Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy of

Elmar Robert, Medieval Art Cologne

as amended on 25 May 2018

Table of Contents

  1. Scope of application
  2. Who is responsible and to whom can I turn?
  3. Which data do we process from you?

3.1 What data do we process when you visit our website?
3.2 What data do we process when you contact us?
3.3 Which data do we process in the context of an ongoing business relationship?

  1. With whom do we collect your personal data?
  2. For what purposes do we process your data and on what legal basis?

5.1 Fulfilment of contractual obligations
5.2 Fulfilment of legal obligations
5.3 Due to justified interests
5.4 Based on your consent

  1. Who do we share your information with?

6.1 Passing on to contractors
6.2 Passing on due to legal obligations or for the protection of justified interests
6.3 Other transfers

  1. Do we transfer your data to third countries?
  2. How long do we store your personal data?
  3. Your rights

9.1 Rights to information, deletion, correction, restriction of processing and portability of data
9.2 Contact
9.3 Right of objection according to Art. 21 DSGVO

9.3.1 Objection on grounds of your particular situation
9.3.2 Opposition to direct advertising
9.3.3 Contact option

  1. Is there an obligation on your part to provide personal data?
  2. Is processing based on automated decision making or profiling?
  3. What kind of cookies and tracking technology do we use?

1. Scope of application

Elmar Robert, Medieval Art Cologne (hereinafter “we”) is committed to protecting your privacy and personal data. With this data protection declaration we would like to inform you comprehensively about how we handle your personal data.

This data protection declaration applies to the handling of your personal data when you visit our Internet pages at www.mo-studio.de, when you are in an ongoing business relationship with us or when you apply to us.

2 Who is responsible and to whom can I turn?

Elmar Robert, Medieval Art Cologne, Tempelstr. 23, 50679 Cologne, is responsible for the processing of personal data described in this data protection declaration.

You can contact us for all data protection inquiries.

3 Which data do we process from you?

Depending on the specific processing situations, we collect and process various personal data from you. Below you will find a list of the data relating to the respective processing situation:

3.1 What data do we process when you visit our website?

Visiting our Internet pages can generally take place without disclosing your identity. As far as you use the offers provided by us on the Internet pages without registration, we process from you among other things:

  • Data about the use of the provided Internet pages (e.g. browser used, operating system used, referrer url, time of server enquiry, contents called up, duration of use);
  • IP address
  • Other technical data comparable to previous ones.

3.2 What data do we process when you contact us?

Depending on your request, you can contact us by e-mail via our website. We only store and process your e-mail address and the information you have provided to us.

3.3 Which data do we process in the context of an ongoing business relationship?

If you are in an ongoing business relationship with us, for example as a customer of our products and services or as a supplier, we regularly store the following data from you:

  • Contact information of a contact person (name and first name);
  • Contact details (telephone number, address, fax number, e-mail address);
  • If necessary, further information as far as this is necessary in the context of our business relationship, e.g. bank information.

4 With whom do we collect your personal data?

Personal data is usually collected directly from you, for example by visiting our website or using the services offered, such as the option of contacting us by e-mail.

In addition, we receive information from publicly available information sources such as the Internet, telephone directories, exhibition and trade fair catalogues, directories of art dealer associations (CINOA).

5 For what purposes do we process your data and on what legal basis?

We process your personal data exclusively in accordance with the provisions of the Basic Data Protection Ordinance (“DSGVO”) and the Federal Data Protection Act (“BDSG”). In certain situations we also process your personal data to fulfil other legal obligations or on the basis of your express consent.

5.1 Fulfilment of contractual obligations

We process your personal data to fulfil contractual or similar obligations or to establish a contract, for example for the provision of our services, including the fulfilment of purchase contracts concluded with you, for the support of existing customers, for invoicing or for answering questions.

5.2 Fulfilment of legal obligations

As far as we are subject to legal obligations, for the observance of which the processing of your personal data is necessary, we process your personal data on the basis of these legal obligations.

5.3 Due to justified interests

We also process your personal data to protect our legitimate interests, unless your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms, which require the protection of your personal data, prevail.

Subject to a decision to be made in individual cases, we regularly assume that our legitimate interests predominate within the framework of the following processing situations which are not listed exhaustively:

  • Optimization of our offers and services;
  • Analysis of the use of our Internet pages;
  • Ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of our IT systems;
  • Analysis of our customers’ interests in order to prepare offers and advice in line with their interests
  • Cooperation with state authorities.

5.4 Based on your consent

If you have given us separate consent to process your personal data, we will process your personal data within and on the basis of this consent. Consents may, for example, relate to the transfer of data to partner companies, the evaluation of your data for targeted advertising measures or the dispatch of newsletters.

Consent is always voluntary. Refusing or revoking your consent will not have any negative consequences for you.

6 Who do we share your information with?

As far as necessary for the establishment, execution or termination of a contract or contract-like legal relationship, we pass on your personal data to companies affiliated with us.

If we process your personal data in connection with the contractual obligation to provide our services or purchase contracts, we may pass on your personal data:

  • Shipping companies such as DHL, FedEx or similar
  • Freelancers at exhibitions

6.1 Passing on to contractors

For the processing of your data we also use external service providers to whom we forward your personal data, who only process the data on our behalf in a contractually secured manner. Contractors are also contractually obliged, for example, to optionally delete or return the data upon termination of the order. We cooperate with the following contract processors for the following purposes:

  • IT service provider for the maintenance of the website

6.2 Passing on due to legal obligations or for the protection of justified interests

Insofar as we are obliged to do so by law, court order or by an enforceable official order, we will transfer your personal data to bodies entitled to receive information. On request, we also cooperate voluntarily with state investigation authorities. In individual cases, we may also pass on information about certain customer interests, for example, with partners in the art trade, in order to be able to respond to our customers’ inquiries.

