Privacy

The responsible body within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

WiredMinds GmbH
Lindenspürstraße 32
70176 Stuttgart
Email: contact(at)wiredminds.de
Tel: +49 711 / 585 331-0

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Your rights to be affected

You can exercise the following rights at any time under the contact details of our Data Protection Officer:

• Information about your data stored by us and how they are processed (Art.15 GDPR)
• Correction of inaccurate personal data (Art.16 GDPR),
• Deletion of your data stored by us (Art.17 GDPR),
• restriction of data processing, provided that we
  may not yet erase legal obligations (Art.18 GDPR)
• objection to the processing of your data with us (Art. 21 GDPR) and
• data portability, if you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art.20 GDPR)

If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

You can complain to a supervisory authority at any time, e.g. to the competent supervisory authority of the state of your domicile or to the competent authority for us as the responsible authority.

A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with address can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html

Collection of general information when visiting our website

Type and purpose of processing:
When you access our website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider.

In particular, they are processed for the following purposes:

• Ensuring a trouble-free connection of the website,
• Ensuring the smooth use of our website,
• evaluation of system security and stability as well as
• for other administrative purposes.

Registration on our website

Type and purpose of processing:

When registering for the use of our personalised services (registration demo account), some personal data, such as name, address, contact and communication data (e.g. telephone number and e-mail address) will be collected. If you are registered with us, you can access content and services that we only offer to registered users. Registered users also have the option of changing or deleting the data provided at any time when registering. Of course, we also provide you with information about the personal data we store about you at any time.

Legal basis:
The processing of the data entered during registration is based on the consent of the user (Art. 6 sec. 1 lit. a GDPR).

Recipient:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Storage time:
Data will only be processed in this context as long as the corresponding consent has been given. Thereafter, they will be deleted, unless there are statutory retention obligations. To contact us in this connection, please use the contact details provided at the end of this privacy policy.

Provision required or required:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary, solely on the basis of your consent. Without the provision of your personal data, we cannot grant you access to the content and services we offer.

Newsletter

Type and purpose of processing:

Your data will only be used to send you the subscribed newsletter by e-mail. Your name will be provided in order to be able to address you personally in the newsletter and, if necessary, to identify you if you wish to exercise your rights as a data-affected person.

To receive the newsletter, it is sufficient to provide your e-mail address. When you register to receive our newsletter, the data you provide will only be used for this purpose. Subscribers may also be informed by e-mail about circumstances relevant to the service or registration (e.g. changes to the newsletter offer or technical circumstances).

For effective registration, we need a valid e-mail address. In order to verify that a registration is actually made by the owner of an e-mail address, we use the “double opt-in” procedure. For this purpose, we log the order of the newsletter, the sending of a confirmation e-mail and the receipt of the requested response. No further data will be collected. The data will only be used for sending the newsletter and will not be passed on to third parties.

Legal basis:
On the basis of your explicit consent (Art. 6 sec. 1 lit. a GDPR), we regularly send you our newsletter or comparable information by e-mail to your specified e-mail address.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time with effect for the future. In each newsletter you will find a corresponding link. In addition, you can also unsubscribe directly from this website at any time or inform us of your withdrawal via the contact option provided at the end of this data protection notice.

Recipient:
Recipients of the data may be processors.

Storage time:
The data will only be processed in this context as long as the corresponding consent has been given. After that, they will be deleted.
Provision required or required:

The provision of your personal data is voluntary, solely on the basis of your consent. Unfortunately, we cannot send you our newsletter without existing consent.

Contact

Type and purpose of processing:

The data you enter will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. This requires a valid e-mail address and your name. This is used to assign the request and then answer it. Specifying additional data is optional.

Legal basis:
The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based on a legitimate interest (Art 6 sec. 1 lit. f GDPR).
By providing the contact form, we would like to enable you to contact us in an uncomplicated manner. Your information will be stored for the purpose of processing the request as well as 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 implementation of pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 sec. 1 lit. b GDPR).

Recipient:
Recipients of the data may be processors.

Storage time:
Data will be deleted no later than 6 months after processing the request.

