Pri­va­cy Policy

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1. An overview of data protection

Gen­er­al information

The fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion will pro­vide you with an easy to nav­i­gate overview of what will hap­pen with your per­son­al data when you vis­it this web­site. The term “per­son­al data” com­pris­es all data that can be used to per­son­al­ly iden­ti­fy you. For detailed infor­ma­tion about the sub­ject mat­ter of data pro­tec­tion, please con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion Dec­la­ra­tion, which we have includ­ed beneath this copy.

Data record­ing on this website

Who is the respon­si­ble par­ty for the record­ing of data on this web­site (i.e., the “con­troller”)?

The data on this web­site is processed by the oper­a­tor of the web­site, whose con­tact infor­ma­tion is avail­able under sec­tion “Infor­ma­tion about the respon­si­ble par­ty (referred to as the “con­troller” in the GDPR)” in this Pri­va­cy Policy.

How do we record your data?

We col­lect your data as a result of your shar­ing of your data with us. This may, for instance be infor­ma­tion you enter into our con­tact form.

Oth­er data shall be record­ed by our IT sys­tems auto­mat­i­cal­ly or after you con­sent to its record­ing dur­ing your web­site vis­it. This data com­pris­es pri­mar­i­ly tech­ni­cal infor­ma­tion (e.g., web brows­er, oper­at­ing sys­tem, or time the site was accessed). This infor­ma­tion is record­ed auto­mat­i­cal­ly when you access this website.

What are the pur­pos­es we use your data for?

A por­tion of the infor­ma­tion is gen­er­at­ed to guar­an­tee the error free pro­vi­sion of the web­site. Oth­er data may be used to ana­lyze your user patterns.

What rights do you have as far as your infor­ma­tion is concerned?

You have the right to receive infor­ma­tion about the source, recip­i­ents, and pur­pos­es of your archived per­son­al data at any time with­out hav­ing to pay a fee for such dis­clo­sures. You also have the right to demand that your data are rec­ti­fied or erad­i­cat­ed. If you have con­sent­ed to data pro­cess­ing, you have the option to revoke this con­sent at any time, which shall affect all future data pro­cess­ing. More­over, you have the right to demand that the pro­cess­ing of your data be restrict­ed under cer­tain cir­cum­stances. Fur­ther­more, you have the right to log a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent super­vis­ing agency.

Please do not hes­i­tate to con­tact us at any time if you have ques­tions about this or any oth­er data pro­tec­tion relat­ed issues.

Analy­sis tools and tools pro­vid­ed by third parties

There is a pos­si­bil­i­ty that your brows­ing pat­terns will be sta­tis­ti­cal­ly ana­lyzed when your vis­it this web­site. Such analy­ses are per­formed pri­mar­i­ly with what we refer to as analy­sis programs.

For detailed infor­ma­tion about these analy­sis pro­grams please con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion Dec­la­ra­tion below.

2. Host­ing

Exter­nal Hosting

This web­site is host­ed by an exter­nal ser­vice provider (host). Per­son­al data col­lect­ed on this web­site are stored on the servers of the host. These may include, but are not lim­it­ed to, IP address­es, con­tact requests, meta­da­ta and com­mu­ni­ca­tions, con­tract infor­ma­tion, con­tact infor­ma­tion, names, web page access, and oth­er data gen­er­at­ed through a web site.

The host is used for the pur­pose of ful­fill­ing the con­tract with our poten­tial and exist­ing cus­tomers (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and in the inter­est of secure, fast, and effi­cient pro­vi­sion of our online ser­vices by a pro­fes­sion­al provider (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Our host will only process your data to the extent nec­es­sary to ful­fil its per­for­mance oblig­a­tions and to fol­low our instruc­tions with respect to such data.

We are using the fol­low­ing host:

Host Europe GmbH
Hans­es­trasse 111
51149 Köln

Data pro­cess­ing

We have con­clud­ed a data pro­cess­ing agree­ment (DPA) with the above-men­tioned provider. This is a con­tract man­dat­ed by data pri­va­cy laws that guar­an­tees that they process per­son­al data of our web­site vis­i­tors only based on our instruc­tions and in com­pli­ance with the GDPR.

