Privacy policy

Thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in our company. Confidentiality and data protection are of particular concern to all employees of vierviertel - Agentur für Kommunikationsdesign GmbH (hereinafter simply referred to as vierviertel).

1. General information

The following information provides a simple overview of how personal data - i.e. all data that can be used to personally identify you - is collected when you visit our website and how this data is used.

 

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find the operator's contact details under ‘Information about the controller’.

 

How is data collected?

On the one hand, your data is collected when you provide it to us. This may be data that you enter in a contact form, for example. Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems or social media plugins when you visit the website. This is primarily technical data (e.g. internet browser, IP address, operating system or time of page view). Some of this data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

 

What do we use your data for?

Some of the data is collected to ensure that the website is provided without errors. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour and subsequently create user-optimised content.

 

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You can contact us at the address given in the legal notice. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

 

Data collection via third-party analysis tools and tools

When you visit our website, your surfing behaviour may be statistically analysed. This is primarily done using cookies and so-called analysis programmes. The analysis of your surfing behaviour is usually anonymous; the surfing behaviour cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information on this can be found in the course of this privacy policy.

 

2. Mandatory information on data protection

 

Data protection

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy. We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

 

Note on the responsible body

The controller responsible for data processing on this website is: vierviertel - Agentur für Kommunikationsdesign GmbH Arndtstraße 10, 50676 Köln Phone: +49 (0) 221 951566-0 Email: info@vierviertel.com

The controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).

 

Revocation of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time. All you need to do is send us an informal email. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

 

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority

In the event of breaches of data protection law, the data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection issues is the state data protection officer 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: www.bfdi.bund.de.

 

SSL and TLS encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or enquiries that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognise 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 or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

 

Information, blocking, deletion

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient and the purpose of the data processing and, if necessary, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data at any time. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice if you have further questions on the topic of personal data.

 

Objection to advertising mail

We hereby object to the use of contact data published within the scope of the legal notice obligation to send unsolicited advertising and information material. The operators of this website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e-mails.

 

 

 

3. Information on data collection on our website

 

Cookies

Some of the Internet pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are used to make our website 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 at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser on your next visit.

You can set your browser so that you are 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.

Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions that you have requested (e.g. shopping basket function) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimised provision of its services. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies for analysing your surfing behaviour) are stored, these are treated separately in this privacy policy.

 

Server log files

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

  • Browser type and browser version
  • Operating system used
  • Referrer URL
  • Host name of the accessing computer
  • Time of the server enquiry
  • IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources. The basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual measures. 

 

Form and visit data

If you identify yourself by entering your data in a form, we link your personal data with information about your visit to our website. This includes the page from which you came to us, the Internet browser or operating system used, the web pages you visit on our site and the time and duration of your visit. We evaluate this information for statistical purposes and use it to customise the content to your requirements. You can revoke your consent to the above-mentioned handling of your data at any time by sending us a message. In the event of cancellation, the data will be deleted immediately. All personal data collected on our website will be treated in accordance with the applicable regulations for the protection of personal data (EU GDPR).

If you have registered on our website using a form to receive regular information on specialist or agency topics, we will use the data you provided when registering to send you the material by e-mail. We require a valid e-mail address from you for this purpose. Further data can be added optionally and enable us to address you personally and, if necessary, individualise the content. If you no longer wish to receive our information by e-mail, click on the unsubscribe link contained in all newsletters and marketing e-mails sent by us or unsubscribe informally at any time by e-mail at newsflash@vierviertel.com.

The data you enter in the form will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies. Mandatory statutory provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.

Personal data is transferred to third parties exclusively on the basis of § 479 of the German Code of Criminal Procedure (data transfer ex officio). Our employees are obliged by us to maintain confidentiality.

 

Applicant data

If you send us personal data as part of an application by e-mail due to a job advertisement on our website, we would like to point out that data transmission by e-mail can generally have security gaps. Complete protection against access by third parties is not possible. We will treat your data confidentially to the best of our knowledge and belief and restrict access to the persons involved in the selection process. The data will only be used for the intended purpose and will not be passed on to third parties. Data will only be stored until the purpose of data storage has been fulfilled or consent to storage is revoked. Mandatory statutory provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected. 

 

Social media plugins

Social plugins are software modules provided by social media platforms to realise automated communication between websites and social media platforms in accordance with their guidelines. As a rule, social plugins also exchange personal data with the respective social media platform as soon as they are displayed or loaded. We have no influence on the type and scope of the data transferred and its further processing. To the best of our current knowledge, the respective social media platform is informed of your IP address and the website using the plugin.

