Privacy Policy

We are delighted about your interest in our company. Data protection is of particular importance to the management of 432 Studios. The use of the 432 Studios website is generally possible without providing any personal data. However, if an individual wants to use specific services offered by our company through our website, the processing of personal data may become necessary. If the processing of personal data is required and there is no legal basis for such processing, we generally seek the consent of the individual concerned.

The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, email address, or telephone number of an individual, always takes place in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and in compliance with country-specific data protection regulations applicable to 432 Studios. Through this privacy policy, our company aims to inform the public about the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use, and process. Additionally, individuals are informed about their rights through this privacy policy.

432 Studios, as the data controller, has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most comprehensive protection of personal data processed through this website. However, internet-based data transmissions may still have security vulnerabilities, so absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, individuals are free to transmit personal data through alternative means, such as by telephone.

1. Definitions

The privacy policy of 432 Studios is based on the terms used by the European legislator for the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our privacy policy aims to be easily readable and understandable for the public, as well as our customers and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to explain the terms used beforehand.

In this privacy policy, we use, among other terms, the following:

a) Personal data

Personal data refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter referred to as the "data subject"). An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person.

b) Data subject

A data subject is any identified or identifiable natural person whose personal data is processed by the data controller.

c) Processing

Processing means any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination, or otherwise making available, alignment, or combination, restriction, erasure, or destruction.

d) Restriction of processing

Restriction of processing is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting its processing in the future.

e) Profiling

Profiling means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyze or predict aspects concerning that natural person's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements.

f) Pseudonymization

Pseudonymization is the processing of personal data in a way that the data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and subject to technical and organizational measures to ensure non-attribution to an identified or identifiable natural person.

g) Data controller

Data controller means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data. Where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member

State law, the data controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.

h) Processor

Processor means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body that processes personal data on behalf of the data controller.

i) Recipient

Recipient means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or another body to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities that may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be considered recipients.

j) Third party

Third party means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or body other than the data subject, the data controller, the processor, and the persons who, under the direct authority of the data controller or processor, are authorized to process personal data.

k) Consent

Consent means any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data concerning him or her for a particular purpose.

 

2. Name and Address of the Data Controller

Data Controller in the sense of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other data protection laws applicable in the European Union member states, and other provisions with a data protection character is:

432 Studios

Köpenicker Chaussee 24-38

10317 Berlin

Germany

Tel.: +49 176 615 815 73

Email: info@paulschal.com

Website: www.432Studios.de

3. Cookies

The website of 432 Studios uses cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored and saved on a computer system via an internet browser.

Many websites and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a unique identifier called a cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier that allows websites and servers to assign the specific internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This enables the visited websites and servers to distinguish the individual browser of the data subject from other internet browsers that contain different cookies. A specific internet browser can be recognized and identified by the unique cookie ID.

By using cookies, 432 Studios can provide users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.

By means of a cookie, the information and offers on our website can be optimized with the user in mind. Cookies allow us, as previously mentioned, to recognize the users of our website. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to utilize our website. The user of a website that uses cookies, for example, does not have to enter their access data again each time they visit the website because this is taken over by the website and the cookie stored on the user's computer system. Another example is the cookie of a shopping cart in an online shop. The online shop remembers the articles that a customer has placed in the virtual shopping cart via a cookie.

The data subject can prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time by means of a corresponding setting of the internet browser used and thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. Furthermore, cookies that have already been set can be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular internet browsers. If the data subject deactivates the setting of cookies in the internet browser used, not all functions of our website may be fully usable.

4. Collection of General Data and Information

The website of 432 Studios collects a series of general data and information with each visit to the website by a data subject or an automated system. This general data and information are stored in the server log files. The following data may be collected: (1) browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrers), (4) the sub-websites accessed via an accessing system on our website, (5) the date and time of access to the website, (6) an internet protocol address (IP address), (7) the internet service provider of the accessing system, and (8) other similar data and information used to prevent risks in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.

