Privacy Policy

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection declaration.

As a rule, our website can be used without providing personal data. Insofar as personal data (e.g. name, address or e-mail addresses) is collected on our pages, this is always done on a voluntary basis as far as possible. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent.
Nevertheless, Internet-based data transmissions (e.g. the sending of e-mails) can in principle have security gaps, so that absolute protection cannot be guaranteed.

In this respect, the following regulations inform you about the type, scope and purpose of the collection, use and processing of personal data:

COMPOSTELLA GmbH
Auf der Oberwiese 7
63679 Schotten-Rainrod
Germany

Phone: +49 640 5 – 9 01 55
Fax: +49 64 05 – 9 01 56
E-Mail: info@compostella-online.de

Authorized representative managing director:
Jens Vonderheid

Collection and use of data for system-internal & statistical purposes

For technical reasons, your Internet browser automatically transmits data to our server when you access our website. This includes the date and time of access, URL (address) of the referring website, file(s) accessed, pages viewed, length of visit, amount of data sent, browser type and version, operating system and your IP address. This data is stored separately from other data that you enter when using our website. It is not possible for us to assign this data to a specific person. The data do not contain any information that allows conclusions to be drawn about individuals. They are collected and used exclusively for statistical purposes as well as for analysis purposes, such as improving the offer, and then deleted.

Collection and use of personal data
Personal data (e.g. name, e-mail address) will only be collected and used by us if you enter this data in an input field or by e-mail for the purpose of making an enquiry to us or making use of a service or offer and send it to us or if you have expressly consented to the collection and use of this data. These entries are voluntary for you. Your personal data will only be used for the intended purpose (e.g. to answer your enquiry or to process your order and contract).

Inventory data
If a contractual relationship is to be established between you and us, or if its content is to be modified or amended, we will collect and use your personal data to the extent necessary to achieve these purposes.
By order of the responsible authorities, we may in individual cases provide information about this data (inventory data), insofar as this is necessary for the purposes of criminal prosecution, for averting danger, for fulfilling the statutory duties of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution or the Military Counter-Intelligence Service or for enforcing intellectual property rights.

Usage data

We collect and use personal data from you to the extent necessary to enable or bill for the use of our website (usage data). This includes, in particular, characteristics for your identification and information on the beginning and end as well as the scope of use of our offer.
For the purposes of advertising, market research and the needs-based design of our Internet offering, we may use pseudonyms to create user profiles. You have the right to object to this use of your data at any time. The user profiles may not and will not be combined with data about the bearer of the pseudonym.

For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can view, change or delete their personal information at any time (the user name cannot be changed). Website administrators may also view and change this information.

Passing on personal data to third parties
Your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties, unless the disclosure would be necessary for the purpose of contract processing – e.g. the disclosure of order data to suppliers – or for billing purposes, or you have previously expressly consented.

Right of withdrawal

You have the right to revoke your consent to the collection and use of personal data at any time with effect for the future. You can contact us by post or by e-mail at info@compostella-online.de for this purpose.

Right to information
You have the right to request information free of charge about the data stored about you or your pseudonym. Upon your request, the information can also be provided electronically. You can contact us by post or by e-mail at info@compostella-online.de for this purpose.

Correction, blocking and deletion of data


You may have the right to request that your personal data be corrected, blocked or deleted free of charge. The stored personal data will be deleted if you revoke your consent to their storage, if their knowledge is no longer necessary to fulfil the purpose for which they were stored, or if their storage is or becomes inadmissible for other legal reasons.

Cookies

When individual pages are called up, so-called cookies are used to facilitate navigation. These are small text files that are stored on your end device (PC, Smartphone, etc.). The cookies on our website do not collect any personal data about you and are completely anonymous. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e. after closing your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and enable us or our partner companies to recognize your browser on your next visit (permanent cookies).
You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly, either by excluding the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or generally, or by deciding in individual cases whether to accept a cookie. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent.

Using the analysis tool 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 analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, if IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google in advance 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 where it will be shortened. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate 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 is not combined with other data from Google. 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 related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and Google from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en).

Further information on the terms of use and data protection can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or at http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html.
We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code “gat._anonymizeIp();” in order to guarantee an anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

Embedded content from other websites
Contributions on this website may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, images, contributions etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These sites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking services from third parties, and record your interaction with that embedded content, including your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged on to that site.

Right to information, deletion, blocking

If you have any further questions on the subject of “data protection”, please contact our company’s data protection officer. If you have an account on this website, you can request an export of your personal information from us, including any information you have provided to us. In addition, you can request the deletion of any personal information we have about you. This does not include data that we are required to retain for administrative, legal or security reasons.

Objection to the commercial use of our contact data

The use of published postal addresses, telephone or fax numbers and email addresses for marketing purposes is prohibited, offenders sending unwanted spam messages will be punished. We will not be liable for any postings or messages published by users of discussion boards, guestbooks or mailinglists provided on this page. We expressly reserve the right to take legal action against senders of so-called SPAM mails who violate this prohibition. The service provider and all persons named on this website hereby object to any commercial use and disclosure of their data.