Privacy policy

General information

1. your personal data within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 1 GDPR (e.g. IP address, name, e-mail address) will only be processed by us in accordance with the provisions of German data protection law and taking into account the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The following provisions inform you about the type, scope and purpose of the collection, processing and use of personal data.

2. the processing of personal data within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 2 GDPR is lawful pursuant to Art. 6 GDPR if one of the following conditions is met

(a) the data subject has given consent to the processing of personal data concerning him or her for one or more specific purposes;

b) 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

c) processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject

d) processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person

e) processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;

f) processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.

3. the processing of special personal data (e.g. health data) within the meaning of Art. 9 para. 1 GDPR is lawful, in particular pursuant to Art. 9 para. 2 GDPR, if one of the following conditions is met

– there is express consent from the person;

– processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or for the performance of judicial proceedings.

4. automated decision-making or profiling with regard to personal data within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR does not take place.

5. the operator shall ensure the security of the data in accordance with Art. 32 GDPR, taking into account the principle of proportionality, by means of appropriate technical measures.

6. should, contrary to expectations, a breach of data protection occur, the competent supervisory authority will be notified in accordance with Art. 33 GDPR and the data subject in accordance with Art. 34 GDPR.

Scope of validity

This privacy policy only applies to our websites. If you are redirected to other sites via links on our pages, please inform yourself there about the respective handling of your data.

Duration of data storage

The duration of storage of the data transmitted by you is based on the statutory retention obligations. According to commercial and tax laws, invoices must be stored for a period of 10 years.

Disclosure of data to third parties

Data transmitted within the scope of the contractual relationship will only be passed on to third parties (Art. 4 No. 10 GDPR) if you have expressly given your consent (Art. 4 No. 11 GDPR) or if the transfer is necessary for the fulfilment of the contract. Consent can be revoked informally at any time. Data collected when you visit the website is only collected by third parties who are expressly named below.

Controller within the meaning of the GDPR

The controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other data protection laws applicable in the European Union and other provisions of a data protection nature is:

Trade Uni GmbH

Hengersbergerstr. 2

94557 Niederalteich

Telefon: +49 (0) 32 221 853 112

E-Mail: info@trade-uni.com

Cookies

We use cookies on our website. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your end device (PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website. Cookies do not cause any damage to your end device and do not contain any viruses, Trojans or other malware. Information is stored in the cookie that results in each case in connection with the specific end device used. However, this does not mean that we obtain direct knowledge of your identity.

On the one hand, the use of cookies serves to make the use of our website more convenient for you. For example, we use session cookies to recognise that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after you leave our site.

In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimise user-friendliness, which are stored on your end device for a specified period of time. If you visit our site again to use our services, it is automatically recognised that you have already visited us and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.

These cookies enable us to automatically recognise that you have already visited our website when you visit it again. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period of time. The data processed by cookies is required for the purposes mentioned to protect our legitimate interests and those of third parties in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are

cookies are stored on your computer or a message always appears before a new cookie is created. However, completely deactivating cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website.

Cookie consent with Borlabs Cookie

Our website uses Borlabs Cookie’s cookie consent technology to obtain your consent to the storage of certain cookies in your browser and to document this in compliance with data protection regulations. The provider of this technology is Borlabs – Benjamin A. Bornschein, Georg-Wilhelm-Str. 17, 21107 Hamburg, Germany (hereinafter referred to as Borlabs).

When you enter our website, a Borlabs cookie is stored in your browser, in which the consent you have given or the revocation of this consent is stored. This data is not passed on to the Borlabs cookie provider.

The data collected will be stored until you ask us to delete it or delete the Borlabs cookie yourself or until the purpose for storing the data no longer applies. Mandatory statutory retention periods remain unaffected. Details on data processing by Borlabs Cookie can be found at

Welche Daten speichert Borlabs Cookie?

Borlabs cookie consent technology is used to obtain the legally required consent for the use of cookies. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR.

Storage of access data in log files

You can visit our website without providing any personal information.

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are

Browsertype/ Browserversion
Operating system used
Referrer URL
Host name of the accessing computer
Time of the server request

This data cannot be assigned to specific persons. This data is not merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of specific indications of unlawful use.

The purpose of the processing results from our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.

An order processing contract has been concluded with our hoster.

Google Webfonts

External fonts, Google Fonts, are used on this website. Google Fonts is a service of Google Inc (“Google”). These web fonts are integrated by a server call, usually a Google server in the USA. This tells the server which of our web pages you have visited. The IP address of the browser of the end device of the visitor to this website is also stored by Google.