3. Gen­er­al infor­ma­tion and manda­to­ry information

Data pro­tec­tion

The oper­a­tors of this web­site and its pages take the pro­tec­tion of your per­son­al data very seri­ous­ly. Hence, we han­dle your per­son­al data as con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion and in com­pli­ance with the statu­to­ry data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions and this Data Pro­tec­tion Declaration.

When­ev­er you use this web­site, a vari­ety of per­son­al infor­ma­tion will be col­lect­ed. Per­son­al data com­pris­es data that can be used to per­son­al­ly iden­ti­fy you. This Data Pro­tec­tion Dec­la­ra­tion explains which data we col­lect as well as the pur­pos­es we use this data for. It also explains how, and for which pur­pose the infor­ma­tion is collected.

We here­with advise you that the trans­mis­sion of data via the Inter­net (i.e., through e‑mail com­mu­ni­ca­tions) may be prone to secu­ri­ty gaps. It is not pos­si­ble to com­plete­ly pro­tect data against third-par­ty access.

Infor­ma­tion about the respon­si­ble par­ty (referred to as the “con­troller” in the GDPR)

The data pro­cess­ing con­troller on this web­site is:

CU³IC UG (haf­tungs­beschränkt)
Bertha-von-Sut­tner-Strasse 3A
76139 Karl­sruhe

Phone: +49 (721) 47077037
E‑mail: office@cu3ic.com

The con­troller is the nat­ur­al per­son or legal enti­ty that sin­gle-hand­ed­ly or joint­ly with oth­ers makes deci­sions as to the pur­pos­es of and resources for the pro­cess­ing of per­son­al data (e.g., names, e‑mail address­es, etc.).

Stor­age duration

Unless a more spe­cif­ic stor­age peri­od has been spec­i­fied in this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy, your per­son­al data will remain with us until the pur­pose for which it was col­lect­ed no longer applies. If you assert a jus­ti­fied request for dele­tion or revoke your con­sent to data pro­cess­ing, your data will be delet­ed, unless we have oth­er legal­ly per­mis­si­ble rea­sons for stor­ing your per­son­al data (e.g., tax or com­mer­cial law reten­tion peri­ods); in the lat­ter case, the dele­tion will take place after these rea­sons cease to apply.

Infor­ma­tion on data trans­fer to the USA and oth­er non-EU countries

Among oth­er things, we use tools of com­pa­nies domi­ciled in the Unit­ed States or oth­er from a data pro­tec­tion per­spec­tive non-secure non-EU coun­tries. If these tools are active, your per­son­al data may poten­tial­ly be trans­ferred to these non-EU coun­tries and may be processed there. We must point out that in these coun­tries, a data pro­tec­tion lev­el that is com­pa­ra­ble to that in the EU can­not be guar­an­teed. For instance, U.S. enter­pris­es are under a man­date to release per­son­al data to the secu­ri­ty agen­cies and you as the data sub­ject do not have any lit­i­ga­tion options to defend your­self in court. Hence, it can­not be ruled out that U.S. agen­cies (e.g., the Secret Ser­vice) may process, ana­lyze, and per­ma­nent­ly archive your per­son­al data for sur­veil­lance pur­pos­es. We have no con­trol over these pro­cess­ing activities.

A wide range of data pro­cess­ing trans­ac­tions are pos­si­ble only sub­ject to your express con­sent. You can also revoke at any time any con­sent you have already giv­en us. This shall be with­out prej­u­dice to the law­ful­ness of any data col­lec­tion that occurred pri­or to your revocation.

Right to object to the col­lec­tion of data in spe­cial cas­es; right to object to direct adver­tis­ing (Art. 21 GDPR)

