Privacy Statement

1) Introduction and Contact Details of the Controller

1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following, we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data means all data with which you can be personally identified.

1.2 The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is 1.A Connect GmbH,
Obere Seestraße 13, 66625 Nohfelden, Germany, Tel.: +49 6852 896618 – 0, Fax: +49 6852 896618 – 46, E-mail: km@1aconnect.de. The controller for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

2) Data Collection When Visiting Our Website

2.1 When you use our website for informational purposes only, i.e. when you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called “server log files”). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which are technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

  • The website visited by us
  • Date and time at the moment of access
  • Amount of data sent in bytes
  • Source/reference from which you reached the page
  • Browser used
  • Operating system used
  • IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)

The processing is carried out in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data are neither passed on to third parties nor used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to subsequently check the server log files if there are concrete indications of unlawful use.

2.2 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries to the controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser line.

3) Cookies

To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies — small text files that are stored on your device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted after you close your browser (so-called “session cookies”), while others remain stored on your device for a longer period and enable your browser to save certain site settings (so-called “persistent cookies”). In the latter case, you can find the storage duration in the overview of your browser’s cookie settings.

If personal data are also processed by individual cookies implemented by us, such processing is carried out either in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) GDPR for the performance of a contract, in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR if consent has been given or in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in ensuring the best possible functionality of the website as well as a customer-friendly and efficient design of the site visit.

You can configure your browser to inform you when cookies are set and decide individually whether to accept them, accept cookies in specific cases, or generally exclude them.

Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

4) Contacting

When contacting us (e.g. via contact form or e-mail), personal data are collected. The specific data collected when using a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form itself. These data are stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your inquiry or for establishing contact and the associated technical administration.

The legal basis for processing these data is our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiry in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted once your inquiry has been fully processed, provided that it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and provided that there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary.

5) Tools and Miscellaneous

Cookie Consent-Tool

This website uses a so-called “cookie consent tool” to obtain valid user consents for cookies and cookie-based applications that require consent.
The “cookie consent tool” is displayed to users when the page is accessed as an interactive user interface, which allows users to give consent for specific cookies and/or cookie-based applications by checking boxes. Through the use of this tool, all cookies and services requiring consent are only loaded if the respective user has given consent by ticking the corresponding box. This ensures that such cookies are placed on the user’s device only if consent has been granted.

The tool uses technically necessary cookies to store your cookie preferences. Personal user data are generally not processed in this context.

If, in individual cases, personal data (such as the IP address) are processed for the purpose of storing, assigning or logging cookie settings, such processing is carried out in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in a legally compliant, user-specific and user-friendly management of cookie consents and therefore in a legally compliant design of our online presence.

An additional legal basis for processing is Article 6(1)(c) GDPR. As the controller, we are legally obliged to make the use of technically unnecessary cookies dependent on the respective user’s consent.

Where necessary, we have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our website visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

Further information about the operator and the configuration options of the cookie consent tool can be found directly within the corresponding user interface on our website.

6) Rights of the Data Subject

6.1 Under the applicable data protection law, you have the following rights in relation to the processing of your personal data by the controller (rights of access and intervention), where the legal basis for the respective requirements is indicated below:

  • Right of access pursuant to Article 15 GDPR
  • Right to rectification pursuant to Article 16 GDPR
  • Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”) pursuant to Article 17 GDPR
  • Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Article 18 GDPR
  • Right to notification pursuant to Article 19 GDPR
  • Right to data portability pursuant to Article 20 GDPR
  • Right to withdraw consent granted pursuant to Article 7(3) GDPR
  • Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Article 77 GDPR

6.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT

IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME, ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO SUCH PROCESSING WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE.

IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE THE PROCESSING OF THE AFFECTED DATA. HOWEVER, FURTHER PROCESSING REMAINS RESERVED IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA ARE PROCESSED BY US FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT ADVERTISING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR SUCH ADVERTISING PURPOSES. YOU MAY EXERCISE THE OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.

IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE THE PROCESSING OF THE AFFECTED DATA FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.

7) Duration of Storage of Personal Data

The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and – if applicable – also by the respective statutory retention period (e.g. retention periods under commercial and tax law).

Where the processing of personal data is based on an explicit consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, the data concerned will be stored until you withdraw your consent.

If statutory retention periods exist for data that are processed within the scope of legal or quasi-contractual obligations on the basis of Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, these data will be routinely deleted after expiry of the retention periods, provided that they are no longer required for the performance of the contract or for the initiation of a contract and/or there is no legitimate interest on our part in further storage.

Where personal data are processed on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, such data will be stored until you exercise your right to object in accordance with Article 21(1) GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

Where personal data are processed for the purpose of direct advertising on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, such data will be stored until you exercise your right to object in accordance with Article 21(2) GDPR.

Unless otherwise specified in the other information contained in this Privacy Policy for specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.

© IT-Recht Kanzlei

This Privacy Policy is based on the German original provided by IT-Recht Kanzlei München, translated by 1.A Connect GmbH. This English translation is provided for convenience only. In case of discrepancies, the German version shall prevail.

Last updated: July 7, 2025