Privacy Policy

Legal information for the old native app carus music: Privacy Police

 

Data Protection Policy

 

The following information specifies the way that Carus-Verlag GmbH & Co KG processes your personal data and states your rights following the enactment of the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into effect on 25/05/2018.

The types of data which are specifically processed and the ways in which they are used are based on the services that you are using and the purposes which we have agreed with you.

 

1. Data Controller, Data Protection Officer

Dr. Johannes Graulich and Ester Petri, Managing Director of Carus-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, are responsible for the handling of data at the company. You can contact them at:

Carus-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
Management
Sielminger Str. 51
D-70771 Leinfelden Echterdingen
jgraulich@carus-verlag.com
epetri@carus-verlag.com


You can contact the Data Protection Officer at Carus-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG at:

 

Carus-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
Data Protection
Sielminger Str. 51
D-70771 Leinfelden Echterdingen
datenschutz@carus-verlag.com

 

2. Personal Data

We process your personal data that you send to us within the scope of our business relationship with you.

Some of our services require that we collect your personal data. These include instances when we process orders from our publishing catalog after we have received an order from you by telephone or email, when you use our webshop, when you receive advice about our products, when getting in touch via WhatsApp, when you register to attend an event, when permissions to print are issued or when public performance permits are issued which grant permission to stage musical theatre productions.

We adhere to the principles of data minimisation and data avoidance and only ever collect your data if it is required to enable us to deliver our services. Personal data includes name, contact details and information relating to invoicing and order processing. We only store and use your personal data as is necessary to enable us to process orders, perform our services and manage accounting matters.

 

This data will not be disclosed to third parties who are not involved in fulfilling the contract without your express consent.

 

However, please note the special features when contacting us via WhatsApp: by installing the app on your mobile device, you agree to the General Terms and Conditions and Data Protection Regulations of WhatsApp Inc., which is part of Facebook Inc. This platform is governed exclusively by WhatsApp’s Data Protection Regulations, over which we have no control. These include granting WhatsApp access to you telephone number and the contacts stored on your device. When contacting us via WhatsApp, we will use the telephone number you give us solely for the purpose of processing your specific query. In the case of queries which contain personal information (e.g. your Carus customer number, or your postal address), you should provide an e-mail address or a landline number for further correspondence. If you wish to make use of the option to place orders via WhatsApp, you will be required to provide personal information, as with all ordering options (via telephone, fax, e-mail, or webshop). If you provide us with personal information via WhatsApp, you do so voluntarily and under the Terms of Use of WhatsApp.

 

Carus-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG is entitled to pass personal data on to SCHUFA if the customer defaults on payments and does not pay after receiving a reminder notice.

 

We like to keep our customers and other interested parties updated on the latest news and offers from our publishing house. We send this information via an electronic newsletter by email or by direct mail. We only use your personal data for this purpose if we have received your express consent which you can revoke at any time or if it is legally permissible.

 

Your data is transferred to the department within our publishing house that requires it in order to meet our contractual obligations. Your data is also forwarded to external processing companies who are appointed by our publishing house, such as banks, credit card companies or logistics companies, to ensure that we can meet our contractual obligations. When you submit a SEPA mandate, we forward your personal data to the Volksbank Filder eG, Schloßplatz 13, 73765 Neuhausen. If you place an order that is not processed through our webshop and you wish to pay by credit card, we forward your credit card details to the company ConCardis, Heltmann-Park 7, 65760 Eschborn.

 

We process and store your personal date in order to fulfil the stipulated purpose and in accordance with our data storage and documentation management obligations which are defined in such laws as the German Commercial Code (HGB) and the German Fiscal Code (AO).

 

We do not disclose your personal data to third parties unless it is required by law or in order to perform the contract, or if you authorise us to do so.

 

The GDPR stipulates that you have the right to access your personal data (art. 15), the right to rectification (art. 16), the right to deletion (art. 17), the right to restriction of processing (art. 18) and the right to data portability (art. 20). The restrictions specified in §§ 34, 35 of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) apply to the right to access your personal data and the right to deletion.