IN THE EVENT THAT DATA ARE PROCESSED ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6(1)(E) OR (F) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO AT ANY TIME OBJECT TO THE PRO­CESS­ING OF YOUR PER­SON­AL DATA BASED ON GROUNDS ARIS­ING FROM YOUR UNIQUE SIT­U­A­TION. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO ANY PRO­FIL­ING BASED ON THESE PRO­VI­SIONS. TO DETER­MINE THE LEGAL BASIS, ON WHICH ANY PRO­CESS­ING OF DATA IS BASED, PLEASE CON­SULT THIS DATA PRO­TEC­TION DEC­LA­RA­TION. IF YOU LOG AN OBJEC­TION, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR AFFECT­ED PER­SON­AL DATA, UNLESS WE ARE IN A POSI­TION TO PRESENT COM­PELLING PRO­TEC­TION WOR­THY GROUNDS FOR THE PRO­CESS­ING OF YOUR DATA, THAT OUT­WEIGH YOUR INTER­ESTS, RIGHTS AND FREE­DOMS OR IF THE PUR­POSE OF THE PRO­CESS­ING IS THE CLAIM­ING, EXER­CIS­ING OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL ENTI­TLE­MENTS (OBJEC­TION PUR­SUANT TO ART. 21(1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PER­SON­AL DATA IS BEING PROCESSED IN ORDER TO ENGAGE IN DIRECT ADVER­TIS­ING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PRO­CESS­ING OF YOUR AFFECT­ED PER­SON­AL DATA FOR THE PUR­POS­ES OF SUCH ADVER­TIS­ING AT ANY TIME. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PRO­FIL­ING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS AFFIL­I­AT­ED WITH SUCH DIRECT ADVER­TIS­ING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PER­SON­AL DATA WILL SUB­SE­QUENT­LY NO LONGER BE USED FOR DIRECT ADVER­TIS­ING PUR­POS­ES (OBJEC­TION PUR­SUANT TO ART. 21(2) GDPR).

Right to log a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent super­vi­so­ry agency

In the event of vio­la­tions of the GDPR, data sub­jects are enti­tled to log a com­plaint with a super­vi­so­ry agency, in par­tic­u­lar in the mem­ber state where they usu­al­ly main­tain their domi­cile, place of work or at the place where the alleged vio­la­tion occurred. The right to log a com­plaint is in effect regard­less of any oth­er admin­is­tra­tive or court pro­ceed­ings avail­able as legal recourses.

Right to data portability

You have the right to demand that we hand over any data we auto­mat­i­cal­ly process on the basis of your con­sent or in order to ful­fil a con­tract be hand­ed over to you or a third par­ty in a com­mon­ly used, machine read­able for­mat. If you should demand the direct trans­fer of the data to anoth­er con­troller, this will be done only if it is tech­ni­cal­ly feasible.

SSL and/or TLS encryption

For secu­ri­ty rea­sons and to pro­tect the trans­mis­sion of con­fi­den­tial con­tent, such as pur­chase orders or inquiries you sub­mit to us as the web­site oper­a­tor, this web­site uses either an SSL or a TLS encryp­tion pro­gram. You can rec­og­nize an encrypt­ed con­nec­tion by check­ing whether the address line of the brows­er switch­es from “http://” to “https://” and also by the appear­ance of the lock icon in the brows­er line.

If the SSL or TLS encryp­tion is acti­vat­ed, data you trans­mit to us can­not be read by third parties.

Infor­ma­tion about, rec­ti­fi­ca­tion and erad­i­ca­tion of data

With­in the scope of the applic­a­ble statu­to­ry pro­vi­sions, you have the right to at any time demand infor­ma­tion about your archived per­son­al data, their source and recip­i­ents as well as the pur­pose of the pro­cess­ing of your data. You may also have a right to have your data rec­ti­fied or erad­i­cat­ed. If you have ques­tions about this sub­ject mat­ter or any oth­er ques­tions about per­son­al data, please do not hes­i­tate to con­tact us at any time.

Right to demand pro­cess­ing restrictions

You have the right to demand the impo­si­tion of restric­tions as far as the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data is con­cerned. To do so, you may con­tact us at any time. The right to demand restric­tion of pro­cess­ing applies in the fol­low­ing cases:

  • In the event that you should dis­pute the cor­rect­ness of your data archived by us, we will usu­al­ly need some time to ver­i­fy this claim. Dur­ing the time that this inves­ti­ga­tion is ongo­ing, you have the right to demand that we restrict the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data.
  • If the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data was/is con­duct­ed in an unlaw­ful man­ner, you have the option to demand the restric­tion of the pro­cess­ing of your data in lieu of demand­ing the erad­i­ca­tion of this data.
  • If we do not need your per­son­al data any longer and you need it to exer­cise, defend or claim legal enti­tle­ments, you have the right to demand the restric­tion of the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data instead of its eradication.
  • If you have raised an objec­tion pur­suant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, your rights and our rights will have to be weighed against each oth­er. As long as it has not been deter­mined whose inter­ests pre­vail, you have the right to demand a restric­tion of the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data.