Insofar as a contractual relationship arises, we are subject to the statutory retention periods according to the German Commercial Code (HGB) and delete your data after the expiry of these periods.

Provision required or required:
Your personal data will be provided voluntarily. However, we can only process your request if you provide us with your name, e-mail address and the reason for the request.

Microsoft Bookings

We use the Microsoft Bookings service (part of Microsoft Office 365) from Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18 D18 P521 (hereinafter: “Microsoft”) for online appointment scheduling. With the software, it is possible to book a personal or telephone consultation appointment with an employee of WiredMinds GmbH.

The connection to the service is only established if you actually book an appointment via Microsoft Bookings and use the online booking function to make an appointment. To make an appointment, your entries in the appointment form will be sent to Microsoft. You can find more information on how your data is handled in Microsoft’s data protection declaration at: https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement.

The legal basis for the processing of your data in relation to the “Microsoft Bookings” service is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter f) GDPR (legitimate interest in data processing). The legitimate interest results from our claim to give you a user-friendly way to be able to arrange your desired appointment quickly and easily if necessary.

We would like to point out that you are not obliged to use Microsoft Bookings to make an appointment. If you do not wish to use the service, please use the contact details provided in the footer of the Bookings page.

Userlike Livechat

WiredMinds uses a live chat of the company Userlike UG (limited liability), Probsteigasse 44-46, 50670 Cologne, Germany. You can use live chat like a contact form to chat with our staff in near real time. The following personal data will be charged at the start of the [je nach Widget-Einstellungen anzupassen] chat:

• The date and time of the call
• URL of the previously visited website,
• Quantity of data sent.

Depending on the course of the conversation with our employees, additional personal data may be generated in the chat, which will be entered by you. The nature of this data depends heavily on your request or the problem you describe to us. The processing of all this data serves to provide you with a fast and efficient contact opportunity and thus to improve our customer service. All our employees have been and will be trained on the topic of data protection and informed about the safe and trusting handling of customer data.

By calling the web page wiredminds.de,the chat widget is loaded in the form of a JavaScript file from AWS Cloudfront. The chat widget technically represents the source code that runs on your computer and allows chat. In addition, WiredMinds stores the history of live chats for 7 days. The purpose of this is to save you, under certain circumstances, extensive explanations of the history of your request as well as to the consistent quality control of our live chat offer. The processing is therefore in accordance with Article 6(0). 1 letter f GDPR allowed. If you do not wish to do so, you are welcome to inform us under the contact details listed below. Saved live chats will then be deleted by us immediately. The storage of the chat data also serves the purpose of ensuring the security of our information technology systems. This is also our legitimate interest, which is why the processing in accordance with Article 6(4) of the European Parliament is not the end of the year. 1 letter f GDPR is allowed. Further information can be found in the data protection policy of Userlike UG (limited liability).

Analysis by WiredMinds

Type and purpose of processing:

Our website uses the tracking pixel technology of WiredMinds GmbH (www.wiredminds.de) to analyse visitor behaviour. This processs a visitor’s IP address. The processing is carried out solely for the purpose of collecting company-relevant information such as the company name. IP addresses of natural persons are excluded from further use (whitelist procedure). The IP address is not stored in LeadLab.

When processing data, it is in our particular interest to safeguard the data protection rights of natural persons. Our interest is based on Article 6(3). 1 lit. (f) GDPR. The data we collect does not at any time allow any inference to be drawn about an identifiable person.

WiredMinds GmbH uses this information to create anonymous user profiles based on the visiting behaviour on our website. The data obtained will not be used to personally identify the visitor to our website.

The collection, processing and storage of data can be objected to at any time with effect for the future under the following link: Vom Tracking ausschließen

Further information and the applicable WiredMinds privacy policy can be found HERE.

Legal basis:
The processing of the data is based on the legitimate interests of the controller (Art. 6 sec. 1 lit. a GDPR).

Recipient:
The recipient of the data is WiredMinds GmbH as processor.

Storage time:
The IP addresses are generally not saved

Provision required or required:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary, solely on the basis of your consent. if you prevent access this may result in functional limitations on the website

Profiling:
The WiredMinds tool can be used to assess the behaviour of visitors to the website and to analyse their interests. It also makes it possible to improve the Internet offer. For this purpose, we create a pseudonymous user profile.

