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Data protection
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© BENZ & CO. Festbetriebe GmbH 2025

Protecting your personal data plays an important role for us. We respect and protect your privacy. In this privacy statement, you will learn what personal data we collect and how we handle the collected data.
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The responsible body within the meaning of applicable data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

BENZ & CO. Festbetriebe GmbH
Mercedesstraße 69
70372 Stuttgart
germany
email: kontakt@beimbenz.de
telephone: +49 711 5509090

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1 | Contact data protection officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please contact us at:

BENZ & CO. Festbetriebe GmbH
data protection officer
Mercedesstraße 69
70372 Stuttgart
telephone: +49 711 5509090
Email: kontakt@beimbenz.de

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2 | Your rights

You have the right to:

  • in accordance with Article 7 (3) GDPR, to withdraw your consent to us at any time. As a result, we may no longer continue data processing based on this consent in the future, unless this is still required to process the contractual relationship or for legal reasons;
  • to request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR. In particular, you can provide information about the purposes of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right of correction, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of their data, unless they have been collected by us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about request their details;
  • in accordance with Article 16 GDPR, to immediately request the correction of incorrect or completed personal data stored by us;
  • to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us in accordance with Article 17 GDPR, unless processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
  • to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data in accordance with Article 18 GDPR, insofar as the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful, but you refuse to delete it and we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or you have objected to processing in accordance with Article 21 GDPR;
  • in accordance with Article 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request transmission to another person responsible;
  • in accordance with Article 21 GDPR, provided that your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR, to object to the processing of your personal data, provided that there are reasons for this arising from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct marketing. In the latter case, you have a general right of objection, which will be implemented by us without specifying a particular situation. If you would like to exercise your right of revocation or objection, simply send an e-mail to kontakt@beimbenz.de.
  • to complain to a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or place of work or our company headquarters.

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3 | Duration of storage of personal data

The duration of storage of personal data is based on the respective legal retention period, 6 years according to HGB (commercial law) and 10 years according to AO (tax law). After the deadline, the corresponding data will be routinely deleted, provided that it is no longer required to fulfill or initiate a contract and/or we have no legitimate interest in continuing to store it.
You can also find more detailed information about the storage period for specific purposes in the following sections.

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4 | Information requirements of the Data Protection Regulation

When you visit our website www.beimbenz.de Information is automatically sent to the server of our website by the browser used on your device. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following information is collected without your intervention and stored until automated deletion:

  • IP address of the requesting computer
  • date and time of access
  • Name and URL of the retrieved file
  • Website from which access is made (referrer URL)
  • browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer and the name of your access provider

The above data is processed by us for the following purposes:

  • ensuring a smooth connection to the website,
  • ensuring convenient use of our website,
  • evaluation of system security and stability, and
  • for further administrative purposes.

The legal basis for data processing is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest results from the data collection purposes listed above. In no case do we use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about you. We also use cookies and analysis services when you visit our website. You can find more detailed explanations of this under section 5 of this privacy policy.

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5 | Cookies

We use cookies on our site. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our site. Cookies do not cause any damage to your device and do not contain viruses, Trojans or other malware.
Information relating to the specific device used is stored in the cookie. However, this does not mean that we are immediately aware of your identity as a result.
On the one hand, the use of cookies serves to make the use of our website more pleasant for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies to recognize that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after you leave our site. In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimize usability, which are stored on your device for a specific period of time. If you visit our site again to use our services, it will automatically recognize that you have already been with us and what entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again. On the other hand, we use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimising our offer for you (see section 9). These cookies enable us to automatically recognize that you have already visited our site when you visit our site again. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period of time.

The data processed through cookies is required for the stated purposes to protect our legitimate interests and those of third parties in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or that a message always appears before a new cookie is created. However, completely disabling cookies may mean that you cannot use all features of our website.
We use the “Cookiebot” consent tool to manage the cookies and similar technologies used (tracking pixels, web beacons, etc.) and related consents. Details on how Cookiebot works can be found at https://www.cookiebot.com/deng/.

The legal bases for processing personal data in this context are Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR and Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to manage the cookies and similar technologies used and the related consents.
The provision of personal data is neither contractually required nor necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not required to provide personal data. If you do not provide the personal information, we will not be able to manage your consents.

