General Information
This Privacy Policy provides detailed information regarding the handling of your personal data when you visit our website www.infimetrics.eu. Personal data includes all information that can personally identify you. We adhere strictly to applicable legal requirements, especially the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in processing your data, and we place a high priority on ensuring that your visit to our website is absolutely secure.
Data Controller
The responsible party for data collection and processing on this website is:
Infimetrics Europe UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Talstraße 3A
13189 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 30 856 183 20
Email: contact@infimetrics.eu
Cookies
To enhance the attractiveness of your visit to our website and to enable certain functionalities, we use cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device. They do not execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer.
Cookies necessary to facilitate electronic communication or provide requested features are stored based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in storing cookies to ensure the technically flawless and optimized delivery of our services. Any other cookies (such as those used for analyzing your browsing behavior) are addressed separately in this Privacy Policy.
Most of the cookies we use are known as “session cookies,” which are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them, enabling us to recognize your browser upon your next visit.
You can configure your browser to notify you about cookie settings, allow cookies only on a case-by-case basis, exclude cookies for certain cases or in general, and enable automatic deletion of cookies upon closing your browser. If cookies are disabled, the functionality of this website may be restricted.
Social Media
Facebook-Plugins (Like & Share-Button)
Our website integrates plugins from the social network Facebook, provided by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA (“Facebook”). Facebook plugins can be recognized by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button on our website. An overview of Facebook plugins can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=en_US.
To protect your data when visiting our website, the Facebook plugins are only embedded using an HTML link (the “Shariff” solution by c’t), which ensures that no direct connection is established with Facebook’s servers when you load a page containing such plugins. Only when you click the Facebook button will a new window open, directing you to Facebook, where you can then use the Like or Share button.
For details on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by Facebook, and your rights and settings to protect your privacy, please refer to Facebook’s Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.
Google+ Plugin
Our website uses social plugins from Google+, operated by Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). Plugins can be identified by a “+1” button on a white or colored background. An overview of Google plugins and their appearance is available here: https://developers.google.com/+/plugins.
To safeguard your data when you visit our website, the Google+ plugins are integrated only through an HTML link (the “Shariff” solution by c’t), ensuring that no direct connection is established with Google servers when a page containing such plugins is loaded. Only when you click the Google+ button will a new window open, directing you to Google’s site.
For information on the purpose and scope of data collection and further processing by Google, as well as your rights and settings for protecting your privacy, please see Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
Instagram Plugin
Our website integrates functions from the Instagram service, offered by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Instagram”). Instagram plugins are marked by an Instagram logo, typically in the form of an “Instagram camera.” An overview of Instagram plugins and their appearance can be found here: http://blog.instagram.com/post/36222022872/introducing-instagram-badges.
To protect your data during your visit to our website, the Instagram plugins are only embedded using an HTML link (the “Shariff” solution by c’t). This ensures that no direct connection is established with Instagram’s servers when a page containing such plugins is loaded. Only when you click the Instagram button will a new window open to Instagram.
For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection, further processing by Instagram, and your rights and options to protect your privacy, please refer to Instagram’s Privacy Policy: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
LinkedIn Plugin
Our website includes functions from the LinkedIn network, provided by LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“LinkedIn”).
To enhance data protection when you visit our website, LinkedIn plugins are embedded only through an HTML link (the “Shariff” solution by c’t). This prevents a direct connection to LinkedIn servers from being established when you load a page containing such plugins. Only when you click the LinkedIn button will a new window open, directing you to LinkedIn’s site.
For details on the purpose and scope of LinkedIn’s data collection and processing, and your rights and options for protecting your privacy, please see LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
Contact Form
If you contact us by email or through a contact form, any data you provide, including your contact information, will be stored to process your request and to answer any follow-up questions. This data will not be shared without your consent.
The processing of data entered into the contact form is based solely on your consent (Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR). You may revoke your consent at any time. A simple email notification is sufficient for revocation. The legality of data processing conducted before the revocation remains unaffected.
Data submitted via the contact form will be retained by us until you request its deletion, revoke your consent for storage, or the data is no longer necessary. Mandatory legal provisions, particularly retention periods, remain unaffected.
Data Usage and Disclosure
Personal data you provide to us (such as your name, address, or email address) will neither be sold to third parties nor marketed otherwise. Your personal data will be used solely for correspondence with you and only for the purpose for which you provided the data. For processing payments, we transfer your payment data to the bank responsible for the payment.
Data automatically collected during your visit to our website is used solely for the aforementioned purposes. No other use of this data will occur.
We assure you that your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties, unless we are legally required to do so or you have provided your prior consent.
SSL or TLS Encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as inquiries sent to us as the website operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the change in the address line of the browser from “http://” to “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser’s address bar.
When SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Storage Duration
Personal data communicated to us via our website will only be stored until the purpose for which it was entrusted to us is fulfilled. If commercial or tax retention periods must be observed, certain data may be stored for up to 10 years.
Rights of Data Subjects
Under applicable law, as a data subject, you have the following rights regarding the processing of your personal data:
Right to Withdraw Consent
Many data processing activities are only possible with your explicit consent. Where the processing of your data is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time with future effect (Art. 7 (3) GDPR). The withdrawal does not affect the legality of data processing conducted before the withdrawal. Data retention for billing and accounting purposes is not affected by withdrawal.
