Irina von Bonin, Schneckenmannstrasse 25, 8044 Zurich, Switzerland (hereinafter: “We”), as operator of the site https://www.irinavonbonin.de (hereinafter: “Website”), is responsible for the personal data of the users (hereinafter: “You”) of the Website within the scope of the data protection laws, in particular the German Data Protection Regulation (“DSG-VO”) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (“BDSG”).

We are aware of the importance of protecting the privacy of personal and financial information. Therefore, we will only collect, process and use your personal data in accordance with the content of this Privacy Policy and the applicable data protection laws, in particular the DSGVO as well as the BDSG.

In this privacy policy, we will inform you about which personal data we collect, process and use regarding you when you use our website. We therefore ask you to read the following carefully.

Personal data in the context of these data protection provisions are individual details about your personal or factual circumstances. This includes in particular your name, e-mail address and, if applicable, your address and telephone number as well as your credit card and bank account details.

1. Accessibility of the privacy policy and changes
We reserve the right to make occasional changes to our privacy policy. The updated privacy policy will be posted on our website. We therefore recommend that you review this page from time to time, especially whenever you use the website.

2. Provision of the website
2.1 Personal data also includes information about your use of our website. In this context, we collect the following data from you:

• Your IP address,
• Date and time of the request,
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time,
• Content of the inquiry,
• Access status/HTTP status code,
• Scope of the data transfer,
• Web page from which your request is forwarded,
• Browser, operating system and its interface, language and version of the browser software,
• The location from which you retrieve data from our site
• As well as other connection data and sources you retrieve.

This data is collected through log files and cookies. More information about cookies can be found below in this Privacy Policy.

2.2 We use this data to protect our following legitimate interests:

• To display our website on your computer
• To ensure the functioning of the website
• To optimize the website
• To guarantee the security of our information technology systems

The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

2.3 The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. Data that we collect for the provision will be deleted after the end of the respective session.

3. Cookies and targeting
3.1 We collect information on your use of our website through the use of so called browser cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your data carriers and store certain settings and data for exchange with our system through your browser. A cookie usually contains the name of the domain from which the cookie data is sent, as well as information about the age of the cookie and an alphanumeric identifier. Cookies enable our systems to recognize the user’s device and make any preferences immediately available. As soon as a user accesses the platform, a cookie is transmitted to the hard drive of the user’s computer. We currently use the following:

Cookie	Function	Runtime
Borlabs Cookies	Stores the user’s preferences in the cookie box of Borlabs Cookies	1 year
WPML	Saves the language setting	1 day
Recaptcha	To distinguish between humans and bots in the contact form	1 year

3.2 Only the data concerning your use of the website explained above is stored in the cookies we use. This is not done by assigning it to you personally, but by assigning an identification number to the cookie (“cookie ID”). A merging of the cookie ID with your name, your IP address or with similar data, which would enable an assignment of the cookie to you, does not take place.

3.3 If a user accesses the services of the online portal via a partner site (affiliate), the anonymous data is also stored in a cookie. Such cookies do not contain any personal data of the user, but serve exclusively to maintain the affiliate program.

3.4 If you do not wish browser cookies to be used, you can set your browser so that it does not accept the storage of cookies. Please note that in this case you may only be able to use our website in a limited way or not at all. If you only want to accept our cookies, but not the cookies of our service providers and partners, you can select the setting in your browser “Block cookies from third-party providers”.

3.5 We use cookies to safeguard our legitimate interest in improving our website and offering you a better service that is even more tailored to your needs. They allow us to recognize your computer when you return to our website and therefore:

• Store information about your preferred activities on the website and thus tailor our website to your individual interests;
• Store your log-in details and viewing preferences (e.g. language);
• Accelerate the processing of your requests.

The legal basis for data processing through cookies is Art. 6 paragraph lit. f DSGVO.

3.6 Cookies are stored until they are deleted by you or the term of the respective cookie ends. In this case, the cookie is automatically deleted from your computer.

4. Contact form
4.1 The website offers a contact form. This allows you to contact us, submit inquiries and send us questions, requests and suggestions. When using the contact form, the following data is transmitted to us:

• Title, surname, first name,
• E-mail address,
• Subject,
• Your message,
• IP address,
• Time of the request,
• Voluntary information, if any.

4.2 We use your e-mail address to process your request. If you have provided us with personal data, we will use this to address you personally or to facilitate processing of your request. This information will exclusively be used to process your request. We will not use this information for any other purpose.

4.3 The processing is carried out to protect our legitimate interest of being able to process your request. The legal basis is Art. 6 paragraph 1 lit. f DSGVO.

4.4 If your inquiry relates to a contract concluded with you or you request quotes from us, we will process your personal data in order to fulfill a contract with you or to carry out pre-contractual measures based on your inquiry. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO.

5. Google reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).

The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to verify whether the data entry on our websites (e.g. in a contact form) is made by a human or by an automated program. For this purpose, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the visitor of the website on the basis of various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, time spent on the website by the visitor or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analyses operate entirely in the background. Website visitors are not made aware that an analysis is taking place.

The data processing is based on Art. 6 paragraph 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web services from abusive automated spying and from SPAM.

For more information on Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, please refer to the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.

6. Data security
All the information you send to us is stored on servers within the European Union. We secure our website and other systems by technical and organizational measures against loss, destruction, access, modification or distribution of your data by unauthorized parties. These are adapted to the latest technology in each case. In particular, we transmit your personal data in encrypted form. We use the coding system SSL (Secure Socket Layer).

7. No transfer of your personal data
We do not forward your personal data to third parties unless you have consented to the forwarding of data or we are entitled or obliged to forward data on the basis of statutory provisions and/or official or judicial orders.

8. Deletion
We store your data for as long as we are entitled to do so. If you have made use of your right to object, or if the legal basis subsequently ceases to apply for another reason, in particular because the purpose for which the data was collected has been achieved, we will delete the data immediately, unless we are obliged by law to retain the data.

9. Data protection and third-party websites
The website may contain hyperlinks to and from third-party websites. If you follow a hyperlink to one of these websites, please note that we cannot accept any responsibility or guarantee for the content or data protection conditions of third parties. Please make sure that you are aware of the applicable data protection conditions before you submit personal data to these websites.

10. Changes to these data protection provisions
We reserve the right to amend these data protection provisions at any time with effect for the future. A current version is available on the website. Please visit the website regularly and keep yourself informed about the applicable data protection provisions.

11. Your rights and contact
You may view your personal data free of charge at any time and request information about its origin, recipients or categories of recipients to whom this data is passed on and the purpose of its storage and, if necessary, its amendment and/or deletion and/or limitation of its processing.

You also have the right to object to the processing of your data at any time, as long as the processing is carried out to protect one of our legitimate interests. In this case, your data will only be processed if we can demonstrate that there are compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which outweigh your interest in the exclusion of the processing or if the processing serves to enforce, exercise or defend our claims.

If the processing of your data is based on consent, you have the right to revoke this consent at any time. In this case, we will no longer process your data unless we are authorized to do so by law. The admissibility of the processing of your data that took place before your revocation will not be affected by your revocation.

If you have provided us with personal data, we will send it to you upon request in machine-readable form to be used by other providers.

To exercise your above rights, contact us at irina@vonbonin.ch or by letter to: Irina von Bonin, Schneckenmannstrasse 25, 8044 Zurich, Switzerland. If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding our collection, processing and use of your personal data, please also contact us using the contact details provided.

If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection laws, you have the right to file a complaint with a data protection authority. Accessibility to this Privacy Policy.

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Last updated: July 2022