Privacy Notice
Maria Jesus Valero Aracama (hereinafter “we”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice, together with our website terms of use and any other documents referred to in it, explains wich types of personal information we collect, how we collect and use that information, who we share it with and wich rights you have regarding your data.
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WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
Maria Jesus Valero Aracama
Bergstr. 1
91086 Aurachtal
WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT?
If you order from us any goods or services, we will use the personal data that you provide to us only to process your order and to provide the requested items. This may include taking the necessary steps prior to entering into the contract, responding to your questions and providing you with billing information and to process or provide customer feedback and support.
We collect and process the following personal data:
Identity and Contact Data, including your name, address, phone number, email address, contact preferences, device identifiers, IP address and location information.
Financial and Payment Data, including your bank account and other data necessary for processing payments and fraud prevention, including credit/debit card numbers and other related billing information;
Technical Data, including information collected during your visits to our website, the browser type and version, device type, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and web pages you visited prior to coming to this website, including: Clicks, Internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches and timestamps.
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION VIA WEBSITE ACCESSES: HOW DO WE USE YOUR DATA?
A/B tests.
Affiliate tracking.
Provision of our online offer and user-friendliness (collecting information about your preferences to personalise and improve the quality of our communications with you).
Visit action evaluation.
Office and organisational procedures.
Click tracking.
Cross-device tracking (cross-device processing of user data for marketing purposes).
Direct marketing (e.g. by e-mail or by post).
Contact requests and communication.
Feedback (e.g. collecting feedback via online form).
Firewall.
Heatmaps (mouse movements by users, which are combined into an overall picture).
Interest-based and behavioral marketing.
Conversion measurement (measurement of the effectiveness of marketing measures).
Profiling.
Remarketing.
Range measurement (e.g. access statistics, detection of returning visitors).
Security, e.g. to protect the security of our communications and other systems and to prevent and detect security threats, frauds or other criminal or malicious activities.
Tracking (e.g. interest/behavioural profiling, use of cookies).
Server monitoring and error detection.
Targeting (determination of target groups relevant for marketing purposes or other output of content).
OUR BUSINESS SERVICES - DIGITALISATION, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND TRANSLATIONS: HOW DO WE USE YOUR DATA?
If you order from us any goods or services, we will use the personal data that you provide to us only to process your order and to provide the requested items. This may include taking the necessary steps prior to entering into the contract, responding to your questions and providing you with billing information and to process or provide customer feedback and support.
We process data of our contractual and business partners, e.g. customers and prospective customers (hereinafter collectively referred to as "contractual partners") within the scope of contractual and comparable legal relationships and within the scope of communication with contractual partners (or pre-contractual), e.g. to answer inquiries.
We process data for the purpose of fulfilling our contractual obligations, for securing our rights and for the purposes of the administrative tasks associated with our duties. Within the framework of the applicable law, we only pass on the data of the contractual partners to third parties to the extent that this is necessary for the aforementioned purposes or to fulfil legal obligations or with the consent of the contractual partners.
We inform the contractual partners on which data is required before or during the data collection, e.g. in online forms, by special marking (e.g. colours) or symbols (e.g. asterisks or similar), or personally.
If we use third-party providers or platforms to provide our services, the terms and conditions and data protection information of the respective third-party providers or platforms apply in the relationship between the users and the providers. If the client's consent is given, if it is necessary for our contractual performance, legally or for the protection of vital interests, or if it is based on our legitimate interests in the efficient and safe performance of our activities, we disclose or transfer the client's data to third parties or agents, such as authorities, courts or in the field of IT, office or comparable services, in compliance with the provisions of professional law.
The texts you submit to us for the purpose of developing a software, advising you on the best intellectual property strategy or translating them into another language are used only insofar as it is necessary to accomplish our task and are never stored further after completion of the tasks assigned.
In particular, we use your data for the following purposes:
Managing and responding to contact and communication requests. Communicating with you and sharing information about our services and solutions (including newsletters and other information), events and initiatives.
Contractual services and services. That includes fulfilling a contract or take steps linked to a contract, with you or your organisation, registering you as a client, processing payments, billing and collection. Commercial and business services
Blogs and publication media: blogs or comparable means of online communication and publication.
Processing applications for employment.
For purposes required by law, including maintaining records, compliance checks or screening and recording (e.g. anti-money laundering, financial and credit checks, fraud and crime prevention and detection, trade sanctions and embargo laws).
HOW DO WE STORE AND KEEP SECURE YOUR DATA?
We have put in place - in accordance with the legal requirements and taking into account the state of the art, the implementation costs and the nature, scope, circumstances and purposes of the processing, as well as the different chances of occurrence and the extent of the threats to the rights and freedoms of natural persons - appropriate technical and organisational security measures to ensure that your personal data have an appropriate level of protection.
Measures include, in particular, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data by controlling physical and electronic access to the data, as well as access, input, disclosure, security of data and access to the data. We have foreseen procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
In addition, we have established procedures to ensure the exercise of data subjects' rights, the erasure of data and reactions to the threat to the data. Furthermore, we take into account the protection of personal data already in the development or selection of hardware, software and procedures according to the principle of data protection, through technical design and through data protection-friendly presets.
