Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy / Data protection declaration for the Online Offer of ronmiller.de

The Ron Miller GmbH (hereinafter: “Ron Miller“ or ”we“) is the provider of the website ronmiller.de. We want you to feel comfortable on our website. The protection of your privacy and your personal rights is very important to us. We therefore ask you to read the information about the functions of our website carefully.

In the following data protection declaration we like to inform you about the nature, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data (hereinafter also referred to as “Data”) within our online offering and the related websites, features and content, as well as external online presence, e.g. our social media profiles (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Online Offer”). test

I. Identity and contact of the controller

The controller in charge for data processing of our Online Offer within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter: “GDPR”) and other national data protection laws of the Member States, as well as other data protection provisions, is the following:

Ron Miller GmbH

Heynstraße 15

13187 Berlin, Germany

Email: hello@ronmiller.de

Representatives: Ronny Kindt & Marcus Langenick

Managing Director: Dr. Jobst Müller-Trimbusch

II. Scope of processing of personal data

We only process personal data of the users of our Online Offer, if it is necessary in order to provide a functioning Online Offer as well as our content and services. The processing of your personal data regularly only takes place with your consent, with the exceptions that obtaining your consent is not possible for actual reasons or that the processing of your data is permitted by law.

III. Legal basis for the processing of personal data

We would like to inform you about the legal basis for our data processing. In case that the respective legal basis is not mentioned expressively in our data protection declaration, the processing of your personal data is based on the following legal bases:

• Article 6 (1) point (a) GDPR is the legal basis, when we have obtained your consent for a particular processing purpose.
• Article 6 (1) point (b) GDPR is the legal basis, if the processing is necessary in order to perform a contract, e.g. if you close a contract via our Online Offer. This legal basis also applies to the processing of personal data necessary in order to perform pre-contractual measures, e.g. if you contact us with inquiries regarding our products and services.
• Article 6 (1) point (c) GDPR is the legal basis as far as the processing of personal data is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, e.g. the compliance with commercial and tax obligations.
• In case that, the processing of personal is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of you or of another natural person, Article 6 (1) point (d) GDPR is the legal basis.
• In the case, that the processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or your fundamental rights and freedoms, Article 6 (1) point (f) GDPR is the legal basis.

IV. Data erasure and storage period

We would like to inform you about the storage period and data erasure of our data processing. Unless otherwise provided in our data protection declaration in the following sections, we consider the storage period and data erasure to be the following:

We only process and store your personal data for the period of time necessary to fulfill the purpose of processing and storage. In addition, your Data may be stored if provided for by the European or national legislature in regulations, laws or other regulations to which we shall comply. A restriction or erasure of your Data takes place if a storage period provided for by these regulations expires, unless there is a need for further storage of your Data for a conclusion of a contract or a fulfillment of the contract. In the case that the personal data are restricted, an erasure takes place as soon as legal or contractual retention periods allow it, there is no reason to believe that a erasure affects your legitimate interests and an erasure does not cause a unreasonable expense due to the special nature of the storage.

V. Provision of the Online Offer and creation of log-files

1. Description and scope of data processing

Whenever you access our Online Offer, we or our hosting provider collects a series of general data and information from the computer system of the device which is accessing our Online Offer. The following Data can be collected:

• Date and time at the time of the access to the visited website respectively the Online Offer
• Website from which you access our Online Offer (e.g. previous website, hyperlink or similar)
• Websites that you access through our Online Offer
• The access status (file transfer, file not found)
• The amount of data you send
• The operating system you are using
• The browser and which browser version you are using
• The internet service provider you use
• Your IP address, which your Internet service provider assigns to your computer when connecting to the internet.

The data is temporarily stored in log files of a server. A storage of this data together with other personal data of you shall not take place.

2. Legal basis for data processing

The legal basis for the temporary storage of Data and log files is Article 6 (1) point (f) GDPR.

3. Purpose of the data processing

The processing of the Data is necessary in order to operate our Online Offer in order to ensure its functionality and to be able to deliver the content of the Online Offer correctly. In addition, the Data serves to optimize our Online Offer and to ensure the security of our information technology systems. An evaluation of the Data for marketing purposes shall not take place in this context. The aforementioned purposes also establish our legitimate interest in the processing of Data according to Article 6 (1) point (f) GDPR.

4. Storage period

The Data shall be erased as soon as it is no longer necessary for the purpose of its processing. In the case of storing the data in log files shall be erased after seven days at the latest. A longer storage of your Data is possible. In this case, your IP address will be erased or alienated, so that an identification of the calling user is no longer possible.

5. Possibility to object or and removal

As the collection of Data is mandatory for the provision of the Online Offer and the storage of the Data in log-files for the operation of the Online Offer are, there is no possibility for you as a user to oppose the processing of the Data.

VI. Use of cookies

1. Cookie integration in the Online Offer

We use cookies on our Online Offer. Cookies are small text files that are stored in your Internet browser respective by the Internet browser on your computer system. Cookies are downloaded when you visit a website. This cookie contains a characteristic string that allows the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is reopened.

