DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION

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Privacy policy and cookies

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We are pleased about your visit and your interest in our Internet presence. The protection of your personal data is very important to us and is therefore of utmost importance. In the following we would like to inform you about the collection, processing and use of your personal data as well as our use of cookies when you visit our website.

Please be aware that this Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time as new technology is implemented and/or legislation changes. We will draw your attention to this in an appropriate manner. Naturally, we will always take your reasonable interests into account in any changes.

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A. Data protection

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I. Responsible person

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1. The person responsible in accordance with Art. 4 Para. 7 of the EU Basic Data Protection Regulation ("DS-GVO") is
   ALFA Technology GmbH, Alperen Kececioglu, Hauptstraße 75, 73061 Ebersbach a. d. Fils

2. If you have any questions or comments about this privacy policy or about data protection in general, please contact Alperen Kececioglu at alfa-technology@outlook.com

II. General information on the storage period

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As far as in this declaration nothing more concrete is mentioned about the storage of personal data, we will store the data as long as we

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1. they are necessary for the fulfilment of the said purpose, or

2. a legal (e.g. tax or commercial) retention period exists

III. Collection of personal data when visiting our website

1. If you use our website for information purposes only, i.e. if you visit our website only to retrieve information, it is generally not necessary for you to provide personal data. In such a case, we only collect and use the data that your internet browser sends to our server. The following data is collected and used during your visit to our website:

   • (Anonymous) IP address

   • Date and time of access to our website

   • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

   • Content of the request (concrete page)

   • Access status/HTTP status code

   • Amount of data transferred in each case

   • Website from which the request comes

   • Browser

   • Used operating system and its interface

   • Language and version of the browser software

2. The above-mentioned data are technically necessary for us in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S.1 lit. f) DS-GVO in order to guarantee the full functionality and stability of our website. They also serve to protect our data processing systems against unauthorised access. The above-mentioned data is collected exclusively for statistical purposes and is deleted once the above-mentioned purposes no longer apply. The data cannot be assigned to any person and there is no consolidation of this data with other data sources.

IV. Use of plug-ins

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1. Social Media Plug-ins

We use the following social media plug-ins on our website: Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Xing, Pinterest.

a) For reasons of data protection, we have consciously decided against using direct plug-ins from social networks on our website, so that when you call up our website, no data is automatically transferred to the respective social network. Instead, we use the so-called two-click solution. With the help of the two-click solution, you can decide for yourself if and when data is transferred to the providers of the respective social networks. Only when you activate the plug-in and thus give your consent to the data transfer, your browser will establish a direct connection to the server of the respective provider. The content of the respective plug-in is then transmitted directly to your browser by the respective provider and integrated into the page.

b) The mere integration of the plug-ins does not provide the provider with any information that our website has been called up by you. Such information is only provided from the aforementioned activation time of the integrated plug-in. If such activation has been carried out, the plug-in provider receives information that our website was called by you. This applies regardless of whether you have a profile with the plug-in provider or not. If you are logged into your user account with one of the plug-in providers, the plug-in provider can assign your visit to our website to your user account. Data transmitted via the plug-in is linked to any existing accounts and profiles. Furthermore, the providers create user profiles. We have no influence on the collected data and data processing procedures, nor are we aware of the full extent of the data collection, the purposes of processing or the storage periods. We also have no information about the deletion of the collected data by the plug-in provider.

c) The legal basis for the use of the social media plug-ins is Art. 6 Para. 1 S.1 lit. a) DS-GVO based on your consent.

For the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers, as well as your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to the providers' data protection notices.

Addresses of the respective plug-in providers with their data protection information:

Facebook Inc, 1601 S California Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA;

General privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php;

further information on data collection: https://www.facebook.com/help/186325668085084.

Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland;

General Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/;

For more information about Google's use of data and how to exercise your rights: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads;

Setting options for the display of advertisements: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

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2. YouTube

a) We include YouTube videos on our website. The service on de.YouTube.com is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google" or "YouTube"). Google advises that it operates servers around the world, in particular the United States of America. We therefore cannot exclude the possibility that the information may be transferred to a server outside the EU and stored there. Google guarantees in any case to comply with European data protection law. Where data is transferred to branches in the USA, in particular Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (USA), Google refers to the certification under the EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement, https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active. Where data is transferred to other third countries without an adequacy finding by the EU Commission, Google refers to the use of standard contractual clauses to ensure adequate protection of EU citizens' data. For more information about Google's transfers of personal data to third countries, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks.

b) Our website itself does not store videos. The YouTube videos that are accessed are stored at https://www.youtube.com/ and are "embedded" in our website, so that they can be played directly on our website. By playing the video, YouTube receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. This happens regardless of whether you have a YouTube account or not. If you are logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube may associate your visit to our website with your account. We have no influence on the collected data and data processing procedures, nor are we aware of the full extent of the data collection, the purposes of processing or the storage periods. We also have no information about the deletion of the collected data by YouTube.

c) Please contact YouTube directly for an objection to the collected data.

d) The legal basis for the use of YouTube is Art. 6 Para. 1 S.1 lit. a) DS-GVO based on your consent.

Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by YouTube can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/;

Settings options for the provision of advertising can be found at https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

3. Mono Solutions Maps

a) We use the offer MonoMaps on our website. This service is provided by the operator Mono Solutions ApS, Hejrevej 28, 2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark.

b) Mono Solutions Maps is based on the OpenStreetMap, i.e. so-called "Open Data", which is available under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL). OpenStreetMap is operated by the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF), 132 Maney Hill Road, Sut¬ton Cold¬field, West Mid¬lands, B72 1JU, United Kingdom, for the OSM community and provides map material for the locatability of geographic information. The integrated map material is provided by a server of OSFM. There is a collection and storage of data, especially your IP address and other web server log files for statistical analysis. Further statistical evaluations can also be carried out through the additional use of web analysis software, in particular the geographic recording of your location.

c) The legal basis for the use of Mono Maps Solutions is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) DS-GVO. Through the integration of Mono Maps Solutions we offer you the possibility to interact with the OpenStreetMap offer, so that we can improve our offer on our website and make it more interesting for you.

Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by OpenStreetMap is available in the OpenStreetMap privacy policy: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy.

4. Google Fonts

a) On this website we have integrated certain fonts provided by Google for display purposes. When you call up a page, your browser loads these fonts from a Google server. Your IP address including the URL (Internet address) of the website you have visited is transferred to a Google server. If you are logged in to your Google account, you enable Google to assign your surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this under certain circumstances by logging out of your Google Account.

b) Google points out that it operates servers all over the world, in particular in the United States of America. We can therefore not exclude the possibility that the information is transferred to a server outside the EU and stored there. Google guarantees in any case to comply with European data protection law. Where data is transferred to branches in the USA, in particular to Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (USA), Google refers to the certification under the EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement, https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active. Where data is transferred to other third countries without an adequacy finding by the EU Commission, Google refers to the use of standard contractual clauses to ensure adequate protection of EU citizens' data.

For more information about Google's transfers of personal data to third countries, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks.

For more information about these Google fonts, please visit https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and read Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

5. Opinion leader

a) On our website we use the evaluation certificate Meinungsmeister ("Widget"). The operator is GoLocal GmbH & Co. KG Landsberger Straße 94, 80339 Munich, Germany. Meinungsmeister displays in real time the current star average and the collected Meinungsmeister ratings of our company. The content of the widget is transmitted by GoLocal directly to your browser and integrated into the website. To provide the widget's content, your IP address and other technically required data is transferred to GoLocal when you visit our website. GoLocal uses this data exclusively to deliver the content of the widget. There is no link to other data.

b) The transferred IP address is temporarily stored at GoLocal for security purposes (e.g. to intercept or track malicious website crawling) for a maximum of 7 days. Longer storage or evaluation is only carried out on a case-by-case basis if the data is actually required for further verification and/or criminal prosecution. Otherwise, the data will be deleted after 7 days at the latest. A further consolidation with other data does not take place.

c) The legal basis for the use of Meinungsmeister is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f) DS-GVO. Through the integration of Meinungsmeister, we offer you the possibility to interact with the services offered by Meinungsmeister and thus obtain an immediate overview of a rating system. Through this service we improve our website and make it more interesting for you.

For more information on data protection at Meinungsmeister and GoLocal, please click on the following link: https://www.meinungsmeister.de/datenschutz/.