When using these general data and information, 432 Studios does not draw any conclusions about the data subject. Rather, this information is needed to (1) deliver the content of our website correctly, (2) optimize the content of our website and its advertisement, (3) ensure the long-term viability of our information technology systems and website technology, and (4) provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack. These anonymously collected data and information are therefore evaluated by 432 Studios on the one hand statistically and further with the aim of increasing the data

protection and data security in our company to ultimately ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.

5. Contact Options via the Website

The website of 432 Studios contains information that enables quick electronic contact to our company, as well as direct communication with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic mail (email address). If a data subject contacts the data controller via email or a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject is automatically stored. Such personal data transmitted on a voluntary basis by a data subject to the data controller are stored for the purpose of processing or contacting the data subject. There is no disclosure of this personal data to third parties.

6. Routine Erasure and Blocking of Personal Data

The data controller processes and stores personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of storage or as provided for by the European directives and regulations or any other legislator in laws or regulations to which the data controller is subject.

If the storage purpose ceases to apply or if a storage period prescribed by the European directives and regulations or any other relevant legislator expires, the personal data is routinely blocked or erased in accordance with the statutory provisions.

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7. Rights of the data subject

 

a) Right to confirmation

Every data subject has the right, granted by the European Directive and Regulation legislator, to obtain confirmation from the data controller as to whether or not personal data concerning them is being processed. If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to confirmation, they can contact an employee of the data controller at any time.

b) Right to information

Every data subject affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European Directive and Regulation legislator, to obtain free information from the data controller at any time about the personal data stored about them and a copy of this information. Furthermore, the European Directive and Regulation legislator has granted the data subject the right to obtain information about the following:

• the purposes of the processing

• the categories of personal data being processed

• the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organizations

• if possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period

• the existence of the right to rectification or erasure of personal data concerning them or restriction of processing by the controller or the right to object to such processing

• the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

• if the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information about their source

• the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO), and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.

If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to information, they can contact an employee of the data controller at any time.

c) Right to rectification

Every data subject affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European Directive and Regulation legislator, to request the immediate rectification of any inaccurate personal data concerning them. Furthermore, the data subject has the right, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to request the completion of incomplete personal data, including by means of a supplementary statement.

If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to rectification, they can contact an employee of the data controller at any time.

d) Right to erasure (Right to be forgotten)

Every data subject affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European Directive and Regulation legislator, to demand from the data controller the erasure of personal data concerning them without undue delay, provided one of the following reasons applies and the processing is not necessary:

• The personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.

• The data subject withdraws consent on which the processing is based according to Art. 6(1)(a) DS-GVO or Art. 9(2)(a) DS-GVO, and where there is no other legal ground for the processing.

• The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Art. 21(1) DS-GVO and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Art. 21(2) DS-GVO.

• The personal data have been unlawfully processed.

• The erasure of personal data is required to fulfill a legal obligation under Union or Member State law to which the data controller is subject.

• The personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Art. 8(1) DS-GVO.

e) Right to restriction of processing

Every data subject affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European Directive and Regulation legislator, to request the restriction of processing from the data controller if one of the following conditions applies:

- The accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period enabling the data controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data.
- The processing is unlawful, and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests the restriction of their use instead.
- The data controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of processing, but the data subject requires them for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
- The data subject has objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO), pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the data controller override those of the data subject.

If any of the above conditions are met and a data subject wishes to request the restriction of personal data stored by 432 Studios, they can contact an employee of the data controller at any time. The employee of 432 Studios will arrange for the restriction of processing.

f) Right to data portability

Every data subject affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European Directive and Regulation legislator, to receive the personal data concerning them, which they have provided to a data controller, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. They also have the right to transmit those data to another data controller without hindrance from the original data controller, where the processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) DS-GVO or Article 9(2)(a) DS-GVO or on a contract pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) DS-GVO, and the processing is carried out by automated means, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the data controller.

