Privacy Policy
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With the following privacy policy, we would like to inform you about the types of personal data (hereinafter also referred to as “data”) we process, for what purposes, and to what extent. The privacy policy applies to all processing of personal data carried out by us, both in the context of providing our services and, in particular, on our websites, in mobile applications, and within external online presences, such as our social media profiles (hereinafter collectively referred to as “online offering”).
The terms used are not gender-specific.
As of: February 17, 2022
U D O A M E N D
Apartado de Correos No. 198
C /. Bernat de Santa Eugenia, 41
07320 Santa Maria del Cami
España
Tel. +49 172 71 71 254
www.amend-finance.de/en/
The following overview summarizes the types of data processed and the purposes for which they are processed, and refers to the data subjects.
Types of files processed
- Inventory data (e.g., names, addresses).
- Content data (e.g., entries in online forms).
- Contact details (e.g., email, phone numbers).
- Meta/communication data (e.g., device information, IP addresses).
- Usage data (e.g., websites visited, interest in content, access times).
Categories of persons concerned
- Communication partner.
- Users (e.g., website visitors, users of online services).
Purposes of the processing
- Contact requests and communication.
Below, we share the legal basis of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on which we process personal data. Please note that in addition to the provisions of the GDPR, national data protection regulations may apply in your or our country of residence or domicile. Should more specific legal bases be relevant in individual cases, we will inform you of these in the privacy policy.
- Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR) – The data subject has given consent to the processing of their personal data for one or more specific purposes.
- Contract fulfillment and pre-contractual inquiries (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b. GDPR) – Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract.
- Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR) – Processing is necessary to safeguard the legitimate interests of the controller or a third party, unless the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject requiring the protection of personal data prevail.
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures in accordance with legal requirements, taking into account the state of the art, implementation costs, and the nature, scope, circumstances, and purposes of processing, as well as the varying likelihood and severity of threats to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk.
The measures include, in particular, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data by controlling physical and electronic access to the data as well as access, input, transfer, availability, and separation relating to it. Furthermore, we have established procedures that ensure the exercise of data subject rights, the deletion of data, and responses to data breaches. Furthermore, we take the protection of personal data into account as early as the development and selection stage of hardware, software, and processes in accordance with the principle of data protection by design and data protection-friendly default settings.
If we process data in a third country (i.e., outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)) or if processing takes place in connection with the use of third-party services or the disclosure or transfer of data to other persons, bodies, or companies, this will only be done in accordance with the legal requirements.
Vorbehaltlich ausdrücklicher Einwilligung oder vertraglich oder gesetzlich erforderlicher Übermittlung verarbeiten oder lassen wir die Daten nur in Drittländern mit einem anerkannten Datenschutzniveau, vertraglichen Verpflichtung durch sogenannte Standardschutzklauseln der EU-Kommission, beim Vorliegen von Zertifizierungen oder verbindlicher internen Datenschutzvorschriften verarbeiten (Art. 44 until 49 DSGVO, information page of the EU commission: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection_de
Cookies are text files that contain data from visited websites or domains and are stored by a browser on the user’s computer. A cookie primarily serves to store information about a user during or after their visit to an online offering. The stored information may include, for example, the language settings on a website, the login status, a shopping cart, or the point at which a video was viewed. We also include other technologies that perform the same functions as cookies (e.g., when user information is stored using pseudonymous online identifiers, also known as “user IDs”) under the term “cookies.”
The following cookie types and functions are distinguished:
- Temporary cookies (also known as session cookies): Temporary cookies are deleted at the latest after a user leaves an online offering and closes their browser.
- Persistent cookies: Persistent cookies remain stored even after the browser is closed. For example, the login status can be saved or preferred content can be displayed directly when the user revisits a website. Similarly, the interests of users, which are used for reach measurement or marketing purposes, can be stored in such a cookie.
- First-party cookies: First-party cookies are set by us.
- Third-party cookies: Third-party cookies are mainly used by advertisers (so-called third parties) to process user information.
- Necessary (also: essential or absolutely necessary) cookies: Cookies may be absolutely necessary for the operation of a website (e.g., to store logins or other user entries, or for security reasons).
- Statistics, marketing, and personalization cookies: Cookies are also generally used for reach measurement and when a user’s interests or behavior (e.g., viewing certain content, using functions, etc.) on individual websites are stored in a user profile. Such profiles are used, for example, to show users content that corresponds to their potential interests. This process is also referred to as “tracking,” i.e., tracking the potential interests of users. If we use cookies or tracking technologies, we will inform you separately in our privacy policy or when obtaining your consent.
Information on legal bases: The legal basis on which we process your personal data using cookies depends on whether we ask for your consent. If this applies and you consent to the use of cookies, the legal basis for the processing of your data is your declared consent. Otherwise, the data processed using cookies is processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. in the commercial operation of our online offering and its improvement) or, if the use of cookies is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations.
Storage period: Unless we provide you with explicit information about the storage period for permanent cookies (e.g., in the context of a so-called cookie opt-in), please assume that the storage period can be up to two years.
General information on revocation and objection (opt-out): Depending on whether the processing is based on consent or legal permission, you have the option at any time to revoke your consent or object to the processing of your data by cookie technologies (collectively referred to as “opt-out”). You can initially declare your objection via your browser settings, e.g., by deactivating the use of cookies (although this may also restrict the functionality of our online offering). An objection to the use of cookies for online marketing purposes can also be declared via a variety of services, especially in the case of tracking, via the websites https://optout.aboutads.info and https://www.youronlinechoices.com/. In addition, you can obtain further information on your right to object in the context of the information provided on the service providers and cookies used.
