Privacy policy

• General information

• This privacy policy contains detailed information about what happens to your personal data when you visit our website www.luminabyte.de. Personal data is all data with which you can be personally identified. When processing your data, we adhere strictly to the statutory provisions, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), and attach great importance to ensuring that your visit to our website is absolutely secure.
  

• Responsible body

• The party responsible under data protection law for the collection and processing of personal data on this website is:
  
  Name: LuminaByte GmbH
  Represented by: Antonio Skoko, Miroslav Sopta, Managing Directors
  Street, house number: Julius-Hatry-Straße 1
  Postcode, town: 68163 Mannheim
  Land: Deutschland
  E-Mail: info@luminabyte.de
  Tel.: +49 1525 322 3486
  

• Access data (Server log files)

• When you visit our website, we automatically collect and store access data in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:
  
  • Browser type and browser version of your PC
    
  • Operating system used by your PC
    
  • Referrer URL (source/reference from which you came to our website)
    
  • Host name of the accessing computer
    
  • Date and time of the server request
    
• As a rule, it is not possible for us to make a personal reference, nor is this intended. The processing of such data is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to protect our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.
  

• Cookies

• We use so-called cookies to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions. These are small text files that are stored on your end device. Cookies are neither able to execute programs nor to transfer viruses to your computer system.
  
• Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions that you have requested are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of our services. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies for analyzing your surfing behavior) are stored, these are treated separately in this privacy policy.
  
• Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies". They are automatically deleted after the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit our website.
  
• You can set up your browser so that you get informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be restricted.
  

• Web analysis tools and advertising

• 1. Matomo
     
     
     1. Scope of processing of personal data
        
        

        To analyze the surfing behavior of our users, we use the open source software tool Matomo (formerly PIWIK) from InnoCraft Ltd, 150 Willis St., 6011 Wellington, New Zealand ("Matomo") on our website. This is an open source tool for web analysis. The software runs exclusively on the servers of our website. Users' personal data is only stored there. The data will not be passed on to third parties.

        We would like to use this analysis to further improve our website and adapt it even more to the needs of users.

        Your session data will only be collected with your consent. You can decide for yourself whether a web analysis cookie may be stored in your browser to enable us to collect and analyze statistical data.

        Matomo uses cookies. These text files are stored on your end device and enable us to analyze the use of our website. For this purpose, the usage information obtained by the cookie is transmitted to our server and stored so that usage behavior can be evaluated. You remain anonymous as a user. Your IP address is an anonymous identifier for us; we have no technical means of identifying you.

        If you consent to web analysis using Matomo, the following data will be collected when you access individual pages of our website:

        • 2 bytes of the IP address of the user's calling system
          
        • The accessed website
          
        • The website from which you accessed the website (referrer)
          
        • The subpages that are accessed from the accessed website
          
        • The time spent on our website
          
        • The frequency of visits to our website
          
     2. Legal basis for the processing of personal data
        
        

        The legal basis for the processing of users' personal data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

     3. Purpose of data processing
        
        

        The processing of personal data enables us to analyze the surfing behavior of our users. By analyzing the data obtained, we are able to compile information about the use of the individual components of our website. This helps us to improve our website and its user-friendliness. By anonymizing the IP address, the user's interest in the protection of personal data is sufficiently taken into account.

     4. Retention period
        
        

        The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for our recording purposes. However, the generated statistics and underlying data are not deleted.

     5. Possibility of objection and removal
        
        

        Cookies are stored on your end device and transmitted from it to our website. As a user, you therefore also have full control over the use of cookies. You can deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies by changing the settings in your Internet browser. Cookies that have already been stored can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are deactivated for our website, it may no longer be possible to use all functions of the website to their full extent.

        You can find more information on the privacy settings of the Matomo software at the following link: https://matomo.org/docs/privacy/.

        Please take note of your right to rectification, erasure and objection in accordance with Art. 16, 17 and 21 GDPR. You can find more details below.

• Social media

• 1. LinkedIn Plugin
     
     

     Our website uses functions of the LinkedIn network. The provider is 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 integrated without constraints, but only using an HTML link (so-called "Shariff" solution by c't). This integration ensures that no connection to the LinkedIn servers is established when a page of our website containing such plugins is accessed. Only when you click on the LinkedIn button will a new browser window open and call up the LinkedIn page.

     ‌For information on the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by LinkedIn, as well as your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy, please refer to LinkedIn's privacy policy at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

• Contact us

• If you contact us, including by e-mail, the data transmitted, including your contact details, will be stored in order to process your request or to be available for follow-up questions. This data will not be passed on without your consent.
  
• Your data will be processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can withdraw your consent at any time. An informal notification by e-mail is sufficient for revocation. The legality of the data processing operations carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
  
• Transmitted data will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to its storage or there is no longer any need to store the data. Mandatory statutory provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.
  

