#1 DATA PROTECTION

General notes
The following inform­a­tion provides a clear over­view of what happens with your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data means all data which can be used to identify you person­ally, e.g. your name, email or postal address. For detailed inform­a­tion on data protec­tion, please refer to the data protec­tion state­ment set out below this section.

Data collection on our website

Who is respons­ible for the collec­tion of data on this website?
The data processing on this website is handled by the website oper­ator. The oper­at­or’s contact details are listed in the legal notice.

How does ipoox collect your data?
For one thing, your data will be collected and stored when you provide us with it. This may for instance involve data which you enter into a contact form.

Other data are auto­mat­ic­ally collected by our IT systems when you visit our website. These are in partic­ular tech­nical data (e.g. internet browser, oper­ating system or time of access). This type of data are collected auto­mat­ic­ally whenever you access our website.

What does ipoox use your data for?
Some of the data are collected to ensure a smooth provi­sion and func­tioning of the website. Other data can be used to analyse your user behaviour.

What rights do you have with regard to your data?
You have the right to request inform­a­tion on the origin, recip­ient and purpose of your personal data stored by us at any time and free of charge. Further­more, you have the right to request the recti­fic­a­tion, blockage or erasure of such data. If you have any ques­tion on the above or regarding other data protec­tion issues, you can contact us at any time under the address specified in the legal notice. In addi­tion, you have the right to lodge and appeal at the competent super­visory authority.

Correc­tions and changes
If your personal data has changed (e.g. Post­code, email or postal address), you can commu­nicate this to ipoox by email (see legal notice) so that your data can be updated.

Chil­dren and young people
The services offered by ipoox are intended solely for entre­pren­eurs as defined by Section 14 of the German Civil Code (BGB).

ipoox advises all parents and persons with super­visory capa­city to instruct chil­dren and young people on the secure and respons­ible use of personal data on the internet. Chil­dren and young people should not transmit any personal data to the ipoox website without permis­sion from their parents or the person super­vising them.

Analytics tools and third-party tools
When you visit our website, your surfing beha­viour can be stat­ist­ic­ally eval­u­ated. This is mainly carried out using cookies and so-called analytics programs. In general, your surfing beha­viour is analysed anonym­ously; i.e. the surfing beha­viour cannot be traced back to you. You can object to such an analysis or prevent it by the disuse of specific tools. Further details on this are provided in our data protec­tion state­ment under “Third-party modules and analytics tools”.

You can object to such an analysis. Addi­tional inform­a­tion on how to object are set out in ipoox’s data protec­tion statement.

#2 MANDATORY INFORMATION AND ADDITIONAL NOTES

Data protec­tion
The oper­ator of this website takes the protec­tion of your personal data very seri­ously. ipoox handles your personal data confid­en­tially and in accord­ance with the stat­utory data protec­tion regu­la­tions and this data protec­tion statement.

When using this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data means data which can be used to identify you person­ally. This data protec­tion state­ment explains which data we collect and for what we use them. It also specifies how and for what purpose this occurs.

ipoox would like to point out that the trans­mis­sion of data on the internet (e.g. within the scope of email commu­nic­a­tion) may be subject to security loop­holes. A complete protec­tion of the data from the third-party access is not possible.

Inform­a­tion on the controller
The controller for the processing of data on this website is:

ipoox presorting gmbh
Chris­tian Düring (CEO)
Alfred-Nobel-Strasse 13
97080 Würzburg
Germany

Tel.: +49 (0) 931 730 400 0
Email: info@ipoox.de

Controller means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determ­ines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, email addresses, etc.).

With­drawal of your consent regarding data processing
Many data processing oper­a­tions may only be carried out with your express consent. You can with­draw any already granted content at any time by simply sending an informal noti­fic­a­tion to ipoox by email. This shall however not affect the lawful­ness of any data processed before the withdrawal.

Right to data data portability
You shall have the right to have the personal data, processed by ipoox on the basis of your consent or auto­mat­ic­ally for the purpose of contract fulfil­ment submitted to you or a third party in a commonly used and machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this shall only occur where tech­nic­ally feasible.

SSL or TLS encryption
This website uses a SSL or TLS encryp­tion for security-related reasons and the protec­tion of the trans­mis­sion of confid­en­tial content such as orders or requests sent by you to us as website oper­ator. You can recog­nise a encrypted connec­tion as the “http://” in the address bar of your browser will change to “https://” and a padlock will appear.

When the SSL or TLS encryp­tion is activ­ated, the data you are trans­mit­ting to us cannot be read by third parties.

