Privacy policy
How we treat your data
Legal information
Fundamentals
This privacy policy is intended to inform users of this website about the nature, scope and purpose of the collection and use of personal data by the website operator. website operator inform.
The website operator takes your data protection very seriously and treats your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory provisions. As new technologies and the constant further development of this website may result in changes to this data protection declaration, we recommend that you read the data protection declaration again at regular intervals.
Definitions of the terms used (e.g. "personal data" or "processing") can be found in Art. 4 GDPR.
Access data
We, the website operator, collect data about access to the website on the basis of our legitimate interest (see Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR) and store these as "server log files" on the website server. The following data is logged:
- Visited website
- Time at the time of access
- Amount of data sent in bytes
- Source/reference from which you reached the page
- Browser used
- Operating system used
- IP address used
The server log files are stored for a maximum of 7 days and then deleted. The data is stored for security reasons, e.g. to be able to clarify cases of misuse. If data must be retained for reasons of proof, it is excluded from deletion until the incident has been finally clarified.
Reach measurement & cookies
This website uses cookies for pseudonymized reach measurement, which are transmitted to the user's browser either from our server or the server of a third party. Cookies are small files that are stored on your end device. Your browser accesses these files. The use of cookies increases the user-friendliness and security of this website.
If you do not want cookies to be stored on your device to measure reach, you can object to the use of these files here:
- Cookie deactivation page of the Network Advertising Initiative: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1
- Cookie deactivation page of the US-American website: http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2
- Cookie deactivation page of the European website: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1
Common browsers offer the setting option of not allowing cookies. Note: There is no guarantee that you will be able to access all functions of this website without restrictions if you make the appropriate settings.
Collection and processing of personal data
The website operator only collects, uses and passes on your personal data if this is permitted by law or if you consent to the collection of data.
Personal data is all information that can be used to identify you personally and that can be traced back to you - for example, your name, e-mail address and telephone number.
You can also visit this website without providing any personal data. However, in order to improve our online services, we store your access data to this website (without personal reference). This access data includes, for example, the file you requested or the name of your Internet provider. By anonymizing the data, it is not possible to draw conclusions about your person.
We process personal data such as first name, surname, IP address, e-mail address and content details from the contact form. We only process personal data with the express permission of the user concerned and in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations. The processing of personal data is based on our legitimate interest in fulfilling our contractually agreed services and optimizing our online offering.
Handling contact data
If you contact us as the website operator via the contact options offered, your details will be stored so that they can be used to process and respond to your inquiry. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your consent.
Dealing with comments and contributions
If you leave a post or comment on this website, your IP address will be saved. This is done on the basis of our legitimate interests within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR. GDPR and serves the security of us as the website operator: Because if your comment violates applicable law, we can be prosecuted for it, which is why we have an interest in the identity of the comment or post author.
Google Analytics
Due to our legitimate interests in optimizing and analyzing our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO. GDPR the service "Google Analytics", which is offered by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). The service (Google Analytics) uses cookies - text files that are stored on your end device. The information collected by the cookies is generally sent to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
Google LLC complies with European data protection law and is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active
IP anonymization is used on this website. The IP address of the user is shortened within the member states of the EU and the European Economic Area and in the other contracting states of the agreement. Only in individual cases is the IP address initially transmitted in full to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. This shortening eliminates the personal reference of your IP address. The user's IP address transmitted by the browser is not combined with other data stored by Google.
As part of the contract data agreement that we, as the website operator, have concluded with Google Inc., Google uses the information collected to compile an analysis of website usage and website activity and provides services associated with internet usage.
The data collected by Google on our behalf is used to evaluate the use of our online offering by individual users, e.g. to compile reports on website activity in order to improve our online offering.
You have the option of preventing the storage of cookies on your device by making the appropriate settings in your browser. There is no guarantee that you will be able to access all functions of this website without restrictions if your browser does not allow cookies.
You can also use a browser plugin to prevent the information collected by cookies (including your IP address) from being sent to Google Inc. and used by Google Inc. The following link will take you to the corresponding plugin: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Here you will find further information on the use of data by Google Inc:
- https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de
- https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners?hl=de (Data collected by Google partners)
- https://adssettings.google.de/authenticated (Settings about advertising that is displayed to you)
- https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=de (Verwendung von Cookies in Anzeigen)
Appearance on Instagram
Instagram is an online service for sharing photos and videos that belongs to the Meta Group, formerly Facebook. We use the technical platform and services of Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland for the information service offered here.
