1. Privacy Policy at a Glance

General Information
The following remarks provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our website. Personal information is any information that personally identifies you. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please refer to our Privacy Policy below.

Data Collection on our Website
Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
This website’s data processing is carried out by the website operator. Their contact data can be found on this website under Legal Info.

How do we collect your data?
Firstly, your data is collected by you communicating it to us. This may involve data that you enter into a contact form, for example.
Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is mainly technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or time of the page viewing). This data is collected automatically as soon as you access our website.

What do we use your data for?
Part of the data is collected to ensure flawless website availability. Other data can be used to analyse your user behaviour.
What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right at any time and free of charge to obtain information about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request that this data be rectified, blocked or deleted. Please contact us at any time at the address stated in Legal Info for questions regarding this or for further questions on the subject of data protection. Furthermore, you have the right to appeal to the responsible supervisory authority.

Analysis Tools and Tools from Third-Party Providers
When you visit our website, your surfing behavior can be statistically evaluated. This occurs primarily using cookies and so-called analysis programs. The analysis of your surfing behavior is as a rule anonymous; the surfing behavior 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 following Privacy Policy.
You can object to this analysis. Information regarding objection possibilities follows in this Privacy Policy.

2. General Remarks and Compulsory Information

Privacy
The operators of these pages take the protection of personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with data protection legislation and this Privacy Policy.
If you use this website, various personal data will be collected. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect and how we use it. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.
We draw your attention to the fact that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) may involve gaps in security. It is not possible to protect such data completely against access by third parties.

Reference to the Responsible Party
The responsible party for data processing on this website is:

Verena Wilmes, Ulricherstr. 42, 59494 Soest
Phone 0160/2676047, E-Mail rafu@rafu.info

Represented by:
Verena Wilmes

The responsible body is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing 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 revoke your consent at any time. For this purpose, an informal e-mail notification to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right of Appeal to the Responsible Supervisory Authority
In the event of breaches of data protection law, the person concerned shall have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The responsible supervisory authority for data protection issues is the 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: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to Data Portability
You have the right to have data which we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another responsible person, this will only be done to the extent technically feasible.

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 requests that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize 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 at any time to be provided with information free of charge relating to data stored concerning your person, its origin and the recipient of the data as well as the purpose of its processing, as well as a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data. Please contact us at any time at the address stated in Legal Info for questions regarding this or for further questions on the subject of personal data.

Objection to Promotional E-mails
We hereby object to the use of contact data, published in accordance with the German Telemedia Act, to send unsolicited advertising and information material. The operators of these pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the case of transmission of non-solicited advertising material, e.g. spam e-mails.

3. Data Collection on our Website

Cookies
This website uses so-called cookies in some cases. Cookies do not damage your computer and contain no viruses. Cookies serve to make our Internet presence more user-friendly, more effective and more 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 after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser during your next visit. You can also set your browser so that you will be informed about the setting of cookies, and only allow cookies in individual cases, specific cases, or generally reject them, as well as activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website. Cookies, which are required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions requested by you (e.g. shopping basket function), are stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies for analysing your surfing behavior) are stored, these are dealt with separately in this data protection declaration.

Server Log Files
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information automatically transmitted to us by your browser in so-called server log files. This information is:
• browser type and version
• operating system used
• referrer URL
• host of the accessing computer
• time of the server request
• IP address
A consolidation of this data with other data sources does not occur. The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. f GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Contact Form
When using the contact form for inquiries, your details from the inquiry form including the contact data you provided there will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. Without your consent, this data will not be disclosed. The processing of the data entered in the contact form is therefore based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time. For this purpose, an informal e-mail notification to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation. The data entered by you in the contact form will remain with us until you request deletion, revoke your consent to storage, or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.

4. Social Media

Facebook Plugins (Like & Share Buttons)
Facebook Plugins (Like & Share Buttons) Plugins from the social network Facebook, provider Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA, are integrated into our pages. Facebook plugins on our pages can be recognized by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button. An overview of the Facebook plugins can be found here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit our pages, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Thereby Facebook receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click on the Facebook “Like” button while logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to match up your visit to our pages with your user account. Please note that we, as providers of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of transmitted data nor of its use by Facebook. For more information, please refer to the Facebook’s Privacy Policy at: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php If you do not wish that Facebook matches up your visit to our pages with your Facebook account, please log out of Facebook.

Twitter Plugin
Functions of the service Twitter are integrated into our pages. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the function “re-tweet,” the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and shared with other users. In doing so, data is also transmitted to Twitter. Please note that we, as providers of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of transmitted data nor of its use by Twitter. For more information, please refer to the Privacy Policy of Twitter at: http://twitter.com/privacy. You can change your privacy settings on Twitter in the account settings at: http://twitter.com/account/settings.