 

You also have the right to revoke your consent to the use of your personal data (art. 21, 22 of the GDPR).

 

 

 

If you wish to revoke your consent to the use of your personal data, please send an informal letter to:

 

Carus-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

Sielminger Str. 51

D-70771 Leinfelden Echterdingen

Email: datenschutz@carus-verlag.com

 

 

 

3. Access Data When Visiting Our Website

Your visit to our website www.carus-verlag.com is logged automatically. No personal data is saved. The IP address used by your computer, the date, time of day, your browser, your PC’s operating system and the pages you view on our website are recorded. Your IP address is abbreviated when this information is collected which ensures that these log entries are automatically anonymised. We are not able to reference this information back to specific users.

 

4. Use of Cookies

To make your visit to our website as pleasant as possible, we use cookies. Some of these are essential, because without them the website presentation will not function correctly. We use others to store default settings or for anonymous statistics. You yourself decide to what extent we may use cookies in your case.

You can view your individual cookie settings for our website here and change these at any time: Cookie Declaration

Please enter your consent ID and the date from the Cookie Declaration if you wish to contact us about your consent.

 

5. Security

We use the most modern and appropriate technical and organisational security measures when we use and store your personal data in order to prevent it from being misused, deleted or lost.

 

6. Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics in version GA 4, a web analysis service provided by Google LLC. The responsible entity for users in the EU / EEA and Switzerland is Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland     (hereinafter referred to as ‘Google’). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analysis how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored by Google there. In version GA 4, the anonymization of IP addresses is activated by default. Due to IP anonymization, your IP address will be shortened by Google within the EU or in contracting states of the European Economic Area.

Only in exceptional cases the full IP address will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. Our legitimate interest in data processing also lies in these purposes. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is § 15 para. 3 TMG or Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The data sent by us and linked to cookies, user identification features (e.g. user ID) or advertising IDs are automatically deleted after 14 months. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached takes place automatically once a month. For more information on terms of use and data protection, please visit https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.

It cannot be ruled out that U.S. authorities will access the data stored by Google.


You can prevent cookies being stored on your computer by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. If you do so, however, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to their full extent. In addition, users can prevent Google from collecting the data on use of the website (including your IP address) generated by the cookie and also prevent Google from processing this data by downloading and installing a browser plug-in. An opt-out cookie will be created which will prevent any of your data from being collected when you visit this website in the future. You must carry out the opt-out process on all of the systems you use in order to prevent Universal Analytics from collecting your data across multiple devices. The opt-out cookie will be set when you click here: Deactivate Google Analytics

7. Google Data

Our website gives information on the locations of music stores. For this we use the map service Google Maps of Google LLC, based in Ireland; Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

You can only use the map service after activating it yourself. As long as you do not do this, no cookies will be installed or personal data stored. By activating the service, you declare your consent to the processing of personal data pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. A DSGVO. As soon as you activate the map service, cookies are installed by Google Ireland Ltd. and, for example, your IP address is stored.

We have no influence on the collection of data, data transmission, and its processing.

You can find more information on Google's privacy policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy

8. Retargeting

This is why this website uses Google Inc’s (Google) remarketing function. This function enables visitors to the website to be provided with interest-based advertising within the Google advertising network. Website visitors’ browsers store cookies which are text files that are stored on their computers that enable them to be recognised when they visit websites which are part of the Google advertising network. The visitor may then be shown advertising that relates to content that the visitor has previously viewed on websites which use the Google remarketing function. According to Google’s own company statements, it does not collect any personal data during this process. However, if you do not want the Google remarketing function to be activated, it is possible to change the relevant settings to deactivate this function by visitinghttp://www.google.com/settings/ads. Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of cookies by third parties by calling up the deactivation page which has been made available by the Network Advertising Initiative: http: //www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp and follow the opt-out procedure published there. Further information on Google remarketing and Google’s data protection declaration can be found at: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads.


9. Contact

If you have any questions relating to data protection, please contact:

 

Carus-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

Sielminger Str. 51

D-70771 Leinfelden Echterdingen

Email: datenschutz@carus-verlag.com

 

 

 

Issued: 01 July 2023