DATA PROTECTION / COOKIES

01. General Information

Data protection and data security are of high priority for us. All data collected on our website is used exclusively to improve the usage of our website and services. The following privacy statement explains which information is collected through your visit and how this information is used. Generally, the use of our website is possible without providing personal data. To the extent that personal data (e.g., name, address, or email addresses) is collected on our pages, it is always done on a voluntary basis, where possible. This data will not be shared with third parties without your explicit consent.

Please note that data transmission over the internet (e.g., communication via email) may have security gaps. Complete protection of data from third-party access is not possible. By visiting our website, you agree to this privacy statement. It is recommended to read this statement before using the website, as it explains how the backend of our homepage collects and processes personal data.

This privacy statement applies only to the website operated by us:
www.kayaandclark.com

The responsible entity for data processing on this website, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

soo schön OG
Hasnerstraße 7/2
9020 Klagenfurt
Phone: +43 676 955 3681
Email: hi@kayaandclark.com

 

Withdrawal of Your Consent to Data Processing:

Many data processing operations are only possible with your explicit consent. You can withdraw any consent given at any time. For this, an informal message via email to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out until the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority:

In the case of data protection violations, the data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority in data protection matters is the Data Protection Authority of the federal state in which our company is located. You can find detailed information at the Austrian Data Protection Authority via the following link: https://www.dsb.gv.at

 

Right to Data Portability:

You have the right to have data processed automatically based on your consent or in the performance of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of data to another responsible party, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.

 

SSL/TLS Encryption:

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries that you send to us as the website operator, this site uses SSL/TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the padlock symbol in your browser bar.

When SSL/TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

 

Encrypted Payment Transactions on this Website:

If, after completing a paid contract, you are required to transmit your payment data (e.g., bank account number in case of direct debit authorization), this data is needed for processing the payment. Payment transactions via common payment methods (Visa/MasterCard, direct debit) are carried out exclusively via an encrypted SSL/TLS connection. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the padlock symbol in your browser bar. With encrypted communication, your payment data transmitted to us cannot be read by third parties.

 

Right to Access, Block, and Deletion:

You have the right to request free information about your stored personal data, its origin, the recipients, the purpose of the data processing, and, if applicable, the right to correction, blocking, or deletion of this data in accordance with applicable legal provisions. For this, and for any other questions regarding personal data, you can contact us at any time via email at hi@kayaandclark.com.

 

2. Data Collection when Visiting Our Website:

Cookies:

Our websites use so-called cookies in some cases. Cookies do not cause any harm to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are used to make our services more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.Most of the cookies we use are “session cookies.” They are automatically deleted after your visit ends. Other cookies remain on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser when you visit again.You can configure your browser to be informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies on a case-by-case basis, exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or generally, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you disable cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.Cookies that are necessary for the completion of the electronic communication process or for the provision of certain functions you request (e.g., shopping cart functionality) are stored based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies to ensure the technically error-free and optimized provision of services. Other cookies (e.g., cookies for analyzing your browsing behavior) are stored and handled separately in this privacy statement.

 

Server Log Files:

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These include:

•       Browser type and version

•       Used operating system

•       Referrer URL

•       Hostname of the accessing computer

•       Time of the server request

 

IP Address:

These data are not merged with other data sources.The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, which allows the processing of data for the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

 

Contacting via Email or Contact Form:

Our website includes a contact form that can be used for electronic communication. If you are interested in the offered workshops, you can also contact us through the provided contact form. Alternatively, contacting us via the provided email address is also possible. If you contact us via the contact form, your name and email address will always be transmitted to us. In the case of contacting us for a wedding photography offer, we also require your phone number. Additional data can be entered and transmitted voluntarily. Additionally, the user’s IP address, as well as the date and time, will be stored. For data processing, your consent is obtained during the submission process, and reference is made to this privacy statement. If you contact us via email, your email address and message are transmitted to us and stored by us.The legal basis for processing the data is, in the case of consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The legal basis for processing the data transmitted in an email is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If the email contact aims at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR.

 

Purpose of Data Processing:

The processing of personal data from the contact form is solely for the purpose of handling the contact request. In the case of contact via email, there is also a legitimate interest in processing the data. The other personal data processed during the submission process serve to prevent misuse of the contact form and to ensure the security of our IT systems.

