Imprint

Imprint

Johan­na Ruppert
Luther­straße 54
30171 Hannover
Germany

+49 176 84 31 56 97
violin@johannaruppert.com
www.johannaruppert.com

Design & Implementation:
Bian­ca Maria Cantelli
www.cantelli-webdesign.com

© Pho­tog­ra­phy
André Mel­chior
Maik Schmuck
Franziska Zeschick
Andreas Zihler

Privacy Policy

Per­son­al data (usu­al­ly referred to just as “data” below) will only be processed by us to the extent nec­es­sary and for the pur­pose of pro­vid­ing a func­tion­al and user-friend­ly web­site, includ­ing its con­tents, and the ser­vices offered there.

Per Art. 4 No. 1 of Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2016/679, i.e. the Gen­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion (here­inafter referred to as the “GDPR”), “pro­cess­ing” refers to any oper­a­tion or set of oper­a­tions such as col­lec­tion, record­ing, orga­ni­za­tion, struc­tur­ing, stor­age, adap­ta­tion, alter­ation, retrieval, con­sul­ta­tion, use, dis­clo­sure by trans­mis­sion, dis­sem­i­na­tion, or oth­er­wise mak­ing avail­able, align­ment, or com­bi­na­tion, restric­tion, era­sure, or destruc­tion per­formed on per­son­al data, whether by auto­mat­ed means or not.

The fol­low­ing pri­va­cy pol­i­cy is intend­ed to inform you in par­tic­u­lar about the type, scope, pur­pose, dura­tion, and legal basis for the pro­cess­ing of such data either under our own con­trol or in con­junc­tion with oth­ers. We also inform you below about the third-par­ty com­po­nents we use to opti­mize our web­site and improve the user expe­ri­ence which may result in said third par­ties also pro­cess­ing data they col­lect and control.

Our pri­va­cy pol­i­cy is struc­tured as follows:

I. Infor­ma­tion about us as con­trollers of your data
II. The rights of users and data subjects
III. Infor­ma­tion about the data processing

I. Information about us as controllers of your data

The par­ty respon­si­ble for this web­site (the “con­troller”) for pur­pos­es of data pro­tec­tion law is:

Johan­na Ruppert
Luther­straße 54
30171 Hannover

+49 176 84 31 56 97
violin@johannaruppert.com
www.johannaruppert.com

The controller’s data pro­tec­tion offi­cer is:

Johan­na Ruppert

II. The rights of users and data subjects

With regard to the data pro­cess­ing to be described in more detail below, users and data sub­jects have the right

• to con­fir­ma­tion of whether data con­cern­ing them is being processed, infor­ma­tion about the data being processed, fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the nature of the data pro­cess­ing, and copies of the data (cf. also Art. 15 GDPR);
• to cor­rect or com­plete incor­rect or incom­plete data (cf. also Art. 16 GDPR);
• to the imme­di­ate dele­tion of data con­cern­ing them (cf. also Art. 17 DSGVO), or, alter­na­tive­ly, if fur­ther pro­cess­ing is nec­es­sary as stip­u­lat­ed in Art. 17 Para. 3 GDPR, to restrict said pro­cess­ing per Art. 18 GDPR;
• to receive copies of the data con­cern­ing them and/or pro­vid­ed by them and to have the same trans­mit­ted to oth­er providers/controllers (cf. also Art. 20 GDPR);
• to file com­plaints with the super­vi­so­ry author­i­ty if they believe that data con­cern­ing them is being processed by the con­troller in breach of data pro­tec­tion pro­vi­sions (see also Art. 77 GDPR).

In addi­tion, the con­troller is oblig­ed to inform all recip­i­ents to whom it dis­clos­es data of any such cor­rec­tions, dele­tions, or restric­tions placed on pro­cess­ing the same per Art. 16, 17 Para. 1, 18 GDPR. How­ev­er, this oblig­a­tion does not apply if such noti­fi­ca­tion is impos­si­ble or involves a dis­pro­por­tion­ate effort. Nev­er­the­less, users have a right to infor­ma­tion about these recipients.

Like­wise, under Art. 21 GDPR, users and data sub­jects have the right to object to the controller’s future pro­cess­ing of their data pur­suant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. In par­tic­u­lar, an objec­tion to data pro­cess­ing for the pur­pose of direct adver­tis­ing is permissible.

