1. Introduction and Contact Details of the Controller

We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. Below, we inform you about how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data means any information that can be used to personally identify you.

The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

Janina Allard
Linnet Cove
Kolpingstraße 18
90542 Eckental
Germany

Phone: +49 170 2858533
Email: hello@linnetcove.com

The controller responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.

2. Data Collection When Visiting Our Website

When you use our website for informational purposes only, meaning that you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we collect only the data that your browser transmits to the website server (“server log files”).

When you access our website, the following data may be collected where technically necessary to display the website:

• the page of our website visited
• date and time of access
• amount of data transmitted
• source or referring page from which you accessed the website
• browser used
• operating system used
• IP address used, where applicable in anonymized form

Processing is carried out pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

The data will not be disclosed or used for any other purpose. However, we reserve the right to subsequently review server log files if there are specific indications of unlawful use.

3. SSL/TLS Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content, such as enquiries sent to us, this website uses SSL or TLS encryption.

You can recognize an encrypted connection by the “https://” prefix and the lock symbol in your browser’s address bar.

4. Hosting

This website is hosted by STRATO AG, Otto-Ostrowski-Straße 7, 10249 Berlin, Germany.

For the hosting of our website and the display of its content, we use a provider that supplies its services itself or through selected subcontractors exclusively on servers located within the European Union.

All data collected through our website is processed on these servers.

We have entered into a data processing agreement with the hosting provider which ensures the protection of our website visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

5. Contacting Us

When you contact us, for example via email or a contact form, personal data is collected.

The data collected when using a contact form can be seen in the respective contact form.

This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your enquiry or contacting you and for the related technical administration.

The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your enquiry pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

If your contact is aimed at entering into a contract, Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR serves as an additional legal basis for processing.

Your data will be deleted once your enquiry has been fully resolved, provided that no statutory retention obligations require otherwise.

6. Social Media Links

This website contains links to external social media profiles.

Data is transmitted to the respective provider only when you actively follow such a link. Once you leave our website, the privacy policy of the respective provider applies.

7. Rights of the Data Subject

Applicable data protection law grants you the following rights with regard to the processing of your personal data:

• Right of access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR
• Right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR
• Right to erasure pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR
• Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR
• Right to be informed pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR
• Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR
• Right to withdraw consent pursuant to Art. 7(3) GDPR
• Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR

Right to Object

IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST FOLLOWING A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME, ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO OBJECT TO SUCH PROCESSING WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE.

IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED.

HOWEVER, FURTHER PROCESSING REMAINS POSSIBLE IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR SUCH MARKETING.

IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.

8. Duration of Storage of Personal Data

The duration for which personal data is stored depends on the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and, where applicable, any relevant statutory retention periods, such as retention periods under commercial and tax law.

Where personal data is processed on the basis of explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, the data concerned will be stored until you withdraw your consent.

Where statutory retention periods apply to data processed within the context of contractual or quasi-contractual obligations on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, such data will routinely be deleted after the relevant retention periods have expired, provided that it is no longer required for the performance or initiation of a contract and we no longer have a legitimate interest in continued storage.

Where personal data is processed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, such data will be stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or unless the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Where personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, such data will be stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21(2) GDPR.

Unless otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy regarding specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.

Contact for privacy enquiries: hello@linnetcove.com