Privacy

Privacy Protection

nanoFaktur GmbH (shortened to nanoFaktur in the following) is taking the protection of your private sphere seriously. We at nanoFaktur consider it to be part of the company’s responsibility to protect information and data with which the company has been entrusted. To provide you with the assurance you require when visiting our websites, we strictly observe the legal regulations regarding the processing of your personal data. You will find detailed information on how we handle your data in the following.

nanoFaktur emphasizes, that it is not its goal to gather any private data. We solely store those professional data given to us by the owner or a delegate or which are public, like company, company-address, company-email, company-telephone, etc. and the communication. If, for instance, we get contacted via a private email-address or a private telephone-number, these data may be stored in order to keep contact but will be deleted or replaced by their professional equivalents when demanded.

1. Who is responsible for processing your data?

nanoFaktur GmbH
Mr. Ralf Stamm, managing director
Peterzeller Str. 8c
78048 Villingen-Schwenningen
Germany

2. When does nanoFaktur gather data about you?

Browsing:
We gather a certain amount of data to enable us to provide you with content appropriate to your needs. You can visit our websites without having to divulge any personal details. Only technical access data is stored in so-called server log files, including the name of the file requested, the date and time of the query, the volume of data transmitted and the provider making the inquiry, for example. This data is evaluated solely for purpose of ensuring trouble-free operation of the site, statistic anonymous evaluations and to improve the content.

Contact:
Specifically, we gather personal data

• On registration for individual customer access
• From online job applications
• From subscriptions to our Newsletter
• In contact and service inquiry forms
• From e-mail/phone correspondence
• From comments made in the blog

The particular data gathered in each case can be seen from the applicable input forms. We use the data entered for contract performance, for the provision of services and for processing inquiries.

3. For what purposes does nanoFaktur use the data?

3.1 For the fulfilment of contractual obligations (Art. 6 Para. 1 Point b GDPR)

Through the use of your data, nanoFaktur targets to optimize service and provision of information.

Specifically, we use your data

• For processing your service requests
• To send you our e-mail newsletter (you can unsubscribe at any time and informally)

3.2 In connection with the weighing of interests (Art. 6 Para. 1 Point f GDPR)

We may also use your data in the context of a weighing of interests to safeguard the legitimate (generally economic) interests of our company or of third parties; wherever possible the data will be processed in pseudonymized or anonymized form. This is done for the following purposes:

• Monitoring, optimization and further enhancement of services and products
• Advertising activities, market and opinion research
• Assertion of legal claims and defense in the case of legal disputes
• Detection, prevention and prosecution of criminal offenses
• To guarantee the security and operational reliability of our IT systems

3.3 By reason of your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 Point a GDPR)

Insofar as you have given your consent for us to process your data, the respective consent forms the legal basis for the processing covered by the consent. This applies in particular to any consent to telephone- or e-mail-marketing you may have granted.

You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. It is possible to unsubscribe from the newsletters at any time, either by sending a message to the above-mentioned contact addresses or using a link provided for this purpose in the newsletters.

3.4 For the fulfilment of legal obligations (Art. 6 Para. 1 Point c GDPR)

We are bound by various legal obligations, e.g. legal obligations to preserve business records.

4. Passing-on of your data

Your data will only ever be used to the extent required. So far as external service providers are involved in the operation of this website (e.g. hosting providers), the external service providers will only be given access to your data to the extent necessary for them to be able to perform their tasks and functions.

If these service providers process your data outside the European Union, this may result in your data being transmitted to a country that does not apply the same privacy protection standards as the European Union. In such cases we will ensure that the recipients of your data guarantee a level of privacy protection equivalent to that of the European Union.

5. Security of your data

As a safeguard, your data will be transmitted in encrypted form (SSL / HTTPS), using the latest secure encryption techniques. We also employ technical and organizational means to secure our websites and other systems to prevent the loss, destruction, accessing, manipulation, and distribution of your data by unauthorized persons.

6. Why does this website use cookies?

On various pages we employ cookies to make our website attractive to visit and to permit the use of certain functions. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your browsing device. Some of the cookies we use (so-called session cookies) are deleted again at the end of the browser session, in other words when you close your browser. Other cookies remain on browsing device and enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). You can adjust your browser settings so that you are informed about the placement of cookies and can decide on a case-to-case basis whether to accept these, or to refuse the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general. The functionality of our website may be restricted in the event of non-acceptance of cookies.

7. Analytical web services from Google (Universal) Analytics

This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, an analytical web service provided by Google Inc. (www.google.de). Google (Universal) Analytics employs methods that permit analysis of how you use the website, including so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer, for example. The information generated on your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA, where it is stored. Through activation of IP anonymization on this website, the IP address will be abbreviated prior to transmission within the members states of the European Union or in other states that are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and abbreviated there. No connection will be established between the anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser when using Google Analytics and other Google data.

You can prevent the gathering of the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) at Google, as well as processing of this data by Google, by clicking this link to prevent future data acquisition by Google Analytics on this website. An opt-out cookie will then be stored on your end device. If you delete your cookies, you have to click the link again.

