DATA PROTECTION WE HAVE DRAWN UP THIS DATA PROTECTION STATEMENT (VERSION 07.11.2019-311126396) IN ORDER TO EXPLAIN TO YOU, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE BASIC DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (EU) 2016/679, WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT, HOW WE USE DATA AND WHAT DECISION-MAKING OPTIONS YOU HAVE AS A VISITOR TO THIS WEBSITE.

UNFORTUNATELY, IT IS IN THE NATURE OF THINGS THAT THESE EXPLANATIONS SOUND VERY TECHNICAL, BUT WE HAVE TRIED TO DESCRIBE THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS AS SIMPLY AND CLEARLY AS POSSIBLE.

RIGHTS UNDER THE BASIC DATA PROTECTION REGULATION

ACCORDING TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE DSGVO, YOU ARE GENERALLY ENTITLED TO THE FOLLOWING RIGHTS:

RIGHT TO RECTIFICATION (ARTICLE 16 DSGVO)

RIGHT TO ERASURE ("RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN") (ARTICLE 17 DSGVO)

RIGHT TO RESTRICTION OF PROCESSING (ARTICLE 18 DSGVO)

RIGHT TO NOTICE - OBLIGATION TO GIVE NOTICE IN RELATION TO RECTIFICATION OR ERASURE OF PERSONAL DATA OR RESTRICTION OF PROCESSING (ARTICLE 19 DSGVO)

RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY (ARTICLE 20 DSGVO)

RIGHT TO OBJECT (ARTICLE 21 DSGVO)

RIGHT NOT TO BE SUBJECT TO A DECISION BASED SOLELY ON AUTOMATED PROCESSING, INCLUDING PROFILING (ARTICLE 22 DSGVO) IF YOU BELIEVE THAT THE PROCESSING OF YOUR DATA VIOLATES DATA PROTECTION LAW OR YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS HAVE BEEN OTHERWISE INFRINGED, YOU MAY CONTACT THE FEDERAL COMMISSIONER FOR DATA PROTECTION AND FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (BFDI).

TLS ENCRYPTION WITH HTTPS

WE USE HTTPS TO TRANSMIT DATA SECURELY OVER THE INTERNET (DATA PROTECTION BY DESIGN ARTICLE 25 PARAGRAPH 1 DSGVO). BY USING TLS (TRANSPORT LAYER SECURITY), AN ENCRYPTION PROTOCOL FOR SECURE DATA TRANSMISSION ON THE INTERNET, WE CAN ENSURE THE PROTECTION OF CONFIDENTIAL DATA. YOU CAN RECOGNISE THE USE OF THIS DATA TRANSMISSION SECURITY BY THE SMALL LOCK SYMBOL AT THE TOP LEFT OF THE BROWSER AND THE USE OF THE HTTPS (INSTEAD OF HTTP) SCHEME AS PART OF OUR INTERNET ADDRESS.

GOOGLE FONTS PRIVACY POLICY

WE USE GOOGLE FONTS FROM GOOGLE INC. (1600 AMPHITHEATRE PARKWAY MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94043, USA) ON OUR WEBSITE.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO REGISTER OR ENTER A PASSWORD TO USE GOOGLE FONTS. FURTHERMORE, NO COOKIES ARE STORED IN YOUR BROWSER. THE FILES (CSS, FONTS) ARE REQUESTED VIA THE GOOGLE DOMAINS FONTS.GOOGLEAPIS.COM AND FONTS.GSTATIC.COM. ACCORDING TO GOOGLE, THE REQUESTS FOR CSS AND FONTS ARE COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM ALL OTHER GOOGLE SERVICES. IF YOU HAVE A GOOGLE ACCOUNT, YOU DO NOT NEED TO WORRY ABOUT YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT INFORMATION BEING TRANSMITTED TO GOOGLE WHILE USING GOOGLE FONTS. GOOGLE RECORDS THE USE OF CSS (CASCADING STYLE SHEETS) AND THE FONTS USED AND STORES THIS DATA SECURELY. WE WILL LOOK AT EXACTLY HOW THIS DATA IS STORED IN MORE DETAIL.

WHAT ARE GOOGLE FONTS?

GOOGLE FONTS (FORMERLY GOOGLE WEB FONTS) IS AN INTERACTIVE DIRECTORY OF MORE THAN 800 FONTS THAT GOOGLE LLC MAKES AVAILABLE FOR FREE USE.

MANY OF THESE FONTS ARE RELEASED UNDER THE SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE, WHILE OTHERS ARE RELEASED UNDER THE APACHE LICENSE. BOTH ARE FREE SOFTWARE LICENCES. SO WE CAN USE THEM FREELY WITHOUT PAYING ROYALTIES.

WHY DO WE USE GOOGLE FONTS ON OUR WEBSITE?

