Thank you for your interest in our company. Data protection is of particular importance to the management of mindandvision GmbH.

In the following, we will inform you about the processing of personal data when using our website.

§1 Information on the collection of personal data

Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior. We would like to use this to inform you about our processing operations and at the same time fulfill the legal obligations, in particular those arising from the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO).

The person responsible in accordance with Art. 4 (7) DS-GVO is:

mindandvision GmbH
Eintrachtstr. 74
51375 Leverkusen

Managing Directors: Michaela Emundts and Andreas Wojtaschek

Telephone: +49(0)0214 - 31 38 38 0
Fax: +49(0)0214 - 31 38 38 88
E-Mail:info@mindandvision.de

(see also our imprint, available at: https://mindandvision.tv/impressum).

You can contact our data protection officer at support@mindandvision.de or at our postal address given above, adding “the data protection officer”.

When you contact us by email or using the contact form, we store the data you provide (your email address, your first and last name and, if applicable, your telephone number and IP address, date and time) in order to answer your questions. We delete the data collected in this context if the request is assigned to a contract, after the deadlines for the contract period, otherwise after the storage is no longer required (if your request has been finally clarified), or restrict the processing if there are legal storage requirements.

If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will always carefully select and monitor these service providers and inform you in detail about the respective processes below. We also state the defined criteria for the storage period.

§2 Your rights

You have the following rights with respect to us as the controller within the meaning of Article 4 (7) of the GDPR with regard to personal data concerning you:

– Right of access,
– Right to rectification or erasure,
– Right to restriction of processing,
– Right to object to processing,
– Right to data portability.

You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data. A list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with their addresses can be found at:

https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html

§3 Processing of personal data when visiting our website

When using the website for informational purposes, i.e. merely viewing it without registering and without you providing us with any other information, we process the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. The data described below is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security, and must therefore be processed by us. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DS-GVO:

– IP address
– Date and time of the request
– Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
– Content of the request (visited page)
– Access status/HTTP status code
– Respectively transferred amount of data
– Previously visited page
– Browser
– Operating system
– Language and version of the browser software.

§4 Further functions and offers of our website

In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if interested and use other common functions for analyzing or marketing our offers, which are presented in more detail below. To do this, you will usually need to provide additional personal information or we will process such additional information that we use to perform the respective services. The aforementioned data processing principles apply to all data processing purposes described here.

In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These are carefully selected by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly checked.

Furthermore, we may pass on your personal data to third parties if we offer participation in promotions, conclusion of contracts or similar services together with partners. Depending on the service, your data may also be collected by the partners on their own responsibility. You will receive more detailed information when you provide your data or below in the description of the respective offers.

If our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you of the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the offer.

§5 Objection to or revocation of consent to the processing of your data

If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke it at any time. Such a revocation influences the permissibility of the processing of your personal data after you have given it to us. The permissibility of the processing of your data up to the point of your revocation remains unaffected.

If we base the processing of your personal data on a weighing of interests, you can object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary to fulfill a contract with you, which we describe in the following description of the functions. When exercising such an objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data in the way we have done. In the event of your objection, we will examine the situation and either discontinue or adjust the data processing or point out to you our compelling legitimate reasons for continuing the processing.

Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes at any time. You can best send us your objection to advertising at the following contact:

mindandvision GmbH
Eintrachtstr. 74
51375 Leverkusen
Telephone:+49(0)0214 - 31 38 38 0
Fax: +49(0)0214 - 31 38 38 88
Email: info@mindandvision.de

(see also our imprint, available at: https://mindandvision.tv/impressum).

§6 Processing of data from your end devices (“Cookie Policy”)

In addition to the above-mentioned data, we use technical aids for various functions when you use our website, in particular cookies that can be stored on your end device. When you visit our website and at any time thereafter, you have the choice of whether you generally allow cookies to be set or which individual additional functions you would like to select. You can make changes in your browser settings or via our Consent Manager. In the following, we will first describe cookies from a technical point of view, before we go into more detail about your individual options by describing technically necessary cookies and cookies that you can voluntarily deselect or deselect.

