Privacy Policy

The responsible party for data protection laws, especially the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

ayeT-Studios GmbH Lister Platz 2 30163 Hannover Germany

Authorized representatives: David Heuer, Pascal Ludynia

Your Rights as a Data Subject

At any time, you can exercise the following rights by contacting our data protection officer using the contact details provided:

  • Access to your stored data and how it is processed (Art. 15 GDPR),
  • Correction of incorrect personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),
  • Deletion of your data stored with us (Art. 17 GDPR),
  • Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR),
  • Objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 GDPR) and
  • Portability of data if you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR).

If you have given us consent, you can withdraw it at any time with future effect.

You can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority at any time, e.g., the competent supervisory authority of the federal state of your residence or the authority responsible for us as the controlling entity.

A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Anschriften/Laender/Laender-node.html.

General Information Collection on Our Website

Type and Purpose of Processing:

When you access our website, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise submit information, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, your IP address, and similar.

It is processed in particular for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring a smooth connection setup of the website,
  • Ensuring smooth use of our website,
  • Evaluating system security and stability, and
  • for optimizing our website.

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. Furthermore, individual services and services may not be available or may be limited. Therefore, an objection is excluded.

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Recipients:

The recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Transfer to Third Countries:

The collected data may be transferred to the following third countries:

  • USA

The following data protection guarantees are in place:

  • Adequacy decision by the EU Commission

Duration of Storage:

The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose of its collection. This is generally the case for data used to provide the website when the respective session has ended.

In the case of data storage in log files, this is the case after no more than 14 days. Storage beyond this period is possible. In this case, the IP addresses of the users are anonymized, so that an assignment of the calling client is no longer possible.

Provision Prescribed or Required:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is not legally or contractually required. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. Furthermore, individual services and services may not be available or may be limited. For this reason, an objection is excluded.

Registration on Our Website

Type and Purpose of Processing:

For registration on our website, we require some personal data, which is transmitted to us via an input mask.

At the time of registration, the following data are also collected:

  • IP
  • User Agent

Your registration is required for providing certain content and services on our website.

The processing of the data entered at registration is based on the user’s consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR).

Recipient:

Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Transfer to Third Countries:

The collected data may be transferred to the following third countries:

USA

The following data protection guarantees are in place:

Adequacy decision by the EU Commission

Duration of Storage:

Data in this context will only be processed as long as the respective consent is present.

Provision Required or Obligatory:

The provision of your personal data is voluntary, based solely on your consent. Without providing your personal data, we cannot grant you access to our content offered.

Contact Form

Type and Purpose of Processing:

The data you enter will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. This requires a valid e-mail address and your name. This serves to assign the request and then answer it. The specification of additional data is optional.

The processing of the data entered into the contact form is based on a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

By providing the contact form, we want to make it easy for you to contact us. Your details will be stored for the purpose of processing the request as well as for possible follow-up questions.

If you contact us to request an offer, the processing of the data entered in the contact form will be carried out to perform pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR).

Recipient:

Recipients of the data may be processors.

Transfer to Third Countries:

The collected data may be transferred to the following third countries:

  • USA

The following data protection guarantees are in place:

  • Adequacy decision by the EU Commission

Duration of Storage:

Data will be deleted at the latest 6 months after processing the request.

If a contractual relationship is established, we are subject to the legal retention periods according to the German Commercial Code (HGB) and will delete your data after these periods have expired.

Provision Required or Obligatory:

The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your request if you provide us with your name, email address, and the reason for the request.

Use of Google Analytics

If you have given your consent, this website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies,” which are text files placed on your computer to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on these websites, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.

Further information on terms of use and data protection can be found at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and under https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services related to website and internet use to the website operator.

The data sent by us and linked to cookies, user identifiers (e.g., User-ID) or advertising IDs will be automatically deleted after 14 months. Data whose retention period has been reached is deleted automatically once a month.

You can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our website by clicking this link. This will install an opt-out cookie on your device. This will prevent the collection by Google Analytics for this website and for this browser in the future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

You can also prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case, you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: Browser Add On to disable Google Analytics.

