General notice and mandatory information

Designation of the data controller

The data controller for data processing on this website is:

ALANKO GmbH
Kranzweiherweg 22
53489 Sinzig

The data controller decides alone or jointly with others on the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, contact details or similar).

Withdrawal of your consent to data processing

Certain data processing operations require your explicit consent. Your previously granted consent can be revoked at any time. It is sufficient to send an informal email message for the withdrawal.The legality of the data processing carried out until the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Right to complain to the competent supervisory authority

As a data subject, you have a right to appeal to the competent supervisory authority in the event of a data protection breach. The competent supervisory authority with regard to data protection issues is the state data protection officer of the federal state in which our company's registered office is located. The following link provides a list of data protection officers and their contact details:  Addresses and links - Addresses and links.

Right to data portability

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to third parties. The provision takes place in a machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done insofar as it is technically feasible.

Right to information, correction, blocking, deletion

Within the scope of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, their origin, their recipients, and the purpose of the data processing, as well as, if applicable, the right to rectification, blocking, or deletion of these data. In this regard, as well as for any additional questions regarding personal data, you may contact us at any time via the contact information listed in the imprint.

SSL or TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content that you send to us as the site operator, our website uses SSL or TLS encryption. This means that data that you transmit via this website cannot be read by third parties. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the "https://" address line of your browser and the lock symbol in the browser line.

Contact form

Data transmitted via the contact form, including your contact details, will be stored in order to process your inquiry or to be available for follow-up questions. This data will not be passed on without your consent.

The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). A withdrawal of your already-given consent is possible at any time. For the withdrawal, it is sufficient to send an informal message by email. The legality of the data processing operations until the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Data transmitted via the contact form will remain with us until you request us to delete it, withdraw your consent to store it, or until there is no longer any need to store the data. Mandatory legal provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.

Storage period of contributions and comments

Posts and comments as well as related data, such as IP addresses, are stored. The content remains on our website until it has been completely deleted or had to be deleted for legal reasons.

The storage of posts and comments is based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). A withdrawal of your already-given consent is possible at any time. For the withdrawal, it is sufficient to send an informal message by email. The legality of data processing operations that have already taken place remains unaffected by the revocation.

Use of Google Analytics

Google Analytics
So far as you have given your consent, this website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC. The responsible service provider in the EU is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google").

Scope of processing
Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of our websites. The information collected by means of cookies about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

We utilize the function 'anonymizeIP' (so-called IP masking): Due to the activation of IP anonymization on this website, Google will truncate your IP address within European Union member states or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other data from Google.

During your visit to the website, the following data is collected, among others:

• The pages you have called up, your "click path"
• Achievement of "website goals" (conversions, e.g. newsletter sign-ups, downloads, purchases)
• Your user behavior (for example, clicks, dwell time, bounce rates)
• Your approximate location (region)
• Your IP address (in truncated form)
• Technical information about your browser and the end devices you use (e.g. language setting, screen resolution)
• Your internet service provider
• The referrer URL (via which website/advertising medium you came to this website)

Purposes of processing
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, and compiling reports on website activity. The reports provided by Google Analytics are used to analyze the performance of our website and the success of our marketing campaigns

Use of conversion measurement with the conversion pixel of Facebook

We use the "conversion pixel" or visitor action pixel of Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"). By calling up this pixel from your browser, Facebook can subsequently recognize whether a Facebook ad was successful, e.g. led to an online purchase. We only receive statistical data from Facebook for this purpose without any reference to a specific person. This allows us to track the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes. In particular, if you are logged into Facebook, we refer you to their privacy information https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

Please go to www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads if you wish to withdraw your consent to Conversion Pixel.

Further links

Our website may contain links to pages of other providers. Since ALANKO GmbH has no influence on these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and we cannot accept any responsibility or liability for them. Please review the privacy policies before submitting personal information to these websites.