For legal purposes, the German version is authoritative. This translation is for information purposes only.

We are pleased about your visit on our website. Protecting your personal data is important to us and we want you to feel safe when you visit our website. We protect your privacy and your personal data. We process your personal data in accordance with the contents of this data protection declaration, the country-specific data protection regulations and the basic data protection regulation (DSGVO).

In the following we give you an overview of what information we collect during your visit to our website and how it is used:

Name and address of the responsible body

The Auktionshaus Christoph Gärtner GmbH & Co. KG, Steinbeisstraße 6+8, 74321 Bietigheim-Bissingen is as operator of the website https://www.auktionen-gaertner.de/ the responsible body in terms of the DSGVO and other, country-specific data protection regulations.

1) Data Protection Officer

You can contact our data protection officer with all data protection issues at any time.

Personal Information

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person… Personal data also includes information about your use of our website. This is usually done by using log files and cookies. For more information on log files and cookies, see below.

Intended use and personal data concerned

The extent and type of collection, processing and use of your data differs depending on whether you visit our website merely to access generally available information or make use of additional services.

a) Informational use

For a purely informational use of our website, it is generally not necessary for you to provide personal data. When you visit our website, we only collect data that is automatically transmitted to us by your Internet browser:

• The IP-address of your computer
• Date and time of your visit
• Your browser, browser version, parts of your browser configuration
• Your operating system (Windows, iOS, Linux etc.)
• Amount of data transferred, state of the data transfer
• The referring website (if provided by the browser)
• Other similar data and information used for security purposes

The IP address of your computer will only be stored in log files for the duration of your use and subsequently anonymized. We use this data for the operation of our website, to detect errors and to make improvements. These data do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.

b) Use for further services

If you make use of other services via our website, it may be necessary for you to provide personal data. The required information can be found in the respective input mask (mandatory information is marked with an asterisk * or a red arrow).

Newsletter

If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, we need confirmation that you agree with the receipt of the newsletter in addition to your email address. The data will not be passed on to third parties. You can cancel your subscription at any time.

In addition, the following data is collected upon registration:

• IP address of the calling computer
• The date and time of registration

Use of Cookies

We use cookies exclusively to provide certain functions of the website. Cookies are small text files stored on your computer.

1. Session Cookies: Used for the “shopping basket” or “bid slip”. These are usually deleted when you close your browser.

2. Permanent Cookies: These are NOT deleted when you leave the browser. They are used to save your address data if you select “My master data should be saved on this PC”.

No disclosure of your personal data

We do not pass on your personal data to third parties unless you have consented or we are legally obliged to do so. Your data will be passed on to the shipping company for delivery and to the payment service provider for processing payments.

Data security

All information you transmit to us is stored on servers within the European Union. We protect our systems with technical and organizational measures. Your data is transmitted in encrypted form.

Your rights

You have the right to:

• Information: Receive information free of charge about your stored data
• Confirmation: Request confirmation if we process your data
• Deletion: Demand immediate deletion of your data
• Correction: Request immediate correction and completion
• Restriction: Demand restriction of processing
• Data transferability: Receive data in a structured, machine-readable format
• Objection: Object to the processing of your data
• Individual decisions: Right not to be subject to purely automated decisions

Furthermore, you have the right to revoke your consent at any time.

Deletion and blocking of personal data

We store personal data only as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose or until the expiry of legal retention periods.

Right of appeal

You have the right of appeal to a supervisory authority. The competent authority is: