2. Which processing activities are carried out?
Newsletter Mailing
Purpose and legal basis
Your data will be used only to send you the subscribed newsletter by e-mail and, if you have given your consent, to evaluate how you use the newsletter and any linked content. Your name will be entered in order to address you personally in the newsletter and, if necessary, to identify you if you wish to exercise your rights as a data subject.
The legal basis for these processing operations is your consent, Art. 6(a) GDPR (EU General Data Protection Regulation).
Recipient of the data
We use a service provider, who acts as our data processor, for the mailing and any evaluations.
Storage duration
Data is processed in this context only as long as the corresponding consent exists. Then it is deleted.
Provision required or needed
The provision of your personal data is voluntary, solely on the basis of your consent. Unfortunately, we cannot send you our newsletter without your consent.
Withdrawal of consent
You can withdraw your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for the newsletter mailing by activeMind at any time. In every newsletter, there is a corresponding link. The withdrawal can also be made by unsubscribing from the newsletter on the website and through the other contact options indicated on the website.
Profiling
If you have given us your consent, we evaluate your use of the newsletters sent and evaluate subsequent visits to the activeMind.legal website to further improve the newsletter and website and to optimize the actual interests of the visitors accordingly.
Contact form
Purpose and legal basis
The data entered by you will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you.
The data entered in the contact form will be processed on the basis of a legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
By providing the contact form, we would like to make it easy for you to contact us. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing your inquiry and for possible follow-up questions.
If you contact us to request an offer, the data entered in the contact form will be processed for the purpose of implementing pre-contractual measures (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
Data recipients
Our website is maintained by a service provider, who acts as our processor.
If you send us an inquiry regarding an offer, service providers used by us may receive data for these purposes if they require the data to perform their respective services (e.g., IT services).
All service providers are contractually obliged to treat your data confidentially.
Retention period
Data will be deleted no later than 6 months after processing the inquiry.
If it comes to a contractual relationship, we are subject to the legal retention periods and delete your data after six or ten years.
Mandatory or required provision
The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your request if you provide us with your name, e-mail address and the reason for the inquiry.
Objection
Please read the information on your right to object according to Art. 21 GDPR below.
Accessing our website
Purpose, legal basis and legitimate interest
When you access our website, i.e., even if you do not register or submit information, information of a general nature will be collected automatically. This information (server log files) contains the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, your IP address and the like.
It is processed in particular for the following purposes:
- ensuring an unproblematic website connection
- ensuring seamless use of our website
- analysis of system security and stability as well as
- for additional administrative purposes
We also reserve the right to review the server log files retrospectively, should concrete evidence point to illegal use.
The processing occurs according to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.
Data recipients
We use technical service providers for the operation and maintenance of our website, who are commissioned as our processors.
Retention period
The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the reason it was collected. This is generally the case for the data used to make the website available when the respective session has ended.
Mandatory or required provision
The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without the IP address and cookie ID, the service and functionality of our website are not guaranteed. Further, individual services may be unavailable or limited.
Use of cookies
Like many other websites, we use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website.
1. Use of technically required cookies
Purpose, legal basis and legitimate interest
We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the respective browser be identified, even after a page change.
The following data will be saved and transmitted in the cookies:
- Language settings
The purpose of using technically required cookies is to simplify the use of websites for users. Some features of our website cannot be provided without the use of cookies. For these features, identifying the browser again is necessary, even after a page change.
We require cookies for the following applications:
- Applying language settings
The processing occurs according to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, based on our legitimate interest in the user-friendly design of our website.
Data recipients
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers, who work on the operation and maintenance of our website as the processor. For this, we have the corresponding data processing agreements with the service providers.
Retention period
For the details on the retention period of the cookies and the technologies used within the scope of these tracking tools, see the cookie and opt-out notices.
Mandatory or required provision
The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without this data the service and functionality of our website are not guaranteed. Further, individual services may be unavailable or limited.
2. Use of cookies that are not technically required
Purpose and legal basis
Parts of our websites use “cookies”. These are small text files, hidden behind this standard technology, which are stored on the device you are using and–among other things–make visiting a website more comfortable or more secure. Cookies can also be used to better tailor the offering on a website to the interests of the visitors or generally to improve the offer on the basis of statistical evaluations.
We use the web-analysis technologies of the following providers:
- Google Analytics
- Google Remarketing and DoubleClick
- WiredMinds
The respective legal basis for this processing is your consent (Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR).
Data recipients
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers, who work on the operation and maintenance of our website as processors. For this, we have corresponding data processing agreements with the service providers.
In the cookie and opt-out notices, you will find additional recipients and the details on the technical functionality of the tools and information used as well as how you can prevent the data transfer (tracking).
Retention period
For the details on the retention period of the cookies and the technologies used within the scope of these tracking tools, see the cookie and opt-out notices.
Third-country transfers
Information on third-country transfers can also be found in the cookie and opt-out notices.
Mandatory or required provision
Of course, you can view our website without cookies. Internet browser are regularly configured to accept cookies. In general, you can disable the use of cookies via your browser settings at any time (see “Withdrawal of consent”).
Please keep in mind that individual features of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.
Withdrawal of consent
You will find details on the available opt-out options with these tracking tools in the cookie and opt-out notices.
Profiling
With the assistance of the tracking tools, the browsing behavior of the website visitors can be evaluated and their respective interests analyzed. For this analysis, we create a pseudonymous user profile.
3. Which data protection rights do you have?
Every data subject has the right of access (according to Art. 15 GDPR), right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR), right to object (Art. 21 GDPR) as well as the right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR).
Regarding the right of access and the right of erasure, the restrictions according to sections 34 and 35 of the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG, German Data Protection Act) apply.
You may withdraw from us your consent to process personal data at any time. This also applies to the withdrawal of declarations of consent that were given to us before the effective date of the General Data Protection Regulation, i.e., prior to 25 May 2018. Please note that the withdrawal is valid only for the future. Processing that occurred before the withdrawal is not affected.
Further, there is a right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR, in connection with 19 BDSG). You will find a list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with their addresses at
https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.
4. Data Security
We handle personal data only as permitted by data protection regulations. We also endeavor to provide all necessary, technical and organizational security measures to adequately protect your personal data at all times against unauthorized access and misuse.
If we store or process personal data, it occurs in a high-security data center. In order to protect the security of your data during transfer, we use encryption techniques (e.g., SSL) over HTTPS. Our servers are secured by firewall and virus protection. Back-up and recovery procedures as well as roles and authorization policies are a given for us.
When handling data, our employees are obliged to comply with the regulations of the GDPR and the BDSG.
5. Changes to our data protection provisions
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy, so it is always in compliance with the current legal requirements or to implement changes to services in the Privacy Policy, e.g., when introducing new services. In this case, your future visits to our website will be subject to the updated Privacy Policy.
Information on your right to object according to Art. 21 GDPR
Case-specific right to object
You have the right at any time, for reasons that arise from your particular situation, to object to the processing of personal data pertaining to you, which occurs pursuant to 6(1)(f) GDPR (data processing on the basis of a balance of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision in accordance with Art. 4(4) GDPR.
If you file an objection, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing is for the purpose of enforcing, carrying out or defending legal claims.
Recipient of an objection
The objection can be made in any form. Simply send us a letter or e-mail with “Objection” in the subject line, your name, address or other identifiers, and address it to:
activeMind.legal Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
Potsdamer Strasse 3
80802 Munich
Germany
E-Mail: datenschutz@activemind.legal