We would like to point out that you use the Instagram page and its functions on your own responsibility. This applies in particular to the use of the interactive functions (e.g. commenting, rating).
When you visit this Instagram page, Facebook collects, among other things, your IP address and other information that is stored on your PC in the form of cookies. This information is used to provide us, as the operator of the Instagram pages, with anonymized statistical information about the use of the Instagram page.
The data collected about you in this context is processed by Facebook Ltd. and may be transferred to countries outside the European Union. Facebook describes what information Facebook receives and how it is used in its data usage guidelines. There you will also find information on how to contact Facebook and the settings options for advertisements. The data usage guidelines are available at the following link: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875. The complete data policy of the Instagram service can be found here: https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870/?helpref=hc_fnav.
Facebook provides information on the use of cookies in the cookie policy for the Instagram service: https://help.instagram.com/1896641480634370/?helpref=hc_fnav. We would like to point out that Facebook Ireland is able to track your user behavior (across devices for registered users) beyond the Instagram service on other websites by means of the cookies used. This applies both to those registered with the Instagram service and to those not registered there.
According to its own information, Facebook stores data until it is no longer needed to provide the services and Facebook products or until the user's account is deleted, whichever comes first. This depends on the circumstances of the individual case, in particular the type of data, why it is collected and processed and the relevant legal or operational storage requirements. You can find more information on the storage of data at https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy
Facebook processes a range of personal data of page visitors in its so-called Page Insights for its own purposes. The processing takes place regardless of whether page visitors are registered with Facebook or Instagram or not and regardless of whether page visitors are members of the Facebook or Instagram network. Users who access the Instagram pages without being registered or logged in to Instagram also have the option of influencing the scope of data processing by means of a cookie banner set by Facebook. You can find more information about Facebook cookies at https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
Page Insights are summarized, anonymized statistics. Site operators themselves do not have access to the personal data that is processed in this context, but only to the summarized, anonymized Page Insights. You can find more information at https://www.facebook.com/help/instagram/788388387972460
The Instagram page offers you the opportunity to react to our posts, comment on them and send us private messages. Please check carefully what personal data you share with us via our Instagram page. If you would like to avoid Facebook processing personal data that you have transmitted to us, please contact us by other means, for example via our contact options.
If users' personal data is processed, they have the right to information, correction, objection, transferability and deletion of the data in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Facebook Ireland is obliged to respond to requests from data subjects. Facebook provides further information on the rights of data subjects here: https://www.facebook.com/help/2069235856423257
Inquiries from users about data processing when visiting an Instagram page, which is the sole responsibility of Facebook Ireland, are forwarded by us to Facebook Ireland. Users can contact Facebook's data protection officer themselves at the following link https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970
Facebook also provides information about privacy-friendly profile settings for Instagram profiles: https://help.instagram.com/811572406418223/?helpref=hc_fnav
Use of social media plugins from Facebook
Due to our legitimate interest in the analysis, optimization and operation of our online offer (within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR), this website uses the Facebook social plugin, which is operated by Facebook Inc (1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA). The integrations can be recognized by the Facebook logo or the terms "Like", "Like", "Share" in the Facebook colors (blue and white). Information on all Facebook plugins can be found via the following link: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
Facebook Inc. complies with European data protection law and is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active
The plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook servers. The website operator has no influence whatsoever on the nature and scope of the data that the plugin transmits to the Facebook Inc. servers. You can find information on this here: https://www.facebook.com/help/186325668085084
The plugin informs Facebook Inc. that you as a user have visited this website. There is a possibility that your IP address will be stored. If you are logged into your Facebook account during your visit to this website, this information will be linked to it.
If you use the functions of the plugin - for example by sharing or "liking" a post - the corresponding information will also be transmitted to Facebook Inc.
If you would like to prevent Facebook. Inc. from linking this data to your Facebook account, please log out of Facebook before visiting this website and delete the stored cookies. You can make further settings for data processing for advertising purposes or object to the use of your data for advertising purposes via your Facebook profile. You can access the settings here:
- Profile settings on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen
- Cookie deactivation page of the US-American website: http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2
- Cookie deactivation page of the European website: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1
You can find out what data, for what purpose and to what extent Facebook collects, uses and processes data and what rights and settings options you have to protect your privacy in Facebook's privacy policy. You can find it here: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Appearance on LinkedIn
SmartMakers GmbH uses the technical platform and services of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Community, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, for the information service offered.