Inform­a­tion, blockage, erasure
Within the scope of the applic­able stat­utory provi­sion, you may request inform­a­tion on the personal data stored on you as well as their original, recip­ient, the purpose of their processing and where applic­able the recti­fic­a­tion, blockage or erasure of such data free of charge and at any time. If you have any further ques­tions regarding the issue of personal data, you can contact us at any time under the address specified in the legal notice.

Objec­tion to advert­ising emails
The use of contact details published within the scope of the oblig­a­tion to provide a legal notice to forward advert­ising and inform­a­tion material not expressly requested is hereby objected to. The oper­ators of the website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in case of the unre­quested forwarding of advert­ising material, for instance in form of spam emails.

#3 DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

Stat­utory data protec­tion officer; ipoox has appointed a data protec­tion officer for the company.

Melina Malchow, m.malchow@ipoox.de, +49 (0) 931 730 400 15
Florian Hauck, f.hauck@ipoox.de, +49 (0) 931 730 400 22

Upon request, you will be informed - in writing and pursuant to applic­able legis­la­tion - which of your personal data, if any, has been stored by ipoox presorting gmbh during you visits to its website.

#4 DATA COLLECTION ipoox.de and ipoox.fr

Cookies
Some of the webpages use so-called cookies. Cookies will not cause any damage on your computer and contain no viruses. They are designed to make our webpages more user-friendly, effi­cient and safe. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer and stored by your browser.

Most of the cookies used by us are so-called “session cookies”. They are auto­mat­ic­ally deleted when you leave our website. Other cookies will remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recog­nise your browser the next time you visit the website.

You can set your browser to inform you about the place­ment of cookies on your device and allow the place­ment of cookies only in indi­vidual cases; further­more, you can allow the place­ment of cookies only for specific cases or gener­ally reject their place­ment and also activate the auto­matic dele­tion of cookies when closing the browser. The deac­tiv­a­tion of cookies may restrict the func­tions of this website.

Cookies required for the imple­ment­a­tion of the elec­tronic commu­nic­a­tion process or for the provi­sion of specific func­tions, you want to use are stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GPPR. The website oper­ator has a legit­imate interest in the storage of the cookies, which is the tech­nic­ally flaw­less and optim­ised provi­sion of services. Where other cookies (e.g. cookies for analysing your surfing beha­viour) are stored, these are set out separ­ately in this data protec­tion statement.

Server log files
The provider of the website auto­mat­ic­ally collects and stores inform­a­tion in so-called server log files that are auto­mat­ic­ally trans­mitted to us by your browser. These are:

- browser type and browser version
- oper­ating system used
- referrer URL
- host name of the accessing computer
- time of the server request
- IP address

These data are not merged with other data sources.

Basis for the processing of the data is Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR, which allows the processing of data for the perform­ance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Contact form
When using the contact form for sending us requests, we will store your data entered in the contact form including the specified contact details for the purpose of processing your request and for the case of follow-up queries. We will not forward these data without your consent.

The data entered in the contact form is there­fore processed solely on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR). You can with­draw this content at any time by simply sending us an informal noti­fic­a­tion by email. This shall however not affect the lawful­ness of any data processed before the withdrawal.

ipoox will keep the data entered by you in the contact form until you request us to delete it, you with­draw your consent to the storage of the data or when the purpose for which the data are stored ceases to exist (e.g. once your request has been completed). Mandatory stat­utory provi­sions – in partic­ular reten­tion periods – shall remain unaf­fected of this.

YouTube
On some pages, we have embedded videos on our website. This service is oper­ated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphi­theatre Parkway, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA. On our website, this service is used within the scope of the extended data protec­tion mode. This means that when you click on a video, data on the use of the website (e.g. the date and time of access, IP address, etc.) are first trans­mitted to and saved on Google servers in the USA. The data are used by Google for the purpose of advert­ising, market research and/or need-based design of its website. In doing so, a link may be connected to your user account, if you are signed in at the time. If you do not want this, you should sign out before use. The terms of use and privacy policy of Google applies.

The oper­ator uses YouTube videos to provide you with inform­a­tion on various topics. The lawful­ness of the processing is based on Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR, according to which 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. The use of data for the purpose of providing videos for inform­a­tional purposes consti­tute a legit­imate interest of the oper­ator as defined by Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR.

The lawful­ness of the processing by Google is based on 6 (1) a GDPR, according to which processing is permitted if the data subject has given consent to the processing of their personal data for one or more specific purposes. The processing of the data is carried out for the purposes set out in the data protec­tion state­ment and terms of use. Consent can be declared by click on the service.

The provi­sion of data is neither required by law nor for contract conclu­sion. Non-provision of data entails that you will not be able to use the function.

