Datenschutzerklärung - Privacy Policy
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Privacy Policy
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1) Introduction and contact details of the controller
1.1
We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. Below we provide information about how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data is all data that can be used to personally identify you.
1.2
The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:
Martin Mertens, Galerie Martin Mertens, Linienstraße 148, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 30 44043350
Email: info@martinmertens.com
The controller responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.
2) Data collection when visiting our website
2.1 Server log files
When you use our website for informational purposes only—i.e., when you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us—we collect only the data that your browser transmits to the server (so-called “server log files”). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:
- The website visited
- Date and time of access
- Data volume transferred (in bytes)
- Source/referrer from which you reached the page
- Browser used
- Operating system used
- IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)
Processing is carried out pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data is not passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to review the server log files retrospectively if there are specific indications of unlawful use.
2.2 SSL/TLS encryption
This website uses SSL/TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g., orders or inquiries to the controller). You can recognize an encrypted connection by the “https://” string and the lock symbol in your browser’s address bar.
3) Hosting & Content Delivery Network
3.1 Wix
For hosting our website and displaying page content, we use the system of the following provider:
Wix HQ, 6350671, Nemal Tel Aviv St 40, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Data is also transferred to:
Wix Inc., 500 Terry A. Francois Boulevard, San Francisco, California 94158, USA
All data collected on our website is processed on the provider’s servers.
We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our website visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
For a transfer of data to the provider location, an adequate level of data protection is ensured by an adequacy decision of the European Commission.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU–US Data Privacy Framework (EU–US DPF), which—on the basis of an adequacy decision of the European Commission—ensures compliance with the European level of data protection.
3.2 Wix (wixstatic)
We use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) of the following provider:
Wix HQ, 6350671, Nemal Tel Aviv St 40, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Data may also be transferred to:
- Wix Inc., 500 Terry A. Francois Boulevard, San Francisco, California 94158, USA
- Fastly Inc., 475 Brannan St. 300, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
- Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland
- Amazon Web Services, Inc., 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
This service enables us to deliver large media files such as graphics, page content or scripts more quickly via a network of regionally distributed servers. Processing is carried out to safeguard our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our website visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
For a transfer of data to the provider location, an adequate level of data protection is ensured by an adequacy decision of the European Commission.
For data transfers to the USA, the data recipients have joined the EU–US Data Privacy Framework (EU–US DPF), which—on the basis of an adequacy decision of the European Commission—ensures compliance with the European level of data protection.
4) Cookies
To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies—small text files that are stored on your device. Some of these cookies are deleted automatically when you close your browser (so-called “session cookies”), while others remain on your device for longer and enable the storage of page settings (so-called “persistent cookies”). In the latter case, you can find the storage duration in the overview of the cookie settings of your web browser.
If personal data is also processed through individual cookies used by us, the processing takes place pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR either for the performance of a contract, pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR in the case of consent having been given, or pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the website visit.
You can configure your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them, or you can exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general.
Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.
5) Contact
When you contact us (e.g., via contact form or email), personal data is collected. Which data is collected in the case of using a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of answering your request or for contacting you and the associated technical administration.
The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted after your request has been fully processed. This is the case when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and provided that no statutory retention obligations prevent deletion.
6) Site functionalities
Google Maps
This website uses an online map service from the following provider: Google Maps (API) by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”).
Google Maps is a web service for displaying interactive maps to visually present geographical information. Using this service shows you our location and facilitates finding directions.
As soon as you access the subpages into which the Google Maps map is embedded, information about your use of our website (such as your IP address) is transmitted to Google servers and stored there; this may also involve a transfer to the servers of Google LLC in the USA. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account you are logged in to or whether such an account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data is directly assigned to your account. If you do not want the data to be associated with your Google profile, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data (even for users who are not logged in) as usage profiles and evaluates them.
Collection, storage and evaluation are carried out pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of Google’s legitimate interest in displaying personalized advertising, market research and/or designing Google websites to meet demand. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles; to exercise this right you must contact Google. If you do not agree to the future transmission of your data to Google in connection with the use of Google Maps, you also have the option of completely disabling the Google Maps web service by turning off JavaScript in your browser. Google Maps and thus the map display on this website can then no longer be used.
Where legally required, we have obtained your consent for the above-described processing of your data pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your revocation, please follow the option described above for lodging an objection.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU–US Data Privacy Framework (EU–US DPF), which—on the basis of an adequacy decision of the European Commission—ensures compliance with the European level of data protection.
Further information on Google’s privacy policy can be found here:
https://business.safety.google/intl/de/privacy/
7) Rights of the data subject
7.1
Applicable data protection law grants you the following rights as a data subject vis-à-vis the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data (rights of access and intervention), whereby the referenced legal basis sets out the respective conditions for exercising these rights:
- Right of access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR;
- Right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR;
- Right to erasure pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR;
- Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR;
- Right to be informed pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR;
- Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR;
- Right to withdraw consent given pursuant to Art. 7(3) GDPR;
- Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR.
7.2 Right to object
If we process your personal data on the basis of our overriding legitimate interests as part of a balancing of interests, you have the right at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object to this processing with effect for the future.
If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the data concerned. However, further processing may be reserved if we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.
If your personal data is processed by us for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such advertising. You may exercise the objection as described above.
If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the data concerned for direct marketing purposes.
8) Duration of storage of personal data
The duration of storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and—where applicable—additionally by the respective statutory retention period (e.g., retention periods under commercial and tax law).
When processing personal data on the basis of explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, the data concerned is stored until you withdraw your consent.
If statutory retention periods exist for data that is processed in the context of contractual or quasi-contractual obligations on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, this data is routinely deleted after the retention periods expire, provided it is no longer required for contract performance or contract initiation and/or we no longer have a legitimate interest in further storage.
When processing personal data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, this data is stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.
When processing personal data for direct marketing purposes on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, this data is stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21(2) GDPR.
Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this policy on specific processing situations, stored personal data is otherwise deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.
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Copyright notice: This privacy policy was prepared by the specialist attorneys of IT-Recht Kanzlei and is protected by copyright (https://www.it-recht-kanzlei.de).
Version: 13.03.2026