Veganly Virtual Assistance is highly committed to protecting your personal data and your privacy and strictly complies with the provisions of data protection law. This website collects personal data only to the extent necessary for technical purposes. Under no circumstances is any of the collected data sold or otherwise passed on to third parties.

The following declaration gives you an overview of how we ensure such protection and what type of data is collected for what purpose.

1. COLLECTION AND STORAGE OF PERSONAL DATA; TYPE AND PURPOSE OF THEIR USE

a) When visiting the website
When you access our website www.veganlyva.com, the browser used on your device automatically sends information to the server of our website. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following information is collected without any action on your part and saved until automated deletion:

• IP address of the accessing device
• Date and time of access
• Name and URL of the retrieved file
• Referrer URL (the previously visited website)
• Website from which our website is accessed (referrer URL)
• Browser used and, in certain cases, the operating system of your device as well as the name of your access provider

We process the data listed above for the following purposes:

• Ensuring a smooth connection with our website
• Ensuring comfortable use of our website
• Evaluating system security and stability, and
• Other administrative purposes

The legal basis for data processing is Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our legitimate interest follows from the purposes of data collection listed above. In no case do we use the data collected for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person (profiling).

In addition, we use cookies and analytics services when our website is visited. For further details please refer to sections 3 and 4 of this Privacy Statement.

b) When using our contact form
If you have any questions whatsoever, you can contact us using a form provided for this purpose on our website. When contacting us, you need to leave your valid e-mail address so that we know who the inquiry comes from and can reply to your inquiry.

In accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, data processing for the purpose of contacting us is based on your voluntary consent.

2. DISCLOSURE OF DATA

Your personal data will not be transmitted to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. We will disclose your personal data to third parties only if:

• you have given your express consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR;
• in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, disclosure is necessary for asserting, exercising or defending legal claims and there is no reason to assume that such claims are overridden by your interest in non-disclosure of your data which require protection;
• in accordance with Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR, processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation;
• this is legally permissible and necessary in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR for the performance of a contract to which you are a party.

3. COOKIES

We use cookies on our website. These are small files which your browser generates automatically, and which are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone etc.) when you visit our website. Cookies do not cause any damage to your device and do not contain any viruses, trojans or other malware.

The cookie is used to store information regarding which arises in connection with the particular device used. This does not, however, mean that as a result we obtain direct knowledge of your identity.

For one thing, use of cookies serves to make using our offering as convenient and easy as possible for you. Thus, we use so-called session cookies in order to identify pages of our website that you have already visited. These cookies are automatically deleted once you leave our website.

In addition, to enhance user friendliness we also use temporary cookies which are stored on your device for a certain stipulated period of time. If you visit our website again in order to make use of our services, our website automatically identifies that you have visited us in the past and recalls stored information and preferred settings so you do not have to enter these again.

For another thing, we use cookies in order to collect statistical data about the use of our website which data we then evaluate in order to enhance our offering for you (see section 4 hereof). These cookies allow us to automatically identify, upon your next visit of our website, that you have visited us before. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period of time.

The data processed by cookies are necessary for the purposes mentioned in order to safeguard our legitimate interests and the interests of third parties in accordance with Article (6)(1)(f) of the GDPR.

Most browsers are set to accept cookies automatically. You can, however, configure your browser in such a way that no cookies are stored on your computer or that a message always appears before a new cookie is installed. However, by disabling cookies altogether you may no longer be able to use all the functions of our website.

4. ANALYTICS TOOLS

a) Google Analytics

For purposes of a demand-oriented design and ongoing enhancement of our website, we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter referred to as “Google”). In this regard, pseudonymised user profiles are created and cookies (see section 3 hereof) are used. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website, such as

• browser type / version
• operating system used
• referrer URL (the previously visited website)
• host name of accessing computer (IP address)
• time of server inquiry

is transmitted to a server of Google in the United States and stored there. That information is used for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services relating to use of the website and Internet usage for purposes of market research and demand-oriented design of this website. The information may also be transferred to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information in their capacity as data processors. Under no circumstances will your IP address be linked with other Google data. IP addresses are anonymised to prevent them from being matched (IP masking).

You can block the installation of the cookies by changing the settings of your browser software accordingly; we must, however, inform you that, if you do so, you may be unable to use all of the functions of this website.

In addition, you can prevent the data generated by the cookie based on your usage of this website (including your IP address) being sent to and processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser add-on available under the following link: (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

As an alternative to the browser add-on, especially with browsers on mobile devices, you can click on this link to stop future data collection via Google Analytics on this website. An opt-out cookie will be stored on your device which prevents future collection of your data when visiting this website. The opt-out cookie is only valid in this browser and only for our website and is stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in this browser, the opt-out cookie must be set again.

For further information in connection with Google Analytics please refer to the Google Analytics help page (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de).

b) Google AdWords Conversion Tracking
In order to collect statistical data on the use of our website which data we then evaluate for purposes of optimising our website for you, we also use Google Conversion Tracking. With Google Conversion Tracking, Google AdWords stores a cookie (see section 3 hereof) on your computer, if you have reached our website through a Google advertisement.

These cookies are deleted after 30 days and do not serve to provide personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of the website of the AdWords customer and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and the customer can identify that the user has clicked on the advertisement and was forwarded to this website.

Each Google AdWords customer is given a different cookie. Thus, cookies cannot be traced back through the website of AdWords customers. The information collected by means of the conversion cookie is used to provide conversion statistics to AdWords customers who have decided to make use of conversion tracking. AdWords customers are informed about the total number of users who clicked on their advertisement and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that helps identify individual users.

If you do not wish to participate in the tracking procedure, you can object to cookies being placed on your computer, e.g. through web browser settings which disable automatic cookie support. You can also disable cookies for conversion tracking by setting your web browser to block cookies from the “www.googleadservices.com” domain. For Google’s privacy statement on conversion tracking go to (https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html).