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PRIVACY

§ 1 General information

This data protection declaration contains detailed information about what happens to your personal data when you visit our website www.ab-albinus.de. Personal data is all data with which you can personally identify yourself. When processing your data, we strictly adhere to the legal provisions, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), and attach great importance to the fact that your visit to our website is absolutely secure.

§ 2 Responsible body

Responsible under data protection law for the collection and processing of personal data on this website is:

Name: Albinus Architects GmbH

Street, house number: Ringbahnstr. 5
Zip Code, City: 10711
Country Germany
Email: info@ab-albinus.de
Phone: 030 60779250

§ 3 Social Media

3.1 Facebook plugins (Like & Share button)

Plugins from the social network Facebook, provider Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA, are integrated on our website ("Facebook"). You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like button” (“Like”) on our website. You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=de_DE.

In order to increase the protection of your data when you visit our website, the Facebook plugins are not unrestricted, but only integrated into the page using an HTML link (so-called "Shariff" solution from c't). This integration ensures that when you visit a page on our website that contains such plugins, no connection to the Facebook servers is established. Only when you click on the Facebook button does a new window in your browser open and call up the Facebook page where you can click the Like or Share button.  

‌Information about the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in Facebook's data protection declaration at: https://de-de.facebook.com/privacy /explanation.

3.1 Google+ Plugin

 

Our website uses Google+ social plugins from Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). The plugins can be recognized, for example, by buttons with the sign "+1" on a white or colored background. An overview of the Google plugins and their appearance can be found here: https://developers.google.com/+/plugins

In order to increase the protection of your data when you visit our website, the Google+ plugins are not unrestricted, but only integrated into the page using an HTML link (so-called "Shariff" solution from c't). This integration ensures that when you visit a page on our website that contains such plugins, no connection to the Google servers is established. Only when you click on the Google+ button does a new window open in your browser and call up the Google website.

Information about the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Google as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in Google's data protection declaration: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl= en.

3.3 Instagram Plugin

Functions of the Instagram service are integrated on our website. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA ("Instagram"). The plugins are marked with an Instagram logo, for example in the form of an “Instagram camera”. You can find an overview of the Instagram plugins and their appearance here: http://blog.instagram.com/post/36222022872/introducing-instagram-badges  

In order to increase the protection of your data when you visit our website, the Instagram plugins are not unrestricted, but only integrated into the page using an HTML link (so-called "Shariff" solution from c't). This integration ensures that when you visit a page on our website that contains such plugins, no connection to the Instagram servers is established. Only when you click on the Instagram button does a new window in your browser open and call up the Instagram page.  

‌Information about the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Instagram as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in Instagram's data protection declaration at: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy /.

3.4 LinkedIn Plugin

Our website uses functions of the LinkedIn network. The provider is the LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("LinkedIn").

In order to increase the protection of your data when you visit our website, the LinkedIn plugins are not unrestricted, but only integrated into the page using an HTML link (so-called "Shariff" solution from c't). This integration ensures that when you visit a page on our website that contains such plugins, no connection to the LinkedIn servers is established. Only when you click on the LinkedIn button does a new window open in your browser and call up the LinkedIn page.

‌Information about the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by LinkedIn as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in LinkedIn's data protection declaration at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy -policy.

3.5 XING plugin

Our website uses functions of the XING network. The provider is XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany ("XING").

In order to increase the protection of your data when you visit our website, the XING plugins are not unrestricted, but merely integrated into the page using an HTML link (so-called "Shariff" solution from c't). This integration ensures that a connection to the XING servers is not yet established when a page of our website containing such plugins is called up. Only when you click on the XING button does a new window in your browser open and call up the XING page on which you can click on the share button.

Further information on data protection and the XING Share button can be found in the XING data protection declaration at: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection

 

§ 4 Google Maps

 

Our website uses the Google Maps map service provided by Google via an API (Application Programming Interface).

