Data Protection Declaration
This data protection declaration applies to the use of our online offer www.pearlsofportugal.com (hereinafter “website”).
We attach great importance to data protection. We aim to collect as little personal data as possible, and any data we do collect is processed in compliance with applicable data protection law, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
1. Controller
The controller responsible for the collection, processing and use of your personal data within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR is:
Pearls of Portugal LDA
Rua de Camões 218, 1º Andar, Sala 2
4000-138 Porto, Portugal
Email: info@pearlsofportugal.com
If you wish to object to the collection, processing or use of your data under this declaration as a whole, or for individual measures, you can send your objection to the contact details above. You may save and print this data protection declaration at any time.
2. General Purposes of Processing
We only collect and use our users’ personal data to the extent necessary to provide a functional website, our online services, and to fulfil contractual obligations. Personal data of our users is otherwise collected and used only with the user’s consent.
3. What Data We Use and Why
3.1 Hosting
This website is hosted by external service providers (“hosts”). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the hosts’ servers. This may include, but is not limited to, IP addresses, contact requests, metadata and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website access data, and other data generated through use of the website.
Hosting is carried out in the interest of a secure, fast and efficient provision of our online offering by a professional provider. The legal basis is our legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Our hosts process your data only to the extent necessary to fulfil their service obligations and act on our instructions.
We use the following hosts:
- SiteGround – SiteGround Hosting EOOD, 6 Olimpiyska Str., 1166 Sofia, Bulgaria
- Datadebug – Av. da República 885, 2º andar C11, 4450-243 Matosinhos, Portugal
3.2 Access Data
We collect information about you when you use this website. We automatically collect information about your usage behaviour and interaction with the site, and we register data about your computer or mobile device through server log files. This access data includes:
- Name and URL of the file accessed
- Date and time of access
- Amount of data transferred
- Notification of successful access (HTTP response code)
- Browser type and version
- Operating system
- Referrer URL (the previously visited page)
- Websites called up by your system through our website
- Your internet service provider
- IP address and requesting provider
We use this log data, without linking it to your identity or otherwise profiling you, for statistical evaluation to operate, secure and optimise our website, to anonymously record visitor numbers (traffic) and the scope and type of use of our website and services, and for billing purposes where we measure clicks received from cooperation partners. This information also allows us to provide personalised and location-relevant content, analyse traffic, identify and fix errors, and improve our services. This is our legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
We reserve the right to review log data retrospectively where there are reasonable grounds to suspect unlawful use. We store IP addresses in log files for a limited period where necessary for security purposes or to provide or bill a service. If you use one of our offers, we delete the IP address once it is no longer required for security purposes after the order process is cancelled or payment is received. We also retain IP addresses where we have a specific suspicion of a criminal offence connected with the use of our website.
3.3 Cookies
We use session cookies to optimise our website. A session cookie is a small text file sent by our server when you visit the website and temporarily stored on your device. It contains a session ID that allows requests from your browser to be assigned to a common session, so your device is recognised when you return to a page during the same visit. Session cookies are deleted once you close your browser.
We also use a small number of persistent cookies, which remain on your device and let us recognise your browser on a later visit. These are stored on your device and deleted after a set period, ranging from one month up to ten years depending on the cookie’s purpose. Persistent cookies let us present our offer in a more user-friendly, effective and secure way, for example by showing you content tailored to your interests.
Our legitimate interest in using cookies under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR is to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure; where a cookie is not strictly necessary for the operation of the website, we ask for your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR via our cookie banner before it is set.
Cookies may store information such as login information, language settings, search terms entered, and data on the number of visits and use of individual functions of our website. Each cookie is assigned an identification number; your name, IP address or other data that would allow the cookie to be linked directly to you is not stored in the cookie itself. Through cookie technology we therefore only receive pseudonymised information, for example about which pages were visited or which content was viewed.
You can configure your browser to notify you before cookies are set and to decide, individually or generally, whether to accept them, or to block cookies altogether. Please note this may limit the functionality of the website.
3.4 Data to Fulfil Our Contractual Obligations
We process personal data that we need to fulfil our contractual obligations, such as name, address, email address, the products and services ordered, and billing and payment data. Collecting this data is necessary for entering into the contract. The data is deleted once warranty and statutory retention periods have expired. Data linked to a user account (see below) is retained for as long as that account exists. The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, as the data is required for us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you.
