Privacy

1. Contact Details of the Controller

LINK digital GmbH,
Friedrichstraße 10a,
97082 Würzburg

2. Scope of Processing

We process parts of your personal data on our website. “Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter “data subject”). A natural person is considered identifiable if they can be identified directly or indirectly. Identification is particularly possible by assigning an identifier such as a name, an ID number, location data, an online identifier, or one or more specific characteristics expressing the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person.

Which of your personal data we process on our website depends on which of our services – for example our contact form or our newsletter – you use.

In any case, we process a minimum amount of personal data in the form of cookies. More information is provided in the following chapters.

2.1 When Visiting Our Website via Cookies
Cookies are small key-value pairs stored in your browser.

The cookie allows us to reuse your personal settings when you visit our website. You retain full data control over your cookies at all times. This means you control who has access to your data.

On our website, we divide cookies into necessary cookies (2.1.1) and cookies for external content (2.1.2).

2.1.1 Cookie List
In order to prove and implement your consent for the respective cookies on our website via the cookie banner, we have included the following cookie on our website:

Necessary
Necessary cookies are technically required for the functions of the website and cannot be disabled.

  • vbnet
  • Copy
  • Edit
  • Name
  • Provider
  • Duration
  • Purpose
  • cookieConsent
  • Current Website
  • 1 year
  • Stores the user's decision on the use of cookies on the website.
  • wordpress_test_cookie
  • Current Website
  • Session
  • Tests the availability of cookies on the current device.
  • PHPSESSID
  • Current Website
  • Session
    Set by the server to identify the current user session. Necessary for certain PHP modules (e.g., login or registration).

2.1.2 Cookies for External Content
We may refer to content on our website that belongs to us but is not hosted on our servers (e.g., YouTube). For mere linking, please refer to our disclaimer.

However, if external content is embedded on our website, personal data may be partially transmitted automatically when using such content. This is only possible once you have activated the corresponding cookie and thus consented to the respective processing of your personal data.

3. Source/Origin

We receive your personal data directly from you.

4. Legal Bases for Processing Your Personal Data

We process personal data in accordance with data protection regulations.

We process your personal data for necessary cookies based on our legitimate interest under Article 6(1) sentence 1 letter f) GDPR.

Based on your consent under Article 6(1) sentence 1 letter a) GDPR, we process your personal data in the following cases:

for all other cookies (that are not necessary)

when you contact us, for example by email or contact form

when using one of our newsletters

5. Duration of Storage

The storage duration of cookies can be found in the table above. Other personal data will be deleted according to legal retention periods. If there are no legal retention periods, all personal data will be deleted as soon as there is no other legitimate purpose for continued retention.

6. Purposes of Storage

Unless already specified elsewhere, we also store the personal data you provide for the following purposes:

to provide you with the best possible response to your inquiries

to protect our rights and obligations and to defend against third-party claims

7. Data Processing in Third Countries

LINK digital strives to use only processors within the European Union. If LINK digital intends to transfer personal data to a third country outside the European Union, LINK digital will expressly and in a timely manner inform you about the planned transfer, the legal basis for it, and how your personal data will be protected following the transfer.

8. Disclosure and International Reference

Employees of our company have access to your personal data to the extent necessary to fulfill the purposes mentioned.

We use service providers who support us in processing personal data as part of our business purposes and communications. These are, in particular, service providers for IT and network operations, mail processing, document/data carrier destruction, archiving, and agencies/service providers for (corporate) communications. These service providers are subject to strict contractual agreements such as confidentiality agreements, data protection declarations, and data processing contracts.

If you use cookies for external content, your personal data may be transmitted to the respective providers as described above.

9. Data Subject Rights

In order to implement the following rights, authentication of your identity may be required.

As a data subject under the GDPR, you generally have the following rights:

  • You have the right to access your processed data (Art. 15 GDPR) and to request the correction of inaccurate personal data or completion of incomplete data.
  • Under certain legal conditions, you have rights to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR), data portability (Art. 20 GDPR), and/or objection to processing (Art. 21 GDPR).
  • You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). For example, you may contact the Bavarian Data Protection Authority (BayLDA), Promenade 18, 91522 Ansbach. However, you can also contact any other supervisory authority or data protection officer.
  • You have the right to withdraw your consent: You may revoke any consent you have given to the processing of your personal data at any time with effect for the future and request immediate deletion of your personal data. The lawfulness of processing carried out based on consent before the withdrawal remains unaffected. Deletion of personal data is only possible if there is no other legal basis for processing.