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Data protection

We only process personal data (hereinafter generally referred to as “data”) to the extent necessary and for the purpose of providing a functional and user-friendly website, including its content and the services offered there.

According to Article 4, Paragraph 1 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, i.e. the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter referred to as “GDPR”), “processing” is considered to be any process carried out with or without the help of automated processes or any series of processes carried out in this context with personal data, such as collecting, recording, organizing, arranging, storing, adapting or changing, reading, querying, using, disclosing by transmission, dissemination or any other form of provision, comparison or linking, restricting, deleting or destroying.

With the following data protection declaration we inform you in particular about the type, scope, purpose, duration and legal basis of the processing of personal data, insofar as we decide on the purposes and means of processing either alone or jointly with others. We will also inform you below about the third-party components we use for optimization purposes and to increase the quality of use, insofar as third parties process data under their own responsibility.

Our data protection declaration is structured as follows:

I. Information about us as controllers
II. Rights of users and those affected
III. Information on data processing

I. Information about us as controllers

The responsible provider of this website in terms of data protection law is:

Selchow Castle UG & Co KG
Christoph Kamps
Jacobsohnstrasse 11
13086 Berlin

Telephone: 0179 20 84 34 7
Fax: [fax number]
Email: christoph.kamps@schloss-selchow.de

The data protection officer at the provider is:

Christoph Kamps
Email: christoph.kamps (at)schloss-selchow.de

II. Rights of users and those affected

With regard to the data processing described in more detail below, users and those affected have the right

  • for confirmation as to whether data concerning you is being processed, for information about the data processed, for further information about data processing and for copies of the data (see also Article 15 GDPR);

  • to correct or complete incorrect or incomplete data (see also Art. 16 GDPR);

  • to the immediate deletion of the data concerning you (see also Art. 17 GDPR), or, alternatively, to the extent that further processing is necessary in accordance with Art. 17 Para. 3 GDPR, to restriction of processing in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR;

  • to receive the data concerning you and provided by you and to transmit this data to other providers/responsible parties (see also Art. 20 GDPR);

  • to complain to the supervisory authority if you are of the opinion that the data concerning you is being processed by the provider in violation of data protection regulations (see also Art. 77 GDPR).

In addition, the provider is obliged to inform all recipients to whom data has been disclosed by the provider of any correction or deletion of data or the restriction of processing that takes place on the basis of Articles 16, 17 Paragraph 1, 18 GDPR teach. However, this obligation does not apply if this notification is impossible or involves disproportionate effort. Without prejudice to this, the user has the right to information about these recipients.

According to Article 21 of the GDPR, users and those affected also have the right to object to the future processing of data concerning them, provided that the data is processed by the provider in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) of the GDPR. In particular, an objection to data processing for the purpose of direct advertising is permitted.

III. Information on data processing

Your data processed when using our website will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage no longer applies, the deletion of the data does not conflict with any legal retention obligations and no different information is subsequently provided about individual processing procedures.

Cookie Manager

To obtain consent for the use of technically unnecessary cookies on the website, the provider uses a cookie manager.

When the website is accessed, a cookie with the settings information is stored on the user's device so that consent does not have to be asked on a subsequent visit.

The cookie is required to obtain legally compliant consent from the user.

The user can prevent or stop the installation of cookies through the settings of their browser.

Contact inquiries/contact options

If you contact us via contact form or email, the data you provide will be used to process your request. Providing the data is necessary to process and answer your request - without it, we cannot answer your request or at best respond to a limited extent.

The legal basis for this processing is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter b) GDPR.

Your data will be deleted if your request has been answered conclusively and deletion does not conflict with any legal retention obligations, such as in the event of any subsequent contract processing.

Facebook

To advertise our products and services and to communicate with interested parties or customers, we maintain a company presence on the Facebook platform.

We are jointly responsible for this social media platform with Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Facebook's data protection officer can be reached via a contact form:

https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970

We have regulated joint responsibility in an agreement regarding the respective obligations within the meaning of the GDPR. This agreement, from which the mutual obligations arise, is available at the following link:

https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

The legal basis for the resulting processing of personal data and described below is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f of the GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, communication, sales and promotion of our products and services.

The legal basis can also be the user's consent to the platform operator in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter a of the GDPR. The user can revoke his consent to this at any time in the future in accordance with Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR by notifying the platform operator.

When you access our online presence on the Facebook platform, Facebook Ireland Ltd. as the operator of the platform in the EU, processes user data (e.g. personal information, IP address, etc.).

This user data serves to provide statistical information about the use of our company presence on Facebook. Facebook Ireland Ltd. uses this data for market research and advertising purposes and to create user profiles. Based on these profiles, Facebook Ireland Ltd. For example, it is possible to advertise to users within and outside of Facebook based on their interests. If the user is logged into their Facebook account at the time of access, Facebook Ireland Ltd. also link the data to the respective user account.

If the user contacts you via Facebook, the user's personal data entered on this occasion will be used to process the request. We will delete the user's data as long as the user's request has been answered conclusively and there are no legal retention obligations, such as in the event of subsequent contract processing.

To process the data, Facebook Ireland Ltd. Cookies may also be set if necessary.

If the user does not agree to this processing, it is possible to prevent the installation of cookies by setting the browser accordingly. Cookies that have already been saved can also be deleted at any time. The settings for this depend on the respective browser. With Flash cookies, processing cannot be prevented via the browser settings, but rather by setting the Flash player accordingly. If the user prevents or restricts the installation of cookies, this may result in not all of Facebook's functions being fully usable.

