Privacy policy
(1) In the following, we provide information about the collection of personal data when using our website accessible via the address“www.signalize.com”and other URLs as well as the services we offer via our Internet pages. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.
(2) The controller pursuant to Art. 4 (7) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is etracker GmbH, Erste Brunnenstraße 1, 20459 Hamburg, Germany. Our contact details in the provider identification under You can contact our designated data protection officer at https://www.signalize.com/impressum/ by e-mail at privacy@etracker.com or our postal address with the addition “The company data protection officer”.
(3) When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, your name and your telephone number, if applicable) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data collected in this context after storage is no longer necessary or restrict processing if there are statutory retention obligations.
(4) If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail below about the respective processes.
Your rights
(1) You have the following rights vis-à-vis us with regard to your personal data:
- Right to information,
- Right to rectification or erasure,
- Right to restriction of processing,
- Right to object to the processing,
- Right to data portability.
If you have given us your consent, you also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. In this case, all data processing that we have carried out prior to your withdrawal remains lawful. We will inform you about the possibility of withdrawing your consent and the specific steps for exercising your right of withdrawal at the point at which we obtain your consent.
(2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.
Collection of personal data when visiting our website
(1) If you only use the website for informational purposes, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR):
- 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.
(2) In addition to the aforementioned data, only technically necessary cookies are used on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard disk assigned to the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the body that sets the cookie (in this case us). Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer. They are used to make the website more user-friendly and effective overall.
(3) Use of cookies:
a) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and function of which are explained below:
- Transient cookies (see b)
- Persistent cookies (see c).
b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include session cookies in particular. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the shared session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.
c) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in your browser’s security settings.
d) You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. We would like to point out that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.
Web analysis
The provider of this website uses services of etracker GmbH from Hamburg, Germany(www.etracker.com) to analyze usage data. We do not use cookies for web analysis by default. If we use analysis and optimization cookies, we will obtain your explicit consent separately in advance. If this is the case and you give your consent, cookies are used to enable a statistical analysis of the reach of this website, to measure the success of our online marketing measures and test procedures, e.g. to test and optimize different versions of our online offering or its components. Cookies are small text files that are stored by the Internet browser on the user’s end device. etracker cookies do not contain any information that enables a user to be identified.
The data generated with etracker is processed and stored by etracker on behalf of the provider of this website exclusively in Germany and is therefore subject to strict German and European data protection laws and standards. etracker has been independently audited and certified in this respect and has been awarded the ePrivacyseal data protection seal of approval.
Data processing is carried out on the basis of the legal provisions of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f (legitimate interest) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our concern within the meaning of the GDPR (legitimate interest) is the optimization of our online offer and our website. Since the privacy of our visitors is important to us, the data that may allow a reference to an individual person, such as the IP address, login or device identifiers, are anonymized or pseudonymized as soon as possible. No other use, combination with other data or forwarding to third parties takes place.
You can object to the data processing described above at any time by clicking on the slider. The objection has no negative consequences. If no slider is displayed, data collection has already been prevented by other blocking measures.
I object to the processing of my personal data with etracker on this website.
Further information on data protection at etracker can be found here.
Integration of YouTube videos
We use the provider YouTube, a Google service, to embed videos. These videos are stored on www.youtube.com and can be played directly from our website. YouTube uses cookies for data collection and statistical data analysis. We use embedded YouTube videos in extended data protection mode. This means that YouTube does not store cookies for a user who views a website with an embedded YouTube video player but does not click on the video to start playback. If the YouTube video player is clicked, YouTube may store cookies on the user’s device. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account. If you do not wish your data to be associated with your YouTube profile, you must log out before playing the video. YouTube stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or the needs-based design of its services.
Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by YouTube can be found in their privacy policy. You can also obtain further information about your rights and settings options to protect your privacy at www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
Newsletter
If you register an account with us, are registered as an account user and/or send us a request and you have not objected to this, we will use the data required for this or separately provided by you to regularly send you our e-mail newsletter based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. The entry of this data and its transmission to etracker is at your discretion.
We reserve the right to send you offers for similar products from etracker by email in accordance with Section 7 (3) UWG. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in an advertising approach to our customers in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.
The sending of emails is carried out by a service provider on our behalf, to whom we pass on your data for this purpose. In accordance with Article 28 GDPR, etracker has concluded a full data processing agreement with this service provider. The data is not stored or processed outside the European Union.
Indications of active opening and click behavior of the newsletter are collected as part of statistical surveys. Such information can be assigned to individual recipients. The evaluations help us to recognize the reading habits of the recipients and to adapt the content accordingly.
You can object to this tracking at any time by sending a message to the contact details given in the legal notice. Such tracking is also not possible if you have deactivated the display of images in your e-mail program by default. In this case, the newsletter will not be displayed in full and you may not be able to use all functions. If you display the images manually, the above-mentioned tracking will take place. The information is stored for as long as you are subscribed to the newsletter. After you unsubscribe, we store the data purely statistically and anonymously.
Consent to receive the newsletter can be revoked at any time. A link to unsubscribe is placed at the end of each newsletter.
Push notifications
If you activate push notifications for this website through the Signalize service, a function of your Internet browser or mobile operating system is used to provide you with the notifications. Only anonymous data that cannot be traced back to a specific person is stored for the purpose of sending messages. This data is only processed in order to deliver the notifications you have subscribed to and to make notification-related settings. We ask for your consent to store this data. The legal basis for data processing in this case is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can object to receiving notifications at any time via the settings of your browser or mobile device. You can find information on how to unsubscribe from push notifications here.
In order to make the content of the push notifications meaningful for you, we use the preferences collected on the basis of an anonymous user profile using cookies and merge your notification ID with the user profile of the website solely for the purpose of sending personalized messages. The tracking technology is also used for statistical analysis of the notifications on our behalf. This makes it possible to determine whether a notification was delivered and whether it was clicked on. The data generated in this way is processed and stored exclusively in Germany on our behalf by etracker GmbH from Hamburg, which provides the Signalize service, and is therefore subject to strict German and European data protection laws and standards. etracker has been independently audited and certified in this regard and is entitled to bear the ePrivacyseal data protection seal of approval.
Data processing for the purpose of controlling the invitation to the notification service and for the statistical analysis of registration or rejection is based on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR in order to make the notification service user-friendly and effective. As the privacy of our visitors is very important to us, the data that may allow a reference to an individual person, such as the IP address, login or device identifiers, are anonymized as early as possible. This excludes the possibility of direct personal references. No other use, merging with other data or forwarding to third parties takes place.
You can object to the data processing described above at any time.
I object to the processing of my data by the Signalize service on this website.
Status 01.03.2021