As the operator of this website and as a company, we come into contact with your personal data. This concerns all data that reveals something about you and by which you can be identified. In this privacy policy, we would like to explain how, for what purpose and on which legal basis we process your data.
Responsible for the data processing (“data controller”) on this website and in our company is:
Match2AD
Am Tanneneck 6
58256 Ennepetal
Deutschland
Phone: +4915110763259
E-mail: info@match2ad.de
When you enter your data on websites, place online orders or send e-mails via the Internet, you must always be prepared for unauthorized third parties to access your data. There is no complete protection against such access. However, we do our utmost to protect your data as best we can and to close security gaps as far as we can.
An important protection mechanism is the SSL or TLS encryption of our website, which ensures that data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties. You can recognize the encryption by the lock icon in front of the Internet address entered in your browser and by the fact that our Internet address begins with https:// and not with http://.
Payment data, such as account or credit card numbers, require special protection. For this reason, payment transactions made with the most common means of payment are carried out exclusively via an encrypted SSL or TLS connection.
In some parts in this privacy policy, we inform you about how long we or the companies that process your data on our behalf will store your data. In the absence of such information, we store your data until the purpose of the data processing no longer applies, you object to the data processing or you revoke your consent to the data processing.
In the event of an objection or revocation, we may however continue to process your data if at least one of the following conditions applies:
In this case, we will delete your data as soon as the requirement(s) cease to apply.
On our website, we use tools from companies that transfer your data to the USA and store it there and, if necessary, process it further. The European Commission has adopted an adequacy decision for the EU-US data protection framework. The decision establishes that the US ensures an adequate level of protection for EU personal data transferred to US companies. This decision is based on new safeguards and measures put in place by the US to meet data protection requirements. The adequacy decision includes, among other things, restrictions and safeguards on access to data by US intelligence agencies. Binding safeguards were introduced to limit US intelligence agencies' access to what is necessary and proportionate to protect national security. In addition, enhanced oversight of US intelligence activities was established to ensure that restrictions on surveillance activities are respected. An independent redress mechanism has also been established to handle and resolve complaints from European citizens about access to their data. The EU-US data protection framework thus allows European companies to transfer data to certified US companies without having to introduce additional data protection safeguards. A list of all certified companies can be found at the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search.
A change in the European Commission's decision cannot be ruled out.
IF IT'S STATED IN THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT THAT WE HAVE LEGITIMATE INTERESTS FOR THE PROCESSING OF YOUR DATA AND THAT THIS PROCESSING IS THEREFORE BASED ON ART. 6 PARA. 1 SENTENCE 1 LIT. F) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT IN ACCORDANCE WITH ART. 21 GDPR. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING THAT IS CARRIED OUT ON THE BASIS OF THE AFOREMENTIONED PROVISION. THE PREREQUISITE IS THAT YOU STATE REASONS FOR THE OBJECTION THAT ARISE FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION. NO REASONS ARE REQUIRED IF THE OBJECTION IS DIRECTED AGAINST THE USE OF YOUR DATA FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING.
THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE OBJECTION IS THAT WE MAY NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR DATA. THIS ONLY DOES NOT APPLY IF ONE OF THE FOLLOWING PREREQUISITS EXISTS:
THESE EXCEPTIONS DO NOT APPLY IF YOUR OBJECTION IS DIRECTED AGAINST THE USE OF YOUR DATA FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING OR TO PROFILING RELATED TO IT.
Many data processing operations are based on your consent. You can give this consent, for example, by ticking the appropriate box on online forms before you send the form, or by allowing the operation of certain cookies when you visit our website. You may revoke your consent at any time without giving reasons (Art. 7 (3) GDPR). From the time of revocation, we may then no longer process your data. The only exception: we are required by law to retain the data for a certain period of time. Such retention periods exist in particular in tax and commercial law.
If you believe that we are in breach of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR. You may contact a supervisory authority in the Member State of your residence, place of work or the place where the alleged infringement took place. The right to complain exists alongside administrative or judicial remedies.
We must hand over data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract to you or a third party in a common machine-readable format if you request this. We can only transfer the data to another “data controller” if this is technically possible.
According to Art. 15 GDPR, you have the right to receive information free of charge about which of your personal data we have stored, where the data came from, to whom we transmit the data and for what purpose it is stored. If the data is incorrect, you have a right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), and under the conditions of Art. 17 GDPR you may demand that we delete the data.
