Privacy policy

The responsible party within the meaning of the data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), is:

Company: Sierks Media | c/o IP-Management #40115 | Ludwig-Erhard-Str. 18 | D-20459 Hamburg
Owner: Jan-Christopher Sierks
Telephone: +49 (0)40 35674993 | Email: media@sierks.media

Your victims rights

You can always exercise the following rights under the contact details of our data protection officer:

• Information about your stored data and their processing,
• Correction of incorrect personal data,
• Deletion of your stored data,
• Restriction of data processing, if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations,
• Objection to the processing of your data by us and
• Data portability, if you have consented to the data processing or have signed a contract with us.

If you have given us your consent, you can withdraw it at any time with effect for the future.

You can always contact the supervisory authority responsible for you with a complaint. Your competent supervisory authority depends on the state of your domicile, your work or the alleged infringement. A list of non-public-sector supervisory authorities can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Home/home_node.html.

Purposes of data processing by the responsible body and third parties

We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. A transfer of your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those mentioned does not take place. We only share your personal information with third parties if:

• You have given your express consent to
• the processing is required to complete a contract with you,
• the processing is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation,

processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests and there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not disclosing your information.

Deletion or blocking of data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. Therefore, we only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here or as provided by the various storage periods provided for by law. After discontinuation of the respective purpose or expiration of these deadlines, the corresponding data are routinely and according to the legal regulations blocked or deleted.

Collecting general information when visiting our website

When you access our website, a cookie automatically records information of a general nature. This information (server log files) contains about the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider and the like. This is only information that does not allow conclusions about your person.

This information is technically necessary to correctly deliver the content of websites you have requested and is mandatory when using the Internet. It is processed in particular for the following purposes:

• Ensuring a hassle-free connection of the website,
• Ensuring a smooth use of our website,
• Evaluation of system security and stability as well
• for further administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest for the purposes mentioned above for collecting data. We do not use your information to draw conclusions about you. The recipient of the data is only the responsible body and possibly the processor.

Anonymous information of this kind may be statistically evaluated by us to optimize our website and the underlying technology.

Cookies

We use cookies to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.

Our partners may combine this information with other information that you have provided to them or that they have collected as part of your use of their services.

Furthermore, the processing and use of cookies by third-party providers takes place in the USA. There is no decision from the European Commission and no certificate from the European Court of Justice confirming that the USA provides an adequate level of data protection. Moreover, the USA does not guarantee the security of personal data.

It is therefore possible that personal data may be used by authorities for control and monitoring purposes. There are no effective legal remedies against this data access.

Cookies are small text files used by websites to make the user experience more efficient. By law, we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies, we need your permission.

This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third parties that appear on our site. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time from the Cookie Statement on our website.

These cookies are required to use the site:

Name	Offerer	Purpose	Our Process	Type
na_sc_e	Oracle AddThis	This cookie recognizes the user when he or she re-enters this site.	1 year	HTML
na_rn	AddThis	Used to recognize the visitor upon re-entry.	1 year	HTML
ASP.NET_SessionId	Shots Publishing	ASP.NET_SessionId is an ASP cookie and allows web pages to store serialization state data. It is used to establish a user session and communicate state data through a temporary cookie.	Session	HTML
na_sr	Oracle AddThis	This cookie is used for sharing links on social media platforms.	1 year	HTML
clickskeks	clickskeks	This cookie stores the user's cookie consent status for the current domain.	1 year	HTML
DSID	Shots Publishing	This cookie is used to record your specific user identity. It contains an encrypted unique ID.	59 Minutes	HTML
na_srp	AddThis	This cookie works similarly to the cookie "na_sc_e". It recognizes the user when they re-enter this page.	< 1 minute	HTML

You can view all cookies at any time by clicking on the black and white cookie symbol at the bottom left of the website. You can also adjust your preferences there.

SSL encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption techniques (such as SSL) over HTTPS.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (following: Google). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", ie text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on these websites, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address provided by Google Analytics within the framework of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data provided by Google.

The purposes of the data processing are the evaluation of the use of the website and the compilation of reports on activities on the website. Based on the use of the website and the Internet, other related services will be provided. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible. In addition, you may prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install: Browser Add On to disable Google Analytics.

In addition or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our pages: Disable Google Analytics, An opt-out cookie will be installed on your device. This will prevent the collection by Google Analytics for this website and for this browser in the future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

Embedded YouTube videos

On some of our websites, we embed Youtube videos. The respective plug-ins are operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page with the YouTube plug-in, it will connect to Youtube's servers. Youtube will be informed, which pages you visit. If you are logged into your Youtube account, Youtube can assign your surfing behavior to you personally. This can be prevented by logging out of your Youtube account beforehand.

If a Youtube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behavior.

Anyone who has disabled the storage of cookies for the Google Ad program will not have to expect any such cookies even when watching YouTube videos. Youtube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you want to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in the browser.

