Privacy Policy | Fossilien und Präparate

Last updated: January 2, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your data when you use the Service. It informs you about your privacy rights and the legal protection of your data.

We use your personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you consent to the collection and use of data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy was prepared in cooperation with a law firm specializing in data protection law.

Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, the following definitions apply:

"Account" means an individual account created for you that allows you to access our Service or parts thereof.

"Affiliated Company" means a company that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another company. "Control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity, or other securities that entitle the holder to elect directors or other officers.

"Company" (also referred to in this Privacy Policy as "the Company," "we," "us," or "our") refers to Fossils and Specimens.

Cookies are small files that a website places on your computer, mobile device, or other device and that contain, among other things, details of your browsing history on that website.

Country: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Device: Any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, mobile phone, or tablet.

Personal data (or "personal information") is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

We use the terms "personal data" and "personal information" interchangeably, unless a specific term is required by law.

Service: The website.

Service Provider: Any natural or legal person who processes data on behalf of the Company. This includes third-party companies or individuals contracted by the company to enable the service, provide the service on the company's behalf, perform services related to the service, or assist the company in analyzing service usage.

Usage Data: Data collected automatically, either through the use of the service or generated by the service's infrastructure itself (e.g., the duration of a page visit).

The website refers to fossils and specimens, accessible at fossilupra.com.

"You" refers to the individual accessing or using the service, or, where applicable, the company or other legal entity on whose behalf such individual is accessing or using the service.

Collection and Use of Your Personal Information
Personal Information
When using our service, we may ask you to provide certain personal information that can be used to contact or identify you. This personal data includes, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• First and last name
• Telephone number
• Address, state/province, postal code, city

Usage Data
Usage data is collected automatically when you use the service.

Usage data may include information such as your device's Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the date and time of your visit, the duration of your visit, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

If you access our service from a mobile device, we may automatically collect certain information, including, but not limited to, the device type, unique device ID, IP address, operating system, mobile internet browser used, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that your browser sends when you visit or access our service from a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to monitor activity on our service and to store certain information. The tracking technologies we use include web beacons, tags, and scripts that collect and track information to improve and analyze our service. These technologies include, but are not limited to:

• Cookies, or browser cookies. A cookie is a small file that is stored on your device. You can configure your browser to reject all cookies or to notify you 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.

Cookies can be persistent or session cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your computer or mobile device even when you are offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your browser.

Where required by law, we only use non-essential cookies (e.g., for analytics, advertising, and remarketing) with your consent. You can withdraw or change your consent at any time via our cookie preference tool (where available) or in your browser/device settings. Withdrawing your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

We use both session and persistent cookies for the following purposes:

Essential Cookies
Purpose: These

cookies are essential to provide you with the services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features. They are used to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services you have requested cannot be provided. We use these cookies solely to provide you with these services.

Cookie Policy / Cookie Acceptance Notice

Purpose: These cookies recognize whether users have consented to the use of cookies on the website.

Functional Cookies

Purpose: These cookies allow us to save your preferences when using the website, such as your login details or your preferred language. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personalized user experience and to prevent you from having to re-enter your preferences each time you visit the website.

Use of Your Personal Data

The company may use personal data for the following purposes:

Providing and maintaining our service, including monitoring the use of our service.

Managing your account: Managing your registration as a user of the service. The personal data you provide may allow you to access various features of the service that are available to you as a registered user.

Retention of Your Personal Data
The company retains your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We store and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (e.g., under applicable laws), to resolve disputes, and to enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Where possible, we apply shorter retention periods and/or reduce identifiability by deleting, aggregating, or anonymizing data. Unless otherwise stated, the retention periods listed below are maximum periods ("up to"). We may delete or anonymize data earlier if it is no longer needed for the respective purpose. We apply different retention periods for different categories of personal data, based on the processing purpose and legal obligations:

Account Information
• User accounts: are retained for the duration of your account relationship plus up to 30 days after account closure to address any issues following termination or to resolve disputes.

Website analytics data (cookies, IP addresses, device IDs): up to one month from the date of collection. This allows us to analyze trends in compliance with data protection principles. Server logs (IP addresses, access times): up to one month for security monitoring and troubleshooting purposes. Usage data is stored in accordance with the retention periods described above and may only be retained longer if required for security reasons, fraud prevention, or compliance with legal obligations.

We may retain personal data beyond the periods mentioned above for various reasons:

• Legal obligation: We are legally required to retain certain data (e.g., financial records for tax authorities).

Legal claims: The data is necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Your explicit request: You ask us to retain specific information.

Technical limitations: The data is stored in backup systems that are regularly deleted.

You can request information about how long we retain your personal data by contacting us.

After the retention periods have expired, we delete or anonymize your personal data according to the following procedures:

• Deletion: Your personal data will be removed from our systems.

The system removs the data and it is no longer actively processed.

• Backup Retention: Residual copies may remain in encrypted backups for a limited period in accordance with our backup retention plan and will only be restored if necessary for security reasons, disaster recovery, or to comply with legal requirements.

• Anonymization: In some cases, we convert personal data into anonymous statistical data that cannot be linked to you. This anonymized data may be retained indefinitely for research and analysis purposes.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of your personal data is important to us. However, please be aware that no method of data transmission over the Internet or electronic storage can guarantee 100% security. We therefore strive to protect your personal data using commercially reasonable means.

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 notify you of any changes before they take effect via email and/or a clearly visible notice within our service, and we will adjust the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy accordingly.

We recommend that you check this Privacy Policy regularly for changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy will take effect upon their publication on this page.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us as follows: By Email