Privacy Policy

General Information

This privacy policy provides detailed information about what happens to your personal data when you visit our website www.techxandar.com. Personal data refers to any data that can be used to personally identify you. We strictly adhere to legal regulations, particularly the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), when processing your data and place great importance on ensuring that your visit to our website is completely secure.

Responsible Party

The entity responsible for the collection and processing of personal data on this website under data protection law is:

Techxandar

Country: Germany

Email: contact@techxandar.com

Access Data (Server Log Files)

When you visit our website, we automatically collect and store access data in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These include:

- Browser type and browser version of your PC

- Operating system used by your PC

- Referrer URL (source/link from which you accessed our website)

- Hostname of the accessing computer

- Date and time of the server request

- The IP address currently used by your PC (possibly in anonymized form)

In general, it is not possible or intended for us to link this data to an individual. The processing of such data is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Cookies

To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your device. Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer system.

Cookies that are necessary for carrying out the electronic communication process or for providing certain functions you have requested are stored based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in storing cookies to ensure the technically error-free and optimized provision of our services. If other cookies (e.g., cookies for analyzing your browsing behavior) are stored, they are addressed separately in this privacy policy.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies.” They are automatically deleted after your visit ends. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit.

You can configure your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and allow cookies only on a case-by-case basis, exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Social Media

Facebook Plugins (Like & Share Button)

Our website integrates plugins from the social network Facebook, provided by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA (“Facebook”). You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like Button” (“Like”) on our website. An overview of the Facebook plugins can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=en_US.

When you visit our website, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from Facebook to your browser and integrated into the page. As a result, Facebook receives the information that you have visited our website with your IP address, even if you do not have a Facebook profile or are not logged into Facebook. If you click the Facebook “Like Button” while logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our website to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate your visit to our website with your user account. We note that, as the website operator, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook.

If you do not want Facebook to associate your visit to our website with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook account. You can also completely prevent the loading of the Facebook plugin with browser add-ons.

For information about the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by Facebook, as well as your rights and settings options to protect your privacy, please see Facebook’s privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

Instagram Plugin

Our website integrates functions of the Instagram service, provided by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Instagram”). The plugins are marked with an Instagram logo, for example, in the form of an “Instagram camera.” An overview of Instagram plugins and their appearance can be found here: http://blog.instagram.com/post/36222022872/introducing-instagram-badges.

When you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Instagram’s servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from Instagram to your browser and integrated into the page. Through this integration, Instagram receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have an Instagram profile or are not logged into Instagram. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to an Instagram server in the USA and stored there.

If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content of our pages to your Instagram profile by clicking the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We note that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Instagram.

If you do not want Instagram to directly associate the data collected via our website with your Instagram account, you must log out of Instagram before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the loading of Instagram plugins with browser add-ons, e.g., with the script blocker “NoScript” (http://noscript.net/).

For information about the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by Instagram, as well as your rights and settings options to protect your privacy, please see Instagram’s privacy policy: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

X (Twitter) Plugin

Our website uses functions of the X (Twitter) service, provided by X Corp., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA (“X (Twitter)”).

When you use X (Twitter) and the “Retweet” function, the websites you visit are linked to your X (Twitter) account and published in your X (Twitter) feed. This involves the transmission of data to X (Twitter). We have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by X (Twitter). For details, please see X (Twitter)’s privacy policy: https://twitter.com/privacy.

You can change your privacy settings on X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/account/settings.

For further information about the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by X (Twitter), as well as your rights and settings options to protect your privacy, please see X (Twitter)’s privacy policy: https://twitter.com/privacy.

YouTube Plugin

Our website uses plugins from YouTube to integrate and display video content. The provider of the video portal is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (“YouTube”).

When you visit a page with an integrated YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube’s servers is established. This informs YouTube which of our pages you have visited.

YouTube can directly associate your browsing behavior with your personal profile if you are logged into your YouTube account. You can prevent this by logging out beforehand.

For information about the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by YouTube, as well as your rights and settings options to protect your privacy, please see YouTube’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy.

If you have expressly consented, we will regularly send our newsletter to your email address. To receive our newsletter, you must provide and verify your email address. Additional data is not collected or is voluntary. The data is used exclusively for sending the newsletter.

The data provided during newsletter registration is processed solely based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time. An informal email notification or unsubscribing via the “Unsubscribe” link in the newsletter is sufficient for revocation. The lawfulness of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.

Data entered to set up the subscription will be deleted in case of unsubscription. If this data has been transmitted to us for other purposes and elsewhere, it will remain with us.

Contact Form

If you contact us via email or a contact form, the transmitted data, including your contact details, will be stored to process your request or to be available for follow-up questions. This data will not be passed on without your consent.

The processing of data entered in the contact form is based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can revoke your consent at any time. An informal email notification is sufficient for revocation. The lawfulness of the data processing operations carried out until the revocation remains unaffected.

Data transmitted via the contact form will remain with us until you request deletion, revoke your consent to storage, or there is no longer a need for data storage. Mandatory legal provisions – particularly retention periods – remain unaffected.

Data Use and Disclosure

The personal data you provide to us, e.g., via email (e.g., your name, address, or email address), will neither be sold to third parties nor otherwise marketed. Your personal data will only be processed for correspondence with you and only for the purpose for which you provided the data. For payment processing, we pass your payment data to the credit institution tasked with the payment.

