Privacy policy

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 means any data with which you can be personally identified. You can find detailed information on data protection in the privacy policy below this text.

Data collection on this website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the legal notice on this website.

How do we collect your data?
Your data is collected when you provide it to us, for example data you enter in a contact form.

Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is mainly technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of page access). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter this website.

What do we use your data for?
Some of the data is collected to ensure error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyse how you use the site.

What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right at any time to receive free information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have a right to request the rectification or erasure of this data. For this and other questions on data protection, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

Furthermore, under certain circumstances you have the right to request restriction of the processing of your personal data. For details, see the section “Right to restriction of processing” in this privacy policy.

Analytics tools and third-party tools

When you visit this website, your surfing behaviour may be statistically analysed, mainly using cookies and analytics programs. Analysis of your surfing behaviour is usually anonymous; the behaviour cannot be traced back to you.

You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. You will find detailed information on these tools and your options to object in this privacy policy.

2. Hosting

External hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (host). Personal data collected on this website is stored on the host’s servers. This may include IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact data, names, website accesses and other data generated via a website.

We use the host to fulfil contracts with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and in the interest of secure, fast and efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Our host will process your data only to the extent necessary to perform its services and will follow our instructions with respect to such data.

Data processing agreement
To ensure processing complies with data protection requirements, we have concluded a data processing agreement with our host.

3. General information and mandatory disclosures

Data protection

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data means data with which you can be identified. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose that happens.

Please note that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by email) may have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Controller

The controller responsible for processing data on this website is:

Digital Native Solutions GmbH
Godastr. 9
49124 Georgsmarienhütte
Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 1577 613 60 73
Email: info@digitalnativesolutions.de

The controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, email addresses).

Many processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke consent already given at any time. An informal email to us is sufficient. The lawfulness of processing carried out before revocation remains unaffected.

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED FOR PURPOSES OF LEGITIMATE INTERESTS UNDER ART. 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. YOU CAN FIND THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA CONCERNED UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION UNDER ART. 21(1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR SUCH MARKETING; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE PROCESSED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES (OBJECTION UNDER ART. 21(2) GDPR).

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

In the event of infringements 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. This right is without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

Data portability

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in performance of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request direct transfer to another controller, this will only be done where technically feasible.

SSL/TLS encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or enquiries you send to us as site operator. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

When SSL/TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, erasure and rectification

Within the framework of applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, their origin and recipients and the purpose of processing and, if applicable, a right to rectification or erasure of this data. For this and other questions on personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice.

Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to request the restriction of processing of your personal data. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice. The right to restriction exists in the following cases:

If you contest the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we usually need time to verify this. For the duration of the review, you have the right to request restriction of processing.
If processing was/is unlawful, you can request restriction of processing instead of erasure.
If we no longer need your personal data, but you need them for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, you have the right to request restriction instead of erasure.
If you have objected under Art. 21(1) GDPR, a balancing of your and our interests must be carried out. As long as it is not yet clear whose interests prevail, you have the right to request restriction of processing.

If you have restricted processing of your personal data, aside from storage, these data may only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or a Member State.

Objection to promotional emails

The use of contact data published under statutory imprint obligations for sending unsolicited advertising and information materials is hereby prohibited. The operators expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited promotional information, for example by spam emails.

3. Data collection on this website

Cookies

Our web pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files placed on your computer and stored by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are “session cookies”. They are deleted automatically after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser on your next visit.

You can configure your browser to inform you about cookie placement, allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude acceptance for certain cases or in general, and activate automatic deletion when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.

Cookies required to carry out electronic communication or provide certain functions you desire (e.g. shopping cart) are stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for technically error-free and optimised provision of its services. Where corresponding consent has been requested (e.g. consent to store cookies), processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; consent can be revoked at any time.

Where other cookies (e.g. cookies for analysing your surfing behaviour) are stored, they are addressed separately in this privacy policy.

