Privacy Policy

Data protection information according to Art. 13 DSGVO

PLEASE NOTE: only the German version is legally binding!

Data protection information in accordance with Art. 13 GDPR

General information on data processing

Legal basis for the processing of personal data

In accordance with Art. 13 GDPR, we inform you of the legal basis of our data processing. If the legal basis is not specified in the data protection notice, the following applies:

The legal basis for obtaining consent is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a i.V.m. Art. 7 GDPR. The legal basis for the processing for the fulfillment of our services and implementation of contractual measures, as well as answering inquiries is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. The legal basis for processing for the fulfillment of our legal obligations is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR. If the processing of your data is necessary to safeguard a legitimate interest of our company or a third party and if the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject do not outweigh the former interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR serves as the legal basis for the processing. In the event that vital interests of the data subject or another natural person require the processing of personal data, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. d GDPR serves as the legal basis.

Data erasure and storage duration

We adhere to the principles of data minimization pursuant to Art. 5 para. 1 lit. c GDPR and storage limitation pursuant to Art. 5 para. 1 lit. e GDPR. We only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here or as provided for by the retention periods stipulated by law. After the respective purpose no longer applies or after these retention periods have expired, the corresponding data will be deleted as quickly as possible.

Note on the transfer of data to third countries

Tools from companies based in third countries (including the USA) are also integrated on our website. If these tools are active, your personal data may be transmitted to the servers of the respective companies. The level of data protection in third countries generally does not correspond to EU data protection law. There is therefore a risk that your data may be passed on to authorities in these countries. We have no influence on these processing activities.

External links

This website may contain links to third-party websites or to other websites under our responsibility. If you follow a link to a website outside our responsibility, please note that

these websites have their own data protection information. We accept no responsibility or liability for these third-party websites and their data protection notices. Therefore, before using these websites, please check whether you agree with their data protection declarations.

You can recognize external links either by the fact that they are displayed in a different colour from the rest of the text or underlined. Your cursor will show you external links when you move it over such a link. Only when you click on an external link will your personal data be transferred to the destination of the link. In particular, the operator of the other website will receive your IP address, the time at which you clicked on the link, the page on which you clicked on the link and other information that you can find in the data protection information of the respective provider.

Please also note that individual links may lead to data being transferred outside the European Economic Area. This could give foreign authorities access to your data. You may not have any legal remedies against this data access. If you do not want your personal data to be transferred to the link destination or even exposed to unwanted access by foreign authorities, please do not click on any links.

Rights of the data subject

As a data subject within the meaning of the GDPR, you have the opportunity to assert various rights. The data subject rights arising from the GDPR are the right of access (Article 15), the right to rectification (Article 16), the right to erasure (Article 17), the right to restriction of processing (Article 18), the right to object (Article 21), the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority and the right to data portability (Article 20).

Right of revocation:

Some data processing can only take place with your express consent. You have the option to withdraw your consent at any time. However, this does not affect the legality of the data processing up to the point of withdrawal.

Right to object:

If the processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e or f GDPR, you as the data subject can object to the processing of your personal data at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation. You also have this right in the case of profiling based on these provisions within the meaning of Art. 4(4) GDPR. If we cannot demonstrate a legitimate interest in the processing that outweighs your interests, rights and freedoms or if the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims, we will refrain from processing your data after the objection has been made.

If the processing of personal data serves the purpose of direct advertising, you also have the right to object at any time. The

same applies to profiling in connection with direct advertising. Here too, we will no longer process personal data as soon as you object.

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority:

If you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy.

Right to data portability:

If your data is processed automatically on the basis of consent or fulfillment of a contract, you have the right to receive this data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to request the transfer and provision of the data to another controller, insofar as this is technically feasible.

Right to information, correction and deletion:

You have the right to obtain information about your processed personal data with regard to the purpose of the data processing, the categories, the recipients and the duration of storage. If you have any questions on this topic or other topics relating to personal data, you can of course contact us using the contact details provided in the legal notice.

Right to restriction of processing:

You can request the restriction of the processing of your personal data at any time. To do so, you must fulfill one of the following requirements:

You contest the accuracy of the personal You have the right to request a restriction of processing for the duration of the verification of accuracy.
If the processing is unlawful, you can request the restriction of the use of the data as an alternative to erasure.
If we no longer need your personal data for the purposes of processing, but you need the data for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims, you can request the restriction of processing as an alternative to erasure.
If you object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 (1) GDPR, your interests and ours will be weighed Until this balancing has taken place, you have the right to request the restriction of processing.

Restriction of processing means that, with the exception of storage, personal data may only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or of a Member State.

