Privacy Policy
1) Introduction and Contact Details of the Controller
1.1We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. Below we inform you about how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data refers to all data that can be used to personally identify you.
1.2The controller for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Max Bertram, Emilienstr. 21, 04107 Leipzig, Germany, phone: +49 151 70048999, email: info@blackbird-trading.de. The controller responsible for processing personal data is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
2) Data Collection When Visiting Our Website
2.1When you simply use our website for informational purposes — that is, when you do not register or otherwise provide us with information — we only collect the data that your browser transmits to our server (known as "server log files"). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you:
- The website visited
- Date and time of access
- Amount of data sent in bytes
- Source/referrer from which you accessed the page
- Browser used
- Operating system used
- IP address used (if applicable: in anonymised form)
Processing takes place in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be disclosed or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to subsequently review server log files if there are concrete indications of illegal use.
2.2For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries to the controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the "https://" prefix and the padlock icon in your browser's address bar.
3) Hosting & Content Delivery Network
For hosting our website and displaying the site content, we use a provider who delivers their services either directly or through selected subcontractors exclusively on servers within the European Union.
All data collected on our website is processed on these servers.
We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our visitors' data and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.
4) Cookies
To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies — small text files that are stored on your device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted after you close your browser (known as "session cookies"), while others remain on your device for longer and enable the storage of page settings (known as "persistent cookies"). In the latter case, you can find the storage duration in your web browser's cookie settings.
Where personal data is also processed by individual cookies we use, processing takes place either in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR for the performance of the contract, in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR in the case of consent, or in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and in a customer-friendly and effective site visit design.
You can configure your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually about their acceptance, or so that the acceptance of cookies is excluded for specific cases or generally.
Please note that the functionality of our website may be limited if cookies are not accepted.
5) Contacting Us
When contacting us (e.g. via contact form or email), personal data is collected. Which data is collected when using a contact form is evident from the respective contact form. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of answering your inquiry or for making contact and the associated technical administration.
The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiry in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted after your inquiry has been finally processed. This is the case if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter concerned has been conclusively clarified and provided that no statutory retention obligations conflict with this.
6) Rights of the Data Subject
6.1Applicable data protection law grants you the following comprehensive data subject rights (rights to information and intervention) vis-à-vis the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data, whereby reference is made to the respective legal basis for the conditions of exercise:
- Right of access in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR;
- Right to rectification in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR;
- Right to erasure in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR;
- Right to restriction of processing in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR;
- Right to notification in accordance with Art. 19 GDPR;
- Right to data portability in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR;
- Right to withdraw given consent in accordance with Art. 7 (3) GDPR;
- Right to lodge a complaint in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR.
6.2RIGHT TO OBJECT
IF, AS PART OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME, ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED. FURTHER PROCESSING REMAINS RESERVED, HOWEVER, IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS, AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE, OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.
IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH ADVERTISING. YOU CAN EXERCISE THE OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.
7) Duration of Storage of Personal Data
The duration of storage of personal data is determined on the basis of the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing, and — where applicable — the respective statutory retention period (e.g. commercial and tax retention periods).
When processing personal data on the basis of explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, the data concerned will be stored until you withdraw your consent.
If statutory retention periods exist for data processed within the framework of legal or quasi-legal obligations on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, this data will be routinely deleted after the retention periods have expired, provided it is no longer required for the performance or initiation of the contract and/or provided we have no legitimate interest in continued storage.
When processing personal data on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right of objection pursuant to Art. 21 (1) GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or unless the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims.
When processing personal data for direct marketing purposes on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right of objection pursuant to Art. 21 (2) GDPR.
Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this declaration about specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.