Privacy Policy

With the following text, we would like to inform you about the nature, scope, and purposes of the collection and use of personal data on our website.

When you visit our website, data is only passed on to third parties with your express prior consent. 

If you provide us with personal data as part of an inquiry through our contact form, we use this data exclusively to fulfill our tasks and answer your questions.

This privacy policy (as of May 2022) is current.

FUSE Integrierte Kommunikation und Neue Medien GmbH
Matthias Steffen

Großer Burstah 46-48
20457 Hamburg, Germany

Phone: +49 40 / 450 318 0
Fax: +49 40 / 450 318 18
Email: info@fuse.de

You can generally visit our non-password-protected web pages without disclosing personal information about your identity, such as your name, email address, postal address, or other personal details.

When you visit our website, the following data is transmitted to DigitalOcean:

• Browser type and version,
• operating system used
• the website from which you visit us (referrer URL)
• the website you visit
• date and time of your access
• your Internet Protocol (IP) address

If you decide to contact us or to order or use one of our online offerings, such as subscribing to a newsletter or requesting information materials, we require further personal information from you, such as your name, email address, postal address, and other offer-specific information. Providing your personal data is always voluntary and entirely your own decision. We will only collect and use the data necessary to fulfill the respective purpose.

Once the purpose has been fulfilled, or at your request, we will delete your personal data, unless there is a legal obligation to retain it – for example, for tax law reasons when calculating chargeable services.

Your data is stored – subject to the further information in this privacy policy – exclusively on specially protected computer systems within Germany. Access to these systems and the data stored on them is only permitted for individuals who are entrusted with the use of the data as part of their original operational duties and for whom separate, password-protected access authorization has been set up. Through appropriate technical and organizational measures for data protection and IT security, we ensure that your information is always treated confidentially.

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

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

We collect, process, and use personal data only to the extent necessary to establish, define the content of, or modify the legal relationship (inventory data). We collect, process, and use personal data about the use of our website (usage data) only to the extent necessary to enable the user to use the service or to bill for it.

Your personal information is generally only collected, stored, or processed within FUSE GmbH, as well as by external service providers who are contractually bound as data processors under applicable data protection regulations.

Your personal data is not passed on to any parties other than those involved in handling your request. Further information about the parties involved can be found, where applicable, in the service-specific information.

If we have commissioned external service providers to process personal data, this is done in compliance with data protection regulations and with the aim that the service providers only use the entrusted data in accordance with our contractually agreed instructions, and that we are granted a right of control regarding the technical and organizational measures to be observed by the contractor.

To the extent that there is a legal obligation, we are required to do so by court order, or for purposes of criminal prosecution, we will transmit your data to authorities entitled to receive such information.

Art. 15 GDPR: Right of access by the data subject
You have the right to obtain from us information about the data we process concerning you.

Art. 16 GDPR: Right to rectification
If the data concerning you is inaccurate or incomplete, you can request the correction of inaccurate data or the completion of incomplete data.

Art. 17 GDPR: Right to erasure
Under the conditions of Art. 17 GDPR, you can request the deletion of your personal data. Your right to erasure depends, among other things, on whether we still need the data concerning you to fulfill our legal obligations.

Art. 18 GDPR: Right to restriction of processing
Under the conditions of Art. 18 GDPR, you can request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

Art. 21 GDPR: Right to object
For reasons arising from your particular situation, you can object at any time to the processing of data concerning you.

Art. 7(3) GDPR: Right to withdraw consent
You have the right to withdraw consent you have given for the processing of your personal data at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of consent before its withdrawal.

When individual pages are accessed, so-called temporary cookies are used to make navigation easier. These session cookies do not contain any personal data and expire once the session ends. Technologies such as Java applets or ActiveX controls that would make it possible to track users' browsing behavior are not used. Cookies are small text files that a website can store, or save locally, on a website visitor's computer.

You can prevent the installation of cookies by using the appropriate setting or add-ons in your browser.

Vimeo Videos, Social Media Links

To make it easier for you to use our website, to offer additional services, and to enable you to use any social media services, we have included corresponding links in various places, for example to LinkedIn. The following statements and guidelines apply:

The linking or embedding of the relevant media on our pages has been implemented technically in such a way that no personal data can be collected or used by these providers simply by visiting our website.

If you choose to actively call up or use these services, you will be notified that personal data is transmitted to these providers as a result of your use, and you will be asked to consent to the transmission of the relevant data.

The collection and processing of personal data by these providers takes place outside our website and without our detailed knowledge of the nature, scope, and methodology of the processing.

LinkedIn and Vimeo social media links:
The linking or embedding of the relevant media on our pages has been implemented technically in such a way that no personal data can be collected or used by these providers simply by visiting our website.

Vimeo videos and related data collection and use: On our website, you can watch videos that are embedded using a "plugin" from Vimeo. As soon as you visit a page of our website on which such a Vimeo plugin is embedded, a connection to Vimeo's servers is established. In doing so, various pieces of information may be transmitted to Vimeo, such as your IP address or which page of our website you are currently visiting. If you watch a video embedded in this way, this may also result in the storage and further use of this data by Vimeo. If you are logged into your Vimeo account at the same time, Vimeo may be able to associate your browsing behavior with your Vimeo user profile. You can prevent this kind of data processing by logging out of your Vimeo account before visiting our website.   The "enhanced privacy mode" for Vimeo videos is enabled on our website. As this is a third-party service, we have no influence over the processing of the corresponding data by Vimeo. For the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Vimeo, as well as your related rights and settings to protect your privacy, please refer to Vimeo's privacy notice at vimeo.com/privacy

When communicating data over open networks such as the internet, the protection of transmitted data cannot be fully guaranteed according to the current state of the art, nor can it be completely protected against access by third parties. Therefore, please do not send us confidential data over the internet (e.g. via the contact form or email) without adequate protection.

Subject to the further information set out in this privacy policy, your personal data collected through our website and stored on our computer systems is not processed outside Germany.

We will delete your data stored in our systems as soon as the purpose of storage or processing no longer applies. We regularly review whether the need for storage still exists. If you wish to have your personal data deleted, we will comply with this request unless legal regulations, such as retention obligations, prevent deletion. For this purpose, you can send an email to info@fuse.de.

Unless otherwise stated, all trademarks are protected by copyright or trademark law. This applies in particular to brands, nameplates, company logos, and emblems. The copyright holder specifically grants you the right to make a private copy for personal use. You are not, however, entitled to modify and/or distribute the materials, or to publish them yourself. Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyrights for texts, illustrations, photographs, graphic works, etc. belong to: FUSE GmbH.