Deaf Dog Records

Privacy Policy

1 General

The following privacy policy applies to the use of our website deafdogrecords.de (hereinafter “website”).

We attach great importance to data protection. Your personal data is collected and processed in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations, in particular the Basic Data Protection Ordinance (DSGVO).

2 Controller

The controller responsible for processing your personal data within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR is:

Deaf Dog Records e.K., owner Bernd Bloedorn, Feuerbergstraße 4a, 22337 Hamburg, Germany, phone: +49 40 219 821 49, e-mail: info@deafdogrecords.de

If you wish to object to the collection, processing or use of your data by us in accordance with these data protection regulations as a whole or for individual measures, you can address your objection to the person responsible.

You can save and print out this data protection declaration at any time.

3 General Purposes of Processing

We use personal data for the purpose of operating the website.

4 Which Data We Use and Why

4.1 Hosting

The hosting services we use serve to provide the following services: Infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage and database services, security services and technical maintenance services that we use to operate the Site.

We or our hosting provider process inventory data, contact data, content data, contract data, usage data, meta- and communication data of customers, interested parties and visitors to this website on the basis of our legitimate interests in an efficient and secure provision of our website in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 f) DSGVO in conjunction with. Art. 28 DSGVO.

Our website is hosted by IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany. We have concluded a data processing agreement with IONOS in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR.

4.2 Access Data

We collect information about you when you use this website. We automatically collect information about your usage behavior and interaction with us and record data about your computer or mobile device. We collect, store and use data about every access to our website (so-called server log files). Access data includes:

  • Name and URL of the retrieved file
  • Datum und Uhrzeit des Abrufs
  • transferred data volume
  • Message about successful retrieval (HTTP response code)
  • Browser type and browser version
  • Operating system
  • Referer URL (i.e. the previously visited page)
  • Websites accessed by the user's system through our website
  • Internet service provider of the user
  • IP address and the requesting provider

This data is automatically stored in log files (server log files) by our hosting provider's web server. We use it exclusively to ensure the operation and security of the website, to find errors and to fend off attacks. It is not combined with other data, used for profiling or analysed for advertising purposes. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR; our legitimate interest lies in the secure and error-free operation of the website.

The log files are deleted after eight weeks at the latest, unless they are needed for longer to investigate a specific security incident.

4.3 Cookies and Local Storage

Our website does not set any cookies and does not use any analytics, tracking or advertising tools. No data is stored in your browser's local storage either.

4.4 Contact by E-Mail and Contact Form

If you contact us (e.g. via contact form or e-mail), we will process your details to process your inquiry and in the event that follow-up questions arise.

If the data processing takes place for the execution of pre-contractual measures which take place at your request or, if you are already our customer, for the execution of the contract, the legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 b) DSGVO.

We will only process further personal data if you give your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 a) DSGVO) or if we have a legitimate interest in processing your data (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f) DSGVO). For example, there is a legitimate interest in replying to your e-mail.

When you use the contact form, we process the data you enter (name, e-mail address, topic, message). The form sends your information as an e-mail to our mailbox; it is not stored on the website beyond that. To protect against automated spam messages, we check how quickly the form was submitted and briefly limit the number of messages per IP address; no third-party services are used for this. We delete your enquiry as soon as it has been dealt with, unless statutory retention obligations apply.

4.5 Fonts

The fonts used on our website are loaded from our own server. No connection to servers of Google or other providers is established.

4.6 Links to External Websites

On our website, we link to music videos on YouTube (provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) and to the websites of the artists we work with. The videos are not embedded; the preview images shown are stored on our server.

These are simple links: only when you click on a link are you taken to the page of the respective provider, to which its privacy policy applies. Merely visiting our website does not transmit any data to these providers.

5 Storage time

Unless specifically stated, we only store personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes pursued.

In some cases, the legislator provides for the storage of personal data, for example in tax or commercial law. In these cases, the data will only be stored by us for these legal purposes, but will not be processed in any other way and deleted after expiry of the legal retention period.

6 Your rights as someone affected by data processing.

According to the applicable laws, you have various rights regarding your personal data. If you wish to assert these rights, please send your request by e-mail or by post to the address specified in section 1, clearly identifying yourself.

Below you will find an overview of your rights.

6.1 Right to confirmation and information

You have the right to clear information about the processing of your personal data.

In detail:

You have the right to receive confirmation from us at any time as to whether personal data relating to you will be processed. If this is the case, you have the right to request from us free of charge information about the personal data stored about you together with a copy of this data. Furthermore, there is a right to the following information:

  • 1. the processing purposes;
  • 2. the categories of personal data being processed;
  • 3. the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or are still being disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations;
  • 4. if possible, the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining this duration;
  • 5. the existence of a right to have your personal data concerning you rectified or deleted or to have the controller restrict or object to such processing;
  • 6. the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority;
  • 7. if the personal data is not collected from you, all available information about the origin of the data;
  • 8. the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling in accordance with Art. 22 para. 1 and 4 DSGVO and - at least in these cases - meaningful information on the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing for you.