Further information about the processing activities, how to prevent them and how to delete the data processed by Facebook can be found in Facebook's data policy:

https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

It cannot be ruled out that processing by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited will also take place via Meta Platforms, Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025 in the USA.

Instagram

To advertise our products and services and to communicate with interested parties or customers, we maintain a company presence on the Instagram platform.

We are jointly responsible for this social media platform with Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Instagram's data protection officer can be reached via a contact form:

https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970

We have regulated joint responsibility in an agreement regarding the respective obligations within the meaning of the GDPR. This agreement, from which the mutual obligations arise, is available at the following link:

https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

The legal basis for the resulting processing of personal data and described below is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f of the GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, communication, sales and promotion of our products and services.

The legal basis can also be the user's consent to the platform operator in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter a of the GDPR. The user can revoke his consent to this at any time in the future in accordance with Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR by notifying the platform operator.

When you access our online presence on the Instagram platform, Facebook Ireland Ltd. as the operator of the platform in the EU, processes user data (e.g. personal information, IP address, etc.).

This user data serves to provide statistical information about the use of our company presence on Instagram. Facebook Ireland Ltd. uses this data for market research and advertising purposes and to create user profiles. Based on these profiles, Facebook Ireland Ltd. For example, it is possible to advertise to users within and outside of Instagram based on their interests. If the user is logged into their Instagram account at the time of access, Facebook Ireland Ltd. also link the data to the respective user account.

If the user contacts you via Instagram, the user's personal data entered on this occasion will be used to process the request. We will delete the user's data as long as the user's request has been answered conclusively and there are no legal retention obligations, such as in the event of subsequent contract processing.

To process the data, Facebook Ireland Ltd. Cookies may also be set if necessary.

If the user does not agree to this processing, it is possible to prevent the installation of cookies by setting the browser accordingly. Cookies that have already been saved can also be deleted at any time. The settings for this depend on the respective browser. With Flash cookies, processing cannot be prevented via the browser settings, but rather by setting the Flash player accordingly. If the user prevents or restricts the installation of cookies, this may result in not all of Facebook's functions being fully usable.

Further information about the processing activities, how to prevent them and how to delete the data processed by Instagram can be found in Instagram's data policy:

https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

It cannot be ruled out that processing by Facebook Ireland Ltd. also via Meta Platforms, Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025 in the USA.

facebook

Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Data protection:https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Instagram

Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Data protection:https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

“Facebook” social plugin

We use the plug-in from the social network Facebook on our website. Facebook is an internet service provided by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.

If you have given your consent for this processing, the legal basis is Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. The legal basis can also be Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in improving the quality of our website.

Facebook provides further information about possible plug-ins and their respective functions at

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

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If the plug-in is stored on one of the pages of our website you visit, your Internet browser will download a display 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 the visit to our website are also recorded.

If you are logged in to Facebook while you visit 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. For example, if you use the so-called “Like” button on Facebook, this information will be stored in your Facebook user account and, if necessary, published via the Facebook platform. If you want to prevent this, you must either log out of Facebook before visiting our website or prevent the Facebook plug-in from being blocked by using an add-on for your internet browser.

Facebook provides further information about the collection and use of data as well as your related rights and protection options in the following

https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

available data protection information.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics on our website. This is a web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, hereinafter referred to as “Google”.

The Google Analytics service is used to analyze the usage behavior of our website. The legal basis is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our website.

Usage and user-related information, such as IP address, location, time or frequency of visits to our website, is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, we use Google Analytics with the so-called anonymization function. With this function, Google shortens the IP address within the EU or EEA.

The data collected in this way is in turn used by Google to provide us with an analysis of visits to our website and usage activities there. This data can also be used to provide other services related to the use of our website and the use of the Internet.

Google states that it does not associate your IP address with other data. In addition, Google is keeping under

https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners

Further data protection information is available for you, including, for example, the options for preventing data use.

Google also offers under

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

a so-called deactivation add-on along with further information about this. This add-on can be installed with standard Internet browsers and offers you further control over the data that Google collects when you visit our website. The add-on tells Google Analytics' JavaScript (ga.js) that information about visits to our website should not be transmitted to Google Analytics. However, this does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analysis services. You can of course also find out whether and which other web analysis services we use in this data protection declaration.

WIX

a) Use of the Wix Shop software

The provider uses the shop system “WIX” from Wix.com Ltd., Namal 40, 6350671 Tel Aviv, Israel, to present the offers, to process the contract and for hosting.

The legal basis for this is the initiation and/or execution of the contract in accordance with Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR.

Due to WIX's international branches, it cannot be ruled out that processing takes place outside the EU. WIX must ensure that processing by Wix and its subcontractors only takes place in third countries in which processing is permitted in accordance with the GDPR - for example via an EU adequacy decision or so-called standard contractual clauses.

 

“WIX” processes the following user data on behalf of the provider:

Name, email address, delivery and billing address, payment details, company name, telephone number if applicable, IP address, information about orders, as well as information about the device and browser used.

b) Web analysis WIX

By using WIX, cookies are also used on the website for web analysis.  The cookies are used to transmit information, such as the time, location and frequency of the user's website visit, to a WIX server and evaluate it.

If you have given your consent for this processing, the legal basis is Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. The legal basis can also be Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f GDPR. What is legitimate is the analysis, optimization and economic operation of the website.

If the user does not agree to the storage of cookies, it is possible to prevent or terminate the installation of cookies by setting the browser accordingly.

Further information about data processing by WIX is available at the following link:

https://de.wix.com/about/privacy

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