Use of Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze website usage. The resulting data is used to optimize our website as well as advertising measures.

Google Analytics is a web analytics service operated and provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States). Google processes the data for website use on our behalf and contractually undertakes to take measures to ensure the confidentiality of the processed data.

During your visit to the website, the following data will be recorded, among others:

• Pages viewed
• Achieving “website goals” (e.g. contact requests and newsletter registrations)
• Your behavior on the pages (for example, clicks, scroll behavior, and dwell time)
• Your approximate location (country and city)
• Your IP address (in abbreviated form, so that no unique mapping is possible)
• Technical information such as browser, Internet service provider, terminal device and screen resolution
• Source of origin of your visit (i.e. via which website or through which advertising material you came to us)

This data is transferred to a Google server in the USA. Google observes the data protection provisions of the “EU-US Privacy Shield” agreement.

Google Analytics stores cookies in your web browser for two years from your last visit. These cookies contained a randomly generated user ID that can be used to recognize you on future website visits.

The recorded data is stored together with the randomly generated user ID, which enables the evaluation of pseudonymous user profiles. This user-related data is automatically deleted after 14 months. Other data is stored in an aggregated form for an unlimited period of time.

If you do not agree with the collection, you can prevent it with the one-time installation of the browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics.

Google Ads

Type and purpose of processing:

Our website uses Google Conversion tracking. The operating company of the services of Google AdWords is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. If you have reached our website via an ad posted by Google, Google Adwords will set a cookie on your computer. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an ad placed by Google.

If the user visits certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that the user has clicked on the ad and has been redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot be tracked through AdWords customers’ websites. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers will find out the total number of users who clicked on their ad and have been redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, you will not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users.

Legal basis:
The legal basis for the integration of Google AdWords and the associated data transfer to Google is your consent (Art. 6 sec. 1 lit. a GDPR).

Recipient:
Every time you visit our website, personal data, including your IP address, will be transferred to Google in the United States. This personal data is stored by Google. Google may pass on this personal data collected via the technical procedure to third parties.

Our company does not contain any information from Google that could be used to identify the data subject.

Storage time:
These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification.

Third country transfer:
Google processes your data in the United States and has submitted to the EU_US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework

Withdrawal of consent:
If you do not wish to participate in the tracking, you can refuse the setting of a cookie required for this purpose – for example, by means of a browser setting, which generally disables the automatic setting of cookies or set your browser so that cookies from the domain ” googleleadservices.com” are blocked.

Please note that you may not delete the opt-out cookies unless you wish to record measurement data. If you have deleted all your cookies in the browser, you must set the respective opt-out cookie again.

Provision required or required:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary, solely on the basis of your consent. If you prevent access, this may result in functional limitations on the website.

SSL encryption

In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use the state-of-the-art encryption method (e.g. SSL) over HTTPS.

EMPLOYED PROCESSORS

The following organisations, companies or persons have been commissioned by the operator of this website to process data:

Hetzner Online AG
Industrial Road 25
91710 Gunzenhausen
Germany

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy to ensure that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the Privacy Policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new data protection declaration will apply to your new visit.

Information about your right to object under Article 21 GDPR

Case-by-case right to object
You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, at any time against the processing of personal data concerning you, which is subject to Article 6 of the year. 1 lit. f GDPR (data processing based on a balance of interests) is made to object; this also applies to profiling based on that provision within the meaning of Article 4(4) GDPR.
If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the purpose of the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Recipient of an opposition
The objection may be made inform with the subject “opposition” stating your name, address and date of birth and should be addressed to:
WiredMinds GmbH
Lindenspürstraße 32
70176 Stuttgart
E-mail: datenschutz (at) wiredminds.de

Questions to the Data Protection Supervisor

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an e-mail or contact the data protection officer in our organization directly:

Data Protection Officer of WiredMinds GmbH

c/o activeMind AG
Potsdamer Straße 3
80802 Munich
Telefon: +49 (0) 89 / 91 92 94 – 900
www.activemind.de
datenschutzbeauftragter(at)wiredminds.de