#5 ANALYSIS AND MARKETING

Google Analytics
This website uses func­tions of the web analytics service Google Analytics. Oper­ator is Google Inc., 1600 Amphi­theatre Parkway, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files which are stored on your computer and which enable an analysis of your use of the website. The inform­a­tion gener­ated by the cookie concerning your use of this website will be trans­mitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

The storage of Google Analytics cookies is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. The website oper­ator has a legit­imate interest to analyse user beha­viour to optimise web services and advertising.

Jetpack
We use “Jetpack” (formerly “WordPress.com-Stats”), a web analysis service from Auto­mattic Inc., 60 29th Street # 343, San Fran­cisco, CA 94110, USA (here­in­after referred to as “Auto­mattic”) on our website. Among other things, Jetpack uses cookies, i.e. small text files that are stored locally in the cache of your web browser on your end device and that enable your use of our website to be analyzed. The inform­a­tion collected in this way is stored on a server in the USA. Our website uses Jetpack with an exten­sion through which IP addresses are further processed in abbre­vi­ated form imme­di­ately after they have been collected in order to exclude any personal reference.

We use Jetpack for marketing and optim­iz­a­tion purposes, in partic­ular to analyze the use of our website and to continu­ously improve indi­vidual func­tions and offers as well as the user exper­i­ence. Through the stat­ist­ical eval­u­ation of user beha­vior, we can improve our offer and make it more inter­esting for you as a user. We also use Jetpack for meas­ures to protect the security of the website, for example to detect attacks or viruses. This also includes our legit­imate interest in the processing of the above data by the third party provider. The legal basis is Article 6, Para­graph 1, Sentence 1, Letter f) GDPR.

You can prevent the eval­u­ation by deleting existing cookies and deac­tiv­ating the storage of cookies in the settings of your web browser. We would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all func­tions of this website to their full extent. It is also possible to prevent the storage of cookies by clicking the “Click here to opt-out” button at https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out.

In order to oblige Auto­mattic to order processing of the trans­mitted data only in accord­ance with our instruc­tions and to comply with the applic­able data protec­tion regu­la­tions, we have concluded an order processing contract with Automattic.

Third-party inform­a­tion: Auto­mattic Inc., 60 29th Street # 343, San Fran­cisco, CA 94110-4929, USA. Further inform­a­tion from the third-party provider on data protec­tion can be found on the following Auto­mattic website: https://automattic.com/privacy

Third-party tracking tech­no­logy inform­a­tion: Quant­cast Inter­na­tional Limited, Beaux Lane House, Lower Mercer Street, 1st Floor, Dublin 2, Ireland. Further inform­a­tion on data protec­tion from the third-party tracking tech­no­logy provider can be found on the following website: https://www.quantcast.com/privacy

IP anonymisa­tion
We have activ­ated the IP anonymisa­tion func­tion on our website. Due to this, your IP address will be trun­cated by Google in the member states of the European Union or other states party to the Agree­ment on the European Economic Area before they are trans­mitted to the USA. In excep­tional cases only, will the complete IP address be trans­mitted to a Google server in the USA and trun­cated there. On behalf of the oper­ator of this website, Google will use this inform­a­tion to analyse your use of this website, to prepare reports on website activ­ities and to provide the website oper­ator with addi­tional services relating to the use of the website and internet use. The IP address trans­mitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not merged with any other Google data.

Browser plug-in
You can prevent the storage of cookies by making the relevant settings in your browser soft­ware; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all func­tions of this website. In addi­tion, you can prevent the collec­tion of and trans­mis­sion the data gener­ated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) to Google and the processing of these data by Google by down­loading and installing the browser plug-in, avail­able at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Objec­tion against data collection
You can prevent the collec­tion of your data by Google Analytics, by clicking on the following link. This will cause an opt-out cookie to be set, which will prevent the collec­tion of your data during future visits to this website: deac­tivate Google Analytics.

More inform­a­tion on the hand­ling of user data at Google Analytics are avail­able in the Google privacy state­ment: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Demo­graphic char­ac­ter­istics at Google Analytics
This website uses the “demo­graphic char­ac­ter­istics” func­tion of Google Analytics, enabling reports to be created with inform­a­tion on the age, gender and interests of the website users. These data originate from Google’s interest-based advert­ising as well as from the visitor data of third-party providers. The data cannot be attrib­uted to a specific person. You can deac­tivate this func­tion at any time in the display settings of your Google account or gener­ally prohibit the collec­tion of your data by Google Analytics as set out in the section “Objec­tion against data collection”.

Should you have any ques­tions relating to data protec­tion proced­ures or your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact the competent employee.