Provision of the website (web host)

Our website is hosted by:

Green Eye GmbH

Heideckstrasse 183b, 47805 Krefeld Germany

When you visit our website, we automatically collect and store information in so-called server log files. Your browser automatically transmits this information to our server or to the server of our hosting company.

These are:

IP address of the website visitor’s end device Device used
Host name of the accessing computer Operating system of the visitor Browser type and version
Name of the retrieved file Time of the server request Amount of data
Information on whether the data retrieval was successful This data is not merged with other data sources.

The legal basis for the processing of this data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the technically error-free presentation and optimization of this website.

Instead of operating this website on our own server, we can also have it operated

on the server of an external service provider (hosting company). In this case, the personal data collected on this website will be stored on the hosting company’s servers. In addition to the data mentioned above, this may include, for example, contact requests, contact data, names, website access data, meta and communication data, contract data and other data generated via a website.

The purpose of pre-contractual or contractual performance vis-à-vis the data subject is cited as a further legal basis. (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR). In the event that we have commissioned a hosting company, there is an order processing contract with this service provider.

Use of local storage items, session storage items and cookies

Our website uses local storage items, session storage items and/or cookies. Local storage is a mechanism that enables the storage of data within the browser on your end device. This data usually contains user preferences, such as the “day” or “night” mode of a website, and is retained until you delete the data manually. Session storage is very similar to local storage, whereas the storage period only lasts during the current session, i.e. until the current tab is closed. The session storage items are then deleted from your end device. Cookies are information that a web server (server that provides web content) stores on your end device in order to be able to identify this end device. They are either stored temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) and deleted at the end of your visit to a website or permanently (permanent cookies) on your end device until you delete them yourself or they are automatically deleted by your web browser.

These objects may also be stored on your device by third-party companies when you visit our website (third-party requests). This enables us, as the operator, and you, as a visitor to this website, to use certain third-party services that are installed on this website. Examples of this include the processing of payment services or the display of videos.

These mechanisms can be used in a variety of ways. They can improve the functionality of a website, control shopping cart functions, increase the security and convenience of website use and carry out analyses of visitor flows and behavior. Depending on the individual functions, they must be classified according to data protection law. If they are necessary for the operation of the website and intended to provide certain functions (shopping cart function) or serve to optimize the website (e.g. cookies to measure visitor behavior), they are used on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. As the website operator, we have a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies, local storage items and session storage items for the technically error- free and optimized provision of our services. In all other cases, cookies, local storage items and session storage items are only stored with your express consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR).

If cookies, local or session storage are used by third-party companies or for analysis purposes, we will inform you about this separately in this data protection notice. Your required consent will be requested and can be revoked at any time.

Use of external services

External services are used on our website. External services are services from third-party providers that are used on our website. This can be done for various reasons, for example for embedding videos or for the security of the website. When using these services, personal data is also passed on to the respective providers of these external services. If we do not have a legitimate interest in using these services, we will obtain your consent as a visitor to our website, which can be revoked at any time, before using them (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR).

Consent Management

In order to comply with data protection requirements, we use a consent management tool on our website. We use this tool to obtain the necessary consent for the setting of cookies or the use of external services. The consents are stored.

The processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller (website operator) is subject. Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR is therefore used as the legal basis for processing.

Borlabs Cookie

COOKIE CONSENT WITH BORLABS COOKIE

Our website uses Borlabs Cookie’s cookie consent technology to obtain your consent to the storage of certain cookies in your browser and to document this in compliance with data protection regulations. The provider of this technology is Borlabs – Benjamin A. Bornschein, Georg-Wilhelm-Str. 17, 21107 Hamburg (hereinafter referred to as Borlabs).

When you enter our website, a Borlabs cookie is stored in your browser, in which the consent you have given or the revocation of this consent is stored.

This data is not passed on to the provider of Borlabs Cookie.

The data collected will be stored until you ask us to delete it or delete the Borlabs cookie yourself or until the purpose for storing the data no longer applies. Mandatory statutory retention periods remain unaffected. Details on Borlabs Cookie data processing can be found at https://de.borlabs.io/kb/welche-daten-speichert-borlabs-cookie/ Borlabs Cookie Consent technology is used to obtain the legally required consent for the use of cookies. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR.

COOKIE SETTINGS

The service uses the following cookies on our website:

Name	Storage duration	Type	Purpose
borlabs-cookie	365 days	1st-party cookie	This cookie s

CRM systems

In order to better manage our customer relationships, we use a customer relationship management system. This makes it possible to present customer relationship processes clearly and maintain them in an organized manner. This includes existing and potential customers.