The use of data automatically collected during your visit to our website is only for the purposes mentioned above. No other use of the data takes place.

We assure you that we will not pass on your personal data to third parties unless we are legally obliged to do so or you have given us your prior consent.

SSL or TLS Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as inquiries you send to us as the site operator, our website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the browser’s address bar changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

When SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Storage Duration

Personal data provided to us via our website will only be stored until the purpose for which it was entrusted to us is fulfilled. If commercial and tax retention periods must be observed, the storage duration for certain data may be up to 10 years.

Data Subject Rights

With regard to the personal data concerning you, you have the following rights as a data subject under the applicable legal provisions vis-à-vis the controller:

Right to Withdraw Consent

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. If the processing of your data is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of data at any time with effect for the future pursuant to Art. 7(3) GDPR. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out based on the consent until the withdrawal. Storage of data for billing and accounting purposes remains unaffected by a withdrawal.

Right to Information

You have the right to request confirmation from us pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR as to whether we are processing personal data concerning you. If such processing exists, you have the right to information about your personal data processed by us, the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the planned storage duration or the criteria for determining the storage duration, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection to processing, complaint to a supervisory authority, the origin of your data if it was not collected from you by us, the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing concerning you, as well as your right to be informed about the safeguards pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR when your data is transferred to third countries.

Right to Rectification

You have the right to request the immediate rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you and/or the completion of your incomplete data pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR at any time.

Right to Erasure

You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR if one of the following reasons applies:

- Your personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.

- You withdraw your consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) or Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR, and there is no other legal basis for the processing.

- You object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or you object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21(2) GDPR.

- The personal data have been processed unlawfully.

- The erasure of the personal data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the Member State to which we are subject.

- The personal data were collected in relation to information society services offered pursuant to Art. 8(1) GDPR.

However, this right does not apply to the extent that processing is necessary:

- For exercising the right to freedom of expression and information;

- For compliance with a legal obligation requiring processing under Union or Member State law to which we are subject, or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us;

- For reasons of public interest in the area of public health pursuant to Art. 9(2)(h) and (i) and Art. 9(3) GDPR;

- For archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes pursuant to Art. 89(1) GDPR, insofar as the data subject’s right is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing; or

- For the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

If we have made your personal data public and are obliged to erase it as described above, we will take reasonable steps, including technical measures, considering the available technology and implementation costs, to inform controllers processing the personal data that you, as the data subject, have requested the erasure of all links to, or copies or replications of, those personal data.

Right to Restriction of Processing

You have the right to request the restriction of processing (blocking) of your personal data pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR. You can contact us at any time at the address provided in the imprint. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:

- If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we usually need time to verify this. For the duration of the verification, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

- If the processing of your personal data was/is carried out unlawfully, you can request the restriction of data processing instead of erasure.

- If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it for the exercise, defense, or establishment of legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of erasure.

- If you have lodged an objection pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, a balance must be struck between your interests and ours. As long as it is not yet clear whose interests prevail, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, these data – apart from their storage – may only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the EU or a Member State.

Right to Notification

If you have asserted the right to rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing against us, we are obliged to notify all recipients to whom your personal data have been disclosed of this rectification or erasure of the data or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. You have the right pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR to be informed about these recipients upon request.

Right Not to Be Subject to Automated Decision-Making, Including Profiling

You have the right pursuant to Art. 22 GDPR not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing – including profiling – which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

This does not apply if the decision:

- Is necessary for entering into or performing a contract between you and us,

- Is permitted by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which contains suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or

- Is based on your explicit consent.

However, decisions in the cases mentioned in (a) to (c) must not be based on special categories of personal data pursuant to Art. 9(1) GDPR, unless Art. 9(2)(a) or (g) applies and suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests have been taken.

In the cases mentioned in (a) and (c), we take appropriate measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, including at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express your point of view, and to contest the decision.

Right to Data Portability

If the processing is based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR or Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR and is carried out using automated procedures, you have the right pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR to receive the personal data you provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit it to another controller or to request its transmission to another controller, where technically feasible.

Right to Object

If we process your personal data based on a balancing of interests pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, you have the right to object at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to the processing of your personal data; this also applies to profiling based on this provision. The respective legal basis for processing can be found in this privacy policy. If you object, we will no longer process your affected personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms or the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims (objection pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR).

If your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing; this also applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If you object, your personal data will subsequently no longer be used for direct marketing purposes (objection pursuant to Art. 21(2) GDPR).

You have the option, in connection with the use of information society services – notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC – to exercise your right to object by automated means using technical specifications.

Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority Pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR

In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, place of work, or the place of the alleged violation. The right to lodge a complaint exists without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

The supervisory authority responsible for us is:

The State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Baden-Württemberg

P.O. Box 10 29 32

70025 Stuttgart

or:

Lautenschlagerstraße 20

70173 Stuttgart

Phone: +49 711/61 55 41-0

Email: poststelle@lfdi.bwl.de

Website: https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de

Validity and Changes to This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is effective as of January 1, 2023. We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time in compliance with applicable data protection regulations. This may be necessary, for example, to comply with new legal provisions or to account for changes to our website or new services on our website. The version available at the time of your visit applies.

If this privacy policy is amended, we intend to publish changes to our privacy policy on this page so that you are fully informed about what personal data we collect, how we process it, and under what circumstances it may be disclosed.