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We are delighted that you are visiting the website of The Content Lab GmbH and thank you for your interest in our company. We are committed to protecting your privacy while you are using our site. Therefore we ask you to take note of the following information.

 The website of The Content Lab GmbH and all its contents, such as texts and images, are protected by copyright. The contents of this site must not be copied, distributed, altered or made available to third parties for commercial purposes. We would like to point out that images and pictures on this website may be copyrighted by third parties. Any use outside of the narrow confines of the copyright law is not permitted without approval. It is not permissible to sell or rent any of the contents of this website to third parties.   

Responsible for Content in accordance with Article 55(2) RStV

The Content Lab GmbH 
Trierer Str. 2
 CP 50676
Colonia
Alemania

Phone: +49 - 221 - 39 75 04 13
Móvil: +49 - 171 - 191 20 51

 info@thecontentlab.eu
 www.thecontentlab.eu

  CEO: 
Joaquin Aparicio-Staubach  

Advisory board:
 Jacques B. Steyn  

Local Court Köln
Commercial Register: HRB 212829 
Value Added Tax ID: DE295852303
 US-tax No. EIN 98-120 4884

  Disclaimer and copyright: 
Unless otherwise stated, all rights are reserved for The Content Lab GmbH. If not expressly stated otherwise, anybody has the right to view this document. The data given may exclusively be used for private information of the user. The website www.thecontentlab.eu is – if not otherwise agreed upon – is available free of cost.  

The Content Lab GmbH assumes no guarantee for the correctness of the information given, the availability of services, the loss of data saved by The Content Lab GmbH or the usability for any special purpose. Furthermore The Content Lab GmbH does not assume any liability for consequential losses, which arise from the usage of the service. Should an exclusion of liability not apply, The Content Lab GmbH will merely be liable for negligence and intention.  

Product and company names are brands of the respective owners and are only used on these pages for information purposes.Without written permission of The Content Lab GmbH, the commercial distribution of the documents saved on this server is expressly prohibited. The distribution, saving or reproduction without written permission from The Content Lab GmbH are not allowed. The Content Lab GmbH endeavours to protect the data of third parties from loss, abuse, change or destruction. The data is protected with a password where appropriate.  

The publications may have technical flaws or inconsistencies, as well as spelling mistakes or typographical errors. From time to time, new information will be added to existing information; these changes will be added in the new issues of the publications. The Content Lab GmbH reserves the right to change the privacy policy in the future. Should – due to a change of privacy policy – the usage of personal data be facilitated in some other way, other than stated in the privacy policy at the point of time when the data was captured, The Content Lab GmbH will inform you. The Content Lab GmbH will only use the data of a third party with their express approval and in the way the data has been changed.  

These General Terms of Usage refer to The Content Lab GmbH. Should parts or particular phrases of this text not comply with the current legal position any more or not entirely comply, the remaining parts of the document remain unaffected in their content and validity.  All elements on this website or parts of it are copyright protected and may not be copied, distributed or made available to third parties without the previous written permission of the responsible party. Third parties are not allowed to insert any hyperlinks or inline links from any external website to pages of www.thecontentlab.eu. It is forbidden to integrate or present webpages of www.thecontentlab.eu or any content of this website by hyperlinks in a frame.  

Despite thorough control of the content, The Content Lab GmbH does not assume any liability for the content of external links. The Content Lab GmbH does not have any influence either on the design or on the content of pages linked. The owners of the respective websites are exclusively responsible for the content. This applies to all links on this website and for the content of the pages, to which the links on this website lead. The Content Lab GmbH does not assume any guarantee for topicality, correctness and completeness of the information presented.

Liability for content:
 The content of these pages has been put together with the utmost care and diligence. However, we cannot guarantee or assume responsibility for the suitability, completeness, accuracy and or topicality of the content. As a service provider, we are only liable for the content of this site pursuant to Section 7 Paragraph 1 of German Telemedia Act (TMG) under the General Terms and Conditions Act. Pursuant to Sections 8 trough 10 TMG, we are under no obligation to monitor any transmitted and or stored information coming from external sources nor are we liable to investigate any circumstances or matters that might indicate illegal activity. Any obligation to remove and or block the use of information in accordance with the General Terms and Conditions Act remains unaffected. Any liability in this respect shall only be possible from the moment there is knowledge of a specific infringement. Upon notification and verification of such infringements, we will immediately delete this content.

