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Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us

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The responsible party within the meaning of the data protection laws, in particular the EU Data Protection Basic Regulation (DSGVO), is the

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Environmental Carbon Offset Alliance (ECOTA)

Registered Address: ECOTA GmbH i.G., Burgallee 47, 63454 Hanau

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Email: info@ecota.io

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DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS

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You can exercise the following rights at any time by contacting our data protection officer:

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Information about your data stored with us and its processing (Art. 15 DSGVO),

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Correcting inaccurate personal data (Art. 16 DSGVO),

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Deletion of your data stored with us (Art. 17 DSGVO),

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Restriction of data processing, provided that we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 DSGVO),

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opposition to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 DSGVO) and

Data transferability, if you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 DSGVO).

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If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

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You may at any time submit a complaint to a supervisory authority, e.g. to the competent supervisory authority of the federal state of your residence or to the authority responsible for us as the responsible body.

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A list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at:

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https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

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CONTACT FORM

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Type and purpose of the data processing:

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The data entered by you will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. For this reason, it is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address and your name. This serves to assign the inquiry and to answer it afterwards. The specification of further data is optional.

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Legal basis:

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The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based on a legitimate interest (Art 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO).

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By providing the contact form, we would like to make it easy for you to contact us. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing your inquiry and for possible follow-up questions.

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If you contact us in order to request an offer, the data entered in the contact form will be processed for the purpose of implementing pre-contractual measures (Art 6 Paragraph 1 lit. b DSGVO).

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Recipient:

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Recipients of the data may be processors.

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Storage period:

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Data will be deleted at the latest 6 months after processing the request.

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If a contractual relationship is established, we are subject to the legal retention periods according to HGB and delete your data after these periods have expired.

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Provision prescribed or necessary:

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The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your request if you provide us with your name, your e-mail address and the reason for the request.

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USE OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS

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Nature and type of the processing:

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This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (hereafter: "Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on these websites, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google.

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The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on activities on the website. Based on the use of the website and the internet, further associated services are then to be provided.

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Legal basis:

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The processing of data is based on the consent of the user (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO).

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Recipient:

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Recipient of the data is Google as the processor. We have concluded the corresponding contract with Google for this purpose.

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Storage period:

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The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for our recording purposes.

Third country transfer:

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Google processes your data in the USA and has submitted to the EU_US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. We have also concluded standard data protection clauses with Google for the use of Google Analytics.

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Provision required or necessary:

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The provision of your personal data is voluntary, based solely on your consent. If you prevent access, this may result in functional restrictions on the website.

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Revocation of consent:

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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) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: Browser Add On to deactivate Google Analytics.

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In addition or as an alternative to the Browser Add-On you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our pages by clicking on this link. This will install an opt-out cookie on your device. This prevents Google Analytics from tracking this website and this browser in the future as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

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Profiling:

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The tracking tool Google Analytics can be used to evaluate the behaviour of website visitors and analyse their interests. For this purpose we create a pseudonymous user profile.

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SOCIAL-MEDIA LINKS AND SOCIAL-SHARING

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We have our own social media pages at the third-party providers that can be reached via links from this website/app. By using the links you can access the respective websites of the third party providers (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google+) and can also share our content. As soon as you have accessed the page of the third party providers, you are in the area of responsibility of the respective third party provider, so that their privacy policy or their statements on the use of data aso apply. We have no influence on this, but to avoid unnecessary data transfer, we recommend that you log out of the respective third-party provider before using a link, so that the use of the link does not result in the creation of user profiles by the third-party provider.

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USE OF SCRIPT LIBRARIES (GOOGLE WEBFONTS)

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Nature and type of the data processing:

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In order to display our content correctly and graphically appealing across browsers, we use "Google Web Fonts" from Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter "Google") on this website to display fonts.

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The privacy policy of the library operator Google can be found here: 

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

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Legal basis:

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The legal basis for the integration of Google Web Fonts and the associated data transfer to Google is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO).

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Recipient:

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Calling up script libraries or font libraries automatically triggers a connection to the library operator. It is theoretically possible - although it is currently unclear whether and for what purposes - that the operator collects data from Google in this case.

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Storage duration:

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We do not collect any personal data through the integration of Google Webfonts.

Further information about Google Web Fonts can be found at

https://developers.google.com/fonts/faqand in the Google privacy policy:

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

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Third country transfer:

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Google processes your data in the USA and has submitted to the EU_US Privacy Shield  https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

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Provision required or necessary:

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The provision of personal information is not required by law or contract. However, it cannot be provided without the correct display of the contents of standard fonts.

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Revocation of consent:

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The programming language JavaScript is regularly used to display the content. You can therefore object to the data processing by deactivating the execution of JavaScript in your browser or by installing an integration JavaScript blocker. Please note that this may result in functional restrictions on the website.

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GOOGLE ADWORDS

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Nature and type of the data processing:

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Our website uses Google Conversion Tracking. The operating company of Google AdWords services is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. If you have reached our website via an advertisement placed by Google, Google Adwords will place a cookie on your computer. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an ad served by Google.

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If the user visits certain pages on our site and the cookie hasn't expired, we and Google can tell that the user clicked the ad and was redirected to that page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. As a result, cookies cannot be tracked across the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected through the conversion cookie is used to compile conversion statistics for advertisers who have opted in to conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of users who clicked on their ad 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.

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Legal basis:

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The legal basis for the integration of Google AdWords and the associated data transfer to Google is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO).

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Recipient:

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Whenever you visit our website, personal data, including your IP address, is transferred to Google in the USA. This personal data is stored by Google. Google may pass on this personal data collected via the technical process to third parties.

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Our company does not contain any information from Google by which the person concerned could be identified.

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Storage period:

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These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used for personal identification.

Third country transfer:

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Google processes your data in the USA and has submitted to the EU_US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

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Revocation of consent:

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If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can refuse the setting of a cookie that is required for this purpose - for example, by changing your browser settings to generally disable the automatic setting of cookies or to set your browser to block cookies from the domain "googleleadservices.com".

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Please note that you may not delete the opt-out cookies unless you wish to record measurement data. If you have deleted all your cookies in your browser, you have to set the respective opt-out cookie again.

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Provision required or necessary:

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The provision of your personal data is voluntary, solely based on your consent. If you prevent access, this may result in functional restrictions on the website.

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SSL ENCRYPTION

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To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption procedures (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

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CHANGE OF OUR DATA PROTECTION REGULATIONS

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We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always meets the current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services. The new data protection declaration then applies to your renewed visit.

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QUESTIONS TO THE DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

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If you have any questions regarding data protection, please send us an e-mail or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization directly:

 

Maximilian Roesgen, maximilian.roesgen@ecota.io

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