Data protection information

as of October 2024

The following data protection information is intended to explain to you in an understandable, transparent and clear manner how we, Blumkamp GmbH, process your personal data in connection with your use of our websites. However, if you have any questions regarding understanding or other queries about data protection at Blumkamp GmbH, you are welcome to contact our data protection officer at [email protected] or using the other contact details provided below.

• Name and contact details of the person responsible

• Blumkamp GmbH	E-Mail: [email protected]
  Kaistraße 13	Phone: +49 (0) 211 / 99 339 - 871
  40221 Düsseldorf	Fax: +49 (0) 211 / 99 339 - 873
  Germany	Internet: www.blumkamp.de

• Contact details of the data protection officer
• If you have any questions about the collection and processing of your personal data or require information, please contact our external data protection officer.

• Jörg ter Beek	E-Mail: [email protected]
  Cortina-Consult GmbH	Phone: +49 (0) 251 297 947 40
  Hafenweg 24	Internet: www.cortina-consult.com
  48155 Münster

• Scope and purpose of the processing of personal data
• Personal data
• According to Art. 4 (1) GDPR, personal data is any information relating to a directly or indirectly identified or identifiable natural person. This includes, for example, your name, your contact details and the data you provide when registering a customer account to process your orders.
• Personal data
• Every time the website is accessed, the internet browser that is used transmits automatically data to the web server and to our servers:
• Name and URL of the page accessed,
• IP address at the time of accessing the respective page,
• Date, time of your enquiry / your visit to the website,
• Website from which you accessed our site (so-called referrer URL),
• Browser type and version,
• Operating system of the device used for access,
• Language and version of the browser software.
• Processing is carried out for this purpose,
• to enable connection to the website,
• to enable an optimised presentation of the website,
• check and guarantee the security and stability of the systems and
• to enable and improve the administration of the website.
• We have a legitimate interest in data processing in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter f) GDPR.
• The stored data is not merged with other data sources.
• We reserve the right to further evaluation options in order to recognise and, if necessary, track abusive access to the website.
• Contact (contact form)
• You have the option of contacting us in several ways. By e-mail, by telephone or by post. When you contact us, we use the personal data that you voluntarily provide to us in this context solely for the purpose of contacting you and processing your enquiry.
• The processing is carried out on the basis of voluntarily granted consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter a) GDPR. The personal data collected for the use of the contact form will be automatically deleted as soon as the enquiry has been completed and there are no reasons for further storage.
• Cookies
• Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on the customer's digital end device or data carrier so that they can make optimum use of all the functions of our website.
• Three categories of cookies are used in order to provide an optimised service:
• Necessary (technically required) cookies
• These cookies are necessary for the best possible navigation and operation of the website. The necessary cookies are used to save certain entries and settings that you have made so that you do not have to keep repeating them and to customise the content of blumkamp.de to your individual interests. Without necessary cookies, the website cannot be used or can only be used to a limited extent.
• Statistics cookies
• These cookies collect device and access data in order to analyse the use of our website, such as which areas of the website are used and how (surfing behaviour), how quickly content is loaded and whether errors occur. These cookies only contain anonymous or pseudonymous information and are only used to improve our website and to determine what users are interested in. They can also be used to measure whether or how effective our advertising is. Statistics cookies can be blocked without affecting the navigation and operation of the website.
• Browser settings cookies
• The storage of cookies can be deactivated at any time. The help function in the menu bar of most web browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer or Firefox) shows how users and visitors to our website can prevent the browser from accepting cookies, how users and visitors to our websites can have the web browser notify them when they receive a new cookie or how they can delete all cookies already received and block future cookies.
• In the latter case, the aforementioned functions (login and administration options) are no longer available. To use these functions, the cookie block must be cancelled again.

