Legal Disclosures

In the event that you have provided us with personal data in accordance with Art. 20 para. 1 GDPR, you have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a structured, common and machine-readable format. The collection of data for the provision of the website and the storage of log files (section 3.1 below) are absolutely necessary for the operation of the website. They are therefore not based on consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, but are justified pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The requirements of Art. 20 (1) GDPR are therefore not met in this respect.

IP address of the user,
the date and time the website was accessed
the protocol, e.g. HTTP,
the request method “Get” or “Post”,
the content of the request or details of the retrieved file that was transmitted to the user
the access status (successful transmission, error, etc.),
the amount of data transferred in bytes,
incoming and outgoing data traffic (“traffic”),
a process identification number (“process ID”),
the time taken for the web server to respond to the user's request
the website from which the user accessed the website
the browser used by the user, the operating system, the interface, the language of the browser and the version of the browser software.

If we provide you with an email address and a contact form with input fields, this is for the purpose of enabling you to contact us. If you send us personal data, we will store it and process it for the purpose of contacting you. [Design note: If you design your contact form for other purposes, you must change the standard text and also inform us of these purposes. For example, if you also forward the personal data entered and transmitted to you to third parties for advertising purposes].

The information in this cookie constitutes personal data. However, the use of the “wbk_sid” cookie does not require consent under data protection law because the data processing is necessary to safeguard the legitimate interests of the website operator and because the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, which require the protection of personal data, do not prevail. The legal basis for data processing is therefore Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR.

5.1 If we wish to store information in the terminal equipment that you use when visiting our websites and/or access information that is already stored in your terminal equipment, we will ask you for your consent on the basis of clear and comprehensive information. This is done via a consent banner (consent banner) used by us. We obtain the necessary consent before we access your data. You can revoke your consent at any time. However, your consent is not required for certain purposes specified in the law, so that we do not ask for it in these cases. On the one hand, consent is not required if the sole purpose of storing information in the end user's terminal equipment or the sole purpose of accessing information already stored in the end user's terminal equipment is to carry out the transmission of a message via a public telecommunications network. On the other hand, consent to the use of your terminal equipment is not required if the storage of information in the end user's terminal equipment or access to information already stored in the end user's terminal equipment is absolutely necessary so that we, as the provider of a telemedia service, can provide a telemedia service expressly requested by the user

5.2 Such access to end devices is possible via certain technologies. The best-known technology concerns cookies. Cookies are objects that can be stored in the internet browser or by the internet browser on the user's end device. When a user accesses a website, the server of the website operator or a third party can read the cookie stored there via the user's operating system and consequently the information stored therein. A cookie may, but does not have to, contain a characteristic string of characters that enables the user's browser to be uniquely identified when the website is called up again.

5.3 Removal option: The user can prevent or restrict the installation of cookies by setting their browser accordingly. Cookies that have already been saved can also be deleted by the user at any time via their browser. The settings for this depend on the respective browser. However, if the user prevents or restricts the installation of cookies, this may mean that not all functions of the website can be used to their full extent. What applies to cookies also applies to other technologies that make use of the user's end device.

6.1In order to obtain your legally required consent for certain services or functions or to observe your revocation in this regard, you will be shown a consent banner (consent banner). Your consent or non-consent relates to our use of your end device (computer, laptop, smartphone, tablet) through cookies or similar technologies, with which information can be stored on or read from your end device. Your consent may also be required for the processing of personal data by us or third parties in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter a GDPR, which is associated with your use of our websites. In certain cases, the law allows us to use your terminal device without your consent and/or the subsequent processing of your personal data without your consent.

6.2We use the consent banner to inform you about all services or functions that require your consent before we use the service or function. The consent banner consists of an overview of all processing operations requiring consent and describes the details in each case so that you as a user can assess the meaning and scope of your consent. You can agree to each process via a button/click area by activating it or rejecting this process by deactivating it. There are three ways to decide:

6.3All three decisions made by the user (“Make and save selection”, “Reject all and save” or “Accept all and save”) are stored in the so-called “local storage” on the user's end device via the browser of the user's end device. Storage there is permanent. The information is stored in the “wbkConsent” object. This technology is not a cookie in the true sense of the word. The information in the “wbkConsent” also has no personal reference, i.e. the user is not recognized when he or she visits the WBK user's website again. The decision to give consent is not stored on our server. This use of the user's terminal device does not require consent in accordance with Section 25 (2) No. 2 TTDSG (user request).

Our websites are equipped with active SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, for example by means of requests that you send to us as the site operator. An encrypted connection can be recognized by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and a lock symbol is displayed in the browser line. As a result of this encryption, data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.[Note: Make sure that you store a valid SSL/TLS certificate in the KAS and that the “Enforce SSL” option is activated. If this is not the case, section 7.1 of this privacy policy is incorrect and must not be used].

If you can watch videos on our websites that are marked as external links to third-party websites, this is done exclusively via the technology of linking to the respective linked website or to a video portal of a third-party provider. These videos are stored there under the data protection responsibility of the respective third-party provider. The respective linked website or video portal is therefore not directly embedded in our website. This ensures that user information is not transmitted to the portal as soon as the website on which the video is integrated is loaded. It is also ensured that cookies or similar technologies for tracking user activities of the portals or the advertising partners of these portals cannot be placed on your end device via the mere link. Only after you consciously click on the video preview image is a connection established to the portal of the third-party provider and the associated data processing triggered. However, this and the associated possible data processing of your user data on the linked portal then occurs exclusively as a result of your wish to view the video there. The data processing triggered by this is outside our sphere of influence and is the responsibility of these third-party providers, who provide more or less detailed information about their data processing.