Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

As of January 1, 2025

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1. Privacy at a Glance

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General Information

The following information provides a brief overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data refers to any information that can be used to personally identify you. For detailed information on data protection, please refer to our Privacy Policy listed below.

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Data Collection on This Website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find the operator’s contact information in the “Information on the Data Controller” section of this Privacy Policy.

How do we collect your data?

Your data is collected, on the one hand, when you provide it to us. This may include, for example, data you enter into a contact form. Other data is collected automatically or with your consent when you visit the website through our IT systems. This primarily consists of technical data (e.g., internet browser, operating system, or time of page view). This data is collected automatically as soon as you access this website.

What do we use your data for?

Some of the data is collected to ensure that the website functions properly. Other data may be used to analyze your user behavior.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right at any time to obtain, free of charge, information about the source, recipients, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data. If you have given consent to the processing of your data, you may revoke this consent at any time with future effect. In addition, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances. Furthermore, you have the right to file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

Please feel free to contact us at any time regarding this matter or any other questions you may have about data protection.

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Analytics tools and third-party tools

When you visit this website, your browsing behavior may be analyzed for statistical purposes. This is primarily done using so-called analytics tools.

You can find detailed information about these analytics programs in the following privacy policy.

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2. Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

External Hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (host). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the host’s servers. This may include, in particular, IP addresses, contact requests, metadata and communication data, contractual data, contact information, names, website visits, and other data generated through the website.

We use the hosting provider to fulfill our contractual obligations to our potential and existing customers (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and to ensure the secure, fast, and efficient delivery of our online services through a professional provider (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Our hosting provider will process your data only to the extent necessary to fulfill its service obligations and will follow our instructions regarding this data.

We use the following web hosting provider:

Webflow, Inc.
398 11th Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103

Execution of a Data Processing Agreement

To ensure that data is processed in compliance with data protection regulations, we have entered into a data processing agreement with our hosting provider.

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3. General Information and Mandatory Disclosures

Privacy Policy

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with applicable data protection laws and this Privacy Policy.

When you use this website, various types of personal data are collected. Personal data is information that can be used to identify you personally. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect and how we use it. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

Please note that data transmission over the Internet (e.g., when communicating via email) may be subject to security risks. It is not possible to completely protect data from access by third parties.

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Information about the responsible entity

The entity responsible for data processing on this website is:

Querkopf, LLC

Mühlenkamp 63b
22303 Hamburg

info@querkopf-architekten.de
Phone: 040/72 91 90 33

Authorized partners
, Architect Fionn Mögel

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The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g., names, email addresses, etc.).

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Retention period

Unless a more specific retention period is stated in this Privacy Policy, we will retain your personal data until the purpose for which it was collected no longer applies. If you submit a valid request for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted unless we have other legally permissible grounds for storing your personal data (e.g., retention periods under tax or commercial law); in the latter case, the data will be deleted once these grounds no longer apply.

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Notice Regarding the Transfer of Data to the United States and Other Third Countries

Our website incorporates tools from companies based in the United States or other third countries that do not offer an adequate level of data protection. When these tools are active, your personal data may be transferred to these third countries and processed there. Please note that these countries cannot guarantee a level of data protection comparable to that of the EU. For example, U.S. companies are required to disclose personal data to security authorities without you, as the data subject, being able to take legal action against this. It cannot therefore be ruled out that U.S. authorities (e.g., intelligence agencies) may process, analyze, and permanently store your data located on U.S. servers for surveillance purposes. We have no influence over these processing activities.

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Withdrawal of Your Consent to Data Processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your explicit consent. You may withdraw any consent you have already given at any time. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out prior to the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

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Right to object to data collection in specific cases and to direct marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF DATA PROCESSING IS BASED ON ART. 6(1)( E OR F OF THE GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. YOU CAN FIND THE SPECIFIC LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH PROCESSING IS BASED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA, UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS, AND FREEDOMS, OR THE PROCESSING IS NECESSARY FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, , exercise, or defense of legal claims (objection pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS BEING PROCESSED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR SUCH MARKETING PURPOSES; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING, TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL NO LONGER BE USED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21(2) GDPR).

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Right to file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority

In the event of a breach of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, their place of work, or the place where the alleged breach occurred. This right to lodge a complaint is without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedies.

