Data Protection Declaration

We will inform you in accordance with the legal requirements of data privacy laws (especially according to BDSG and the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR) on the nature, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data by our company. This Data protection declaration also applies to our websites and social media profiles. Regarding the definition of terms such as "personal data" or "processing", we refer to article 4 GDPR.
Name and contact details of the responsible person
Our responsible person (hereinafter "responsible") i.S.d. article 4 number 7 GDPR is:

E-mail address: plob@plob.eu

Data types, purposes of processing and categories of persons concerned

Below we inform you about the nature, scope and purpose of collecting, processing and using personal data.

1. Types of data we process:

Usage data (access times, websites visited, etc.), inventory data (name, address, etc.), contact details (telephone number, e-mail, fax, etc.), content data (text entries, videos, photos, etc.), communication data (IP address, etc.),

2. purposes of processing by art. 13 para. 1 c) GDPR

Revidence purposes / preservation of evidence, website technically and economically optimising, easy access to the website, fulfilment of contractual obligations, contacting third parties in case of legal complaint, fulfilling legal retention obligations, optimising and statistical evaluation of our services, supporting commercial use of the website, improving user experience, making the website user-friendly, marketing/ advertising, compiling statistics, determining copy probability of texts, avoiding SPAM and misuse, customer service and customer care, handling contact requests, providing websites with functions and conten t, Categories of persons affected by art. 13 para. 1 e) GDPR visitors/users of the website; The persons concerned are collectively referred to as "users."

Legal basis for processing personal data

In the following we inform you about the legal basis for the processing of personal data:
1. If we have obtained your consent for the processing of your personal data, art. 6 Abs. 1 p. 1 lit. A) DS-GMO legal basis.
2. If the processing is necessary to fulfil a contract or to carry out pre-contractual measures which are carried out on your request, art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b) GDPR is the legal basis.
3. Is the processing required to comply with a legal obligation which we are subject to (e.g. statutory retention obligations), art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c) GDPR ist the legal basis.
4. If the processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the person concerned or of another natural person, then art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. d) GDPR is the legal basis.
5. If processing is necessary to safeguard our or the legitimate interests of a third party and does not outweigh its interests or fundamental rights and fundamental freedoms, art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR is the legal basis.

Transfer of personal data to third parties and processors

Without your consent, we generally do not pass on any data to third parties. If this is the case, then the transfer will take place on the basis of the aforementioned legal bases e.g. when the transfer of data to online payment providers for the performance of the contract or on the basis of a court order or due to a legal obligation to hand over the data for the purpose of law enforcement, security or enforcement of the rights to the intellectual property. We also set up processors (external service providers, e.g. web hosting of our websites and databases) for the processing of your data. If data is passed on to the processors as part of an order Processing agreement, this is always done in accordance with art. 28 GDPR. We carefully select our processors, check them regularly and have given us a right of instruction regarding the data. In addition, processors must have taken appropriate technical and organisational measures and comply with the data protection of BDSG n.F. and comply with GPDR.

Transfer of data to third countries

The adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR) has created a uniform basis for data protection in Europe. Your data will therefore be processed primarily by companies for which GDPR applied. However, should processing be carried out by third-party services outside the European Union or the European Economic Area, these must be in conformity with the specific conditions of the art. 44 and following GDPR. This means that processing takes place on the basis of special guarantees, such as the official recognition by the EU Commission of a level of data protection equivalent to the EU, or the observance of officially recognised special contractual obligations, The so-called ' standard contractual clauses '. In the case of US companies, submission to the so-called "Privacy Shield," the EU-US data protection agreement, these prerequisites.

Deletion of data and storage time

Unless expressly stated in this privacy policy, your personal data will be deleted or blocked as soon as the consent given for processing is revoked by you or the purpose for the storage ceases or is omitted or the data are no longer necessary for the purpose, unless their further storage is necessary for the purpose of proof or which are contrary to legal retention obligations. These include, for example, trade-law retention obligations of business letters pursuant to § 257 para. 1 HGB (6 years) as well as tax law retention obligations under § 147 para. 1 AO of documents (10 years). If the mandatory retention period expires, your data will be blocked or deleted unless the storage is still required for the conclusion of the contract or for the fulfillment of the contract.

Existence of automated decision-making

We do not use automatic decision-making or profiling.