To ensure data protection on our website, Google Maps is deactivated when you first enter our website. A direct connection to the Google servers is only established if you activate Google Maps yourself (consent according to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). This prevents your data from being transmitted to Google the first time you enter our website.

After activation, Google Maps will save your IP address. This is then usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer after the activation of Google Maps.

You can find more information on handling user data in Google's data protection declaration: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

 

§ 5 contact form

If you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data transmitted, including your contact details, will be stored in order to be able to process your request or to be available for follow-up questions. This data will not be passed on without your consent.

 

The data entered in the contact form is processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR). You can revoke your consent that you have already given at any time. An informal message by e-mail is sufficient for the revocation. The legality of the data processing operations that took place up until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

 

Data transmitted via the contact form will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or there is no longer any need for data storage. Mandatory legal provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.

§ 6 Use and transfer of data

We will neither sell to third parties nor market in any other way the personal data that you give us, for example by e-mail (eg your name and address or your e-mail address). Your personal data will only be processed for correspondence with you and only for the purpose for which you have made the data available to us. In order to process payments, we pass on your payment data to the credit institution commissioned with the payment.


The use of data that is automatically collected when you visit our website is only for the purposes mentioned above. Any other use of the data does not take place.

We assure you that we will not pass on your personal data to third parties unless we are legally obliged to do so or you have given us your prior consent.

§ 7 SSL or TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as inquiries that you send to us as the site operator, our website uses an SSL or. TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

§ 8 Duration of storage

Personal data that has been communicated to us via our website will only be stored until the purpose for which it was entrusted to us has been fulfilled. Insofar as commercial and tax law retention periods have to be observed, the storage period for certain data can be up to 10 years.

 

§ 9 Rights of data subjects

With regard to the personal data concerning you, as the person affected by the data processing, you have the following rights vis-à-vis the person responsible in accordance with the statutory provisions:

9.1 Right of Withdrawal

 

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. If the processing of your data is based on your consent, you have the right to revoke your consent to the processing of data in accordance with Art. 7 Para. 3 DSGVO at any time with effect for the future. The revocation of the consent does not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent up to the point of revocation. Storage of the data for billing and accounting purposes remains unaffected by a revocation.

 

9.2 Right to Information

You have the right, in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, to request confirmation from us as to whether we are processing personal data relating to you. If such processing takes place, you have the right to information about your personal data processed by us, the processing purposes, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data was or will be disclosed, the planned storage period or The criteria for determining the storage period, the existence of a right to correction, deletion, restriction of processing, objection to processing, complaint to a supervisory authority, the origin of your data if they were not collected from you by us, the existence of a Automated decision-making including profiling and, if necessary, meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing on you, as well as your right to information about the guarantees according to Art. 46 DSGVO when your data is forwarded to third countries stand.

9.3 Right to Rectification

 

You have the right, in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to request the immediate correction of incorrect personal data concerning you and/or the completion of your incomplete data at any time.

9.4 Right to erasure

 

You have the right, in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, to request the deletion of your personal data if one of the following reasons applies:

However, this right does not exist if the processing is necessary: 

If we have made your personal data public and we are obliged to delete them according to the above, we will take appropriate measures, including technical measures, taking into account the available technology and the implementation costs, to inform those responsible for data processing who process the personal data that you, as the data subject, have requested them to delete all links to your personal data or copies or replications of this personal data.

  1. Your personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed;

  2. You revoke your consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR and there is no other legal basis for the processing;

  3. You object to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 (1) GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate reasons for the processing, or you object to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 (2) GDPR;

  4. the personal data have been unlawfully processed;

  5. Erasure of the personal data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the Member State to which we are subject;

  6. The personal data was collected in relation to information society services offered in accordance with Art. 8 Para. 1 GDPR;

  7. to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information;

  8. to fulfill a legal obligation that requires processing under Union or Member State law to which we are subject, or to perform a task that is in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority that has been delegated to us;

  9. for reasons of public interest in the field of public health in accordance with Article 9 (2) lit. h and i and Article 9 (3) GDPR;

  10. for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes pursuant to Art. 89 Para
    to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

9.5 Right to Restriction of Processing
 

You have the right, in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, to request the restriction of processing (blocking) of your personal data. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, this data - apart from its storage - may only be used with your consent or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or to protect the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or a Member State are processed.