Ip reduction: If we can or do not need to store the IP address, we will shorten or have your IP address shortened. In the case of ip address reduction, also known as "IP masking", the last octet, i.e. the last two numbers of an IP address, is deleted (the IP address is in this context an Internet connection by the online access provider individually associated identifier). The purpose of shortening the IP address is to prevent or make it much more difficult to identify a person by their IP address.
SSL encryption (https): In order to protect your data transmitted via our online offer, we use SSL encryption. You can recognize such encrypted connections by the prefix https:// in the address bar of your browser.
RELEVANT LEGAL BASES
The legal provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the basis of which we process the personal data are the following:
Consent based on point (a) of Article 6(1) GDPR – The data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;
Performance of the contract and pre-contractual requests based on point (b) of Article 6(1) GDPR – Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;
Compliance with a legal obligation based on point (c) of Article 6(1) GDPR – Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject;
Protecting vital interests based on point (d) of Article 6(1) GDPR – Processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person;
For the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party based on point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR – 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.
Please note that in addition to the GDPR regulations, the national data protection requirements may apply in your or our Country of residence.
National data protection regulations in Germany: The Law on the Protection against Misuse of Personal Data in Data Processing (Federal Data Protection Act – BDSG). In particular, the BDSG contains special provisions on the right to information, the right to erasure, the right to object, the processing of special categories of personal data, processing for other purposes and for transmission, as well as automated Decision-making on a case-by-case basis, including profiling. It also regulates the processing of data for the purposes of the employment relationship (Section 26 of the German Federal Data Protection Act), in particular with regard to the establishment, implementation or termination of employment relationships and the consent of employees. In addition, state data protection laws of the individual federal states can be applied.
TRANSFER AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA
In the context of our processing of personal data, the data may be transmitted to other companies or persons. Recipients of this data may include, for example, payment institutions in the context of payment transactions, service providers entrusted with IT tasks or providers of services and content that are integrated in a website. In this case, we comply with the legal requirements through contracts which serve to protect your data.
Transfer of data within the Group of Companies: We may transfer personal data to other companies within our group of companies. If this transfer is for administrative purposes, the transfer of the data takes place if it is necessary for the fulfilment of our contractual obligations or with the consent of the persons concerned.
TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA TO THIRD COUNTRIES
If we process data in a third country (i.e., outside the European Union or the European Economic Area ) or if the processing takes place in the context of the use of third-party services, this is only done in accordance with the legal requirements: with your express consent or after receiving your data on a contractual or legal basis, we process only in third countries with a recognised adequate level of data protection, which includes US processors certified under the "Privacy Shield", or on the basis of special guarantees, such as contractual obligations under so-called Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) for data transfers between EU and non-EU countries, the existence of certifications or binding internal data protection regulations (Articles 44 to 49 GDPR).
HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Your personal data will be deleted in accordance with the legal requirements as soon as your consent is revoked or if the purpose of the processing has ceased.
Your personal data processing is limited to the time necessary to fulfil the purposes mentioned above. Otherwise, only data that must be retained for commercial or tax reasons or whose storage is necessary for legal claims or for the protection of the rights of any natural or legal person will allow a longer storage oder process. Upon expiry of the applicable retention period we will securely destroy your personal data in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
WHAT ARE YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS?
The right to access – You have the right to request a copy of your personal data that we hold. There are exceptions to this right, so that access may be denied if, for example, making the information available to you would reveal personal data about another person, or if we are legally prevented from disclosing such information. You are entitled to see the personal data held about you. If you wish to do this, please contact us using the contact details provided below.
The right to rectification – We aim to keep your personal data accurate, current and complete. We encourage you to contact us if you believe any of your personal data is not accurate, incomplete or needs changes, so that we can keep your personal data up- to-date.
The right to erasure and to object to processing and to restrict processing– You have the right to require us to erase your personal data or to object to processing of your personal data and to ask us to block and restrict the processing of your personal data. when the personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, or when you believe your personal data have been unlawfully processed.
The right to withdraw consent – If you have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal data, you have the right to fully or partly withdraw your consent. Once we have received notification of withdrawing, we will stop processing your information, unless there is still a different legal ground for the processing.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that some of your personal data is provided to you, or to another organization or data controller, in a commonly used, machine- readable format.
The right to complain to the supervisory authority – You also have the right, in accordance with the legal requirements, to contact a supervisory authority in the Member State of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement, if you think that the processing of personal your data concerning is against the GDPR.
You may, at any time, exercise any of the above rights, by contacting mjvalero@wire-together.com or using our contact form together with a proof of your identity, i.e. a copy of your ID card, or passport, or any other valid identifying document.
MODIFICATION AND UPDATE OF THE PRIVACY POLICY
We kindly ask you to read this privacy policy regularly, as we update it if changes to the data processing require it. We will inform you as soon as these changes require your consent.
This privacy policy was last updated on December 09, 2024.
ANALYTICS
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
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