The lawfulness of the use results from Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR

You can find more information in Google’s privacy policy, which you can access here:

https://www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace:about

https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc (https://www.google.de/intl/de/about/) (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter referred to as “Google”) for the purpose of designing and continuously optimising our pages to meet your needs. In this context, pseudonymised user profiles are created and cookies are used. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website, such as

Browser-Typ/-Version,
operating system used,
Referrer-URL (the previously visited page),
Host name of the accessing computer (IP address),
Time of the server request

are transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The information is used to analyse the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage for the purposes of market research and the needs-based design of this website.

This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on our behalf. Under no circumstances will your IP address be merged with other Google data. The IP addresses are anonymised so that they cannot be assigned (IP masking).

On our behalf as the operator of this website, Google will use this information to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The data sent by us and linked to cookies, user identifiers (e.g. user ID) or advertising IDs are automatically deleted after 14 months.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing a browser add-on https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

As an alternative to the browser add-on, especially for browsers on mobile devices, you can also prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by using this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website. The opt-out cookie is only valid in this browser and only for our website and is stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in this browser, you must set the opt-out cookie again. We continue to use Google Analytics to analyse data from Adwords for statistical purposes. If you do not want this, you can deactivate this via the Ads Preferences Manager https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

Further information on data protection in connection with Google Analytics can be found in the Google Analytics help centre

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de

Google Tag Manager

Our website uses the Google Tag Manager of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”). We use this to manage the various analysis and tracking services. The Google Tag Manager only implements tags. This means that no cookies are used and no personal data is collected. The Google Tag Manager triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data. However, Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If deactivation has been carried out at domain or cookie level, it remains in place for all tracking tags, provided that these are implemented with Google Tag Manager. You can find more information about Google Tag Manager at

https://tagmanager.google.com/

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

Google Ads

This website uses Google Ads. Google Ads is an online advertising programme of Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

As part of Google Ads, we use what is known as conversion tracking. When you click on an advert placed by Google, a cookie is set for conversion tracking. Cookies are small text files that the Internet browser stores on the user’s computer. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used to personally identify the user. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can recognise that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page.

Each Google Ads customer receives a different cookie. The cookies cannot be tracked via the websites of Google Ads customers. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for Google Ads customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of users who clicked on their advert and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users. If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can object to this use by easily deactivating the Google Conversion Tracking cookie via your Internet browser under user settings. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.

The storage of “conversion cookies” and the use of this tracking tool are based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour in order to optimise both its website and its advertising. If a corresponding consent has been requested (e.g. consent to the storage of cookies), the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the consent can be revoked at any time.

You can find more information about Google Ads and Google Conversion Tracking in Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be restricted.c

Tracking via WordPress

For statistical recording and evaluation of user flows, this website stores anonymised user data such as the IP address via the WordPress plugin “WP-Statistics”. The data is not passed on to third parties. The anonymised IP addresses transmitted as part of tracking are not merged with other data.

The legal basis for tracking is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.

Contact form

When using the contact form offered on these pages, the information you enter is transmitted and stored for the purpose of responding to your enquiry. The data will not be passed on to third parties. The lawfulness of the use of the form is based on Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.

The data collected from you via our website or by contacting one of our career advisors will be stored as long as the platform contract has not been cancelled. The personal data collected by us for the use of PowerUs will be automatically deleted after cancellation of the platform contract.

We will archive your data upon cancellation of the platform contract. We will permanently delete all personal data no later than six (6) months after termination of the contract. This does not apply if we still need the data in question to enforce claims against you or if we are legally or contractually obliged to retain the data.

Hotjar

This website uses the web analysis service Hotjar from Hotjar Ltd. Hotjar Ltd. is a European company based in Malta (Hotjar Ltd, Level 2, St Julians Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julians STJ 1000, Malta, Europe Tel.: +1 (855) 464-6788).

This tool can be used to track movements on the websites on which Hotjar is used (so-called heat maps). For example, it is possible to recognise how far users scroll and which buttons users click and how often. The tool also makes it possible to obtain feedback directly from website users. In this way, we obtain valuable information to make our websites even faster and more customer-friendly. The above analysis is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interests in optimisation and marketing purposes and the interest-based design of our website in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

We pay particular attention to the protection of your personal data when using this tool. For example, we can only track which buttons you click and how far you scroll. Areas of the websites in which personal data of you or third parties are displayed are automatically hidden by Hotjar and are therefore not traceable at any time.

