Legal
Below we inform you about the collection of personal data when you use our website.
The term “personal data” refers, with reference to the definition in Art. 4 No. 1 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (hereinafter “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR”), to all data that can be related to you personally. We comply with this regulation. This includes, for example, your name, address, email address and user behaviour. With regard to the other terms, in particular “processing”, “controller”, “processor” and “consent”, we refer to the statutory definitions in Art. 4 GDPR.
We generally process personal data only to the extent necessary to provide a functional website as well as our content and services. Personal data is regularly processed only if you have given us your consent within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR or if the processing is permitted by law, in particular on one of the legal bases set out in Art. 6 (1) (b) to (f) GDPR.
Your personal data will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage no longer applies. Data may also be stored if this is provided for by national or European regulations to which we are subject. In this case, the data will be blocked or deleted when the storage period prescribed by the respective regulations expires, unless further storage is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract.
Where we use commissioned service providers for individual functions of our website or wish to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below.
The controller within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR, other data protection laws applicable in the member states of the European Union and other provisions of a data protection nature is:
Gold GmbH
legally represented by Michael Wittling
Managing Partner
Bavariaring 26, rear building, left
80336 Munich, Germany
Email: carsten.riese@goldgmbh.de
Phone: +49 89 2388600
Fax: +49 89 23886060
Further details about the controller can be found in our Legal Notice.
With regard to the personal data concerning you, you have the following rights towards us:
the right of access,
the right to rectification and erasure,
the right to restriction of processing,
the right to object to processing,
the right to data portability.
In addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data.
IP address
Date and time of the request
Time zone difference to GMT
Content of the request (specific page)
Access status (HTTP status)
Amount of data transferred
Website from which you came to our website
Browser
Operating system
Language and version of the browser
The above data is also stored in so-called log files on our servers. This data is not stored together with other personal data about you.
The collection and temporary storage of the IP address is necessary to deliver our website to your device. For this, your IP address must be stored for the duration of your visit. Storing the above data in log files serves to ensure the functionality and optimisation of our website and the security of our IT systems. This data is not evaluated for marketing purposes.
These purposes constitute our legitimate interest in data processing. The legal basis for the collection and temporary storage of the above data and log files is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
The data used to provide our website is deleted when the respective session has ended. Collecting this data to provide the website and storing it in log files is essential for operating our website. There is therefore no possibility to object.
Our website may use so-called cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device, for example on a hard drive, and through which certain information flows to us as the party setting the cookie. Cookies cannot run programs or transfer viruses to your device. The following types of cookies may be used on this website:
Transient cookies: These are deleted automatically when you close your browser. They include in particular session cookies, which store a so-called session ID that allows various requests from your browser to be assigned to the same session. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.
Persistent cookies: These are deleted automatically after a specified period, which may differ depending on the cookie. You can delete these cookies at any time in your browser settings.
The processing of personal data through these cookies serves to make our website more user-friendly and effective. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without them. Data processed by cookies that are required to provide the functions of our website is not used to create user profiles. These purposes constitute our legitimate interest in data processing. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Cookies are stored on your device and transmitted from it to our server. You can therefore control the use of cookies yourself, for example by rejecting third-party cookies or all cookies in your browser settings. Please note that you may then not be able to use all functions of our website. We also recommend regularly deleting cookies and your browsing history.
In addition to the informational use of our website described above, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. This usually requires you to provide further personal data, which we need to provide the respective service. The above principles of data processing apply.
In some cases we use carefully selected and commissioned external service providers to process this data. They are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored by us. Where personal data is passed on to third parties in the course of services we offer together with partners, or where such third parties are based outside the European Economic Area, you will find further information in the descriptions of the individual services below.
If you contact us by email, the personal data you send us with your email will be stored.
The data is used exclusively to answer your enquiry. Unless we use one of the third-party providers named below to provide the contact function, the data will not be passed on to third parties. In addition, we record your IP address and the time of sending.
The processing of this personal data serves solely to handle your enquiry. This also constitutes our legitimate interest in processing your personal data. If you have given us consent, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR; otherwise it is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, in particular where you send us data by email. If your email aims at concluding a contract, Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR is an additional legal basis.
The data will be deleted, subject to statutory retention periods, as soon as we have finished handling your enquiry. You can object to the storage of your personal data at any time; in this case, your enquiry cannot be processed further. You can declare your withdrawal or objection by email to the address given in our Legal Notice.
We use “Google Web Fonts”, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). Google Web Fonts allows us to use external fonts. When you access our website, your browser loads the required font into its cache so that our texts are displayed correctly. If your browser does not support this function, a standard font from your computer is used. The fonts are integrated via a server request, usually to a Google server in the USA. This transmits to the server which of our pages you have visited, and Google stores the IP address of your device's browser. We have no influence on the scope and further use of the data collected and processed by Google.
We use Google Web Fonts for optimisation purposes, in particular to improve the use and design of our website. This also constitutes our legitimate interest in the processing of the above data by the third-party provider. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Further information on data protection can be found in Google's privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy. Further information on Google Web Fonts: developers.google.com/fonts/faq.
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, this website uses SSL/TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the address bar of your browser changing from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser. When SSL/TLS encryption is active, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
If you follow one of the external links on our website, you leave the sphere of influence and responsibility of Gold GmbH. For information on data protection and the handling of user data on external websites, please refer to the respective providers.
© Gold GmbH 2026 – All images are created and copyrighted to the artist and may not be reproduced without permission.
We use the open-source software Matomo on our website to statistically analyse visitor access. Matomo runs on our own web server; the data collected is stored exclusively there and is not passed on to third parties.
Matomo does not set any cookies on our website. Your IP address is shortened (anonymised) before it is stored, so that it cannot be traced back to you. In particular, we record the pages visited, the date and time of access, the referring website and information about your browser, operating system and screen resolution.
We use Matomo to evaluate the use of our website and to improve our offering. This constitutes our legitimate interest in data processing. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
You can object to the collection of data by Matomo at any time:
You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analyzing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users.