Introduction

With the following privacy policy, I would like to inform you about the types of your personal data (hereinafter also referred to as „data“ for short) that I process, for what purposes and to what extent. The privacy policy applies to all processing of personal data carried out by me, both in the context of the provision of my services and in particular on our websites, in mobile applications and within external online presences, such as our social media profiles (hereinafter collectively referred to as „Online Offer“).

My website is not subject to German, but Montenegrin law; therefore, the relevant EU requirements do not apply either. Nevertheless, out of consideration for my readers, I try to keep it compliant with the German and EU data protection directives.

Status: July 20, 2022

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Responsible
• Processing overview
• Relevant legal bases
• Security measures
• Transfer and disclosure of personal data
• Data processing in third countries
• Cookies use
• Affiliate programs and affiliate links
• Provision of the online offer and web hosting
• Contact
• Data deletion
• Modification and update of the privacy policy
• Rights of the data subjects
• Definitions

Responsible

Boris Reitschuster

c/o BRS Media

Stjepa Šarenca BB

ME-85340 Herceg Novi

E-mail address: [email protected]

Processing overview

The following overview summarizes the types of data processed and the purposes of their processing and refers to the data subjects.

Types of data processed

• Inventory data (e.g., names, addresses).
• Content data (e.g. entries in online forms).
• Contact information (e.g., email, phone numbers).
• Meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
• Usage data (e.g. web pages visited, interest in content, access times).

Categories of affected persons

• Communication partner.
• Users (e.g., website visitors, users of online services).

Processing purposes

• Contact requests and communication.

Relevant legal bases

In the following, we share the legal basis of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the basis of which we process personal data. Please note that in addition to the provisions of the GDPR, national data protection regulations may apply in your or our country of residence and domicile. If, in addition, more specific legal bases are relevant in individual cases, we will inform you of these in the data protection declaration.

• Consent (Art. 6 (1) p. 1 lit. a. DSGVO) – The data subject has given his/her consent to the processing of personal data concerning him/her for a specific purpose or purposes.
• Contract performance and pre-contractual requests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b. DSGVO) – Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party or for the performance of pre-contractual measures taken at the data subject’s request.
• Legitimate interests (Art. 6 (1) p. 1 lit. f. DSGVO) – Processing is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the controller or a third party, unless such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require the protection of personal data.

Security measures

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk in accordance with the legal requirements, taking into account the state of the art, the implementation costs and the nature, scope, circumstances and purposes of the processing, as well as the different probabilities of occurrence and the extent of the threat to the rights and freedoms of natural persons.

The measures include, in particular, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data by controlling physical and electronic access to the data, as well as access to, entry into, disclosure of, assurance of availability of and segregation of the data. Furthermore, we have established procedures to ensure the exercise of data subject rights, the deletion of data, and responses to data compromise. Furthermore, we already take the protection of personal data into account during the development or selection of hardware, software and processes in accordance with the principle of data protection, through technology design and through data protection-friendly default settings.

Transfer and disclosure of personal data

In the course of our processing of personal data, the data may be transferred to or disclosed to other entities, companies, legally independent organizational units or persons. Recipients of this data may include, for example, payment institutions in the context of payment transactions, service providers commissioned with IT tasks, or providers of services and content that are integrated into a website. In such cases, we comply with the legal requirements and, in particular, conclude appropriate contracts or agreements that serve to protect your data with the recipients of your data.

Data processing in third countries

If we process data in a third country (i.e., outside the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA)) or the processing takes place in the context of the use of third-party services or the disclosure or transfer of data to other persons, entities or companies, this is only done in accordance with the legal requirements.

Subject to express consent or contractually or legally required transfer, we process or have the data processed only in third countries with a recognized level of data protection, contractual obligation by so-called standard protection clauses of the EU Commission, in the presence of certifications or binding internal data protection regulations (Art. 44 to 49 GDPR, EU Commission information page: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection_de ).

Cookies use

Cookies are text files that contain data from visited websites or domains and are stored by a browser on the user’s computer. A cookie is primarily used to store information about a user during or after his visit within an online offer. Stored information may include, for example, language settings on a website, login status, a shopping cart, or where a video was watched. The term cookies also includes other technologies that perform the same functions as cookies (e.g., when user information is stored on the basis of pseudonymous online identifiers, also referred to as „user IDs“).

