Privacy Statement

§ 1 Information about the collection of personal data

1. This document is to inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data pertaining to an individual, such as name, address, e-mail addresses, or user behavior.
2. The controller, pursuant to Art. 4 Clause 7 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is the German Cocoa Trade Association, Sonninstraße 28, 20097 Hamburg, Germany; E-Mail: kakao@wga-hh.de
3. When contacting us via e-mail or via a contact form, the data you communicate (your e-mail address and, if applicable, your name) will be stored by us so as to enable us to answer your questions. Further information is provided on a voluntary basis and merely serves to facilitate our contact to answer your query. All data collected in this context will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required. If legal archiving duties apply, we will restrict processing.
4. Any circumstances under which we commission processors to execute individual functions of our offer or might wish to use your data for commercial purposes are described in detail below. We will also indicate the stipulated archiving periods.

§ 2 Your rights

1. With regard to your personal data, you have the following rights:
   

   • right of information

   • right of rectification or erasure

   • right of restricted processing

   • right of objection against processing

   • right of data portability

2. In addition, you are entitled to file a complaint with a data protection authority concerning our processing of your personal data.

§ 3 Collection of personal data when visiting our website

1. If you visit our website for information purposes only, i.e., if you don't register or otherwise submit information to us, we will only collect the personal data your browser transfers to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the data detailed below. This is technically required for you to be able to view our website and to safeguard its stability and security (legal basis: Art. 6 Clause 1 p. 1 lit. f GDPR):
   

   • IP address

   • date and time of your request

   • time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

   • content of query (page)

   • status of access / HTTP status code

   • transferred data volume

   • website issuing the request

   • browser

   • operating system and surface

   • language and version of browser software

§ 4 Other website functions and offers

1. In addition to providing you with information, our website offers various services. To use these services, you will, generally, have to enter additional personal data as required for us to provide the respective services. This data is also subject to the aforementioned data processing principles.
2. We sometimes use third-party service providers to process your data. We carefully select such providers, they are bound to our instructions, and they are monitored on a regular basis.
3. We may also transfer your personal data to third parties if promotional activities, prize competitions, contract conclusions, or other services are offered jointly with our partners. You will receive detailed information upon entering your personal data or in the description of the respective offers below.
4. If our service providers or partners are headquartered outside the EEA (European Economic Area), you will be informed of the consequences in the description of the respective offers.