Data Privacy Statement

Below, we provide information about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is any data that can be related to you personally, e.g., name, address, email addresses, user behavior. We have taken extensive technical and operational precautions to protect your data from accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction, or access by unauthorized persons. Our security procedures are regularly reviewed and adapted to technological progress.

1 Responsible for data processing

Otto Krahn New Business GmbH & Co. KG
Mühlenhagen 35
20539 Hamburg
Phone: +49 40 78105-0
Fax: +49 40 78105-361
Email: info@oknb.eu
Internet: www.oknb.eu

2 How to contact the data protection officer

You can contact our external data protection officer at dataprotection@albis.com or at our postal address with the addition “the data protection officer.”

3 Your rights

You have the following rights with regard to your personal data:

3.1 General rights

You have the right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, objection to processing, and data portability. If processing is based on your consent, you have the right to revoke this consent with future effect.

3.2 Rights in data processing based on legitimate interest

Pursuant to Art. 21 (1) GDPR, you have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you that is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) e GDPR (data processing in the public interest) or on the basis of Art. 6 (1) f GDPR (data processing to safeguard a legitimate interest); this also applies to profiling based on this provision. In the event of your objection, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims.

3.3 Rights in relation to direct marketing

If we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes, you have the right, pursuant to Art. 21 (2) GDPR, to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for such marketing purposes; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct marketing.

If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes.

3.4 Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

You also have the right to complain to a competent data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data.

4 Collection of personal data when visiting our website

When you use the website for informational purposes only, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) f GDPR:

–IP address, date and time of the request, time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), content of the request (specific page), access status/HTTP status code, amount of data transferred in each case, website from which the request originates, browser, operating system, and its interface, language and version of the browser software.

ALBIS Distribution GmbH & Co. KG cannot assign this data to specific individuals. This data is not merged with other data sources; the data is also deleted after statistical evaluation and is used exclusively to improve the attractiveness, content, and functionality of our websites.

5 Contacting us by email or contact form

When you contact us by email or via a contact form, we store the data you provide (your email address, name, and message) in order to respond to your questions. Your request is usually processed on the basis of our legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1) f GDPR. If we request information via our contact form that is not necessary for establishing contact, we have always marked this as optional. This information helps us to specify your request and improve the handling of your concern. The provision of this information is expressly voluntary and with your consent, Art. 6 (1) a GDPR. Insofar as this involves information on communication channels (e.g., email address, telephone number), you also consent to us contacting you via this communication channel if necessary in order to respond to your request. You can, of course, revoke this consent at any time for the future.

We delete the data collected in this context once it is no longer necessary to store it, or restrict its processing if there are legal retention obligations.

6 Cookies

We use services and technologies to ensure the proper functioning of the website, to provide basic functionalities and—with your consent—for the purposes of analyzing and optimizing our website.

On the one hand, we use transient cookies and persistent cookies for this purpose. On the other hand, both first-party cookies and third-party cookies are set on our website by organizations that are not operators of the website you are visiting.

The possible processing of personal data using cookies and other technologies, as well as their storage period, may take place if you have consented to this in accordance with Section 25 (1) TDDDG Art. 6 (1) a GDPR. Insofar as data processing is based on our overriding legitimate interests or is technically absolutely necessary, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) f GDPR or § 25 (2) No. 2 TDDDG. The stated purpose then corresponds to our legitimate interest.

You can delete cookies already stored on your device at any time. If you want to prevent cookies from being stored, you can do so via the settings in your internet browser. Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

You also have the option of using our cookie management software to obtain comprehensive information about the respective legal bases, purposes, functional duration, and third-party providers used for the services and technologies currently in use. You can revoke your consent at any time, in whole or in part, with future effect, or adjust it individually in the privacy settings on our website.

7 Google Analytics

If you have given your consent, Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, is used on this website. The responsible body for users in the EU/EEA and Switzerland is Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”).

Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of our websites. The information collected by the cookies about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

With Google Analytics 4, IP address anonymization is enabled by default. Due to IP anonymization, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. According to Google, the IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.