3.5 User Account
You can create a user account on our website. To do so, we need the personal data requested at registration. For subsequent logins, only your email or username and chosen password are required. At registration we collect master data (e.g. name, address), communication data (e.g. email address), payment data (e.g. bank details), and access data (username and password). To ensure your registration is genuine and to prevent unauthorised registration by third parties, you will receive an activation link by email after registering, which you must use to activate your account; only then do we permanently store the data you provided.
You may ask us to delete a user account you have created at any time, free of charge except for transmission costs at basic rates. A message in text form to the contact details in Section 1 (e.g. email, letter) is sufficient. We will then delete your stored personal data unless we are required to retain it to process an order or under statutory retention obligations. The legal basis for this processing is your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.
3.6 Newsletter
The data requested during registration is required to sign up for our newsletter. Registration is logged. After registering, you will receive a message at the email address provided asking you to confirm your registration (“double opt-in”). This step ensures that third parties cannot register using your email address without your knowledge. You can withdraw your consent to receive the newsletter, and thereby unsubscribe, at any time.
We store your registration data for as long as it is needed to send the newsletter. We keep a record of your registration and the address it was sent to for as long as we have a legitimate interest in being able to prove that consent was given – generally the statute-of-limitations period for civil claims, i.e. up to three years.
The legal basis for sending the newsletter is your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) in conjunction with Art. 7 GDPR and Section 7(2) No. 3 UWG. The legal basis for logging your registration is our legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR in being able to demonstrate that we obtained your consent.
You can unsubscribe at any time, free of charge except for transmission costs at basic rates. A message in text form to the contact details in Section 1 is sufficient, and you will also find an unsubscribe link in every newsletter.
Managing contacts and sending messages: these services let us manage a database of email contacts, phone numbers or other contact details in order to communicate with users, and may record when and whether a message was read and how a user interacted with it (e.g. by clicking a link).
Brevo (Sendinblue GmbH) is used to manage email addresses and send messages. Personal data collected: cookies; email address; usage data. Place of processing: Germany, France. Privacy policy: https://www.brevo.com/de/legal/privacypolicy/
User database management: these services allow a provider to build user profiles from information such as email address or name submitted to us, combined with tracked activity, and in some cases matched against publicly available information (e.g. social media profiles). Some also allow timed messages to be triggered by specific user actions.
Brevo Marketing Automation (Sendinblue GmbH / Brevo SAS) is used for this purpose. Personal data collected: cookies; email address; usage data. Place of processing: Germany, France. Privacy policy: https://www.brevo.com/de/legal/privacypolicy/
We have entered into a data processing agreement with Brevo, under which Brevo is obliged to protect our customers’ data and not to disclose it to third parties.
3.7 Product Recommendations
Independently of the newsletter, we may send you regular product recommendations by email. In this way, we inform you about products from our range that may interest you, based on goods or services you have recently purchased from us. We follow the applicable legal requirements. You can object at any time, free of charge except for transmission costs at basic rates; a message in text form to the contact details in Section 1 is sufficient, and you will also find an unsubscribe link in every email. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR in conjunction with Section 7(3) UWG.
3.8 Email Contact
If you contact us, for example via the contact form or by email, we process your details to handle your request and any follow-up questions. Where processing serves to carry out pre-contractual measures at your request, or the contract if you are already a customer, the legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. We process any further personal data only with your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) or where we have a legitimate interest in the processing (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR), for example our interest in responding to your email.
3.9 Contact Form
If you send us an enquiry via the contact form, we store the details you provide, including your contact data, to process the enquiry and any follow-up questions. We do not pass this data on without your consent.
Processing is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where your enquiry relates to performing a contract or pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in handling enquiries addressed to us efficiently (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), where this was requested.
Data you enter in the contact form remains with us until you ask us to delete it, withdraw your consent to its storage, or the purpose for which it was stored no longer applies (e.g. once your enquiry has been resolved). Mandatory statutory retention periods remain unaffected.
This website uses the WPForms contact form plugin, provided by WPForms LLC, 7732 Maywood Crest Dr, West Palm Beach, FL 33412, USA. We use the plugin’s GDPR extension, which deactivates all user cookies and prevents your IP address from being stored. Form data you submit is sent by encrypted email and stored on an email server; according to the provider, submissions are not otherwise stored within WordPress in the version we use. Further detail on the GDPR measures implemented is available at: https://wpforms.com/introducing-new-gdpr-enhancements-for-your-wordpress-forms/
4. Integration of Third-Party Service Providers
4.1 Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited. Where the controller for processing on this website is based outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland, the associated processing is carried out by Google LLC. Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC are together referred to as “Google” below.
