Privacy

1. Controller

Digital Generation GmbH
Wismarer Str. 9
33605 Bielefeld
Germany

Represented by its Managing Director: Dietmar Gruidl
E-mail: contact@digitalgeneration.eu
Phone: +49 521 999975 20
Commercial Register: Local Court of Bielefeld, HRB 43122
VAT identification number: DE307678262

No data protection officer has been appointed.

2. General principles

We process personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG). Depending on the processing activity, the legal bases include in particular Art. 6(1)(a), (b), (c) and (f) GDPR.

We process only data required for the relevant purpose and delete it when that purpose no longer applies, unless statutory retention obligations require continued storage.

Visiting this website

3. Server log files

When you access this website, our hosting provider automatically collects data transmitted by your browser that is technically required to deliver the website. This may include, in particular, your IP address, date and time of access, requested file, amount of data transferred, browser type and version, operating system and referrer URL.

Purpose: Delivery of the website, system security, and detection and prevention of attacks.
Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Retention period: STRATO stores IP addresses for the detection and prevention of attacks for a maximum of seven days. Data may be retained for longer where necessary to investigate a specific security incident.

4. Hosting

This website is hosted by:

STRATO GmbH
Otto-Ostrowski-Straße 7
10249 Berlin
Germany

STRATO processes data required for the technical operation of the website on our behalf. This processing is governed by a data processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR.

5. Encryption

This website uses TLS encryption. You can identify an encrypted connection by the https:// prefix in your browser's address bar.

6. Cookies, analytics and external content

The publicly accessible website does not use analytics or tracking services. No external fonts, social-media plugins, maps or embedded videos are loaded. Fonts and images used on the website are served locally. There is no contact form and no commenting function.

Technically necessary cookies are set when authorised users log in to the non-public WordPress administration area. These cookies apply only to persons with a user account.

7. External links

This website contains links to external services, including LinkedIn and fetchloop.com. Merely visiting our website does not transmit data to those providers through these links. Only when you click an external link do you leave our website; the privacy terms of the respective provider then apply.

Business communications

8. Contacting us

If you contact us by e-mail, post or telephone, we process the information you provide in order to handle your enquiry.

Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where your enquiry relates to steps prior to entering into a contract or to the performance of a contract; otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR based on our legitimate interest in responding to enquiries.

We delete the data once your enquiry has been fully dealt with and no statutory retention obligations apply. Correspondence relevant under commercial or tax law is retained for the applicable statutory retention periods.

9. Business partners, customers and suppliers

For the initiation, performance and administration of business relationships, we process in particular master data, contact details of contact persons, contractual and billing data, and related correspondence.

The legal bases are Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR in relation to statutory retention and documentation obligations, and Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR for maintaining the business relationship.

10. Applications

If you apply to work with us, we process the information you submit for the purpose of conducting the application process. The legal basis is in particular Section 26(1) BDSG. If no employment relationship is established, we generally delete application documents no later than six months after the application process has ended, unless longer retention is legally required or you have expressly requested it.

11. Recipients and processors

We disclose personal data only where this is necessary for the relevant purpose or where we are legally required to do so. Recipients may include hosting and communications providers, tax and legal advisers, financial institutions and public authorities.

Where service providers process personal data on our behalf, we enter into data processing agreements pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR where required.

12. Transfers to third countries

Where service providers located outside the European Union or the European Economic Area are used in the course of our business activities, or where personal data is transferred to third countries in connection with international projects, such transfers take place only in accordance with the requirements of Art. 44 et seq. GDPR, in particular on the basis of an adequacy decision or appropriate safeguards.

13. Automated decision-making

We do not use automated decision-making, including profiling, within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR.

14. Your rights

You have, in particular, the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR), data portability (Art. 20 GDPR), and the right to withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future (Art. 7(3) GDPR).

Where we process personal data on the basis of a legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, you have the right to object in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR.

To exercise your rights, an informal message to contact@digitalgeneration.eu is sufficient.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. The supervisory authority responsible for us is the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia (Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen), Kavalleriestraße 2–4, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany.

15. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We update this Privacy Policy if the legal framework or our data processing activities change. The version published on this page at the relevant time applies.

Last updated: August 2026