Privacy Policy

Responsible

Name/company: HKC GmbH

Address: Im neuen Land 6, 66352 Großrosseln

Email: info@hk-center.de

Purposes of processing and legal basis

• Provision of the website and operation of the IT infrastructure

Legal basis: legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR)

• Contact forms, inquiries, newsletters

Legal basis: consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR) or performance of a contract/pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR)

• Web analysis (e.g., Google Analytics) or other tracking tools

Legal basis: consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR; opt-in) or legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR)

• Cookies and tracking technologies

Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR), legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR) where applicable

• Processing for security and fraud prevention

Legal basis: legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR)

Categories of data processed

• Contact details (name, email, telephone number if applicable)
• Usage data (IP address, browser type, device information, time of use)
• Website meta/log data
• Form content (with consent)
• Cookies and tracking data (e.g., IDs, usage and preference data)

Recipients of the data

• Hosting providers
• Web analytics/marketing service providers (only with consent)
• Legal or tax advisors (if necessary)

Storage periods

• Contact details from forms: 2 years, unless otherwise required by law
• Web log data: 7 days to 2 months
• Cookies: duration of the respective cookie lifetime
• Newsletter subscriptions: until revoked or terminated

Data transfer to third countries

If tracking or analysis tools are used, data may be transferred to the US or other third countries; note appropriate safeguards (EU standard contractual clauses) and, where applicable, the Privacy Shield reference.

Rights of data subjects

You have the right to

• information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability,
• object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR),
• withdrawal of consent,
• complaint to a supervisory authority (e.g., State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Saarland: https://www.datenschutz.saarland.de/).

Obligation to provide data

The provision of necessary data is required for the provision of the website and, if applicable, for contractual, contact, or newsletter purposes; missing data may result in restrictions to the services.

Revocation of consent

You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To do so, please send us an email toinfo@hk-center.de .

Security

We take technical and organizational measures (TOM), e.g., TLS/HTTPS, regular updates, access controls, encryption of sensitive data.

Changes to this privacy policy

This privacy policy is reviewed regularly and amended as necessary.

Date of last update: 09/08/2025