6. Instagram

a) We use the Instagram service on our website. The provider of Instagram is Instagram Inc, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA.

b) By including the so-called "Instagram Button" on our website, Instagram will be informed that you have visited our website. If you have an Instagram account and are logged in to it, Instagram may associate your visit to our website directly with your account and may link information about your visit to our website for statistical analysis and personalized applications. Certain log file information is automatically stored for this purpose, including the advertising request itself, IP address, browser type, referring/exit page and URLs, number of clicks and how you interact with links on the service, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and other such information. Instagram shares the information collected (e.g., cookie information, log files, device IDs, location and usage information) with companies that are or will be legally part of the same group of companies as Instagram ("Affiliated Companies"). Furthermore, the aforementioned data may also be shared with third party organizations that assist Instagram in providing the Service ("Service Provider"). Instagram may also remove portions of data that can identify you and share anonymized data with other parties. In addition, Instagram may combine your information with other information in a manner that makes it unidentifiable to you and may share such combined information.

c) To prevent your visit from being associated with your logged-in Instagram account, you must log out of your Instagram account before visiting our website.

d) The legal basis for the use of Instagram is Art. 6 para. 1 p.1 lit. f) DS-GVO. By integrating Instagram, we offer you the opportunity to interact with the Instagram offering. Through this service we improve our website and make it more interesting for you.

For more information on data protection at Instagram, please click on the following link: https://help.instagram.com/478745558852511.

V. Entry forms and contact information

1. Google reCAPTCHA

a) To protect our input forms we use Google reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA is a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

b) reCAPTCHA enables us to distinguish whether the processing in question is based on a human prompt or an automated machine initiated (so-called "bot"). Through the use of reCAPTCHA, your IP address and other data concerning your usage behaviour are collected and stored by Google. Through the IP-anonymization on our website, your IP address is previously shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA). Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google points out that it operates servers all over the world, in particular in the United States of America. We can therefore not exclude the possibility that the information is transferred to a server outside the EU and stored there. Google guarantees in any case to comply with European data protection law. Where data is transferred to branches in the USA, in particular to Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (USA), Google refers to the certification under the EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement, https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.

Where data is transferred to other third countries without an adequacy finding by the EU Commission, Google refers to the use of standard contractual clauses to ensure adequate protection of EU citizens' data. For more information about Google's transfers of personal data to third countries, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks.

The shortened IP address collected and transmitted to Google will only be merged with other data from Google if you are logged into your Google account at the time of using Google reCAPTCHA. If you do not wish to use Google reCAPTCHA, you must log out of your Google account before you can use it. reCAPTCHA is also used to digitize books, magazines and house numbers and street names from Google Street View.

c) The legal basis for the above-mentioned storage of your data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DS-GVO. We use Google reCAPTCHA to protect against automated machine-initiated prompts in order to guarantee the function and stability of our website.

For further information on Google's data protection, please click on the following link:

Privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/;

Settings options via personalised advertising: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

2. Inquiries by contact form and e-mail

a) Our contact form should give you the opportunity to get in touch with us. We need the following data to process your request: Name, e-mail, telephone number as well as optionally given data in free text. The data you provide will be stored for the periods of time mentioned under II. depending on the content of your inquiry. Depending on the content of the enquiry, the data entered in the contact form will be processed on the basis of your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) DS-GVO or in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) DS-GVO insofar as there are contractual fulfilment obligations or the implementation of pre-contractual measures.

b) It is possible for you to contact us by e-mail. In such a case, we will store your e-mail address and the other data that you have voluntarily provided, depending on the content of your enquiry, for the periods of time specified under II. Depending on the content of the enquiry, the data entered by e-mail will be processed on the basis of your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) DS-GVO or in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) DS-GVO insofar as contractual obligations exist or pre-contractual measures have been implemented.

3. Registration on our website

a) It is possible to register within the framework of our offer. For this purpose, the following data will be transmitted to us in an input mask and stored: first name, last name, e-mail. The data will not be passed on to third parties. The registration serves us to offer you contents or services which, due to the contents and services provided, can only be made available to registered persons. Your transmitted data will be stored during the registration period and, depending on the registration content, will be stored for the periods of time mentioned under II.

b) The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 Para. 1 S.1 lit. a) DS-GVO or, insofar as contractual obligations or the implementation of pre-contractual measures exist, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) DS-GVO.

