Privacy Policy

1. General Information on Data Processing

We place a high priority on the protection of personal data. Personal data is processed exclusively in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable national data protection laws (in particular the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act (TTDSG)).

We process personal data only to the extent necessary,

  • in order to provide a fully functional website,

  • to communicate with you,

  • to fulfill contractual obligations or

  • to protect our legitimate interests.

2. Collection and Storage of Personal Data When Visiting the Website

When you visit our website, our system automatically collects data that is technically necessary to display the website.

This may include, in particular, the following data:

  • IP address (truncated or pseudonymized),

  • Date and time of access,

  • Browser type and operating system,

  • Website from which the access is made,

  • Name of the file retrieved.

3. Initial Contact

If you contact us by email or phone, the information you provide will be used to process your inquiry.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

Data processing is carried out on the following legal grounds:

Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR

(legitimate interest in ensuring the technical functionality and security of the website).

The data is used solely to ensure system operation and for error analysis, and is not combined with other data sources.

Art. 6(1)(b) of the GDPR

(pre-contractual measures and performance of a contract).

Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR

(our legitimate interest in effective communication).

Personal data will be deleted as soon as your request has been fully processed.

5. Use of Cookies

Our website uses technically necessary cookies that are required for the website to function.

6. Legal basis for processing

The processing of personal data is based on

Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR (legitimate interests) in conjunction with § 25(2)(2) of the TTDSG, to the extent that this is technically necessary for the operation of the website.

Tracking or marketing cookies are not used without your active consent.

7. Disclosure of Data

We will only share your personal data if:

  • you have given your explicit consent (Art. 6(1)(a) of the GDPR),

  • the disclosure is necessary for the performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) of the GDPR),

  • there is a legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c) of the GDPR) or

  • we have a legitimate interest in disclosing the data and there are no overriding interests of the data subject that would prevent this (Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR).

Personal data will only be transferred to third countries if the legal requirements are met.

8. Retention period

Personal data is stored only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the relevant purpose or as required by statutory retention periods.

9. Rights of Data Subjects

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:

  • Right to access your stored personal data (Art. 15 GDPR)

  • Right to rectification of inaccurate data (Art. 16 GDPR)

  • Right to erasure of your data (Art. 17 GDPR)

  • Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)

  • Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)

  • Right to object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR)

  • Right to withdraw consent with future effect (Art. 7(3) GDPR)

Please direct any inquiries to:

tino.lurtsch@tream-partners.com

You also have the right to file a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, such as the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW).

10. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures (TOMs) to protect your data against loss, tampering, and unauthorized access. These security measures are regularly reviewed and updated.

11. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy to ensure that it remains in compliance with current legal requirements and technical developments.

Data Controller

TREAM & Partners GmbH
Jägerhofstraße 39
D‑45478 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany

T +49 (0)172 1316 695
tino.lurtsch@tream-partners.com‍ ‍

Represented by its Managing Director: Tino Lurtsch