Privacy policy

Privacy policy

Dear visitors, we are pleased about your visit to our website. We want you to feel safe and comfortable here. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. The following data protection regulations are intended to inform you about our handling of the collection, use and transfer of personal data.

Responsible party

Blockchainhotel GmbH
Gökhan Köse
Viehofer Str. 31
45127 Essen
info@blockchainhotel.de

Usage data

In order to improve the quality and functionality of our web pages and in the event of criminal prosecution, we store data on individual access to our pages for statistical purposes. This data record consists of

  • the page from which the file was requested
  • the name of the file,
  • the date and time of the request,
  • the amount of data transferred,
  • the access status (file transferred, file not found),
  • description of the type of web browser used,
  • the IP address of the requesting computer
  • The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (legitimate interests of the responsible party).

The above-mentioned reasons also constitute the legitimate interest for data processing according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

Registration process

You can register on our website. As part of the registration process, we collect and process the following data:

E-mail address, user name, plain name, address.

This data is processed in order to create your user profile, to send you the necessary access data, to settle any costs and to contact you.

The legal basis for processing the data entered during registration is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (consent). Ihre Daten bleiben so lange gespeichert, wie Ihr Profil besteht und/oder diese aus Abrechnungsgründen benötigt werden (z.B. rechtliche Aufbewahrungsfristen).

Sie können Ihren Account selbständig löschen. Dabei werden nicht alle Daten automatisch gelöscht.

The data will not be passed on to third parties.

Order process

The following data may be collected during the ordering process:

First name, last name, company name, country, street, postcode, town/city, telephone, e-mail address.

This data is used exclusively for processing the order and is transferred and stored in accordance with the legal requirements to the companies involved in the payment process (banks, PayPal, etc.). The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 b DSGVO (contractual obligation).

We offer the following payment methods: Kreditkarte, Paypal, Sofortüberweisung. Zur Ausführung der Zahlung werden die Zahlungsdaten an die entsprechenden Zahlungsdienstleister übermittelt. Rechtsgrundlage für diese Datenverarbeitung ist Art. 6 Abs.1 b DSGVO (vertragl. Verpflichtung).

This website integrates the buttons of the payment service Stripe, which is operated by the company
Stripe Payments Europe Ltd
Block 4, Harcourt Centre
Harcourt Road
Dublin
Ireland
When you access this website, a connection is established with the Stripe servers. Your payment data is stored at Stripe for billing purposes and transmitted to the credit card institutions. You can find more information about the processing of your data by Stripe at https://stripe.com/de/privacy#translation.
The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO (contractual obligation) and the user’s consent Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO.

Cookies

We use cookies to improve user guidance. The use of cookies simplifies the use of websites for the user. Certain pages cannot be called up or cannot be called up without errors without their use. These reasons also constitute the legitimate interest for this data processing according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (the use of cookies for analysis purposes is dealt with in another point). Common browsers offer the setting option of not allowing cookies. Sie können Ihren Browser so einstellen, dass Sie über das Setzen von Cookies informiert werden und Cookies nur im Einzelfall erlauben, die Annahme von Cookies ausschließen oder das automatische Löschen der Cookies beim Schließen des Browser aktivieren. It is not guaranteed that you will be able to access all functions of this website without restrictions if you make the corresponding settings.

Newsletter

We offer the possibility to inform you about news on our website by newsletter. For this we only need your e-mail address. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter at a later date, this is possible by simply unsubscribing by e-mail. The legal basis for the processing of the data after registration for the newsletter by the user is the consent of the user, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO. The legal basis for sending the newsletter as a result of the sale of goods or services is Section 7 (3) UWG.

Contact form

You can contact us at any time with questions or suggestions via a contact form. In order to answer your questions or send you feedback, we need the following information: Name, first name and e-mail address. We use this data exclusively for the above-mentioned purposes. The legal basis for processing the data transmitted in the course of using the contact form or sending an e-mail is Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO.

If the e-mail contact is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1) lit. b DSGVO.

Analysis programmes

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse 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. In the event that IP anonymisation is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing 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. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) to Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link.

For more information on how google uses your data, please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

Google Analytics cookies are stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour in order to optimise both its web offer and its advertising and thus also serves the financing and customer-oriented use, adaptation and updating of the website.

IP anonymisation is activated on this website.

Web fonts

On this website we use web fonts (GoogleFonts, Adobe Typekit, Fonts.com or similar), i.e. fonts that may not be available on your terminal device. We use a font library for this service. When you call up our website, web fonts are loaded from a server (Google, Adobe or similar). In the process, the IP address of the calling visitor may be transmitted to the provider (e.g. Google, Adobe – Adobe Systems Inc., San Jose, California, USA).

The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (legitimate interests of the responsible party). The operator has a legitimate interest in a legible and structured presentation of fonts and content (usability) on the website.

Your rights as a user

  • a) Right to confirmation
    Every data subject has the right to request information as to whether personal data relating to him or her are being processed.

    b) Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR)
    Every data subject has the right to obtain, free of charge, information about the personal data stored about him or her and a copy of that information.

    c) Right to rectification (Art. 16 DSGVO)
    The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the rectification without undue delay of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her.

    d) Right to erasure (right to be forgotten) (Art. 17 GDPR)
    Any data subject shall have the right to obtain the erasure without delay of personal data concerning him or her, where one of the grounds referred to in the law applies and insofar as the processing is not necessary.

    e) Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
    Every data subject has the right to request the restriction of processing, provided that one of the grounds mentioned by law applies.

    f) Right to data portability (Art. 20 DSGVO)
    Every data subject shall have the right to obtain personal data concerning him or her which has been provided by him or her to a controller in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to transmit such data to another controller without hindrance, provided that the processing is based on consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) DS-GVO or Art. 9(2)(a) DS-GVO or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) DS-GVO and the processing is carried out with the aid of automated procedures, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.
    Furthermore, when exercising the right to data portability pursuant to Article 20(1) of the GDPR, the data subject shall have the right to obtain the direct transfer of personal data from one controller to another controller where technically feasible and provided that this does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other individuals.

    g) Right to withdraw consent under data protection law (Art. 13 DSGVO)
    Every data subject has the right to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data at any time if the processing is based on Art. 6 (1) (a) or Art. 9 (2) (a), without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the withdrawal.

    h) Right to object (Art. 21 DSGVO)
    Every data subject has the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning him or her which is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(e) or (f) of the DS-GVO. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions. If personal data are processed for the purposes of direct marketing, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her for such marketing; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct marketing.

    i) Automated decisions in individual cases including profiling (Art. 22 DSGVO)
    Every data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her, unless the decision is

  • (1) is not necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between the data subject and the controller; or
  • (2) is authorised by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and that law contains suitable measures to safeguard the rights and freedoms and legitimate interests of the data subject; or
  • (3) is carried out with the explicit consent of the data subject.
    In the cases mentioned in (1) and (3), reasonable steps are taken to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, which include at least the right to obtain the intervention of a data subject on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and to contest the decision.

In the cases referred to in (1) and (3), reasonable steps are taken to safeguard the rights and freedoms as well as the legitimate interests of the data subject, which include at least the right to obtain the intervention of a data subject on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and to contest the decision.

Duration for which the personal data are stored

The criterion for the duration of the storage of personal data is the respective legally prescribed retention period. After expiry of the period, the corresponding data is routinely deleted, provided that it is no longer required for the fulfilment of the contract or the initiation of the contract.

Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority

In the event of violations of data protection law, the data subject has a right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority. This is the data protection commissioner of the federal state in which our company is based. You can find a list of data protection officers here: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.