Our Data Protection Policy

The following information provides an overview of the processing of your data by Galerie Thomas Fuchs GmbH & Co. KG.

The controller within the meaning of the data protection laws is Galerie Thomas Fuchs GmbH & Co. KG (registered under HRA 735442 in the Commercial Register of the Stuttgart local court), represented by Galerie Thomas Fuchs Verwaltungs-GmbH (registered under HRB 768563 in the Commercial Register of the Stuttgart local court), which is represented by the managing directors Thomas Fuchs and Andreas Pucher, Reinsburgstrasse 68A, D-70178 Stuttgart, phone +49 711 933 424 15, fax +49 711 469 133 77, email info@galeriefuchs.com, www.galeriefuchs.de.

We take the protection of your data very seriously and would like to ensure that you feel safe when visiting our website. We assure you that your data will be treated according to the applicable data protection provisions and that the required technical and organisational measures to comply with data protection are in place. Protecting your privacy is of paramount importance to us.

 

Your data

You can visit our website without giving any personal information. We will process your personal data only if you contact us, subscribe to the newsletter or if this is required for the performance or execution of a contract. Depending on the kind of inquiry, we will process data such as names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and other details you have voluntarily provided if these are required for the processing of your request.

We use your data only for the purpose for which you have transmitted these data to us, i.e. to answer your questions, to provide information about us, our exhibitions and projects as well as about works of art and to prepare, fulfil or perform contracts.

We guarantee that we will not disclose your data for commercial purposes. Your data will only be transmitted to third parties for non-commercial purposes if we are subject to a legal obligation, you have given your consent to the transmission or if this is required for the preparation, fulfilment or performance of a contract made with you.

 

Your Rights

You have the right to obtain access to the stored personal data concerning you, their source and the recipients and the purpose of the data processing at any time and free of charge. You have a right to erasure or blocking of data if you desire that we no longer store your data and if processing is not required and a right to rectification of your personal data if we have stored them inaccurately. You can withdraw your consent to the processing of your data at any time without giving reasons.

Moreover, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to transmit these data to another controller.

If you have any questions and concerns regarding data protection please contact Thomas Fuchs, email info@galeriefuchs.de.

If you assume that your rights have been infringed in the collection, processing or use of your personal data, please contact a competent data protection authority, for example the Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Baden-Württemberg, Königstrasse 10a, D-70173 Stuttgart, phone: 0711/615541-0, email: poststelle@lfdi.bwl.de.

 

Data Security

We protect your data by means of technical and internal security measures from accidental or deliberate manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. Our security measures are checked regularly and adjusted to technological progress. All of our employees have been bound to observe secrecy in writing and have signed an undertaking to comply with data protection provisions.

 

Newsletter and information about MailChimp

Our newsletter will inform you about us as well as our exhibitions and projects. If you subscribe to our newsletter we will store only your email address and, if you voluntarily provide them, also first and family name and will use them with your consent exclusively for sending the newsletter.

We use the services of the provider MailChimp, an offer by The Rocket Science Group, LLC having its seat in the USA, to send newsletters. In legal terms, the use of MailChimp is data processing in a third country.

We have decided to commission MailChimp because The Rocket Science Group, LLC has a valid EU-Privacy-Shield certification and thus assures to take measures and use standards which raise the level of data protection of personal data stored in the USA to a level corresponding to EU standards. We have chosen the settings which are most privacy friendly to send our newsletters via MailChimp and have concluded a processor agreement with MailChimp to ensure protection of your data.

The certification of The Rocket Science Group, LLC is accessible on the website www.privacyshield.org. MailChimp’s privacy policy is available on Datenschutzerklärung von MailChimp.

You may at any time withdraw your consent to the storage of your personal data, the email address and first and family names, if applicable, as well as to their use for sending the newsletter. For this purpose, please send a short email to info@galeriefuchs.de. Moreover, each newsletter contains a link to unsubscribe further information.

 

Protection of minors

Persons under the age of 18 should not transmit any personal data to us by Internet without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. We will not request any personal data from children and young persons.

 

Links to other websites

We might link our website with other websites. Our data privacy policy does not cover these websites and we are not responsible for their content.

 

Storage of access data

Each time when you access our website access data will be stored in a log file on the server of our provider. This set of data includes your IP address, date and time of access, the name of the requested file and the file name from which the file was requested, the set of files transmitted and the access status, a description of the web browser and operating system used as well as the name of your Internet provider. It is required to collect these data for technical reasons. The data will be evaluated exclusively in an anonymous form for statistical purposes and without reference to a person.

 

Cookies

We use so-called cookies on our website, so that we can make our offer more user-friendly, effective and safer for you. Cookies are text files which include information to identify repeat visitors exclusively for the duration of their visit of the website. Cookies are not harmful to your computer and above all do not contain any virus.

Most of the cookies we use will be automatically deleted after the end of your visit; other cookies will be stored on your end device until you delete them, so that we can recognize your browser the next time you visit us.

You can select the settings of your browser in such a way that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can accept cookies for one session only, exclude the acceptance of cookies or enable the automatic deletion of cookies. Please note, however, that you might not be able to use our website fully if cookies are disabled.

 

Session Cookies

We use so-called session cookies. They are not stored permanently but are deleted directly after you have closed the browser window. Using these cookies is in our legitimate interest to optimize the user interfaces of our website and to adjust them to the way each user uses it. Personal data are neither collected nor stored in this context.

 

Our presence in social media and other networks

We are present in the networks Facebook, Instagram, Artsy, Artnet and YouTube.

We use these services to offer you comprehensive and interesting information about our gallery’s activities and about our artists and our gallery.

We provide our offers on Facebook, Instagram, Artsy, Artnet and YouTube under the data privacy terms of the relevant platform operator and are not directly responsible for their data processing. Please note that we do not have any knowledge of the content of the transmitted data and their use by the social networks and service providers and cannot control them.

You can find further information on data protection by Facebook, Instagram, Artsy, Artnet and YouTube and your legal possibilities as well as optional settings in the data privacy policy of the relevant network: Facebook, Instagram, Artsy, Artnet and YouTube.

 

Google Maps

On our website we use the web mapping service of Google Maps which is provided by Google LLC having its seat in the USA. To use the features of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. These data are generally transmitted to a server of Google in the USA and are processed there.

Using this service is in our legitimate interest to optimize our offer to you and to provide an attractive and interesting website.

We provide our offers under the data privacy terms of Google LLC and are not directly responsible for its data processing. Please note that we do not have any knowledge of the content of the transmitted data and their use by Google LLC and cannot control them.

You can find more information on the processing of user data in the data privacy policy of Google.

 

Google Web Fonts

To give a uniform representation of fonts, this site uses so-called web fonts, which are provided by Google LLC with seat in the USA and are loaded when a web page is called up in your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

Using Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and attractive display of our online offer.

If your browser does not support web fonts a default font of your computer is used.

Further information about Google Web Fonts is accessible under https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the data privacy policy of Google: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

 

Contact

In the course of the further development of our website, it might become necessary to amend this data privacy policy. We thus recommend reading through this data protection policy again from time to time.

If you have any questions and concerns please contact Thomas Fuchs, email info@galeriefuchs.de.