• Data use and disclosure

• We will not sell or otherwise market the personal data that you provide to us, e.g. by e-mail (e.g. your name and address or your e-mail address), to third parties. Your personal data will only be processed for correspondence with you and only for the purpose for which you have provided us with the data. In order to process payments, we pass on your payment data to the credit institution commissioned with the payment.
  

  
  Data that is automatically collected when you visit our website is only used for the aforementioned purposes. The data will not be used for any other purpose.

  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.

• SSL or TLS encryption

• Our website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as requests that you send to us as the site operator. 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 encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
  

• Storage Period

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

• Data subject rights

• With regard to the personal data concerning you, as the data subject you have the following rights vis-à-vis the controller in accordance with the statutory provisions:
  
  
  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 withdraw your consent to the processing of data at any time with effect for the future in accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. The storage of data for billing and accounting purposes remains unaffected by a revocation.

  2. Right to information
     
     

     You have the right, pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR to request confirmation from us as to whether we are processing personal data concerning you. If such processing is taking place, you have the right to access your personal data processed by us, the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the envisaged storage period or the criteria for determining the storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection to processing, complaint to a supervisory authority, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us from you, the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing on you, as well as your right to information about the guarantees pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR if your data is transferred to third countries.

  3. Right to rectification
     
     

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

  4. Right to erasure
     
     

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

     1. Your personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
        
     2. You withdraw your consent on which the processing is based according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a or Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a GDPR, and where there is no other legal ground for the processing.
        
     3. You object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or you object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 para. 2 GDPR.
        
     4. The personal data was processed unlawfully.
        
     5. The erasure of personal data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation under EU law or the law of the Member State to which we are subject.
        
     6. f) The personal data was collected in relation to information society services offered in accordance with Art. 8 para. 1 GDPR.
        

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

     1. to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information;
        
     2. for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing by EU or Member State law to which we are subject or for the performance of a task assigned to us carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority;
        
     3. for reasons of public interest in the area of public health pursuant to Art. 9 para. 2 lit. h and i and Art. 9 para. 3 GDPR;
        
     4. for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes in accordance with Art. 89 (1) GDPR, insofar as the data subject's right is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing, or
        
     5. for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
        

     
     If we have made your personal data public and we are obliged to delete it in accordance with the above, we will take appropriate measures, including technical measures, taking into account the available technology and the implementation costs, to inform data controllers 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.

  5. Right to restriction of processing
     
     

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

     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 review, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.
        
     2. If the processing of your personal data was/is carried out unlawfully, you can request the restriction of data processing instead of erasure.
        
     3. If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it for the exercise, defense or assertion of legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of deletion.
        
     4. If you file an objection under Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, a balance must be struck between your interests and ours. As long as it has not yet been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
        

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

  6. Right to notification
     
     

     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 the data or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. According to Art. 19 GDPR, you have the right to be notified about these recipients upon request.

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

     In accordance with Art. 22 GDPR, you have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing - including profiling - which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

     This does not apply if the decision

     1. is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between you and us,
        
     2. is authorized by EU or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or
        
     3. is based on your explicit consent.
        

     
     However, the decisions in the cases referred to in (a) to (c) may not be based on special categories of personal data pursuant to Art. 9 para. 1 GDPR, unless Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a or g applies and suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests are in place.

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

  8. Right to data portability
     
     

     If the processing is based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR or Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR and is carried out using automated procedures, you have the right, pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to transmit it to another controller or to request transmission to another controller, insofar as this is technically feasible.

  9. Right to object
     
     

     Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balancing of interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time 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 privacy policy. If you object, we will no longer process your personal data concerned unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims (objection pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR).

     Where your personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If you object, your personal data will no longer be used for the purpose of direct marketing (objection pursuant to Art. 21 para. 2 GDPR).

     Notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, you have the option of exercising your right to object in connection with the use of information society services by means of automated procedures using technical specifications.

  10. Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority pursuant to Art. GDPR
      
      

      In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged violation. The right of appeal exists without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

      The competent supervisory authority for us is:
      

      The State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Landesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit) Baden-Württemberg
      
      P.O. Box 10 29 32
      70025 Stuttgart
      
      or:
      
      Lautenschlagerstraße 20
      70173 Stuttgart
      
      Phone: 07 11/61 55 41-0
      E-Mail: poststelle@lfdi.bwl.de
      Internet: https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de

• Validity and amendment of this privacy policy

• This privacy policy applies from November 26, 2023. We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations. This may be necessary, for example, to comply with new legislation 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.
  
• If this Privacy Policy is amended, we intend to post changes to our Privacy Policy on this page so that you are fully aware of what personal information we collect, how we process it and under what circumstances it may be disclosed.