Privacy policy

Effective as of May 2018

This statement provides an overview of how we process personal data and what rights customers have from data protection laws. The manner and specific data that are processed and used depend on the respective services of the provider (Michael Lefrancois).

Responsible for the processing of your personal data within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2016 / 679 of 27 April 2016 (General Data Protection Regulation, hereinafter "GDPR") is Michael Lefrancois. We are aware of the trust you place in us. For this reason, we would like to inform you comprehensively about our handling of your personal data. In particular, we would like to inform you about which data are collected during your visit and / or use of our online presence and our online services, and to which specific use these data are subjected. If we have received personal data from you by other means (e.g., by email), the following privacy statement also applies.

We use various techniques on our website that are used to improve usability, effectiveness, and security. In this context, data collections by us or third parties we employ and commission (technical service providers) may occur.

Since our web offerings and the underlying technologies are constantly evolving, changes in the privacy statement may also be necessary. All future changes will be announced on this website.

1. Legal Regulations

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We process personal data in accordance with the data protection regulations of the Federal Republic of Germany, where Michael Lefrancois has its seat for data processing.

To ensure comprehensive protection of your personal data, we comply with the relevant legal provisions of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), the Telemedia Act (TMG), the GDPR, and all other data protection legal bases that may be considered.

2. Responsibility

The provider responsible for this online presence in the sense of Art. 4 (7) GDPR is:
Michael Lefrancois
Lerchenstr. 16
63150 Heusenstamm
Represented by Michael Lefrancois

3. Contact details of the data protection officer:

The data protection contact is available as follows:
Michael Lefrancois
Lerchenstr. 16
63150 Heusenstamm
michael@lefrancois.de

4. Scope limitation of this privacy statement for visiting our website

Our privacy statement applies exclusively to our own content that we store on our servers. Links to third-party websites in our offers are expressly not covered.

5. Collection of personal data during informational use

When calling up our internet presence, a connection is made to our server, and the access paths of the pages, the time of the connection establishment, and your current IP address are recorded and stored to fend off disturbances and problems. During your visit to our internet pages, data ("cookies") may be stored on your computer to facilitate your use of our offer. We do not use these data to identify you or to contact you.

For the mere informational use of the website, we do not collect personal data, except for the data that your browser transmits to enable you to visit the website.

These are:

  • Date and time of the request
  • Duration of your visit
  • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Content of the request (specific page)
  • Access status / HTTP status code
  • Website & provider from which the request comes
  • Browser
  • Operating system
  • Language and version of the browser software
  • Data related to the terminal device are stored by us, among other things, to create usage statistics or also for the purpose of identification and tracking of unauthorized attempts to access our web servers. Profiles about the use of our websites are created exclusively anonymously and only to improve user guidance and optimize our offers and services. No personal behavioral profiles are created or processed from the aforementioned information.

6. Collection of personal data when using features of our website

Personal data such as your email address or your name will only be stored if you provide it to us on your own initiative, e.g., in the context of a contact form, an application, or for the execution of a contract (Direct Collection Principle).

Use of personal data and purpose limitation

All personal data arising or collected in the course of services of Michael Lefrancois are collected, processed, and used in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations for the protection of personal data only for the purpose of contract processing and to safeguard legitimate own business interests with regard to the consulting and support of our customers and interested parties and the needs-based product design.

7. Legal bases

The processing of personal data is carried out, in particular, on the basis of Art. 6 GDPR and §§ 11, 13 TMG.

8. Consent

By using our website and/or transmitting your personal data, you consent to the described storage and use of your data. By entering your personal data, you declare your consent to the described processing of the data and their use, including their disclosure to third parties. Insofar as you provide us with personal data of third parties, it is your responsibility to ensure that the persons concerned have declared their consent to the forwarding and processing of the personal data.

9. Revocation

You may revoke the use or disclosure of your personal data at any time and for the future, e.g., by email to: michael@lefrancois.de.

10. Duration of data storage

The duration of the storage of your personal data depends on the degree of cooperation or the existing contractual relationship.

If you only visit our website, the storage of data is limited to the information mentioned under point 4.

If you provide us with application documents for employment with Michael Lefrancois and the companies associated with it, your personal data will be stored for processing and deleted after 4 months, provided no other legal basis for the storage of your personal data exists.

If you are interested in an investment and provide us with personal data for this reason, we will store your data only until revocation or until the expiration of the legal permission.

In the case of a contractual relationship, the data will also be stored after the end of the contractual relationship, to fulfill legal obligations, such as legal retention and information obligations. If we have an express declaration of consent, storage will also take place to continue to inform you about our products. Should contact for information purposes not be desired, please send us an email to the following email address: michael@lefrancois.de

11. Data security

Michael Lefrancois and the companies associated with him take conscientious precautions to protect your data managed by us against manipulation, loss, destruction, and access by unauthorized persons. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological development.
Our employees are obligated to maintain data secrecy according to the Federal Data Protection Act.

12. Technologies used

In parts of this website, widely used technologies such as HTML, PHP or JavaScript may be used to provide you with the desired information more conveniently. In no case are these technologies used by us to spy out personal data or to manipulate data on your computer.

13. Cookies

In order to design our websites according to user needs, we need certain information. To collect this, we use cookies, among other things. These cookies serve to simplify Internet use and communication. Cookies are stored on your PC or another terminal device for the anonymous identification of the device and to support the application when you return to our websites. Cookies contain no personal data.
If you wish, you can generally suppress the storage of cookies via your web browser or decide whether you want to be notified of storage or not. However, non-acceptance of cookies may result in some pages no longer being displayed correctly.
This website uses cookies to the following extent:
Transient cookies (temporary use)
Persistent cookies (time-limited use)
The data of cookies are not linked to your further data.
Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include, in particular, session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the common session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to the website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.

Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a predetermined duration, which may differ depending on the cookie. You can delete the cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser.

You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, e.g., refuse to accept individual or all cookies.

You can learn more about how cookies work on the page http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

14. Your rights

You have the following rights concerning your personal data:

Right to information
Right to correction or deletion
Right to restriction of processing
Right to object to processing
Right to data portability
Please send us an email to the following address: michael@lefrancois.de

You also have the right to complain to the competent data protection supervisory authority:
The Hessian Data Protection Commissioner
Postfach 3163
65021 Wiesbaden
Email: Poststelle@datenschutz.hessen.de
about the processing of your personal data by us