Google Analytics uses “cookies” – text files stored on your device – to help us analyse how the website is used. Information generated by the cookie about your use of the website, including your truncated IP address, is transmitted to and stored by Google.
We use Google Analytics only with IP anonymisation (“_anonymizeIp”) activated. Your IP address is truncated by Google within the member states of the European Union or other states party to the EEA Agreement before further processing. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. Google does not merge the IP address transmitted by your browser with any other data held by Google.
On our behalf, Google uses this information to evaluate use of the website, compile reports on website activity, and provide us with other services relating to website and internet use (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Our legitimate interest lies in optimising this website, analysing its use, and tailoring its content; your interests are adequately protected through pseudonymisation of your data.
Where Google transfers data to the United States, it relies on the standard contractual clauses recognised by the European Commission and on its self-certification under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, which the European Commission has recognised as providing an adequate level of data protection. Data associated with Google Analytics cookies, such as user or advertising IDs, is automatically deleted after 50 months; deletion of data that has reached the end of its retention period takes place automatically once a month.
You can refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing that data, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in future via the opt-out control provided on this website, which sets an opt-out cookie. Further information on data processing and use by Google, and on your settings and opt-out options, is available in Google’s privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and in your Google Ads settings (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated).
4.2 Facebook (Meta) Plugins
This website uses plugins provided by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Meta”/Facebook). Where a Facebook plugin is embedded on our website, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook’s servers so that the plugin can be displayed.
Through this connection, data about your visit to our pages is transmitted to Facebook’s servers. If you are logged into Facebook, this usage data may be linked to your Facebook account. If you actively use a plugin while logged in, for example by clicking “Like” or leaving a comment, this information is also transmitted to and published on your Facebook account. You can prevent this by logging out of Facebook before using our website.
For more information on how Facebook/Meta uses your data, please see Meta’s data policy at https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/
4.3 X (formerly Twitter)
This website integrates functions of the X service (formerly Twitter), provided by X Corp., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. If you use X’s “Repost” function, the pages you visit are linked to your X account and made visible to other users; this data is also transmitted to X.
As the operator of this website, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how X uses it. Further information is available in X’s privacy policy at https://x.com/en/privacy. You can adjust your privacy settings in your X account settings.
4.4 JotForm Form Plugin
Our website uses JotForm as a contact and digital-signature tool, provided by Jotform Inc., 111 Pine St. #1815, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA. Data you submit is temporarily processed on JotForm’s servers in the EU in accordance with the GDPR and is subsequently deleted from temporary storage. The data is made available only to Pearls of Portugal and is not passed on to other third parties. Details of JotForm’s data protection practices are available at: https://www.jotform.com/privacy
4.5 reCAPTCHA
We use the reCAPTCHA service provided by Google LLC (“Google”) to protect submissions made through forms on this site. This service checks whether a submission is made by a human, in order to prevent website functions (in particular comment or contact forms) from being misused by spambots. This involves transmitting your IP address and any other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service; your input is communicated to and used by Google for this purpose.
Your IP address is generally truncated beforehand within the member states of the European Union or other states party to the EEA Agreement, and is thereby anonymised. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. On our behalf, Google uses this information to evaluate your use of this service. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of reCAPTCHA is not merged with other Google data.
This data collection is subject to Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. By using reCAPTCHA, you consent to the processing of your data by Google as described above; the legal basis is your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.
4.6 YouTube
This website embeds videos from YouTube, a service operated by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
We use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. According to YouTube, in this mode YouTube does not store information about visitors to this page before they watch a video; this does not necessarily prevent information from being shared with YouTube’s partners, and YouTube connects to the Google DoubleClick network regardless of whether a video is played.
Once you start a YouTube video on our website, a connection is established to YouTube’s servers, telling YouTube which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can link your browsing behaviour directly to your profile; you can prevent this by logging out beforehand. YouTube may also store cookies on your device, or use comparable recognition technologies (e.g. device fingerprinting), once a video has started, in order to gather video statistics, improve user experience and prevent fraud. Starting a video may also trigger further data processing that is outside our control.
We use YouTube in the interest of presenting our online offering attractively, which is our legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Where your consent has been requested, processing is instead based exclusively on Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, and you may withdraw that consent at any time.