Provision of our website and creation of log files

1. If you use our website only informational (i.e. no registration and no other transmission of information), we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data:

IP address;
the user's Internet service provider;
the date and time of retrieval;
browser type;
language and browser version;
content of the retrieval;
time zone;
access status/HTTP status code;
data set;
websites from which the request comes;
Operating system.A storage of this data will not take place together with other personal data.

2. This data serves the purpose of the user-friendly, functional and secure delivery of our website to you with functions and contents as well as their optimization and statistical evaluation.
3. The legal basis for this is our justified interest in the data processing in the above-mentioned purposes according to art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GPDR
4. For security reasons, we store this data in server log files for a storage period of 8 days. Upon expiration of this period, these will be automatically deleted unless we require their storage for evidence in the event of attacks on the server infrastructure or other infringements.

Cookies

1. We use so-called Cookies when you visit our website. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser stores and stores on your computer. When you visit our website again, these cookies provide information to automatically recognize you. Cookies also include the so-called "User IDs" where user information is stored using pseudonymized profiles. We will inform you about this when you call up our website by means of a reference to our data protection declaration about the use of cookies for the aforementioned purposes and how you disagree or prevent their storage ("opt-out").
The following types of cookies are distinguished: • Necessary, essential cookies: Essential cookies are cookies that are absolutely necessary for the operation of the website in order to provide certain functions of the website such as logins, shopping carts or user entries, e.g. regarding the saving of the language of the website.
• Session cookies: Session cookies are used to recognize multiple use of an offer by the same user (e.g. login to determine your login status). When you visit our site again, these cookies provide information to automatically recognize you. The information obtained in this way is used to optimise our offerings and to give you easier access to our site. If you close the browser or log out, the session cookies will be deleted.
• Persistent cookies: These cookies remain stored even after the browser is closed. They are used for the storage of login, range measurement and for marketing purposes. These are automatically deleted after a predetermined duration, which may vary depending on the cookie. In your browser's security settings, you can delete cookies at any time.
• Third-party cookies (third-party cookies especially advertisers): Depending on your preferences, you can configure your browser setting and e.g. refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. However, we would point out that you may not be able to use all functions of this website. Read more about these cookies in the respective third-party privacy statements.
2. Data categories: user data, cookie, user ID (especially pages, device information, access times and IP addresses).
3. Purposes of processing: The purpose of the information obtained in this way is to optimize our web offers technically and economically and to enable you to access our website more easily and securely.
4. Legal bases: If we process your personal data with the help of cookies on the basis of your consent ("opt-in"), then art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. (a) GDPR is the legal basis. Otherwise, we have a legitimate interest in the effective functionality, improvement and economic operation of the site, so in this case art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR is the legal basis. The legal basis is also art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b) GDPR, if the cookies for the initiation of the contract e.g. placed on orders.
5. Storage duration/deletion: The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary for the purpose of its collection. In the case of the collection of data for the provision of the website, this is the case when the respective session is finished.
Cookies are otherwise stored on your computer and transmitted from this to our site. Therefore, as a user, you also have full control over the use of cookies. By changing the settings in your Internet browser, you can disable or restrict the transfer of cookies. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are deactivated for our website, all functions of the website may no longer be fully utilized.
Here you can find information about deleting cookies by browsers: Chrome: https://support. google.com/chrome/answer/95647
Safari: https://supp ort.apple.com/de-at/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Firefox https:// support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-und-website-daten-in-firefox-loschen Internet
Exp lorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-at/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies Micro
soft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/de-at/help/4027947/windows-delete-cookies
6. Opposition and "opt-out": You can generally prevent the storage of cookies on your hard drive, regardless of consent or legal permission, by selecting "Do not accept cookies" in your browser settings. However, this may result in a functional limitation of our offers. You can use third-party cookies for advertising purposes through a so-called Opt-out from this American website (https://optout.aboutads.info) or this European website (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/).

Use of our forum

1. Prerequisite for the use of the forum is the registration via the corresponding online form. You can read the forum without registration and publish posts and topics under a pseudonym if you register. There is no clear name requirement. After registering via the online form in the forum, you will receive a confirmation email to verify your data, with which you can confirm your registration with the click of a mouse ("Double opt-in procedure"). With the activation of your account by the person responsible, the free forum usage contract is concluded (contract conclusion). If you do not confirm your registration at the click of a mouse, your registration will be deleted within 24 hours.
2. If we have activated your account, we will store all activities on the forum, in addition to your login details, in addition to your login details, in particular your public topics and posts, your profile information, your private messages, your signature, your account wall and your reputation to operate the forum. When you publish new topics and posts, we save your IP address with date and time, which we delete after 8 days. The storage serves the legitimate interest of the defense against the use of third parties in the publication of unlawful or untrue content by you. We store your e-mail address and name for the purpose of contacting you in case third parties should object to your content.
3. Legal bases are art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b) and F) GDPR.
4. If your forum account is deleted, your forum posts and topics will remain visible to all readers and can be found via search engines and will be marked "Guest". All other data will be deleted. If you also wish to delete your forum posts and topics, you must inform the person responsible about the above contact details before deleting the account. After the deletion of the account, it is no longer possible to assign and delete the posts.