Right of Access
You have the right to request confirmation from us as to whether we are processing personal data concerning you (Art. 15 GDPR). If such processing exists, you have the right to access your personal data, the purposes of processing, categories of personal data processed, recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the intended storage period, or the criteria used to determine the storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, deletion, restriction of processing, or objection to processing, the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, the source of your data if not collected from you, the existence of automated decision-making including profiling, meaningful information on the logic involved, the significance and envisaged consequences of such processing, as well as information on the appropriate safeguards when transferring data to third countries (Art. 46 GDPR).
Right to Rectification
You have the right to request the immediate correction of inaccurate personal data concerning you and/or the completion of your incomplete data (Art. 16 GDPR).
Right to Erasure
You have the right, pursuant to Article 17 of the GDPR, to request the deletion of your personal data if one of the following grounds applies:
• Your personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
• You withdraw your consent on which the processing was based, in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a) of the GDPR, and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
• You object to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or you object to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) of the GDPR.
• The personal data have been unlawfully processed.
• The deletion of the personal data is necessary to comply with a legal obligation under Union or Member State law to which we are subject.
• The personal data were collected in relation to the offer of information society services as referred to in Article 8(1) of the GDPR.
However, this right does not apply where processing is necessary for the following purposes:
• To exercise the right to freedom of expression and information;
• To comply with a legal obligation which requires processing under Union or Member State law to which we are subject, or to perform a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us;
• For reasons of public interest in the area of public health, pursuant to Article 9(2)(h) and (i) and Article 9(3) of the GDPR;
• For archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89(1) of the GDPR, insofar as the right to erasure is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing; or
• For the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
If we have made your personal data public and are obligated to delete it under the above provisions, we shall, taking into account available technology and the cost of implementation, take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform controllers which are processing the personal data that you, as the data subject, have requested the deletion of all links to, or copies or replications of, your personal data.
Right to Restriction of Processing
You have the right, pursuant to Article 18 GDPR, to request the restriction (blocking) of the processing of your personal data. You may contact us at any time at the address provided in the legal notice for this purpose. The right to restriction of processing applies in the following cases:
• If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored with us, we generally require time to verify this. During the period of verification, you have the right to request the restriction of processing of your personal data.
• If the processing of your personal data was/is unlawful, you may request the restriction of data processing instead of deletion.
• If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of processing of your personal data instead of deletion.
• If you have filed an objection pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR, a balance must be made between your interests and ours. As long as it has not been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to request the restriction of processing of your personal data.
If the processing of your personal data has been restricted, this data may – aside from storage – only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, or to protect the rights of another natural or legal person, or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or a Member State.
Right to Notification
If you have asserted the right to rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing against us, we are obligated to notify each recipient to whom your personal data has been disclosed of this rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. You have the right, pursuant to Article 19 GDPR, to be informed about these recipients upon request.
Right Not to Be Subject to a Decision Based Solely on Automated Processing – Including Profiling
You have the right, pursuant to Article 22 GDPR, not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing – including profiling – that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
This does not apply if the decision:
• is necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between you and us,
• is authorized by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or
• is based on your explicit consent.
However, in the cases referred to in (a) to (c), these decisions may not be based on special categories of personal data as referred to in Article 9(1) GDPR, unless Article 9(2)(a) or (g) applies and suitable measures to safeguard your rights, freedoms, and legitimate interests have been taken.
In the cases referred to in (a) and (c), we will implement appropriate measures to protect your rights, freedoms, and legitimate interests, including at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express your point of view, and to contest the decision.
Right to Data Portability
Where processing is based on your consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) GDPR and the processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right, pursuant to Article 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that data to another controller, or to request its direct transfer to another controller, where technically feasible.
Right to Object
Where we process your personal data based on legitimate interests pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, you have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of your personal data; this also applies to profiling based on this provision. The respective legal basis on which processing is based can be found in this privacy policy. If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or if the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims (objection pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR).
Where your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for such marketing, including profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If you object, your personal data will subsequently no longer be used for direct marketing purposes (objection pursuant to Article 21(2) GDPR).
You have the option, in connection with the use of information society services and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, to exercise your right to object by automated means using technical specifications.
Beschwerderecht bei der zuständigen Aufsichtsbehörde gemäß ArRight to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority Pursuant to Article 77 GDPRt. 77 DSGVO
In the event of a violation of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement. The right to lodge a complaint is without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy.
The supervisory authority responsible for us is:
Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Friedrichstr. 219
10969 Berlin
Visitor entrance: Puttkamer Straße 16 – 18 (5th Floor)
Phone: 030/138 89-0
Email: mailbox@datenschutz-berlin.de
Website: https://www.datenschutz-berlin.de
Validity and Amendment of This Privacy Policy
This privacy policy is valid as of March 1, 2024. We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time, in compliance with applicable data protection regulations. This may be necessary, for example, to comply with new legal requirements or to take into account changes to our website or new services offered on our website. The version available at the time of your visit applies.
If this privacy policy is amended, we intend to announce these changes on this page so that you are fully informed about which personal data we collect, how we process it, and under what circumstances it may be disclosed.