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Privacy Policy

Protection of Privacy

§ 1 Information on the Collection of Personal Data

(1) Below we inform you about the collection of personal data when you use our website. Personal data means any information relating to you personally, such as your name, address, email addresses, and user behavior.
(2) The controller in accordance with Art. 4(7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:
SIMCHRONIZE GmbH
Auf der Großen Heide 9
D-33609 Bielefeld
+49 (0) 521 163946 03
hello@simchronize.net
(supplementing our imprint)
You can reach our data protection officer at hello@Address or at our postal address with the addition “the data protection officer.”
(3) When you contact us by email or through a contact form, the data you provide (your email address, possibly your name, and your phone number) will be stored by us to answer your questions. We will delete the data generated in this context once storage is no longer necessary, or we will restrict processing if there are statutory retention obligations.
(4) If we make use of commissioned service providers for individual functions of our offering or wish to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail below about the respective processes. We will also specify the defined criteria for the storage period.

§ 2 Your Rights

(1) You have the following rights with regard to your personal data:

– Right of access,
– Right to rectification or erasure,
– Right to restriction of processing,
– Right to object to processing,
– Right to data portability.

(2) You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority concerning our processing of your personal data.

§ 3 Collection of Personal Data When Visiting Our Website

(1) If you use our website for informational purposes only, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security (legal basis: Art. 6(1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR):

– IP address
– Date and time of the request
– Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
– Content of the request (specific page)
– Access status/HTTP status code
– Amount of data transferred in each case
– Website from which the request comes
– Browser
– Operating system and its interface
– Language and version of the browser software

(2) In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files stored on your hard drive assigned to the browser you use, through which certain information flows to the entity that sets the cookie (in this case, us). Cookies cannot execute programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the website overall more user-friendly and effective.

(3) Use of cookies:

  1. a) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functionality of which are explained below:

–Transient Cookies (see b)

–Persistent Cookies (see c).

  1. b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. This includes session cookies in particular. They store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the shared session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.
  2. c) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may differ depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in your browser’s security settings.
  3. d) You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse the acceptance of third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all the functions of this website.
  4. e) We use cookies to identify you for subsequent visits if you have an account with us. Otherwise, you would have to log in again for each visit.
  5. f) The flash cookies used are not captured by your browser but by your Flash plug-in. We also use HTML5 storage objects, which are stored in your device,These objects store the necessary data regardless of your browser and do not have an automatic expiration date. If you do not want Flash cookies processed, you must install a corresponding add-on, such as “Better Privacy” for Mozilla Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/e/firefox/addon/betterprivacy) or the Adobe Flash Killer Cookie for Google Chrome. You can prevent the use of HTML5 storage by using your browser’s private mode. We also recommend regularly deleting your cookies and browser history manually.

§ 4 Use of Web Fonts

(1) This website uses external fonts, Google Fonts. Google Fonts is a service of Google Inc. (“Google”). The integration of these web fonts is carried out by a server request, usually to a Google server in the USA. This transmits to the server which of our internet pages you have visited. The IP address of the browser of the visitor’s device is also stored by Google.

(2) Further information can be found in Google’s privacy policy:
https://www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace:about
https://www.google.com/policies/privacy

https://www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace:about

https://www.google.com/policies/privacy

§ 5 Use of Google Analytics

(1) This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies,” text files stored on your computer that enable analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

(2) The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.

(3) You may refuse the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

(4) This website uses Google Analytics with the “_anonymizeIp()” extension. This ensures that IP addresses are processed in shortened form, excluding any personal identification. Where the data collected about you is personally identifiable, this is immediately excluded, and the personal data is deleted without delay.

(5) We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website regularly and improve it. The statistics obtained allow us to improve our services and make them more interesting for you as a user. In exceptional cases where personal data is transferred to the USA, Google is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. The legal basis for using Google Analytics is Art. 6(1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

(6) Provider information: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. Terms of service: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html, Privacy overview: https://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/learn/privacy.html, Privacy policy: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

(7) To block Google Analytics, click HERE.

§ 6 Use of Google Maps

(1) This website uses Google Maps to display interactive maps, enabling convenient use of the map function.

(2) By visiting the website, Google receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our site. The data specified in § 3 of this policy is also transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be directly associated with your account. If you do not wish this association with your Google profile, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for advertising, market research, and/or the tailored design of its website. Such evaluation is carried out (even for users not logged in) to provide tailored advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, and you must contact Google to exercise this right.

(3) Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by the plug-in provider can be found in the provider’s privacy policy, where you will also find further information about your rights and privacy settings:

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

Google also processes your personal data in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield:, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

§ 7 Newsletter

If you have registered for our newsletter, we use the data you provided solely for sending the newsletter. Your data will be deleted immediately if you cancel your subscription. You can unsubscribe at any time via the link contained in the newsletter.

§ 8 Brute-Force Protection

Our website is based on the WordPress content management system. WordPress provides an administrative area through which the website’s content can be managed. Access to this area is limited to the editors and administrators of this website. This access is monitored and logged by the WordPress plug-in “iThemes Security,” for example, in the event of failed login attempts or attempts to guess access data through repeated password testing (“brute-force attacks”).

Login attempts to the administrative area are stored in our database along with the IP address for 7 days and then deleted. In the event of multiple unauthorized login attempts, IP storage and blocking for a longer period is possible. There is a legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1) lit. f GDPR in the collection and processing of IP addresses by “iThemes Security,” as this protects the site from technical attacks and unauthorized access attempts. This ensures the security of the entire website and the stability of our server, and it also protects any personal data processed elsewhere.

The IP addresses used for verification are only used by “iThemes Security” for this purpose. Brute-force protection only applies to the administrative area of our website and does not affect the use of our website outside the protected area.

(Last updated: August 2025)