Temporary cookies, or “session cookies” or “transient cookies”, are cookies that are erased after a user leaves the online service and closes his browser. In such a cookie, e.g. the content of a shopping cart in an online shop or a login status.

“Permanent” or “persistent” refers to cookies that remain stored even after the browser has been closed. In this way, e.g. a login status will be saved when a user visits the Online Offer after several days. Likewise, in such a cookie the user interests can be stored, which are used for range measurement or marketing purposes. If the website is retrieved from the same device, the cookie is either returned to the site that created it (first-party cookie) or to another website to which it belongs (third-party cookie).

With the help of the cookie, the website can recognize that it has already been called up with this browser and, among other things, can improve the user experience when calling it again. Cookies can be e.g. remember your preferences and adapt the offers displayed on the website to your personal interests and needs.

You can decide for yourself whether the browser you use allows cookies or not. Saved cookies can be erased in the system settings of your browser. Please note that the functionality of websites may be restricted or even suspended if cookies are not allowed.

When you call our Online Offer for the first time, you will be informed via an info banner about the use of cookies. We use different groups of cookies. If you click on details in the info banner, you will be shown which cookies we use and to which group this cookie belongs. If you do not want us to use a specific cookie or group of cookies, please remove the green checkmark of the associated cookie group and click OK to confirm your preference. Unless you remove the green tick, you agree that we use the cookie group. Please note that you cannot influence the use of necessary functional cookies. Only after you have selected the cookie groups will the cookies be used on the website.

If you have allowed us to use cookies through your browser setting or consent, the following cookies may be used in our Online Offer.

Your current status of the allowed cookies (Necessary Cookies, Preferences, Statistics, Marketing):

As far as these cookies also use personal data, you will be informed below.

2. Use of functional cookies (Necessary Cookies)

We use cookies that belong to the group of functional cookies so that you can visit our Online Offer in a user-friendly way and that the online offer is working properly (technically-necessary cookies, hereinafter also: Necessary Cookies). Some elements of our Online Offer require that the browser from which you access our Online Offer also identify you after you change a page within our Online Offer.

By using Necessary Cookies, the following functionalities can be achieved or the following Data can be stored:

• Language settings made by you
• Saving your browser settings so that our Online Offer can be displayed optimized on the device you’re using
• Saving settings to ensure an optimized video display (e.g., resolution data of the screen you are using)
• Even loading of the webpage you are visiting in order to keep it accessible
• Preventing misuse of the Online Offer and services by registering logins.

The legal basis for the processing of Data by using technical Necessary Cookies is Article 6 (1) point (f) GDPR.

3. Use of Preference and Statistics Cookies

Furthermore we use Preference and Statistics Cookies in our Online Offer, which allow an analysis of your surfing behavior. When accessing our Online Offer, you will be asked, as described above, to consent to the processing of personal data used in this context.

• The search terms you entered
• Frequency of page views
• The recording of the visit time on our Online Offer
• Recording the visit of different pages on our Online Offer
• Use of functions of our Online Offer
• Your IP address in anonymzied form

The legal basis for the processing of personal data using cookies for analysis purposes is, if you have given your consent in this regard, Article 6 (1) point (a) GDPR.

In addition, the legal basis for this is also Article 6 (1) point (f) GDPR, as we have a legitimate interest, namely an interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our online offer.

4. Use of the Google Tag Manager

We use the services of Google Tag Manager, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland („Google“).

This service allows website tags to be managed through a single interface. Google Tool Manager only implements tags. This means: No cookies are used and no personal data is collected. Google Tool Manager triggers other tags, which may collect data. However, Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If deactivated at the domain or cookie level, it will remain in effect for all tracking tags as far as they are implemented with the Google Tag Manager.

Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Framework, which provides appropriate safeguards to comply with European data protection law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active).

5. Use of Google Analytics

We use the services of Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland („Google“). Google Analytics uses cookies, to allow an analysis about how users use our Online Offer.

The information generated by the cookies about your use of the Online Offer is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The IP address transmitted by Google Analytics will not be merged with other data provided by Google. The cookies saved by Google Analytics will be erased after 26 months at the latest.

Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Framework, which provides appropriate safeguards to comply with European data protection law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active).

For more information about Google’s data usage, settings and opt-out options, please visit Google’s websites:

• https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners,
• http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads,
• http://www.google.com/settings/ads.

The legal basis for the processing of Data by the use of cookies in connection with the use of Google Analytics for analysis purposes is Article 6 (1) point (a) GDPR, provided you given us your consent accordingly. Article 6 (1) point (a) GDPR. In addition, we pursue legitimate interests by the processing of data within the meaning of Article 6 (1) point (f) GDPR, because we have an interest in optimizing our Online Offer and our advertising presence.

You may object to the consent to the above-mentioned data processing at any time by changing the settings with regard to the permitted cookies or by changing the settings in your browser. To deactivate Google Analytics, you can download and install a browser plugin at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

6. Use of the service of Cookiebot

We are obliged to able to demonstrate your consent or rejection for the use of cookies in accordance with Article 7 (1) GDPR. To ensure our compliance with this obligation, we use the service of cookiebot.com (hereinafter: Cookiebot).

