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Privacy Policy

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. In the following, we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data with which you can be personally identified.

1.2 The controller for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Dr. Christa Gescher, c/o IP-Management #4973, Ludwig-Erhard-Str. 18, 20459 Hamburg, Germany, Email: connect[at]limitless42[dot]com (please replace [at] with @ and [dot] with .). The controller for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

2) Data Collection When Visiting Our Website

2.1 When using our website for informational purposes only, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to the site server (so-called "server log files"). When you access our website, we collect the following data that is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

• Our visited website

• Date and time of access

• Amount of data sent in bytes

• Source/reference from which you came to the page

• Browser used

• Operating system used

• IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)

The processing takes place according to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively if there are concrete indications of illegal use.

2.2 This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g., orders or inquiries to the controller). You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string "https://" and the lock symbol in your browser line.

3) Hosting & Content Delivery Network

3.1 For hosting our website and displaying the site content, we use a provider who provides 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.

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

3.2 Cloudflare

We use a Content Delivery Network from 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 according to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our site visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized 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 based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

4) Cookies

To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, which are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted after closing the browser (so-called "session cookies"), others remain stored on your device for a longer period and enable the saving of page settings (so-called "persistent cookies"). In the latter case, you can view the storage duration in the cookie settings overview of your web browser.

If personal data is also processed through individual cookies used by us, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR either for the performance of the contract, in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR in the case of consent given, or in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the site visit.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually about their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general.

Please note that the functionality of our website may be limited if cookies are not accepted.

5) Contact

When contacting us (e.g., via contact form or email), personal data is processed - exclusively for the purpose of handling and responding to your request and only to the extent necessary for this purpose.

The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and provided that no legal retention obligations prevent this.

6) Data Processing When Opening a Customer Account

In accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR, personal data will continue to be collected and processed to the extent necessary if you provide it to us when opening a customer account. You can see which data is required for account opening from the input mask of the corresponding form on our website.

Deletion of your customer account is possible at any time and can be done by sending a message to the controller's address mentioned above. After deletion of your customer account, your data will be deleted provided that all contracts concluded via it have been completely processed, no legal retention periods prevent this, and we have no legitimate interest in continuing to store it.

7) Use of Customer Data for Direct Marketing

7.1 Registration for our Email Newsletter

When you subscribe to our email newsletter, we will regularly send you information about our offers. The only mandatory information for sending the newsletter is your email address. The provision of additional data is voluntary and is used to be able to address you personally. We use the so-called double opt-in procedure for sending the newsletter, which ensures that you will only receive newsletters after you have expressly confirmed your consent to receive the newsletter by clicking on a verification link sent to the specified email address.

By activating the confirmation link, you give us your consent to use your personal data in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. We store your IP address entered by the Internet Service Provider (ISP) as well as the date and time of registration in order to be able to trace any possible misuse of your email address at a later point in time. The data collected by us when registering for the newsletter is used strictly for the stated purpose.

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time via the link provided in the newsletter or by sending a corresponding message to the controller mentioned at the beginning. After successful unsubscription, your email address will be deleted from our newsletter distribution list immediately, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use data beyond this, which is legally permitted and about which we inform you in this statement.

7.2systeme.io

Our email newsletters are sent via this provider: ITACWT Ltd., 3 Cruise Park Rise, Tyrrelstown, Dublin, D15 XR58, Ireland

Based on our legitimate interest in effective and user-friendly newsletter marketing, we pass on your data provided during newsletter registration to this provider in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR so that they can handle the newsletter dispatch on our behalf.

Subject to your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR, the provider also conducts a statistical success evaluation of newsletter campaigns using web beacons or counting pixels in the sent emails, which can measure opening rates and specific interactions with the content of the newsletter. Device information (e.g., time of access, IP address, browser type, and operating system) is also collected and evaluated, but not merged with other data sets.

You can revoke your consent to newsletter tracking at any time with effect for the future.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that protects the data of our site visitors and prohibits disclosure to third parties.

8) Data Processing for Order Processing

8.1 To the extent necessary for contract processing for delivery and payment purposes, the personal data collected by us is transferred to the commissioned transport company and the commissioned credit institution in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR.

If we owe you updates for goods with digital elements or for digital products on the basis of a corresponding contract, we process the contact data provided by you at the time of ordering to inform you personally within the framework of our legal information obligations in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c GDPR. Your contact details are strictly used for notifications about updates we owe you and are processed by us for this purpose only to the extent necessary for the respective information.

To process your order, we also work with the service provider(s) listed below, who support us in whole or in part in the execution of concluded contracts. Certain personal data is transferred to these service providers in accordance with the following information.

8.2 Use of Payment Service Providers

• Stripe

One or more online payment methods from the following provider are available on this website: Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland

If you select a payment method from the provider where you pay in advance (e.g., credit card payment), your payment data provided during the ordering process (including name, address, bank and payment card information, currency, and transaction number) as well as information about the content of your order will be forwarded to the provider in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR. In this case, your data will be transmitted exclusively for the purpose of payment processing with the provider and only to the extent necessary for this purpose.

If you select a payment method where the provider pays in advance (e.g., invoice or installment purchase or direct debit), you will also be asked during the ordering process to provide certain personal data (first and last name, street, house number, postal code, city, date of birth, email address, telephone number, possibly data for an alternative payment method).

In order to safeguard our legitimate interest in determining the ability of our customers to pay, this data is forwarded by us to the provider for the purpose of a credit check in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The provider checks based on the personal data you provided as well as other data (such as shopping cart, invoice amount, order history, payment experiences) whether the payment option you selected can be granted with regard to payment and/or claim default risks.

The credit report may contain probability values (so-called score values). If score values are included in the result of the credit report, they are based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. The calculation of the score values includes, among other things, but not exclusively, address data.

