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PRIVACY POLICY

AVANSA International GmbH, Neumühlestrasse 42, CH-8406 Winterthur (“AVANSA”, “we”) takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. In this privacy policy, we inform you which data we collect from visitors and users of our website www.avansa.eu and for what purposes this data is used, as well as the data protection claims and rights to which you are entitled.

1. who is responsible for data processing and who can you contact?

The controller for data processing within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is

Representative in the European Union:

2 What is personal data?

Personal data is all information that relates to persons whose identity is determined or can be determined. This includes, for example, your name, your e-mail address, your telephone number or your date of birth.

3. how do we process your personal data?

We collect, process and use personal data only with your consent for the purposes agreed with you or if there is another legal basis and in compliance with the relevant statutory provisions. We only collect personal data that is necessary for the performance of our services and user services or that you have provided to us voluntarily.

4. what data do we collect, for what purposes and on what legal basis?

4.1 Access data when using our website

In the course of your visit to this website, we automatically collect so-called log data using cookies. This data includes the IP address and operating system of your device, host name and IP address of the accessing computer, time of the server request, referrer URL (entry and exit page) and browser or browser version. We use this data for the purpose of operational security and optimization of the website as well as for statistical evaluations (predominantly legitimate interest).

4.2 Google Analytics

Our website uses “Google Analytics”, a web analysis service of Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, (“Google”). The service uses “cookies” text files that are stored on your computer and enable us to analyze the use of our website. We process your data on the basis of our predominantly legitimate interest in creating easy-to-use website access statistics in a cost-efficient manner (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

The information generated by the cookies about the use of this website (including your IP address and the URLs of the websites accessed) is sent to Google servers in the USA and stored there. We do not store any of your data that is collected in connection with Google Analytics. We only use Google Analytics with activated IP anonymization. Your IP address is therefore shortened/anonymized by Google as soon as Google receives your IP address.

Google will use this information on our behalf for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data by Google.

You can prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of our website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser add-on available at the following link. Alternatively, you can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data about you within this website by clicking on this link. Your browser must therefore allow the storage of cookies. If you delete your cookies regularly, you will need to click on the link again each time you visit this website.you can find more information on the use of data by Google here: https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners?hl=de and https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de

4.3 Add This

Our website uses “AddThis”, a service of Oracle America, Inc. (“Oracle”), located at 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065, which uses “cookies” text files that are stored on your computer and allow us to analyze the use of our website.

We use AddThis for marketing and optimization purposes in order to continuously improve our website and our services. This is also our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR) in data processing.

You can prevent Oracle from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of our website (including your IP address) by setting an opt-out cookie available via the following link: http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out. If you delete your cookies regularly, this opt-out cookie will also be deleted. Alternatively, you can make the appropriate settings in your browser (see section 4.4.).

Further information on data use and data protection by AddThis can be found here: http://www.addthis.com/privacy

4.4 Cookies

Our website uses “cookies”. These are small text files that are stored in the Internet browser or by the Internet browser on the user’s computer system. This cookie contains a characteristic string of characters that enables the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is called up again.

We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the accessing browser can be identified even after a page change. We also use cookies on our website that enable an analysis of the user’s surfing behavior. When accessing our website, the user is informed by an information banner about the use of cookies for analysis purposes and his consent to the processing of the personal data used in this context is obtained. Reference is also made to this privacy policy.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general or activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of the website may be restricted.

4.5 Newsletter service

Our newsletter provides you with news and practical tips on the topics of communication, sales and leadership as well as on AVANSA International and its partner companies. You can register for our newsletter on our website. To do this, we collect your e-mail address and your first and last name. It is not possible to send you our newsletter without providing this data

We only send newsletters on the basis of the consent of the recipients, which you give by subscribing to our newsletter. The logging of the registration process, the use of a mailing service provider and the performance of statistical surveys and analyses are based on our legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

You can revoke your consent to the newsletter service at any time for the future. To do so, either use the unsubscribe link at the end of each newsletter or send us an e-mail to praxistipp@avansa.eu.

Registration for our newsletter takes place in a so-called double opt-in procedure. After registering, you will therefore receive an e-mail asking you to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary to prevent registration with third-party email addresses. We log the registrations for the newsletter in order to be able to prove the registration process in accordance with the legal requirements. This includes the time of registration and confirmation as well as the IP address. We also log changes to your data.

We send our newsletters using “MailChimp”, a newsletter distribution platform of the US provider Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE #5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.

Your personal data (in particular e-mail address, first and last name) is stored on MailChimp’s servers in the USA. MailChimp uses this information to send and analyze the newsletter on our behalf. We use these evaluations to recognize the reading habits of our users and to improve the content of our newsletters accordingly. We do not monitor individual users. Furthermore, MailChimp may, according to its own information, use this data to optimize or improve its own services.

Further information on data use and data protection by MailChimp can be found here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/”.

4.6 Contact form

If you contact us via the contact form on our website, by e-mail or by telephone, we process the personal data you provide (name, telephone number, e-mail address and your inquiry or the associated documents) for the purpose of processing your inquiry and, in the event of follow-up questions, to fulfil (pre-)contractual obligations or on the basis of legitimate interests.

No data will be passed on to third parties in this context. The data is used exclusively for processing the conversation.

5. to whom do we pass on your personal data?

We will not pass on your personal data to third parties unless it is necessary to achieve the intended purposes or required by law. In addition to the service providers described above, the hosting provider and IT service provider (in the context of support and maintenance) in particular act as processors for us within the meaning of the GDPR. All our processors only process your data on our behalf for the purposes described above and have undertaken to comply with the applicable data protection regulations.

6 How long do we store your data?

We only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes described above and our contractual or legal obligations.

7 How do we protect your data?

We use technical and organizational security measures to protect your data from unauthorized, unlawful or accidental access, processing, use, manipulation, loss or destruction. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technical progress.

8 What rights are you entitled to?

You have the right to information about your personal data processed by us at any time. Furthermore, you have the right to rectification and erasure of incorrect or inadmissibly processed data, data portability and restriction of processing.

You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time. The consequence of this is that we may no longer continue the data processing based on this consent in the future.

If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object to the data processing at any time, provided there are reasons for this arising from your particular situation.

If you are of the opinion that we have violated the applicable data protection law when processing your personal data or that your data protection claims have been violated in any other way, you are welcome to contact us. We are available for you under the contact details listed in point 1. You can also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.

9. changes to the privacy policy?

If the legal situation or the services offered change, we will update the privacy policy accordingly.