PRIVACY POLICY
DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION
Personal data (usually referred to as “data” in the following) will only be processed by us to the extent necessary and for the purpose of providing a functional and user-friendly website, including its contents and the services offered there.
According to art. 4 point 1. Regulation (EU) 2016/679, i.e. the Basic Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter referred to as the “DSGVO”), shall be deemed to be “processing” any transaction carried out with or without the aid of automated procedures or any such series of transactions in connection with personal data, such as the collection, collection, organisation, sorting, storage, adaptation or modification, reading, querying, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or any other form of provision, comparison or linking, restriction, deletion or destruction.
With the following data protection declaration we inform you in particular about the type, scope, purpose, duration and legal basis of the processing of personal data, insofar as we decide either alone or together with others about the purposes and means of the processing. In addition, we inform you below about the third-party components we use for optimisation purposes and to increase the quality of use, insofar as third parties process data as a result of this on their own responsibility.
Our privacy policy is structured as follows:
I. Information about us as responsible persons
II. rights of users and persons concerned
III. Information on data processing
I. INFORMATION ABOUT US AS RESPONSIBLE PERSONS
Responsible provider of this website in the sense of data protection law is:
Greencells GmbH
Bahnhofstraße 28
66111 Saarbrücken
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 681 992 669 10
Telefax: +49 (0) 681 992 665 74
Contact Person for Data Protection is:
Charles Hopkins (Data protection Manager)
E-Mail: dp(at)nl.greencells.com
II. RIGHTS OF USERS AND PARTIES CONCERNED
With a view to the data processing described in more detail below, users and data subjects have the right to
- on confirmation of whether data concerning them are processed, on information about the data processed, on further information about data processing and on copies of the data (cf. also Art. 15 DSGVO);
- correction or completion of incorrect or incomplete data (cf. also Art. 16 DSGVO);
- to the immediate erasure of the data concerning them (cf. also Art. 17 DSGVO), or, alternatively, if further processing is required pursuant to Art. 17 para. 3 DSGVO, to the restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 DSGVO;
- on receipt of the data concerning them and provided by them and on transmission of these data to other providers/responsible parties (cf. also Art. 20 DSGVO);
- on complaint to the supervisory authority if they are of the opinion that the data concerning them are processed by the provider in violation of data protection provisions (cf. also Art. 77 DSGVO).
In addition, the provider is obliged to inform all recipients to whom data have been disclosed by the provider about any correction or deletion of data or the restriction of the processing which takes place on the basis of Articles 16, 17, para. 1, 18 DSGVO. However, this obligation shall not apply if such notification is impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. Notwithstanding this, the user has a right to information about these recipients.
Users and data subjects also have the right to object to the future processing of data concerning them in accordance with Art. 21 DSGVO, provided that the data are processed by the provider in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO. In particular, an objection to data processing for the purpose of direct advertising is permissible.
III. rights of users and persons concerned
Your data processed when using our website will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage ceases to apply, the deletion of the data does not conflict with any legal storage obligations and no other information on individual processing procedures is provided below.
SERVER DATA
For technical reasons, in particular to ensure a secure and stable Internet presence, data is transmitted to us or to our web space provider via your Internet browser. With these so-called server log files, the type and version of your Internet browser, the operating system, the website from which you switched to our Internet presence (referrer URL), the website(s) of our Internet presence that you visit, the date and time of the respective access as well as the IP address of the Internet connection from which our Internet presence is used are collected.
These data collected in this way will be temporarily stored, but not together with other data of yours.
This data is stored on the legal basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO. Our legitimate interest lies in the improvement, stability, functionality and security of our Internet presence.
The data will be deleted after seven days at the latest, unless further storage is required for evidentiary purposes. Otherwise, all or part of the data will be excluded from deletion until an incident is finally resolved.
CONTACT INQUIRIES / CONTACT POSSIBILITY
If you contact us via contact form or e-mail, the data you provide will be used to process your request. Providing the data is necessary for processing and answering your inquiry – without their provision we cannot answer your inquiry or, if necessary, only to a limited extent.
The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) DSGVO.
Your data will be deleted if your inquiry has been finally answered and there is no legal obligation to keep your data safe, e.g. in the case of a possible subsequent contract processing.
Greencells maintains a company page at Facebook, Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA to communicate with prospects and users and to inform them about our services.