WITH GOOGLE FONTS WE CAN USE FONTS ON OUR OWN WEBSITE AND DON'T HAVE TO UPLOAD THEM TO OUR OWN SERVER. GOOGLE FONTS IS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT TO KEEP THE QUALITY OF OUR WEBSITE HIGH. ALL GOOGLE FONTS ARE AUTOMATICALLY OPTIMISED FOR THE WEB AND THIS SAVES DATA VOLUME AND IS A GREAT ADVANTAGE ESPECIALLY FOR USE ON MOBILE DEVICES. WHEN YOU VISIT OUR SITE, THE LOW FILE SIZE ENSURES A FAST LOADING TIME. FURTHERMORE, GOOGLE FONTS ARE SO-CALLED SECURE WEB FONTS. DIFFERENT IMAGE SYNTHESIS SYSTEMS (RENDERING) IN DIFFERENT BROWSERS, OPERATING SYSTEMS AND MOBILE DEVICES CAN LEAD TO ERRORS. SUCH ERRORS CAN SOMETIMES VISUALLY DISTORT TEXTS OR ENTIRE WEB PAGES. THANKS TO THE FAST CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK (CDN), THERE ARE NO CROSS-PLATFORM PROBLEMS WITH GOOGLE FONTS. GOOGLE FONTS SUPPORTS ALL MAJOR BROWSERS ( GOOGLE CHROME, MOZILLA FIREFOX, APPLE SAFARI, OPERA) AND WORKS RELIABLY ON MOST MODERN MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEMS, INCLUDING ANDROID 2.2+ AND IOS 4.2+ (IPHONE, IPAD, IPO

SO WE USE GOOGLE FONTS TO MAKE OUR ENTIRE ONLINE SERVICE AS BEAUTIFUL AND CONSISTENT AS POSSIBLE. ACCORDING TO ART. 6 ABS. 1 F LIT. F DSGVO, THIS ALREADY CONSTITUTES A "LEGITIMATE INTEREST" IN THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA. LEGITIMATE INTEREST" IN THIS CASE MEANS LEGAL AS WELL AS ECONOMIC OR IDEAL INTERESTS RECOGNISED BY THE LEGAL SYSTEM.

WHAT DATA IS STORED BY GOOGLE?

WHEN YOU VISIT OUR WEBSITE, THE FONTS ARE RELOADED VIA A GOOGLE SERVER. THIS EXTERNAL CALL-UP TRANSMITS DATA TO THE GOOGLE SERVER. IN THIS WAY, GOOGLE ALSO RECOGNISES THAT YOU OR YOUR IP ADDRESS IS VISITING OUR WEBSITE. THE GOOGLE FONTS API WAS DEVELOPED TO REDUCE THE COLLECTION, STORAGE AND USE OF END-USER DATA TO WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR THE EFFICIENT PROVISION OF FONTS. API, BY THE WAY, STANDS FOR "APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE" AND SERVES, AMONG OTHER THINGS, AS A DATA TRANSMITTER IN THE SOFTWARE SECTOR.

GOOGLE FONTS STORES CSS AND FONT REQUESTS SECURELY AT GOOGLE AND IS THEREFORE PROTECTED. THROUGH THE COLLECTED USAGE FIGURES, GOOGLE CAN DETERMINE THE POPULARITY OF THE FONTS. GOOGLE PUBLISHES THE RESULTS ON INTERNAL ANALYSIS PAGES, SUCH AS GOOGLE ANALYTICS. GOOGLE ALSO USES DATA FROM ITS OWN WEB CRAWLER TO DETERMINE WHICH WEBSITES ARE USING GOOGLE FONTS. THIS DATA IS PUBLISHED IN THE BIGQUERY DATABASE OF GOOGLE FONTS. BIGQUERY IS A GOOGLE WEB SERVICE FOR COMPANIES THAT WANT TO MOVE AND ANALYSE LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA.

IT SHOULD BE NOTED, HOWEVER, THAT EVERY GOOGLE FONT REQUEST ALSO AUTOMATICALLY TRANSMITS INFORMATION SUCH AS IP ADDRESS, LANGUAGE SETTINGS, BROWSER SCREEN RESOLUTION, BROWSER VERSION AND BROWSER NAME TO THE GOOGLE SERVERS. WHETHER THIS DATA IS ALSO STORED CANNOT BE CLEARLY DETERMINED OR IS NOT CLEARLY COMMUNICATED BY GOOGLE.

HOW LONG AND WHERE IS THE DATA STORED?

GOOGLE STORES REQUESTS FOR CSS-ASSETS FOR ONE DAY ON THEIR SERVERS, WHICH ARE MAINLY LOCATED OUTSIDE THE EU. THIS ALLOWS US TO USE THE FONTS WITH THE HELP OF A GOOGLE STYLESHEET. A STYLESHEET IS A FORMAT TEMPLATE THAT CAN BE USED TO QUICKLY AND EASILY CHANGE THE DESIGN OR FONT OF A WEBSITE, FOR EXAMPLE.