In certain situations, according to Art. 18 GDPR, you may demand that we restrict the processing of your data. The data may then - apart from storage - only be processed as follows:
The right to restrict processing exists in the following situations:
Our website is hosted on a server of the following Internet service provider (hoster):
netcup GmbH
Daimlerstraße 25
76185 Karlsruhe, Germany
Yes
The hoster stores all the data from our website. This includes all personal data that is collected automatically or through entering. This can be in particular: Your IP address, pages accessed, names, contact details and requests, as well as meta and communication data. When processing data, our hoster adheres to our instructions and always processes the data only insofar as this is necessary to fulfill the service obligation to us.
Since we address potential customers via our website and maintain contacts with existing customers, the data processing by our hoster serves to initiate and fulfill contracts and is therefore based on Art. 6 (1) lit. b) GDPR. In addition, it is our legitimate interest as a company to provide a professional Internet offering that meets the necessary requirements for security, speed and efficiency. In this respect, we also process your data on the legal basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR.
Content Delivery Network (CDN) with Domain Name System (DNS)
Cloudflare Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
Yes
https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
On the basis of the European Commission's adequacy decision and the company's corresponding certification.
We use the services of Cloudflare for our website. The global content delivery network ensures that all content we provide online reaches you quickly, even if this involves moving large amounts of data over long distances. This is made possible by the fact that Cloudflare, with all its technical capabilities and servers around the world, is interposed between our website and your browser, analyzing the traffic, and filtering out malicious data before it reaches our server. In doing so, Cloudflare also comes into contact with personal data collected through our website. In addition, the company may use cookies or other technologies to recognize Internet users. The data processing by Cloudflare always serves the sole purpose of enabling fast data traffic.
We have a legitimate interest in providing visitors to our website with the fastest and most efficient online experience possible. The data processing is therefore carried out on the legal basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR.
WordPress plugin for automatic platform optimization
Cloudflare Germany GmbH, Rosental 7, c/o Mindspace, 80331 Munich, Germany
Yes
https://www.cloudflare.com/de-de/privacypolicy/
On the basis of the European Commission´s adequacy decision and the company´s corresponding certification.
On our website, we use the services of Cloudflare Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) to improve the performance of our website. APO optimizes the caching of static and dynamic content to reduce loading times and increase website performance. Cloudflare also comes into contact with personal data that is collected through our website. In addition, the company may use cookies or other technologies to recognize internet users. The data processing by Cloudflare always serves the sole purpose of enabling fast data traffic.
We have a legitimate interest in providing visitors to our website with the fastest and most efficient online experience possible. The data processing is therefore carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR.
Our website places cookies on your device. These are small text files that are used for various purposes. Some cookies are technically necessary for the website to function at all (necessary cookies). Others are needed to perform certain actions or functions on the site (functional cookies). For example, without cookies it would not be possible to take advantage of a shopping cart in an online store. Still other cookies are used to analyze user behavior or to optimize advertising measures. If we use third-party services on our website, for example to process payment transactions, these companies may also leave cookies on your device when you access the website (so-called third-party cookies).
Session cookies are only stored on your device for the duration of a session. As soon as you close the browser, they therefore disappear by themselves. Permanent cookies, on the other hand, remain on your device unless you delete them yourself. This can, for example, lead to your user behavior being permanently analyzed. You can use the settings in your browser to influence how it handles cookies:
If you disable or do not allow cookies, the functionality of the website may be limited.
If we use cookies from other companies or for analysis purposes, we will inform you about this as part of this privacy policy. We also request your consent in this regard when you access our website.
We have a legitimate interest in ensuring that our online offers can be used by visitors without technical problems and that all desired functions are available to them. The storage of necessary and functional cookies on your device therefore takes place on the legal basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. We use all other cookies on the legal basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR, provided you give us your consent. You can revoke this at any time with effect for the future. If you have consented to the placement of necessary and functional cookies when requesting consent, these cookies will also be stored exclusively on the basis of your consent.
Consent management provider (CMP) for obtaining, processing and forwarding GDPR-compliant consent.
CookieYes Limited, 3 Warren Yard Warren Park, Wolverton Mill, Milton Keynes, MK12 5NW, United Kingdom
Yes
https://www.cookieyes.com/privacy-policy/
For the United Kingdom, an adequacy decision of the European Commission is in place.
