Basics
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.
The website operator takes your privacy very seriously and treats your personal data confidentially and in accordance with legal regulations. Due to new technologies and the continuous development of this website, changes to this privacy policy may be made, so we recommend that you read the privacy policy 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 on accesses to the website based on 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 came to the page
- Used browser
- Used operating system
- Used IP address
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 clarify cases of abuse. If data must be retained for evidentiary reasons, they are exempt from deletion until the incident is finally resolved.
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 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 for reach measurement to be stored on your device, 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 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 not to allow cookies. Note: It is not guaranteed 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 collects, uses, and discloses your personal data only if this is permitted by law or if you consent to the data collection.
Personal data includes all information that serves to determine your person and which can be traced back to you – for example, your name, email address, and telephone number.
You can also visit this website without providing any personal information. However, to improve our online offering, we store your access data to this website (without personal reference). These access data include, for example, the file you requested or the name of your internet provider. Due to the anonymization of the data, conclusions about your person are not possible.
We process personal data such as first name, last name, IP address, email address, and content information from the contact form. We process personal data only with the express permission of the users 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 through the offered contact options, your details will be stored so that they can be used to process and respond to your request. Without your consent, these data will not be disclosed to third parties.
Handling Comments and Contributions
If you leave a post or comment on this website, your IP address will be stored. This is done based on our legitimate interests within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. 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
This website uses the service “Google Analytics” offered by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) based on our legitimate interests for the optimization and analysis of our online offering within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR. The service (Google Analytics) uses cookies – text files that are stored on your device. The information collected by the cookies is usually 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
This website uses IP anonymization. The IP address of users 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 exceptional cases is the IP address first transmitted in full to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Due to this shortening, the personal reference of your IP address is eliminated. The IP address transmitted by the browser of the user is not combined with other data stored by Google.
As part of the agreement on order data processing, which we as the website operator have concluded with Google Inc., this company uses the information collected to evaluate website usage and website activity and to provide services related to 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 create reports on website activity to improve our online offering.
You have the option to prevent the storage of cookies on your device by making the appropriate settings in your browser. It is not guaranteed that you will be able to access all functions of this website without restrictions if your browser does not allow cookies.
Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookies and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google Inc. and the processing of this data by Google Inc. by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Here you will find further information on data usage 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 for ads displayed to you)
- https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=de (Use of cookies in ads)
Presence on Instagram
Instagram is an online service for sharing photos and videos, which 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 at your own responsibility. This applies in particular to the use of interactive functions (e.g., commenting, rating).
When visiting this Instagram page, Facebook collects, among other things, your IP address and other information that is present 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. What information Facebook receives and how it is used is described by Facebook in its data use policies. There you will also find information on how to contact Facebook and on the settings for advertisements. The data use policies are available at the following link: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875. The complete data policies of the Instagram service can be found here: https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870/?helpref=hc_fnav.
Facebook informs about the use of cookies in the context of the Instagram service in its cookie policy: https://help.instagram.com/1896641480634370/?helpref=hc_fnav. We would like to point out that Facebook Ireland is able to track your user behavior (for registered users across devices) beyond the Instagram service on other websites using the cookies used. This applies to both users registered with the Instagram service and those not registered there.
According to its own statements, Facebook stores data until it is no longer needed to provide its 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 nature of the data, why it is collected and processed, and the relevant legal or operational storage needs. Further information on data storage can be found at: https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy
Facebook processes a range of personal data of page visitors for its own purposes in its so-called Page Insights. The processing takes place regardless of whether page visitors are registered with Facebook or Instagram and whether they are members of the Facebook or Instagram network. Even users who access the Instagram pages without being registered or logged in to Instagram have the option to influence the scope of data processing using a cookie banner set by Facebook. Further information on Facebook's cookies can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
Page Insights are aggregated, anonymized statistics. Page operators themselves do not have access to the personal data processed in this context, but only to the aggregated, anonymized Page Insights. Further information can be found 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 carefully consider which personal data you share with us via our Instagram page. If you want to avoid Facebook processing personal data transmitted by you to us, please contact us by other means, such as through our contact options.
