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DATA PROTECTION

Collection and processing of personal data

When visiting our website, we collect, use and store personal data. Personal data is any data personally available to you, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses and user behavior. The storage of IP addresses serves to improve our services.

By contacting us via e-mail, contact form or using our website, you consent to the collection, processing and use of data. Our website can be visited without registration. This data, such as file, date, time will be stored for statistical purposes on the server, without being directly related to your person. The legal basis for the processing of personal data is Art.6 Paragr.1 a EU- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

A transfer of your personal data to third parties is only being done with your expressed and revocable consent at any time. Excluded from this are our service partners, who need to take over data for order processing, such as the shipping company responsible for the delivery and the bank handling the payment transaction.

 

Cookies

In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files stored on your hard drive that are associated with the browser you are using and that allow us to access certain information. Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet more user-friendly and effective overall.

You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and exclude the acceptance of cookies. We point out that you may not be able to use all features of our website.

 

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 do not have to upload them to our own server. Google Fonts is an important component in order to keep the
quality of our website. 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.
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 distort the appearance of 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, iPod).
We therefore use Google Fonts so that we can present our entire online service as beautifully and consistently as possible. According to Art. 6 (1) f lit. F DSGVO, this already constitutes a “legitimate interest” in the processing of personal data. Legitimate interest” in this case means both legal and 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 servers. 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. By the way, API 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 thus protected. Through the collected usage figures, Google can determine the popularity of the fonts.
determine. Google publishes the results on internal analysis pages, such as Google Analytics. In addition, Google also uses data from its own web crawler to determine which websites use Google Fonts. This data is published in the BigQuery database of Google Fonts. BigQuery is a web service from Google for companies that want to move and analyse large amounts of data.
It should be noted, however, that each 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 your servers, which are mainly located outside the EU. This allows us to use fonts with the help of a Google stylesheet. A stylesheet is a format template that can be used to easily and quickly 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 a day or a year cannot simply be deleted. The data is automatically transmitted to Google when the page is accessed. In order to delete this data prematurely, you must contact Google support at https://support.google.com/?hl=de&tid=311141511. Data storage can 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 can access an unlimited sea of fonts and get the most out of our website. You can find out more about Google Fonts and other issues at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq?tid=311141511. There, Google does go into privacy-related matters, but really detailed information about data storage is not included. It is relatively difficult (almost impossible) to get really precise information from Google about stored data. What data is basically collected by Google and what it is used for can also be found at .
you can also read at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

 

Your rights

You have the following rights with respect to the personal data concerning you:

- Right to information about your stored data

- Right to restriction of processing

- Right to object to the processing

- Right to data portability

- Right to delete your stored data

 

You also have the right to contact a data protection supervisory authority for the processing of your personal data.

Responsible body for the collection, processing, use and disclosure of your personal data within the meaning of the EU-GDPR is:

 

DIE GALERIE

Gesellschaft für Kunsthandel m.b.H.

Grüneburgweg 123

60323 Frankfurt

T: +49 (0) 69 9714710

F: +49 (0) 69 971 47120

info@die-galerie.com

 

If you object to the collection, processing, use and disclosure of your personal data by DIE GALERIE the data protection provisions in whole or for individual measures, please submit your objection by letter to the address above.