Legal

1. Privacy at a glance

General information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is all data that can identify you personally. Detailed information on data protection can be found in our Privacy Policy below.

Data collection on this website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data on this website is processed by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the section "Information on the responsible body" in this Privacy Policy.

How do we collect your data?

One way that data is collected is by you sharing it with us. This can, for example, be be data entered in a contact form.

Other data is collected by our IT systems automatically or with your consent when visiting the website. This is primarily technical data (e.g., Internet browser, operating system, or time the page was viewed). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter this website.

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure that the website runs without errors. Other data may be used to analyze user behavior.

What rights do you have in relation to your data?

You have the right to obtain information on the origin, recipients and purpose of your stored personal data free of charge and at any time. You also have the right to request that this data be corrected or deleted. If you have given consent for the data to be processed, you can withdraw your consent for the future at any time. Under certain circumstances, you also have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. Furthermore, you have the right of appeal to the relevant supervisory authority.

If you have any further questions about our Privacy Policy, you can contact us anytime.

2. Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

External hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (hoster). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the hoster's servers. Specifically, this can relate to IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website access, and other data generated via a website.

Using the hoster serves the purpose of meeting the contractual obligations to our potential and existing customers (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR) and providing a secure, fast and efficient online offering through a professional provider (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Our hoster will only process your data to the extent necessary to meet its service obligations and will follow our instructions in relation to this data.

We use the following hoster:

Hostinger International Ltd.
61 Lordou Vironos Street
6023 Larnaca, Cyprus

Order processing agreement

In order to ensure compliance with data processing requirements, we have made an agreement about order processing with our hoster.

3. General and mandatory information

Privacy Policy

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. In line with statutory data protection regulations as well as this Privacy Policy, we treat your personal data confidentially.

When using this website, different personal data will be collected. Personal data is data that can identify you personally. The Privacy Policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose we collect it.

We note that there may be security breaches when transferring data on the Internet (e.g., when communicating by email). Data cannot fully be protected from being accessed by third parties.

Information on the responsible body

The following are responsible for data processing on this website:

Equivia GmbH
Breslauer Platz 4
50668 Cologne
Germany
represented by the Executive Directors:
Jochen Berger
Tobias Mohr
Jan Osthues
Dr. Andreas Palm
Thomas Strohe
Daniel Thomy

Phone: +49 221 670 253 0
Email: info@equivia.de

The party responsible is the natural or legal person that, alone or with others, makes decisions on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g., names, email addresses, etc.).

Storage duration

Unless a storage period is specified in this Privacy Policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose of data processing no longer applies. If you exercise a legitimate request for deletion or withdraw your consent to your data being processed, your data will be deleted, provided we have no other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g., tax, or commerce-related legal retention periods); in the latter case, the data will be deleted once these reasons cease to apply.

Withdrawal of your consent to data processing

Many data processing activities explicitly require your consent. You can withdraw consent already given at any time. The legality of any data processing carried out until withdrawal of consent remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Right to object to data collection under specific circumstances and for direct marketing (Article 21 GDPR)

IF THE DATA PROCESSING IS BASED ON ARTICLE 6(1)(E) OR (F) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AT ANY TIME FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH PROCESSING IS BASED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS DATA PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA UNLESS WE CAN PROVE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS, AND FREEDOM, OR THAT PROCESSING IS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE, OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION ACCORDING TO ARTICLE 21(1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSES OF SUCH ADVERTISING; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING INSOFAR AS IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT ADVERTISING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL NO LONGER BE USED FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING PURPOSES (OBJECTION ACCORDING TO ARTICLE 21(2) GDPR).

Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority

Those affected by violations of the GDPR have the right of appeal to a supervisory authority, specifically in the member state of their usual residence, their workplace, or the place of the alleged violation. The right of appeal is without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right to data transferability

You have the right to have the data we automatically process based on your consent or to meet contractual obligations handed out to you or a third party in a standard, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another person responsible, this will only be done if it is technically feasible.

SSL or TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transfer of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL and/or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the URL in the browser changing from "http://" to "https://" and a lock icon appearing in the browser line.

If SSL and/or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transfer to us cannot be read by third parties.

Disclosure, deletion, and correction

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right to gratuitous disclosure of your stored personal data, its origin, and recipients as well as the purpose of data processing and, if necessary, a right to have the data corrected or deleted at any time. You can contact us at any time if you have any further questions on the subject of personal data.

Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. You can contact us about this anytime. The right to the restriction of processing applies under the following circumstances:

• If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we usually need time to review it. While your data is being reviewed, you have the right to request that processing of your personal data be restricted.
• If the processing of your personal data was/is illegal, you can request that the data processing be restricted rather than deleted.
• If we no longer require your personal data, but you need it to exercise, defend or enforce legal claims, you have the right to request that processing of your personal data be restricted rather than deleted.
• If you have objected pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR, your interests and ours must be considered. As long as it has not yet been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, this data—other than for storage—may only be processed with your consent or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims or to protect the rights of another natural or legal person, or for reasons of major public interest of the European Union or a member state.

4. Data collection on this website

Server log files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which are automatically transferred to us by your browser. They include:

• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL
• Host name of the accessing computer
• Time of server query
• IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources.

This data is collected on the basis of Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically sound presentation and optimization of their website—for this reason, the server log files must be recorded.

Inquiry by email, phone, or fax

If you contact us by email, phone or fax, your inquiry including all personal data (name, inquiry) arising from it will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your request. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

This data is processed on the basis of Article 6(1)(b) GDPR if your request is related to meeting contractual obligations or it is required for the execution of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in effectively processing inquiries addressed to us (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR) or based on your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR) if queried.

The data sent to us via contact requests will remain with us until you request that it be deleted, you withdraw your consent to storage or if the reason for data storage no longer applies (e.g., after your request has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions—particularly statutory retention periods—remain unaffected.

Use of Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze website usage. The data obtained from this is used to optimize our website and advertising measures.

Google Analytics is provided to us by Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). Google processes the website usage data on our behalf and is contractually committed to measures to ensure the security and confidentiality of the processed data.

During your visit to the website, the following data, among others, is recorded:

• Pages viewed
• Your behavior on the pages (for example, dwell time, clicks, scrolling behavior)
• Your approximate location (country and city)
• Your IP address (in shortened form, so that no clear assignment is possible)
• Technical information such as browser, Internet provider, terminal device and screen resolution
• Source of origin of your visit (i.e. via which website or via which advertising medium you came to us)

No personal data such as name, address or contact details are ever transferred to Google Analytics.

This data is transferred to Google servers in the USA. We would like to point out that the same level of data protection cannot be guaranteed in the USA as within the EU.

Google Analytics stores cookies in your web browser for a period of two years since your last visit. These cookies contain a randomly generated user ID that can be used to recognize you during future website visits.

The recorded data is stored together with the randomly generated user ID, which enables the evaluation of pseudonymous user profiles. This user-related data is automatically deleted after 14 months. Other data remains stored in aggregated form indefinitely.

If you do not agree with the collection, you can stop it with the one-time installation of the Browser Add-on to disable Google Analytics or by rejecting cookies via our cookie settings dialog.

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