Further information on data protection at "Youtube" can be found in the privacy policy of the provider at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Google AdWords

Our website uses Google conversion tracking. If you reached our website via an advertisement placed by Google, Google Adwords will set a cookie on your computer. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an ad placed by Google. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages on our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can see that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Every Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot therefore be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers find out the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information with which users can be personally identified.

If you do not want to participate in the tracking, you can refuse the required setting of a cookie - for example via a browser setting that generally disables the automatic setting of cookies or sets your browser to block cookies from the domain "googleleadservices.com".

Please note that you can not delete the opt-out cookies as long as you do not want to record measurement data. If you have deleted all your cookies in the browser, you must set the respective opt-out cookie again.

Google AdSense

This website uses Google AdSense. This is a service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, for integrating advertisements. Google AdSense uses cookies. These are files that are stored on your PC so that Google can analyze the data relating to your use of our website. Google AdSense also uses web beacons, invisible graphics that allow Google to analyze clicks on this website, traffic on this website, and similar information.

The information obtained via cookies and web beacons, your IP address and the delivery of advertising formats are transmitted to a Google server located in the USA and stored there. Google may pass this collected information on to third parties if this is required by law or if Google instructs third parties to process the data. However, Google will merge your IP address with the other stored data.

You can prevent the cookies mentioned from being stored on your PC by making the appropriate settings in your Internet browser. However, this means that the content of this website can no longer be used to the same extent. By using this website, you consent to the processing of the data collected about you by Google in the manner described above and for the purpose stated above.

We use a Google consent management tool (CMP) for GDPR consents for ads for users in the EEA and the UK. You can see all of your settings at any time by clicking on the Google icon at the bottom of the website. You can also adjust your preferences there.

Looking

The advertisements on this website are marketed by the marketer Mirando, among others. These advertisements enable us to offer our website free of charge. For this purpose, Mirando's technology enables improved delivery of advertisements. For this reason, data on click behavior, visit duration, system settings, geolocation and the origin of visitors are collected through the use of cookies.

Cookies are stored on your computer for these evaluations. This collected data, which is without exception anonymized data, can also be stored and processed on the servers of Mirando's cooperation partners. In all cases, the following applies: The collected anonymized data is not used to personally identify the respective user and is not merged with other personal information of the user.

You can prevent the installation of cookies at any time by setting your browser software accordingly. If you no longer wish to receive usage-based advertising of this type, you can also click on the following links and thereby object to the respective data collection by Mirando and its partners.

Further information can be found here: https://www.mirando.de/datenschutz/

Amazon Polly

This website uses Amazon Polly. This is a service provided by Amazon Web Services, Inc., 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle WA 98109, USA, which converts text into audio and can be used in the articles. Amazon Polly may only store text input processed by the service to a extent necessary to provide and maintain the service or to improve the quality of Amazon Polly and other Amazon technologies with regard to machine learning/artificial intelligence.

Amazon does not use any personally identifiable information that may be contained in the content to target you with products, services or marketing materials. Amazon uses appropriate and innovative technical and physical controls, including encryption at rest and in transit, to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure of the content and to ensure that the data is used only in accordance with the commitments to us.

For more information about Amazon Web Services privacy practices, see https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy-faq/.

processors

We use external service providers (contract processors), especially for hosting. Separate data processing agreements have been concluded with the service providers to ensure the protection of your personal data.

social media plug-ins

There are links to the pages of social networks. The activities of users there are outside our sphere of influence. We recommend that you read the respective privacy statements to find out about the data collected there.

Local fonts

This site uses different fonts for a uniform display. They are installed locally. There is no connection to servers.

GTranslate

Our website offers you the option of translating content into your preferred language. To do this, we use the GTranslate plugin from GTranslate Inc., 7957 N University Dr #355 Parkland, FL 33067, USA, which is based on Google Translate technology.

In order to provide the translation, a connection is established between your browser and the servers of GTranslate.io and Google. This means that GTranslate.io and Google receive information that our website was accessed via your IP address.

The use of Google Translate serves the international orientation of our offer and is based on our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

Further information on how user data is handled can be found in the respective privacy policies at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://de.gtranslate.io/Bedingungen.

Please note that computer-generated translations do not always correspond exactly to the original text.

PayPal

We use donation buttons from PayPal (https://www.paypal.com/de/business). If you have a PayPal account and would like to send us a donation, you can do so by clicking on the donation button. Using the donation button establishes a connection between your browser and the PayPal server.

PayPal therefore receives the information that you have visited our site using your IP address. Data is also transferred to PayPal. We do not receive any information about the content of the data transferred or how it is used by PayPal.

For further information please see the PayPal privacy policy.

Change of our privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy to always comply with the latest legal requirements or to implement changes to our privacy policy, such as the introduction of new services. Your new visit will be subject to the new privacy policy.

Questions to the data protection officer

If you have any questions about privacy, please email us or contact the person responsible for privacy in our organization:

Company: Sierks Media | c/o IP-Management #40115 | Ludwig-Erhard-Str. 18 | D-20459 Hamburg
Owner: Jan-Christopher Sierks
Telephone: +49 (0)40 35674993 | Email: media@sierks.media

Imprint:
You can find our imprint at shots.media/impressum.