Privacy Policy
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By using weinfreaks.de you entrust us with personal data. Personal data is any information that is capable of identifying a natural person. Partial information which, together with other partial information, can lead to the identification of a person is also personal data.
For example, if you open a user account with us, the personal data will include at least your name and e‑mail address. But even if you only want to browse our website without obligation, you leave a trace from which your identity can be derived: your IP address.
In the following we explain which personal data we collect, for what purposes we collect it and how we process it. Of course, we strictly adhere to the legal regulations, which we also go into more detail on. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, we will be happy to answer them by e‑mail.
The website operator is responsible for processing your data. You can find his contact details in the Legal Notice.
Common rights
The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is Article 6 (1) of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 of the European Union.
In principle, we only process your data at your instigation and with your express or implied consent. Exceptions are cases in which we cannot obtain your consent in advance or your consent is not required for legal reasons. You can revoke your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time. An informal e‑mail is sufficient for this purpose.
Within the frame of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right to get information about your stored personal data. This includes the origin of the data, its recipients and the purpose of processing. You can also request to receive copies of your personal data in a structured, machine-readable and common format at any time. For technical reasons, however, it is not possible to pass on your data electronically to you or to a third party on your behalf.
If you discover that we have stored incorrect data about you, we will be happy to correct them.
We provide you with a function for deleting or locking your data within your user account within the provisions in section 2.12 of our General Terms and Conditions. In addition, you can also contact us directly with your request for deletion or locking.
Data collection
We only collect, store and process data to the extent necessary to provide our services. To create a user account, this is at least your full name and your e‑mail address. To check your commercial status or to create an invoice for you, we need your postal address. If you use our paid services, we store additional data, such as the duration of your subscription.
As a matter of principle, we do not pass on your personal data to third parties, unless the transfer of data is necessary for the provision of one of our services. In this case, we will obtain your consent. An exception to this rule is when we are legally obliged to hand over data, for example to prosecution authorities.
In principle, we only store your personal data for as long as we need it to provide our services or for legal reasons.
Your IP address
The contentious issue of whether IP addresses are personal data has been affirmed at the latest since the rulings of the European Court of Justice of 19 October 2016, C-582/14, and the German Federal Court of Justice of 16 May 2017, VI ZR 135/13. We therefore generally process your IP address anonymously.
This applies in particular in connection with the analysis software Matomo which we use to create anonymised user profiles for statistical purposes, naturally in accordance with the data protection regulations applicable in the European Union and the Federal Republic of Germany.
Only in order to avert dangers we reserve the right to store non-anonymised IP addresses for a period of up to seven days in justified exceptional cases. The legal base for this is the ruling of the German Federal Court of Justice of 3 July 2014, III ZR 391/13.
Cookies
Weinfreaks.de uses cookies. Cookies are text files that we temporarily store on your computer. Our cookies are technically necessary to provide you with the functions and content of our website. In principle, we do not share them with third parties. We only reserve the right to evaluate your cookies for the purpose of danger prevention. According to the law applicable in the European Union, we do not require your explicit consent for this. For reasons of transparency, we would nevertheless like to inform you about the use of cookies. Our session cookie remains on your computer until you close the browser.
Encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and confidential content, weinfreaks.de uses SSL/TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the prefix https:// of the web address displayed in the address line of your browser and by the lock symbol next to the address line. It is not possible to use our website without encryption.
Hosting
In addition to the content of our website, we also store your personal data on servers of our web hosting provider. We have therefore concluded a contract with
IONOS SE
Elgendorfer Straße 57
56410 Montabaur
Germany
for the processing and storage of your data in compliance with data protection law. IONOS stores the web pages you visit within our domain weinfreaks.de, the date and time of the associated requests to the web server, browser type and version, the operating system installed on your end device, the so-called referrer URL, the name of the accessing computer and your IP address as part of the service provision. Our web hosting provider does not combine this data with other data sources.
Payment service provider
In order to receive payments from you, we will forward you to a payment service provider. He will receive only the necessary payment details from us, depending on the selected payment means, including your name, the billing and delivery address and the relevant billing data. The payment service provider processes the data in accordance with its contractual and data protection provisions.
If you have chosen PayPal as your payment method, payment will be made via
PayPal (Europe) S. à. r. l. et Cie, S. C. A.
22-24 Boulevard Royal
2449 Luxembourg
Luxembourg
For all other payment methods, we use the services of
Mollie B. V.
Keizersgracht 126
1015 CW Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Your right to complain
We take matters relating to data protection very seriously. If you notice that data protection violations have occurred that lie within our area of responsibility, we ask you to contact us immediately. We will inform you immediately about security incidents relevant to the protection of your data as soon as we become aware of them.
Purely as a matter of form, we draw your attention to your right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Officer of North Rhine-Westphalia in case of an alleged breach of data protection law on our part.
Requests by e‑mail, phone or fax
If you contact us by e‑mail, phone or fax, your request and all data resulting from it will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your concern. We will not pass this data on to third parties without your consent. The provisions apply to the storage period of the data are the same as for other data transmitted to us.
Changes
Our Privacy Policy may change at any time due to technical innovations or legal requirements. The current version of our policy corresponds to the status as of 8 February 2024.