Michael Breitung Photography

MICHAEL BREITUNG PHOTOGRAPHY

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Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 27, 2025

Responsible body in sense of data protections laws is:

Michael Breitung Photography
Photographer

Address
Michael Breitung
Auf der Höhe 4
91341 Röttenbach
Germany

Contact
+4917623267475
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This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

1. Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Michael Breitung Photography.
  • Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website. Among their many uses, they might contain details of Your browsing history on that website.
  • Country refers to: Bavaria, Germany
  • Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
  • Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
  • Service refers to the Website.
  • Service Provider refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
  • Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
  • Website refers to the Michael Breitung Photography homepage, accessible from https://www.mibreit-photo.com
  • You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

2. Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Phone number
  • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile Device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile Device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:

  • Cookies or Browser Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless You have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.

Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile Device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

We use Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

  • Necessary / Essential Cookies

    Type: Persistent Cookies

    Administered by: Us

    Purpose: These Cookies are used to provide You with essential services available through the Website. They enable You to use the Shopping Cart feature which allows You to make purchases on Our Website. Without these Cookies, this service cannot be provided.

  • Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

    Type: Persistent Cookies

    Administered by: Us

    Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
  • For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
  • To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services.
  • To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that You have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
  • To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
  • For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and Your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

  • With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products and services.
  • With Whitewall: We may share Your information with Whitewall if you purchase a print via Our Website. For this print to be produced and delivered to You, Whitewall needs the address information You provide during the ordering process.
  • With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. Therefore, the Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if We are required to retain Your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating office and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or in another governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place to maintain the security of Your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
  • Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

To protect the security of Your data during transmission, We use state-of-the-art encryption techniques such as SSL over HTTPS.

Your Rights

You can use Our contact details to exercise the following rights at any time:

  • Get information about Your data stored by Us and its processing (Art. 15 GDPR)
  • Correction of incorrect Personal Data (Art. 16 GDPR)
  • Deletion of Your Personal Data stored by Us (Art. 17 GDPR)
  • Restriction of data processing in case We are not yet allowed to delete Your Personal Data on the basis of legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR)
  • Objection to the processing of Your Personal Data by Us (Art. 21 GDPR)
  • Data portability if You have consented to data processing or have entered into a contract with Us (Art. 20 GDPR)
  • If You have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future

3. Service Providers

Google

We use several services from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (hereafter: "Google") to improve our Service.

The “Google Custom Search Engine” (Google CSE) is used as a central search service within our online offering. The integrated search service enables a full-text search for content on this homepage. Access to this search function is possible via a search box integrated in the header of the individual websites.

To inform You, the text “Search with Google” is displayed in the search box. If the input field of the search box is selected by the user and filled with a search term, an additional link appears below the search box ("Information on Google™ search"), which refers to the information on data protection provided here.

Activation of search

By entering a search term in the search box and then pressing the enter key or the search icon (magnifying glass), the user activates the search function and the search results page, which is provided by Google Plugins, is called up and reloads the corresponding search results from Google. In doing so, data is transmitted to the search service.

Search Results Page

The plug-in developed and made available by Google (Google Custom Search Engine “Google CSE”) is integrated into the search results page by the operator of this homepage as a software module “as-is” (unchanged). The plugin enables automated communication (data exchange) between the search results page and the Google service when the search results page is called. The use of the search function provided by Google includes a dynamic transfer of data by the Service Provider Google to the search results page.

Transfer of data and Google CSE

Data is only transmitted to Google as soon as the user has called up the search results page. By using the search function within the search results page, user data is also transmitted to Google at the same time. If official web pages of this homepage are called up without activating the "Google user-defined search", no data will be transmitted to the search Service Provider (Google). There is an exception in cases where users directly reference a search results page though.

Consent to data transfer by using Google search

By using the full-text search and the associated access to the search results page, You consent to the transfer of data to the Google service. These include e.g. the search terms You entered and the IP address of the computer You are using.

Please note that different data protection standards apply to Google than to this Service. We point out that the processing, in particular the storage, deletion and use of any personal data that may be transferred, is the responsibility of the search Service Provider and that We have no influence on the type and scope of the data transferred as well as its further processing.

If You are logged into Google at the same time, the Google service is able to assign the information directly to Your user profile. You should log out to avoid the collection of Personal Data.

Further information from Google about the handling of user data (data protection declaration) is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Youtube

On some of Our Website's pages we embed Youtube videos. The corresponding plug-ins are operated by YouTube which is owned by Google. When You visit a page with the YouTube plug-in, it will connect to Youtube's servers. Youtube will be informed which pages You visit. If You are logged into Your Youtube account, Youtube can connect Your surfing behavior to You personally. This can be prevented by logging out of Your Youtube account beforehand.