Contact by contact form / e-mail / fax / post

1. When contacting us via contact form, fax, post or e-mail, your details will be processed for the purpose of processing the contact request.
2. The legal basis for the processing of the data is art if you have given your consent. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. (a) GDPR. The legal basis for the processing of data transmitted in the course of a contact request or e-mail, letter or fax is kind. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR. The responsible has a legitimate interest in the processing and storage of the data in order to be able to answer questions from the users, for the preservation of evidence for reasons of liability and, if necessary, for the protection of the data and to comply with its statutory retention obligations in the case of business letters. If the contact is aimed at the conclusion of a contract, there is an additional legal basis for the processing type. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. (b) GDPR.
3. We may store your information and contact request in our Customer Relationship Management System ("CRM System") or a similar system.
4. The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary to achieve the purpose of its collection. For the personal data from the entry form of the contact form and those sent by e-mail, this is the case when the respective conversation with you is finished. The conversation ends when it is clear from the circumstances that the facts concerned have been clarified. Requests from users who have an account or contract with us, we save until the expiry of two years after the termination of the contract. In the case of statutory archiving obligations, the deletion takes place after its expiry: end of commercial law (6 years) and tax (10 years) retention obligation.
5. You have the option of obtaining consent at any time according to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. (a) withdraw GDPR for the processing of personal data. If you contact us by e-mail, you can object to the storage of personal data at any time.

1. You can subscribe to our newsletter with your voluntary consent by registering your e-mail address. Only this is compulsory. The provision of further data is voluntary and serves only the purpose of a personal address. We use for the registration the "Double opt-in" procedure. After registering with your e-mail, you will receive an e-mail with a confirmation link to confirm your registration. If you click this confirmation link, your e-mail will be included in the newsletter distribution list and stored for the purpose of sending e-mails. If you do not click on the confirmation link within 24 hours, your login details will be blocked and automatically deleted after 30 days.
2. We also log your IP address used when registering, as well as the date and time of the double opt-in (registration and confirmation). The purpose of this storage is to comply with legal requirements regarding the proof of your registration as well as the prevention of misuse with regard to your e-mail.
3. As part of your declaration of consent, the contents (e.g. advertised products/services, offers, advertisements and topics) of the newsletter.
4. When sending the newsletter, we evaluate your user behavior. The newsletters contain so-called "web beacons" or "Tracking pixels" that are accessed when the newsletter is opened. For the evaluations, we link the web beacons with your e-mail address and an individual ID. Links received in the newsletter also contain this ID. The data is collected exclusively pseudonymised, so the IDs are not linked to your other personal data, a direct personal relationship is excluded. With this data we can determine if and when you have opened the newsletter and which links have been clicked in the newsletter. This serves the purpose of optimizing and statistically evaluating our newsletter.
5. The legal basis for sending the newsletter, measuring success and storing the e-mail is your consent in accordance with art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR with § 7 para. 2 Nr. 3 UWG and for the logging of consent type 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. (f) GDPR, as it serves our legitimate interest in legal probative probability.
6. You can object to the tracking at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the end of the newsletter. In this case, however, the newsletter reception would also be terminated. If you disable the display of images in your e-mail software, tracking is also not possible. However, this may have limitations with the functions of the newsletter and included images will not be displayed.
7. You can revoke your consent to the sending of the newsletter at any time. You can exercise the revocation by pressing the unsubscribe link at the end of the newsletter, an e-mail or a message to our contact details above. We will store your data as long as you have subscribed to the newsletter. After unsubscribing, your data will only be stored anonymously for statistical purposes.

