PRIVACY POLICY 

Personal data (usually referred to just as „data“ below) will only be processed by us to the extent necessary and for the purpose of pro- viding a functional and user-friendly website, including its contents, and the services offered there. 

Per Art. 4 No. 1 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, i.e. the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter referred to as the „GDPR“), „pro- cessing“ refers to any operation or set of operations such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation, altera- tion, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination, or otherwise making available, alignment, or combination, restriction, erasure, or destruction performed on personal data, whether by automated means or not. 

The following privacy policy is intended to inform you in particular about the type, scope, purpose, duration, and legal basis for the pro- cessing of such data either under our own control or in conjunction with others. We also inform you below about the third-party com- ponents we use to optimize our website and improve the user experience which may result in said third parties also processing data they collect and control. 

Our privacy policy is structured as follows: 

I. Information about us as controllers of your data
II. The rights of users and data subjects 
III. Information about the data processing 

I. INFORMATION ABOUT US AS CONTROLLERS OF YOUR DATA
VERANTWORTLICHE 

The party responsible for this website (the „controller“) for purposes of data protection law is: 

DD Compound GmbH
Lengericher Straße 8
49479 Ibbenbüren
GERMANY 

Phone: 05451 504470 
Mail: info@dd-compound.com 

II. THE RIGHTS OF USERS AND DATA SUBJECTS 

With regard to the data processing to be described in more detail below, users and data subjects have the right 

• to confirmation of whether data concerning them is being processed, information about the data being processed, further information about the nature of the data processing, and copies of the data (cf. also Art. 15 GDPR); • to correct or complete incorrect or incomplete data (cf. also Art. 16 GDPR); • to the immediate deletion of data concerning them (cf. also Art. 17 DSGVO), or, alternatively, if further processing is necessary as sti pulated in Art. 17 Para. 3 GDPR, to restrict said processing per Art. 18 GDPR; • to receive copies of the data concerning them and/or provided by them and to have the same transmitted to other providers/controllers (cf. also Art. 20 GDPR); • to file complaints with the supervisory authority if they believe that data concerning them is being processed by the controller in breach of data protection provisions (see also Art. 77 GDPR).

In addition, the controller is obliged to inform all recipients to whom it discloses data of any such corrections, deletions, or restrictions placed on processing the same per Art. 16, 17 Para. 1, 18 GDPR. However, this obligation does not apply if such notification is impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. Nevertheless, users have a right to information about these recipients. 

Likewise, under Art. 21 GDPR, users and data subjects have the right to object to the controller‘s future processing of their data pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. In particular, an objection to data processing for the purpose of direct advertising is permissible. 

III. INFORMATION ABOUT THE DATA PROCESSING 

Your data processed when using our website will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose for its storage ceases to apply, provided the deletion of the same is not in breach of any statutory storage obligations or unless otherwise stipulated below. 

COOKIES 

We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files or other storage technologies stored on your computer by your browser. These cookies process certain specific information about you, such as your browser, location data, or IP address.

This processing makes our website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure, allowing us, for example, to display our website in different languages or to offer a shopping cart function. 

The legal basis for such processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR, insofar as these cookies are used to collect data to initiate or process contractual relationships. 

If the processing does not serve to initiate or process a contract, our legitimate interest lies in improving the functionality of our web- site. The legal basis is then Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. 

When you close your browser, these session cookies are deleted. 

b) Third-party cookies
If necessary, our website may also use cookies from companies with whom we cooperate for the purpose of advertising, analyzing, or improving the features of our website. 

Please refer to the following information for details, in particular for the legal basis and purpose of such third-party collection and pro- cessing of data collected through cookies. 

You can refuse the use of cookies by changing the settings on your browser. Likewise, you can use the browser to delete cookies that have already been stored. However, the steps and measures required vary, depending on the browser you use. If you have any questi- ons, please use the help function or consult the documentation for your browser or contact its maker for support. Browser settings can- not prevent so-called flash cookies from being set. Instead, you will need to change the setting of your Flash player. The steps and mea- sures required for this also depend on the Flash player you are using. If you have any questions, please use the help function or consult the documentation for your Flash player or contact its maker for support.

If you prevent or restrict the installation of cookies, not all of the functions on our site may be fully usable. 

YouTube 

We maintain an online presence on YouTube to present our company and our services and to communicate with customers/prospects. YouTube is a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphi- theater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA. 

We would like to point out that this might cause user data to be processed outside the European Union, particularly in the United States. This may increase risks for users that, for example, may make subsequent access to the user data more difficult. We also do not have access to this user data. Access is only available to YouTube. Google LLC is certified under the Privacy Shield and committed to comply with European privacy standards. 

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active 

The YouTube privacy policy can be found here: 

https://policies.google.com/privacy 

SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS VIA GRAPHICS 

We also integrate the following social media sites into our website. The integration takes place via a linked graphic of the respective site. The use of these graphics stored on our own servers prevents the automatic connection to the servers of these networks for their display. Only by clicking on the corresponding graphic will you be forwarded to the service of the respective social network. 

Once you click, that network may record information about you and your visit to our site. It cannot be ruled out that such data will be processed in the United States. 

Initially, this data includes such things as your IP address, the date and time of your visit, and the page visited. If you are logged into your user account on that network, however, the network operator might assign the information collected about your visit to our site to your personal account. If you interact by clicking Like, Share, etc., this information can be stored your personal user account and possibly posted on the respective network. To prevent this, you need to log out of your social media account before clicking on the graphic. The various social media networks also offer settings that you can configure accordingly. 

The following social networks are integrated into our site by linked graphics: 

YouTube 

Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland, a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Moun- tain View, CA 94043 USA 

Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

EU-US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&sta-tus=Active

GOOGLE ANALYTICS 

We use Google Analytics on our website. This is a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland (hereinafter: Google). 

Through certification according to the EU-US Privacy Shield 

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active 

Google guarantees that it will follow the EU‘s data protection regulations when processing data in the United States. 

The Google Analytics service is used to analyze how our website is used. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, optimization, and economic operation of our site. 

Usage and user-related information, such as IP address, place, time, or frequency of your visits to our website will be transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. However, we use Google Analytics with the so-called anonymization function, whereby Google truncates the IP address within the EU or the EEA before it is transmitted to the US. 

The data collected in this way is in turn used by Google to provide us with an evaluation of visits to our website and what visitors do once there. This data can also be used to provide other services related to the use of our website and of the internet in general. 

Google states that it will not connect your IP address to other data. In addition, Google provides further information with regard to its data protection practices at 

https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners 

including options you can exercise to prevent such use of your data.

In addition, Google offers an opt-out add-on at 

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de 

in addition with further information. This add-on can be installed on the most popular browsers and offers you further control over the data that Google collects when you visit our website. The add-on informs Google Analytics‘ JavaScript (ga.js) that no information about the website visit should be transmitted to Google Analytics. However, this does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analytics services we may use as detailed herein. 

GOOGLE FONTS

Our website uses Google Fonts to display external fonts. This is a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland (hereinafter: Google). 

Through certification according to the EU-US Privacy Shield 

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active 

Google guarantees that it will follow the EU‘s data protection regulations when processing data in the United States. 

To enable the display of certain fonts on our website, a connection to the Google server in the USA is established whenever our website is accessed. 

The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the optimization and economic operation of our site. 

When you access our site, a connection to Google is established from which Google can identify the site from which your request has been sent and to which IP address the fonts are being transmitted for display. 

Google offers detailed information at 

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated 

https://policies.google.com/privacy 

in particular on options for preventing the use of data.

Model Data Protection Statement for Anwaltskanzlei Weiß & Partner