Data protection regulations and acceptance of storage and transfer of personal data

kochmuetzen.net, the network platform for chefs and those who want to become chefs (apprentices), sets a high value on the protection of your personal data. With the present data protection regulations we inform you on how your personal data will be processed.

These data protection regulations are a complement to our general terms and conditions.

1. Data collection and processing

(1) kochmuetzen.net collects, processes and uses your personal data subject to the Data Protection Acts of the Federal Republic of Germany and the data protection regulations of the European Union.

(2) Your personal data and data on the use of kochmuetzen.net are collected and processed exclusively in order to enable you to make use of the registration binding services of kochmuetzen.net.

(3) Registration data For the functioning of kochmuetzen.net services kochmuetzen.net has to collect and process certain personal data from you as your registration data on registration. These are for a start your user name and your password. In no case these are visible to other users.

(4) Your profile data Any further fields serve for the purpose that your profile may be found. The more precisely you fill in these fields and describe your activities the higher is the chance for you to be found. Should you not wish to fill in these fields at the time of registration there are only slight chances to be found via kochmuetzen.net.

(5) Your profile, contact management The following personal contact data entered by you will be stored in your profile: First name, name, professional status, company name (if existent), telephone number (if existent), mobile phone (if existent), E-mail (if existent), position (if existent), country, federal state and city. Other registered users may send you messages in order to contact you.

(6) Accessibility of your profile For the protection of your privacy kochmutzen.net has determined in the defaults that your profile shall only be visible for registered users, that your profile shall also be ascertainable via search engines on the internet.

(7) Dates, calendar settings Kochmuetzen.net provides you the opportunity to maintain a personal calendar that you may see from anywhere.

(8) Search function The kochmuetzen.net services offer you various opportunities to search for certain other members of kochmuetzen.net. These various search functions help you i.e. to find other registered users / former colleagues etc. The search functions also help you to contact other users. You may find exactly the contacts you really need.

(9) Cookies The kochmuetzen.net services use cookies after your registration (with user name and password), which help to identify you during your session. A cookie will be saved on your computer. After the end of the session this cookie shall expire immediately. You may save this cookie permanently for an automatic login with the help of the function "Automatically log in on this computer". This cookie contains parts of your login data in encoded form. The automatic login on two different computers is not possible in this case.

(10) Log files Every time you view a page access data will be saved in a log file, the server log. The thus saved dataset contains the following data: - your IP address (which allows to clearly identify your computer) - the remote host (name and IP address of the computer that requests the page) - the time of day, - the status, - the data volume transmitted, as well as - the internet page (referer) from which you have come to the requested page. Through the log files kochmuetzen.net may moreover identify possible errors, i.e. incorrect links or bugs, in order to use the log files for the further development of kochmuetzen.net website.

(11) Kochmuetzen.net reserves the right to additionally check via the last known IP address the log files of such users, which due to certain facts are suspected to use kochmuetzen.net websites and/or kochmuetzen.net services illegally or contrary to contract. This serves as well the protection of all users as well the protection of your data and those of other users.

2. Use and circulation of personal data

(1) As far as you have provided us personal data, we will use these only to answer your inquiries, to process contracts entered with you and for technical administration.

(2) Except for some general data on your professional status you decide yourself by explicit release which of your personal data entered in kochmuetzen.net may be seen by other users.

(3) Your personal data will only be passed on or otherwise transferred to third parties, if this is necessary for the implementation of the contract, for billing or if you have consented to it before. You have the right to revoke your consent with future effect at any time.

(4) Cancellation of personal data saved shall be effected, if you revoke your consent for storage, if knowing the data is not necessary any more to serve the purpose pursued with storing or if their storage is forbidden for any other legal reasons.

3. Consent to storage and transfer of personal data

By registering you consent to storage, change or use of the personal data, whereas this storage, change or use shall be used exclusively for use of the kochmuetzen.net services.

4. Right of access

Upon written request we will inform you about your personal data saved.

5. Change in data protection regulations

Kochmuetzen.net reserves the right to change these data protection regulations at any time, if changes will become necessary due to subsequently detected loopholes in the regulations or with regard to new services provided by kochmuetzen.net. Kochmuetzen.net will inform you about any changes of these data protection regulations by kochmuetzen.net via E-mail to the E-mail address provided by you on registration.