Data Protection

Privacy Notice for Digital Perals

This Privacy Notice explains how Digital Perals collects, uses, and protects your personal data when you visit our website. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy and handling your data in compliance with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

  1. Who is Responsible for Data Processing?

The party responsible for data processing on this website is:

Lichtenhainer Str. 13, 12627 Berlin, Germany

Represented by Managing Director: Caner Batman Email: hallo@thedigitalpearls.de

The responsible body determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.

  1. What Data Do We Collect and How?

We collect your data in two primary ways:

  1. Data You Provide Directly

This includes information you voluntarily provide to us, such as when you:

  • Fill out a contact form
  • Register for an account
  • Subscribe to our newsletter
  • Submit comments or reviews
  1. Data Collected Automatically (Technical Data)

As you navigate our website, our IT systems automatically collect certain technical data. This typically includes:

  • Your browser type and version
  • Your operating system
  • The referrer URL (the website you visited before ours)
  • The hostname of the accessing computer
  • The time of your server request
  • Your IP address

This data is collected automatically as soon as you visit our website. We do not combine this data with other data sources.

  1. What Do We Use Your Data For?

We use the collected data for the following purposes:

  • Website Functionality: To ensure our website operates correctly and without errors.
  • User Experience: To analyze user behavior and improve your browsing experience.
  • Communication: To respond to your inquiries submitted via contact forms.
  • Legal Compliance: To comply with legal obligations and protect our legitimate interests.
  1. Your Data Protection Rights

Under applicable data protection laws, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • Right to Information: You can request free information about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data at any time.
  • Right to Rectification: You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate personal data.
  • Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You can request the deletion of your personal data under certain conditions.
  • Right to Restriction of Processing: You can request the restriction of processing your personal data under certain conditions.
  • Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
  • Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
  • Right to Withdraw Consent: If data processing is based on your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the address provided in the imprint or via email at hallo@thedigitalpearls.de.

  1. Cookies

Our website uses

cookies to enhance your browsing experience. Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your browser. They do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. They help make our site more user-friendly, efficient, and secure.

Most of the cookies we use are “session cookies,” which are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain on your device until you delete them, allowing us to recognize your browser on your next visit.

Managing Cookies

You can configure your browser to:

  • Inform you about the use of cookies.
  • Allow cookies only in individual cases.
  • Exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general.
  • Enable the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser.

Please note that disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Legal Basis for Cookie Use

Cookies necessary for electronic communication or to provide certain functions you desire (e.g., shopping cart feature) are stored based on Art. 6, para. 1, lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. If other cookies (e.g., for analyzing your browsing behavior) are stored, they are treated separately in this privacy policy.

  1. Analysis Tools and Third-Party Tools

When you visit our website, your browsing behavior may be statistically analyzed. This primarily occurs through the use of cookies and analysis programs. This analysis is usually anonymous and cannot be traced back to you personally. You may object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools.

  1. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyze how users use the site. 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.

IP Anonymization: We have activated IP anonymization on this website. This means your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Browser Plugin: You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software settings. 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 Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Objection to Data Collection: You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent your data from being collected on future visits to this website: Disable Google Analytics.

For more information on how Google Analytics handles user data, please refer to Google’s data protection declaration: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Demographic Characteristics in Google Analytics: This website utilizes the “demographic characteristics” feature of Google Analytics. This allows for the creation of reports that provide insights into the age, gender, and interests of our visitors. This data is derived from Google’s interest-based advertising and third-party visitor data. However, this information cannot be linked to any specific individual. You can disable this feature at any time through the ad settings in your Google account. Alternatively, you can generally opt out of Google Analytics data collection by following the steps outlined in the “Objection to Data Collection” section.

  1. Facebook Plugins (Like & Share Button)

Our pages integrate plugins from the social network Facebook, provided by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. You can recognize Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button on our page. A summary of Facebook plugins can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

When you visit our pages, a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server is established through the plugin. Facebook thereby receives the information that you have visited our page with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “Like” button while logged into your Facebook account, you can link the contents of our pages to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate your visit to our pages with your user account.

We, as the providers of these pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. For further information, please refer to Facebook’s privacy policy at: https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php. If you do not wish Facebook to associate your visit to our pages with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

  1. High5 – Review Management Software

For our online reputation, we use the service of High5 – Review management software.

  1. Data Collection for Specific Features
  2. Server Log Files

The provider of these pages automatically collects and stores information in server log files, which your browser sends to us. These include:

  • Browser type and browser version
  • Operating system used
  • Referrer URL
  • Host name of the accessing computer
  • Time of Server Request
  • IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources. The basis for data processing is Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR, which permits the processing of data to fulfill a contract or pre-contractual measures.

  1. Contact Form

If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provided, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and for follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent. The processing of the data entered in the contact form is therefore exclusively based on your consent (Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time by sending an informal message by e-mail to us. The legality of the data processing operations that took place until the revocation remains unaffected. The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage, or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g., after your request has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions, in particular retention periods, remain unaffected.

  1. Privacy Policy for WordPress (CleanTalk Anti-Spam Plugin)

Our website is self-hosted and based on WordPress. We use the anti-spam plugin CleanTalk from WordPress to prevent possible spam during registration and within comments. To do this, parameters such as certain words, IP addresses, email addresses, or domain names are sent to a server in the USA and compared there. If CleanTalk identifies any of the transmitted content as spam, this will be returned to us as a message, and the information will be stored in the USA. According to CleanTalk, the maximum storage period is 45 days. More information about CleanTalk can be found at: https://cleantalk.org/help/CleanTalk-GDPR-Compliance.

  1. Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Supervisory Authority

In the event of violations of data protection law, the person concerned has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection issues is the state data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

  1. Changes to This Privacy Notice

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We encourage you to review this page periodically for the latest information on our privacy practices.

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