Data Privacy Policy

1 General Information

1.1 Objective and Responsibility

  1. This Data Privacy Statement is to inform you about the nature, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data related to our online service and the related websites, features and contents (hereinafter collectively referred to as ‘online service’ or ‘website’). Details on these processing activities can be found in section 2.
  2. The online service is provided by Kompass – Zentrum für Existenzgründungen Frankfurt am Main gGmbH (Hanauer Landstraße 521, 60386 Frankfurt am Main) – hereinafter referred to as ‘provider’, ‘we’ or ‘us’ – who is also legally responsible under the data protection law.
  3. Our online service is hosted by Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG (Königsberger Straße 4-6, D-32339 Espelkamp).
  4. You can reach out to our Data Protection Officer under the E-Mail address s.meyzis@itdsb.de.
  5. The term ‘user’ encompasses all customers, interested people, employees and visitors of our online service.

1.2 Legal Bases

We collect and process personal data based on the following legal grounds:

  1. Consent in accordance with Article 6 paragraph 1 (a) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Consent meaning any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of agreement, which could be in the form of a statement or any other unambiguous confirmatory act, given by the data’s subject consenting to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.
  2. Necessity for the performance of a contract or in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract according to Article 6 paragraph 1 (b) GDPR, meaning the data is required in order for us to fulfil our contractual obligations towards you or to prepare the conclusion of a contract with you.
  3. Processing to fulfil a legal obligation in accordance with Article 6 paragraph 1 (c) GDPR, meaning that e.g. the processing of data is required by law or other provisions.
  4. Processing in order to protect legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6 paragraph 1 (f) GDPR, meaning that the processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, unless such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms which require the protection of personal data.

1.3 Data Subject Rights

You have the following rights with regards to the processing of your data through us:

  1. The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in accordance with Article 13 paragraph 2 (d) GDPR and Article 14 paragraph 2 (e) GDPR.
  2. Right of access in accordance with Article 15 GDPR
  3. Right to rectification in accordance with Article 16 GDPR
  4. Right to erasure („right to be forgotten“) in accordance with Article 17 GDPR
  5. Right to restriction of processing in accordance with Article 18 GDPR
  6. Right to data portability in accordance with Article 20 GDPR
  7. Right to objection in accordance with Article 21 GDPR
    Notice: Users may object to the processing of their personal data in accordance with legal allowances at any time with effect for the future. The objection may in particular be made against processing for the purposes of direct marketing.

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you shall have the right to complain to a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your place of residence, employment or the place of the alleged infringement, if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR.

1.4 Data Erasure and Duration of Storage

The personal data of the data subject will be erased or blocked as soon as the purpose of the storage is inapplicable. Storage of data beyond that may occur if such storage is required by the European or national legislator in EU regulations, laws or other regulations to which the controller is subject. Blocking or erasure of data also takes place when a retention period mandated by the standards mentioned expires, unless the continued storage of data is required for the conclusion of a contract or the fulfilment of contractual obligations.

1.5 Security of Processing

  1. We have implemented appropriate and state-of-the-art technical and organisational security measures (TOMs). Thus, the data that is processed by us is protected against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction and unauthorized access.
  2. These security measures include in particular the encrypted transfer of data between your browser and our server.

1.6 Transfer of Data to Third Parties, Subcontractors and Third Party Providers

  1. A transfer of personal data to third parties only occurs within the framework of legal requirements. We only disclose personal data of users to third parties, if this is required e.g. for billing purposes or other purposes, if the disclosure is necessary to ensure the fulfilment of contractual obligations towards the users.
  2. If we engage subcontractors for our online service, we have made appropriate contractual arrangements as well as adequate technical and organizational measures with these companies.
  3. If we use content, tools or other means from other companies (hereinafter collectively referred to as “third party providers“) whose registered offices are located in a third country, it is assumed that a transfer of data to the home countries of these third party providers occurs. The transfer of personal data to third countries takes place exclusively only, if an adequate level of data protection, the user’s consent or another legal permission is present.

2 Concrete Data Processing

2.1 Collection of Information on the Use of the Online Service

  1. When using our online-service, information may be transferred automatically from the browser of the user to us; this information includes the name of the accessed website, file, date and time of the access, amount of data transferred, notification about successful access, browser type and version, the user’s operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page), IP address and the requesting provider.
  2. The processing of this information takes place based on legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6 paragraph 1 (f) GDPR (e.g. to optimize the online service) as well as to ensure the security of processing in accordance with Article 5 paragraph 1 (f) GDPR (e.g. for the defence and clarification purposes of cyberattacks)
  3. This information will be automatically deleted 4 weeks after the termination of the connection, unless any other retention periods require otherwise.
  4. The collection of the data and the storage of the data in log files is essential for the provision of the online service. Therefore users are not entitled to the options of erasure, objection or correction.

2.2 Contact form and contact by E-Mail

  1. When contacting us (via online form or e-mail), the data provided by the user will be processed exclusively for processing the inquiry and its handling.
  2. If a request refers to a project partner, we will forward your request to the respective project partner. The project partner is also obliged to use the data only for the intended purpose.
  3. Any other use of the data will only take place based on the given consent from the user.

2.3 WP Statistics

  1. This website uses the WordPress analytics plugin “WP Statistics”. Provider of this plugin is wp-statistics.com, a project of Verona Labs, 5460 West Main Street, Verona, NY 13478, USA.
  2. The following data is processed:
    • anonymized form of the IP address (no inference to the IP address is possible)
    • Date & time of the page call
    • Destination of the page call (subpage)
    • Information on operating system and browser/browser version
    • Number of accesses (by the minute, hour, day, week, month and year)
    • Origin of visitors (search engines, links, country, etc.)
    • Search terms in search engines (“search words”), if the call was made via a search engine.
  3. Simple statistics are created from the data in anonymized form. For this purpose, no usage profiles are created and no cookies are set. All data collected by WP Statistics is stored completely anonymously on this web server. A personal identification of a visitor is therefore not possible, even subsequently.
  4. Read more about data protection at wp-statistics.com: https://wp-statistics.com/privacy-and-policy/

2.4 Links to other websites

  1. While using some of our services you will be automatically redirected to other websites.
  2. Please note that this data protection declaration is not valid there. The privacy policy of the linked website may differ significantly from this one.

3 Cookie Policy

This website does not use cookies.

3.1 General Information

  1. Cookies are information transmitted by our web server or third-party web servers to the users’ web browsers where they are stored for later retrieval. Cookies can be in the form of small files or any other types of information storage.
  2. In the case that users do not want that cookies are stored on their computer, they will be asked to disable the corresponding option in their browser’s system settings. Saved cookies may be deleted in the system settings of the browser. The exclusion of cookies can lead to functional impairments of this online service.

3.2 Cookie overview

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3.3 Objection Options

You may object to the use of cookies that are used for measuring the range of coverage and promotional purposes via

  1. deactivation page of the Network Advertising Initiative: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/
  2. the US-American website: http://www.aboutads.info/choices
  3. the European website http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/

4 Changes to the Data Privacy Policy

  1. We reserve the right to change this Data Privacy Policy with regards to the data processing, in order to adapt it to changed legal situations, to changes of the online service or of the data processing.
  2. If users’ consents are required or if elements of the Data Privacy Policy contain provisions in regards to the contractual relationship with the users, the changes will only be made with the consent of the users.
  3. Users are requested to keep themselves informed about the content of this Data Privacy Policy on a regular basis.

Version: 2020-12-14