Privacy Policy
Introduction
With this data protection declaration, we inform you about the processing and collection of your personal data when you visit the website (https://www.bergermargaret.com) and about the rights to which you are entitled as a data subject. Therefore, please take the time to read this information carefully and contact me if you have any questions about it.
Processing Personal Data
Personal data that you transmit electronically on this website, such as name, e-mail address, address or other personal details, will only be used by me for the purpose stated in each case, stored securely and not passed on to third parties.
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form, this means that this data can be accessed without checking other data sources. This data cannot be assigned to a specific person without checking other data sources and we do not analyse this data further as long as there is no illegal use of our website.
Tip: Using a VPN masks your real IP address and location, making your online activity more private. Advertisers, websites, and even internet service providers (ISPs) can’t track your browsing habits if you’re using a VPN.
Blog comments
This website includes commenting functionality on some pages like the bog which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:
Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)
Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)
Your website URL (optional)
Tip: Please note that you can also write a comment as a “guest” without entering your name or email address. If you don’t want your personal data be collected by the website, please do not leave a comment.
This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share
Your IP address
Tip: Also in this case, please do not use the ‘Like’ functionality if you do not want the aforementioned personal data to be collected.
Cookies and similar technologies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.
These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. Some cookies remain stored on your computer until you delete them. They enable Squarespace to recognise your browser on your next visit to our site.
Tip: If you do not want this, you may adjust your browser so that it informs you as soon as cookies are being used and offers you the choice of allowing this use on that particular occasion only. Deactivation of cookies may impair the functioning of our website.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Analytics
Our website uses Squarespace Metrics, a web analysis service of Squarespace Inc., 225 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014, USA ("Squarespace"). Squarespace Analytics uses cookies. Data produced by cookies about the use of our website is transfered to a server of Squarespace in the USA where it is stored. Squarespace is certified by the EU-US data protection agreement “Privacy Shield” and is thereby obliged to conform to EU data protection regulations.
Squarespace uses the data to evaluate visitors’ usage of the website, to compile reports about user activity on the site and to offer further services in connection with the website. This information is only transferred when Squarespace is legally required to do so, or when a third party is commission to undertake this evaluation. On no account will Squarespace make any connection between your IP-address and data collected by Squarespace.
Through adjusting your browser settings, you can prevent cookies being stored on your computer. Our website will remain available to you should you do this, but our services may be impaired or may not function when cookies are deactivated. By using the website, you consent to the processing of your data collected by Squarespace in the aforesaid manner. You can learn more under https://www.squarespace.com/privacy/.
To sum it up, this website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
This website does not use Google Analytics. However, it is connected to the Google Search Console.
The Google Search Consolie service assists us in analyzing how our website is used. However, we utilize this service with the so-called anonymization function, which results in Google truncating a portion of the respective IP address within the EU or the EEA before transmission to the USA.
Receiver: Google LLC (analysis service Google Analytics)
Location of the recipient: USA
Legal basis for possible transfer to third country: Explicit consent for transmissions
Encryption
All transferred data is protected by SSL encryption.
Data Security
We take all suitable technical and organisational measures to protect your data from manipulation, loss, destruction or unauthorised access through a third party. We would like to point out that, despite all technical measures, the internet does not offer absolute security for data. We are not liable for the actions of a third party.
Privacy policy for the use of Instagram
Functions of the Instagram service can be integrated on this website. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content of our pages to your Instagram profile by clicking on the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate your visit to our pages 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.
Further information on this can be found in Instagram's privacy policy at https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/
Fonts
This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or device
Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it
Your IP address
How long will the data be stored?
We will only store your data for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which we collected your data.
Right to information, deletion, blocking
You have the right to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient and the purpose of the data processing as well as a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data at any time. You can contact me at any time at the address given in the impressum if you have further questions on the subject of personal data.