Alternatively, you can install a browser plug-in that prevents the gathering and processing of the cookie-data by Google. You can download the browser plug-in here:https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

8. Use of Google AdWords

Our website makes use of Google conversion tracking. If you have accessed our website via an advertisement placed by Google, Google Adwords will place a cookie on your computer. The conversion tracking cookie is placed when a user clicks an advertisement placed by Google. These cookies become invalid after 30 days and do not serve the purpose of personal identification. If a user visits certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can detect that the user has clicked the advertisement and has been re-directed to this page. Every Google AdWords customer is given a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information obtained with the help of the conversion cookie is used to produce conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have decided to use conversion tracking. The customers are informed of the total number of users who have clicked their advertisement and been re-directed to a page provided with a conversion tracking tag. They do not however receive any information with which users can be personally identified.

If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can refuse placement of the cookie required for this – for instance by making a browser setting that deactivates the automatic placing of cookies in general or by setting your browser such that cookies from the domain “googleleadservices.com” are blocked. Please note that you must not delete the opt-out cookies for as long as you want to avoid the recording of measurement data. If you have deleted all your cookies in the browser, you will have to set the corresponding opt-out cookie again.

9. Use of Google remarketing

This website may use the Google Inc. remarketing function. The purpose of this function is to present visitors to the website with advertisements related to their interests within the scope of the Google advertising network. A so-called “cookie” is stored in the browser of the visitor to the website. This makes it possible to recognize the visitor on calling up websites belonging to the Google advertising network. On these websites, the visitor can be presented with advertisements relating to content previously called up by the visitor on websites that use the Google remarketing function. Google states that it does not capture any personal data during this action. If you do not want the Google remarketing function, you can however deactivate it by making the relevant settings at http://www.google.com/settings/ads. Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of cookies for interest-based advertising via the Network Advertising Initiative by following the instructions at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. Further information on Google remarketing and the Google privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/.

10. Use of Google web fonts

External Google Fonts are incorporated into our websites to be sure of obtaining a graphically appealing presentation. Google Fonts is a service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). These web fonts are incorporated via a server request, usually to a Google server in the USA. In doing so, information on which of our websites you have visited is transmitted to the server. The IP address of the visitor to these websites is additionally stored by Google. The fonts are stored in the cache of your browser, thus preventing multiple loading. This has a positive effect on the speed at which our websites are loaded.

Further details can be found in the Google privacy policy, available at:https://policies.google.com/privacy.

11. Use of Google Maps

Our websites use Google Maps to visually present geographical information. On using Google Maps, Google Inc. also captures, processes and makes use of data on the utilization of the map functions by visitors. Further information on data processing by Google can be found at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

12. Use of YouTube videos

YouTube videos may be embedded in our websites. The corresponding plug-ins are operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit a site with the YouTube plug-in, a link is established with the YouTube servers. This informs YouTube about the sites you visit. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your surfing-behaviour to you personally. You can avoid this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand. On starting a YouTube video, the provider inserts cookies that gather information on user behaviour. If you have deactivated the storage of cookies for the Google Ad program, you will not have to expect any such cookies when viewing YouTube videos either. YouTube does however store non-personalized usage information in other cookies as well. If you wish to prevent this, you have to block the storage of cookies in the browser. Further information on “YouTube” privacy protection can be found in the privacy policy of the provider at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

13. Use of social plug-ins

On our website we may offer so-called “social media buttons”. These buttons are only incorporated into the website in the form of a graphic containing a link to the corresponding website of the button provider. On clicking the graphic you will thus be re-directed to the services of the providers concerned. Only then will your data be transmitted to the providers concerned. No exchange will take place between you and the providers of the social media buttons if you do not click the graphic. Information on the capture and use of your data on social media can be found in the usage conditions of the corresponding providers.

We may have incorporated the social media buttons of the following companies into our website:

• Facebook Inc. (1601 S. California Ave – Palo Alto – CA 94304 – USA)
• Twitter Inc. (795 Folsom St. – Suite 600 – San Francisco – CA 94107 – USA)
• XING AG (Gänsemarkt 43 – 20354 Hamburg – Germany)
• LinkedIn Corporation (2029 Stierlin Court – Mountain View – CA 94043 – USA)

14. When will your data be deleted?

Following complete performance of the contract or cancellation of your customer account, your data will be blocked for further use and deleted at the end of the retention periods specified by tax and commercial law, insofar as you have not expressly consented to further utilization of your data or we reserve the right to extended data utilization as permitted by law and about which information is contained in this privacy policy. Cancellation of your customer account is possible at any time, either by sending an informal message to the above-mentioned contact address or using a function provided for this purpose in the customer account.

15. What are your privacy protection rights?

Subject to the applicable legal prerequisites, you have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and data portability (Art. 20 GDPR) vis-à-vis nanoFaktur. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR).

If you have given nanoFaktur your consent, you can withdraw this at any time with effect for the future.

As far as nanoFaktur processes your data in the context of a weighing of interests, you can object to such processing. If you lodge a protest, your data will no longer be processed, unless the company responsible can furnish proof of compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and liberties, or insofar as processing serves the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims.

nanoFaktur GmbH

May 2018