Google+ Plugin
Our pages use Google+ functions. Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Collection and disclosure of information: You can use the Google+ button to publish information worldwide. Via the Google +1 button, you and other users receive personalized content from Google and our partners. Google stores both the information that you gave +1 for an item, and information about the page you viewed when you clicked +1. Your +1s can be shown as a reference together with your profile name and photo in Google services, such as search results or your Google profile, or blended in on other areas on websites and in advertisements in the Internet. Google records information on your +1 activities to improve Google services for you and others. To be able to use the Google +1 button, you need a globally visible, public Google profile that must include at least the name chosen for the profile. This name is used in all Google services. In some cases, this name can also replace another name you used when sharing content via your Google account. The identity of your Google profile may be displayed to users that know your e-mail address, or have other identifying information about you. Use of collected information: In addition to the uses described above, the information you provide is used in accordance with the applicable Google privacy policies. Google may publish consolidated statistics about users’ +1 activities, or disclose these to users and partners, such as publishers, advertisers or associated websites.

Pinterest Plugin
On our site we use social plugins of the social network Pinterest, which is operated by Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-490, USA (“Pinterest”). When you visit a page that contains such a plugin, your browser connects directly to Pinterest’s servers. The plugin transmits protocol data to the Pinterest server in the USA. This log information may include your IP address, the address of the websites visited that also include Pinterest features, browser type and settings, date and time of request, your use of Pinterest, and cookies. Further information on the purpose, scope and further processing and use of the data by Pinterest as well as your related rights and possibilities for the protection of your privacy can be found in Pinterest’s Privacy Policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

5. Analysis Tools and Advertising

Google Analytics
Our website uses the web analysis service “Google Analytics” Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (Google). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on the user’s computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about users’ use of the website is generally transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Our Internet presence uses Google Analytics exclusively with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”, which ensures an anonymization of the IP address through truncating, and excludes a direct personal reference. With this extension, Google truncates your IP address within member countries of the European Union or in other contracting states party to the European Economic Area Agreement. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. In these exceptional cases, this processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. f GDPR, on the basis of our legitimate interest in the statistical analysis of user behavior for optimization and marketing purposes. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing us with other services relating to website activity and Internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by adjusting your browser software; however, please note that if you do so, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
As an alternative to the browser plugin, or within browsers on mobile devices, please click the following link to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent Google Analytics from collecting cookies from this site in the future (this opt-out cookie only works in this browser and only for this domain – if you delete your cookies in this browser, you must click this link again):

The anonymized data will be stored for a maximum period of 14 months. The data will then be deleted automatically. You can find more information about the handling of user data by Google Analytics in the Terms of Service for Google Analytics https://www.google.de/analytics/terms/, Google’s Privacy Policy https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, or here https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

IP Anonymization
We have activated the IP anonymization function on this website. This will cause Google to truncate your IP address within member countries of the European Union or in other contracting states party to the European Economic Area Agreement before it is transmitted to the USA. 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 evaluate your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google.

Browser Plugin
You may refuse the use of cookies by adjusting your browser software; however, please note that if you do so, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Objection to Data Collection
You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie is set to prevent your information from being collected on future visits to this website: Disable Google Analytics. For more information on how Google Analytics handles user data, please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Contract Data Processing
We have concluded a contract with Google for contract data processing and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.

Demographic Characteristics of Google Analytics
This website uses the function “demographic characteristics” from Google Analytics. This allows reports to be generated that contain information about the age, gender and interests of site visitors. This data comes from interest-related advertising by Google and visitor data from third parties. This information cannot be associated with any specific individual. You can disable this function at any time via the ad settings in your Google Account or generally prohibit Google Analytics from collecting your data as described under “Objection to Data Collection”.

6. Newsletter

Newsletter Data
If your would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require an e-mail address from you, as well as information permitting us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided, and that you agree to receiving the newsletter. Further data will not be collected or will only be collected on a voluntary basis. We use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and to not disclose it to third parties. The processing of the data entered in the newsletter registration form is carried out exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. a GDPR). The consent to storage of data, the e-mail address as well as its use for sending the newsletter may be revoked at any time, for example through the “Unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation. The data that you have stored with us for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and deleted after you cancel the newsletter. This does not affect data stored by us for other purposes (e.g. e-mail addresses for the Member Section).

7. Plugins and Tools

Google Maps
Google Maps This page uses the Google Maps map service via an API. Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. To use the features of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred 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 making our website appealing and to facilitate the location of places specified by us on the website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. f GDPR. For more information about the handling of user data, please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Google Web Fonts
This page uses so-called web fonts to display the font. These are provided by Google (http://www.google.com/webfonts/). When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache. This is necessary so that your browser can also display an optically improved display of our texts. If your browser does not support this function, a standard font is used by your computer for display. Further information about Google Web Fonts can be found at: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq. You can find general information about data protection at Google at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.