 

Duration of Storage:

The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for the purpose of their collection. This is the case for the data collected during the registration process for the fulfillment of a contract or for the performance of pre-contractual measures when such data is no longer needed for the performance of the contract. Even after the conclusion of the contract, there may be a need to store personal data of the contractual partner in order to fulfill contractual or legal obligations.

 

03.Social Media:

Instagram Plugin:

Our pages integrate functions from the Instagram service. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content of our pages to your Instagram profile by clicking the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to assign your visit to our pages to your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or how Instagram uses it.For more information, please refer to Instagram’s privacy policy: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

 

Facebook Plugins (Like & Share Buttons):

Our pages integrate plugins from the social network Facebook, provided by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button (“Like”) on our page. An overview of the Facebook plugins can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.When you visit our pages, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Facebook server via the plugin. This allows Facebook to receive the information that you have visited our page with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “Like” button while logged into your Facebook account, you can link the contents of our pages to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to assign your visit to our pages to your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or how Facebook uses it.For more information, please refer to Facebook’s privacy policy: https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.If you do not wish for Facebook to assign your visit to our pages to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook account.

 

Pinterest Plugin:

We use social plugins from the social network Pinterest, operated by Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-490, USA (“Pinterest”) on our site.When you visit a page that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Pinterest’s servers. The plugin transmits log data to Pinterest’s servers in the USA. These log data may include your IP address, the address of the visited websites, which also contain Pinterest features, browser type and settings, date and time of the request, how you use Pinterest, and cookies.For more information on the purpose, scope, and further processing and use of the data by Pinterest, as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy, please refer to Pinterest’s privacy policy: https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy.

 

4.Analysis Tools and Advertising

Google Analytics:

This website uses features of the web analytics service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (Google), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies.” These are text files stored on your computer that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The storage of Google Analytics cookies is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both the web offering and its advertising.

 

IP Anonymization:

We have activated the IP anonymization feature on this website. As a result, your IP address is truncated by Google within the member states of the European Union or other contract states of the European Economic Area Agreement before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activities, and provide other services related to website and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

 

Browser Plugin:

You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting the settings of your browser software; however, we would like to point out that in this case, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to their full extent. Additionally, you can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

 

Objection to Data Collection:

You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set, which prevents the collection of your data during future visits to this website: Disable Google Analytics. For more information on handling user data in Google Analytics, please refer to Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

 

Order Data Processing:

We have signed a data processing agreement with Google and fully implement the strict requirements of German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.

 

Demographic Features in Google Analytics:

This website uses the “demographic features” function of Google Analytics. This allows reports to be created that provide statements about the age, gender, and interests of the site visitors. These data come from Google’s interest-based advertising as well as visitor data from third parties. These data cannot be assigned to any specific person. You can disable this feature at any time via the ad settings in your Google account or generally prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics, as described in the “Objection to Data Collection” section.

 

Google Analytics Remarketing:

Our websites use the Google Analytics Remarketing features in conjunction with Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick’s cross-device features. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. This feature allows the marketing audiences created by Google Analytics Remarketing to be linked with Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick’s cross-device features. As a result, interest-based, personalized advertising messages, tailored to your previous usage and browsing behavior on one device (e.g., mobile), may also be shown on another device (e.g., tablet or PC). If you have given consent, Google will link your web and app browser history with your Google account for this purpose. This allows the same personalized advertising messages to be displayed across all devices on which you are logged into your Google account.

To support this function, Google Analytics captures Google-authenticated user IDs, which are temporarily linked with our Google Analytics data to define and create audiences for cross-device advertising. You can permanently object to cross-device remarketing/targeting by disabling personalized ads in your Google account by following this link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/. The summary of the collected data in your Google account is exclusively based on your consent, which you can give or withdraw at any time (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). For data collection processes not merged with your Google account (e.g., because you do not have a Google account or have objected to merging), the data collection is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interest results from the website operator’s interest in the anonymized analysis of website visitors for advertising purposes.

Further information and privacy policies can be found in Google’s privacy statement: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.

 

Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking:

This website uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising program by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. As part of Google AdWords, we use so-called Conversion Tracking. When you click on an ad placed by Google, a cookie for conversion tracking is set. Cookies are small text files placed by the internet browser on the user’s computer. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification of users. If the user visits certain pages on this website and the cookie has not expired, Google and we can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page.

Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. The cookies cannot be tracked across AdWords customers’ websites. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that would allow the identification of individual users. If you do not wish to participate in the tracking, you can object to the use of the Google Conversion Tracking cookie by easily disabling it in your browser’s user settings. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.

