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With this Privacy Policy, we aim to inform you about how, why and to what extent we process personal data, and what your rights are as a Data Subject.</p> <h5>1. Data Controller</h5> <p>Unless otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, the Data Controller in accordance with Art. 4 no. 7 GDPR is Axel Springer SE, Axel-Springer-Str. 65, 10888 Berlin, Germany, Phone: +49 30 2591 0, E-Mail: kontakt@axelspringer.de (hereinafter also “we” or “us”).</p> <h5>2. Accessing the website</h5> <p>When you use our offer, we set absolutely necessary cookies and collect and process the following information to enable the usability of the provided functions and to ensure the security and stability of our offer. Cookies are small text files that are transmitted from the Internet to your computer together with the data actually requested. This data is stored there and kept ready for later retrieval. We use cookies in particular for the collection of the following information: </p> <p>• Information about the end device accessing the site and the software used</p> <p>• Date and time of the access</p> <p>• Websites from which the user has accessed our website or which the user accesses through our website</p> <p>• IP address</p> <p>The processing of your IP address is absolutely necessary to enable the delivery of our offer to your end device. The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO. Our servers also store your IP address for up to 14 days for our own security purposes (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO).</p> <h5>3. Contact initiated by you</h5> <p>When you contact us, for example using one of our contact forms or e-mail addresses, the data that you provide (your e-mail address, possibly your name and your telephone number) will be processed by us for the purpose of responding to your enquiry. We will delete data collected in this connection once it is no longer required for the aforementioned purpose, unless the deletion of this data would contravene statutory retention obligations. The legal basis for data processing is provided by Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 point f GDPR.</p> <h5>4. Cookies and similar Technologies</h5> <p>In order to provide our offer and to ensure the security of the offer, the use of certain cookies and similar technologies is required (Essential). The use of these cookies is necessary so that we can provide the service you have requested. You can find more information about the aforementioned cookies below.</br> Cookies are small files that your browser stores on your device in a designated directory. They can be used, among other things, to determine whether you have visited a website before. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier of the cookie. It consists of a string of characters by which websites and servers can be assigned to the specific Internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This enables the websites and servers visited to distinguish the individual browser of the data subject from other Internet browsers that contain other cookies. A specific Internet browser can be recognized and identified via the unique cookie ID. Cookies cannot identify you as a person without additional information.</br> Further information about the cookies used or comparable technologies and our partners can be found below in this privacy policy. There you also have the option at any time to revoke your consent with effect for the future. Cookies that have already been set can also be deleted by you at any time using an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all common Internet browsers. 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