Processing of cookie data based on consent: We use a cookie consent management procedure in which users’ consent to the use of cookies, or the processing and providers specified in the cookie consent management procedure, is obtained and can be managed and revoked by users. The declaration of consent is stored so that it does not have to be requested again and so that consent can be verified in accordance with legal requirements. Storage can take place on the server side and/or in a cookie (a so-called opt-in cookie, or using comparable technologies) in order to be able to assign consent to a user or their device. Storage can take place on the server side and/or in a cookie (a so-called opt-in cookie, or using comparable technologies) in order to be able to assign consent to a user or their device. A pseudonymous user identifier is created and stored along with the time of consent, information on the scope of consent (e.g., which categories of cookies and/or service providers), and the browser, system, and device used.
- Types of data processed: Usage data (e.g., websites visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g., device information, IP addresses).
- Affected persons: Users (e.g., website visitors, users of online services).
- Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
In order to provide our online services securely and efficiently, we use the services of one or more web hosting providers whose servers (or servers managed by them) can be used to access our online services. For these purposes, we may use infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space, and database services, as well as security services and technical maintenance services.
The data processed in connection with the provision of the hosting service may include all information relating to users of our online service that is generated in the course of use and communication. This regularly includes the IP address, which is necessary to deliver the content of online offers to browsers, and all entries made within our online offer or on websites.
Email delivery and hosting: The web hosting services we use also include the sending, receiving, and storage of emails. For these purposes, the addresses of the recipients and senders, as well as other information relating to the email dispatch (e.g., the providers involved) and the contents of the respective emails, are processed. The aforementioned data may also be processed for the purpose of detecting SPAM. Please note that emails sent over the Internet are generally not encrypted. As a rule, emails are encrypted during transmission, but (unless a so-called end-to-end encryption method is used) not on the servers from which they are sent and received. We therefore cannot accept any responsibility for the transmission of emails between the sender and the recipient on our server.
Collection of access data and log files: We ourselves (or our web hosting provider) collect data on every access to the server (so-called server log files). The server log files may include the address and name of the websites and files accessed, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred, notification of successful access, browser type and version, the user’s operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page), and, as a rule, IP addresses and the requesting provider.
The server log files can be used for security purposes, e.g., to prevent server overload (especially in the case of malicious attacks, known as DDoS attacks), and to ensure server utilization and stability.
- Types of data processed: Content data (e.g., entries in online forms), usage data (e.g., websites visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g., device information, IP addresses).
- Affected persons: Users (e.g., website visitors, users of online services).
- Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
When contacting us (e.g. via contact form, email, telephone, or social media), the details of the inquiring persons will be processed to the extent necessary to respond to the contact requests and any requested measures.
We respond to contact requests within the scope of contractual or pre-contractual relationships in order to fulfill our contractual obligations or to respond to (pre-)contractual inquiries and, in all other cases, on the basis of our legitimate interests in responding to inquiries.
- Types of data processed: Inventory data (e.g., names, addresses), contact data (e.g., email, phone numbers), content data (e.g., entries in online forms), usage data (e.g., websites visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g., device information, IP addresses).
- Persons affected: Communication partners.
- Purpose of processing: Contact requests and communication.
- Legal basis: Contract fulfillment and pre-contractual inquiries (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR), legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR).
The data we process will be deleted in accordance with legal requirements as soon as the consent for processing is revoked or other permissions cease to apply (e.g., if the purpose for processing this data no longer applies or it is no longer necessary for that purpose).
Unless the data is deleted because it is required for other, legally permissible purposes, its processing will be limited to these purposes. This means that the data will be blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to data that must be retained for commercial or tax reasons, or whose storage is necessary for the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims, or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person.
Further information on the deletion of personal data may also be provided in the individual data protection notices contained in this privacy policy.
We ask that you regularly review the content of our privacy policy. We will amend the privacy policy as soon as changes to our data processing practices make this necessary. We will inform you as soon as the changes require action on your part (e.g., consent) or other individual notification.
Where we provide addresses and contact information for companies and organizations in this privacy policy, please note that addresses may change over time and we ask that you verify the information before contacting them.
As a data subject, you have various rights under the GDPR, which arise in particular from Articles 15 to 21 GDPR:
- Right to object: You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. 1 lit. e or f GDPR; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. If the personal data concerning you is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing purposes; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct marketing.
- Right of revocation for consent: You have the right to revoke your consent at any time.
- Right to information: You have the right to request confirmation as to whether the data in question is being processed and to obtain information about this data, as well as further information and a copy of the data in accordance with the legal requirements.
- Right to rectification: In accordance with legal requirements, you have the right to request that data concerning you be completed or that inaccurate data concerning you be corrected.
- Right to erasure and restriction of processing: In accordance with legal requirements, you have the right to request that data concerning you be erased immediately or, alternatively, in accordance with legal requirements, to request that the processing of the data be restricted.
- Right to data portability: You have the right to receive data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format in accordance with legal requirements, or to request that it be transferred to another controller.
- Complaint to supervisory authority: You also have the right, in accordance with legal requirements, to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, your place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement, if you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you violates the GDPR.
This section provides an overview of the terms used in this privacy policy. Many of the terms are taken from the law and are defined primarily in Article 4 of the GDPR. The legal definitions are binding. The following explanations are primarily intended to aid understanding. The terms are sorted alphabetically.
- Personal data: “Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter referred to as “data subject”); A natural person is considered identifiable if they can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by association with an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier (e.g., cookie), or one or more special characteristics that express the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person.
- Controller: “Controller” refers to the natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body that, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
- Processing: “Processing” means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means. The term is broad and covers practically every aspect of data handling, whether it be collection, evaluation, storage, transmission, or deletion.
