Privacy at a Glance

General Information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data includes all information that can be used to identify you personally. For detailed information on data protection, please refer to our privacy policy listed below this text.

Data Collection on Our Website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the imprint of this website.

How do we collect your data?

Your data is collected in part by you providing it to us. This may include information you enter into a contact form, for example.

Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit the website. This mainly includes technical data (e.g., internet browser, operating system, or time of page access). The collection of this data happens automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?

Some of the data is collected to ensure the flawless operation of the website. Other data may be used to analyze your user behavior.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right at any time to receive free information about the origin, recipients, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions regarding data protection, you can contact us at any time using the address provided in the imprint. Furthermore, you have the right to file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

Analysis tools and third-party tools

When you visit our website, your browsing behavior may be statistically analyzed. This is mainly done using cookies and so-called analysis programs. The analysis of your browsing behavior is usually anonymous; it cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information can be found in the following privacy policy.

You can object to this analysis. We will inform you about the options for objection in this privacy policy.

General Information and Mandatory Notices

Data Protection

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We handle your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the legal data protection regulations as well as this privacy policy.

When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data are data with which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains which data we collect and how we use it. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

Please note that data transmission over the internet (e.g., communication via email) may have security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data from access by third parties cannot be guaranteed.

Notice of the responsible party

The responsible entity for data processing on this website is:

Christoph Andree

beachpool.design GmbH  

Fährstr. 217 

D-40221 Düsseldorf 

Mail: info(at)beachpool.com 

Phone: +49 (0) 211 30 20 61 91

The responsible entity is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g., names, email addresses, or similar).

Revocation of Your Consent to Data Processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your explicit consent. You can revoke any consent you have given at any time. A simple notification by email to us is sufficient for this. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to Complain to the Competent Supervisory Authority

In the event of data protection violations, the affected person has the right to file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection matters is the State Data Protection Commissioner of the federal state in which our company is based. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to receive data that we process automatically based on your consent or to fulfill a contract, either to yourself or to a third party, in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done if it is technically feasible.

SSL or TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the change of the address bar in your browser from “http://” to “https://” and by the padlock symbol in your browser’s address bar.

When SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the data you transmit to us cannot be intercepted or read by third parties.

Information, Blocking, Deletion

You have the right, within the framework of applicable legal provisions, to obtain free information at any time about your stored personal data, their origin and recipients, and the purpose of data processing, as well as, if applicable, the right to correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. For this purpose and for further questions regarding personal data, you can contact us at any time using the address provided in the imprint.

Data Collection on Our Website

Cookies

The websites partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are used to make our offer more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies.” They are automatically deleted after your visit ends. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit.

You can configure your browser to notify you when cookies are being set and to allow cookies only on a case-by-case basis, to reject cookies for certain cases or entirely, and to enable automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Cookies that are necessary for carrying out the electronic communication process or for providing certain functions requested by you (e.g., shopping cart function) are stored based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. Any other cookies (e.g., cookies for analyzing your browsing behavior) are treated separately in this privacy policy.

Server log files

The provider of the websites automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These include:

• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL
• Hostname of the accessing computer
• Time of the server request
• IP-address

A merging of this data with other data sources will not be performed.

The basis for data processing is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Contact Form

If you send us inquiries via the contact form, the information you provide in the inquiry form, including the contact details you enter, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We will not share this data without your consent.

The processing of the data entered into the contact form is thus carried out exclusively based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time. A simple notification by email to us is sufficient for this. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data you enter in the contact form will be retained by us until you request deletion, withdraw your consent for storage, or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g., after your inquiry has been fully processed). Mandatory legal provisions – especially retention periods – remain unaffected.

Registration on this website

You can register on our website to access additional features. The data you provide will only be used for the purpose of using the specific offer or service for which you have registered. The mandatory information requested during registration must be completed in full. Otherwise, we will reject the registration.

For important changes, such as changes to the scope of the offer or technically necessary modifications, we use the email address provided during registration to inform you in this way.

The processing of the data entered during registration is based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke your given consent at any time. A simple notification by email to us is sufficient. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out prior to the revocation remains unaffected.

The data collected during registration is stored by us as long as you are registered on our website and will be deleted afterwards. Legal retention periods remain unaffected.

Comment function on this website

For the comment function on this page, in addition to your comment, information about the time the comment was created, your email address, and if you do not post anonymously, the username you have chosen will be stored.

Storage of IP Address

Our comment function stores the IP addresses of users who write comments. Since we do not review comments on our site before they are published, we need this information to take action against the author in case of legal violations such as insults or propaganda.

Subscribe to Comments

As a user of the site, you can subscribe to comments after logging in. You will receive a confirmation email to verify that you are the owner of the provided email address. You can unsubscribe from this feature at any time via a link in the informational emails. In this case, the data entered when subscribing to comments will be deleted; however, if you have submitted this data to us for other purposes or in other contexts (e.g., newsletter subscription), it will remain with us.

Storage duration of comments

Comments and the associated data (e.g., IP address) are stored and remain on our website until the commented content is completely deleted or the comments must be removed for legal reasons (e.g., offensive comments).

Legal basis

The storage of comments is based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke your consent at any time. A simple notification by email to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out before the revocation remains unaffected.

Processing of data (customer and contract data)

We collect, process, and use personal data only to the extent necessary for establishing, shaping, or changing the legal relationship (inventory data). This is based on Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, which permits the processing of data to fulfill a contract or pre-contractual measures. Personal data about the use of our websites (usage data) is collected, processed, and used only as far as necessary to enable the user to use the service or to bill for it.

The collected customer data will be deleted after the completion of the order or termination of the business relationship. Statutory retention periods remain unaffected.