You can reach our Facebook page from our website and e-mail signature by redirection. However, it is made clear that we do not use a social plugin from Facebook on our website. Accordingly, no user data is transmitted to the Facebook servers when you visit our website. Only when the user is linked to the pages of Facebook, the data is forwarded to their server. When you visit our site on Facebook, Facebook’s Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy apply. Unless otherwise stated in our privacy policy, we process the data of users who communicate with us within Facebook, e.g. send us messages there. Facebook is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus offers a guarantee to comply with European data protection law (“https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L0UZAA0&status=Active).
For more information about privacy on Facebook, click here: ” https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Greencells maintains a company page at Twitter, Twitter Inc., 11355 Market St #900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA to communicate with prospects and users and to inform them about our services.
You can reach our Twitter page from our e-mail signature by redirection. However, it is made clear that we do not use a social plugin from Twitter on our website. Accordingly, no user data is transmitted to the Twitter servers when you visit our website. Only when the user is linked to the pages of Twitter, the data is forwarded to their server. When you visit our site on Twitter, Twitter’s Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy apply. Unless otherwise stated in our privacy policy, we process the data of users who communicate with us within Facebook, e.g. send us messages there. Twitter is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus offers a guarantee to comply with European data protection law (“https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO&status=Active).
For more information about privacy on Facebook, click here: ” https://twitter.com/de/privacy
Greencells maintains a company site in LinkedIn, LinkedIn Inc, 222 2nd St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA to communicate with prospects and users and to inform them about our services.
You can reach our LinkedIn page from our website and e-mail signature by redirection. However, it is made clear that we do not use a social plugin from LinkedIn on our website. Accordingly, no user data is transmitted to LinkedIn’s servers when you visit our website. Only when the user is linked to the LinkedIn pages will the data be forwarded to their server. When you access our site on LinkedIn, LinkedIn’s Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy apply. Unless otherwise stated in our privacy policy, we process the data of users who communicate with us within LinkedIn, e.g. send us messages there. LinkedIn is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus offers a guarantee to comply with European data protection law (” https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active).
For more information about privacy on Facebook, click here: ” https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
GOOGLE FONTS
In our website we use Google Fonts to display external fonts. This is a service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter only called “Google”.
Through certification according to the EU-US privacy shield (“EU-US Privacy Shield”)
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active
Google guarantees that the EU’s data protection regulations will also be observed when processing data in the USA.
To enable the display of certain fonts on our website, a connection to the Google server in the USA is established when our website is accessed.
The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO. Our legitimate interest lies in the optimization and economic operation of our Internet presence.
By connecting to Google when you visit our website, Google can determine from which website your request was sent and to which IP address the display of the font is to be transmitted..
Google offers under
https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
https://policies.google.com/privacy
provides further information, in particular on the possibilities of preventing the use of data.
YOUTUBE
We use YouTube on our website. This is a video portal of YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, hereinafter referred to as “YouTube”..
YouTube is a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google”.
Through certification according to the EU-US privacy shield (“EU-US Privacy Shield”)
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active
Google and its subsidiary YouTube guarantee that the data protection regulations of the EU will also be observed when processing data in the USA.
We use YouTube in conjunction with the “Advanced Privacy Mode” feature to show you videos. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO. Our legitimate interest lies in improving the quality of our Internet presence. According to YouTube, the “Extended data protection mode” function means that the data specified below will only be transmitted to the YouTube server if you actually start a video.
Without this “Extended Privacy Policy”, a connection to the YouTube server in the USA will be established as soon as you access one of our Internet pages on which a YouTube video is embedded.
This connection is required in order to be able to display the respective video on our website via your Internet browser. In the course of this, YouTube will at least record and process your IP address, the date and time as well as the website you visited. In addition, a connection to the Google advertising network “DoubleClick” is established.
If you are logged in to YouTube at the same time, YouTube will assign the connection information to your YouTube account. If you wish to prevent this, you must either log out of YouTube before visiting our website or make the appropriate settings in your YouTube user account.
For the purpose of functionality and analysis of usage behavior, YouTube permanently stores cookies via your Internet browser on your terminal. If you do not agree to this processing, you have the option of preventing the storage of cookies by setting it in your Internet browser. You will find more detailed information on this under “Cookies” above.
Further information about the collection and use of data as well as your rights and protection options in this regard is held by Google in the databases listed under
https://policies.google.com/privacy
retrievable data protection information.
Muster-Datenschutzerklärung der Anwaltskanzlei Weiß & Partner
(updated on: 11.06.2018)