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6 | Requests by email, telephone or fax

If you contact us by email, telephone or fax, your request, including all resulting personal data (name, request), will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your request. We will not share this data without your consent. This data is processed on the basis of Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR, provided that your request is related to the fulfilment of a contract or is necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of inquiries addressed to us (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO) or on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR) if this has been requested; consent can be withdrawn at any time. The data you send us via contact requests will remain with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to store it or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions — in particular statutory retention periods — remain unaffected.

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7 | Using the Frühlingsfest/Volksfest booking tool

We only process data that is related to the conclusion of the contract (spring festival reservation or folk festival) or the pre-contractual measures (inquiries, mailing). This may include general data about you or people in your company (name, address, contact details, etc.) as well as any other data that you provide to us as part of the establishment of the contract.
The legal basis for this data processing is the fulfilment of a contract (Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR) and the fulfilment of a contractual obligation (Article 6 (1) (c) GDPR).
We also use your e-mail address and telephone number, which we have received in connection with the order, for customer service and to communicate with you. The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR).
We use your postal address, which we have received in connection with the order, to send you the access bands and tokens etc. before the start of the ceremony, if required when ordering.
The legal basis for this data processing is the fulfilment of a contract (Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR) and the fulfilment of a contractual obligation (Article 6 (1) (c) GDPR).
This personal data is required to fulfill the relevant contract and is only stored for as long as is necessary for contract processing and any subsequent contract-related correspondence and billing or, in the case of documents relevant to commercial and/or tax law that contain personal data, as long as the legal deadlines of the Commercial Code and the Tax Code provide for storage of these documents.

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8 | Sign up for our newsletter

You can subscribe to a free newsletter on our website. When you register for the newsletter, the data from the input form is sent to us. Your consent will be obtained to process the data as part of the registration process. We use the so-called double opt-in procedure to send you the newsletter, i.e. we will only send you a newsletter by email if you have expressly confirmed to us beforehand that we should activate the newsletter service. We will then send you a notification email and ask you to confirm that you would like to receive our newsletter by clicking on a link contained in this email. Should you no longer wish to receive newsletters from us at a later date, you can object to this at any time. If you have expressly consented in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR, we will use your email address to send you our newsletter on a regular basis.
To receive the newsletter, it is sufficient to provide an e-mail address. You can unsubscribe at any time, for example via a link at the end of each newsletter. Alternatively, you are welcome to unsubscribe at any time to kontakt@beimbenz.de send via email.

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9 | Using your data for advertising purposes

From time to time, we inform our customers by post and e-mail about offers from our company. For this purpose, we use your name, postal address and email address. Of course, you can object to the use of the data for advertising purposes at any time.
You can withdraw your consent to the use of your data for advertising purposes by sending an email to kontakt@beimbenz.de turn around.

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10 | Transfer of data to third parties

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. We will only share your personal information with third parties if:

  • you have given your express consent to this in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) of the GDPR
  • the transfer is necessary in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR to assert, exercise or defend legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not disclosing your data,
  • in the event that there is a legal obligation to transfer data in accordance with Article 6 (1) (c) GDPR, as well as this is legally permitted and is necessary in accordance with Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR for the execution of contractual relationships with you.

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11 | Plugins and tools

On our website, we use plug-ins from the social networks Instagram and YouTube on the basis of Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR in order to make our company better known. As well as tools for a uniform and appealing presentation of our website. The underlying advertising purpose is regarded as a legitimate interest within the meaning of the GDPR. Responsibility for data protection-compliant operations must be guaranteed by their respective providers. We integrate these plug-ins and tools through consent when you first enter the site via the cookie opt-in and can be changed at any time in the cookie settings.