• Your rights as a data subject
• If your personal data is processed when you visit our website, you have the following rights as a data subject within the definition of the GDPR:
• Right of access to information
• You can request information from us as to whether your personal data is being processed by us. There is no right to information if the data may not be deleted due to statutory retention periods or if it is used exclusively for data backup or data protection control purposes, provided that the provision of information would require a disproportionately high effort and processing for other purposes is excluded by suitable technical and organisational measures. If applicable, you can request information about:
• the purposes of processing,
• the categories of personal data processed by you,
• the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your personal data is disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries,
• if possible, the planned duration for which your personal data will be stored or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining the storage period,
• if the personal data have not been collected from you as the data subject, the available information on the origin of the data,
• where applicable, the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the scope and intended effects of automated decision-making,
• if applicable, in the case of transfer to recipients in third countries, provided that no decision of the EU Commission on the adequacy of the level of protection pursuant to Art. 45 para. 3 GDPR exists, information on the appropriate safeguards pursuant to Art. 46 para. 2 GDPR for the protection of personal data.
• Correction and completion
• If you discover that we have incorrect personal data about you, you can request that we correct the incorrect data. If your data is incomplete, you can request that it be completed.
• Erasure
• You have a right to erasure ("right to be forgotten") if one of the following reasons applies:
• The personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were processed,
• You have withdrawn your consent to the processing,
• You have withdrawn consent to the processing of your personal data, which we have made public,
• You have withdrawn your consent to the processing of personal data that we have not made public and there are no prevailing legitimate reasons for the processing,
• Your personal data has been illicitly processed,
• The deletion of personal data is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation to which we are subject.
• The right to erasure does not exist if, in the case of lawful non-automated data processing, erasure is not possible or only possible with disproportionate effort due to the special type of storage and your interest in erasure does not prevail. In this case, the restriction of processing takes place of erasure.
• Restriction of processing
• Restriction of processing means that the personal data will only be processed with your consent or for the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims or protecting the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest. Before we revoke the restriction, we are obliged to inform you. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data if one of the following reasons applies:
• You dispute the accuracy of the personal data. In this case, the restriction can be requested for the time required to verify the accuracy of the data.
• The processing is illicitly and you request the restriction of the use of your personal data instead of removal.
• We no longer need your personal data for the purposes of processing, but you need the data for the asserting, exercise or defence of legal claims.
• You have withdrawn consent under Article 21 (1) GDPR. The restriction of processing can be requested as long as it is not yet clear whether our legitimate reasons prevail over your reason.
• Data portability
• You have the right of data portability if the processing is based on your consent in accordance with Article 6 (1) sentence 1 a) or Article 9 (2) a) GDPR or on a contract to which you are part of and the processing is carried out by automated procedures.
• You are entitled to receive the personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, as long as this does not affect the rights and freedoms of others. You have the right to transmit this data to another controller without hindrance from us. Where technically feasible, you can request that we transmit your personal data directly to another controller.
• Right of appeal
• Furthermore, according to Art. 77 GDPR, § 19 BDSG, you have the right to address complaints regarding data protection and data protection issues to the responsible data protection supervisory authority. For companies based in North Rhine-Westphalia, this is the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. The contact details are as follows:

• Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen
  P.O Box 20 04 44	E-Mail: [email protected]
  40102 Düsseldorf	Phone: +49 (0) 211/38424-0
  	Fax: +49 (0) 211/38424-10

• Right of objection
• The consent to the processing of personal data can be revoked at any time with effect for the future. Regarding the commercial use, such a revocation can be made in total or limited to individual advertising measures, without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic rates. The cancellation can be sent as follows:
• by email to: [email protected]
• via Fax: +49 211 / 99 339 – 873
• in writing to: Blumkamp GmbH, Keyword Data Protection, Kaistraße 13, 40221 Düsseldorf.
• We would like to point out that even in the event of an objection, processing may be required by law (e.g. storage periods).
• Please address your objection to the contact details stated above under section 1 and please understand that in the event of an objection to data processing, identification may be required to prevent misuse.