pursuant to GDPR

Summary: This website is intended for your information. We use personal data only internally for administering our business relationship with you and never pass them on to any third parties unless mandated by law. We do not place any cookies on your device. Nor do we use any services such as Google Analytics. Our physical web server is located in Germany and our provider’s other servers and technical infrastructure including our Hosted Exchange mail server are also in Germany. For details please read on!

1. Name and address of the person responsible for processing the personal data (Art. 13 (1) (a) and (b) GDPR)

ETYMO
G. Patzke
Darmstädter Str. 13
64646 Heppenheim
Germany

+49 6252 910760
info@etymo.de
www.etymo.de

Due to the small size of our company, we are under no obligation to appoint a data protection officer.

2. Purposes for which personal data are to be processed and legal basis for processing (Art. 13 (1) (c) GDPR)

Our business is to engage in writing, translating, reviewing, editing, copyediting texts in various languages and the provision of related services. The main purpose of our collection, processing and use of the personal data is to enter into relevant contracts and to fulfill our contractual obligations. Subsidiary purposes include customer and supplier administration as well as the support of prospective customers, contract initiation, and internal statistical purposes.

Personal data are collected, processed and used for the following groups of people, as far as this is necessary for the fulfillment of the aforementioned purposes:

• Customers: Address and contact details, contract data, billing data, payment data, creditworthiness data, and service information
• Suppliers: Address and contact details, contract data, billing data, and service information
• Prospectice customers: Address and contact details, creditworthiness data, and service information

Personal data will only be processed if at least one of the following applies:

• The data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes (Art. 6 (1) GDPR).
• Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract of which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR).
• Processing is necessary for compliance with legal obligation to which we are subject (Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR).
• Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR and Recital 47).

3. Recipients or categories of recipients of the personal data (Art. 13 (1) (e) and (f) GDPR)

Personal data are only used internally and passed on only in accordance with legal provisions:

• To public authorities, if and as required by law.
• To service providers as vicarious agents, insofar as the data are required for the fulfillment of the purposes stated under 2. above.

Personal data are never transmitted outside the EU or to any international organization.

4. Duration of storage of the personal data (Art. 13 (2) (a) GDPR)

Personal data will be deleted after the end of the legal or contractual retention periods. However, personal data not affected by such retention periods will be deleted once the purposes mentioned under 2. has become obsolete.

5. Right to information, rectification, and erasure; right to lodge a complaint (Art. 13 (2) (b) to (d) GDPR)

• Data subjects have the right to obtain information about pertinent personal data.
• Data subjects have the right to have incorrect or incomplete personal data corrected.
• Data subjects have the right to have their pertinent personal data erased or their use restriction, unless otherwise provided by law (e.g., tax law) or contractual agreement.
• Data subjects have the right to revoke their consent for processing pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDRP, unless otherwise provided by law (e.g. tax law) or contractual agreement.

These options are provided free of charge; all that is required is a simple message to us in text form.

Data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The authority responsible for us is the State Commissioner for Data Protection of Lower Saxony.

6. Obligation to provide data (Art. 13 (2) (e) GDPR)

The provision of personal data may be a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract. In this case, the data subject is required to provide the personal data. Failure to provide the requested personal data may render it impossible for us to enter into a contract with the data subject.

7. Automated decision-making (Art. 13 (2) (f) GDPR)

We do not use any form of automated decision making including profiling as defined by Art. 22 (1) and (4) GDPR.

8. Additional information

When you visit one of our pages, as everywhere on the Internet, anonymous access data (which cannot be assigned to any one person) is automatically acquired. These data are automatically transmitted by the visitor’s browser and collected by our provider in a log file (browser type and version, operating system, URI of the previously visited page, host name or IP address of your computer or router, as well as date and time of access). The purpose of this data collection is the statistical evaluation of our website and defense against hackers and other threats such as cybercrimes. These data will not be merged with other data sources or shared with third parties. The data will be deleted as required by law as soon as they are no longer needed for the purpose described.

When you submit one of our contact forms, the data you enter will be stored and processed in accordance with this privacy policy.

We do not use analysis tools (such as Google Analytics). There are no ads and no trackers on our pages. Any links to Xing and LinkedIn are simple links and not trackers. Our website offers no payment options. Our website does not place any cookies on your device.