If personal data are transferred to a third country or an international organisation, you have the right to be informed of the appropriate guarantees in accordance with Art. 46 DSGVO in connection with the transfer.

6.2 Right to correction

You have the right to ask us to correct and, if necessary, complete any personal data concerning you.

In detail:

You have the right to request us to correct any inaccurate personal data concerning you without delay. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you have the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data - also by means of a supplementary declaration.

6.3 Right to cancellation ("Right to be forgotten")

In a number of cases we are obliged to delete personal data concerning you.

In detail:

Pursuant to Art. 17 para. 1 DSGVO, you have the right to demand that we delete personal data concerning you without delay, and we are obliged to delete personal data without delay if one of the following reasons applies:

  • 1. The personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
  • 2. You revoke your consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 a) DSGVO or Art. 9 para. 2 a) DSGVO, and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
  • 3. You file an objection to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 DSGVO and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for processing, or you file an objection to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 para. 2 DSGVO.
  • 4. The personal data have been processed unlawfully.
  • 5. The deletion of personal data is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the Member States to which we are subject.
  • 6. The personal data was collected in relation to information society services offered in accordance with Art. 8 para. 1 DSGVO.

If we have made the personal data public and we are obliged to delete them pursuant to Art. 17 para. 1 DSGVO, we will take appropriate measures, including technical measures, taking into account the available technology and implementation costs, to inform those responsible for data processing who process the personal data that you have requested them to delete all links to this personal data or copies or replications of this personal data.

6.4 Right to limitation of processing

In a number of cases you are entitled to request us to restrict the processing of your personal data.

In detail:

You have the right to request us to restrict processing if one of the following conditions is met:

  • 1. The accuracy of the personal data is disputed by you for a period that enables us to verify the accuracy of the personal data,
  • 2. the processing is unlawful and you have refused to delete the personal data and have instead requested the restriction of the use of the personal data;
  • 3. we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of processing, but you do need the data to assert, exercise or defend legal claims, or
  • 4. You have filed an objection to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 DSGVO, as long as it is not yet clear whether the justified reasons of our company outweigh yours.

6.5 Right to data transferability

You have the right to receive, transmit or have us transmit personal data concerning you in machine-readable form.

In detail:

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, current and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit this data to another person in charge without our interference, provided that

  • 1. processing is based on consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 a) DSGVO or Art. 9 para. 2 a) DSGVO or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 b) DSGVO and
  • 2. processing is carried out using automated methods.

When exercising your right to data transferability in accordance with paragraph 1, you have the right to request that the personal data be transferred directly by us to another person responsible, insofar as this is technically feasible.

6.6 right of objection

You have the right to object to the lawful processing of your personal data by us if this is justified by your particular situation and if our interests in the processing do not outweigh ours.

In detail:

You have the right to object at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 e) or f) DSGVO; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. We no longer process personal data unless we can prove compelling grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

If we process personal data for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such advertising; this also applies to profiling, insofar as it is associated with such direct marketing.

You have the right to object to the processing of personal data concerning you, for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes in accordance with Art. 89 para. 1 DSGVO, for reasons arising from your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary to fulfil a task in the public interest.

6.7 Automated decisions including profiling

You have the right not to be subject to a decision based exclusively on automated processing - including profiling - that has legal effect against you or significantly impairs you in a similar manner.

An automated decision making based on the collected personal data does not take place.

6.8 Right to revoke consent under data protection law

You have the right to revoke your consent to the processing of personal data at any time.

6.9 Right of appeal to a supervisory authority

You have the right of appeal to a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State where you are staying, working or suspected of having infringed the law, if you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you is unlawful.

The supervisory authority responsible for us is: Der Hamburgische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit (Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information), Ludwig-Erhard-Str. 22, 20459 Hamburg, Germany.

7 Data Security

We make every effort to ensure the security of your data in accordance with the applicable data protection laws and technical possibilities.

Your personal data is transmitted in encrypted form. This applies to all pages and in particular to the contact form. We use TLS encryption for this (recognisable by the “https://” in the address bar of your browser), but would like to point out that data transmission on the internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) may have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

To secure your data, we maintain technical and organisational security measures in accordance with Art. 32 DSGVO, which we constantly adapt to the state of the art.

Furthermore, we do not guarantee that our offer will be available at certain times; disruptions, interruptions or failures cannot be ruled out. The servers we use are regularly and carefully secured.

8 Disclosure of Data to Third Parties

In principle, we only use your personal data within our company.

In the event that we outsource certain parts of data processing ("order processing", e.g. hosting), we contractually oblige contractors to use personal data only in accordance with the requirements of data protection laws and to ensure the protection of the rights of the data subject.

We do not transfer personal data to countries outside the EU or the EEA.

9 Questions about Data Protection

If you have any questions or concerns about data protection, please contact:

Deaf Dog Records e.K., Bernd Bloedorn, Feuerbergstraße 4a, 22337 Hamburg, Germany, e-mail: info@deafdogrecords.de, phone: +49 40 219 821 49