The GRID Social: Privacy Policy
1. Subject of this Privacy Policy
We appreciate your interest in our website and our offers on our website. The protection of your personal data (hereafter referred to as "Data ") is a significant and very important matter to us. In the following section, we will disclose comprehensive information regarding what Data is collected from you during your visit to our website and how said Data is then processed or used, as well as which accompanying safeguards we have created concerning technology and organisation.
2. Responsible Entity/Service Provider
The Grid Social
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3. Collection, Processing and Use of Your Data
The extent and nature of the collection and use of your data differ according to whether you only visit our website to retrieve information or to use services offered by us:
a) Informative use
If you only use our website to obtain information, it is generally not necessary for you to provide personal data on your own. In this case, we instead only collect and use Data that your internet browser automatically transmits to us, such as:
Date and time of your visit to one of our web pages
Your browser type
Browser preferences
Operating system used
The last page you visited
the amount of data transferred and the access status as well
Your IP address.
During an informative visit, we only collect and use this Data in a non-personal form. This is done to facilitate the use of web pages visited by you, for statistical purposes, and to improve our website.
We would like to point out that some of the aforementioned data, in particular your IP address, are considered personal data. We store your IP address for the duration of your visit, but no personal evaluation takes place. The use of so-called cookies, which we inform of you below, can also be personal data.
4. Cookies
The acceptance of cookies is not a requirement to visit our websites. However, we point out that our website and our service have only limited functionality if you do not allow us to set cookies.
Cookies are small files that are stored on your disk and save specific settings and data for exchange with our system via your browser.
Basically, there are 2 different types of cookies: session cookies that are deleted once you close your browser and temporary/permanent cookies that are stored on your disk for a longer period of time or indefinitely. This storage helps us to customise our websites and our offers for you and simplifies their use for you, for example, in that specific inputs from you are saved so that you do not have to keep repeating them.
Most of the cookies we use are automatically deleted from your hard drive after the browser session is ended (therefore session cookies). In addition, we also use cookies that will remain with you on the hard drive. During another visit, it is then automatically detected that you have visited us before and also which inputs and settings you prefer. These temporary or permanent cookies (expiry 1 year) are stored on your hard disk and are automatically deleted after the specified time. In particular, cookies help make our offer more user-friendly, efficient and secure. Thanks to these files, it is possible, for example, that information related to your specific interests can be displayed on the page. The sole purpose of these cookies therefore is to optimally adapt our offering to your consumer needs and to make surfing the web with us as convenient as possible for you.
By using our website, you consent to the use of cookies and the collection, storage and use of usage data by you. Furthermore, your data will be stored in cookies beyond the end of the browser session in order to be able to be called up, for example, during your next visit to the website.
Your browser settings can be adjusted to determine whether or not cookies can be stored and retrieved. In your browser, you can deactivate cookie storage altogether, restrict it to certain websites, or configure your browser so that it will automatically notify you when a cookie is set and subsequently ask you for confirmation. For technical reasons, however, it makes sense for the full functionality of our website to accept the aforementioned cookies.
5. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about the user's use of this website is generally transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the USA.
On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate the use of our online offering by the user, to compile reports on the activities within this online offering and to provide us with other services related to the use of this online offering and the internet. Pseudonymous usage profiles of users may be created from the processed data in this respect.
We use Google Analytics only with activated IP anonymisation. This means that the IP address of the user is shortened by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other countries that are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. The IP address sent by your browser will not be connected with other data from Google.
The user may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on their browser software; the user can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie regarding your use of the contents data and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available via the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
For more information on data use for advertising purposes by Google, on options for cessation and redress, please visit the Google websites: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners/ ( "How Google uses data when you use of sites or apps of our partners"), http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads("Use of data for advertising purposes"), http://www.google.de/settings/ads ("Administering information Google uses to display advertising") and http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/("Decide which ads Google shows you").
6. Secure Data Transmission
Your personal information is securely transmitted to us through encryption. This applies to your registration and login to the user account. We use the so-called HTTPS method (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure). The data is encrypted and a secure connection between us as the operator of the website and your browser can be established. The information that you submit to us is always stored on servers within Germany or at least the European Union. For a few offers, we use non-European service providers, such as the SparkPost service for our newsletter; we only use services that participate in the EU-US Privacy Shield (s. Privacy Statement of SparkPost). More information about the EU-US Privacy Shield is available here. However, we protect our websites and other systems against loss, destruction, access, modification, or distribution of your data by unauthorised persons through technical and organisational measures.
Please note that data transmitted via the Internet (eg, via email communication) may be subject to security breaches. It is not possible to fully protect data from third-party access.
7. No Transfer of Your Personal Data
We do not share your personal information with third parties unless you have consented to the transfer of data or we are entitled or obliged by law and/or official or judicial orders to a data transfer. Such instances can in particular include the provision of information for purposes of law enforcement, hazard prevention or for the enforcement of intellectual property rights.
8. Privacy and Third Party Websites
Our website may contain hyperlinks to and from third-party websites. If you follow a hyperlink to any of these websites, please note that we can not accept any responsibility or liability for third-party content or privacy. Please make sure you are aware of the applicable privacy policy before submitting personally identifiable information to these websites.
9. Changes to the Data Privacy Statement
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time in accordance with applicable data protection regulations. The current version can be found on our website www.thegridsocial.com/
10. Your rights
You can receive information about your stored personal data at any time free of charge and if necessary demand their correction and/or deletion and/or blocking. For this purpose and/or to obtain more information about it, please contact us at hello@thegridsocial.com