This involves the processing of personal data, such as name and address. The

processing of the data is based on the legal basis of consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). As a website visitor, you have consented to the processing of your personal data with your voluntary, explicit and prior consent. Without separate consent, the personal data will not be processed by us in the manner described above, provided that there is no other legal basis within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 GDPR on which we base the processing. We will proceed in the same way if you withdraw your consent. This will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out until you withdraw your consent.

Marketing

Tools are used on our website that offer services relating to campaigns, web analysis and personalization. This enables a central and comprehensive collection of all data, which in turn is necessary for the optimization and planning of digital campaigns. These services can be set and used by our advertising partners via our website to create a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other websites. The

We use Matomo on our website. Matomo is an open-source web analysis platform. We use this web analytics platform to measure, collect, analyze and report visitor data. It helps us to understand and optimize our website. The provider of the service is InnoCraft, 7 Waterloo Quay PO625, 6140 Wellington, New Zealand.

Further information can be found in the provider’s data protection information at the following URL https://matomo.org/matomo-cloud-privacy-policy/

No user data is transferred to a third country. The service uses the following cookies on our website:

Name	Storage duration	Type	Purpose
_pk_.	13 months	1^st party cookie	This cookie is used to track visitors to the website.

Contact form

You have the option of contacting us via a contact form on our website. In particular, your contact details are required to contact us via this form.

The legal basis here is the processing for the purpose of contract fulfillment or pre-contractual measures pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. There may also be a legitimate interest in maintaining business relationships or responding to your inquiry for other reasons.

The legal basis for the processing of your data in this case would be Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

The data will be deleted when we have finally answered your request and there are no other storage obligations to the contrary.

Contact by telephone or e-mail

We have provided a telephone number and e-mail address on our website in accordance with legal requirements. The data transmitted via these channels is automatically stored by us in order to process corresponding inquiries or to be able to contact the person making the inquiry. We will not pass this data on to third parties without your consent.

If contact is made by telephone or via our e-mail address for pre-contractual or contractual purposes, the processing of personal data is based on the legal basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. For all other contact from you, the processing of personal data by us is based on our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Handling applicant data

It is possible to send us an application (e.g. by post, online application form or e-mail). The personal data received in this way will be stored and processed by us for the application process. The

basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR and Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, provided that consent has been given. Insofar as German law is applicable, Section 26 BDSG in particular is used as the legal basis for processing. You can withdraw your consent at any time. This does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out prior to the withdrawal.

If the application results in an employment relationship, the data collected will be stored for the purpose of processing the employment relationship on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. If no employment relationship is established, the data will be stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR for the duration of legal claims, in particular due to discrimination in the application process. This is necessary for the defense against any lawsuits or allegations. If consent has been given, the data will be stored for longer on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can withdraw your consent at any time. This does not affect the

lawfulness of the processing carried out up to the point of withdrawal.

If no employment relationship is established, the applicant may be included in our applicant pool. All details of the application are stored in order to be able to contact the person in question in the event of suitable vacancies.

The storage of data in the applicant pool takes place exclusively after consent has been given on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. This consent can be revoked at any time, whereupon the corresponding data will be deleted, provided there are no legal reasons for storage. Deletion takes place automatically no later than two years after consent has been granted. This does not affect the lawfulness of the processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.

Applicant pool

If no employment relationship is established, the applicant can be included in our applicant pool. All details of the application are stored so that we can contact the person in question if there are suitable vacancies.

Data is only stored in the applicant pool after consent has been given on the basis of Art. 6 (1)

(a) GDPR. This consent can be revoked at any time, whereupon the corresponding data will be deleted, provided there are no legal reasons for storage. Deletion takes place at the latest two years after consent has been granted. This does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out until the revocation.

hCaptcha

We use hCaptcha (hereinafter referred to as “hCaptcha”) on this website. The provider is Intuition Machines, Inc, 2211 Selig Drive, Los

Angeles, CA 90026, USA (hereinafter referred to as “IMI”). The purpose of hCaptcha is to check whether the data entry on this website (e.g. in a contact form) is made by a human or by an automated program. For this purpose, hCaptcha analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics.

This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor enters

a website with activated hCaptcha. For the analysis, hCaptcha evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, time spent on the website by the website visitor or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to IMI. If hCaptcha is used in “invisible mode”, the analyses run completely in the background. Website visitors are not informed that an analysis is taking place.

The data is stored and analyzed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its website from abusive automated spying and SPAM. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 1 TTDSG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user’s terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. Consent can be revoked at any time.

Data processing is based on standard contractual clauses contained in the data processing addendum to IMI’s General Terms and Conditions or the data processing contracts.

Further information on hCaptcha can be found in the privacy policy and terms of use at the following links:

https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy and https://hcaptcha.com/terms.