Privacy

Privacy Policy

PP-Performance GmbH operates this website to provide its offerings. As part of this purpose, data, including personal data in certain cases, is collected and processed as follows:

Responsible Entity & Data Protection Contact

PP-Performance GmbH 
Herrenwiesenstrasse 41
97980 Bad Mergentheim 
Germany 

Managing Director: Przemyslaw Pelka 
District Court of Ulm

Collection, Processing, and Use of Personal Data

You can visit our site without providing personal information. We only store access data without personal reference, such as: – the name of your Internet service provider – the page from which you visit us – the name of the requested file
This data is evaluated exclusively to improve our offer and does not allow any conclusions about your person.

When is Data Collected?

We collect data solely for the purpose of conducting our business activities or to provide information upon prior consent from our website visitors. It is generally possible to use the website without providing personal data. Should personal data be collected, it will only be collected, requested, and processed to the extent necessary to provide the services.

Collection of Information

When accessing our website, general information is automatically collected. This information generally does not allow conclusions to be drawn about the individual. These data include, among other things, the device used, the web browser used, the operating system, and other similar operational data.

Processing of Personal Data

When using certain services on our website, data such as first and last name, address, phone number, or email address may be collected. This is particularly necessary for inquiries related to our services so that our staff can establish contact. These data are protected using all necessary organizational and technical security measures to prevent misuse. This includes the use of up-to-date software, pseudonymization measures, or encryption during data transfer via HTTPS (SSL certificate). Only those employees who require access to the data will have access. All employees are trained once and periodically on the requirements of GDPR compliance.

Right to Withdraw, Amend, Correct, and Update

The user has the right to request information free of charge regarding the personal data stored about them. Additionally, the user has the right to correct incorrect data, block, or delete their personal data unless there is a legal obligation to retain the data.

Contact Data in Business Transactions

In the course of initiating business and handling transactions with our customers, we store contact data, contract data, billing data, and correspondence. Legal basis: For existing customers, processing is necessary to fulfill the contract or pre-contractual measures.

For potential customers, we rely on the legal basis of legitimate interest in initiating business.

Regarding billing for services, we are obliged under the Federal Tax Code (BAO), the Commercial Code (HGB), and the Value Added Tax Act (UStG) to retain data for tax calculation, tax correction, and our bookkeeping obligations. Without providing your data, we cannot comply with our obligations. Retention periods: We store the data of existing customers as long as the business relationship is active. After termination, we retain the contact data for a maximum of three years.

All billing data will be stored according to the legally required retention periods (usually for 7 years) and will be deleted or anonymized afterward. Recipients: Beyond our internally authorized staff, only billing data is shared with our tax consultants (and thus with third parties).

Access Data and Logfiles (Server)

Our website is hosted on a server provided by Strato, which also provides our email server. Each time our website is accessed, the service provider collects so-called server logfiles. This includes the name of the accessed page, date, time, and the requested file. Additionally, transmitted data volumes, browser type, operating system, and the URL of the previously visited page are logged. The data is processed solely for statistical evaluation, but we reserve the right to review log data if there is suspicion of illegal use. For more information on how the provider uses the data, you can refer to https://www.strato.de/faq/.

Facebook Pixel

By accepting our cookies, we use the “Visitor Action Pixel” from Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”) within our online presence. This allows us to track user behavior after they are redirected to our website via a Facebook ad. This helps us evaluate the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes. By using this pixel, we can optimize our advertising engagements. All data collected this way is anonymous for us as website operators. However, if you accept the cookie, you agree that Facebook will store and process your data. Facebook may then use this data for its own advertising purposes.

Google AdWords

We use the remarketing function of Google Inc. on our site. This allows us to address visitors again with ads within the Google Inc. advertising network and draw attention to specific content. If you do not wish to use Google’s remarketing function, you can deactivate it. Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of cookies for interest-based advertising through the Network Advertising Initiative by following the instructions at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. Further information about Google Remarketing and Google’s privacy policy can be found at: http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/.

Embedding Services and Content from Third Parties

It may occur that third-party content, such as videos from YouTube, map material from Google Maps, RSS feeds, or graphics from other websites, is embedded within this online offer. This always requires that the providers of these contents (hereinafter referred to as “Third Parties”) recognize the IP address of the users. Without the IP address, they would not be able to send the content to the user’s browser. Therefore, the IP address is necessary for the display of this content. We make every effort to only use content whose respective providers use the IP address solely for delivering the content. However, we have no influence on whether third parties store the IP address for statistical purposes, for example. If this is known to us, we will inform users accordingly.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of the use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within European Union member states or in other contracting 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 shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activities, and provide other services related to website and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software accordingly; however, we inform you that in this case, you may not be able to fully use all features of this website. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google and the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set, which prevents the future collection of your data when visiting this website: Disable Google Analytics

For more information about terms of use and privacy, visit: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/. Please note that Google Analytics on this website has been extended with the code “anonymizeIp” to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). We also use Google Analytics to evaluate data from AdWords for statistical purposes.

Use of Social Plugins from Facebook and Google+

Our website uses so-called social plugins (“plugins”) from the social networks Facebook and Google+. These services are provided by Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. (“providers”). Facebook is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). Google+ is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). An overview of the plugins and their appearance can be found here:
http://developers.facebook.com/plugins or https://developers.google.com/+/plugins

When you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection with the servers of Google or Facebook. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from the respective provider to your browser and integrated into the page. By integrating the plugins, the providers receive the information that your browser has visited the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a profile with the respective social network or are not logged in at that time. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a server of the respective provider in the USA and stored there.

If you are logged into one of the social networks, the providers can directly assign the visit to our website to your profile on Facebook or Google+. When you interact with the plugins, such as clicking the “Like” button or the “Share” button, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a server of the providers and stored there. The information is also published on the social network and displayed to your contacts.

For information about the purpose and scope of data collection, further processing, and use of the data by the providers, as well as your rights and settings options for protecting your privacy, please refer to the privacy policies of the providers.

Privacy Policy of Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Privacy Policy of Google:
http://www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html

If you do not want Google or Facebook to directly associate the data collected about your visit to our website with your profile in the respective social network, you must log out of the respective network before visiting our website.

You can also completely prevent the loading of plugins by using add-ons for your browser, such as the “Facebook Blocker” (http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/).