The following cookie types and functions are distinguished:

• Temporary cookies (also: session cookies): Temporary cookies are deleted at the latest after a user has left an online offer and closed his browser.
• Permanent cookies: Permanent cookies remain stored even after the browser is closed. For example, login status can be saved or preferred content can be displayed directly when the user revisits a website. Likewise, the interests of users used for reach measurement or marketing purposes may be stored in such a cookie.
• First-party cookies: First-party cookies are set by us.
• Third-party cookies (also: third-party cookies): Third-party cookies are mainly used by advertisers (so-called third parties) to process user information.
• Necessary (also: essential or absolutely necessary) cookies:Cookies may be absolutely necessary for the operation of a website (e.g. to store logins or other user input or for security reasons).
• Statistics, marketing and personalization cookies: Furthermore, cookies are generally also used in the context of range measurement and when a user’s interests or behavior (e.g. viewing certain content, using functions, etc.) on individual websites are stored in a user profile. Such profiles are used, for example, to show users content that matches their potential interests. This process is also called „tracking“, i.e., following the potential interests of users. Insofar as we use cookies or „tracking“ technologies, we will inform you separately in our data protection declaration or in the context of obtaining consent.

Notes on legal bases: The legal basis on which we process your personal data using cookies depends on whether we ask you for consent. If this applies and you consent to the use of cookies, the legal basis for the processing of your data is the declared consent. Otherwise, the data processed with the help of cookies is processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. in the business operation of our online offer and its improvement) or, if the use of cookies is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations.

Storage period: If we do not provide you with explicit information about the storage period of permanent cookies (e.g. in the context of a so-called cookie opt-in), please assume that the storage period can be up to two years.

General information on revocation and objection (opt-out): Depending on whether the processing is based on consent or legal permission, you have the option at any time to revoke any consent you have given or to object to the processing of your data by cookie technologies (collectively referred to as „opt-out“). You can initially declare your objection by means of your browser settings, e.g. by deactivating the use of cookies (whereby this may also limit the functionality of our online offer). An objection to the use of cookies for online marketing purposes can also be declared by means of a variety of services, especially in the case of tracking, via the websites https://optout.aboutads.info and https://www.youronlinechoices.com/. In addition, you can receive further instructions on how to object in the context of the information on the service providers and cookies used.

Processing of cookie data on the basis of consent: Before we process or have processed data in the context of the use of cookies, we ask users for consent that can be revoked at any time. Before the consent has not been expressed, cookies are used at most, which are absolutely necessary for the operation of our online offer.

• Types of data processed: Usage data (e.g. web pages visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
• Data subjects: Users (e.g., website visitors, users of online services).
• Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a. DSGVO), Legitimate Interests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f. DSGVO).

You can find more information about the cookies used here.

Affiliate programs and affiliate links

On my site I include so-called affiliate links or other references to offers and services of third parties (I refer to them collectively as „affiliate links“). If you as a user follow these affiliate links, or subsequently take advantage of the offers, I may receive a commission or other benefits from these third parties (collectively, I refer to them as „commission“ below).

In order to be able to track whether users have used the offers of an affiliate link linked by me, it is necessary for the respective third-party providers to learn that users have followed an affiliate link placed on my site. The assignment of these affiliate links to the relevant business transactions or other actions (e.g. purchases) is solely for the purpose of commission accounting. It is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose.

For the purposes of precisely this assignment of the affiliate links, the affiliate links may be supplemented with values, which may, for example, be a component of the link or stored in some other way, e.g. in a cookie. Such values may include, for example, the source website (referrer), the time, an online identifier of the operator of the website on which the exact affiliate link was located, an online identifier of the relevant offer, the type of link or offer used, and an online identifier of the respective site visitor.

Notes on legal basis: If I ask users to consent to the use of third-party providers, the legal basis for processing data is consent. In addition, their use may be a component of my (pre)contractual performance if the use of the third-party providers has been agreed in this environment. Otherwise, user data is processed on the basis of my legitimate interests (i.e. interest in efficient, economical and recipient-friendly services). In this context, I would also like to explicitly refer you to the information on the use of cookies in this privacy policy.

• Types of data processed: data relating to contracts (e.g. term, subject matter of contract, etc.), usage data (such as pages visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, and/or IP addresses).
• Data subjects: Users (e.g., website visitors, users of different online services).
• Purposes of processing: tracking of affiliate links.
• Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a DSGVO), Contract performance and pre-contractual requests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b. DSGVO), Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f. DSGVO).

Services used and service providers:

AMAZON

This site or its operator is a participant in the Amazon EU affiliate program. For this purpose, Amazon advertisements as well as links to the pages of Amazon.de are integrated on the page or the sub-pages. As part of the advertising cost reimbursement, Amazon reimburses the site operator for this. This is done exclusively by inserting images, through which neither cookies are set by Amazon, nor is your IP address transmitted to Amazon.