The following data is stored in our Cookiebot account:

• Your IP address in an anonymized form (the last three digits are set to “0”)
• Date and time of your consent
• The browser which you are using
• The URL from which your consent is sent
• An anonymous, random, and encrypted key-value
• Your respective status of consent, which serves to demonstrate your consent.

The key and your status of consent will also be stored in a cookie “CookieConsent” for a duration up to 12 months, so that your given consents can be automatically read and respected by our Online Offer for all subsequent page requests and future user sessions. You can at all time see and change your status of consent in the data protection declaration. You can find this above.

7. Duration of storage, objection and removal with regard to recorded Data when using cookies

Cookies are stored on your computer and transmitted to us by your computer. Therefore, as a user, you have full control over the use of cookies. By changing the system settings in your internet browser, you can disable or restrict the transmission of cookies. As described above, you can also control this by granting consent or withdraw it within our Online Offer. Already stored cookies can be erased at any time.

VII. Transfer of Data to service companies and other third parties

We work with several third party service companies to operate and optimize our Online Offer as well as our services and contract management, e.g. for IT services or for the hosting of our Online Offer. We transfer the Data, which are necessary for these service providers in order to fulfillment the respective contracts with us.

The legal basis for the transfer of Data to service companies is Article 6 (1) points (b) and (f) GDPR.

Under certain circumstances, we also transfer your personal data to third parties or government agencies if we are obliged to do so on the basis of official or court orders or if we are entitled to do so, e.g. if the transfer of the Data is necessary in order to prosecute criminal offenses or in order to protect and enforce our own rights or claims.

The legal basis for this transfer is Article 6 (1) points c and f GDPR.

VIII. Contact form and e-mail contact

You can contact us via the provided e-mail address and if provided via a contact form. In this case, the personal data sent with your e-mail respectively via the contact form will be processed.

Legal basis for the processing of your Data by sending an e-mail and using the contact form is Article 6 (1) point (f) GDPR. In case you contact us with the intention to conclude a contract or with regard to its fulfillment, additionally Article 6 (1) point (f) GDPR is the legal basis.

In both cases the processing of personal data only takes place to process your request.

IX. Use of Facebook Open Graph

We use plug-ins (Facebook Open Graph, formerly: Facebook Social Graph) from the Facebook Inc. (USA) (“Facebook”) to embed elements (e.g. public Facebook or Instagram posts) within our Online Offer.

If you activate scripts in your internet browser and have not installed a script blocker, your internet browser will create without a separate query a direct connection between your internet browser and the Facebook server and transfer personal data (e.g. IP address) to Facebook. If you are logged in to your Facebook profile while using our Online Offer, a direct assignment of the data to your Facebook profile is possible. We do not know which data Facebook associates with the personal data received and for what purposes Facebook uses this data.

Facebook is certified under the Privacy Shield Framework, which provides appropriate safeguards to comply with European data protection law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active).

For further information see Facebook’s Privacy Policy.

If you do not like Facebook to be able to assign your visit to our Online Offer to your Facebook User Account, please log out of your Facebook User Account and block scripts from Facebook in your Internet browser (e.g. with script blockers from www.noscript.net or www.ghostery.com).

The legal basis for this processing is Article 6 (1) point (f) GDPR.

X. Ron Miller on social networks/platforms

Because we like to communicate with our customers, prospects and users, we have our own pages on social networks (e.g. Facebook and Instagram) and platforms. On these social networks or platforms we also inform about our services. When you visit these social networks or platforms, the terms and conditions and privacy policies of the operator of the respective social network or platform apply.

Unless otherwise stated in our data protection declaration, we only process the personal data of users who communicate with us within social networks or platforms.

XI. Your rights

We would like to inform you about your rights regarding the processing of your data. If you want to use one of these rights, you can send a simple message to us. You can use the following contact details for this without incurring any costs other than the base rate transmission costs:

Via Post: Ron Miller GmbH, Heynstraße 15, 13187 Berlin, Germany

Via E-Mail: hello@ronmiller.de

For your own protection, we reserve the right to obtain further information confirming your identity. If we are unable to identify you, we will reject to process the request.

You have the

• Right to information about personal data we process concerning you (Article 15 GDPR)
• Right to rectification without undue delay of inaccurate personal data we process concerning you (Article 16 GDPR)
• Right to erasure of personal data we process concerning you (Article 17 GDPR)
• Right to restriction of processing of personal data we process concerning you (Article 18 GDPR)
• Right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR)
• Right to object to particular data processing measures (Article 21 GDPR)

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Article 77 GDPR); if you consider that the processing of your personal data infringes existing data protection regulations, you can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority without prejudice to any other legal remedies. In particular, you can lodge the complaint with a supervisory authority in the Member State of your habitual residence, your place of work or the location of the alleged infringement.

XII. Amendment of our data protection declaration

We reserve the right to amend this data protection declaration at any time to ensure that it complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. if we change our Online Offer or introduce other services. In this case the new data protection declaration shall apply to your next visit of our Online Offer.

Last updated: 01/08/2021, version 1.3