The storage of “conversion cookies” is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both the web offering and its advertising. For more information on Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking, please refer to Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/. You can set your browser to be informed about the placement of cookies, allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or generally, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Deactivating cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

 

Facebook Pixel:

Our website uses the Facebook Pixel for conversion measurement, a service of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). This allows us to track the behavior of site visitors after they are redirected to the provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook ad. This enables us to evaluate the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes and to optimize future advertising campaigns. The data collected is anonymous to us as the website operator, and we cannot draw any conclusions about the identity of the users. However, the data is stored and processed by Facebook, allowing a connection to the respective user profile, and Facebook may use the data for its own advertising purposes according to the Facebook data usage policy. As a result, Facebook can display ads both on Facebook and outside of Facebook. This data use cannot be influenced by us as the website operator.

Further information on privacy protection can be found in Facebook’s privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. You can also deactivate the “Custom Audiences” remarketing function under the ad settings at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. To do so, you must be logged into Facebook. If you do not have a Facebook account, you can deactivate Facebook’s interest-based ads on the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance website: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/.

 

Facebook Custom Audiences:

(1) Furthermore, the website uses Facebook Inc.’s (“Facebook”) “Custom Audiences” remarketing feature. This allows users of the website to be shown interest-based ads (“Facebook Ads”) on Facebook or other websites using the same procedure. We aim to display ads that are relevant to you, making our website more interesting for you.

(2) Due to the marketing tools used, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with Facebook’s server. We have no influence on the extent and further use of the data collected by Facebook through the use of this tool, and therefore inform you according to our current knowledge: By embedding Facebook Custom Audiences, Facebook receives the information that you have visited the respective page of our website or clicked on one of our ads. If you are registered with a Facebook service, Facebook can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Facebook or not logged in, it is possible that the provider may learn and store your IP address and other identifying features.

(3) The deactivation of the “Facebook Custom Audiences” feature is possible for logged-in users at https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads#_.

(4) The legal basis for processing your data is Art. 6(1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Further information about data processing by Facebook is available at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy.

 

5. Plugins and Tools

Vimeo:

Our website uses plugins from the video portal Vimeo. The provider is Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.When you visit one of our pages equipped with a Vimeo plugin, a connection to Vimeo’s servers is established. This informs the Vimeo server which of our pages you have visited. Additionally, Vimeo obtains your IP address. This applies even if you are not logged into Vimeo or do not have a Vimeo account. The information collected by Vimeo is transmitted to Vimeo’s servers in the USA. If you are logged into your Vimeo account, you allow Vimeo to directly associate your browsing behavior with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.For more information on how Vimeo handles user data, please refer to Vimeo’s privacy policy at: https://vimeo.com/privacy.

 

Google Web Fonts:

This page uses so-called web fonts provided by Google to ensure consistent font presentation. When you visit a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.To achieve this, the browser you are using must establish a connection to Google’s servers. This allows Google to know that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts is for the purpose of providing a uniform and attractive presentation of our online offerings. This constitutes a legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used from your computer.For further information on Google Web Fonts, please visit: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

 

Google Maps:

This page uses the Google Maps service via an API. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.In order to use the features of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence over this data transmission. The use of Google Maps is in the interest of providing an attractive presentation of our online offerings and facilitating the easy location of the places indicated on our website. This constitutes a legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.For more information on how user data is handled, please refer to Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

 

 

6. Provided Information and Links to Other Websites:

All information on this website – https://www.kayaandclark.com/ – is published in good faith and for general informational purposes only. The company soo schön OG makes no guarantees regarding the completeness, reliability, or accuracy of this information. Any actions you take based on the information on this website (soo schön OG) are strictly at your own risk. Soo schön OG will not be liable for any losses and/or damages in connection with the use of our website.From our website, you can visit other websites by following hyperlinks to such external sites. Although we strive to provide only high-quality links to useful and ethical websites, we have no control over the content and nature of these websites. These links to other websites do not constitute an endorsement of the entire content of these sites. Website owners and content may change without notice and may occur before we have the opportunity to remove a link that may have become “bad.”Please also note that other websites may have privacy policies and terms of service that are outside our control when leaving our website. Please make sure to read the privacy policies of these websites, as well as their “Terms of Use,” before engaging in any transactions or uploading information.

 

 

Date: 31.03.2025