected on this website is stored on the hoster's servers. This may include IP addresses, meta and communication data, website accesses and other data generated via a website. The hoster is used for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO) and in the interest of a secure, fast and efficient provision of our online offer by a professional provider (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO). Our hoster will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfill its service obligations and follow our instructions regarding this data.
To ensure data protection-compliant processing, we have concluded a contract for commissioned processing with Webflow based on Art. 28 DSGVO in conjunction with the EU standard contractual clauses.
Information / Revocation / Deletion
We would like to point out that you can revoke any data protection consent you may have given us at any time with effect for the future. Insofar as there are legal requirements for the collection of data (e.g. list of architects), there is no right of revocation.
According to the EU Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to free information about your stored data at any time and, if necessary, the right to correct, block or delete this data. You can object to the processing of your data in accordance with Art. 21 DSGVO in the cases mentioned there.
Please contact datenschutz@gaus-architekten.de or send us your request by mail. You have the right to complain to the competent supervisory authority for data protection:
The State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Königstraße 10a
70173 Stuttgart
Phone +49 (0)711 615541-0
Fax +49 (0)711 615541-15
E-mail poststelle@lfdi.bwl.de
Internet www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de
Editorial note
This privacy policy was created on the basis of the "Privacy Policy Website" of the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects and the "Model Privacy Policy" of the law firm Weiß & Partner Esslingen (Neckar).