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We (“we”, “us”, “our”) take the protection of the data of the users (“user” or “you”) of our website very seriously and are committed to protecting the information that users provide to us in connection with the to protect your use of our website. Furthermore, we are committed to protecting and using your information in accordance with applicable law.

This Privacy Policy explains our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your information through the use of our digital assets (the "Services") when you access the Services through your devices.

Please read the Privacy Policy carefully and ensure you fully understand our practices regarding your information before using our Services. If you have read and fully understood this policy and do not agree with our practices, you must stop using our digital assets and services. By using our services, you accept the terms of this privacy policy. Continued use of the Services constitutes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and any changes thereto.

In this privacy policy you will learn:

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• How we collect data

• What data we collect

• Why we collect this data

• Who we share the data with

• Where the data is stored

• How long the data is retained

• How we protect the data

• How we deal with minors

• Supplements Facebook

• Supplements Google Ads

• Supplements Google Analytics

• Additions Google Tag Manager

• Supplements LinkedIn

• Updates or changes to the Privacy Policy

 

What data do we collect?

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Below is an overview of the data we may collect:

 

• Unidentified and non-identifiable information that you provide during the registration process or that is collected through the use of our Services ("Non-Personally Identifiable Information"). Non-personal data do not allow any conclusions as to who collected them. Non-Personally Identifiable Information that we collect consists primarily of technical and aggregate usage information.

• Individually identifiable information, meaning anything from which you can be identified or could be identified with reasonable effort (“Personal Information”). The Personal Information we collect through our Services may include information requested from time to time, such as names, email addresses, addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses and more. If we combine personal information with non-personal information, we treat it as personal information for as long as it is combined.

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How do we collect data?

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Below are the main methods we use to collect data:

 

• We collect data when you use our services. Therefore, when you visit our digital assets and use the Services, we may collect, record and store usage, sessions and related information.

• We collect data that you provide to us yourself, for example if you contact us directly via a communication channel (e.g. an e-mail with a comment or feedback).

• We may collect information from third party sources as described below.

• We collect information that you provide to us when you log into our Services through a third party such as Facebook or Google.

 

Why do we collect this data?

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We may use your data for the following purposes:

 

• to provide and operate our Services;

• to develop, customize and improve our Services;

• to respond to your feedback, requests and requests and to offer assistance;

• to analyze request and usage patterns;

• for other internal, statistical and research purposes;

• to improve our data security and fraud prevention capabilities;

• to investigate violations and enforce our terms and policies and to comply with applicable law, regulation or governmental request;

• to provide you with updates, news, promotional materials and other information related to our Services. In the case of promotional e-mails, you can decide for yourself whether you wish to continue to receive them. If not, just click the unsubscribe link in those emails.

 

Who do we share this data with?

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We may share your data with our service providers in order to operate our services (e.g. storing data via third-party hosting services, providing technical support, etc.).

 

We may also disclose your information in the following circumstances: (i) to investigate, detect, prevent, or address unlawful activity or other wrongdoing; (ii) to establish or exercise our rights of defense; (iii) to protect our rights, property, or personal safety, or the safety of our users or the public; (iv) in the event of a change of control of us or any of our affiliated companies (by way of a merger, acquisition or purchase of (substantially) all assets, etc.); (v) to collect, hold and/or manage your data using authorized third party service providers (e.g. cloud service providers) as appropriate for business purposes; (vi) to work collaboratively with third parties to improve your user experience. To avoid misunderstandings, we would like to point out that we can transfer or pass on non-personal data to third parties or use them in any other way at our own discretion.

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Cookies and Similar Technologies

When you visit or access our Services, we authorize third parties to use web beacons, cookies, pixel tags, scripts, and other technologies and analytics services ("Tracking Technologies"). These Tracking Technologies may enable third parties to collect your information automatically in order to improve the browsing experience on our digital assets, to optimize their performance and to ensure a customized user experience, as well as for security and fraud prevention purposes.

