Privacy Policy

General Information

As a rule, it is possible to use our website without providing personal data. If personal data (such as name, address or e-mail address) is collected on our pages, this is always done on a voluntary basis. We also collect navigation information. This is data about your computer and your visit to our website, in particular your IP address, your location, the browser you are using, referral source, length of your visit and pages you have opened.

We only use and process your personal data in accordance with the GDPR and any replacement legislation, or any similar regulation under any applicable law, and any regulatory requirements or codes of practice governing the use, storage or transmission of personal data. Every reference in this Privacy Policy to the 'GDPR' is a reference to the Regulation of 27 April 2016 on the Protection of Natural Persons with regard to the Processing of Personal Data and on the Free Movement of such Data (General Data Protection Regulation).

Through this Privacy Policy, every visitor of the website is informed of the processing activities Initiatix may carry out with his or her personal data. Initiatix reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at all times. Every substantial change will be clearly communicated towards the visitor. We advise you to consult this document regularly.

In addition to other uses set forth in this Privacy Policy, we may use personal information to improve your browser experience by personalizing the Web pages and improving the registration service. By completing a registration form on our website, you consent to receiving e-mails from Initiatix. The e-mails contain information about useful content and offers.

We will not make your personal data, which we process for sending the e-mails, available to third parties.

You can unsubscribe from these e-mails at any time with effect for the future:

• by clicking on the unsubscribe link contained in every e-mail
• by e-mail to contact@initiatix.com
• by letter to S. Solutions GmbH i. Gr., Fahrenheitstr. 8, 14532 Kleinmachnow, Germany

We use navigation information to operate and improve the Websites and our registration service. We use navigational information alone or in combination with personal information to send you personalized information about our company. Navigation information is not shared with third parties.

§ 1 Information on the collection of personal data

(1) In the following, we inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behaviour.

(2) The person responsible pursuant to Art. 4 para. 7 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is
S Solutions GmbH i. Gr.
Fahrenheitstr. 8
14532 Kleinmachnow
Germany

E-mail: contact@initiatix.com

(see also our imprint).

(3) We do not use any procedures for automated decision-making including profiling pursuant to Art. 22 para. 1 and 4 GDPR.

(4) If we use commissioned service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below.

§ 2 Your rights

(1) You have the following rights against a data controller in respect of personal data relating to you:

Right to information,
Right to rectification or erasure,
Right to restriction of processing,
Right to object to processing,
Right to data portability.

(2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data.

§ 3 Objection or revocation against the processing of your data

(1) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you may revoke this consent at any time. Such a revocation affects the permissibility of the processing of your personal data after you have expressed it to us. The permissibility of the processing of your data up to the time of your revocation remains unaffected.

(2) Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balance of interests, you can object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary, in particular, for the performance of a contract with you, which is shown by us in each case in the following description of the functions. When exercising such an objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data in the way we have done. In the event of your objection, we will review the situation and either cease or adjust the data processing or show you our compelling legitimate grounds for continuing the processing.

(3) When your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such marketing; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct marketing.

§ 4 Collection of personal data when visiting our website

When using the website for informational purposes, i.e. simply viewing it without registering and without you providing us with any other information, we process the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f GDPR. The legitimate interest lies in the technical feasibility of your request and securing the website against attacks. The data described below is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security and must therefore be processed by us:

IP address
Date and time of the request
Time zone difference from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Content of the request (page visited)
Access Status/HTTP Status Code
Data volume transferred in each case
Previously visited page
Browser
Operating system
Language and version of the browser software.

§ 5 Processing of data on your end devices ("Cookie Policy")

(1) Cookies are stored on your terminal device when you use our website. Cookies are text files or information in a database that are stored on your hard drive and assigned to the browser you are using so that certain information can flow to the body that sets the cookie. Cookies cannot execute programs or transmit viruses to your computer, but are primarily used to make the website faster and more user-friendly. This website uses the following types of cookies, whose function and legal basis we will explain below:

Transient cookies: Such cookies, especially session cookies, are automatically deleted when the browser is closed or by logging out. They contain a so-called session ID. In this way, various requests from your browser can be assigned to the joint session and your computer can be recognised when you return to our website.

Persistent cookies: These are automatically deleted after a predefined duration, which is set differently depending on the cookie. You can view the cookies set and the duration at any time in the settings of your browser and delete the cookies manually.

Necessary cookies are absolutely essential so that the telemedia service you expressly requested can be provided. Without these techniques, our website cannot be displayed (completely correctly) or the support functions could not be enabled. They cannot be deselected. The legal basis is § 25 para. 2 no. 2 TTDSG, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The legitimate interest is the technical requirements for the presentation of the website.

§ 6 Contacting

(1) You can contact us by e-mail or via the contact form on our website. In this case, the data you provide (your e-mail address, name and job title, and company name, if applicable) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. There is no obligation to provide the personal data. The possible consequence of not providing the data is that we are unable to process your request or answer your query in the desired manner. We delete the data accruing in this context, if the enquiry is contract-related, after the deadlines for the term of the contract. Otherwise, we delete your data after storage is no longer necessary (e.g. if the enquiry has been completely dealt with) or restrict processing if there are statutory retention obligations.

(2) The legal basis of data processing for enquiries by e-mail is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The legitimate interest lies in the opening of contact options and participation in usual communication channels. When using the contact form, we ask for your consent. The legal basis of data processing for enquiries via the contact form is therefore Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The revocation of your consent is possible at any time without affecting the permissibility of the processing until the revocation.