Hotjar offers every user the option of using a “Do Not Track header” to prevent the use of the Hotjar tool so that no data about the visit to the respective website is recorded. This is a setting that is supported by all standard browsers in their current version. To do this, your browser sends a request to Hotjar to deactivate the tracking of the respective user. If you use our website with different browsers/computers, you must set up the “Do Not Track header” separately for each of these browsers/computers.

You can find detailed instructions with information about your browser at: https://www.hotjar.com/opt-out

Further information about Hotjar Ltd. and the Hotjar tool can be found at: https://www.hotjar.com

The privacy policy of Hotjar Ltd. can be found at: https://www.hotjar.com/privacy

Use of involve.me

We use involve.me as our platform for interactive content and forms. By submitting, you acknowledge that the information you provide will be transferred to involve.me for processing in accordance with their privacy policy and terms. Involve.me is a service of stereosense GmbH. The servers for data storage are located in Germany, France and Austria.

The data you enter is stored for the purpose of personalised communication with you. This requires you to provide a valid e-mail address and your name. This is used to allocate the enquiry and subsequently answer it. The provision of further data is optional.

The data entered in the contact form is processed on the basis of a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing your enquiry and for possible follow-up questions.

If you contact us to request a quote, the data entered in the contact form will be processed to carry out pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR).

Further information on the data protection provisions of involve.me:

https://www.involve.me/privacy/

Pipedrive

We use Pipedrive as our CRM tool to process and store contact data. When contacting us (via contact form or e-mail), the user’s details are processed to process the contact enquiry and its handling in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.

In order to process and respond to your enquiry and messages as quickly as possible, we have linked our contact form to our customer relationship management tool (“CRM tool”) Pipedrive. The data transmitted when filling out the form is sent to Pipedrive and stored there on Pipedrive servers.

We use the Pipedrive CRM system of the provider Pipedrive OÜ on the basis of our legitimate interests (efficient and fast processing of user enquiries, existing customer management, new customer business), a private limited company established under the laws of the Republic of Estonia, with the address Paldiski mnt 80, Tallinn, 10617, Estonia, registered in the Estonian Commercial Register under the code 11958539, and a subsidiary of Pipedrive US. You can access Pipedrive’s privacy policy here: https://www.pipedrive.com/en/privacy

Amazon-Partnerprogramm

On the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the economic operation of our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR), we are a participant in the Amazon EU partner programme. GDPR), we are a participant in the Amazon EU partner programme, which was designed to provide a medium for websites by means of which advertising costs can be earned through the placement of advertisements and links to Amazon.de (so-called affiliate system). This means that as an Amazon partner, we earn money from qualified purchases.

Amazon uses cookies to be able to trace the origin of orders. Among other things, Amazon can recognise that you have clicked on the partner link on this website and subsequently purchased a product from Amazon.

Further information on the use of data by Amazon and how to object can be found in the company’s privacy policy:

https://www.amazon.de/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201909010

Pepperstone-Partnerprogramm

On the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the economic operation of our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR), we are a participant in the Pepperstone partner programme of the provider Pepperstone GmbH. GDPR), we are participants in the Pepperstone partner programme of the provider Pepperstone GmbH, Neubrückstrasse 1, 40213 Düsseldorf, which was designed to provide a medium for websites by means of which advertising costs can be earned through the placement of advertisements and links to Pepperstone (so-called affiliate system). This means that as a Pepperstone partner, we earn from qualified contracts

Pepperstone uses cookies to be able to trace the origin of orders. Among other things, Pepperstone can recognise that you have clicked on the partner link on this website and subsequently purchased a product/service from Pepperstone

Further information on the use of data by Pepperstone and how to object can be found in the company’s privacy policy:

https://files.pepperstone.com/legal/BAFIN/Datenschutz.pdf

With your consent, you can subscribe to our newsletter, with which we inform you about our current interesting offers. The advertised goods and services are named in the declaration of consent.

We use the so-called double opt-in procedure to subscribe to our newsletter. This means that after you have registered, we will send you an e-mail to the e-mail address you have provided in which we ask you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter. If you do not confirm your registration within 24 hours, your information will be blocked and automatically deleted after one month. We also store the IP addresses you use and the times of registration and confirmation. The purpose of this procedure is to be able to prove your registration and, if necessary, to clarify any possible misuse of your personal data.

