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Privacy policy Heinrichshofen Verlag

The processing of your personal data (its collection, storage and transmission as well as other processing) is reduced to the minimum necessary at Heinrichshofen. All our data processing procedures follow this principle. For example, you will not find any links to or plugins from Facebook or other web providers on our website. If cookies are used at all, we delete them from our data systems at the end of the web session or at the end of the web visit. This principle of data minimisation already serves your data security.

We comply with the statutory regulations in all processes. We treat your data confidentially even beyond the legal standard.

You can, of course, object to the storage and use of your data on our IT systems, unless we require them directly for the processing of your order or for legal reasons to the extent permitted by law.

If you object to the storage and use of your data, your data will be deleted immediately after complete processing, subject to the above, but not before payment has been made. The statutory provisions, in particular the statutory retention periods for business transactions (e.g. bookkeeping) will of course be observed and could, to the extent permitted by law, result in your data continuing to be stored in whole or in part despite your objection. We will be happy to provide further information about this on request.

To obtain information about our data backup or about the data we have about you, or to object to the storage and use of the data we have about you, you can contact us at any time at

Kerstin Hinrichs
Mail: info@heinrichshofen.de
Tel: 04421 / 9267-0

When and for what purpose do we collect data?
Your data is only collected via the Internet data systems when you complete the order form in our online shop. This data is used to process the order process and to ensure successful payment. We therefore ask for your understanding if, in addition to your name, we also request your address and other data in order to be able to contact you.

In principle, we would like to include your data in our customer file. This will enable us to inform you about new publications and other news from our publishing programme. If you do not wish to make use of this information service, please deselect this option during the ordering process.

Data is not stored in our customer file for purposes other than the information purpose described. In particular, third parties have no access to our customer data and we do not pass it on to third parties with the following exception:

- If payment for an ordered item is not received, we reserve the right to transfer your data to business information services (e.g. Schufa, Bürgel) or to one or more debt collection companies or to a lawyer for the purpose of a credit check.

- For the purpose of despatch to a despatch company of our choice (e.g. Post, Hermes, DHL).
Special case "Registration for the anniversary celebration":
We will store the email address you enter in the registration field until 31 January 2023, after which the emails will be deleted from our email server. No further storage and, above all, no forwarding to third parties will take place!

What data is collected? Is this data encrypted?
Only the data that you fill in on the order form when placing your order is recorded and temporarily stored. This data is not depersonalised. We do not create profiles or undertake or initiate any other form of market behaviour research or similar.

By default, our system remembers certain basic data about your visit to our site, such as your IP address, time and duration of your visit and the data required for technical processing, such as browser and page view.

For your security: Your data is of course encrypted in accordance with the proven state of the art. An SSL system (Secure Socket Layer) is used, especially when entering your bank details. If you are nevertheless reluctant to enter your bank details, you have the alternative of paying by invoice. This allows you to avoid the remaining, technically unavoidable residual risks when entering your bank details on the Internet.

About the SSL system:
This is a tried-and-tested and secure data transmission method on the Internet. The SSL system modifies your data before it reaches our server in such a way that a third party cannot reconstruct this data. Furthermore, the SSL system ensures that the data is only sent to the server from which it was requested. And any changes made to the data record during the data flow are recognised by the SSL system, which checks it for completeness and any changes.

Does Heinrichshofen use cookies?
In principle, we want to avoid cookies. If cookies are nevertheless generated during data exchange and/or are technically necessary, they will be deleted from our data systems at the end of the web session or at the end of the web visit.

How is your data secured on our servers?
Our servers are password-protected against access by third parties. The number of employees who have access to customer data is limited to 3. Furthermore, firewall systems are in use in case of an attack via the Internet.

Questions ?
According to the Federal Data Protection Act, you have a right to free information about your data stored by us and, if applicable, a right to correction, blocking and deletion of your data.

To obtain information about our data backup or your data stored by us, or if you wish to object to the further processing of your data, you can write at any time to

Heinrichshofen Publishing House
Kerstin Hinrichs
Mail: info@heinrichshofen.de
Phone: 04421/9267-0

Heinrichshofen Verlag GmbH & Co KG, Liebigstr. 16, 26389 Wilhelmshaven, Germany, is responsible within the meaning of the Federal Data Protection Act.

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Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will first be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

 You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

You can prevent the collection of data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website:

Deactivate Google Analytics

You can find more information on terms of use and data protection at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/. Please note that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code "gat._anonymizeIp();" in order to ensure anonymised collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

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Privacy policy for the use of Facebook plugins (Like button)

Plugins from the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA are integrated on our website. You can recognise the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the "Like" button on our site. You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/ When you visit our pages, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Facebook server via the plugin. Facebook receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click on the Facebook "Like" button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. Further information on this can be found in Facebook's privacy policy at https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php

If you do not want Facebook to be able to associate your visit to our pages with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

Source: eRecht24.de