§ 7 Google Analytics

(1) Our website uses Google Analytics, a web tracking service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). The purpose of our use of the tool is to enable the analysis of your user interactions on websites and in apps and to improve our offer through the statistics and reports obtained and to make it more interesting for you as a user.

We primarily record the interactions between you as a user of the website and our website with the help of cookies, data on the device/browser, IP addresses and website or app activities. The duration of the storage of the cookies is stated in the Cookie Policy (§ 5) under Functional duration. Google Analytics also collects your IP addresses in order to ensure the security of the service and to provide us, as the website operator, with information about the country, region or location from which the respective user originates (so-called "IP location determination"). For your protection, however, we naturally use the anonymisation function ("IP masking"), i.e. Google truncates the IP addresses by the last octet within the EU/EEA.

(2) The legal basis for the collection and further processing of the information is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR). The revocation of your consent is possible at any time without affecting the permissibility of the processing until the revocation. The easiest way to revoke your consent is to use our cookie banner or delete the cookies in your browser.

There is no obligation to provide the personal data. The possible consequence of not providing it is that we cannot include your use of our website to improve our offer.

(3) The information generated by the cookie and the (usually shortened) IP addresses about your use of this website are usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and processed there. There is currently no Commission adequacy decision for data transfer to the USA, but Google offers suitable guarantees by concluding so-called standard contractual clauses. More information on the standard contractual clauses is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks?hl=de.

(4) In addition, Google says it has imposed a standard on itself equivalent to the former EU-US Privacy Shield and has pledged to comply with applicable data protection laws when transferring data internationally. Google's certification can be found at: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.

(5) Further information on data processing when using Google Analytics can be found in Google's privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

§ 8 Google Optimize

(1) Our website uses Google Optimize, a website optimisation service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). The purpose of our use of the tool is to use analytics to improve our website and optimise our Google Ads investment.

We primarily record the interactions between you as a user of the website and our website with the help of cookies, data on the device/browser, IP addresses and website or app activities. The duration of the storage of the cookies is stated in the Cookie Policy (§ 5) under Functional duration.

(2) The legal basis for the collection and further processing of the information is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR). The revocation of your consent is possible at any time without affecting the permissibility of the processing until the revocation. The easiest way to revoke your consent is to use our cookie banner or delete the cookies in your browser.

There is no obligation to provide the personal data. The possible consequence of not providing it is that we cannot consider your use of our website for improvement.

(3) The information generated by the cookie and the (usually shortened) IP addresses about your use of this website are usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and processed there. There is currently no Commission adequacy decision for data transfer to the USA, but Google offers suitable guarantees by concluding so-called standard contractual clauses. More information on the standard contractual clauses is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks?hl=de.

(4) In addition, Google says it has imposed a standard on itself equivalent to the former EU-US Privacy Shield and has pledged to comply with applicable data protection laws when transferring data internationally.

(5) Further information on data processing when using Google Optimize can be found in Google's privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

§ 9 LinkedIn

(1) In addition to our website, we also use the social media platform LinkedIn to present our company. The social media platform LinkedIn is operated by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland ("LinkedIn").

You can find the imprint of LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/impressum

You can reach LinkedIn via the contact form provided: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/PPQ

You can reach LinkedIn's data protection officer at LinkedIn's postal address with the addition "Legal Dept. (Privacy Policy and User Agreement)" or via the contact form provided for this purpose at the following address: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/ppq.

When visiting our company page on LinkedIn, data processing is carried out under joint responsibility. The relevant agreement pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR can be found at the following address: https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum

(2) We would like to point out that you use our presence on LinkedIn and the functions of the social media platform on your own responsibility. This applies in particular to the use of the interactive functions (e.g. commenting, sharing, rating). When you visit our LinkedIn page, LinkedIn collects, among other things, your IP address and other information that is present on your terminal device in the form of cookies. This information is used to provide us, as the operator of the LinkedIn page, with statistical information about your interaction with us.

Further information on data processing by LinkedIn can be found in LinkedIn's privacy policy at: https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

(3) The legal basis for the collection and further processing of the information is your consent, which you have given to us or LinkedIn (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR). The revocation of your consent is possible at any time without affecting the permissibility of the processing until the revocation.

There is no obligation to provide the personal data. The possible consequence of not providing it is that you cannot visit our company's LinkedIn page or view and interact with our posts on the social media platform.

(4) The social media platform LinkedIn is operated on servers in the USA. There is currently no adequacy decision by the Commission for data transfer to the USA, but LinkedIn offers suitable guarantees by concluding so-called standard contractual clauses. More information on the standard contractual clauses is available at the following addresses:

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/dpa
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/eu-sccs

(5) To exercise your data protection rights, you can contact us or LinkedIn. To the extent that one party is not responsible for responding or needs to obtain the information from the other party, we or LinkedIn will then forward your request to the relevant partner. Please contact LinkedIn directly for questions about profiling and processing of your data when using the LinkedIn site. If you have any questions about the processing of your interaction with us on our LinkedIn site, you can contact us at the contact details provided in § 1.

§10 Disclaimer

We constantly check and update the content that we have published on our website. We assume no liability or guarantee for the topicality, correctness and completeness of the published contents.