Further information on data protection at YouTube is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy
4.7 Microsoft Clarity
This website uses Microsoft Clarity, an analytics tool provided by Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA (“Microsoft”). Microsoft Clarity uses cookies to analyse how you use our website, for example page entry, navigation, scrolling and clicking behaviour. These cookies are only set after you have given your express consent.
The information generated by these cookies is transmitted to a Microsoft Clarity server, potentially in the United States, and stored there to enable session recordings and to generate heat maps. We use Microsoft Clarity with default settings, so the data transmitted to Microsoft does not include sensitive input such as names or addresses, ruling out any direct link to your identity in normal use. Microsoft uses this information to evaluate use of the website, compile activity reports, and provide us with other website- and internet-related services, and may pass the information to third parties where legally required, or where such third parties process it on Microsoft’s behalf. You can prevent the use of cookies by adjusting your browser settings, though this may limit the website’s functionality.
Further information on Microsoft Clarity is available at: https://clarity.microsoft.com/. The legal basis for this processing is your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.
4.8 Accessibility Widget (Ally)
Our website uses the “Ally – Web Accessibility” plugin provided by Elementor Ltd. This tool improves accessibility by offering features such as text resizing, contrast adjustment and keyboard-navigation support. In providing these features, Ally may process certain non-personal data, including browser and device information, accessibility preferences you select, and interaction data relating to accessibility features. This data is processed in accordance with Elementor’s privacy policy (https://elementor.com/about/privacy/) and its data processing addendum (https://elementor.com/terms/plugins-dpa/).
4.9 Bing Ads Universal Event Tracking
This website uses Bing Ads Universal Event Tracking, a conversion-tracking service provided by Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA. This service lets us track your activity on our website if you arrive here via a Microsoft/Bing advertisement, by placing a cookie on your device when you click such an ad. This allows Microsoft and us to see how many users clicked an advertisement and reached a defined landing page. Microsoft stores this data for 180 days.
Further information on the terms of use and privacy policy for this service is available at: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/
4.10 CookieYes Consent Technology
Our website uses CookieYes consent technology to obtain, and document, your consent to the storage of certain cookies in your browser and the use of certain technologies, in accordance with applicable data protection law. The provider is CookieYes Limited, 3 Warren Yard, Warren Park, Wolverton Mill, Milton Keynes, MK12 5NW, United Kingdom (“CookieYes”).
When you visit our website, a cookie from CookieYes is stored in your browser, recording the consents you have given or withdrawn. This data is not passed on to CookieYes. It is stored until you delete the cookie yourself or the purpose for storing it no longer applies; mandatory statutory retention periods remain unaffected. CookieYes is used to obtain the consent required by law for the use of cookies; the legal basis for operating this consent tool itself is our legal obligation to document consent, Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR.
5. Storage Period
Unless stated otherwise above, we store personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected. In some cases the law requires us to retain personal data, for example under tax or commercial law. In those cases, we store the data only for these legal purposes; we do not otherwise process it, and delete it once the statutory retention period has expired.
6. Your Rights as a Data Subject
Under applicable law you have a number of rights in relation to your personal data. To exercise any of these rights, please send a clearly identified request by email or post to the address given in Section 1. An overview of your rights follows.
6.1 Right of access
You have the right to obtain confirmation from us as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed. Where this is the case, you have the right to obtain, free of charge, information about that data and a copy of it, together with the following information: the purposes of processing; the categories of personal data processed; the recipients or categories of recipients, in particular in third countries or international organisations; where possible, the envisaged period for which the data will be stored, or the criteria used to determine that period; the existence of a right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing, or a right to object; the existence of a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; where the data was not collected from you, any available information on its source; and the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, under Art. 22(1) and (4) GDPR, together with meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for you. Where data is transferred to a third country or international organisation, you have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards under Art. 46 GDPR relating to that transfer.
6.2 Right to rectification
You have the right to obtain from us, without undue delay, the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you, and, taking into account the purposes of processing, the completion of incomplete personal data, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
6.3 Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”)
You have the right to obtain the erasure of personal data concerning you without undue delay, and we are obliged to erase it, where one of the following applies: the data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or processed; you withdraw the consent on which processing was based under Art. 6(1)(a) or Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR and there is no other legal basis for processing; you object to processing under Art. 21(1) GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds, or you object under Art. 21(2) GDPR; the data has been processed unlawfully; erasure is required to comply with a legal obligation under EU or member-state law to which we are subject; or the data was collected in relation to information-society services offered under Art. 8(1) GDPR. Where we have made the data public and are obliged to erase it, we will take reasonable steps, considering available technology and cost, to inform other controllers processing the data of your erasure request.