If you have restrict­ed the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data, these data – with the excep­tion of their archiv­ing – may be processed only sub­ject to your con­sent or to claim, exer­cise or defend legal enti­tle­ments or to pro­tect the rights of oth­er nat­ur­al per­sons or legal enti­ties or for impor­tant pub­lic inter­est rea­sons cit­ed by the Euro­pean Union or a mem­ber state of the EU.

Rejec­tion of unso­licit­ed e‑mails

We here­with object to the use of con­tact infor­ma­tion pub­lished in con­junc­tion with the manda­to­ry infor­ma­tion to be pro­vid­ed in our Site Notice to send us pro­mo­tion­al and infor­ma­tion mate­r­i­al that we have not express­ly request­ed. The oper­a­tors of this web­site and its pages reserve the express right to take legal action in the event of the unso­licit­ed send­ing of pro­mo­tion­al infor­ma­tion, for instance via SPAM messages.

4. Record­ing of data on this website

Cook­ies

Our web­sites and pages use what the indus­try refers to as “cook­ies.” Cook­ies are small text files that do not cause any dam­age to your device. They are either stored tem­porar­i­ly for the dura­tion of a ses­sion (ses­sion cook­ies) or they are per­ma­nent­ly archived on your device (per­ma­nent cook­ies). Ses­sion cook­ies are auto­mat­i­cal­ly delet­ed once you ter­mi­nate your vis­it. Per­ma­nent cook­ies remain archived on your device until you active­ly delete them, or they are auto­mat­i­cal­ly erad­i­cat­ed by your web browser.

In some cas­es, it is pos­si­ble that third-par­ty cook­ies are stored on your device once you enter our site (third-par­ty cook­ies). These cook­ies enable you or us to take advan­tage of cer­tain ser­vices offered by the third par­ty (e.g., cook­ies for the pro­cess­ing of pay­ment services).

Cook­ies have a vari­ety of func­tions. Many cook­ies are tech­ni­cal­ly essen­tial since cer­tain web­site func­tions would not work in the absence of the cook­ies (e.g., the shop­ping cart func­tion or the dis­play of videos). The pur­pose of oth­er cook­ies may be the analy­sis of user pat­terns or the dis­play of pro­mo­tion­al messages.

Cook­ies, which are required for the per­for­mance of elec­tron­ic com­mu­ni­ca­tion trans­ac­tions (required cook­ies) or for the pro­vi­sion of cer­tain func­tions you want to use (func­tion­al cook­ies, e.g., for the shop­ping cart func­tion) or those that are nec­es­sary for the opti­miza­tion of the web­site (e.g., cook­ies that pro­vide mea­sur­able insights into the web audi­ence), shall be stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, unless a dif­fer­ent legal basis is cit­ed. The oper­a­tor of the web­site has a legit­i­mate inter­est in the stor­age of cook­ies to ensure the tech­ni­cal­ly error free and opti­mized pro­vi­sion of the operator’s ser­vices. If your con­sent to the stor­age of the cook­ies has been request­ed, the respec­tive cook­ies are stored exclu­sive­ly on the basis of the con­sent obtained (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR); this con­sent may be revoked at any time.

You have the option to set up your brows­er in such a man­ner that you will be noti­fied any time cook­ies are placed and to per­mit the accep­tance of cook­ies only in spe­cif­ic cas­es. You may also exclude the accep­tance of cook­ies in cer­tain cas­es or in gen­er­al or acti­vate the delete func­tion for the auto­mat­ic erad­i­ca­tion of cook­ies when the brows­er clos­es. If cook­ies are deac­ti­vat­ed, the func­tions of this web­site may be limited.

In the event that third-par­ty cook­ies are used or if cook­ies are used for ana­lyt­i­cal pur­pos­es, we will sep­a­rate­ly noti­fy you in con­junc­tion with this Data Pro­tec­tion Pol­i­cy and, if applic­a­ble, ask for your consent.

