User Agreement. Authentic Family Photography in Cologne

1. Overview of Data Protection

General Information

This privacy policy provides a clear overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data includes any information that can personally identify you. For detailed information, please refer to our full privacy policy below.

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the section “Responsible Party Information” of this privacy policy.

How do we collect your data?

Some data is collected when you provide it to us, for example, by filling out a contact form.
Other data, mainly technical information (such as browser type, operating system, or time of visit), is collected automatically or with your consent when you visit the website.

Why do we collect your data?

Some data is necessary to ensure the website functions properly. Other data may be used for analytics to improve user experience.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right to request information about the origin, recipients, and purpose of your stored personal data at any time, free of charge. You can also request correction or deletion of your data. If you have given consent to data processing, you can withdraw it at any time. In certain cases, you also have the right to request a restriction on processing your data. Additionally, you have the right to file a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority.

For further questions about data protection, you can contact us at any time.

Analytics and Third-Party Tools

Your browsing behavior may be statistically analyzed when you visit our website. This is mainly done using analytics programs. More details can be found in the full privacy policy below.

2. Hosting

We host our website with:

Hetzner Online GmbH
Industriestr. 25
91 710 Gunzenhausen
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)9831 505-0
Email: info@hetzner.com

When you visit our website, Hetzner Online GmbH collects various log files, including your IP address. You can find more details in Hetzner’s privacy policy: https://www.hetzner.com/de/legal/privacy-policy/

We use Hetzner based on Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR due to our legitimate interest in a secure and reliable website. If your consent is required (e.g., for cookies or device fingerprinting), data processing will be based on Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR and Section 25 (1) TTDSG. You may withdraw consent at any time.

3. General Information and Mandatory Disclosures

Data Protection

We take the protection of your personal data seriously and process it confidentially in accordance with legal data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

Who is responsible for data processing?

Maryna Horyslavets
Im Käulchen 17
51 515 Kürten
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 170 179 78 08
Email: marynahoryslavets@gmail.com

The responsible party is the person or entity that determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.

How long do we store your data?

Unless a specific retention period is mentioned in this privacy policy, your data will remain with us until its purpose no longer applies. If you request deletion or withdraw consent, your data will be deleted unless legally required to be retained (e.g., for tax purposes).

Legal Basis for Data Processing

We process personal data under the following legal bases:

Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR — with your consent.
Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR — to fulfill a contract or pre-contractual obligations.
Article 6 (1)© GDPR — to comply with legal obligations.
Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR — for our legitimate interest, such as improving services.

If we transfer your data to countries outside the EU, we ensure compliance with legal standards (e.g., EU-US Data Privacy Framework).

Your Rights

You have the following rights under GDPR:

Right to access — Request information about your stored data.
Right to rectification — Request correction of inaccurate data.
Right to erasure (“Right to be forgotten”) — Request deletion of your data.
Right to restriction of processing — Request limited processing in certain cases.
Right to data portability — Receive a copy of your data in a machine-readable format.
Right to object — Object to data processing in specific circumstances.

To exercise these rights, contact us using the information above.

SSL/TLS Encryption

For security purposes, our website uses SSL/TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the “” in your browser’s address bar and the padlock symbol.

Objection to Marketing Emails

We do not allow the use of our contact details for unsolicited advertising. We reserve the right to take legal action against spam emails.

4. Data Collection on This Website

Cookies

Our website uses so-called “cookies.” Cookies are small data packets that do not harm your device. They are either temporarily stored for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently stored on your device (permanent cookies). Session cookies are automatically deleted after your visit ends, while permanent cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them yourself or they are automatically deleted by your web browser.

Cookies may be set by us (first-party cookies) or by third-party companies (third-party cookies). Third-party cookies enable the integration of certain services from external providers within websites (e.g., cookies for processing payment services).

Cookies serve different functions. Many cookies are technically necessary because certain website functions would not work without them (e.g., shopping cart functionality or displaying videos). Other cookies may be used to analyze user behavior or for advertising purposes.

Cookies required for electronic communication, the provision of specific functions requested by you (e.g., shopping cart functionality), or website optimization (e.g., audience measurement cookies) are stored based on Article 6(1) (f) GDPR unless another legal basis is specified. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing necessary cookies to ensure the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. If consent for storing cookies and similar recognition technologies is requested, processing occurs exclusively based on this consent (Article 6(1) (a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG); consent can be revoked at any time.

You can configure your browser to inform you when cookies are set, allow cookies only in individual cases, block cookies for specific cases or in general, and enable the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

You can find details on the cookies and services used on this website in this Privacy Policy.

Contact Form

If you submit inquiries via our contact form, the information you provide, including the contact details you enter, will be stored for processing the request and in case of follow-up questions. We do not share this data without your consent.

The processing of this data is based on Article 6(1) (b) GDPR, provided your inquiry is related to contract fulfillment or necessary for pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in effectively handling inquiries (Article 6(1) (f) GDPR) or on your consent (Article 6(1) (a) GDPR), provided this was requested. Consent can be revoked at any time.

The data you enter in the contact form remains with us until you request deletion, revoke your consent for storage, or the purpose for data storage ceases to apply (e.g., after completing your inquiry). Mandatory legal provisions—especially retention periods—remain unaffected.

Inquiry by Email or Phone

If you contact us via email, phone, or fax, your inquiry, including all resulting personal data (name, request), will be stored and processed for the purpose of handling your request. We do not share this data without your consent.