Cookies are text files or information in a database that are stored on your hard drive and assigned to the browser you are using, so that certain information can flow to the location that sets the cookie. Cookies cannot execute programs or transmit viruses to your computer, but serve primarily to make the internet offering faster and more user-friendly. This website uses the following types of cookies, the functionality and legal basis of which we will explain below:

• Transient cookies: These, in particular session cookies, are automatically deleted when you close your browser or log out. They contain a so-called session ID. This allows various requests from your browser to be assigned to the same session and your computer to be recognized when you return to our website.
• Persistent cookies: These are automatically deleted after a specified period, which is set differently for each cookie. You can view the cookies that have been set and their durations at any time in your browser settings and delete them manually.
• Other technologies: These functions are not based on cookies, but on similar technical mechanisms, such as flash cookies, HTML5 objects or an analysis of your browser settings. The result is also that we can use the techniques described below. Here, too, you can of course consent or object.

Mandatory functions that are technically necessary to display the website:

The technical structure of the website requires us to use techniques, in particular cookies. Without these techniques, our website cannot be displayed (completely correctly) or the support functions could not be made possible. These are basically transient cookies that are deleted after the end of your website visit, at the latest when you close your browser. You cannot opt out of these cookies if you wish to use our website. The individual cookies can be seen in the Consent Manager. The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. f GDPR.

Optional cookies when you give your consent:

We only use various cookies after you have given your consent, which you can select during your first visit to our website using the so-called cookie consent tool. The functions are only activated if you give your consent and can be used in particular to enable us to analyze and improve visits to our website, to make it easier for you to use our website via different browsers or end devices, to recognize you when you visit us again or to place advertising (if necessary, also to tailor advertising to your interests, to measure the effectiveness of advertisements or to show interest-based advertising). The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. a GDPR.

You may withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out up to the withdrawal.

We describe below the functions we use, which you can individually select and withdraw via the Consent Manager:

1. web tracking using Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web tracking service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). The purpose of our use of the tool is to enable the analysis of your user interactions on websites and in apps and to improve our services and make them more interesting for you as a user by means of the statistics and reports obtained.

We primarily use cookies, device/browser data, IP addresses and website or app activity to track the interactions between you as a user of the website and our website. Google Analytics also collects your IP addresses to ensure the security of the service and to provide us, as the website operator, with information about the country, region or city from which the respective user originates (so-called “IP location”). However, for your protection, we use the anonymization function (“IP masking”), i.e. Google shortens the IP addresses within the EU/EEA by the last octet.

Google acts as a processor and we have concluded a corresponding contract with Google. The information generated by the cookie and the (usually abbreviated) IP addresses regarding your use of this website are usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and processed there. In these cases, Google has, according to its own statements, imposed a standard that corresponds to the former EU-US Privacy Shield and has agreed to comply with applicable data protection laws in the international transfer of data. We have also agreed so-called standard contractual clauses with Google, the purpose of which is to maintain an adequate level of data protection in the third country.

The legal basis for the collection and further processing of the information (which is carried out for a maximum of 14 months) is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a DS-GVO). You may revoke your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing up to the revocation. In apps, you can reset the advertising ID in the Android or iOS settings. The easiest way to withdraw your consent is to use our Consent Manager or to install the Google browser add-on, which can be accessed via the following link: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de/.

For more information about the scope of Google Analytics, please visit marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/de/. Information on data processing when using Google Analytics is provided by Google at the following link: support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de/. General information on data processing, which Google says also applies to Google Analytics, can be found in Google's privacy policy at www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

2. Use of Google Ads

We use the Google Ads service to draw attention to our offers with the help of advertisements. If you access our website via a Google ad, Google Ads stores a cookie on your device. The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. a GDPR, i.e. the integration only takes place with your consent.

The advertising material is delivered by Google via so-called “ad servers”. For this purpose, we and other websites use so-called ad server cookies, which allow certain parameters to be measured to determine success, such as the display of ads or clicks by users. We can obtain information about the success of our advertising campaigns from the Google Ads cookies stored on our website. These cookies are not used to identify you personally. The unique cookie ID, number of ad impressions per placement (frequency), last impression (relevant for post-view conversions) and opt-out information (marker that a user no longer wishes to be targeted) are usually stored as analysis values for this cookie.

The cookies set by Google enable Google to recognize your internet browser. If a user visits certain pages of an Ads customer's website and the cookie stored on their computer has not yet expired, Google and the customer can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to that page. A different cookie is assigned to each Ads customer so that the cookies cannot be tracked across the websites of other Ads customers. By integrating Google Ads, Google receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding part of our website or clicked on one of our ads. If you are registered with a Google service, Google can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, it is possible that the provider will obtain and store your IP address.

Due to the marketing tools used, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with the Google server. We ourselves do not independently collect personal data in the aforementioned advertising measures, but only provide Google with the opportunity to collect the data. We only receive statistical evaluations from Google, which provide information about which ads were clicked on how often and at what prices. We do not receive any further data from the use of the advertising material; in particular, we cannot identify users on the basis of this information.

You can revoke your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing up to the revocation. The easiest way to revoke your consent is to use our Consent Manager or the following functions:

1. a) by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly; in particular, suppressing third-party cookies will prevent you from receiving ads from third-party providers;
2. b) by setting your browser to block cookies from the domain “www.googleadservices.com”, www.google.de/settings/ads, although this setting will be deleted if you delete your cookies;
3. c) by disabling interest-based ads from providers that are part of the “About Ads” self-regulation campaign via the link www.aboutads.info/choices, although this setting will be deleted if you delete your cookies;
4. d) by permanently disabling them in your Firefox, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome browsers via the link www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin. We would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this offer to their full extent.

Further information on data protection at Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland, can be found here: www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy and services.google.com/sitestats/de.html.

§7 Use of social media plug-ins

We currently use the following social media plug-ins: Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn. We use the so-called two-click solution. This means that when you visit our site, no personal data is initially passed on to the plug-in providers. You can recognize the plug-in provider by the marking on the box above its initial letter or logo. We give you the option to communicate directly with the plug-in provider via the button. Only if you click on the marked field and thereby activate it, the plug-in provider receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our online offering. In addition, the data mentioned in § 3 of this declaration will be transmitted. In the case of Facebook, the IP address is anonymized immediately after collection, according to the respective providers in Germany. By activating the plug-in, personal data is transmitted from you to the respective plug-in provider and stored there (in the case of US providers in the USA). Since the plug-in provider collects data primarily via cookies, we recommend that you delete all cookies using your browser's security settings before clicking on the grayed-out box.

We have no influence on the collected data and data processing operations, nor are we aware of the full extent of the data collection, the purposes of the processing, the storage periods. We also have no information about the deletion of the collected data by the plug-in provider.

The plug-in provider stores the data collected about you as a user profile and uses it for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or the customized design of its website. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to display customized advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, but to exercise this right you must contact the respective plug-in provider. The plug-ins enable us to offer you the opportunity to interact with social networks and other users, enabling us to improve our offering and make it more interesting for you as a user. The legal basis for the use of the plug-ins is Art. 6 (1) 1st sentence f) GDPR.

Data is forwarded regardless of whether you have an account with the plug-in provider and are logged in to it. If you are logged in to the plug-in provider, the data we collect from you is directly assigned to your account with the plug-in provider. If you click the activated button and, for example, link to the page, the plug-in provider also stores this information in your user account and shares it publicly with your contacts. We recommend that you regularly log out after using a social network, especially before activating the button, as this will prevent you from being assigned to your profile with the plug-in provider.

Further information on the purpose and scope of the data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider can be found in the following data protection declarations of these providers. There you will also find further information about your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy.

Addresses of the respective plug-in providers and URL with their data protection information:

1. a) Facebook Inc., 1601 S California Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA; http://www.facebook.com/policy.php; further information on data collection: http://www.facebook.com/help/186325668085084, http://www.facebook. com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other#applications and http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info#everyoneinfo. Facebook has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.
2. b) If you live in the European Union, the EFTA states or the United Kingdom, the controller for your personal data is: Twitter International Unlimited Company, with the following address: Twitter International Unlimited Company, Attn: Data Protection Officer, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07 IRELAND; https://twitter.com/privacy. Twitter has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.
3. c) LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, California 94043, USA; http://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. LinkedIn has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

The legal basis for the use of the plug-ins is Art. 6 (1) (1) (f) GDPR.

§8 Data security

We use the common Secure Soket Layer (SSL) method on our website in conjunction with the highest level of encryption supported by the browser you are using. This is usually a 256-bit encryption. If this is not supported by the browser you are using, we will use 128-bit v3 technology for encryption. The closed padlock symbol in the status bar of your browser indicates that individual pages of our website are transmitted in encrypted form. We also use appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or against unauthorized access by third parties. In line with technological progress, our security measures are regularly adapted and improved.

§9 Updating and amending this data protection declaration

This data protection declaration is currently valid and was last updated on June 25, 2024.

It may be necessary to amend this data protection declaration as a result of further development of our website or due to changes in legal or official requirements. You can access the current version of our data protection declaration at any time on the website at https://mindandvision.tv/datenschutz.