Data Privacy Statement

Responsible provider
Marc Asmussen, Dipl.–Ing.
Fotografie & Mediendesign
Dorotheenweg 1a
22949 Ammersbek, Germany
For further information see Legal Notice

Validity range
This privacy statement applies to the website asmussen-architekturfotografie.de operated by Marc Asmussen. With this privacy statement you receive information about the type, scope and purpose of using your data collected by Marc Asmussen. This privacy statement does not apply to linked websites other providers. For the observance of the data privacy statement of the linked on this website third-party websites, only the providers or operators of the respective pages are responsible.

General
Our website may be used without entering personal information. Different rules may apply to certain services on our site, however, and are explained separately below. We collect personal information from you (e.g. name, email address, etc.) in accordance with the provisions of German data protection statutes. Information is considered personal if it can be associated exclusively to a specific natural person. The legal framework for data protection may be found in the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Telemedia Act (TMG). The provisions below serve to provide information as to the manner, extent and purpose for collecting, using and processing personal information by the provider. Please be aware that data transfer via the internet is subject to security risks and, therefore, complete protection against third-party access to transferred data cannot be ensured even if we use SSL-encoding and HTTPS.

Contact form and email
On our website we offer you the opportunity to contact us, either by email and/or by using a contact form. In such event, information provided by the user is stored for the purpose of facilitating communications with the user. No data is transferred to third parties. Nor is any of this information matched to any information that may be collected by other components of our website.

Cookies
Our website use cookies in order to recognize repeat use of our website by the same user/internet connection subscriber. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser downloads and stores on your computer. They are used to improve our website and services. In most cases these are so-called “session cookies” that are deleted once you leave our website. To an extent, however, these cookies also pass along information used to automatically recognize you. Recognition occurs through an IP address saved to the cookies. The information thereby obtained is used to improve our services and to expedite your access to the website. You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our website.

Google-Adwords
For purposes of promotion, our website also employs the Google ad tool “Google-Adwords”. As part of this, our website employs the analysis service “Conversion-Tracking” from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google“. If you access our site by way of a Google ad, a cookie is placed on your computer. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser downloads and stores to your computer. These so-called “conversion cookies” cease to be active after 30 days and are not used to identify you personally. If you visit certain pages of our website while the cookie is still active, we and Google know that you, as user, have clicked on ads placed on Google and were redirected to our site. Google uses the information obtained through “conversion cookies” to compile statistics for our website. These statistics tell us the total number of users who have clicked on our ad as well as which pages of our site were then accessed by each user. However, neither we nor other advertisers who use “Google-Adwords” receive any kind of information that can be used to personally identify users. You can prevent the installation of “conversion cookies” by making the appropriate change to your browser settings, for example by setting your browser so that the automatic placement of cookies is deactivated or by blocking cookies from the domain “googleadservices.com“.You can obtain the relevant data privacy policy from Google at the following link:
http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

Server data, log files
Your internet browser, transmit data to our web space provider.
These log files capture the data of type and version of your Internet browser, the operating system, the website from which you have switched to our website, the website(s) of our website that you visit, the date and time of access, and the IP address of the Internet connection from which the use of our website is charged. This information is stored temporarily, but not shared with other information about you. The storage of the log files serves the evaluation, and improvement of stability, and security functionality, contents of our Internet site. The log files will be deleted automatically by our provider after 6 weeks

Information/Cancellation/Deletion
On the basis of the Federal Data Protection Act, you may contact us at no cost if you have questions relating to the collection, processing or use of your personal information, if you wish to request the correction, blocking or deletion of the same, or if you wish to cancel explicitly granted consent. Please note that you have the right to have incorrect data corrected or to have personal data deleted, where such claim is not barred by any legal obligation to retain this data.

Change of Data Privacy Statement
In order to ensure that our privacy statement always complies with current legal requirements, we reserve the right to make changes at any time. This also applies in the event that the privacy statement has to be adapted due to new or revised services. The new privacy statement will then take effect on your next visit to our website.