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11.1 | Instagram

Features of the Instagram service are integrated on this website. These features are offered by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.
When the social media element is active, a direct connection is established between your device and the Instagram server. Instagram thus receives information about your visit to this website. If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content of this website to your Instagram profile by clicking on the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate your visit to this website with your user account.
We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Instagram. Insofar as consent has been obtained, the above service is used on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 TTDSG. The consent can be withdrawn at any time. Unless consent has been obtained, the service is used on the basis of our legitimate interest in being as visible as possible on social media.
Insofar as personal data is collected on our website using the tool described here and forwarded to Facebook or Instagram, we and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland are jointly responsible for this data processing (Art. 26 GDPR). The joint responsibility is limited exclusively to the collection of data and its transfer to Facebook or Instagram. The processing carried out by Facebook or Instagram after forwarding is not part of the joint responsibility.
Our joint obligations have been set out in a joint processing agreement. The text of the agreement can be found at:
https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum.
According to this agreement, we are responsible for providing data protection information when using the Facebook or Instagram tool and for implementing the tool on our website in a manner that is secure under data protection law. Facebook is responsible for the data security of Facebook and Instagram products. You can assert data subject rights (e.g. requests for information) with regard to the data processed by Facebook or Instagram directly with Facebook. If you assert the rights of data subjects with us, we are obliged to forward them to Facebook. Data transmission to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission.

Details can be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum,
https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875 and
https://de-de.facebook.com/help/566994660333381.
For more information, please see Instagram's privacy policy: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

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11.2 | YouTube

This website includes videos from the YouTube website. The operator of the website is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. When you visit one of our websites on which YouTube is integrated, a connection to YouTube's servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.
YouTube can also store various cookies on your device or use comparable technologies for recognition (e.g. device fingerprinting). In this way, YouTube can obtain information about visitors to this website. This information is used, among other things, to collect video statistics, improve usability, and prevent fraud attempts.
If you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to associate your surfing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
YouTube is used in the interest of presenting our online offerings in an appealing way.
This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. If a corresponding consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TTDSG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user's device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. The consent can be withdrawn at any time.
For more information on how to handle user data, please see YouTube's privacy policy at:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

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11.3 | Adobe Fonts/TypeKit

We use Adobe Fonts, a web font hosting service, on our website. The service provider is the American company Adobe Inc. The Irish company Adobe Systems Software Ireland Companies, 4-6 Riverwalk, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, Ireland, is responsible for Europe.
If a corresponding consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO. The consent can be withdrawn at any time.
Adobe also processes data from you in the USA, among others. We would like to point out that, in the opinion of the European Court of Justice, there is currently no adequate level of protection for data transfer to the USA. This may involve various risks to the lawfulness and security of data processing.
As a basis for data processing by recipients based in third countries (outside the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, i.e. in particular in the USA) or for data transfer there, Adobe uses so-called standard contractual clauses (= Article 46, paragraphs 2 and 3 GDPR). Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) are sample templates provided by the EU Commission and are intended to ensure that your data complies with European data protection standards even if they are transferred to third countries (such as the USA) and stored there. Through these clauses, Adobe undertakes to comply with European data protection standards when processing your relevant data, even if the data is stored, processed and managed in the USA. These clauses are based on an implementing decision by the EU Commission. You can find the resolution and the corresponding standard contractual clauses here, among others:
‍https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2021/914/oj?locale=de
More information about the processed data and the standard contractual clauses at Adobe can be found at
https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/eudatatransfers.html.

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11.4 | Font Awesome

This site uses Font Awesome to uniformly display fonts and icons. The provider is Fonticons, Inc., 6 Porter Road Apartment 3R, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
When you call up a page, your browser loads the required fonts into its browser cache to correctly display texts, fonts and symbols. For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Font Awesome's servers. As a result, Font Awesome becomes aware that this website has been accessed via your IP address.
Font Awesome is used on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. We have a legitimate interest in the uniform presentation of the typeface on our website. If a corresponding consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TTDSG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user's device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. The consent can be withdrawn at any time.
If your browser doesn't support Font Awesome, a standard font is used by your computer.
You can find more information about Font Awesome and in Font Awesome's privacy policy at:
https://fontawesome.com/privacy.

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12 | Data security

When you visit our website, we use the common SSL (Secure Socket Layer) procedure in conjunction with the highest level of encryption supported by your browser. This is usually 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we use 128-bit v3 technology instead. You can tell whether an individual page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form by the closed display of the key or lock icon in the lower status bar of your browser.

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13 | Amendment to this privacy statement

We reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

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14 | SafeNow app

As the operator of a SafeNow zone, we use personal data to be able to provide assistance from our security personnel when an alarm is triggered via the SafeNow app. To find out more about the processing of your personal data when using the app and when an alarm is triggered, we refer to Privacy statement of SafeNow GmbH.