III. Information about the data processing

Your data processed when using our web­site will be delet­ed or blocked as soon as the pur­pose for its stor­age ceas­es to apply, pro­vid­ed the dele­tion of the same is not in breach of any statu­to­ry stor­age oblig­a­tions or unless oth­er­wise stip­u­lat­ed below.

Server data

For tech­ni­cal rea­sons, the fol­low­ing data sent by your inter­net brows­er to us or to our serv­er provider will be col­lect­ed, espe­cial­ly to ensure a secure and sta­ble web­site: These serv­er log files record the type and ver­sion of your brows­er, oper­at­ing sys­tem, the web­site from which you came (refer­rer URL), the web­pages on our site vis­it­ed, the date and time of your vis­it, as well as the IP address from which you vis­it­ed our site.

The data thus col­lect­ed will be tem­porar­i­ly stored, but not in asso­ci­a­tion with any oth­er of your data.

The basis for this stor­age is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the improve­ment, sta­bil­i­ty, func­tion­al­i­ty, and secu­ri­ty of our website.

The data will be delet­ed with­in no more than sev­en days, unless con­tin­ued stor­age is required for evi­den­tiary pur­pos­es. In which case, all or part of the data will be exclud­ed from dele­tion until the inves­ti­ga­tion of the rel­e­vant inci­dent is final­ly resolved.

Cookies

a) Session cookies

We use cook­ies on our web­site. Cook­ies are small text files or oth­er stor­age tech­nolo­gies stored on your com­put­er by your brows­er. These cook­ies process cer­tain spe­cif­ic infor­ma­tion about you, such as your brows­er, loca­tion data, or IP address. 

This pro­cess­ing makes our web­site more user-friend­ly, effi­cient, and secure, allow­ing us, for exam­ple, to dis­play our web­site in dif­fer­ent lan­guages or to offer a shop­ping cart function.

The legal basis for such pro­cess­ing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR, inso­far as these cook­ies are used to col­lect data to ini­ti­ate or process con­trac­tu­al relationships.

If the pro­cess­ing does not serve to ini­ti­ate or process a con­tract, our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in improv­ing the func­tion­al­i­ty of our web­site. The legal basis is then Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

When you close your brows­er, these ses­sion cook­ies are deleted.

b) Third-party cookies

If nec­es­sary, our web­site may also use cook­ies from com­pa­nies with whom we coop­er­ate for the pur­pose of adver­tis­ing, ana­lyz­ing, or improv­ing the fea­tures of our website.

Please refer to the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion for details, in par­tic­u­lar for the legal basis and pur­pose of such third-par­ty col­lec­tion and pro­cess­ing of data col­lect­ed through cookies.

c) Disabling cookies

You can refuse the use of cook­ies by chang­ing the set­tings on your brows­er. Like­wise, you can use the brows­er to delete cook­ies that have already been stored. How­ev­er, the steps and mea­sures required vary, depend­ing on the brows­er you use. If you have any ques­tions, please use the help func­tion or con­sult the doc­u­men­ta­tion for your brows­er or con­tact its mak­er for sup­port. Brows­er set­tings can­not pre­vent so-called flash cook­ies from being set. Instead, you will need to change the set­ting of your Flash play­er. The steps and mea­sures required for this also depend on the Flash play­er you are using. If you have any ques­tions, please use the help func­tion or con­sult the doc­u­men­ta­tion for your Flash play­er or con­tact its mak­er for support.

If you pre­vent or restrict the instal­la­tion of cook­ies, not all of the func­tions on our site may be ful­ly usable.

Contact

If you con­tact us via email or the con­tact form, the data you pro­vide will be used for the pur­pose of pro­cess­ing your request. We must have this data in order to process and answer your inquiry; oth­er­wise we will not be able to answer it in full or at all.

The legal basis for this data pro­cess­ing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.

Your data will be delet­ed once we have ful­ly answered your inquiry and there is no fur­ther legal oblig­a­tion to store your data, such as if an order or con­tract result­ed therefrom.

Google Analytics

We use Google Ana­lyt­ics on our web­site. This is a web ana­lyt­ics ser­vice pro­vid­ed by Google Inc., Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dublin 4, Irland (here­inafter: Google).

