Privat Policy

/ Data Privacy

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and handle it in accordance with data privacy regulations as well as this Data Privacy Notice.


In general, our website can be used without the provision of personal data. Insofar as personal data is recorded by our web pages (e.g. name, address or email address), this occurs, as far as it is possible, exclusively on a voluntary basis.

We do not transfer this data to third parties without your explicit consent.
It should be noted that the transfer of information via the internet (e.g. during communication via email) may contain security gaps. Comprehensive protection of data from third-party access is not possible.

Controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other data protection laws applicable in Member states of the European Union and other provisions related to data protection is:

Christian Schmidt
Silberburgstrasse 119 A

70176 Stuttgart

Germany

Phone: +49.711.6151133
info@christianschmidt.com

/ Social Media Plugins

Our web pages incorporate the functions provided by the service INSTAGRAM, as operated by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. If you are logged into your Instagram account, by clicking the Instagram button you can link content from our pages with your Instagram profile. This enables Instagram to attribute your visit to our web page to your user account. Please note that we, as the content provider of these pages do not have knowledge of the information contained in the data transferred or of its usage on the part of Instagram.
 Additional information on this subject is available in Instagram’s data privacy notice at  http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

Our website uses social media plug-ins from the social media network BEHANCE, operated by Adobe Systems Incorporated, 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704, USA („BEHANCE“). When you call up a page that contains such a plug-in, a direct link to Adobe servers is created by your browser. The plug-in then transmits protocol data to the Adobe servers in the USA. This protocol data may include your IP address, the address of the websites you visited that also have Behance functionality, the type and settings of your browser, the date and time of your request, your usage of Behance and cookies.
For further information on the purpose, scope and further processing and usage of the data by Adobe as well as your rights and possibilities for protecting your privacy, please consult Adobe’s data privacy notice at:  https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html

Our website uses plugins from the VIMEO video portal, which is operated by Vimeo, LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. Every time you visit a page showing one or more Vimeo video clips, a direct connection is established between your browser and a Vimeo server in the USA. Your IP address and information about your visit are stored. By interacting with the Vimeo plugins (e.g. by clicking the play button) this information is also transmitted to Vimeo and stored.
If you have a Vimeo user account and do not wish Vimeo to use our website as a way of collecting information about you and linking this information with the membership data held by Vimeo, please log out of Vimeo before visiting our website.
To find out more about Vimeo's data protection policy and how Vimeo gathers and uses your data, please visit www.vimeo.com/privacy.
 Vimeo also activates Google Analytics tracking via an iFrame in which the video is launched. This is Vimeo's own tracking application, to which we do not have access. You can stop Google Analytics tracking by installing the deactivation tool available from Google for some Internet browsers. In addition, users can prevent the recording of data by Google Analytics and usage of data related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: www.tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Our website uses social media plug-ins from the social media network Linkedin, LinkedIn Corporation 2029 Stierlin Court - Mountain View - CA 94043 - USA . When you call up a page that contains such a plug-in, a direct link to Linkedin servers is created by your browser. The plug-in then transmits protocol data to the Linkedin servers in the USA. This protocol data may include your IP address, the address of the websites you visited that also have Linkedin functionality, the type and settings of your browser, the date and time of your request, your usage of Linkedin and cookies. For further information on the purpose, scope and further processing and usage of the data by Linkedin as well as your rights and possibilities for protecting your privacy, please consult Linkedin's data privacy notice at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

/ Cookies

These web pages in part use so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer in any way and do not contain viruses. Cookies help us to make our web offering more user-friendly, more effective and more secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called session cookies. These cookies are deleted automatically once your visit has ended. Other cookies stay on your device until they are deleted by you. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser again the next time you visit us.
You can set your browser to notify you when cookies are used and to only allow cookies in individual cases, to accept cookies only in defined instances or to generally exclude them; you can also set your browser to automatically delete cookies when the browser is closed. Deactivation of cookies may limit the functionality of certain aspects of our website. 

/ Server log files

The provider of these pages records and automatically stores information automatically transmitted by your browser in so-called server log files. These are:

Browser type / browser version
Operating system used
Referrer URL
Host name of computer accessing the site
Time of server enquiry

This information cannot be attributed to specific individuals. This data is not combined with data from other sources. We reserve the right to review this data after the fact should we have concrete reason to suspect illegal use has taken place.

/ Right to information, deletion, locking

 You can contact us at any time at the address listed in our Legal notice regarding this matter or with any other questions with respect to personal data.

/ Host

This website is created with Squarespace. It is hosted with CMO Reutlingen, cmo.de.

/ Legal Notice

All information on this website has been carefully checked. However, a guarantee for the completeness, accuracy and timeliness can not be accepted. We reserve the right to make changes or additions to the information provided at any time.

We assume no responsibility for third party websites to which we only provide access via link. We also have no control over whether third parties set up links from their website to our website. The existence of such links is not an indication of cooperation with these companies or a recommendation of their offer.
The content of our websites is protected by copyright. Any duplication, distribution or public reproduction of the content offered requires prior consent.