This web­site uses the cook­ie con­sent tool Bor­labs Cook­ie, pro­vid­ed by Bor­labs GmbH, Rübenkamp 32, 22305 Ham­burg, Germany.

Bor­labs Cook­ie stores tech­ni­cal­ly nec­es­sary cook­ies in order to doc­u­ment your con­sent to the stor­age of cook­ies and the use of spe­cif­ic tech­nolo­gies in a GDPR-com­pli­ant man­ner. The fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion may be processed:

  • Your consent(s) or with­draw­al of consent
  • Your anonymized IP address
  • Date and time of consent
  • Brows­er information
  • URL of the vis­it­ed page

This data is not shared with third par­ties and is stored exclu­sive­ly on our own servers.

The legal basis for pro­cess­ing is Art. 6(1)© GDPR (com­pli­ance with a legal oblig­a­tion) and Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legit­i­mate inter­est in legal­ly com­pli­ant doc­u­men­ta­tion of consent).

The con­sent data is stored until you delete the cook­ies in your brows­er or the pur­pose for stor­age no longer applies.

Secu­ri­ty Mea­sures (All In One Security)

This web­site uses the Word­Press secu­ri­ty plu­g­in All In One Secu­ri­ty (AIOS) to pro­tect the web­site against unau­tho­rized access and cyber attacks.

As part of its secu­ri­ty fea­tures, the fol­low­ing data may be processed:

  • IP address­es (e.g. in case of login attempts or fire­wall rules)
  • Date and type of access attempts
  • Tech­ni­cal infor­ma­tion about brows­er and oper­at­ing system

The pro­cess­ing of this data is car­ried out sole­ly for secu­ri­ty pur­pos­es and to pre­vent misuse.

The legal basis for pro­cess­ing is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in pro­tect­ing our web­site from unau­tho­rized access and ensur­ing sys­tem security.

The col­lect­ed data is not shared with third par­ties and is delet­ed or anonymized once it is no longer required for secu­ri­ty purposes.

Con­tact form

If you sub­mit inquiries to us via our con­tact form, the infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed in the con­tact form as well as any con­tact infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed there­in will be stored by us in order to han­dle your inquiry and in the event that we have fur­ther ques­tions. We will not share this infor­ma­tion with­out your consent.

The pro­cess­ing of these data is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, if your request is relat­ed to the exe­cu­tion of a con­tract or if it is nec­es­sary to car­ry out pre-con­trac­tu­al mea­sures. In all oth­er cas­es the pro­cess­ing is based on our legit­i­mate inter­est in the effec­tive pro­cess­ing of the requests addressed to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your agree­ment (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) if this has been requested.

The infor­ma­tion you have entered into the con­tact form shall remain with us until you ask us to erad­i­cate the data, revoke your con­sent to the archiv­ing of data or if the pur­pose for which the infor­ma­tion is being archived no longer exists (e.g., after we have con­clud­ed our response to your inquiry). This shall be with­out prej­u­dice to any manda­to­ry legal pro­vi­sions, in par­tic­u­lar reten­tion periods.

5. Analy­sis tools and advertising

Google Ana­lyt­ics

This web­site uses func­tions of the web analy­sis ser­vice Google Ana­lyt­ics. The provider of this ser­vice is Google Ire­land Lim­it­ed (“Google”), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Ana­lyt­ics enables the web­site oper­a­tor to ana­lyze the behav­ior pat­terns of web­site vis­i­tors. To that end, the web­site oper­a­tor receives a vari­ety of user data, such as pages accessed, time spent on the page, the uti­lized oper­at­ing sys­tem and the user’s ori­gin. Google may con­sol­i­date these data in a pro­file that is allo­cat­ed to the respec­tive user or the user’s device.

Fur­ther­more, Google Ana­lyt­ics allows us to record your mouse and scroll move­ments and clicks, among oth­er things. Google Ana­lyt­ics uses var­i­ous mod­el­ing approach­es to aug­ment the col­lect­ed data sets and uses machine learn­ing tech­nolo­gies in data analysis.

