Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy:

We hereby inform you in accordance with the legal requirements of data protection laws (especially in accordance with the BDSG n.F. and the European General Data Protection Regulation ‘DS-GVO’) about the nature, scope, and purpose of the processing of personal data by our company. This privacy policy also applies to our websites and social media profiles. For the definition of terms such as “personal data” or “processing,” we refer to Art. 4 DS-GVO.

Name and Contact Information of the Controller: Our controller (hereinafter “Controller”) within the meaning of Art. 4 para. 7 DS-GVO is: Tubman.network
Huttenstrasse 9
10553 Berlin
Email: [email protected]

Types of Data, Purposes of Processing, and Categories of Data Subjects:

1. Types of Data We Process:

  • Usage data (access times, visited websites, etc.)
  • Inventory data (name, address, etc.)
  • Contact data (phone number, email, fax, etc.)
  • Content data (text entries, videos, photos, etc.)

2. Purposes of Processing according to Art. 13 para. 1 c) DS-GVO:

  • Optimize website technically and economically
  • Enable easy access to the website
  • Fulfill contractual obligations
  • Contact in case of legal objections by third parties
  • Optimize and statistically evaluate our services
  • Improve user experience
  • Create statistics
  • Process contact inquiries
  • Provide websites with functions and content
  • Security measures

3. Categories of Data Subjects according to Art. 13 para. 1 e) DS-GVO:

  • Visitors/users of the website
  • Customers
  • Partners

The data subjects are collectively referred to as “Users.”

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data:

We inform you about the legal bases of the processing of personal data:

  1. If we have obtained your consent for the processing of personal data, Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) DS-GVO is the legal basis.
  2. If the processing is necessary for the fulfillment of a contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures requested by you, Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b) DS-GVO is the legal basis.
  3. If the processing is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation to which we are subject (e.g., legal retention obligations), Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c) DS-GVO is the legal basis.
  4. If the processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person, Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. d) DS-GVO is the legal basis.
  5. If the processing is necessary to safeguard our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, and your interests, fundamental rights, and freedoms do not outweigh the former interests, Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) DS-GVO is the legal basis.

Disclosure of Personal Data to Third Parties and Data Processors:

Without your consent, we generally do not disclose data to third parties. If this should nevertheless occur, the disclosure is based on the legal bases mentioned above, e.g., for the purpose of contract fulfillment or due to a court order or legal obligation to disclose data for the purpose of law enforcement, danger prevention, or enforcement of intellectual property rights. We also use data processors (external service providers, e.g., for web hosting of our websites and databases) to process your data. If data is passed on to data processors within the framework of an order processing agreement, this is always done in accordance with Art. 28 DS-GVO. We carefully select our data processors, check them regularly, and have them grant us a right of instruction regarding the data. In addition, data processors must have taken suitable technical and organizational measures and comply with data protection regulations in accordance with BDSG n.F. and DS-GVO.

Data Transfer to Third Countries:

With the adoption of the European General Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO), a uniform basis for data protection in Europe was created.

Transfer of Data to Third Countries:

Due to the creation of the European General Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO), your data is primarily processed by companies to which the DS-GVO applies. If processing by third-party services outside the European Union or the European Economic Area does occur, these services must meet the special requirements of Art. 44 et seq. DS-GVO. This means that processing takes place due to special guarantees, such as the officially recognized determination of a level of data protection equivalent to that of the EU by the EU Commission or compliance with officially recognized specific contractual obligations, the so-called “standard contractual clauses.” In the event that we obtain your explicit consent for data transfer to the USA due to the ineffectiveness of the so-called “Privacy Shield,” as per Art. 49 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) DSGVO, we would like to draw your attention to the risk of secret access by US authorities and the use of data for monitoring purposes, possibly without legal remedies for EU citizens.

Deletion of Data and Storage Duration:

Unless expressly stated otherwise in this privacy policy, your personal data will be deleted or blocked as soon as the consent granted for processing is revoked, or the purpose for storage ceases to apply, or the data is no longer required for the purpose, unless further storage is necessary for evidentiary purposes or legal retention obligations contradict this. This includes, for example, commercial retention obligations for business letters according to § 257 para. 1 HGB (6 years) as well as tax retention obligations for documents according to § 147 para. 1 AO (10 years). When the prescribed retention period expires, your data will be blocked or deleted unless storage is still necessary for the conclusion or fulfillment of a contract.

Existence of Automated Decision-Making:

We do not use automated decision-making or profiling.

Providing Our Website and Creating Log Files:

  1. When you use our website solely for informational purposes (i.e., no registration or other transmission of information), we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you want to view our website, we collect the following data:

    • IP address;
    • Internet service provider of the user;
    • Date and time of access;
    • Browser type;
    • Language and browser version;
    • Content of the request;
    • Time zone;
    • Access status/HTTP status code;
    • Data volume;
    • Websites from which the request comes;
    • Operating system. Storage of this data, along with other personal data from you, does not occur.

  2. The purpose of collecting this data is to deliver our website to you in a user-friendly, functional, and secure manner with features and content, as well as to optimize and statistically evaluate it.

  3. The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest in data processing pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) DS-GVO.

  4. For security reasons, we store this data in server log files for a storage period of days. After this period, they are automatically deleted unless we need to retain them for evidence purposes in the event of attacks on the server infrastructure or other legal violations.

Cookies:

We use so-called cookies when you visit our website. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser stores on your computer. When you revisit our website, these cookies provide information to automatically recognize you. Cookies also include the so-called “user IDs,” where user information is stored using pseudonymized profiles. We inform you about the use of cookies for the aforementioned purposes and how you can object to or prevent their storage (“opt-out”) by displaying a notice on our website when you visit it.

Types of Cookies:

  • Necessary, Essential Cookies: Essential cookies are cookies that are necessary for the operation of the website. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.

  • Statistical, Analytical Cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily.

Duration of Storage: Cookies are stored on the user’s computer and transmitted to our site. Therefore, you, as a user, have full control over the use of cookies. You can deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies by changing the settings in your internet browser. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are deactivated for our website, it may not be possible to use all the functions of the website to their full extent.