The only mandatory information for sending the newsletter is your e-mail address. The provision of further, separately marked data is voluntary and is used to address you personally. After your confirmation, we will save your e-mail address for the purpose of sending you the newsletter. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR.

You can revoke your consent to the sending of the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can declare your cancellation by clicking on the link provided in every newsletter email or by sending a message to the contact details given in the legal notice.

We would like to point out that we evaluate your user behaviour when sending the newsletter. For this analysis, the emails sent contain so-called web beacons or tracking pixels, which are one-pixel image files that are stored on our website. For the analyses, we link the above-mentioned data and the web beacons with your email address and an individual ID. The data is only collected in pseudonymised form, i.e. the IDs are not linked to your other personal data, and direct personal identification is excluded. You can object to this tracking at any time by clicking on the separate link provided in every e-mail or by informing us via another contact channel. The information is stored for as long as you are subscribed to the newsletter. After unsubscribing, we store the data purely statistically and anonymously.

We use an external service provider to send newsletters. A separate order data processing agreement has been concluded with the service provider to ensure the protection of your personal data. We currently work with the following service provider:

MailChimp

The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a MailChimp

675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000

Atlanta, Georgia 30308

Tel.: +1 404 806-5843

E-Mail: legal@mailchimp.com

The following data is transmitted to MailChimp:

Name
E-Mail-Adress
IP-Adress

Further information can be found in MailChimp’s privacy policy, which is available at https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.

Standard contractual clauses have been concluded with MailChimp in order to comply with the European level of data protection.

Calendly

We use the calendly tool to make appointments quickly, easily and simply. We use calendly to improve our services for existing and new clients. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

When using the tool, you will be asked to provide personal data such as your name, email address and telephone number. You also have the option of presenting your request and providing us with further information. If you use the tool, your details from the enquiry form, including the information you provide there, will be stored and, of course, transmitted over the Internet. The data entered is processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR).

This privacy policy and the provider’s privacy policy apply to the handling of the data collected through the use of calendly. You can find calendly’s privacy policy at

https://calendly.com/pages/privacy

Enquiry by e-mail or telephone

If you contact us by e-mail or telephone, your enquiry, including all resulting personal data (name, enquiry), will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your request. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

This data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR if your enquiry is related to the fulfilment of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR) and / or on our legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR), as we have a legitimate interest in the effective processing of the enquiries addressed to us.

The data you send to us via contact requests will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular statutory retention periods – remain unaffected.

Social-Media Links

We have our own social media pages on the third-party providers that can be reached via links from this website (Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter). By using the links, you will be directed to the respective third-party websites and can also share our content. No data is transferred when you visit our website. As soon as you have accessed the third-party provider’s site, you are in the area of responsibility of the respective third-party provider, so that their privacy policy or their declarations on data use also apply. We have no influence on this, but we recommend that you log out of the respective third-party provider before using a corresponding link to avoid unnecessary data transfer, so that usage profiles cannot be created by the third-party provider simply by using the link.

Security of your data / SSL encryption

In accordance with the legal provisions of Section 13 (7) TMG, this site uses SSL encryption, which can be recognised by the lock symbol in the address bar of your browser. Transmitted data cannot be read by third parties if SSL encryption is activated.

As a rule, this is 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we use 128-bit v3 technology instead. You can recognise whether an individual page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.

We also use suitable technical and organisational security measures (TOM) to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorised access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

User rights

You can request information about the personal data stored about you at any time and free of charge. Your rights also include confirmation, correction, restriction, blocking and deletion of such data and the provision of a copy of the data in a form suitable for transmission, as well as the revocation of any consent given and objection. Statutory retention obligations remain unaffected by this.

Your rights arise in particular from the following standards of the GDPR:

Article 7 (3) – Right to withdraw consent under data protection law
Article 12 – Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the data subject’s rights
Article 13 – Duty to provide information where personal data is collected from the data subject
Article 14 – Obligation to provide information if the personal data was not collected from the data subject
Article 15 – Right of access by the data subject, right to confirmation and provision of a copy of the personal data
Article 16 – Right to rectification
Article 17 – Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”)
Article 18 – Right to restriction of processing
Article 19 – Notification obligation in connection with the rectification or erasure of personal data or the restriction of processing
Article 20 – Right to data portability
Article 21 – Right to object
Article 22 – Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling
Article 77 – Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

To exercise your rights (with the exception of Art. 77 GDPR), please contact the office named under “Controller within the meaning of the GDPR” (e.g. by email).