Google Ana­lyt­ics uses tech­nolo­gies that make the recog­ni­tion of the user for the pur­pose of ana­lyz­ing the user behav­ior pat­terns (e.g., cook­ies or device fin­ger­print­ing). The web­site use infor­ma­tion record­ed by Google is, as a rule trans­ferred to a Google serv­er in the Unit­ed States, where it is stored.

This analy­sis tool is used on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The oper­a­tor of this web­site has a legit­i­mate inter­est in the analy­sis of user pat­terns to opti­mize both, the ser­vices offered online and the operator’s adver­tis­ing activ­i­ties. If a cor­re­spond­ing agree­ment has been request­ed (e.g., an agree­ment to the stor­age of cook­ies), the pro­cess­ing takes place exclu­sive­ly on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; the agree­ment can be revoked at any time.

Data trans­mis­sion to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tu­al Claus­es (SCC) of the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion. Details can be found here: https://​pri​va​cy​.google​.com/​b​u​s​i​n​e​s​s​e​s​/​c​o​n​t​r​o​l​l​e​r​t​e​r​m​s​/​m​c​cs/.

IP anonymiza­tion

On this web­site, we have acti­vat­ed the IP anonymiza­tion func­tion. As a result, your IP address will be abbre­vi­at­ed by Google with­in the mem­ber states of the Euro­pean Union or in oth­er states that have rat­i­fied the Con­ven­tion on the Euro­pean Eco­nom­ic Area pri­or to its trans­mis­sion to the Unit­ed States. The full IP address will be trans­mit­ted to one of Google’s servers in the Unit­ed States and abbre­vi­at­ed there only in excep­tion­al cas­es. On behalf of the oper­a­tor of this web­site, Google shall use this infor­ma­tion to ana­lyze your use of this web­site to gen­er­ate reports on web­site activ­i­ties and to ren­der oth­er ser­vices to the oper­a­tor of this web­site that are relat­ed to the use of the web­site and the Inter­net. The IP address trans­mit­ted in con­junc­tion with Google Ana­lyt­ics from your brows­er shall not be merged with oth­er data in Google’s possession.

Brows­er plug-in

You can pre­vent the record­ing and pro­cess­ing of your data by Google by down­load­ing and installing the brows­er plu­g­in avail­able under the fol­low­ing link: https://​tools​.google​.com/​d​l​p​a​g​e​/​g​a​o​p​t​o​u​t​?​h​l​=en.

For more infor­ma­tion about the han­dling of user data by Google Ana­lyt­ics, please con­sult Google’s Data Pri­va­cy Dec­la­ra­tion at: https://​sup​port​.google​.com/​a​n​a​l​y​t​i​c​s​/​a​n​s​w​e​r​/​6​0​0​4​2​4​5​?​h​l​=en.

Con­tract data processing

We have exe­cut­ed a con­tract data pro­cess­ing agree­ment with Google and are imple­ment­ing the strin­gent pro­vi­sions of the Ger­man data pro­tec­tion agen­cies to the fullest when using Google Analytics.

Archiv­ing period

Data on the user or inci­dent lev­el stored by Google linked to cook­ies, user IDs or adver­tis­ing IDs (e.g., Dou­bleClick cook­ies, Android adver­tis­ing ID) will be anonymized or delet­ed after 2 months. For details, please click the fol­low­ing link: https://​sup​port​.google​.com/​a​n​a​l​y​t​i​c​s​/​a​n​s​w​e​r​/​7​6​6​7​1​9​6​?​h​l​=en

6. Newslet­ter

Newslet­ter data

If you would like to receive the newslet­ter offered on the web­site, we require an e‑mail address from you as well as infor­ma­tion that allows us to ver­i­fy that you are the own­er of the e‑mail address pro­vid­ed and that you agree to receive the newslet­ter. Fur­ther data is not col­lect­ed or only on a vol­un­tary basis. For the han­dling of the newslet­ter we use newslet­ter ser­vice providers, which are described below.

Clev­er­Reach

This web­site uses Clev­er­Reach for the send­ing of newslet­ters. The provider is the Clev­er­Reach GmbH & Co. KG, Schafjück­en­weg 2, 26180 Rast­ede, Ger­many (here­inafter “Clev­er­Reach”). Clev­er­Reach is a ser­vice that can be used to orga­nize and ana­lyze the send­ing of newslet­ters. The data you have entered for the pur­pose of sub­scrib­ing to our newslet­ter (e.g., e‑mail address) are stored on servers of Clev­er­Reach in Ger­many or in Ireland.