  1. If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we usually need time to check this. For the duration of the examination, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. 

  2. If the processing of your personal data happened/is happening unlawfully, you can request the restriction of data processing instead of deletion. 

  3. If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it to exercise, defend or assert legal claims, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted instead of being deleted. 

  4. If you have lodged an objection in accordance with Art. 21 (1) GDPR, your interests and ours must be weighed up. As long as it has not yet been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to demand that the processing of your personal data be restricted.

 

9.6 Right to Information
 

If you have asserted the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing against us, we are obliged to notify all recipients to whom your personal data has been disclosed of this rectification or erasure of data or restriction of processing, unless this proves to be the case as impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. According to Art. 19 GDPR, you have the right to be informed about these recipients upon request.

 

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9.7 Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling
 

According to Art. 22 GDPR, you have the right not to be subject to a decision based exclusively on automated processing - including profiling - which has legal effect on you or significantly affects you in a similar way.

This does not apply if the decision

  •   a. for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between you and us        is required,

  • b. is permissible on the basis of legal regulations of the Union and the member states to which the person responsible is subject and these legal regulations contain appropriate measures to protect your rights and freedoms as well as your legitimate interests or

  • c. takes place with your express consent.  

 

However, the decisions in the cases mentioned in (a) to (c) may not be based on special categories of personal data according to Art. 9 (1) GDPR, unless Art. 9 (2) lit. a or lit. g applies and appropriate Measures have been taken to protect your rights and freedoms and your legitimate interests.

In the cases referred to in (a) and (c), we will take appropriate measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, including at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express your point of view and to challenge the decision. ​

 

9.8 Right to Data Portability
 

If the processing is based on your consent in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter a GDPR or Article 9 Paragraph 2 Letter a GDPR or on a contract in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter b GDPR and is carried out using automated procedures , you have the right, in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format and to transmit it to another person responsible or to request transmission to another person responsible, insofar as this is technically is feasible.

9.9 Right to Object
 

Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balancing of interests pursuant to Article 6 Paragraph 1 lit. f GDPR, you have the right at any time to object to the processing of your personal data for reasons arising from your particular situation; this also applies to profiling based on this provision. The respective legal basis on which processing is based can be found in this data protection declaration. If you object, we will no longer process your affected personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims ( Objection according to Art. 21 Para. 1 GDPR).

If your personal data is processed in order to operate direct advertising, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of such advertising; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with such direct advertising. If you object, your personal data will then no longer be used for direct advertising purposes (objection according to Art. 21 Para. 2 GDPR).

In connection with the use of information society services, you have the option - notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC - to exercise your right to object by means of automated procedures that use technical specifications.

9.10 Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR

  • In the event of violations of the GDPR, those affected have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, their place of work or the place of the alleged violation. The right to lodge a complaint is without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy.

    The supervisory authority responsible for us is:

    Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information

    Friedrichstr. 219
    10969 Berlin

    Visitor entrance: Puttkamer Straße 16 - 18 (5th floor)

    Telephone: 030/138 89-0
    Email: mailbox@datenschutz-berlin.de
    Internet: https://www.datenschutz-berlin.de

§ 10 Validity and changes to this data protection declaration

This data protection declaration applies from March 21, 2022. We reserve the right to change this data protection declaration at any time in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations. This may be necessary, for example, to comply with new legal provisions or to take account of changes to our website or new services on our website. The version available at the time of your visit applies.

 

Should this privacy statement change, we intend to post changes to our privacy statement on this page so that you are fully informed about what personal information we collect, how we process it, and under what circumstances it may be disclosed.

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