Server log files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in server log files that your browser transmits to us. These are:

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

These data are not merged with other data sources.

Collection of these data is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in technically error-free presentation and optimisation of the website; for this purpose server log files must be recorded.

Contact by email, telephone or fax

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

Processing of this data is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR if your enquiry relates to the fulfilment of a contract or is necessary for pre-contractual measures. In all other cases processing is based on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) and/or on our legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR), as we have a legitimate interest in effectively processing enquiries addressed to us.

Data you send via contact requests remain with us until you ask us to delete them, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions—in particular statutory retention periods—remain unaffected.

Customer and contract data

We collect, process and use personal data only insofar as they are necessary for the establishment, content or modification of the legal relationship (inventory data). This is done on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, which permits processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual measures. We collect, process and use personal data on the use of this website (usage data) only insofar as necessary to enable you to use the service or bill you.

Customer data are deleted after completion of the order or termination of the business relationship. Statutory retention periods remain unaffected.

4. Analytics and advertising

Google Analytics

This website uses functions of the Google Analytics web analytics service. Provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Analytics uses “cookies”. These are text files stored on your computer that enable analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Storage of Google Analytics cookies and use of this analytics tool are based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour to optimise its web offering and advertising. Where corresponding consent has been requested (e.g. consent to store cookies), processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; consent can be revoked at any time.

IP anonymisation
We have activated IP anonymisation on this website. Your IP address is truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before transmission to the USA. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide further services relating to website and internet use to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser within Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Browser plugin
You can prevent storage of cookies by configuring your browser software accordingly; however, please note that you may then not be able to use all functions of this website fully. You can also prevent collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google, and processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Objection to data collection
You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by clicking the following link. An opt-out cookie is set that prevents collection of your data on future visits to this website: Deactivate Google Analytics.

Further information on Google’s handling of user data in Google Analytics is available in Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Data processing agreement
We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.

Demographic features in Google Analytics
This website uses the “demographic features” function of Google Analytics. This allows reports to be created containing statements about age, gender and interests of site visitors. These data come from interest-based advertising from Google and visitor data from third parties. These data cannot be assigned to a specific person. You can deactivate this function at any time via the ad settings in your Google account or generally prohibit collection by Google Analytics as described under “Objection to data collection”.

Retention period
Data stored by Google at user and event level that are linked to cookies, user identifiers (e.g. User ID) or advertising IDs (e.g. DoubleClick cookies, Android advertising ID) are anonymised or deleted after 14 months. Details are available at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7667196?hl=en.

Google Analytics Remarketing

This website uses the functions of Google Analytics Remarketing in combination with the cross-device functions of Google Ads and Google DoubleClick. Provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

This function makes it possible to link target groups created with Google Analytics Remarketing with the cross-device functions of Google Ads and Google DoubleClick. In this way, interest-based, personalised advertising messages can be displayed to you depending on your previous usage and surfing behaviour on one device (e.g. mobile phone) on another of your devices (e.g. tablet or PC).

If you have given corresponding consent, Google will link your web and app browsing history with your Google account for this purpose. In this way, the same personalised advertising messages can be served on any device on which you log in with your Google account.

To support this function, Google Analytics collects Google-authenticated user IDs that are temporarily linked to our Google Analytics data to define and create audiences for cross-device advertising.

You can permanently object to cross-device remarketing/targeting by deactivating personalised advertising in your Google account; follow this link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.

Aggregation of data in your Google account is based exclusively on your consent, which you give or revoke at Google (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). For data collection processes that are not merged in your Google account (e.g. because you have no Google account or have objected to merging), collection is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interest arises from the website operator’s interest in anonymised analysis of website visitors for advertising purposes.

Further information and privacy provisions are available in Google’s privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en.

Google Ads and Google conversion tracking

This website uses Google Ads. Google Ads is an online advertising program of Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Within Google Ads we use conversion tracking. When you click on an ad placed by Google, a conversion tracking cookie is set. Cookies are small text files that the internet browser stores on the user’s computer. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used to personally identify users. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can see that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page.

