As the operators of the website https://franksteffenmueller.com („Website“, „website“), Frank Steffen Mueller („we“, „us“) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. 

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This Privacy and Cookies Policy ("Policy") (together with and any other documents referred to therein) sets out the basis on which the personal data collected from you, or that you provide to us will be processed by us. 

Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

 

For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR", from the GDPR implementation date) or, until GDPR implementation date, the Data Protection Act 1998, (collectively the "Data Protection Laws"") the „Data Controller“ is Frank Steffen Mueller.

 

THANK YOU FOR VISITING

Thank you for visiting the Frank Steffen Mueller website. We are committed to protecting your privacy and we voluntarily provide this privacy statement in support of this commitment. We want to provide a secure, helpful experience for our users. Therefore, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the information you provide and submit to us remains private, and is used only for the purposes as set forth herein. The following discloses our current information gathering and dissemination practices, which may change from time to time, for this site, which is accessible at the domain names www.franksteffenmueller.com.

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION GATHERING

No user information is required to visit the Frank Steffen Mueller website. The only personal information gathered from you will be your e-mail address, should you choose to subscribe to our newsletter or buy anything in our shop. This address will be used to send you notices about projects, updates, events and sales of Frank Steffen Mueller website. The information will not be revealed to third parties.

 

NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION GATHERING

We will collect no personally identifiable information about you, the user, unless you choose to provide personal information to us. Therefore, if you do nothing but browse through the site or download information from the site, no personal information will be gathered. This is not ensured by using third parties like Payhip Limited. However, we will gather and store certain information that does not identify you personally. Such nonpersonal information may include the internet domain name and the internet protocol address from which you access the site; the type of browser and operating system used to access the site; the date and time you access the site; the address of any website from which you used a link to access the site; and the site pages, areas and services you accessed during your visit. This nonpersonal information helps us determine what services and tools are most beneficial to our users, and how we can best serve our users.

 

SPECIFIC INFORMATION GATHERING

Contact information may be used to contact you when necessary. The information may also be used to inform you of additional services or of important site changes. During your visit, Frank Steffen Mueller may ask you to choose to provide survey information. This information is requested in an effort to deliver you the most relevant information and providing you the best possible experience on this site. Demographic and profile data is used to tailor each visitor’s experience at our site; to provide content that we think each visitor might find of interest; to display content according to each visitor’s preferences; and to create individualized database search criteria to accelerate each visitor’s search process.

 

SHARING OF INFORMATION

Frank Steffen Mueller will not sell, share, rent or otherwise transfer your information. We may however share broad aggregate demographic data and related usage information with our business partners. This aggregate information does not contain any personal information which can identify any individual user.

 

YOUR RIGHTS

Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

• access to your personal data and to certain other supplementary information that this Policy is already designed to address,

• require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold,

• require the erasure of personal data concerning you in certain situations,

• receive the personal data concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations,

• object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you for direct marketing,

• object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you,

• object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal data,

• otherwise restrict our processing of your personal data in certain circumstances,

• claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws.

 

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:

• email, call or write to us,

• let us have enough information to identify you (user name, registration details),

• let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill), and

• let us know the information to which your request relates ,including any account or reference numbers, if you have them.

 

HOW TO COMPLAIN

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.

The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.

 

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES AND IP ADDRESSES

We may collect information about your mobile phone, computer or other device from which you access the website including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for systems administration and to report aggregate information to third parties affiliates. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. We may, however, use such information in conjunction with the data We have about you in order to track your usage of our services.

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve the website. By using our website you agree to our use of cookies as more specifically set out below.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

The cookies we use include:

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• "Analytical" cookies: They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

• "Strictly necessary" cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

 

Please note that third parties affiliates may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

You may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of the website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our website.

ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

Your use of this site indicates an acceptance of the terms of the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of such usage.

 

CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY — MODIFICATION AND TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT

Frank Steffen Mueller reserves the right to update or amend this Privacy Policy at any time. If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner which materially differs from the standards in effect at the time such information was collected, we will notify you and you will have a choice as, to whether or not, we use your information in this different manner. In addition, if we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our site notifying users that our Privacy Policy has changed. In some cases when we post such a notice, we will also send an e-mail to users who have provided their information notifying them of the changes in our Privacy Policy.

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

As noted, any contact information (such as email address) is used to contact the visitor when necessary.

 

THIRD PARTY WEBSITES AND LINKS

The site may contain links to other sites. Once you link to another site(s), you are subject to the privacy policy and terms of use of the new site(s). Frank Steffen Mueller is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. Frank Steffen Mueller is not responsible to any third party posting to this site.

 

CHILDREN

The site is not directed to children and it does not specifically collect information from children under the age of thirteen (13); therefore, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) does not apply to the site. We highly recommend that parents view with their children the Federal Trade Commission’s web site at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/index.html to learn more about how COPPA protects children’s privacy online.

 

CONTACTING THE WEBSITE

All questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy And Cookies Policy should be addressed to info@franksteffenmueller.com.