Newslet­ters we send out via Clev­er­Reach allow us to ana­lyze the user pat­terns of our newslet­ter recip­i­ents. Among oth­er things, in con­junc­tion with this, it is pos­si­ble how many recip­i­ents actu­al­ly opened the newslet­ter e‑mail and how often which link inside the newslet­ter has been clicked. With the assis­tance of a tool called Con­ver­sion Track­ing, we can also deter­mine whether an action that has been pre­de­fined in the newslet­ter actu­al­ly occurred after the link was clicked (e.g., pur­chase of a prod­uct on this web­site). For more infor­ma­tion on the data analy­sis ser­vices by Clev­er­Reach newslet­ters, please go to: https://​www​.clev​er​reach​.com/​e​n​/​f​e​a​t​u​r​e​s​/​r​e​p​o​r​t​i​n​g​-​t​r​a​c​k​i​ng/.

The data is processed based on your con­sent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You may revoke any con­sent you have giv­en at any time by unsub­scrib­ing from the newslet­ter. This shall be with­out prej­u­dice to the law­ful­ness of any data pro­cess­ing trans­ac­tions that have tak­en place pri­or to your revocation.

If you do not want to per­mit an analy­sis by Clev­er­Reach, you must unsub­scribe from the newslet­ter. We pro­vide a link for you to do this in every newslet­ter message.

The data deposit­ed with us for the pur­pose of sub­scrib­ing to the newslet­ter will be stored by us until you unsub­scribe from the newslet­ter or the newslet­ter ser­vice provider and delet­ed from the newslet­ter dis­tri­b­u­tion list after you unsub­scribe from the newslet­ter. Data stored for oth­er pur­pos­es with us remain unaffected.

After you unsub­scribe from the newslet­ter dis­tri­b­u­tion list, your e‑mail address may be stored by us or the newslet­ter ser­vice provider in a black­list to pre­vent future mail­ings. The data from the black­list is used only for this pur­pose and not merged with oth­er data. This serves both your inter­est and our inter­est in com­ply­ing with the legal require­ments when send­ing newslet­ters (legit­i­mate inter­est with­in the mean­ing of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). The stor­age in the black­list is indef­i­nite. You may object to the stor­age if your inter­ests out­weigh our legit­i­mate interest.

For more details, please con­sult the Data Pro­tec­tion Pro­vi­sions of Clev­er­Reach at: https://​www​.clev​er​reach​.com/​e​n​/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​-​p​o​l​i​cy/.

Data pro­cess­ing

We have con­clud­ed a data pro­cess­ing agree­ment (DPA) with the above-men­tioned provider. This is a con­tract man­dat­ed by data pri­va­cy laws that guar­an­tees that they process per­son­al data of our web­site vis­i­tors only based on our instruc­tions and in com­pli­ance with the GDPR.

7. Plug-ins and Tools

Google Web Fonts (local embedding)

This web­site uses so-called Web Fonts pro­vid­ed by Google to ensure the uni­form use of fonts on this site. These Google fonts are local­ly installed so that a con­nec­tion to Google’s servers will not be estab­lished in con­junc­tion with this application.

For more infor­ma­tion on Google Web Fonts, please fol­low this link: https://​devel​op​ers​.google​.com/​f​o​n​t​s​/​faq and con­sult Google’s Data Pri­va­cy Dec­la­ra­tion under: https://​poli​cies​.google​.com/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​?​h​l​=en.

Dr Maria Cristina Caldarola

Dr Maria Cristina Caldarola, LL.M., MBA is the host of “Duet Interviews”, co-founder and CEO of CU³IC UG, a consultancy specialising in systematic approaches to innovation, such as algorithmic IP data analysis and cross-industry search for innovation solutions.

Cristina is a well-regarded legal expert in licensing, patents, trademarks, domains, software, data protection, cloud, big data, digital eco-systems and industry 4.0.

A TRIUM MBA, Cristina is also a frequent keynote speaker, a lecturer at St. Gallen, and the co-author of the recently published Big Data and Law now available in English, German and Mandarin editions.

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