When clicking on these affiliate links/advertising links from Amazon on the site, you will be redirected to Amazon. On its side, its terms and conditions apply, as well as Amazon’s own data processing policies. Amazon, for its part, uses cookies or comparable recognition technologies (e.g. device fingerprinting) on its pages. With their help, it can determine the origin of the orders. In this way, Amazon is able to determine that you have clicked the affiliate link on this website.

For more information about how Amazon uses your information, please see Amazon’s privacy policy . In addition, you can contact Amazon’s data protection officer at [email protected].

MVG

This site or its operator is a participant in the affiliate program of Münchner Verlagsgruppe GmbH (MVG). For this purpose, MVG’s advertisements and links to MVG’s pages are integrated on the page or sub-pages. MVG will reimburse the site operator for this as part of the advertising cost reimbursement. This is done exclusively by inserting images, through which neither cookies are set by MVG, nor is your IP address transmitted to MVG.

When clicking on these affiliate links/advertising links from MVG on the site, you will be redirected to MVG. On their side, its terms and conditions apply, as well as MVG’s own data processing guidelines. For its part, MVG uses cookies or comparable recognition technologies (e.g. device fingerprinting) on its pages. With their help, it can determine the origin of the orders. In this way, MVG is able to determine that you have clicked the affiliate link on this website.

For more information about MVG‘ s use of your information, please see MVG’s Privacy Policy.

Data Protection Officer of MVG:
Michael Vogelbacher
consileo GmbH & Co. KG
Bahnhofstr. 5
53572 Unkel
[email protected]

Kopp-Verlag

This page or its operator is a participant of the partner program of the Kopp-Verlag. For this purpose, advertisements of the Kopp publishing house as well as links to the pages of the publishing house are integrated on the page or the sub-pages. The publisher reimburses the site operator for this as part of the advertising cost reimbursement. This is done exclusively by inserting images, through which neither cookies are set by the publisher, nor is your IP address transmitted to the publisher.

When clicking on these affiliate links/advertising links of Kopp-Verlag on the site, you will be redirected to Kopp-Verlag. On their side, their terms and conditions as well as the in-house Kopp-Verlag guidelines for data processing apply. For its part, Kopp-Verlag uses cookies or comparable recognition technologies (e.g. device fingerprinting) on its pages. With their help, it can determine the origin of the orders. In this way, Kopp-Verlag is able to determine that you have clicked the partner link on this website.

For more information about Kopp-Verlag ’s use of your data, please see MVG’s privacy policy.

Jochen Kopp
Kopp Publishing House e.K.
Bertha Benz Street 10
72108 Rottenburg
Tel. 07472/ 9806-0
Email: [email protected]

VG Word

Scalable Central Measurement Procedure: We use „session cookies“ from VG Wort, Munich, to measure accesses to texts in order to record the probability of copying. Session cookies are small pieces of information that a provider stores in the RAM of the visitor’s computer. In a session cookie, a randomly generated unique identification number is stored, a so-called session ID. In addition, a cookie 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 according to the Scalable Central Measurement Method (SZM). They help to determine the copy probability of individual texts for the remuneration of legal claims of authors and publishers. We do not collect any personal data via cookies.

In the Scalable Central Measurement Procedure, anonymous measurement values are collected. The access count measurement alternatively uses a session cookie or a signature created from various automatically transmitted information from your browser to recognize computer systems. IP addresses are only processed in anonymized form. The procedure was developed in compliance with data protection. The sole aim of the method is to determine the copy probability of individual texts. At no time are individual users identified. Your identity always remains protected. You will not receive any advertising through the system.

• Types of data processed: Usage data (e.g. web pages visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
• Data subjects: Users (e.g., website visitors, users of online services).
• Purposes of processing: Reach measurement (e.g. access statistics, recognition of returning visitors), tracking (e.g. interest/behavior-based profiling, use of cookies), visit action evaluation, profiling (creation of user profiles).
• Security measures: IP masking (pseudonymization of the IP address).
• Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a DSGVO), Legitimate Interests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f. DSGVO).

Services used and service providers

• VG Wort / Scalable Central Measurement Procedure: VG Wort / Scalable Central Measurement Procedure; Service provider: Verwertungsgesellschaft WORT (VG WORT), Untere Weidenstraße 5, 81543 Munich, Germany; website: https://www.vgwort.de; privacy policy: https: //www.vgwort.de/hilfsseiten/datenschutz.html.