Furthermore, in exercising their right to data portability under Article 20(1) DS-GVO, the data subject has the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one data controller to another, where technically feasible and provided that this does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

To exercise the right to data portability, the data subject can contact an employee of 432 Studios at any time.

g) Right to object

Every data subject affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European Directive and Regulation legislator, to object at any time, on grounds relating to their particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning them, which is based on Article 6(1)(e) or (f) DS-GVO, including profiling based on those provisions.

432 Studios will no longer process the personal data in the event of an objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights, and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

If 432 Studios processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject has the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning them for such marketing. This also applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If the data subject objects to 432 Studios processing personal data for direct marketing purposes, 432 Studios will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.

Additionally, the data subject has the right to object, on grounds relating to their particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning them by 432 Studios for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) DS-GVO, unless

the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest.

To exercise the right to object, the data subject can directly contact any employee of 432 Studios or another employee. The data subject is also free to exercise their right to object in connection with the use of information society services, notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, by automated means using technical specifications.

 

h) Automated individual decision-making, including profiling

Every data subject affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European Directive and Regulation legislator, not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning them or similarly significantly affects them, unless the decision (1) is necessary for entering into or performance of a contract between the data subject and the data controller, (2) is authorized by Union or Member State law to which the data controller is subject and that law contains appropriate measures to safeguard the data subject's rights, freedoms, and legitimate interests, or (3) is based on the data subject's explicit consent.

If the decision (1) is necessary for entering into or performance of a contract between the data subject and the data controller or (2) is based on the data subject's explicit consent, 432 Studios will implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's rights, freedoms, and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the data controller, to express their point of view, and to contest the decision.

If a data subject wishes to exercise rights regarding automated decisions, including profiling, they can contact an employee of the data controller at any time.

i) Right to withdraw consent for data processing

Every data subject affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European Directive and Regulation legislator, to withdraw consent to the processing of their personal data at any time.

If a data subject wishes to exercise their right to withdraw consent, they can contact an employee of the data controller at any time.

8. Privacy policy regarding the use of Facebook

The data controller has integrated components of the company Facebook on this website. Facebook is a social network.

A social network is an online platform operated on the Internet that allows users to communicate and interact with each other in a virtual space. It can serve as a platform for sharing opinions and experiences or allow the internet community to provide personal or company-related information. Facebook enables users of the social network to create private profiles, upload photos, and connect through friend requests, among other features.

The operating company of Facebook is Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. If a data subject lives outside the United States or Canada, the data controller responsible for processing personal data is Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Each time an individual page of this website, which is operated by the data controller and on which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-in) is integrated, is accessed, the internet browser on the data subject's information technology system is automatically prompted by the respective Facebook component to download a display of the corresponding Facebook component from Facebook. An overview of all Facebook plug-ins can be found at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=en_US. As part of this technical process, Facebook is informed about which specific subpage of our website is visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged into Facebook at the same time, Facebook recognizes with each visit to our website by the data subject and throughout the duration of their stay on our website, which specific subpage of our website the data subject visits. This information is collected by the Facebook component and assigned by Facebook to the respective Facebook account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the integrated Facebook buttons on our website, such as the "Like" button, or if the data subject submits a comment, Facebook assigns this information to the personal Facebook user account of the data subject and stores this personal data.

Facebook receives information via the Facebook component that the data subject has visited our website whenever the data subject is logged into Facebook at the same time as accessing our website

, regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Facebook component or not. If such a transmission of this information to Facebook is not desired by the data subject, they can prevent the transmission by logging out of their Facebook account before accessing our website.

The data policy published by Facebook, which can be accessed at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/, provides information about the collection, processing, and use of personal data by Facebook. It also explains the privacy settings Facebook offers to protect the data subject's privacy. In addition, various applications are available that allow data transmission to Facebook to be suppressed. Such applications can be used by the data subject to suppress data transmission to Facebook.

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