Privacy Policy

This Policy applies as between you, the User of this website Site and Sven Simikin the owner and provider of this website Site. This Policy applies to my use of any and all Data collected by me in relation to your use of the website Site and my Services. This Policy was last updated on the 21 October 2020.

This Data Protection Policy applies to the services of Sven Simikin. If you live in or outside the European Economic Area, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) is the applicable regulation and in Germany, it is the Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO).

Sven Simikin is the Controller of your personal data.

The State Commissioner for Data Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia (LDI-NRW) is the for me relevant authority in matters of data protection. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the LDI-NRW (www.ldi.nrw.de). I would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the LDI-NRW so please contact me in the first instance.

Personal data refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Personal Data”).

It is important that the data I hold about you is accurate and current, therefore please keep me informed of any changes to your personal data.

My website is not intended for children and I do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

I may collect data or ask you to provide certain data when you use my website and services. The sources from which I collect Personal Data are:

• Data collected directly from you or your device relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Data Subject”) and may include direct identifiers such as name and email address.
• Data collected online or through indirect identifiers such as your IP address or details about your browser or your device name.

Data collected is linked, for example if you have used my service and later choose me again, I will link your data and treat that linked data as Personal Data.

I use your Personal Data for the following purposes and on the following grounds:

• On the basis of fulfilling my contract (when you use my services)
• On the basis of your consent (when you contact me)
• On the basis of legal obligations (for obligations such as when a court or other authority asks me to)
• On the basis of my legitimate interest (for communications about security, privacy and performance improvements of my services. Or for establishing, exercising or defending my legal rights.)

Of course, before relying on any of those legitimate interests I balance them against your interests and make sure they are compelling enough and will not cause any unwarranted harm.

I disclose your Personal Data in response to your enquiry or your request for information order to provide the best service possible and within my legitimate interest.

I may share your information with organisations that help me provide the services described in this Data Protection Policy and who may process such data on my behalf and in accordance with this Data Protection Policy, to support this website and my services. For example, with my legal or other professional advisors.

In relation to information obtained about you from your use of my website, I may share a cookie identifier and IP data with analytic and advertising network services providers to assist me in the improvement and optimisation of my website which is subject to my Cookies Policy.

I may disclose personal information in other circumstances such as when you agree to it or if the law, a Court order, a legal obligation or regulatory authority asks me to. If the purpose is the prevention of fraud or crime or if it is necessary to protect and defend my right, property or personal safety, the website and its users.

I will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes I collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

You have the right to:

• information about the processing of your personal data
• obtain access to the personal data held about you
• ask for incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete personal data to be corrected
• request that personal data be erased when it’s no longer needed or if processing it is unlawful
• object to the processing of your personal data for marketing purposes or on grounds relating to your particular situation
• request the restriction of the processing of your personal data in specific cases
• receive your personal data in a machine-readable format and send it to another controller (‘data portability’)
• request that decisions based on automated processing concerning you or significantly affecting you and based on your personal data are made by natural persons, not only by computers. You also have the right in this case to express your point of view and to contest the decision
• Where the processing of your personal information is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent without detriment at any time.

If you feel that your request is not satisfactorily resolved, you may approach your local data protection authority.

I protect your data using state of the art technical, and physical safeguards and operate a firm system of policies, confidentiality agreements, digital safeguards and procedures to ensure the highest level of administrative protection.

In more detail to access my database the user must be authorised, is challenged through a two-way authentication system and use an encrypted VPN. Also, the removal of Personal Data from my location is forbidden and made by using a complex encryption system very difficult. I use cutting edge antivirus and anti-malware software and up-to-date firewall protection.

The data I collect from you may be stored, with appropriate technical and organisational security measures applied to it, on my servers in Germany. In all cases, I follow generally high data protection standards and advanced security measures to protect the personal data submitted, both during transmission and once I receive it.

To exercise any of your rights, or if you have any questions or complaints about my use of your Personal Data and this policy, please contact me.

I do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

I do not use automation for decision-making and profiling.

This Data Protection Policy and my commitment to protecting the privacy of your personal data can result in changes to this Data Protection Policy. Please regularly review this Data Protection Policy to keep up to date with any changes.