Privacy Policy
1. Data protection at a glance
General information
The following information provides an overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any information that can be used to identify you personally.
Detailed information can be found in the Privacy Policy below.
Data collection on this website
Who is responsible for data processing?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. The controller's contact details can be found below and in the legal notice of this website.
How do we collect your data?
Some data is provided directly by you, for example when you complete a contact form, register for an account or place an order.
Other data is collected automatically or after you have given your consent when you visit the website. This primarily includes technical data such as browser, operating system, IP address and time of access.
Why do we process your data?
Some data is required to provide the website securely and without technical errors. Other data is processed to handle enquiries, orders and contractual relationships.
With your consent, data may also be processed for statistical analysis of the use of our website.
What rights do you have?
Subject to the applicable legal requirements, you have the right to obtain information about your personal data and may have the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing.
You may also have the right to data portability and the right to object to certain processing activities.
You may withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority.
2. General information
Controller
The controller responsible for processing personal data on this website is:
Baltic Computer & Creative Service
Owner: Thomas Gothe
Buxtehuder Straße 6
18311 Ribnitz-Damgarten
Deutschland
Telephone: +49 3821 4254949
Email: info@bc-cs.de
Storage period
Unless a more specific storage period is stated in this Privacy Policy, personal data is stored only for as long as necessary for the respective purpose.
If you legitimately request deletion or withdraw your consent, the relevant data will be deleted unless statutory or other lawful grounds require continued storage.
Statutory retention obligations, particularly those under commercial and tax law, remain unaffected.
Legal bases for processing
Depending on the purpose, personal data is processed on the following legal bases:
- Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR – consent,
- Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR – performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures,
- Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR – compliance with a legal obligation,
- Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR – legitimate interests.
Where information is stored on or accessed from a user's terminal equipment, the provisions of Section 25 TDDDG also apply.
Withdrawal of consent
You may withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future.
Where consent was provided through our privacy settings, you may change your selection there at any time.
Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.
Right to object
Where processing is based on Art. 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing on grounds relating to your particular situation in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR.
You may object to processing for direct marketing purposes at any time.
Access, rectification, erasure and restriction
Subject to the applicable statutory requirements, you have the right to obtain information about your stored personal data and may request its rectification, erasure or restriction of processing.
Data portability
Where the statutory requirements are met, you have the right to receive personal data processed automatically on the basis of consent or a contract in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
3. Data processing on this website
Cookies and similar technologies
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies.
Some of these technologies are technically necessary for the operation and functionality of the website.
Technically necessary storage or access may be carried out in accordance with Section 25(2) TDDDG.
Non-essential cookies and comparable technologies are only used after you have given your prior consent. The legal basis is Section 25(1) TDDDG in conjunction with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.
You may change or withdraw your consent at any time through the cookie/privacy settings available on our website.
Consent management with Klaro!
We use the Klaro! consent management solution to manage your choices regarding services that require consent.
Klaro! allows you to accept or reject individual services and to change your decision later.
Your choice is stored locally in your browser so that the website can respect your decision during subsequent visits.
Where technically necessary information is stored on or accessed from your device, this is based on Section 25(2) TDDDG. Associated processing of personal data is based on Art. 6(1)(c) and Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
You may change your selection at any time using the cookie settings or corresponding privacy settings available on our website.
Server log files
When you visit this website, the web server automatically processes technical information transmitted by your browser.
This may include:
- browser type and version,
- operating system,
- referrer URL,
- hostname,
- time of request,
- IP address and
- requested resource.
Processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR and our legitimate interest in providing a secure and technically reliable website.
Contact form and email
If you contact us through a contact form or by email, we process the information you provide in order to respond to your enquiry.
If your enquiry concerns a contract or pre-contractual measures, processing is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.
Otherwise, processing is based on our legitimate interest in responding to enquiries pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR or, where consent has been obtained, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.
Registration and user accounts
You may create a user account on our website.
The information collected during registration is processed to establish and administer the account and provide the associated functionality.
Where the account is used in connection with a contract or pre-contractual measures, processing is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.
4. Online shop and orders
Customer and contract data
When you order goods or services through our online shop, we process the information necessary to handle the order.
This may include:
- name,
- billing and delivery address,
- email address,
- telephone number where applicable,
- products or services ordered,
- order and payment information and
- comments or requests submitted by you.
Processing is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.
Where commercial or tax law requires us to retain certain documents, continued processing is based on Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR.
Shipping providers
Where necessary to deliver an order, we transmit the required information to the shipping provider responsible for delivery.
Only information required for shipment is transmitted.
The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.
Payment processing
Depending on the payment method selected, payment information is processed for the purpose of completing your order.
Where an external payment service provider is used, the information required for payment is transmitted to that provider.
Processing is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.
PayPal
We may offer payment through PayPal, provided in Europe by PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., Luxembourg.
If you select PayPal as your payment method, information required to process the payment is transmitted to PayPal.
Processing is necessary for performance of the contract pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.
Further information is available in PayPal's Privacy Statement.
5. Web analytics
Google Analytics 4
With your consent, this website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google Analytics allows us to statistically analyse the use of our website. Information about page views, sessions, interactions, devices and browsers used and approximate geographical information may be processed.
Google Analytics primarily uses first-party cookies to measure interactions and distinguish users or visits.
According to Google, individual IP addresses of users in the EU are not logged or stored by Google Analytics. IP addresses are used to derive approximate geographical information before being discarded.
Google Analytics is activated only after you have given your prior consent.
The legal basis for processing personal data is Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. Where information is stored on or accessed from your terminal equipment, processing is additionally based on Section 25(1) TDDDG.
Google Analytics is not activated on our website without your consent.
Consent is managed through our Klaro! privacy settings. You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future through the cookie settings.
Google provides contractual data processing terms for the use of Google Analytics.
When Google services are used, processing outside the European Union or European Economic Area cannot be completely ruled out. Google provides mechanisms for international data transfers in its applicable contractual terms.
Further information is available from Google Analytics – Safeguarding your data and in the Google Privacy Policy.
6. Newsletter
If you subscribe to a newsletter offered on this website, we process the information you provide for the purpose of sending the newsletter.
Processing is based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.
You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future, for example by using an unsubscribe link provided in the newsletter.
7. Embedded content and external services
Where content from external providers is embedded on our website and accessing such content results in personal data being transmitted to the respective provider, services requiring consent are only activated after you have provided your consent, where legally required.
The legal basis in such cases is Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and, where applicable, Section 25(1) TDDDG.
8. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy if the services we use, the technical configuration of our website or applicable legal requirements change.
Last updated: August 2026