 

To learn more about this, please read our cookie policy.

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We may provide advertising, which may also be tailored to you, through our Services and our digital assets (including websites and applications that use our Services), such as: B. Ads based on your recent browsing behavior on websites, devices or browsers.

 

In order to serve these advertisements to you, we may use cookies and/or JavaScript and/or web beacons (including clear GIFs) and/or HTML5 local storage and/or other technologies. We may also use third parties such as B. Network advertisers (ie third parties who serve ads based on your website visits) to serve targeted ads. Third-party ad network providers, advertisers, sponsors and/or website traffic measurement services may also use cookies and/or JavaScript and/or web beacons (including clear GIFs) and/or Flash cookies and/or other technologies to improve effectiveness Measure your ads and customize ad content for you. These third party cookies and other technologies are governed by the specific privacy policy of the third party and not this one.

 

Where do we store the data?

 

Please note that our businesses, as well as our trusted partners and service providers, are located around the world. For the purposes explained in this Privacy Policy, we store and process all non-personal data that we collect in different jurisdictions.

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How long is the data retained?

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Please note that we retain the information we collect for as long as is necessary to provide our services, comply with our legal and contractual obligations to you, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

We can correct, supplement or delete incorrect or incomplete data at any time at our own discretion.

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How do we protect the data?

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The hosting service for our digital assets provides us with the online platform through which we can offer our services to you. Your data may be stored through our hosting provider's data storage, databases and general applications. It stores your data on secure servers behind a firewall, and it offers secure HTTPS access to most areas of its services.

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Notwithstanding the measures and efforts taken by us and our hosting provider, we cannot and do not guarantee the absolute privacy or security of any information you upload, post or otherwise disclose to us or others.

For this reason, we would like to ask you to set strong passwords and, if possible, not to transmit to us or others confidential information, the disclosure of which you believe could cause serious or lasting harm to you. In addition, since email and instant messaging are not considered secure forms of communication, we ask that you do not share any confidential information through any of these communication channels.

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How do we deal with minors?

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The Services are not intended for users who have not yet reached the legal age of majority. We will not knowingly collect information from children. If you are under the age of majority, you should not download or use the Services or provide any information to us.

 

We reserve the right to request proof of age at any time so that we can verify that minors are using our Services. In the event that we become aware that a minor is using our Services, we may block or block access to our Services for such users and we may delete any information we hold about that user. If you have reason to believe that a minor has provided us with information, please contact us as explained below.

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We will only use your personal information for the purposes set out in the Privacy Policy and only when we are satisfied that:

 

• the use of your personal information is necessary to perform or enter into a contract (e.g. to provide you with the Services themselves or to provide customer or technical support);

• the use of your personal data is necessary to comply with a relevant legal or regulatory obligation, or

• the use of your personal information is necessary to support our legitimate business interests (provided that we do so at all times in a way that is proportionate and respects your privacy rights).

 

As an EU resident you can:

 

• request confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed and request access to your stored personal data and certain additional information;

• request to receive personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format;

• request rectification of your personal data held by us;

• request the erasure of your personal data;

• object to our processing of your personal data;

• request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, or

• lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

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However, please note that these rights are not absolute and may be subject to our own legitimate interests and regulatory requirements. If you have general questions about the personal information we collect and how we use it, please contact us as provided below.

In the course of providing the Services, we may transfer information across borders to affiliates or other third parties and from your country/jurisdiction to other countries/jurisdictions around the world. By using the Services, you consent to the transfer of your information outside of the EEA.

 

If you are a resident of the EEA, your personal data will only be transferred to locations outside the EEA where we are satisfied that an adequate or comparable level of protection of personal data is in place. We will take appropriate steps to ensure that we have appropriate contractual arrangements in place with our third parties to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to minimize the risk of unlawful use, alteration, destruction, loss or theft of your personal information and that such third parties will act in accordance with applicable laws at all times.