The data you send us via contact requests remains with us until you request deletion, revoke your consent for storage, or the purpose for data storage ceases to apply (e.g., after completing your request). Mandatory legal provisions—especially statutory retention periods—remain unaffected.

Social Media

Social Media Elements with Shariff

This website uses social media elements (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, XING, LinkedIn, Tumblr).

You can usually recognize social media elements by their respective social media logos. To ensure data protection on this website, we use these elements only in conjunction with the so-called “Shariff” solution. This application prevents the social media elements integrated into this website from transmitting your personal data to the respective provider as soon as you visit the page.

Only when you activate the respective social media element by clicking the corresponding button will a direct connection to the provider’s server be established (consent). Once you activate the social media element, the respective provider receives the information that you have visited this website with your IP address. If you are simultaneously logged into your respective social media account (e.g., Facebook), the provider can associate your visit to this website with your user account.

Activating the plugin constitutes consent within the meaning of Art. 6(1) (a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG. You can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future.

The use of this service is to obtain the legally required consents for the use of certain technologies. The legal basis for this is Art. 6(1)© GDPR.

Instagram

Since I use Instagram as a platform, cookies and tracking tools from Meta may be used. This happens independently of my influence. You can find information about cookies on Instagram here: privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/.

This website integrates functions of the Instagram service. These functions are provided by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

If the social media element is active, a direct connection is established between your device and the Instagram server. As a result, Instagram receives information about your visit to this website.

If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content of this website to your Instagram profile by clicking the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate your visit to this website with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of this website, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Instagram.

If consent has been obtained, the above-mentioned service is used based on Art. 6(1) (a) GDPR and § 25 TTDSG. Consent can be revoked at any time. If no consent has been obtained, the use of the service is based on our legitimate interest in achieving the widest possible visibility in social media.

If personal data is collected on our website using the tool described here and forwarded to Facebook or Instagram, we and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland, are jointly responsible for this data processing (Art. 26 GDPR). Joint responsibility is limited solely to the collection of data and its transmission to Facebook or Instagram. Any processing that occurs after forwarding is not part of joint responsibility.

Our mutual obligations have been defined in an agreement on joint processing. The full text of the agreement can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum.

According to this agreement, we are responsible for providing data protection information when using the Facebook or Instagram tool and for ensuring its privacy-compliant implementation on our website. Facebook is responsible for the security of Facebook and Instagram products. You can exercise your data subject rights (e.g., access requests) regarding data processed by Facebook or Instagram directly with Facebook. If you assert data subject rights with us, we are obliged to forward them to Facebook.

The data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here:

For more information, please see Instagram’s privacy policy: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/.

The company is certified under the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the USA designed to ensure compliance with European data protection standards in data processing in the USA. Any company certified under the DPF is committed to complying with these data protection standards.

You can find more information from the provider at the following link:
www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participant-detail? contact=true& id=a2zt000 000GnywAAC& status=Active.

Newsletter Data

If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter offered on this website, we require your email address and information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the provided email address and that you agree to receive the newsletter. No additional data is collected, or only on a voluntary basis. We use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and do not share it with third parties.

The processing of the data entered into the newsletter subscription form is based solely on your consent (Art. 6(1) (a) GDPR). You can revoke your consent to store the data, email address, and its use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example, via the “Unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data you provide for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter will be stored by us or the newsletter service provider until you unsubscribe from the newsletter, after which it will be deleted from the newsletter distribution list. Once unsubscribed or if the purpose ceases to exist, the data will be deleted from the newsletter database. We reserve the right to delete or block email addresses from our newsletter list at our own discretion within the scope of our legitimate interest under Art. 6(1) (f) GDPR.

Data that has been stored by us for other purposes remains unaffected.

After you unsubscribe from the newsletter distribution list, your email address may be stored in a blacklist by us or the newsletter service provider, if necessary, to prevent future mailings. The data from the blacklist is used solely for this purpose and is not combined with other data. This serves both your interest and our interest in complying with legal requirements when sending newsletters (legitimate interest under Art. 6(1) (f) GDPR). Storage in the blacklist is not time-limited. You can object to the storage if your interests outweigh our legitimate interest.

7. Plugins and Tools

YouTube with Enhanced Privacy Mode

This website embeds videos from the YouTube website. The operator of these pages is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

We use YouTube in enhanced privacy mode. According to YouTube, this mode ensures that YouTube does not store information about visitors to this website before they watch a video. However, the enhanced privacy mode does not necessarily prevent data from being transmitted to YouTube partners. For example, YouTube establishes a connection to the Google Marketing Network regardless of whether you watch a video or not.

When you start a YouTube video on this website, a connection is established with YouTube’s servers. The YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. 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.

Furthermore, after starting a YouTube video, YouTube may store various cookies on your device or use similar recognition technologies (e.g., device fingerprinting). This allows YouTube to collect information about visitors to this website. This information is used, among other things, to compile video statistics, improve user-friendliness, and prevent fraud attempts.

Additional data processing operations may be triggered after starting a YouTube video, over which we have no control.

The use of YouTube is in the interest of providing an appealing presentation of our online offerings. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1) (f) GDPR. If consent has been requested, processing will be based solely on Art. 6(1) (a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG, provided the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s device (e.g., device fingerprinting) as per TTDSG. Consent can be revoked at any time.

For more information on YouTube’s privacy policy, please visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

For more information, visit the provider’s website at:
https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participant-detail?contact=true&id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.