We use CookieYes to obtain your consent to store cookies on your device and to document it in a data protection compliant manner. When you visit our website and close the CookieYes cookie window requesting consent, the following data is transmitted to the company:
In addition, CookieYes stores various cookies in your browser in order to be able to assign the consent given or its revocation to your browser. All collected data is stored until the cookies are no longer needed, you delete the cookies from CookieYes or you request us to delete the data. This does not apply only if we are required by law to retain the data.
We are legally obliged to obtain the consent of our website visitors for the use of certain cookies. In order to fulfill this obligation, we use Consent Manager. The legal basis for data processing is therefore Art. 6 (1) lit. c) GDPR.
Server log files log all requests and accesses to our website and record error messages. They also include personal data, in particular your IP address. However, this is anonymized by the provider after a short time, so that we cannot assign the data to your person. The data is automatically transmitted to our provider by your browser.
Our provider stores the server log files in order to be able to track the activities on our website and to locate errors. The files contain the following data:
We do not combine this data with other data but use it only for statistical analysis and to improve our website.
We have a legitimate interest in ensuring that our website runs without errors. It is also our legitimate interest to obtain an anonymized overview of the accesses to our website. Therefore, the data processing is lawful according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR.
Tool for appointment scheduling
Calendly LLC,88 N Avondale Road #603, Avondale Estates, GA 30002, USA
Yes
https://calendly.com/pages/privacy
Calendly adheres to the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission (see https://calendly.com/pages/dpa).
To schedule an appointment with us, you can use the Calendly tool on our website. We use the data for the planning, execution and, if necessary, follow-up of the appointment.
We delete your data as soon as one of the following occurs:
This does not apply only if we are required by law to retain the data.
We have a legitimate interest in making appointments with customers and other interested parties as uncomplicated as possible. The data processing is therefore based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. If you have consented to the storage of your data, the legal basis is exclusively Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR. In this case, you can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
Form tool for collecting customer inquiries and other data.
Rocketgenius, Inc., 1620 Centerville Turnpike #102, Virginia Beach, VA 23464, USA
https://www.gravityforms.com/cookies/
Using Gravity Forms, online forms can be created and embedded on our website. The data you enter will be stored on Gravity Forms servers until you request us to delete it, revoke any consent you have given to store it, or until the purpose for storing the data no longer applies. Mandatory legal provisions remain unaffected. The data transfer to the USA is based on the adequacy decision of the European Commission and the corresponding certification of the company.
We have a legitimate interest in functioning customer forms. The basis for data processing is therefore Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. If you have consented to data processing, we process your data exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
Data protection compliant use
We use social media plugins on our website. You can recognize these by the logos of the social networks. Thanks to the plugins, you can easily share the content on our website on social networks. The list at the end of this section shows which plugins we use in detail. Here you will also find the networks' information relevant to data protection.
How do we process your data?
Normally, the plugins function in such a way that just visiting the website on which they are embedded is sufficient to establish a connection to the servers of the social networks. In this way, the offering companies learn that the website in question was visited via your IP address. Except for Xing, all networks store the IP address. Further personal data may be added. In this case, your data is usually transferred to servers in the USA. If this is the case, you can find out the basis on which this happens in each case from the information on the networks given below.
To better protect your personal data, we only use social media buttons that comply with data protection regulations. They replace the usual social network buttons with buttons that only communicate with the servers of the social networks when you click on them. However, you can still easily share information with others.
Even when using the privacy-compliant social media buttons, your browsing behavior can be associated with your personal profile on a social network if you are logged into your account there when you click on the button. If you do not want this, you must log out of your account before you continue surfing the Internet.
On what legal basis do we process your data?
By activating the button, you give your consent for a link to be established to the social network concerned, for your IP address and possibly other data to be transmitted and for your surfing behavior to be tracked by the social media company. Thus, the data processing is lawful according to Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time. From the time of revocation, we may no longer process your data.
Social network
Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland.
https://twitter.com/de/privacy
On the basis of standard contractual clauses of the European Commission (see https://gdpr.twitter.com/en/controller-to-controller-transfers.html).
Social network
Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.
https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/
On the basis of the European Commission's adequacy decision and the company's corresponding certification.
Social network
LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
On the basis of standard contractual clauses of the European Commission (see https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/dpa and https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/eu-sccs).
We use the following tools to analyze the behavior of our website visitors and show you advertisements.