4. E-Mail Newsletter

a) You have the possibility to subscribe to our free e-mail newsletter with promotional content. To subscribe to the e-mail newsletter we need your e-mail address, your user name, your password, your company name, your profession, your place of residence and your telephone number. We will only send you e-mail newsletters with your consent and the completion of the e-mail newsletter order using the so-called double opt-in procedure. An e-mail newsletter will only be sent to you if you have previously confirmed a sent confirmation e-mail for the e-mail newsletter dispatch via a link contained therein. The registrations for the e-mail newsletter are logged by us to prove the registration process. This includes the storage of the registration and confirmation time as well as your IP address. Decisive for the content and scope of the e-mail newsletter is the concrete description of the respective contents within the scope of the registration process.

b) You can revoke your consent at any time by sending an e-mail to alfa-technology@outlook.com or by clicking on the link "Unsubscribe Newsletter", which you will find at the end of each e-mail newsletter.

c) The legal basis for the above-mentioned storage of your data is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. a) DS-GVO.

VI. your rights

You have the following free rights against us with regard to the personal data concerning you:

Right to information (Art. 15 DS-GVO),

Right of correction or deletion (Art. 16 and 17 DPA),

Right to restrict processing (Art. 18 DPA),

Right to data transferability (Art. 20 DS-GVO),

Right to object to processing (Article 21 DPA).

You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

B. Use of cookies

I. We use cookies when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are sent to your browser by our web server when you visit our website and are stored on your computer for later retrieval. In addition to determining the frequency of use and number of users and analysing the behaviour of our website use, cookies also serve to make our website more user-friendly overall.

II. We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly (so-called "necessary cookies"). Without the use of these cookies, we will not be able to determine the number of unique users on our website or provide you with certain functions. In addition, we also use cookies for our website, which, for example, enable an analysis of surfing behaviour. If cookies other than "necessary cookies" are used, you will find these with further information in the following of our data protection declaration.

III. you can determine whether cookies may be set and retrieved by us by means of appropriate settings in your browser. If you do not wish this, you can deactivate the storage of cookies in your browser, restrict the setting of cookies to selected websites or set your browser to automatically notify you when a cookie is set. We would like to point out that it may be necessary for technical reasons to allow the aforementioned cookies in your browser in order to use the full range of functions of our website.

IV. We use the following third-party cookies:

1. Google Analytics

a) Our website uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

b) Google Analytics sets cookies to enable an analysis of your use of our website. Google points out that it operates servers all over the world, especially in the United States of America. We can therefore not exclude the possibility that the information generated by cookies is transferred to a server outside the EU and stored there. Google guarantees in any case to comply with European data protection law. If data is transferred to branches in the USA, in particular to Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (USA), Google refers to the certification under the EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.

Where data is transferred to other third countries without an adequacy finding by the EU Commission, Google refers to the use of standard contractual clauses to ensure adequate protection of EU citizens' data. For more information about Google's transfers of personal data to third countries, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks.

c) We would like to point out that our website Google Analytics has been extended by the code "anonymizeIp" in order to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP-Masking). By activating IP anonymisation on our website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA) before. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide further services to the website operator in connection with website and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google.

d) This website uses Google Analytics to evaluate data from double-click cookies and also AdWords for statistical purposes. You can deactivate this use via the Ads Preferences Manager at https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/?hl=de.

e) You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de You can also prevent the collection by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie is set which prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this website: Disable Google Analytics.

f) The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) DS-GVO. We use Google Analytics to analyse and regularly improve the use of our website. We can use the statistics obtained to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user.

You can find more information on the terms of use and data protection at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=de and https://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

Setting options via personalised advertising: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

General information on Google's data protection can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

2. Facebook Pixel

a) Our website uses Facebook pixels. Facebook Pixel is a web analytics service provided by Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

b) In the context of the use of our website we set a so-called visitor action pixel of the social network Facebook on your computer. This allows us to track your behavior when you click on a Facebook ad and are redirected to our website. The service accordingly helps to analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements in order to optimise future advertising measures. For us, the data remains completely anonymous and does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the person in question. However, the data is stored and processed by Facebook, which establishes a connection between the data and the user's respective Facebook profile.

c) If you wish to object to this procedure, please click on the following link: https://optout.aboutads.info/#/.

d) The legal basis for the use of Facebook pixels is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) DS-GVO. The use of Facebook pixels is based on our legitimate interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our offer.

You can find more information on data protection for Facebook pixels at: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.