If a Youtube video is started, Youtube usually uses Cookies that collect information about user behavior. We use Youtube's "nocookie" embedding mode to avoid storage of Cookies.

But Youtube also stores non-personal usage information in other Cookies. If You want to prevent this, You have to block the storage of Cookies in Your browser.

Further information on data protection at Youtube can be found in their privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Stripe

On this Website, You can buy digital and physical products. To facilitate such a purchase, You'll be redirected to a checkout page hosted by our Payment Provider Stripe Payments Europe, Limited (SPEL), 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock Dublin, Ireland.

Stripe is an online payment Service Provider. Payments for products purchased from Us are processed by Stripe. If You make a purchase on our Website, during the ordering process, Personal Data is collected by Stripe. By buying a product and using the Stripe checkout, You agree to the transfer of Personal Data required for payment processing.

Personal Data collected by Stripe includes first name, last name, address, email address, IP address, credit card details and other data necessary for payment processing. The collection and processing of the data is aimed at payment processing and fraud prevention.

We will get access to your email and address information for Our accounting and to provide shipping for physical products. We will not get access to the credit card details.

The applicable data protection provisions of Stripe may be reviewed under https://stripe.com/privacy.

Other Service Providers

We use external Service Providers, for example, to sell and ship Our prints and to process Our tutorial sales. When using those external Service Providers, You will leave the sites of Michael Breitung Photography. When using the services of those external providers the privacy policies of the respective providers apply.

Below You find a list of the external Service Providers We use, the context in which We use them, and links to their respective privacy policies:

4. Newsletter

To publish our newsletter and manage subscribers, We use the services of MailerLite Limited, an Irish registered company at 38 Mount Street Upper, Dublin 2, D02 PR89 Ireland. You can review their privacy policy here, and learn about how they store and secure Personal Data.

When You sign up to receive our newsletter, the data You provide will be used exclusively for this purpose. Subscribers may also be notified via email about circumstances relevant to the service or registration (such as changes to the newsletter offer or technical conditions).

For a registration to become effective We need a valid e-mail address. In order to verify that an application is actually made by the owner of an e-mail address, We use the "Double opt-in" procedure. For this purpose, the order of the newsletter, the dispatch of a confirmation e-mail and the receipt of the requested answer is logged by MailerLite. Further data is not collected. The data will be used exclusively for the newsletter by Us and will not be passed on to third parties.

We also use invisible beacons in our newsletter to be notified when someone opens our newsletter. This allows us to gather statistics about the engagement and helps us to improve our newsletter.

The consent to the storage of Your Personal Data and their use for the newsletter can be revoked at any time. Each newsletter contains a link for that purpose. In addition, You can contact us at any time and request to be removed from the subscribers list.

5. Social Plugins

Our Service doesn't use social plugins. We only use static links to the respective companies listed below. This way no information is transmitted before one of those links is clicked and the respective website is opened.

These websites may send information, which may include personal information, to the companies and may be used by the companies. We prevent the unconscious and unwanted collection and transmission of such data to the companies through static links to those websites. Only by clicking on these links is the detection of information and its transmission to the companies triggered. We do not collect personally identifiable information by means of these links or their use.

We have no control over what data is collected on these websites and how it is used by the provider. At present, it must be assumed that a direct connection to the services of the provider will be created and at least the IP address and Device-related information will be collected and used. It is also possible that the companies try to save cookies on the used computer. Please refer to the privacy policy of the respective company to see which specific data is collected and how it is used. Note: If You are logged in to Facebook at the same time, Facebook may identify You as a visitor to a particular page.

We have integrated the social media buttons of the following companies on the Website:

  • Facebook Inc.
    1601 S. California Ave - Palo Alto - CA 94304 - USA
  • Twitter Inc.
    795 Folsom St. - Suite 600 - San Francisco - CA 94107 - USA
  • Pinterest Europe Ltd.
    Palmerston House, 2nd Floor, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, Ireland

6. Affiliate Programs

Amazon

We participate in the Amazon DE, Amazon UK and Amazon US affiliate programs. Some of Our pages link to Amazon pages. By using these links, followed by a purchase of an article on Amazon, We can earn money through advertising reimbursement. Amazon uses cookies to track the origin of the orders. This will enable Amazon to recognize that You have clicked the affiliate link on Our Website.

"Amazon cookies" are stored on the basis of Art. 6 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in this, since only through the cookies, the amount of its affiliate compensation can be determined.

For more information about Amazon's data usage, please refer to the Amazon Privacy Policy:

Other

We also participates in the following affiliate programs. For this purpose, affiliate links to the websites of the respective companies are used on some sites and in some cases cookies might be used to measure the clicks on those links. By clicking on such a link, the privacy policy of the respective affiliate partner applies.

7. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know of a change via the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

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