Through cer­ti­fi­ca­tion accord­ing to the EU-US Pri­va­cy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

Google guar­an­tees that it will fol­low the EU’s data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions when pro­cess­ing data in the Unit­ed States.

The Google Ana­lyt­ics ser­vice is used to ana­lyze how our web­site is used. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the analy­sis, opti­miza­tion, and eco­nom­ic oper­a­tion of our site.

Usage and user-relat­ed infor­ma­tion, such as IP address, place, time, or fre­quen­cy of your vis­its to our web­site will be trans­mit­ted to a Google serv­er in the Unit­ed States and stored there. How­ev­er, we use Google Ana­lyt­ics with the so-called anonymiza­tion func­tion, where­by Google trun­cates the IP address with­in the EU or the EEA before it is trans­mit­ted to the US.

The data col­lect­ed in this way is in turn used by Google to pro­vide us with an eval­u­a­tion of vis­its to our web­site and what vis­i­tors do once there. This data can also be used to pro­vide oth­er ser­vices relat­ed to the use of our web­site and of the inter­net in general.

Google states that it will not con­nect your IP address to oth­er data. In addi­tion, Google pro­vides fur­ther infor­ma­tion with regard to its data pro­tec­tion prac­tices at

https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners,

includ­ing options you can exer­cise to pre­vent such use of your data.

In addi­tion, Google offers an opt-out add-on at

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

in addi­tion with fur­ther infor­ma­tion. This add-on can be installed on the most pop­u­lar browsers and offers you fur­ther con­trol over the data that Google col­lects when you vis­it our web­site. The add-on informs Google Ana­lyt­ics’ JavaScript (ga.js) that no infor­ma­tion about the web­site vis­it should be trans­mit­ted to Google Ana­lyt­ics. How­ev­er, this does not pre­vent infor­ma­tion from being trans­mit­ted to us or to oth­er web ana­lyt­ics ser­vices we may use as detailed herein.

Google-Maps

Our web­site uses Google Maps to dis­play our loca­tion and to pro­vide direc­tions. This is a ser­vice pro­vid­ed by Google Inc., Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dublin 4, Irland (here­inafter: Google).

Through cer­ti­fi­ca­tion accord­ing to the EU-US Pri­va­cy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

Google guar­an­tees that it will fol­low the EU’s data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions when pro­cess­ing data in the Unit­ed States.

To enable the dis­play of cer­tain fonts on our web­site, a con­nec­tion to the Google serv­er in the USA is estab­lished when­ev­er our web­site is accessed.

If you access the Google Maps com­po­nents inte­grat­ed into our web­site, Google will store a cook­ie on your device via your brows­er. Your user set­tings and data are processed to dis­play our loca­tion and cre­ate a route descrip­tion. We can­not pre­vent Google from using servers in the USA.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in opti­miz­ing the func­tion­al­i­ty of our website.

By con­nect­ing to Google in this way, Google can deter­mine from which web­site your request has been sent and to which IP address the direc­tions are transmitted.

If you do not agree to this pro­cess­ing, you have the option of pre­vent­ing the instal­la­tion of cook­ies by mak­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your brows­er. Fur­ther details can be found in the sec­tion about cook­ies above.

In addi­tion, the use of Google Maps and the infor­ma­tion obtained via Google Maps is gov­erned by the Google Terms of Use https://policies.google.com/terms?gl=DE&hl=en and the Terms and Con­di­tions for Google Maps https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html.

Google also offers fur­ther infor­ma­tion at

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google Fonts

Our web­site uses Google Fonts to dis­play exter­nal fonts. This is a ser­vice pro­vid­ed by Google Inc., Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dublin 4, Irland (here­inafter: Google).

Through cer­ti­fi­ca­tion accord­ing to the EU-US Pri­va­cy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

Google guar­an­tees that it will fol­low the EU’s data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions when pro­cess­ing data in the Unit­ed States.

To enable the dis­play of cer­tain fonts on our web­site, a con­nec­tion to the Google serv­er in the USA is estab­lished when­ev­er our web­site is accessed.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the opti­miza­tion and eco­nom­ic oper­a­tion of our site.

When you access our site, a con­nec­tion to Google is estab­lished from which Google can iden­ti­fy the site from which your request has been sent and to which IP address the fonts are being trans­mit­ted for display.

Google offers detailed infor­ma­tion at

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

https://policies.google.com/privacy

in par­tic­u­lar on options for pre­vent­ing the use of data.