6.4 Right to restriction of processing
You have the right to obtain restriction of processing where: you contest the accuracy of the data, for a period allowing us to verify it; the processing is unlawful and you oppose erasure and request restriction instead; we no longer need the data for the purposes of processing but you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or you have objected to processing under Art. 21(1) GDPR pending verification of whether our legitimate grounds override yours.
6.5 Right to data portability
Where processing is based on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) or Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR) or on a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, and to transmit it to another controller without hindrance from us; where technically feasible, you may ask us to transmit the data directly to that other controller.
6.6 Right to object
You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to processing based on Art. 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR, including profiling based on those provisions. We will no longer process the data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. Where we process personal data for direct-marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time, including to related profiling; once you object, we will no longer use your data for direct marketing. You also have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to processing carried out for scientific, historical-research or statistical purposes under Art. 89(1) GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
6.7 Automated individual decision-making, including profiling
You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. We do not carry out automated decision-making of this kind based on the personal data we collect.
6.8 Right to withdraw consent
Where processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, with effect for the future.
6.9 Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of your habitual residence, place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of your personal data infringes the GDPR.
7. Data Security
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures under Art. 32 GDPR to protect your data, in line with applicable law and the current state of the art, and we adapt these measures continuously. Data relating to your orders and your customer login is encrypted; we use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. Please note that data transmission over the internet, for example by email, can never be completely secure, and complete protection against third-party access cannot be guaranteed. We do not guarantee that our services will be available at all times; disruptions, interruptions or outages cannot be excluded. The servers we use are regularly backed up.
8. Disclosure of Data to Third Parties; No Transfer to Non-EU Countries Outside This Declaration
As a rule, we use your personal data only within our own company. Where we involve third parties in performing a contract, for example brokers, lawyers or property managers, they receive only the personal data necessary for that service. Where we outsource parts of our data processing (“processing on our behalf”), we contractually oblige the processor to use personal data only in accordance with data protection law and to safeguard your rights. Other than the transfers described in Section 4 of this declaration, we do not transfer data to recipients outside the EU/EEA, and no such transfer is planned.
9. Disclaimer
We assume no liability for the topicality, correctness or completeness of the information provided on our website. Liability claims against us relating to material or immaterial damage caused by the use or non-use of the information provided, or by the use of incorrect or incomplete information, are excluded, unless it is proven that we acted with intent or gross negligence.
All offers are non-binding. We expressly reserve the right to change, supplement or delete parts of the website, or the entire offer, without prior notice, or to suspend or discontinue publication temporarily or permanently.
Where this website contains direct or indirect references to external websites (“hyperlinks”) that are outside our area of responsibility, liability would only arise if we were aware of illegal content and it was technically possible and reasonable for us to prevent its use.
We expressly declare that, at the time the relevant links were created, no illegal content was identifiable on the linked pages. We have no influence on the current or future design, content or ownership of the linked pages, and we therefore expressly distance ourselves from all content on linked pages that was changed after the link was created, including any illegal, incorrect or incomplete content and any damage arising from it. This statement applies to all links and references on our own website, as well as to third-party entries in guest books, discussion forums, link directories, mailing lists and any other externally accessible databases we may operate.
We endeavour to observe copyright in all images, graphics, sound files, video sequences and texts used in our publications, and to use only material we created ourselves or material that is license-free.
All brands and trademarks mentioned on the website, which may be protected by third parties, are subject without restriction to the provisions of applicable trademark law and the rights of their respective registered owners. The mere mention of a trademark does not mean it is not protected by third-party rights.
Copyright in content we have created and published remains with us. Reproduction or use of such graphics, sound files, video sequences or texts in other electronic or printed publications requires our express consent.
Where this website offers the opportunity to enter personal or business data (e.g. email addresses, names, addresses), doing so is expressly voluntary. Wherever technically possible and reasonable, our services can also be used and paid for without providing such data, or by using anonymised data or a pseudonym. Use of the contact details published in our imprint, or similar information such as postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers, or email addresses, by third parties to send information that has not been expressly requested is not permitted. We expressly reserve the right to take legal action against senders of unsolicited advertising (“spam”) in breach of this prohibition.