Privacy Policy

1. Overview of Data Protection

General Information
The following information provides a simple overview of what happens with your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any information that can be used to identify you personally. For more detailed information on data protection, please refer to our privacy policy below.

Data Collection on This Website
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find the contact details of the operator in the section "Responsible Entity" below.

2. Responsible Entity for Data Collection on This Website

Responsible Party
The responsible entity for data processing on this website is:
SG Consulting GmbH
Heckenweg 29
48351 Everswinkel

Steffen Gnegel

Phone: +49 2582 4959 668

E-Mail: steffen.gnegel@sg-consulting.info

3. Data Collection on This Website

How do we collect your data?
Your data is collected when you provide it to us, for example, when you enter it into a contact form or during the ordering process.

Other data is automatically or, with your consent, collected by our IT systems when you visit the website. This mainly involves technical data (e.g., internet browser, operating system, or time of page access). This data is collected automatically as soon as you visit our website.

What do we use your data for?
Some of the data is collected to ensure the website functions properly. Other data can be used to analyze your usage behavior, such as for marketing and advertising purposes.

4. Analysis Tools and Third-Party Tools

Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC. Google Analytics uses cookies to analyze how you use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google Analytics is used based on your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR). For more information on data protection regarding Google Analytics, visit Google Analytics Privacy.

Google Tag Manager
We use Google Tag Manager to manage our tracking and marketing tools. Google Tag Manager itself does not store personal data. It simply triggers other tags that may collect personal data. For more information, please see the Google Privacy Policy: Google Tag Manager Privacy.

Google Ads
We use Google Ads to promote our products and services through the Google advertising network. As part of Google Ads, we use conversion tracking to measure how successful our ads are. For more information about data processing in connection with Google Ads, please refer to the Google Privacy Policy.

5. Cloudflare

We use Cloudflare to improve the loading speed of our website and ensure security. Cloudflare is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and provides DDoS protection. The use is based on a legitimate interest in ensuring efficient and secure delivery of our online services. For more information about data processing by Cloudflare, refer to their Privacy Policy.

6. Processing of Customer and Contract Data

We process your personal data to conclude and fulfill contracts with you. This includes processing order information, payment data, and delivery addresses in connection with purchases made in our online store.

The processing is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR, as this data processing is necessary for contract fulfillment.

7. Data Transfer When Concluding a Contract for Online Shops, Retailers, and Goods Shipping

When placing an order and processing a purchase contract, your personal data is shared with third-party providers such as payment service providers and shipping companies. The transfer takes place exclusively for contract fulfillment (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR). The following companies may be involved:

  • Payment service providers such as PayPal, credit card providers, or banks

Shopify

For our online store, we use Shopify, a platform that helps us manage and run the e-commerce section of our website. Shopify collects and processes your personal data, including payment details, order information, and shipping addresses, as part of the transaction process. Shopify’s data processing complies with GDPR regulations, and personal data may be transferred to Shopify’s servers located in the United States or other countries. For more information, please refer to Shopify’s Privacy Policy.

8. Hosting

External Hosting
This website is hosted externally. The personal data collected on this website is stored on the servers of the hosting provider. This includes, among other things, IP addresses, contact inquiries, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website access, and other data generated by a website.

External hosting is carried out for the purpose of fulfilling contracts with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR) and in the interest of a secure, fast, and efficient delivery of our online services through a professional provider (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR). If consent is required, processing is carried out solely on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 Para. 1 TTDSG, provided that the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s device. Consent can be revoked at any time.

Our hosting provider is:
Webflow, Inc.
398 11th Street,
2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

9. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to improve your user experience and provide certain features. These include necessary cookies, functional cookies, and cookies to analyze your behavior.

Cookies necessary for the execution of the electronic communication process, for providing certain functions you desire (e.g., for the shopping cart function), or for optimizing the website (e.g., cookies to measure website traffic) are stored based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR, unless another legal basis is specified.

For more information on managing cookies and providing your consent, please refer to our Cookie Banner.

10. Your Rights

Right to Information, Rectification, and Deletion
You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data at any time, free of charge. You also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data. If you have given consent for data processing, you can revoke this consent at any time. You also have the right to request the restriction of processing of your personal data and, in certain cases, to object to the processing.

Right to Data Portability
You have the right to receive your personal data stored by us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit it to another responsible entity, provided this is technically feasible.

Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority
In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the member state of their habitual residence, place of work, or the place of the alleged violation.

11. Revocation of Your Consent to Data Processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke consent already given at any time. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

12. Right to Object to Data Collection in Special Cases and to Direct Marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)

If the data processing is carried out based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. e or f GDPR, you have the right to object at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to the processing of your personal data. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

13. Right to Restrict Processing

You have the right to request the restriction of processing your personal data. This applies if you dispute the accuracy of your data or if the processing is unlawful and you request the restriction of processing instead of deletion.