Legal liability for links: 
Our offer includes links to external websites of third parties over which we have no control or influence. Therefore we cannot accept any responsibility for their content. The respective supplier or operator of the linked web pages is at all times responsible for its contents. The site links were carefully checked at the time the links were added for any possible legal violations. No illegal content was evident at the time the links were created. However, a permanent inspection of the content of such linked websites is deemed unreasonable without having any concrete evidence of an infringement. Upon notification and verification of such infringements, we will immediately delete such links.

Copyright: 
The contents and work created on these pages by the site operator are subject to German copyright law. Duplication, processing, distribution and any type of use outside the limits of the copyright require the written consent of the respective author or creator. The downloading and copying of these pages are only authorised for private, non-commercial use. Insofar as the content is not created by the website operator, third party copyrights are respected and in particular, when third party content is marked as such. If you should become aware of any copyright infringement, we would appreciate if you let us know. Upon notification and verification of infringements, we will immediately remove the content.

Data privacy:  
Protecting your personal data when you visit our website and use our services is important to us. Your data will be protected within the limits of the law. In the following, we would like to inform you about when we collect which data and how we use them.

 Collection and Processing of Personal Data Data protection refers to the protection of personal information. This includes information regarding your identity such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address or phone number. Such personal data are collected and stored only if you have given us your consent to do so – for example, if you have subscribed to our newsletter (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)).

 Use, Disclosure and Deletion of Personal Data The Content Lab GmbH uses your personal data exclusively for the purposes of administering the website and of communicating with you. Personal data are processed by BMW Foundation employees, global contract partners, and by service providers we have commissioned, preferably within the EU. Your personal data will not be passed on to other third parties or used otherwise without your express consent. Exceptions can apply, for example if a legal requirement makes it necessary to provide information to authorities for the purposes of either public safety or criminal prosecution.

 If data are processed in countries outside of the EU, The Content Lab GmbH uses EU standard contracts, including suitable technical and organizational measures, to ensure that your personal data are processed at the same level as European data protection. If you wish to see the specific security precautions for the transfer of your data to other countries, please contact us via the communication channels listed below.

 In some countries outside the EU, for example Canada and Switzerland, the EU has determined that the level of data protection is comparable to that in Europe. The comparable level of data protection means that data transfer into these countries does not require any special permission or agreement.

 Your personal data will be erased if you withdraw your consent (GDPR Article 17) via info@thecontentlab.eu. We keep your personal data only as long as needed for the specified purpose. If we process your data for a number of purposes, they will be automatically deleted or stored in a way that cannot be used to identify an individual once the last specified purpose has been fulfilled.

 Subscribers to the newsletter can unsubscribe from the newsletter any time via the unsubscribe link at the end of the newsletter and thus revoke their consent to the storage of their e-mail address and name.

 If you want to obtain information about our storage of your personal data (GDPR Article 15) or wish to correct your data (GDPR Article 16), please contact us via the communication channels listed below. 

 Protection of Personal Data 
We deploy various security measures in line with the current state of the art to protect and maintain the security, integrity, and availability of your data. These measures include:

    •   strict criteria for authorization to access your data (restriction to a limited number of people) and exclusively for the specified purpose; 
•   transfer of acquired data exclusively in encrypted form; 
•   storage of confidential data exclusively in encrypted form; 
•   firewall safeguarding of IT systems to provide protection against unauthorized access, for example by hackers; 
•   permanent monitoring of access to IT systems to detect and prevent the misuse of personal data.   

Use of Cookies
 A cookie is a small text file which is copied onto your hard disk by a website. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain any viruses. The cookies from our webpages do not collect any personal information about you.