Google Analytics

1. We have integrated the website analysis tool "Google Analytics" (service provider: Google Ireland Limited, registration number: 368047, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) on our website.
2. Data categories and description of data processing: user ID, IP address (anonymized). When you visit our website, Google places a cookie on your computer to allow you to analyze the use of our website. We have enabled the IP anonymization "AnonymizeIP", which causes the IP addresses to be processed only truncated. On this website, Google's IP address is therefore shortened in advance within Member States of the European Union or in other contracting States of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address to a server of Google in the USA is transferred and cut there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities and to provide further, related to the use of the Web site and the Internet, To provide services to the person responsible. We have also activated the cross-device analysis of Web site visitors, which is performed with a User ID. The IP address sent as part of Google Analytics from your browser is not merged with other data of Google. Further information on data usage in Google Analytics can be found here: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html (Terms of Use of Analytics), https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de (Information on Data Protection for Analytics) and Google's Privacy Policy https://policies.google.com/privacy.
3. Purpose of processing: The use of Google Analytics serves the purpose of the analysis, optimization and improvement of our website.
4. Legal bases: If you have given your consent ("Opt-in") for the processing of your personal data by means of "Google Analytics" by the third party, then art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. (a) GDPR is the legal basis. The legal basis is also our legitimate interest (the analysis, optimization and improvement of our website) in the data processing by art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR. In the case of services provided in connection with a contract, the tracking and analysis of the user's holding is carried out according to art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b) GDPR in order to be able to offer optimised services for the performance of the contract with the information thus obtained.
5. Storage time: The user IDs sent by us and used with cookies, user IDs (e.g. User-ID) or promotional IDs are automatically deleted after 14 months. The deletion of data whose retention period is reached is done automatically once a month. 6. Data transfer/recipient category: Google, Ireland and USA. The data obtained will be transferred to the USA and stored there. In the event that personal data is transferred to the United States, Google's certification in accordance with the Privacy Shield Agreement (https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework) provides a guarantee that the European data protection law will be respected. We also h
ave an agreement with Google for order processing by art. 28 GDPR. 7. Opt-out: •You can generally prevent cookies from being stored on your hard drive by selecting "Do not accept cookies" in your browser settings. However, this may result in a functional limitation of our offers. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en The click will set an "opt-out" cookie that prevents the collection of your data when you visit this website in the future. This cookie only applies to our website and your current browser and has only existed until you delete your cookies. In this case, you would have to set the cookie again.•You can deactivate cros s-device user analysis in your Google account under "My data > personal data".

Rights of the person concerned

1. Contradiction or revocation against the processing of your data
So that the processing on your consent is based on your consent regarding art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a), art. 7 GDPR, you have the right to revoke your consent at any time. This does not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation.
To the extent that we process your personal data on the balance of interests in accordance with the nature of the interest regarding art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR, you may appeal against the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary in particular to fulfill a contract with you, which is presented by us in the following description of the functions. If you exercise such a contradiction, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified opposition, we examine the situation and will either set the data processing or Adapt or show you our compelling reasons for processing.
You can object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes at any time. The right of objection can be exercised free of charge. You can inform us about your advertising objection at the following contact details:

e-mail address: plob@plob.eu
2. Right to information You have a right to information about your personal data stored by us by type. 15 GDPR. This includes in particular the information about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the origin of your data, if these were not collected directly from you.
3. Right to rectification You have a right to rectification of incorrect or to complete correct data by art. 16 DS GMO.
4. Right to erasure You have a right to delete your data stored by us by type. 17 GDPR, unless statutory or contractual retention periods or other statutory obligations or rights for further storage.
5. Right to restricti onYou have the right to request a restriction in the processing of your personal data if any of the conditions in art. 18 para. 1 lit. (a) until d) GDPR is met:
• If you dispute the accuracy of the personal data concerning you for a period that allows the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
• the processing is unlawful and you are erasing the data reject the personal data and instead request the restriction of the use of the personal data;
• the controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but you use it for the purpose of asserting, exercising or defense of legal claims, or • if you object to the processing in accordance with art. 21 para. 1 GDPR and has not yet established whether the legitimate reasons of the person responsible are prevalent in relation to their reasons.
6. Right to data portability You have a right to data portability by art. 20 GDPR, which means that you can obtain the personal data stored by us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or require the transfer to another person responsible.
7. Right to complain You have a right to complain to a supervisory authority. As a general rule, you may contact the supervisory authority in particular in the Member State of your place of stay, your workplace or the location of the alleged infringement.

Security
In order to protect all personal data transmitted to us and to ensure that the data protection regulations are adhered to by us as well as our external service providers, we have appropriate technical and organisational Safety measures have been taken. For this reason, all data between your browser and our server is transmitted encrypted via a secure SSL connection.
As of: May 17, 2020

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