Facebook plug-in

Our web­site uses the plug-in of the Face­book social net­work. Facebook.com is a ser­vice pro­vid­ed by Face­book Inc., 1601 S. Cal­i­for­nia Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. In the EU, this ser­vice is also oper­at­ed by Face­book Ire­land Lim­it­ed, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ire­land, here­inafter both referred to as “Face­book.”

Through cer­ti­fi­ca­tion accord­ing to the EU-US Pri­va­cy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active

Face­book guar­an­tees that it will fol­low the EU’s data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions when pro­cess­ing data in the Unit­ed States.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in improv­ing the qual­i­ty of our website.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the pos­si­ble plug-ins and their respec­tive func­tions is avail­able from Face­book at

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

If the plug-in is stored on one of the pages you vis­it on our web­site, your brows­er will down­load an icon for the plug-in from Facebook’s servers in the USA. For tech­ni­cal rea­sons, it is nec­es­sary for Face­book to process your IP address. In addi­tion, the date and time of your vis­it to our web­site will also be recorded.

If you are logged in to Face­book while vis­it­ing one of our plugged-in web­sites, the infor­ma­tion col­lect­ed by the plug-in from your spe­cif­ic vis­it will be rec­og­nized by Face­book. The infor­ma­tion col­lect­ed may then be assigned to your per­son­al account at Face­book. If, for exam­ple, you use the Face­book Like but­ton, this infor­ma­tion will be stored in your Face­book account and pub­lished on the Face­book plat­form. If you want to pre­vent this, you must either log out of Face­book before vis­it­ing our web­site or use an add-on for your brows­er to pre­vent the Face­book plug-in from loading.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the col­lec­tion and use of data as well as your rights and pro­tec­tion options in Facebook’s pri­va­cy pol­i­cy found at

https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

YouTube

We use YouTube on our web­site. This is a video por­tal oper­at­ed by YouTube LLC, 901 Cher­ry Ave, 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, here­inafter referred to as “YouTube”.

YouTube is a sub­sidiary of Google LLC, Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dublin 4, Irland, here­inafter referred to as “Google”.

Through cer­ti­fi­ca­tion accord­ing to the EU-US Pri­va­cy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

Google and its sub­sidiary YouTube guar­an­tee that they will fol­low the EU’s data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions when pro­cess­ing data in the Unit­ed States.

We use YouTube in its advanced pri­va­cy mode to show you videos. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in improv­ing the qual­i­ty of our web­site. Accord­ing to YouTube, the advanced pri­va­cy mode means that the data spec­i­fied below will only be trans­mit­ted to the YouTube serv­er if you actu­al­ly start a video.

With­out this mode, a con­nec­tion to the YouTube serv­er in the USA will be estab­lished as soon as you access any of our web­pages on which a YouTube video is embedded.

This con­nec­tion is required in order to be able to dis­play the respec­tive video on our web­site with­in your brows­er. YouTube will record and process at a min­i­mum your IP address, the date and time the video was dis­played, as well as the web­site you vis­it­ed. In addi­tion, a con­nec­tion to the Dou­bleClick adver­tis­ing net­work of Google is established.

If you are logged in to YouTube when you access our site, YouTube will assign the con­nec­tion infor­ma­tion to your YouTube account. To pre­vent this, you must either log out of YouTube before vis­it­ing our site or make the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your YouTube account.

For the pur­pose of func­tion­al­i­ty and analy­sis of usage behav­ior, YouTube per­ma­nent­ly stores cook­ies on your device via your brows­er. If you do not agree to this pro­cess­ing, you have the option of pre­vent­ing the instal­la­tion of cook­ies by mak­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your brows­er. Fur­ther details can be found in the sec­tion about cook­ies above.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the col­lec­tion and use of data as well as your rights and pro­tec­tion options in Google’s pri­va­cy pol­i­cy found at

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Shariff social media buttons

Our web­site uses the plug-ins of the fol­low­ing social net­works. To inte­grate these plug-ins, we use the Shar­iff plug-in.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in improv­ing the qual­i­ty of our website.

