data
protection
policy
We appreciate your interest in best architects. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Our aim is therefore to collect and store as few data as possible and always observe the existing laws and guidelines of the EU Regulation GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). However, as we can not provide our services without your data, we will inform you in detail below about how to handle them.
1. provider and
controller
zinnobergruen gmbh – best architects award
Sandstraße 104
40789 Monheim am Rhein
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)211 99459497
email: mail@bestarchitects.de
Website: www.bestarchitects.de
2. assigned data use
We adhere to the principle of assigned use of personal data. We collect, process and store your personal data only for the purposes for which you have communicated to us and/or to which you have agreed.
We will not disclose your personal data to third parties without your express consent, unless this is necessary to provide the service or fulfil the agreement. Any disclosure of information to government institutions or authorities entitled to receive this information is only done within the scope of our statutory obligations or if we are required to provide this information as per court ruling.
3. collection, processing and
use of personal data
You may visit our Website without providing information about you. Generally, zinnobergruen collects, processes and uses personal data only insofar as the GDPR or other legal regulation allows or requires this to be done, or if you have consented to this as a user or visitor to our website.
For technical reasons, it should be noted that communication via the Internet requires certain data to always be transmitted from your computer or smartphone to us. This includes the date and time you accessed our web pages, your browser type, browser settings and operating system, the last page you visited, and the volume of data transferred.
3.1. hosting
Data are also processed by a third-party provider that we have engaged to render hosting and website presentation services on our behalf. This provider processes on its servers all data that are collected in the manner specified below when you visit our website or fill in forms made available for this purpose in our online shop. Data are processed on other servers only in the scope described herein.
This service provider is based in an EU or EEA member state.
3.2 data collection and use for
processing the contract
Personal data will only be stored in case you provide us with the data voluntarily in connection with the participation in the best architects award, in connection with your book order or in connection with your registration for our newsletter.
Mandatory fields are marked as such because we absolutely need those data to perform the contract or process your contact request or for participate in the award, and you would otherwise not be able to complete your order and/or participate in the award or send the contact request. It is evident in each input form what data are collected. We use the data that you disclose to us to perform the contract and process your enquiries according to art. 6 (1) 1 lit b GDPR.
3.3 book order
During the online book ordering process on www.bestarchitects.de or by email, necessary customer information such as company, name, invoice and delivery address, email address and payment details (e.g. credit card details) is collected and used to process the order.
Disclosure of Personal Data
Insofar as this is necessary, we pass on personal data to companies that we use in connection with data processing in compliance with data protection regulations. For book orders, we will send the data required to process your order to the following data processor: Stuttgarter Verlagskontor SVK GmbH, Rotebühlstr. 77, 70178 Stuttgart, Germany.
This company handles the delivery, the invoicing and the fulfillment of taxation obligations on our behalf.
Upon complete performance of the contract and full payment of the purchase price, your personal data will be blocked from further usage and erased upon expiry of the retention periods stipulated by applicable tax and commercial law provisions, provided that you have not expressly agreed to the further use of your data.
Data Security during the ordering process
During the ordering process, your personal data will be transmitted via the internet by means of SSL/TLS. Credit card information is not stored but acquired and processed directly by our payment service provider. We use technological and organizational means to protect our Website and further systems and prevent unauthorized persons from losing, destroying, accessing, tampering or disseminating your personal data.
4. use of cookies
On several of our pages we use so-called cookies in order to make the visit to our Website attractive and enable the use of certain functions. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your computer when visiting our Website and which give us information about your current settings and use of the Website. Most of the cookies are only used to be able to use our Website and will be deleted on your hard disk after the end of the browser-session, i.e. closing your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies will remain on your hard disk and will enable us to recognize your browser during your next visit (so-called persistent cookies). You may delete any and all cookies stored on your computer at any time.
You may set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie and decide to accept these on a case-by-case or to reject cookies either in certain situations or in general. If cookies are rejected, the functionality of our Website may be restricted.
5. newsletter
If you register for our newsletter you will be asked to provide your valid email address and a separate consent to receive new information in connection with the best architects award at irregular intervals. Your email address collected in this connection will only be used for this purpose pursuant to art. 6 para 1 sub. 2 lit. a GDPR. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. You may do so either by sending an email to [mail@bestarchitects.de] or by clicking on the Opt-Out link in each of our newsletters. Upon receiving your revocation of your consent, we will immediately delete your email address.
6. integration of
social media
We use links to social networks like Twitter and Facebook on some pages of our website. When you access this websites, no datas from your browser will be transmitted to this networks. By clicking on the relevant buttons, you will get access to the Twitter or Facebook networks where you can share our content.
7. google analytics
This website is using functions of the web analytics service Google Analytics. Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, is the provider of this service. Google Analytics is using so-called »cookies« (see above 4.). The information about your use of this website created by the cookie is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA where it is stored. Google Ana »IP Masking«, i.e. your IP address will be shortened within member countries of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before it is transmitted to the USA. The full IP address will only be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there in exceptional cases. On behalf of the provider of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the webpage in order to compile a report about the website activities and to provide further services to the website provider in connection with the website use and internet use. The IP address transmitted from your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.
You may prevent the storing of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings of your browser software; however, we would like to point out that if you do so you may not be able to make full use of all functions on this website. Further, you may prevent the collection of the data about your use of the website (incl. your IP address) which is generated by the cookie to Google as well as the processing of such data by Google by downloading and installing the available browser Plugin under the following link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
For further information about Google Analytics go to http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.
8. your rights
You are entitled to [1] request information about all data we store about you (art. 15 GDPR), [2] request the correction of incorrect data (art. 16 GDPR), [3] rquest the deletion (art. 17 GDPR) or [4] request the blocking or restriction of the processing of such data (art. 18 GDPR). In accordance with art. 21 GDPR you are further entitled to object to the processing of your data on compelling legitimate grounds relating to your situation and provided that it is data which we process to safeguard our interests. Furthermore, you are entitled to a right of appeal pursuant to art. 77 GDPR if you are of the opinion that we are not processing personal data in accordance with applicable law.