Tag management system for the integration of tracking codes and conversion pixels of Google Ireland. Ltd.
Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
https://policies.google.com/privacy
On the basis of the European Commission's adequacy decision and the company's corresponding certification.
We use the Google Tag Manager. The tool helps us to integrate tracking codes and conversion pixels into our website, manage them and play them out. Google Tag Manager does not create user profiles itself, does not place cookies on your device, and does not analyze your behavior as a user. It does, however, record your IP address and transmit it to Google servers in the USA.
We have a legitimate interest in a quick and uncomplicated integration and management of various tools on our website. The use of Google Tag Manager is therefore lawful according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. If you have consented to the transfer of your IP address, we process your data exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
Tool for analyzing user behavior of Google Ireland Ltd.
Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Yes
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
On the basis of the European Commission's adequacy decision and the company's corresponding certification.
Among other things, with a browser plugin: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
We are always interested in optimizing our web offer for visitors to our website and placing advertisements in the best possible way. We are helped in this by Google Analytics, a tool that analyzes the behavior of users and thus provides us with the necessary database for adjustments. Through the tool, we receive information about the origin of our visitors, their page views and the time they spend on the pages, as well as the operating system they use.
To collect the data, Google Analytics uses cookies, device fingerprinting or other user recognition technologies. The data is transmitted to Google servers in the USA and, with the help of the IP address that is also collected, summarized in a profile that can be assigned to you or your device.
You can prevent Google from processing your data by installing a browser plugin that Google itself provides: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
We have activated the "IP anonymization" function within Google Analytics. For you, this means that Google truncates your IP address (from the EU or EEA) before transmitting it to the USA. Only in exceptional cases does Google transmit the full IP address to servers in the USA and only shorten it there.
We use the "demographic characteristics" function of Google Analytics to display suitable advertisements to visitors to our website within the Google advertising network. As a result, reports may be generated that include statements about the age, gender, and interests of our site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google as well as visitor data from third parties. It is not possible to assign the collected data to specific individuals.
You can deactivate the function in the settings of your Google account.
According to its own information, Google deletes or anonymizes data stored at user and event level that is linked to cookies, user identifiers (e.g. user IDs) or advertising IDs after 38 months (cf. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7667196?hl=de).
As a website operator, we have a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior for the purpose of optimizing our website and the advertising placed there. The data processing is therefore lawful according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. In the event that you have consented, for example, to the storage of cookies or have otherwise consented to data processing by Google Analytics, only Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR is the legal basis. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
Privacy-friendly tool for analysing user behaviour
Cloudflare Germany GmbH, Rosental 7, c/o Mindspace, 80331 München, Germany
Yes
https://www.cloudflare.com/de-de/privacypolicy/
On the basis of the European Commission's adequacy decision and the company's corresponding certification.
We are always interested in optimizing our web offer for visitors to our website and placing advertisements in the best possible way. We are helped in this by Cloudflare Web Analytics, a tool that analyzes the behavior of users and thus provides us with the necessary database for adjustments. Through the tool, we receive information about the origin of our visitors, their page views and the time they spend on the pages, as well as the operating system they use. Cloudflare Web Analytics only collects anonymised data. Your data is usually transferred to Cloudflare Inc. servers in the USA.
As a website operator, we have a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior for the purpose of optimizing our website and the advertising placed there. The data processing is therefore lawful according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. In the event that you have consented, for example, to the storage of cookies or have otherwise consented to data processing by Cloudflare Web Analytics, only Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR is the legal basis. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
We are always interested in optimizing our website for users and placing advertising optimally. We are helped in this by the plugin WP Statistics, which analyzes the behavior of users and thus provides us with the necessary database for adjustments. The provider is Veronalabs, ARENCO Tower, 27th Floor, Dubai Media City, Dubai, Dubai 23816, United Arab Emirates. WP Statistics collects the following data, among others:
The data is only stored locally.
As a website operator, we have a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior for the purpose of optimizing our website and the advertising placed there. The data processing is therefore lawful according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. In the event that you have, for example, consented to the storage of cookies or otherwise consented to data processing, the legal basis is exclusively Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
Tool for personalized advertising of Google Ireland Ltd.
Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Yes
https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/ und https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
On the basis of the European Commission's adequacy decision and the company's corresponding certification.
By objecting to personalized advertising in your Google account or on this page: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/
We are always interested in placing our advertising in the best possible way. The remarketing function of Google Analytics helps us to do this.