6.3 Other transfers

If you have given us a separate declaration of consent for the use and forwarding of personal data, your personal data may be forwarded to the recipients named therein. As part of the provision of third-party services on our Internet pages, personal data may be passed on to third parties. In addition, no personal data will be passed on to third parties, unless in individual cases there is a separate legal basis for the transfer and your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms do not prevail.

7. do we transfer your data to third countries?

For international orders, we must transfer your personal data to countries outside the European Union or the European Economic Area, so-called third countries. This concerns, for example, the transmission of data to forwarding companies.

8 How long do we store your personal data?

We process and store your personal data only as long as necessary for our processing purposes.

Upon request, we will regularly delete the data collected and stored within the framework of the use and provision of our Internet pages at any time and independently within a few days, unless we have a special interest in continued storage in individual cases, e.g. cyber attacks.

We store your personal data within the scope of our business relationship only up to a maximum of four years after termination of your business relationship with us. We store contact data and information about customer interests for as long as we can normally expect new inquiries or an interest in our services and goods.

Insofar as a longer storage period is required due to legal storage and documentation obligations or to protect our legitimate interests, e.g. in the event of possible legal disputes, your personal data will also be stored and processed after the expiry of the above-mentioned period.

A final deletion takes place after expiration of the periods resulting from the legal storage and documentation obligations, which amount to between two and ten years and result among other things from the tax code or the commercial code.

9 Your rights

Below you will find a summary of your rights regarding the processing of your personal data by us:

9.1 Rights to information, deletion, correction, restriction of processing and portability of data

According to Art. 15 DSGVO, you have a right to information, after which you can request a confirmation as to whether we process your personal data. If this is the case, you have the right to request comprehensive information on this personal data from us.

In accordance with Art. 16 DSGVO, you may request that any incorrect data concerning you be corrected without delay.

According to Article 17 DSGVO, you have the right to request the deletion of your personal data if they are either (i) no longer required for the purposes for which they were collected, (ii) you have revoked your consent for processing, (iii) you have received a request for the deletion of your personal data in accordance with Article 21 paragraph 2 of the DSGVO. 1 DSGVO have filed an objection to the processing and there are no overriding legitimate reasons for continued processing, (iv) your personal data have been processed unlawfully, (v) the deletion of the personal data is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the Member States to which NAME is subject, or (vi) the personal data have been collected in relation to information society services provided pursuant to Article 8(1) DSGVO.

According to Art. 18 DSGVO, you have the right to request a limitation of the processing under the following conditions. Such a right exists if either (i) you have contested the accuracy of your personal data, (ii) the processing is unlawful and you refuse to delete the personal data and instead request the restriction of use, (iii) you no longer need the data for the purposes of the processing but need them for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims, or (iv) you have filed an objection to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 DSGVO, as long as it is not yet clear whether we have legitimate reasons for the processing that outweigh yours.

Pursuant to Art. 19 DSGVO, you have the right to request information about the recipients of data to whom a correction, deletion of your personal data or a restriction on processing has been communicated.

According to Art. 20 DSGVO, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you from us in a structured, current and machine-readable format and to transmit this data to another person responsible.

If the processing or transmission of your personal data is based on a consent given by you, you can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.

In addition, you have the right of appeal against the processing of your data or a decision made by NAME with regard to one of the rights exercised by you to the North Rhine-Westphalia Data Protection Commissioner, P.O. Box 20 04 44, 40102 Düsseldorf.

9.2 Contact

To assert your rights under Clause 9.1, you can informally register by post, fax or e-mail to the address specified under Clause 9.1. 2 specified contact options.

9.3 Right of objection according to Art. 21 DSGVO

9.3.1 Objection on grounds of your particular situation

According to Art. 21 para. 1 DSGVO, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation, if this processing is carried out for the purpose of our legitimate interests, including profiling based on this (e.g. for credit assessment). Further processing of your personal data will then no longer take place, unless we can prove compelling reasons worthy of protection for the processing, which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

9.3.2 Opposition to direct advertising
According to Art. 21 para. 2 DSGVO you have the right to object at any time to the use of your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing. This also applies to profiling insofar as it is connected with such direct advertising. If you object to the processing for direct advertising purposes, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes.

9.3.3 Contact option
You can declare your objection informally by post, fax or e-mail, addressed to:

Elmar Robert,
Medieval Art Cologne,
Temple Street 23
50679 Cologne

10. Is there an obligation on your part to provide personal data?

There is neither a contractual nor a legal obligation to provide us with your personal data for the use of our Internet pages. However, if you wish to contact us or establish a business relationship with us, certain information is required so that we can process your request.

11. Is processing based on automated decision making or profiling?

You have the right not to be subject to a decision based exclusively on automated processing, including profiling, if the decision is not necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract, is not required by mandatory law or is not based on your express consent.

We do not use automated decision making procedures including profiling,

12. What kind of cookies and tracking technology do we use?

Like many other websites, we also use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard drive. This automatically provides us with certain data such as IP address, browser used, operating system and your connection to the Internet.

Cookies cannot be used to start programs or to transmit viruses to a computer. Based on the information contained in cookies, we can make navigation easier for you and enable the correct display of our web pages.

Under no circumstances will the data we collect be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.

Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via the settings of your browser. Please use the help functions of your Internet browser to find out how you can change these settings. Please note that some features of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.

Note: All cookies can be deleted at any time by the user via the browser settings. The maximum duration of the cookies is one year.

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