Data Transmission Upon Conclusion of Contract for Services and Digital Content

We transmit personal data to third parties only when it is necessary for processing the contract, such as to the bank responsible for payment processing.

Further transmission of data does not take place or only occurs if you have explicitly agreed to the transmission. Your data will not be passed on to third parties without your explicit consent, for example for advertising purposes.

The basis for data processing is Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Analysis Tools and Advertising

Google Analytics

This website uses features of the web analytics service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies.” These are text files stored on your computer that allow for an analysis of your 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.

The storage of Google Analytics cookies is based on Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both the website offering and its advertising.

IP anonymization

We have enabled the IP anonymization feature on this website. This means that 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 before being transmitted to the USA. 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 analyze your use of the website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services related to website and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data held by Google.

Browser Plugin

You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting the settings of your browser software; however, please note that in this case, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. Additionally, you can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google, as well as 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.

Objection to Data Collection

You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set that prevents the collection of your data during future visits to this website: Disable Google Analytics.

More information about how user data is handled in Google Analytics can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Order Data Processing

We have entered into a data processing agreement with Google and fully comply with the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.

Demographic Characteristics in Google Analytics

This website uses the “demographic features” function of Google Analytics. This allows reports to be generated that contain information about the age, gender, and interests of the website visitors. These data come from interest-based advertising by Google as well as visitor data from third-party providers. These data cannot be assigned to any specific person. You can disable this feature at any time via the ad settings in your Google account or generally prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics as described in the section “Objection to data collection.”

Google Analytics Remarketing

Our websites use the features of Google Analytics Remarketing in conjunction with the cross-device capabilities of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

This feature allows advertising audiences created with Google Analytics Remarketing to be linked with the cross-device functions of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. In this way, interest-based, personalized advertising messages tailored to you based on your previous usage and browsing behavior on one device (e.g., mobile phone) can also be displayed on another one of your devices (e.g., tablet or PC).

If you have given the appropriate consent, Google links your web and app browsing history with your Google account for this purpose. This way, the same personalized advertising messages can be displayed on every device where you sign in with your Google account.

To support this function, Google Analytics collects Google-authenticated user IDs, which are temporarily linked with our Google Analytics data to define and create audiences for cross-device advertising.

You can permanently opt out of cross-device remarketing/targeting by disabling personalized ads in your Google account; to do so, follow this link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.

The summary of the data collected in your Google account is done solely based on your consent, which you can give or withdraw at Google (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). For data collection processes that are not merged in your Google account (e.g., because you do not have a Google account or have objected to the merging), the data collection is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The legitimate interest arises from the website operator’s interest in the anonymized analysis of website visitors for advertising purposes.

Further information and the privacy policy can be found in Google’s privacy statement at: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.

Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking

This website uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising program by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”).

As part of Google AdWords, we use so-called conversion tracking. When you click on an ad placed by Google, a cookie for conversion tracking is set. Cookies are small text files that the internet browser stores on the user’s computer. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification of users. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page.

Each Google AdWords customer receives a unique cookie. These cookies cannot be tracked across the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected through the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers are informed of the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that allows them to personally identify users. If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can opt out by easily disabling the Google conversion tracking cookie in your web browser settings. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.

The storage of “conversion cookies” is based on Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its web offerings and its advertising.

More information about Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.

You can configure your browser to notify you when cookies are being set and allow cookies only on a case-by-case basis, block the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or entirely, and enable the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Facebook Pixel

Our website uses the Facebook conversion tracking pixel from Facebook, Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”).

This allows the behavior of website visitors to be tracked after they have been redirected to the provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook advertisement. This enables the effectiveness of Facebook ads to be evaluated for statistical and market research purposes and future advertising campaigns to be optimized.

The data collected is anonymous to us as the operators of this website; we cannot draw any conclusions about the identity of the users. However, the data is stored and processed by Facebook, allowing a connection to the respective user profile and enabling Facebook to use the data for its own advertising purposes in accordance with the Facebook Data Use Policy. This allows Facebook to display advertisements on Facebook pages as well as outside of Facebook. As the site operators, we have no influence on this use of the data.

In Facebook’s privacy policy, you can find additional information on protecting your privacy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

You can also disable the remarketing feature “Custom Audiences” in the ad settings section at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. You need to be logged into Facebook to do this.

If you do not have a Facebook account, you can disable usage-based advertising from Facebook on the website of the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/.

Newsletter

Newsletter Data

If you wish to subscribe to the newsletter offered on the website, we require your email address as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the provided email address and consent to receiving the newsletter. No further data is collected or only on a voluntary basis. We use this data solely to send the requested information and do not share it with third parties.

The processing of the data entered in the newsletter registration form is carried out solely based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the email address, and their use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example via the “Unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data you provided to us for the purpose of receiving the newsletter will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will be deleted after the newsletter subscription is canceled. Data stored for other purposes (e.g., email addresses for the member area) are not affected by this.

Plugins and Tools

YouTube

Our website uses plugins from the Google-operated site YouTube. The operator of the site is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection is established to YouTube’s servers. In this process, the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to directly associate your browsing behavior with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

The use of YouTube is carried out in the interest of presenting our online offerings in an appealing manner. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

For more information on how user data is handled, please refer to YouTube’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Google Web Fonts

This site uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for consistent font display. When you visit a page, your browser loads the necessary web fonts into its cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose, the browser you use must connect to Google’s servers. This allows Google to learn that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts serves the purpose of a consistent and appealing presentation of our online services. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a default font from your computer will be used.

More information about Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Google Maps

This page uses the Google Maps service via an API. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transmission.

The use of Google Maps is intended to provide an appealing presentation of our online offerings and to ensure easy accessibility of the locations we list on our website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

More information about handling user data can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de