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Right to data portability

You have the right to receive data that we process automatically based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract, either directly or through a third party, in a commonly used, machine-readable format. If you request that the data be transferred directly to another controller, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.

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SSL or TLS encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential information, such as orders or inquiries that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of your browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock icon in your browser bar.

When SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the data you send to us cannot be intercepted by third parties.

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Access, Deletion, and Correction

In accordance with applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to request, free of charge, information about your stored personal data, its source and recipients, and the purpose of the data processing, as well as the right to have this data corrected or deleted, if applicable. You may contact us at any time regarding this matter or any other questions about personal data.

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Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. You may contact us at any time to do so. The right to restriction of processing applies in the following cases:

  • If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we generally need time to verify this. For the duration of the verification process, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.
  • If the processing of your personal data was or is unlawful, you may request that the processing be restricted instead of having the data erased.
  • If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it to exercise, defend, or assert legal claims, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted instead of deleted.
  • If you have lodged an objection under Article 21(1) of the GDPR, a balancing of your interests against ours must be carried out. Until it is determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, such data may—apart from storage—be processed only with your consent, or for the purpose of establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims, or to protect the rights of another natural or legal person, or for reasons of an important public interest of the European Union or a Member State.

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Objection to promotional emails

We hereby object to the use of contact information published in accordance with legal disclosure requirements for the purpose of sending unsolicited advertising and informational materials. The operators of this website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited transmission of advertising information, such as through spam emails.

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4. Data Collection on This Website

Server log files

The website provider automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. This information includes:

  • Browser type and browser version
  • operating system used
  • Referrer URL
  • Hostname of the connecting computer
  • Time of the server request
  • IP address

This data is not combined with other data sources.

This data is collected on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in ensuring that the website functions properly and in optimizing it—to this end, server log files must be collected.

Inquiries by email, phone, or fax

If you contact us by email, phone, or fax, your inquiry—including all personal data contained therein (name, inquiry)—will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of handling your request. We will not disclose this information without your consent.

The processing of this data is based on Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, provided that your inquiry relates to the performance of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective handling of inquiries directed to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) if such consent has been requested.

The data you send us via contact requests will remain with us until you request that we delete it, revoke your consent to its storage, or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g., once your request has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions—in particular statutory retention periods—remain unaffected.

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5. Meta Ads and Meta Pixel

We use services provided by Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Meta”) on our website.

Use of the Meta Pixel

This website uses the Meta Pixel (formerly Facebook Pixel). With the help of the Meta Pixel, Meta can identify visitors to our website as a target audience for displaying ads (known as “Meta Ads”).

This allows us to ensure that our Meta ads are shown only to users who have expressed an interest in our online offerings or who exhibit certain characteristics (e.g., interests in specific topics or products) that we share with Meta (so-called “Custom Audiences”).

We also use the Meta Pixel to ensure that our Meta Ads align with users’ potential interests and do not come across as intrusive. In addition, we can evaluate the effectiveness of our ads for statistical and market research purposes by tracking whether users were redirected to our website after clicking on an ad (known as a “conversion”).

Processed data

The Meta Pixel enables the processing of the following data in particular:

  • IP address
  • Information about the browser and device you are using
  • Pages visited and interactions on the website
  • Referrer URL
  • timestamp
  • Additional event data, if applicable (e.g., form submissions)

Meta may link this data with other data from your Meta account (e.g., Facebook or Instagram).

Legal basis

The use of the Meta Pixel and Meta Ads is based solely on your consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. You may withdraw your consent at any time.

Transfer of data to third countries

The data collected by the Meta Pixel may be transferred to the United States or other third countries. Meta is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. However, it cannot be ruled out that U.S. authorities may gain access to the data.

Joint responsibility

To the extent that personal data is collected on our website using the Meta Pixel and forwarded to Meta, we and Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. are jointly responsible for this data processing (Art. 26 GDPR).

Joint responsibility is limited exclusively to the collection of data and its transfer to Meta. The subsequent processing by Meta is not carried out under joint responsibility.

You can find the joint controller agreement we have entered into with Meta here:

https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum

Objection and Opt-Out

You can withdraw your consent at any time using our cookie consent tool.

You can also turn off personalized ads in your Meta account settings:

https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads

For more information about Meta's data processing practices, please see Meta's Privacy Policy:

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

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