Remarketing means that we analyze your behavior on our website in order to assign you to a specific advertising target group and subsequently display suitable advertising messages to you when you visit other websites. In addition, we link the advertising target groups with cross-device functions of Google. This allows us to display interest-based, personalized advertising messages that have been customized to you based on your usage and browsing behavior on one device (e.g., your cell phone) on another device (e.g., a tablet or PC).
You can adjust the advertising settings in your Google account. To do so, click on the following link and log in: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated. Outside of your Google account, you can object to personalized advertising using the following link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/ (the setting then only applies to the device and browser currently being used).
As a website operator, we have a legitimate interest in the effective marketing of our services and products. The data processing is therefore lawful according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. In the event that you have consented, for example, to the storage of cookies or otherwise consented to data processing by Google Analytics Remarketing, only Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR is the legal basis. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
User behavior analysis tool from Microsoft Corp.
Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland
https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement
On the basis of the European Commission's adequacy decision and the company's corresponding certification.
We use Microsoft Clarity on our website. Clarity is a tool for analyzing user behavior. Clarity in particular, records mouse movements and creates a graphical representation of which part of the website users scroll to most frequently (heat maps). Clarity can also record sessions so that we can view page usage in the form of videos. Furthermore, we receive information about the general user behavior on our website.
Clarity uses technologies that enable the recognition of the user for the purpose of analyzing user behavior (e.g. cookies or use of device fingerprinting). Your personal data is stored on Microsoft servers (Microsoft Azure Cloud Service) in the USA.
As a website operator, we have a legitimate interest in optimizing our online offer and our advertising measures. The data processing is therefore lawful according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. In the event that you have consented, for example, to the storage of cookies or have otherwise consented to data processing, only Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR is the legal basis. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
Video plattform
Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
You can watch YouTube videos on our website. In doing so, Google, as the provider of YouTube, collects and stores certain information about you. However, since we use YouTube in extended data protection mode, this only happens when you start a video. Specifically, the following happens in this case:
Even if you do not start a YouTube video on our website, Google establishes a connection to its DoubleClick network and possibly also to other partners. The extended data protection mode therefore does not mean that Google does not process any data from you at all when you visit our website.
By integrating YouTube videos, we want to make our website and our services and offers more appealing. This is our legitimate interest as a company and therefore lawful according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR.
If you have consented to data processing, we process your data exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR. You may revoke your consent at any time. From the time of revocation, we may no longer process your data.
We use fonts from the US company Google on our website. We have installed the fonts locally, so there is no connection to Google's servers when you visit our website.
For more information about Google Fonts, please visit https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and read Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.
We use icons from the Font Awesome icon library on our website. The library is provided by Fonticons Inc. We have installed the icons locally, so there is no connection to the company's servers when you visit our website.
For more information about Font Awesome, please visit https://fontawesome.com/ and specifically see their privacy policy there: https://fontawesome.com/privacy.
A mapping service provided by Google Ireland Ltd.
Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
On the basis of the European Commission's adequacy decision and the company's corresponding certification.
We use Google Maps on our website. To enable you to use all the functions of the map service, Google stores your IP address on one of its servers in the USA.
The maps from Google Maps ensure that the places indicated on our website are easier to find for visitors. As a company, we have a legitimate interest in this. The data processing is therefore lawful according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR.
If you have consented to the data processing, we process your data exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit a) GDPR. You may revoke your consent at any time. From the time of revocation, we may no longer process your data.
Test tool to distinguish between people and computers from Google Ireland Ltd.
Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
On the basis of the European Commission's adequacy decision and the company's corresponding certification.
With Google reCAPTCHA, we check whether data entered into forms on our website comes from a human or from a computer. For you, this means that the testing tool analyzes your behavior as a visitor to our website based on various characteristics. The analysis does not start when you use the test tool, but already when you visit our website. Various data are collected, e.g. the IP address, the time spent on our website and mouse movements. The data is forwarded to Google.
As a company, we have a legitimate interest in protecting our web offerings from spam and abusive spying. The data processing is therefore lawful according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR.
If you have consented to the data processing, we process your data exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR. You may revoke your consent at any time. From the time of revocation, we may no longer process your data.
Website management system
GoDaddy.com WP Europe, Trg republike 5, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Yes
With ManageWP, we can monitor the security and performance of our website and initiate automatic backups, among other things. ManageWP thus has access to all website content, including our databases. ManageWP is hosted on the provider's servers.