 You can disable the use of cookies any time via your browser settings. If you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

 We are using the following cookies on our website: 

 Name of cookies: _ga
 Type: first party
 Usage: Google Analytics user identification 
Valid for: 2 years   

Name of cookies: _gat 
Type: first party 
Usage: throttle request rate for analytic calls 
Valid for: 10 min 

 Name of Cookies: wfvt_XXXXXXX, wordfence_verifiedHuman 
Type: First Party 
Usage: Cookies set by wordfence security to identify users. Plugin is used to protect the site against malicious attacks. 
Valid for: 30 min, 24h   

Name of Cookies: cookie_notice_accepted 
Type: First Party 
Usage: Stores the information if cookie-notice-message was accepted or not 
Valid for: 30 days

 Newsletter 
We use the so-called “double opt-in” process for registration to our newsletter. This means that, after registering, you receive an e-mail asking you to confirm your registration. Registration to the newsletter is recorded in order to be able to document the registration process in accordance with legal requirements.

 The data you provide when registering for the newsletter are used for newsletter delivery only. You can revoke your consent to the storage and use of your data and e-mail address at any time via the unsubscribe link in the newsletter.

 Rights of persons affected 
In line with the basic EU data protection regulations, as the person affected you have the following rights in particular vis-à-vis tThe Content Lab GmbH:

 Right to information (Article 15 of basic EU data protection regulations): You can ask us for information regarding any data of yours that we keep at any time. This information concerns, among other things, the data categories we process, for what purposes we process them, the origin of the data if we did not acquire them directly from you and, if applicable, the recipients to whom we have sent your data.

 Right to correction (Article 16 of basic EU data protection regulations): You can request that we correct your data. We will initiate appropriate measures to keep the data of yours that we continuously process correct, complete, and up to date, based the latest information available to us.

 Right to deletion (Article 17 of basic EU data protection regulations): You can request that we delete your data provided the legal requirements have been met. In accordance with Article 17 of basic EU data protection regulations, this can be the case if 
•   The data are no longer required for the purposes they were acquired or otherwise processed 
•   You revoke your consent, which is the basis of the data processing, and there is no other legal basis for the processing 
•   You object to the processing of your data and there are no legitimate reasons for the processing or you object to data processing for the purposes of direct advertising 
•   The data have been processed illegally where the processing is not necessary 
•   To ensure adherence to a legal obligation that requires us to process your data 
•   In particular with regard to legal retention periods 
•   To assert, exercise or defend against legal claims

 Right to restriction of processing (Article 18 of basic EU data protection regulations): You can request that we restrict the processing of your data if 
•   You dispute the correctness of the data – for the period of time we need to check the correctness of the data 
•   The processing is illegal but you do not wish to have your data deleted and request a restriction of use instead 
•   We no longer need your data, but you need them to assert, exercise or defend against legal claims 
•   You have filed an objection to the processing, though it has not yet been decided whether our legitimate grounds outweigh yours.

 Right to data transferability (Article 20 of basic EU data protection regulations): At your request, we will transfer your data – where technically possible – to another responsible entity. However, this right only applies if the data processing is based on your consent or is required to fulfill a contract. Instead of receiving a copy of your data, you can ask us to send the data directly to another responsible entity that you specify. 

Right to objection (Article 21 of basic EU data protection regulations): You can object to the processing of your data at any time for reasons that arise from your special situation provided the data processing is based on your consent or our legitimate interest or that of a third party. In this case, we will no longer process your data. The latter does not apply if we are able to prove there are compelling, defensible reasons for the processing that outweigh your interests or we require your data to assert, exercise or defend against legal claims.

 Time limits for compliance with the rights of persons affected As a general principle, we make every effort to comply with all requests within 30 days. This time limit, however, can be extended for reasons related to the specific rights of persons affected or complexity of your request.

 Restriction in the provision of information regarding the rights of persons affected In certain situations, legal specifications might require us not to provide information regarding all of your data. If we have to refuse your request for information in such a case, we will inform you of the reasons for refusal at the same time.

 Complaints to supervisory authorities 
The Content Lab GmbH takes your reservations and rights very seriously. However, if you are of the opinion that we have not dealt with your complaints or reservations adequately, you have the right to submit a complaint to the data privacy protection authorities responsible. Please contact us for all matters relating to your personal data at:   

The Content Lab GmbH 
Joaquin Aparicio-Staubach 
Trierer Str. 17
CP  50676
Colonia, Alemania
data-privacy@thecontentlab.eu  

This privacy policy applies only to content on our servers, not to websites linked to or from our website. [As of: 24.05.2018]

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