We would like to point out that you use this LinkedIn page and its functions at your own risk. This applies in particular to the use of the interactive functions (e.g. commenting or rating). Information about which data is processed by LinkedIn and for what purposes it is used can be found in LinkedIn's privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
When you visit our LinkedIn company page, LinkedIn collects, among other things, your IP address and other information that is stored on your PC in the form of cookies. This information is used to provide us, as the operator of the LinkedIn pages, with statistical information about the use of the LinkedIn page.
The data collected about you in this context is processed by the LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Community and may be transferred to countries outside the European Union (https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/62533). LinkedIn describes in general terms what information LinkedIn receives and how it is used in its privacy policy. There you will also find information on how to contact LinkedIn.
How LinkedIn uses the data from visits to LinkedIn pages for its own purposes, to what extent activities on the LinkedIn page are assigned to individual users, how long LinkedIn stores this data and whether data from a visit to the LinkedIn page is passed on to third parties is not conclusively and clearly stated by LinkedIn and is not known to us.
As the provider of a LinkedIn company page, we do not collect or process any other data from your use of our service.
Appearance on YouTube
We have embedded YouTube videos in our online offering, which are stored on http://www.YouTube.com and can be played directly from our website. In principle, your IP address is sent to YouTube/Google and cookies are installed on your computer as soon as you access a page with embedded videos. However, we have embedded our videos in "extended data protection mode", i.e. no data about you as a user will be transmitted to YouTube/Google if you do not play the videos. Only when you click on the video to play it will the following data be transmitted:
- IP address
- Date and time of the request
- Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- Content of the request (specific page)
- Access status/HTTP status code
- Amount of data transferred in each case
- Website from which the request comes
- Browser
- Operating system and its interface
- Language and version of the browser software.
- Hardware used (PC, smartphone, etc.)
- Location (if Google Maps is activated)
We have no influence on this data transmission.
By visiting our website and playing the videos, YouTube/Google receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. If you are logged in to Google, this data is assigned directly to your account. If you do not wish to be associated with your YouTube profile, you must log out before activating the button. In addition, YouTube/Google also stores data if you do not have a Google user account: IP address, search queries, browser and operating system version.
YouTube/Google stores the aforementioned data as user profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or the needs-based design of its website. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in or do not have a corresponding account) to provide needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact YouTube to exercise this right.
Information from the third-party provider: YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA: https://policies.google.com/technologies/product-privacy?hl=de and https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
The information collected by the cookies of this provider is generally sent to a server in the USA and stored there. If the data is transferred to the USA, the data transfer is based on the existence of standard contractual clauses.
SmartMakers GmbH does not collect or process any personal data via YouTube. The transfer of personal data by Google, in particular to third countries, is outside the area of responsibility of SmartMakers GmbH. It cannot be held liable in this respect.
Newsletter subscription
The website operator offers you a newsletter in which he informs you about current events and offers. If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter, you must provide a valid e-mail address. By subscribing to the newsletter, you agree to receive the newsletter and to the procedures explained.
Revocation and termination: You can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time and thus cancel your newsletter subscription. Your personal data will be deleted after you cancel your subscription. Your consent to receive the newsletter will expire at the same time. You will find the unsubscribe link at the end of each newsletter.
Rights of the user
As a user, you have the right to request information free of charge about what personal data has been stored about you. You also have the right to rectification of incorrect data and to restriction of processing or erasure of your personal data. If applicable, you can also assert your right to data portability. If you believe that your data has been processed unlawfully, you can lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
Deletion of data
Unless your request conflicts with a legal obligation to retain data (e.g. data retention), you have the right to have your data deleted. Data stored by us will be deleted if it is no longer required for its intended purpose and there are no statutory retention periods. If deletion cannot be carried out because the data is required for permissible legal purposes, data processing will be restricted. In this case, the data will be blocked and not processed for other purposes.
Right of objection
Users of this website can make use of their right to object and object to the processing of their personal data at any time.
If you would like a correction, blocking, deletion or information about the personal data stored about you, or if you have questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data or would like to revoke your consent, please contact the following e-mail address: privacy@smartmakers.de