If personal data of users are processed, they have the right to information, correction, objection, portability, and deletion of the data according to the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Facebook Ireland is obliged to respond to requests from affected persons. Facebook provides further information on the rights of affected persons here: https://www.facebook.com/help/2069235856423257
Requests from users regarding data processing when visiting an Instagram page, which is solely the responsibility of Facebook Ireland, will be forwarded by us to Facebook Ireland. Users can contact Facebook's data protection officer directly at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970
Furthermore, Facebook informs about privacy-friendly profile settings for Instagram profiles: https://help.instagram.com/811572406418223/?helpref=hc_fnav
Use of Facebook Social Media Plugins
Due to our legitimate interest in the analysis, optimization, and operation of our online offering (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”, “Gefällt mir”, “Share” in Facebook's colors (blue and white). Information on all Facebook plugins can be found at 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 on the nature and extent of the data that the plugin transmits to the servers of Facebook Inc. Information about this can be found 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 the visit to this website, the mentioned 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 want 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 via your Facebook profile or object to the use of your data for advertising purposes. 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 website: http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2
- Cookie deactivation page of the European website: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1
What data, for what purpose, and to what extent Facebook collects, uses, and processes data and what rights and settings you have to protect your privacy can be found in Facebook's privacy policy. You can find this here: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Presence 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 responsibility. This applies in particular to the use of interactive functions (for example, commenting or rating). Information on what data LinkedIn processes 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 present 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 LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Community and may be transferred to countries outside the European Union (https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/62533). What information LinkedIn receives and how it is used is described by LinkedIn in general terms in its privacy policy. There you will also find information on how to contact LinkedIn.
How LinkedIn uses the data from visiting 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 named by LinkedIn and is not known to us.
As the provider of a LinkedIn company page, we do not collect or process any data from your use of our service.
Presence 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 when you call up a page with embedded videos. However, we have embedded our videos in “enhanced privacy mode”, which means that no data about you as a user is transmitted to YouTube/Google if you do not play the videos. Only when you click to play the video 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.
- Used hardware (PC, smartphone, etc.)
- Location (if Google Maps is enabled)
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 into Google, this data will be directly assigned to your account. If you do not want the assignment with your profile on YouTube, you must log out before activating the button. YouTube/Google also stores data if you do not have a Google user account, in particular: IP address, search queries, browser and operating system version.
YouTube/Google stores the mentioned data as usage profiles and uses them for advertising, market research, and/or demand-oriented 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 demand-oriented 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 usually sent to a server in the USA and stored there. In the case of data transfer to the USA, the data transfer is based on the presence of standard contractual clauses.
SmartMakers GmbH does not collect or process any personal data via YouTube. The transfer of personal data by Google, especially to third countries, is outside the responsibility of SmartMakers GmbH. It cannot be held liable for this.
Newsletter Subscription
The website operator offers you a newsletter in which he informs you about current events and offers. If you want to subscribe to the newsletter, you must provide a valid email address. By subscribing to the newsletter, you agree to receive the newsletter and the described procedures.
Revocation and termination: You can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time and thus cancel the newsletter subscription. After your cancellation, your personal data will be deleted. Your consent to receive the newsletter will expire at the same time. At the end of each newsletter, you will find the link to cancel.
User Rights
As a user, you have the right to receive free information upon request about what personal data has been stored about you. You also have the right to correct incorrect data and to restrict or delete the processing 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 file 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 they are no longer necessary for their intended purpose and there are no legal retention periods. If a deletion cannot be carried out because the data is required for permissible legal purposes, the data processing will be restricted. In this case, the data will be blocked and not processed for other purposes.
Right to Object
Users of this website can exercise their right to object and object to the processing of their personal data at any time.
If you wish to have your personal data corrected, blocked, deleted, or provided with information about the data stored about you, or if you have questions regarding the collection, processing, or use of your personal data or wish to revoke any consent given, please contact the following email address: privacy@smartmakers.de