Each Google Ads customer receives a different cookie. The cookies cannot be tracked across Google Ads customers’ websites. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for Google Ads customers who have opted in to conversion tracking. Customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. They do not receive information that can personally identify users. If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can object by easily deactivating the Google conversion tracking cookie in your browser’s user settings. You will then not be included in conversion tracking statistics.

Storage of “conversion cookies” and use of this tracking tool are based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour to optimise its web offering and advertising. Where corresponding consent has been requested (e.g. consent to store cookies), processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; consent can be revoked at any time.

Further information on Google Ads and Google conversion tracking is available in Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

You can configure your browser to notify you when cookies are set, allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude acceptance for certain cases or in general and activate automatic deletion when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.

Google DoubleClick

This website uses functions of Google DoubleClick. Provider is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“DoubleClick”).

DoubleClick is used to show you interest-based advertising across the Google advertising network. Ads can be tailored to viewers’ interests using DoubleClick. For example, our advertising may appear in Google search results or in ad banners linked to DoubleClick.

To show users interest-based ads, DoubleClick must be able to recognise the viewer. For this purpose, a cookie is stored in the browser containing information about websites visited by the user, clicks and other data. This information is combined into a pseudonymous user profile to show interest-based advertising.

Use of Google DoubleClick is in the interest of targeted advertising. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Where corresponding consent has been requested (e.g. consent to store cookies), processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; consent can be revoked at any time.

You can configure your browser so that it no longer stores cookies. This may restrict accessible website functions. Please note that DoubleClick may use other technologies to build user profiles; disabling cookies therefore does not guarantee that no user profiles will be created.

Further information on how to object to ad displays by Google can be found at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads and https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

5. Plugins and tools

Google Web Fonts

This site uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for a uniform font display. Google Fonts are installed locally. No connection to Google servers is made.

Google Maps

This site uses the Google Maps service via an API. Provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

To use Google Maps functions it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer.

Use of Google Maps is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and easy findability of the places we indicate on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Further information on handling user data is available in Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

6. Our own services

Applicant data

We offer you the opportunity to apply with us (e.g. by email, post or online application form). Below we inform you about the scope, purpose and use of your personal data collected during the application process. We assure you that collection, processing and use of your data comply with applicable data protection law and other legal provisions and that your data are treated strictly confidentially.

Scope and purpose of data collection
If you send us an application, we process your associated personal data (e.g. contact and communication data, application documents, notes from interviews) insofar as necessary to decide on establishing an employment relationship. The legal basis is Section 26 BDSG (new) under German law (initiation of an employment relationship), Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (general contract initiation) and, where you have given consent, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. Consent can be revoked at any time. Your personal data are shared within our company only with persons involved in processing your application.

If the application is successful, the data you submitted may be stored in our systems for employment purposes on the basis of Section 26 BDSG (new) and Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

Retention period
If we cannot make you a job offer, you reject an offer or withdraw your application, we reserve the right to retain the data you submitted on the basis of our legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) for up to six months from the end of the application process (rejection or withdrawal). After that the data will be deleted and physical application documents destroyed. Retention serves mainly evidentiary purposes in the event of a dispute. If it appears that data will be required after the six-month period (e.g. due to an impending or pending dispute), deletion will occur only when the purpose for further retention no longer applies.

Longer retention may also occur if you have given consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) or if statutory retention obligations prevent deletion.

Applicant pool
If we do not make you a job offer, you may have the opportunity to join our applicant pool. If you join, all documents and information from the application will be transferred to the pool to contact you about suitable vacancies.

Admission to the applicant pool is based solely on your express consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). Consent is voluntary and unrelated to the ongoing application process. The data subject may revoke consent at any time. In that case the data will be irrevocably deleted from the applicant pool, unless there are legal retention reasons.

Data in the applicant pool will be irrevocably deleted no later than two years after consent is given.