If you are logged in to the social media platform at the same time, the respective social media platform is able to assign the information directly to your user profile. If you want to avoid this collection of profile information, you should log out of the respective social media platform beforehand. However, data such as the IP address of the computer you are using will be transmitted in any case. For information on the purpose and scope of the collection, processing and use of the data as well as your rights in this regard and possible settings to protect your privacy, please refer to the data protection information of the respective social media platform.

 

LinkedIn

Plugins of the social network LinkedIn of LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter ‘LinkedIn’) are integrated on our pages. are integrated. You can recognise the LinkedIn plugins by the LinkedIn logo on our site.

When you visit our website, a direct connection is established between your browser and the LinkedIn server via the plugin. LinkedIn receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address.

If you click on the LinkedIn ‘Recommend button’ while you are logged into your LinkedIn account, you can link the content of our pages to your LinkedIn profile. This allows LinkedIn to associate your visit to our pages with your user account.

We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by LinkedIn.

Details on data collection (purpose, scope, further processing, use) as well as your rights and setting options can be found in LinkedIn's privacy policy. LinkedIn provides this information at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

 

X Plugin

This website uses plugins from the social network Twitter, which is operated by Twitter, Inc. 795 Folsom Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. https://x.com/.

When you access web pages on our website that contain such a plugin, a connection to the Twitter servers is established, the plugin is transmitted directly to your browser and integrated into the website. As a result, the Twitter server receives information that you have accessed the relevant page. If you are currently logged in to Twitter as a member, Twitter will associate this information with your personal user account. If you use the plugin features (e.g. click the 'Tweet' button, post a comment), this information will also be associated with your Twitter account. The only way to prevent this is to log out of Twitter before using the plugin.

For more information about Twitter's collection and use of information, your rights and how to protect your privacy, please see Twitter's privacy policy: https://x.com/en/privacy.

To prevent the collection of information by Twitter, you can log out of Twitter before visiting our pages, enable the 'do not track' function in your browser, disable the use of Java scripts in your browser or block the execution of scripts from the twitter.com domain. 

 

Facebook plugin

This website uses social plugins from the social network Facebook www.facebook.com. The operator is Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. You can recognise the Facebook button on our website by the white ‘f’ on a blue tile or by the ‘thumbs up’ sign.

When you click on this button, data is transmitted to the corresponding social network. This includes, among other things, the date and time of the visit to the website in question, the Internet address or URL on which the visitor is located and technical data about the IP address, the browser and operating system used by the visitor, as well as the user ID number if the visitor is logged in to Facebook. In this case, Facebook can assign the visit to your Facebook account. By clicking on this button, you consent to the transmission of this data to the corresponding social network. For information on data collection and use, please refer to Facebook's data usage guidelines.

 

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc (‘Google’). Google Analytics uses so-called ‘cookies’. The information generated by the cookie about the use of this website by users is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. IP anonymisation has been activated on this website so that the IP address of Google users within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area is shortened beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to analyse the use of the website by users, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity 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 Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. Users can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to their use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link. The current link is: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. 

 

Google Maps

This site uses the map service Google Maps 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 save 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 transfer. The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and to make it easy to find the places we have indicated on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. You can find more information on the handling of user data in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

 

HubSpot

This website uses HubSpot as a software solution for the management and realisation of inbound marketing. If you use our contact form and consent to the processing of your data in the USA, you have the opportunity to find out more about our company and provide us with your contact information. This information is stored on HubSpot Inc. servers. HubSpot is a software company from the USA with a branch in Ireland (HubSpot Ireland Ltd., 2nd Floor, 30 North Wall Quay, Dublin, Ireland). We use your data to send you further information about our services and to be able to identify you when you visit our website again. You can prevent the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software or by deleting cookies that have already been saved. Please note that if cookies are blocked, some services may not be able to be used to their full extent. Further information on the technologies used by Hubspot Inc. can be found in Hubspot's privacy policy at https://legal.hubspot.com/legal-stuff

 

Integration of links and third-party content

Our websites may contain links to websites of other companies. vierviertel is not responsible for their content. Third-party content (e.g. videos from Vimeo or YouTube, maps from Google Maps, RSS feeds or graphics from other websites) is also integrated. This requires that the providers of this content receive the IP address for the delivery of the content. vierviertel has no influence on the storage of the IP address by the provider of this content.