THE FONT FILES ARE STORED BY GOOGLE FOR ONE YEAR. GOOGLE'S AIM IS TO FUNDAMENTALLY IMPROVE THE LOADING TIME OF WEBSITES. IF MILLIONS OF WEB PAGES REFER TO THE SAME FONTS, THEY ARE CACHED AFTER THE FIRST VISIT AND IMMEDIATELY REAPPEAR ON ALL OTHER WEB PAGES VISITED LATER. SOMETIMES GOOGLE UPDATES FONT FILES TO REDUCE FILE SIZE, INCREASE LANGUAGE COVERAGE AND IMPROVE DESIGN.

HOW CAN I DELETE MY DATA OR PREVENT DATA STORAGE?

THE DATA THAT GOOGLE STORES FOR ONE DAY OR ONE YEAR CANNOT SIMPLY BE DELETED. THE DATA IS AUTOMATICALLY TRANSMITTED TO GOOGLE WHEN THE PAGE IS CALLED UP. IN ORDER TO DELETE THIS DATA PREMATURELY, YOU MUST CONTACT GOOGLE SUPPORT AT HTTPS://SUPPORT.GOOGLE.COM/?HL=EN&TID=311126396. DATA STORAGE WILL ONLY BE PREVENTED IN THIS CASE IF YOU DO NOT VISIT OUR SITE.

UNLIKE OTHER WEB FONTS, GOOGLE ALLOWS US UNLIMITED ACCESS TO ALL FONTS. SO WE HAVE UNLIMITED ACCESS TO A SEA OF FONTS AND CAN GET THE BEST OUT OF THEM FOR OUR WEBSITE. MORE ABOUT GOOGLE FONTS AND OTHER QUESTIONS CAN BE FOUND AT HTTPS://DEVELOPERS.GOOGLE.COM/FONTS/FAQ?TID=311126396. GOOGLE DOES GO INTO PRIVACY-RELATED MATTERS THERE, BUT REALLY DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT DATA STORAGE IS NOT INCLUDED. IT IS RELATIVELY DIFFICULT (ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE) TO GET REALLY PRECISE INFORMATION ABOUT STORED DATA FROM GOOGLE.

YOU CAN ALSO READ ABOUT WHAT DATA IS GENERALLY COLLECTED BY GOOGLE AND WHAT IT IS USED FOR AT HTTPS://WWW.GOOGLE.COM/INTL/EN/POLICIES/PRIVACY/.

HOW CAN I DELETE MY DATA OR PREVENT DATA STORAGE?

WITH THE AUTOMATIC DELETION OF LOCATION AND ACTIVITY DATA INTRODUCED IN 2019, LOCATION AND WEB/APP ACTIVITY INFORMATION WILL BE STORED FOR EITHER 3 OR 18 MONTHS, DEPENDING ON YOUR CHOICE, AND THEN DELETED. YOU CAN ALSO MANUALLY DELETE THIS DATA FROM YOUR HISTORY AT ANY TIME VIA YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT. IF YOU WANT TO COMPLETELY PREVENT YOUR LOCATION TRACKING, YOU NEED TO PAUSE THE "WEB AND APP ACTIVITY" SECTION IN YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT. CLICK ON "DATA AND PERSONALISATION" AND THEN ON THE OPTION "ACTIVITY SETTING". HERE YOU CAN SWITCH THE ACTIVITIES ON OR OFF.

YOU CAN ALSO DEACTIVATE, DELETE OR MANAGE INDIVIDUAL COOKIES IN YOUR BROWSER. DEPENDING ON WHICH BROWSER YOU USE, THIS WORKS IN DIFFERENT WAYS. THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS SHOW YOU HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES IN YOUR BROWSER:

CHROME: DELETE, ACTIVATE AND MANAGE COOKIES IN CHROME SAFARI: MANAGE COOKIES AND WEBSITE DATA WITH SAFARI FIREFOX: DELETE COOKIES TO REMOVE DATA THAT WEBSITES HAVE STORED ON YOUR COMPUTER INTERNET EXPLORER: DELETE AND MANAGE COOKIES MICROSOFT EDGE: DELETE AND MANAGE COOKIES

IF YOU GENERALLY DO NOT WANT COOKIES, YOU CAN SET UP YOUR BROWSER SO THAT IT ALWAYS INFORMS YOU WHEN A COOKIE IS TO BE SET. THIS WAY, YOU CAN DECIDE FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL COOKIE WHETHER OR NOT TO ALLOW IT.

GOOGLE IS AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN THE EU-U.S. PRIVACY SHIELD FRAMEWORK, WHICH GOVERNS THE ACCURATE AND SECURE TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT HTTPS://WWW.PRIVACYSHIELD.GOV/PARTICIPANT?ID=A2ZT0000000TO6HAAG. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT GOOGLE'S DATA PROCESSING PRACTICES, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO REVIEW THE COMPANY'S OWN PRIVACY POLICY AT HTTPS://POLICIES.GOOGLE.COM/PRIVACY?HL=EN.

SOURCE: CREATED WITH THE DATA PROTECTION GENERATOR BY ADSIMPLE IN COOPERATION WITH JUSTMED.DE