Provision of the online offer and web hosting

In order to provide our online offer securely and efficiently, we use the services of one or more web hosting providers from whose servers (or servers managed by them) the online offer can be accessed. For these purposes, we may use infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space and database services, as well as security services and technical maintenance services.

The data processed in the course of providing the hosting service may include all information concerning the users of our online service that is generated in the course of use and communication. This regularly includes the IP address, which is necessary to be able to deliver the contents of online offers to browsers, and all entries made within our online offer or from websites.

Collection of access data and log files: We ourselves (or our web hosting provider) collect data on every access to the server (so-called server log files). The server log files may include the address and name of the web pages and files accessed, the date and time of access, the volume of data transferred, notification of successful access, browser type and version, the user’s operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page) and, as a rule, IP addresses and the requesting provider.

The server log files may be used, on the one hand, for security purposes, e.g., to prevent server overload (especially in the case of abusive attacks, so-called DDoS attacks) and, on the other hand, to ensure the utilization of the servers and their stability.

• Types of data processed: Content data (e.g. entries in online forms), usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
• Data subjects: Users (e.g., website visitors, users of online services).
• Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f. DSGVO).

Contact

When contacting us (e.g. by contact form, e-mail, telephone or via social media), the information of the inquiring persons is processed insofar as this is necessary to answer the contact requests and any requested measures.

The response to contact requests in the context of contractual or pre-contractual relationships is made in order to fulfill our contractual obligations or to respond to (pre)contractual inquiries and otherwise on the basis of legitimate interests in responding to the inquiries.

• Types of data processed: inventory data (e.g. names, addresses), contact data (e.g. e-mail, telephone numbers), content data (e.g. entries in online forms).
• Affected persons: Communication partners.
• Purposes of processing: contact requests and communication.
• Legal basis: Contract fulfillment and pre-contractual requests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b. DSGVO), Legitimate Interests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f. DSGVO).

Data deletion

The data processed by us will be deleted in accordance with the legal requirements as soon as their consents permitted for processing are revoked or other permissions cease to apply (e.g. if the purpose of processing this data has ceased to apply or it is not required for the purpose).

If the data are not deleted because they are required for other and legally permissible purposes, their processing will be limited to these purposes. I.e., the data is blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to data that must be retained for reasons of commercial or tax law or whose storage is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural person or legal entity.

Further information on the deletion of personal data can also be found in the individual data protection notices of this data protection declaration.

Modification and update of the privacy policy

We ask you to regularly inform yourself about the content of our privacy policy. We will adapt the privacy policy as soon as the changes in the data processing carried out by us make this necessary. We will inform you as soon as the changes require an act of cooperation on your part (e.g. consent) or other individual notification.

If we provide addresses and contact information of companies and organizations in this privacy statement, please note that the addresses may change over time and please check the information before contacting us.

Rights of the data subjects

As a data subject, you are entitled to various rights under the GDPR, which arise in particular from Art. 15 to 21 GDPR:

• Right to object: You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e or f DSGVO; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. If the personal data concerning you is processed for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such marketing; this also applies to profiling, insofar as it is related to such direct marketing.
• Right of revocation for consents: You have the right to revoke any consent you have given at any time.
• Right of access: You have the right to request confirmation as to whether data in question is being processed and to obtain information about this data, as well as further information and a copy of the data in accordance with the legal requirements.
• Right to rectification: In accordance with the law, you have the right to request that data concerning you be completed or that inaccurate data concerning you be rectified.
• Right to erasure and restriction of processing: You have the right, in accordance with the law, to request that data relating to you be erased immediately or, alternatively, to request restriction of the processing of the data in accordance with the law.
• Right to data portability: You have the right to receive data relating to you that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format in accordance with the legal requirements, or to request that it be transferred to another controller.
• Complaint to supervisory authority: You also have the right, in accordance with the law, to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR.

Definitions

This section provides you with an overview of the terms used in this privacy statement. Many of the terms are taken from the law and defined especially in Art. 4 GDPR. The legal definitions are binding. The following explanations, on the other hand, are intended primarily to aid understanding. The terms are sorted alphabetically.

• Personal data: „Personal data“ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter „data subject“); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier (e.g. cookie) or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
• Controller: a „controller“ is 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.
• Processing: „Processing“ means any operation or set of operations which is performed upon personal data, whether or not by automatic means. The term is wide-ranging and encompasses practically every handling of data, be it collection, evaluation, storage, transmission or deletion.

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