As a website operator, we have a legitimate interest in operating our website effectively. The data processing is therefore lawful according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR.
In the event that you have consented to data processing, only Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR is the legal basis. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. From the time of revocation, we may no longer process your data.
Firewall and security scanner for WordPress websites.
Defiant Inc, 800 5th Ave Ste 4100, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Yes
https://www.wordfence.com/privacy-policy/
On the basis of standard contractual clauses of the European Commission (see https://www.wordfence.com/help/general-data-protection-regulation/).
To protect our website from malicious traffic, we use the Wordfence plugin. It identifies and blocks data that has malicious code or content, and checks core files, themes and plugins for malware, bad URLs, backdoors, SEO spam, malicious redirects and code injections. In order for these measures to be carried out, our website is permanently connected to Defiant Inc. servers in the USA. On these, accesses to our website are compared with the data that Wordfence has stored in its database and, if necessary, blocked.
As a website operator, we have a legitimate interest in protecting ourselves from malicious traffic. The data processing is therefore lawful according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR.
If you have consented to the data processing, we process your data exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR. You may revoke your consent at any time. From the time of revocation, we may no longer process your data.
Cloud storage
Microsoft Corp, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA.
https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement
On the basis of the European Commission's adequacy decision and the company's corresponding certification.
You can upload files on our website. We use the cloud storage OneDrive for this purpose. The files are stored on the servers of the US company Microsoft. When you visit our website, a connection to OneDrive is also established. The cloud storage thus registers that our website has been accessed via your IP address.
We have a legitimate interest in offering a reliable upload area on our website. Therefore, the processing of your data is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. If you have consented to data processing, we process your data exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
Plugin for creating websites
Elementor 8 THE GRN STE A DOVER, DE 19901 USA
Yes
https://elementor.com/about/privacy/
On the basis of standard contractual clauses of the European Commission (see https://elementor.com/about/privacy/).
We use the "Elementor Website Builder for WordPress" plugin on our website. This plugin does not process any personal data. However, cookies are used to store the number of page views and active sessions of the user.
By integrating the Elementor plugin, we want to make our website and our services and offers more appealing. This is our legitimate interest as a company and is therefore lawful according to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Affiliate marketing program of Amazon Europe (further information: https://partnernet.amazon.de/help/operating/policies).
Amazon Europe Core S.à r.l., 38 avenue John F. Kennedy, 1855 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
https://www.amazon.de/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=3312401
We participate in the EU partner program of Amazon. This is noticeable in the way that Amazon ads and links to Amazon's website are included on our website. If Amazon registers purchases through these ads or links, we receive affiliate compensation. In order to be able to track whether a purchase has been made via an ad or link on our website, Amazon places cookies on your device or uses comparable recognition technologies (e.g. device fingerprinting).
We have a legitimate interest in the correct calculation of our affiliate remuneration. The use of your data is therefore based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. If you have consented to the data processing, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
When we conclude a contract with you, we require certain personal data from you. We collect, process and use this data only insofar as it is necessary to establish our legal relationship, to shape its content or to change it. If you can only use our services via our website or if the services are billed via the website, we also collect usage data insofar as this is necessary to enable you to use our offer or to bill the service used.
We store your data until our legal relationship ends, unless we are required by law to keep the data longer.
We store your data in order to fulfill the contract with you or to carry out pre-contractual measures. The basis of the data processing is therefore Art. 6 (1) lit. b) GDPR.
As a company we are in contact with many people: Customers, business partners, service providers, etc. In doing so, we also use so-called online conferencing tools for the exchange, in addition to other means of communication. Information relevant to data protection law on the provider(s) of the tools we use can be found at the end of this section. If you communicate with us via such a tool, not only we, but in particular the provider of the respective tool, process your personal data.
Online conference tools collect and store various personal data in order to enable participation in an online conference and its smooth execution. In addition to registration, conference and technical data, this also concerns certain communication content.
For details on data processing, please refer to the privacy policy of the respective conferencing tool provider.
As your communication partner, we delete your data on our systems as soon as one of the following occurs:
This does not apply only if we are required by law to retain the data.
Cookies remain on your terminal device until you delete them.
Conference tool providers also store your data for their own purposes. Please ask the providers directly what this means for the duration of the storage of your data.
