Legal Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us!

It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites and services.

Hereby, we follow a few fundamental privacy principles:

• We don't ask for personal information unless we truly need it.
• We don't sell, rent or exchange your personal information to anyone. Period.
• We don't share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, provide our services, or protect our rights.
• We don't keep your personal information longer than is necessary to provide our services to you.
• We host our infrastructure ourselves within the European Union and do not transfer your data to third countries.
• We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what's visible to the public, kept private, and permanently deleted.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us!

Privacy Policy

Duty to provide information when collecting personal data pursuant to Art. 13 GDPR

§1 Controller

Controller within the meaning of Art. 4 (7) GDPR:

We hereby expressly prohibit the use of contact data published within the scope of the imprint obligation by third parties for sending unsolicited advertising and information material. The operators of this website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e-mails.

§2 Security

Meolea constantly works towards protecting your privacy and data from unauthorized third parties, using measures such as transport encryption (TLS), access controls and password protection.

The security of your personal information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

§3 Data Collection on this site

How and why we collect data

Like most website operators, we collect non-personally-identifying information of the sort that browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each request. Our purpose is to better understand how visitors use our website and to ensure its error-free operation.

Unless a specific storage period is stated in this policy, we keep your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes described here, or as required by statutory retention periods (for example, invoice data must be retained for up to 10 years in Germany). If you request deletion or withdraw your consent, your data will be deleted unless we are legally required to retain it, in which case deletion follows once those obligations end.

Cookies & Consent

We use cookies and similar technologies. Cookies that are strictly necessary for the operation of this website are set on the basis of § 25 (2) TDDDG and our legitimate interest in a functioning website (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

All other cookies or similar technologies are set only after you have given your consent via our cookie banner (§ 25 (1) TDDDG, Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR). You can change or withdraw your choice at any time with effect for the future. Without consent, no non-essential cookies are stored.

Server Log Files

Our server automatically records information that your browser transmits. This includes:

• Internet protocol (IP) address
• Browser type and version
• Operating system
• Referring URL
• Date and time of the request

This data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and security of our website, which requires recording server log files. This data is not merged with other data sources.

Email or phone

If you contact us by e-mail or phone, your request and all associated personal data is stored and processed solely to handle your enquiry, on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR or our legitimate interest in answering enquiries (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

§4 Your rights as a data subject

Within the scope of the GDPR you have the following rights, unless these contradict applicable law:

• The right to access the information we hold about you
• The right to rectification
• The right to erasure
• The right to restriction of processing
• The right to object to processing
• The right to data portability
• The right to withdraw consent at any time

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at the address above.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence or the place of the alleged infringement. In Germany, this is the competent Landesdatenschutzbehörde.

§5 Hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider within the European Union. Personal data recorded on this website is stored on the host's servers. Hosting takes place to fulfil our contractual and pre-contractual obligations (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR) and in our legitimate interest in a secure and efficient provision of our online services (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). We have concluded a data processing agreement with our host pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR. Our host is:

Hetzner Online GmbH
Industriestr. 25
91710
Gunzenhausen
Germany

We host with Hetzner using 100% electricity from renewable sources.

§6 Legal bases for processing

Meolea is the controller for the personal data described in this policy. Depending on the context, our legal basis for processing is one of the following:

• Performance of a contract with you (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR)
• Your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR)
• Our legitimate interests (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR)
• Compliance with a legal obligation (Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR)

§7 Children's privacy

Our website is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 16 — the age of digital consent under Art. 8 GDPR in Germany — without the consent of a parent or guardian. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.

§8 Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage you to review this page periodically. Your continued use of the site after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.