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California Consumer Protection Law Rights

 

If you are using the Services as a California resident, you may have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") to request access to and deletion of your information.

 

To exercise your right to access and delete your data, please see below how to contact us.

Category: The website does not sell any data of its users

We do not sell users' personally identifiable information for the intent and purposes of the CCPA.

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Facebook Website Custom Audiences

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This website uses the "Facebook pixel" and other tracking technologies from Meta Inc. 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA ("Facebook"), or if you are based in the EU, Meta Ireland Ltd. , 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 1, Ireland.

 

If explicit consent is given, the behavior of users can be tracked after they have seen or clicked on a Facebook ad. This procedure is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the Facebook ad for statistical and market research purposes and can help to optimize future advertising measures. The data collected is pseudonymous for us, so it does not allow us to draw any conclusions about the identity of the user. However, the data is stored by Google and transmitted to Facebook and processed there, so that a connection to the respective user profile is possible and Facebook uses the data for its own advertising purposes, in accordance with the Facebook data usage guidelines (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/) can use.

 

You can enable Facebook and its partners to place advertisements on and outside of Facebook. A cookie can also be stored on your computer for these purposes.

 

Facebook Custom Audiences also collects the following data from the use of our website: e-mail address, gender, city, region, postal code, country, first and last name, telephone number, date of birth, IP address, Facebook and browser ID. This gives Facebook the opportunity to assign your data to a specific Facebook profile and to import suitable advertising measures there.

 

When collecting data, we rely on your consent in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 lit. a EU-DS-GVO, Article 25 Paragraph 1 TTDSG for the corresponding data processing, which you can of course also revoke at any time by changing the privacy settings. If you revoke your consent, your data will no longer be used for this purpose and will be deleted, provided that there are no legal retention periods to the contrary. Without revocation, the storage period of the data is 2 years. The data will then be automatically deleted.

 

Consent to the replacement of Facebook Custom Audiences may only be declared by users who are older than 13 years of age. If you are younger, we ask that you ask your legal guardian for permission. With your consent, data will be transferred to a third country outside the EU / EEA, which may have a lower level of data protection than that of the EU (Art. 49 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. A EU-DS-GVO).

 

In order to deactivate the use of cookies on your computer, you can set your Internet browser so that no more cookies can be stored on your computer in the future or cookies that have already been stored are deleted. However, switching off all cookies can mean that some functions on our website can no longer be executed.

 

You can also deactivate the use of cookies by third parties such as Facebook on the following website of the Digital Advertising Alliance: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

 

Specific information about the Facebook pixel and how it works can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/651294705016616.

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Supplement Google Ads

 

This website uses the "Google AdWords Conversion Tracking" function of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States ("Google"). Google AdWords conversion tracking uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website when you click on a Google ad. The cookies are valid for a maximum of 90 days. Personal data will not be saved. As long as the cookie is valid, Google and we as the website operator can recognize that you have clicked on an ad and have reached a specific target page (e.g. order confirmation page,

Newsletter registration) have arrived. These cookies cannot be tracked across websites from different AdWords participants. The cookie is used to create conversion statistics in "Google AdWords". These statistics record the number of users who have clicked on one of our ads. In addition, it is counted how many users have reached a target page that has been provided with a "conversion tag". However, the statistics do not contain any data that can be used to identify you.

 

You can prevent cookies from being saved on your hard drive by selecting “do not accept cookies” in your browser settings (in MS Internet Explorer under “Extras > Internet options > Data protection > Settings”; in Firefox under “Extras > Settings > Data protection > Cookies"); we would like to point out to you however that in this case you can if applicable not use all functions of this website in full. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. For more information about how Google uses conversion data and Google's privacy policy, visit: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/93148?ctx=tltp, http://www.google.de/policies/ privacy/

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Supplement Google Analytics

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This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited. If the person responsible for data processing on this website is located outside the European Economic Area or Switzerland, Google Analytics data processing is carried out by Google LLC. Google LLC and Google Ireland Limited are hereinafter referred to as "Google".

