PRIVACY POLICY

 

1.1. We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. Below, we will inform you about how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data refers to any information that can identify you personally.

 

1.2. The entity responsible for data processing on this website in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Feller & Gold GmbH, Sonnenweg 131, 60529 Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland, Phone: 0151 149 057 03, E-Mail: hello@feller-gold.com.

2.2. For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g., orders or inquiries to the controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the string ‘https://’ and the padlock symbol in your browser’s address bar.

 

To make your visit to our website appealing and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, which are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted after you close your browser (so-called ‘session cookies’), while others remain on your device for longer and allow the storage of page settings (so-called ‘persistent cookies’). In the latter case, you can find the storage duration in the overview of the cookie settings of your web browser. If personal data is processed by individual cookies used by us, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. b GDPR either for the performance of the contract, in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. a GDPR in the case of granted consent, or in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website as well as a customer-friendly and effective design of the website visit. You can set your browser to notify you about the setting of cookies and individually decide whether to accept them, or you can exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

 

As part of contacting us (e.g., via contact form or email), personal data is collected. The data collected when using a contact form is evident from the respective contact form. This data is exclusively stored and used for the purpose of responding to your inquiry or for contacting you and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiry in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, an additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted after final processing of your request. This is the case when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter concerned has been conclusively clarified and provided that no legal retention obligations oppose this.

 

 

To protect site visitors, Matomo uses a so-called ‘config_id’ to enable various analyses of page usage within a short time window of up to 24 hours. The ‘config_id’ of the pages is a randomly set, time-limited hash of a limited set of visitor settings and attributes. The config_id or config hash is a string calculated for a visitor based on their operating system, browser, browser plugins, IP address, and browser language. Matomo does not use device fingerprinting and uses an anonymised IP address of the page visitor for the creation of the ‘config_id’. If the information processed in this way includes personal user data, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in the statistical analysis of user behavior for optimization and marketing purposes. To object to the processing of your visitor data in the future, we provide a separate option for objection on our website. We have concluded an order processing contract with the provider, which ensures the protection of the data of our website visitors and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties. If data collected using Matomo technology (including your pseudonymised IP address) is transferred to Matomo servers in New Zealand and processed for usage analysis purposes, we hereby inform you that the European Commission has issued a so-called adequacy decision for New Zealand, which certifies compliance with European data protection standards for international data transfers. If data is also transferred to the provider’s servers and the web analytics service has not been installed locally on our server, we have entered into a data processing agreement with the provider, ensuring the protection of data of our site visitors and prohibiting unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

 

This website uses a so-called ‘Cookie Consent Tool’ to obtain effective user consents for consent-required cookies and cookie-based applications. The ‘Cookie Consent Tool’ is presented to users upon page visit in the form of an interactive user interface, where consents for specific cookies and/or cookie-based applications can be given by checking boxes. Through the use of the tool, all consent-required cookies/services are only loaded if the respective user provides consent by checking the boxes. This ensures that such cookies are only set on the user’s respective device if consent has been granted. The tool sets technically necessary cookies to save your cookie preferences. Personal user data is not processed in this process. In individual cases, if personal data (such as the IP address) is processed for the purpose of storing, assigning, or logging cookie settings, this processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in a legally compliant, user-specific, and user-friendly consent management for cookies, and thus in a legally compliant design of our website. Another legal basis for processing is also Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. c GDPR. As controllers, we are subject to the legal obligation to make the use of technically unnecessary cookies dependent on the respective user’s consent. If necessary, we have entered into a data processing agreement with the provider, ensuring the protection of data of our site visitors and prohibiting unauthorized disclosure to third parties. Further information about the operator and the settings options of the Cookie Consent Tool can be found directly in the corresponding user interface on our website.

 

If we process your personal data as part of a balancing of interests on the basis of our overriding legitimate interest, you have the right to object to this processing at any time with effect for the future on grounds relating to your particular situation. If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the data concerned. However, we reserve the right to continue processing if we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, fundamental rights, and freedoms, or if the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims. If your personal data is processed by us for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such marketing. You can exercise your objection as described above. If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the data concerned for direct marketing purposes.

 

The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing, and – if applicable – additionally by the respective legal retention period (e.g., commercial and tax retention periods). When processing personal data based on explicit consent according to Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. a GDPR, these data will be stored until the data subject revokes their consent. If there are legal retention periods for data processed in the context of contractual or contract-like obligations based on Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. b GDPR, these data will be routinely deleted after the retention periods have expired, provided they are no longer required for contract performance or initiation and/or there is no longer a legitimate interest on our part in retaining them. When processing personal data based on Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR, these data will be stored until the data subject exercises their right to object under Art. 21 Par. 1 GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override the interests, rights, and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims. When processing personal data for the purpose of direct marketing based on Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR, these data will be stored until the data subject exercises their right to object under Art. 21 Par. 2 GDPR. Unless otherwise specified in the other information provided in this statement about specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.

 

This privacy policy applies to the following social media pages

We maintain publicly accessible profiles on social networks. The individual social networks we use are listed below. Social networks such as LinkedIn can generally analyse your user behaviour comprehensively when you visit their website or a website with integrated social media content (e.g. like buttons or advertising banners). Visiting our social media presences triggers a variety of data processing operations. Below we provide you with an overview of which of your personal data we collect, use and store when you visit our profiles.

 

When you visit our profiles, your personal data is not only collected, used, and stored by us, but also by the operators of the respective social network. This occurs regardless of whether you are logged into your social network account or not, or even if you do not have a profile in the respective social network yourself. With the help of the data collected in this way, the operators of the respective social network can create user profiles in which your preferences and interests are stored. In this way, interest-based advertising can be displayed to you both within and outside of the respective social network. If you have an account with the respective social network, interest-based advertising may be displayed on all devices where you are logged in or have been logged in.

 

Please note that the individual data processing operations and their scope are not necessarily traceable to us. These vary depending on the operator of the respective social network. For details about the collection and storage of your personal data, as well as the nature, scope, and purpose of its use by the operator of the respective social network, please refer to the terms of use and privacy policies of the respective operator.

 

The data processing within the scope of our social networks is intended to improve the user experience when visiting our fan pages in line with the target group and to ensure the most comprehensive presence possible on the Internet. The legal basis for data processing is therefore a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR. The analysis processes initiated by the social networks may be based on different legal bases, which must be specified by the operators of the social networks (e.g. consent within the meaning of Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. a GDPR).

 

If you visit one of our social networks (e.g., LinkedIn), we, together with the operator of the respective social network, are responsible for the data processing operations triggered during this visit. You can generally exercise your rights (access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and complaint) both with us and with the operator of the respective social network (e.g., with LinkedIn). Please note that despite our joint responsibility with the social media platform operators, we do not have full control over the data processing operations of the respective social network. Our options are largely determined by the corporate policies of the respective provider.

 

The data directly collected by us through the social networks will be deleted from our systems once you request deletion, revoke your consent for storage, or the purpose for data storage no longer exists. Stored cookies remain on your device until you delete them. Mandatory legal provisions – especially retention periods – remain unaffected. We have no influence on the storage duration of your data, which is stored by the operators of the social networks for their own purposes. For details on this, please refer directly to the operators of the social networks (e.g., in their privacy policy, see below).

 

As a person affected by data processing, you have the following rights: 

We have a profile on LinkedIn. The provider is LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland. LinkedIn utilises advertising cookies.

 

If you wish to deactivate LinkedIn advertising cookies, please use the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.

The data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/dpa and https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/eu-sccs. Details on how they handle your personal data can be found in LinkedIn’s privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

 

Status: 12. March 2024