Shar­iff is an open source pro­gram devel­oped by c’t and heise. By inte­grat­ing this plug-in, linked graph­ics pre­vent the fol­low­ing social net­work plug-ins from auto­mat­i­cal­ly estab­lish­ing a con­nec­tion to the respec­tive social net­works serv­er when you vis­it website(s) on which the plug-ins are inte­grat­ed. Only if you click on one of these linked graph­ics will you be for­ward­ed to the ser­vice of the respec­tive social net­work. Only then will infor­ma­tion about your use of our site be record­ed by the respec­tive social net­work. This infor­ma­tion may include your IP address, the date and time you vis­it­ed our site, as well as the pages you viewed.

If you are logged in to one of the social net­work ser­vices while vis­it­ing one of our plugged-in web­sites, the infor­ma­tion col­lect­ed by the plug-in from your spe­cif­ic vis­it will be rec­og­nized by the provider of that social net­work and assigned to your per­son­al user account there and/or pub­lish infor­ma­tion about your inter­ac­tion with our site there. If, for exam­ple, you use the a share but­ton for the social net­work, this infor­ma­tion may be stored in your user account there and pub­lished on the plat­form of the respec­tive social net­work provider. To pre­vent this, you must either log out of the social net­work before click­ing the graph­ic or make the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your social net­work account.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about Shar­iff is avail­able at

http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Shariff-Social-Media-Buttons-mit-Datenschutz-2467514.html

The fol­low­ing social net­works are inte­grat­ed into our website:

Google+ oper­at­ed by Google LLC, Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dublin 4, Irland

Pri­va­cy infor­ma­tion is avail­able at https://policies.google.com/privacy

Through cer­ti­fi­ca­tion accord­ing to the EU-US Pri­va­cy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

Google guar­an­tees that it will fol­low the EU’s data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions when pro­cess­ing data in the Unit­ed States.

Face­book oper­at­ed by Face­book Inc, 1601 S. Cal­i­for­nia Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA, oper­at­ed with­in the EU by Face­book Ire­land Lim­it­ed, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. 

Pri­va­cy infor­ma­tion can be found at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Through cer­ti­fi­ca­tion accord­ing to the EU-US Pri­va­cy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active

Face­book guar­an­tees that it will fol­low the EU’s data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions when pro­cess­ing data in the Unit­ed States.

Twit­ter oper­at­ed by Twit­ter Inc, 795 Fol­som St., Suite 600, San Fran­cis­co, CA 94107, USA.

Pri­va­cy infor­ma­tion can be found at https://twitter.com/privacy

Through cer­ti­fi­ca­tion accord­ing to the EU-US Pri­va­cy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO&status=Active

Twit­ter guar­an­tees that it will fol­low the EU’s data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions when pro­cess­ing data in the Unit­ed States.

Online job applications / publication of job advertisements

We offer you the oppor­tu­ni­ty to apply for jobs with our com­pa­ny via our web­site. In the case of these dig­i­tal appli­ca­tions, we col­lect your appli­ca­tion data elec­tron­i­cal­ly in order to process your application.

The legal basis for this pro­cess­ing is §26 Para. 1 S. 1 BDSG in con­junc­tion with Art. 88 Para. 1 GDPR.

If you are hired as a result of the appli­ca­tion process, we will store the data you pro­vide dur­ing the appli­ca­tion process in your per­son­nel file for the pur­pose of the usu­al orga­ni­za­tion­al and admin­is­tra­tive process, nat­u­ral­ly in com­pli­ance with fur­ther legal obligations.

The legal basis for this pro­cess­ing is §26 Para. 1 S. 1 BDSG in con­junc­tion with Art. 88 Para. 1 GDPR.

If we do not hire you, we will auto­mat­i­cal­ly delete the data sub­mit­ted to us two months after the final deci­sion is made. We will not delete the data, how­ev­er, if we must store the data for legal rea­sons such as evi­dence of equal treat­ment of appli­cants, until any legal action is con­clud­ed, or four months.

In this case, the legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR and §24 Para. 1 No. 2 BDSG. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in any legal defense we may have to mount .

If you express­ly con­sent to a longer stor­age of your data, e.g. for your inclu­sion in a data­base of appli­cants or inter­est­ed par­ties, the data will be processed fur­ther on the basis of your con­sent. The legal basis is then Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. You may with­draw your con­sent at any time with future effect per Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR with future effect.

Mod­el Data Pro­tec­tion State­ment for Anwalt­skan­zlei Weiß & Partner