 

Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files which are stored on the computer of the site visitor and which enable an analysis of the use of the website by the site visitor. The information generated by the cookie about the use of this website by the site visitor (including the shortened IP address) is usually transmitted to a Google server and stored there.

 

Google Analytics is only used with the extension "_anonymizeIp()" on this website. This extension ensures anonymization of the IP address by shortening it and excludes direct personal reference. As a result of the extension, Google's IP address will be shortened beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The IP address transmitted by the relevant browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

 

On behalf of the site operator, Google will use the information collected to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the site operator (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR). The legitimate interest in data processing lies in optimizing this website, analyzing how the website is used and adapting the content. The interests of the users are adequately safeguarded by the pseudonymization.

 

Google LLC. is certified according to the so-called Privacy Shield (list entry here) and guarantees an appropriate level of data protection on this basis. The data sent and linked to cookies, user IDs (e.g. user ID) or advertising IDs are automatically deleted after 50 months. Data that has reached the end of its retention period is automatically deleted once a month.

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opt out

The collection by Google Analytics can be prevented by the site visitor adjusting the cookie settings for this website. The collection and storage of the IP address and the data generated by cookies can also be objected to at any time with effect for the future. The corresponding browser plugin can be downloaded and installed under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

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In addition, cookies can be deactivated in the cookie settings at the bottom right. 

 

Further information on the use of data by Google, setting and objection options can be found in Google's data protection declaration (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and in the settings for the display of advertisements by Google (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated).

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Google Tag Manager (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f EU-DS-GVO)

 

This website uses the Google Tag Manager from Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland. This service allows website tags to be managed via an interface. The Tag Manager tool itself (which implements the tags) is a cookieless domain. This means: In principle, no cookies are used and no personal data is recorded. The Google Tag Manager triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data. However, the Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If a deactivation has been made at domain or cookie level, it remains in place for all tracking tags implemented with Google Tag Manager.

 

For more information see: http://www.google.com/tagmanager/use-policy.html

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Supplements LinkedIn

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We use the marketing services of the LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland ("LinkedIn") on our website.

These use cookies, which are stored on your computer. This enables us to analyze how you use the website. For example, we can measure the success of our ads and show users products they were previously interested in.

For example, information about the operating system, the browser, the website you previously accessed (referrer URL), which websites the user visited, which offers the user clicked on, and the date and time of your visit to our website are recorded.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is transmitted in pseudonymised form to a LinkedIn server in the USA and stored there. LinkedIn does not store the name or email address of the respective user. Rather, the data mentioned is only assigned to the person who created the cookie. This does not apply if the user has allowed LinkedIn processing without pseudonymization or has a LinkedIn account.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. You can also object to the use of your data directly on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.

We use LinkedIn Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. In this way we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. All LinkedIn companies have adopted the Standard Contractual Clauses to ensure that traffic to the United States and Singapore necessary for the development, operation, and maintenance of the Services takes place in a lawful manner.

If we ask users for their consent, the legal basis for processing is Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. Otherwise, the legal basis for the use of LinkedIn Analytics is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR.

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Updates or changes to the Privacy Policy

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We may, in our sole discretion, revise this Privacy Policy from time to time, the version posted on the Website will always be current (see “As of Date” statement). We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy for changes. If there are any significant changes, we will post a notice on our website. Your continued use of the Services after notification of changes has been made to our website constitutes your acknowledgment and acceptance of the changes to the Privacy Policy and your agreement to be bound by the terms of those changes.

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Contact

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If you have general questions about the Services or the information we collect about you and how we use it, please contact us at:

 

Frederic Wolny

Hüttenheim 51a

97348 Willanzheim

wolny.frederic[at]gmail.com