Privacy Policy

How we handle personal data in line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1) Introduction and contact details of the controller

1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. Below we inform you about how your personal data is handled when you use our website. Personal data is any data by which you can be personally identified.

1.2 The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Perspectives Climate Group GmbH, Hugstetterstraße 7, 79106 Freiburg, Deutschland, Tel.: 00436763557520, E-Mail: [email protected]. The controller responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

1.3 The controller has appointed a data protection officer, who can be reached as follows: “Gunnar Geyer, Hugstetterstraße 7, 79106 Freiburg, Deutschland, Tel.: 00436763557520, E-Mail: [email protected]”

2) Data collection when you visit our website

2.1 If you use our website for information purposes only, that is, if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we collect only the data that your browser transmits to the site server (so-called “server log files”). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

Our website visited
Date and time at the moment of access
Amount of data sent in bytes
Source/referrer from which you reached the page
Browser used
Operating system used
IP address used (where applicable: in anonymised form)

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data is not passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively should there be concrete indications of unlawful use.

2.2 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or enquiries to the controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the character string “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser bar.

3) Hosting & content delivery network

3.1 For hosting our website and displaying the page content we use a provider that performs its services, itself or through selected subcontractors, exclusively on servers within the European Union.

All data collected on our website is processed on these servers, unless different data recipients are named below for specific processing operations.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider which ensures the protection of our site visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.

3.2 Cloudflare

We use a content delivery network of the following provider: Cloudflare Inc., 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107, USA

This service enables us to deliver large media files such as graphics, page content or scripts more quickly via a network of regionally distributed servers. The processing is carried out to safeguard our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider which ensures the protection of our site visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.

For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision of the European Commission.

4) Contacting us

When you contact us (e.g. via contact form or e-mail), personal data is collected. Which data is collected when a contact form is used can be seen from the respective contact form. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of answering your enquiry or for contacting you and the associated technical administration.

The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in answering your enquiry pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted once your enquiry has been dealt with conclusively. This is the case when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter concerned has been finally resolved and provided that no statutory retention obligations stand in the way.

5) Web analytics services

Matomo

This website uses a web analytics service of the following provider: InnoCraft Ltd., 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand (“Matomo”)

To protect site visitors, Matomo uses a so-called “config_id” to enable various analyses of site usage within a short time window of up to 24 hours. The “config_id” is a randomly set, time-limited hash of a limited set of the visitor’s settings and attributes. The config_id or config hash is a character string calculated for a visitor on the basis of their operating system, browser, browser plugins, IP address and browser language. Matomo does not use device fingerprinting and uses an anonymised IP address of the site visitor to create the “config_id”.

Insofar as the information processed in this way includes personal user data, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in the statistical analysis of user behaviour for optimisation and marketing purposes. To object to the processing of your visitor data for the future, we provide you with a separate objection option on our website.

Data is transferred to the provider only if the service is not hosted on our own servers. In the case of self-hosting, no data collected via the service is transmitted to the provider.

If the service is not hosted on our own servers, we have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider which ensures the protection of our site visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.

For data transfers to New Zealand, an adequacy decision of the EU Commission applies in this case, which attests compliance with European data protection standards for international data transfers.

6) Site functionalities

6.1 Youtube

This website uses plugins for displaying and playing videos of the following provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland

Data may also be transmitted to: Google LLC., USA

When you access a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the provider’s servers, at the latest at the moment of video playback, in order to load the content. In doing so, certain information, including your IP address, is transmitted to the provider.

If playback of embedded videos is started via the plugin, the provider also uses cookies to collect information about user behaviour, to compile playback statistics and to prevent abusive behaviour.

If you are logged into a user account with the provider during your visit to the site, your data will be assigned directly to your account when you click on a video. If you do not wish this assignment to your account, you must log out before pressing the playback button.

All of the aforementioned processing operations, in particular the setting of cookies for reading information on the end device used, take place only if you have given us your express consent to do so pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may revoke the consent given at any time with effect for the future by deactivating this service via the “cookie consent tool” provided on the website.

6.2 Cloudflare Turnstile

On this website we use the CAPTCHA service of the following provider: Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107, USA

The service checks whether an input is made by a natural person or abusively by machine and automated processing, and blocks spam, DDoS attacks and similar automated malicious access. To ensure that an action is performed by a human and not by an automated bot, Cloudflare Turnstile collects the IP address of the end device used, identification data of the browser and operating system type used, and the date and duration of the visit, and transmits these to the provider’s servers for evaluation.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in establishing individual responsibility on the internet and in preventing abuse and spam pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider which ensures the protection of our site visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.

7) Rights of the data subject

7.1 The applicable data protection law grants you the following data subject rights (rights of access and intervention) vis-à-vis the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data, whereby reference is made to the stated legal basis for the respective conditions of exercise:

Right of access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR;
Right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR;
Right to erasure pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR;
Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR;
Right to be informed pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR;
Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR;
Right to withdraw consent given pursuant to Art. 7(3) GDPR;
Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR.

7.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT

IF, IN THE COURSE OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION.

IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED. HOWEVER, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CONTINUE PROCESSING IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.

IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING. YOU MAY EXERCISE THE OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.

IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.

8) Duration of storage of personal data

The duration of storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and, where relevant, additionally by the respective statutory retention period (e.g. retention periods under commercial and tax law).

When personal data is processed on the basis of express consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, the data concerned is stored until you withdraw your consent.

If statutory retention periods exist for data processed in the context of legal or quasi-legal obligations on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, this data is routinely deleted after the retention periods have expired, provided that it is no longer required for the performance or initiation of a contract and/or we have no continuing legitimate interest in its further storage.

When personal data is processed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, this data is stored until you exercise your right to object under Art. 21(1) GDPR, 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.

When personal data is processed for the purpose of direct marketing on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, this data is stored until you exercise your right to object under Art. 21(2) GDPR.

Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this policy on specific processing situations, stored personal data is otherwise deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.

This English policy is an in-house translation of our German privacy policy. The German version prevails.