Additional aggregated and analytical information

ayeT-Studios may use additional standard analytics tools. The privacy practices of these tools are subject to their own privacy policies, and they may use their own cookies to provide their service (for further information about cookies, please see the ‘Cookies’ section in this policy).

ayeT-Studios uses the standard analytics tools such as:

  • Google Firebase
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Everflow
  • Appsflyer
  • Meta (Pixel for ads)
  • Reddit (Pixel for ads)
  • Sentry

and may use additional or other analytics tools, from time to time.

The privacy practices of these tools are subject to their own privacy policies and can be found here:

Google Firebase: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google Tag Manager:https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Everflow: https://www.everflow.io/legal/privacy-policy

Appsflyer: https://www.appsflyer.com/legal/services-privacy-policy/

Meta: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy?rdt=49126

Sentry: https://sentry.io/privacy/

Use of Script Libraries (Google Webfonts)

To display our content correctly and graphically appealing across browsers, we use “Google Web Fonts” provided by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”) to display fonts.

More information about Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Embedded YouTube Videos

On our website, we embed YouTube videos. The operator of the respective plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (hereinafter "YouTube"). YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter "Google"). When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube servers is established. This informs YouTube which pages you are visiting. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

When a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behavior.

For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by YouTube, please refer to the provider’s privacy policies. There, you will also find additional information about your rights and settings options for protecting your privacy (https://policies.google.com/privacy).

Currently, the provider does not offer an easy opt-out or a way to block data transmission. If you wish to prevent tracking of your activities on our website, please revoke your consent for the relevant cookie category or all technically non-essential cookies and data transmissions in the Cookie-Consent-Tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website or may only be able to use it to a limited extent.

Google AdWords

Our website uses Google Conversion Tracking. The operating company of Google AdWords services is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. If you reached our website via an ad placed by Google, a cookie will be set on your computer by Google Adwords. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an ad placed by Google.

When the user visits certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Therefore, cookies cannot be tracked across websites by AdWords customers. The information gathered using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive information that personally identifies users.

For more information about Google’s data processing, please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. There, you can also change your personal privacy settings in the Privacy Center.

Currently, the provider does not offer an easy opt-out or a way to block data transmission. If you wish to prevent tracking of your activities on our website, please revoke your consent for the relevant cookie category or all technically non-essential cookies and data transmissions in the Cookie-Consent-Tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website or may only be able to use it to a limited extent.

Use of Google Remarketing

This website uses the remarketing feature of Google Inc. The operating company of the services of Google Remarketing is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter “Google”).

The function is used to present interest-related advertisements to website visitors within the Google advertising network. A so-called “cookie” is stored in the browser of the website visitor, which enables the visitor to be recognized when they access websites that are part of Google’s advertising network. On these pages, advertisements can be presented to the visitor that relate to content that the visitor has previously accessed on websites that use Google’s remarketing function.

For more information about Google’s data processing, please refer to Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. There, you can also change your personal privacy settings in the Privacy Center.

The provider currently does not offer a simple option for opt-out or blocking the data transfer. If you want to prevent tracking of your activities on our website, please revoke your consent for the relevant cookie category or all technically non-essential cookies and data transfers in the cookie consent tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website or can only use it to a limited extent.

SSL Encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g., SSL) over HTTPS.

Information about Your Right to Object according to Art. 21 GDPR

Right to object on grounds relating to your particular situation

You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you, which is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR (data processing on the basis of a balancing of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision in the sense of Art. 4 No. 4 GDPR.

If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

Recipient of an objection

activelaw Offenhausen.Wolter PartmbB Marion Albrecht Hans-Böckler-Allee 26 D-30173 Hannover privacy@ayetstudios.com

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to adjust this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g., when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will apply for your next visit.

Questions to the Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization directly:

activelaw Offenhausen.Wolter PartmbB Marion Albrecht Hans-Böckler-Allee 26 D-30173 Hannover privacy@ayetstudios.com

The data protection declaration was created with the help of activeMind AG, the experts for external data protection officer (Version #2020-09-30).