If we are already contractually connected or if you would like to conclude a contract with us, we use conference tools to fulfill the contract or to inform you about our services or products. In this respect, the data processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. b) GDPR. Otherwise, the use of conferencing tools serves the purpose of simple and quick communication, without which we would not be able to run our business efficiently. We therefore also have a legitimate interest in data processing pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. Another legal basis may be your consent. Relevant in this case is Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR. This basis ceases to apply for the future if you revoke your consent.
Communication platform for collaboration in teams
Microsoft Corp., One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA
https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement
On the basis of the European Commission's adequacy decision and the company's corresponding certification.
By social media, we mean the social networks on which we have created publicly accessible profiles. You can read below which social networks these are specifically.
The respective operating companies of the social networks. You can find the individual operators below under the respective networks.
The operators of social networks are generally able to collect and evaluate comprehensive data about the behavior of visitors and users of the network. It is not possible for us to track all processing operations on the social networks we use, which is why further processing operations not listed here may be carried out by the operators of the social networks. You can find more information on this in the terms of use and privacy statements of the respective social networks.
The processing of your data can be triggered by you visiting the website of the social network or our profile page there. Even if you visit a website that uses certain content of the network, e.g. like or share buttons, data may already be transmitted to the operators of the social network. If you yourself are a user of the social network and logged into your user account, your visit to our profile page can be assigned to your account by the operator of the social network. Even if you yourself have not registered a user account or are not logged in, the operator of the network may still collect your personal data, e.g. by recording your IP address or setting cookies. With this data, the operators can create user profiles adapted to your behavior and interests and show you interest-based advertising inside and outside the network. If you are a registered user of the network, the interest-based advertising may also be displayed on all devices on which you are or were logged in.
Our profiles in the social networks are intended to ensure the broadest possible presence of our company on the Internet. As a company, we have a legitimate interest in this. The data processing is therefore lawful according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR.
The data processing operations and analyses carried out by the operators of the social networks themselves may be based on other legal grounds. These must be stated by the operators of the social networks.
If you visit one of our profiles on the social networks, we are jointly responsible with the operator of the respective network for the data processing operations triggered during this visit. In principle, you can assert your rights both against us and against the operator of the respective network.
Despite the joint responsibility with the operators of the social networks, however, our influence on the data processing operations of the respective operator is limited and is primarily based on the operator's specifications.
If we collect data via our profiles in the social networks, these are deleted from our systems as soon as the purpose for storing them no longer applies, you request us to delete them or you revoke your consent to storage. Stored cookies remain on your terminal device until you delete them. Mandatory legal provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.
We have no influence on how long the operators of the social networks store your data, which the operators collect for their own purposes. You can obtain information on this directly from the operator of the respective social network, e.g. in the respective privacy policy.
What is Facebook?
A social network
Who processes your data?
Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Is your data transferred to third countries?
Yes, to the U.S. and also to other third countries.
Where can you find more information about data protection at Facebook?
https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
As a Facebook user, where can you adjust your advertising preferences?
As a registered Facebook user, you can adjust your advertising settings in your user account. To do so, click on the following link and log in:
What is Twitter?
A social network in the form of a micro-blogging platform.
Who processes your data?
Twitter Inc, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA.
Is your data transferred to third countries?
Yes, to the USA
Where can you find more information about data protection at Twitter?
https://twitter.com/de/privacy
As a Twitter user, where can you adjust your advertising preferences?
As a registered Twitter user, you can adjust your privacy settings in your user account. To do so, click on the following link and log in:
What is Instagram?
A social network specializing in photos and videos.
Who processes your data?
Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Irland
Is your data transferred to third countries?
Yes
Where can you find more information about data protection at Instagram?
https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875/?helpref=hc_fnav&bc[0]=Instagram-Hilfebereich&bc[1]=Richtlinien%20und%20Meldungen
As a user, where can you adjust your privacy settings?
As a registered Instagram user, you can adjust your privacy settings in your user account. To do so, click the following link and log in:
https://www.instagram.com/accounts/privacy_and_security/
A social network for business contacts
LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland
Yes
https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-privacy-policy
As a registered LinkedIn user, you can adjust your privacy settings in your user account. To do so, click on the following link and log in:
What is YouTube?
A social network in the form of an online video portal.
Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Is your data transferred to third countries?
Yes
Where can you find more information about data protection at YouTube?
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
As a user, where can you adjust your privacy settings?