During your visit to the website, your user behavior is recorded in the form of “events.” Events can include:

• Page views,
• First visit to the website,
• Start of session,
• Web pages visited,
• Your “click path,” Interaction with the website,
• scrolls (whenever a user scrolls to the bottom of the page (90%)),
• clicks on external links,
• internal search queries,
• interaction with videos,
• file downloads,
• ads viewed/clicked,
• language settings.
• The following is also recorded:
• Your approximate location (region),
• Date and time of visit,
• Your IP address (in abbreviated form),
• Technical information about your browser and the devices you use (e.g., language settings, screen resolution),
• Your Internet service provider, and
• The referrer URL (which website/advertisement brought you to this website).

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your pseudonymous use of the website and to compile reports on website activity. The reports provided by Google Analytics are used to analyze the performance of our website.

Recipients of the data may include:

• Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (as a processor pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR),
• Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA,
• Alphabet Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

The European Commission adopted its adequacy decision for the USA on July 10, 2023. Google LLC is certified under the EU-US Privacy Framework. Since Google servers are distributed worldwide and a transfer to third countries (e.g., Singapore) cannot be completely ruled out, we have also concluded the EU standard contractual clauses with the provider.

The data we send and link to cookies is automatically deleted after 14 months. The maximum lifetime of Google Analytics cookies is 2 years. Data that has reached its retention period is automatically deleted once a month.

The legal basis for this data processing is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR and § 25 (1) (1) TDDDG. You can revoke your consent at any time with future effect by accessing the cookie settings and changing your selection there. The legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

You can also prevent the storage of cookies from the outset by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly. However, if you configure your browser to reject all cookies, this may result in restrictions on the functionality of this and other websites. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by:

• not giving your consent to the setting of the cookie or
• downloading and installing the browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics.

For more information on the terms of use of Google Analytics and data protection at Google, please visit https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/de/ and https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.

8 Advertising

We use cookies for marketing purposes to target our users with interest-based advertising. In addition, we use cookies to limit the likelihood of an advertisement being displayed and to measure the effectiveness of our advertising measures. This information may also be shared with third parties, such as ad networks. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) a and f GDPR. The legitimate interest of direct marketing exists for the purposes pursued with data processing. You have the right to object to the processing of your data for the purpose of such advertising at any time. To this end, we provide you with opt-out options for the respective services below. Alternatively, you can prevent cookies from being set in your browser settings.

9 Data transfer

Your data will not be transferred to third parties unless we are legally obliged to do so, or the transfer of data is necessary for the execution of the contractual relationship, or you have expressly consented to the transfer of your data in advance.

Insofar as external service providers may come into contact with your personal data, we ensure within the scope of order processing in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR that they comply with the provisions of data protection laws in the same way. Please also note the respective data protection information of the providers. The respective service provider is responsible for the content of third-party services, whereby we check the services for compliance with legal requirements within the scope of what is reasonable.

10 Data security

We have taken extensive technical and operational precautions to protect your data from accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction, or access by unauthorized persons. Our security procedures are regularly reviewed and adapted to technological progress.

To secure our online forms and protect them from misuse by automated access (bots), we use the Cloudflare Turnstile service offered by Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.

Turnstile checks whether an entry is made by a natural person or abusively by automated programs. For this purpose, various technical information from the accessing device is evaluated (e.g., IP address, user agent, referrer, timestamp, browser properties, TLS fingerprint, and interactions with the website). This processing is carried out solely for the purpose of preventing spam and attacks on our website.

The data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 (1) f GDPR (legitimate interest). Our legitimate interest lies in defending against abusive automated access and protecting our IT systems.

A contract for order processing (Data Processing Addendum, DPA) has been concluded with Cloudflare in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. Insofar as data is transferred to the USA, this is done on the basis of the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) of the European Commission in accordance with Art. 46 (2) c GDPR. Cloudflare is also certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Further information can be found in Cloudflare's privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/de-de/privacypolicy/

As of November 2025