You can object to this processing of your data at any time by sending a message to us or to the provider. However, the provider may still be entitled to process your personal data if this is necessary for contractual payment processing.

9) Web Analytics Services

Google Analytics 4

This website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"), which enables an analysis of your use of our website.

By default, cookies are set by Google Analytics 4 when visiting the website, which are stored as small text elements on your device and collect certain information. This information also includes your IP address, which is shortened by Google by removing the last digits to exclude direct personal identifiability.

The information is transferred to Google's servers and processed there. Transfers to Google LLC based in the USA are also possible.

Google uses the information collected on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities for us, and to provide other services related to website usage and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics and shortened is not combined with other data from Google. The data collected as part of the use of Google Analytics 4 is stored for a period of two months and then deleted.

All processing described above, in particular the setting of cookies on the device used, is only carried out if you have given us your express consent for this in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

Without your consent, Google Analytics 4 will not be used during your site visit. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of revocation, please deactivate this service via the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google that ensures the protection of our site visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

For further legal information about Google Analytics 4, please visit https://business.safety.google/intl/de/privacy/, https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de and https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Demographic Characteristics

Google Analytics 4 uses the special feature "demographic characteristics" and can create statistics that make statements about the age, gender, and interests of site visitors. This is done by analyzing advertisements and information from third-party providers. This allows target groups for marketing activities to be identified. However, the collected data cannot be assigned to a specific person and will be deleted after being stored for a period of two months.

Google Signals

As an extension to Google Analytics 4, Google Signals can be used on this website to create cross-device reports. If you have activated personalized ads and linked your devices to your Google account, Google can analyze your usage behavior across devices and create database models, including cross-device conversions, subject to your consent to the use of Google Analytics in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. We do not receive any personal data from Google, only statistics. If you want to stop the cross-device analysis, you can deactivate the "Personalized Advertising" function in the settings of your Google account. Follow the instructions on this page: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=de Further information about Google Signals can be found at the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7532985?hl=de

UserIDs

As an extension to Google Analytics 4, the "UserIDs" function can be used on this website. If you have consented to the use of Google Analytics 4 in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR, have set up an account on this website, and log in with this account on different devices, your activities, including conversions, can be analyzed across devices.

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 based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

10) Page Functionalities

10.1 Youtube

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

Data may also be transferred 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 to load the plugin. Certain information, including your IP address, is transmitted to the provider.

If embedded videos are started via the plugin, the provider also uses cookies to collect information about user behavior, create playback statistics, and prevent misuse.

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

All aforementioned processing, in particular the setting of cookies for reading information on the device used, only takes place if you have given us your express consent for this in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by deactivating this service via the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website.

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 based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

10.2 Google Web Fonts

This page uses so-called Web Fonts from the following provider for the uniform display of fonts: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland

When you access a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to correctly display texts and fonts and establishes a direct connection to the provider's servers. Certain browser information, including your IP address, is transmitted to the provider.

Data may also be transferred to: Google LLC, USA

The processing of personal data during the connection to the font provider is only carried out if you have given us your express consent for this in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by deactivating this service via the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font from your computer will be used.

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 based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

Further information about Google's privacy policy can be found here: https://business.safety.google/intl/de/privacy/

10.3 Make

We use the services of the following provider for the integration and synchronization of databases and web applications: Celonis, Inc., One World Trade Center, 87th Floor, New York, NY, 10007, USA

In this process, our processing procedures are automated and different workflows are established to efficiently manage and execute internal processes in our processing system. If personal data is also processed in this context, this is done in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in optimizing our internal organization.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our site visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized 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 based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

10.4 Zapier

We use the services of the following provider for the integration and synchronization of databases and web applications: Zapier Inc., 548 Market St #62411, San Francisco, California 94104, USA

In this process, our processing procedures are automated and different workflows are established to efficiently manage and execute internal processes in our processing system. If personal data is also processed in this context, this is done in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in optimizing our internal organization.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our site visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized 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 based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

11) Tools and Miscellaneous

11.1 - Lexware Office

For accounting tasks, we use the service of the cloud-based accounting software from the following provider: Haufe-Lexware GmbH & Co. KG, Munzinger Straße 9, 79111 Freiburg, Germany

The provider processes incoming and outgoing invoices as well as possibly the bank movements of our company to automatically record invoices, match them to transactions, and create financial accounting in a partially automated process.

If personal data is also processed in this context, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in efficiently organizing and documenting our business processes.

11.2 Cookie-Consent Tool

This website uses a so-called "Cookie Consent Tool" to obtain effective user consent for cookies and cookie-based applications that require consent. The "Cookie Consent Tool" is displayed to users when they access the site in the form of an interactive user interface, on which consent for certain cookies and/or cookie-based applications can be given by ticking a box. By using the tool, all consent-requiring cookies/services are only loaded when the respective user grants corresponding consent by ticking the box. This ensures that such cookies are only set on the respective user's device if consent has been given.

The tool sets technically necessary cookies to store your cookie preferences. Personal user data is generally not processed in this context.

If, in individual cases, personal data (such as the IP address) is processed for the purpose of storing, assigning, or logging cookie settings, this is done in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in providing a legally compliant, user-specific, and user-friendly consent management for cookies and thus in the legally compliant design of our website.

Further legal basis for the processing is also Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c GDPR. As the controller, we are subject to the legal obligation to make the use of technically non-necessary cookies dependent on the respective user consent.

Where necessary, we have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our site visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

Further information about the operator and the setting options of the Cookie Consent Tool can be found directly in the corresponding user interface on our website.

12) Rights of the Data Subject

12.1 The applicable data protection law grants you the following data subject rights (rights of information and intervention) vis-à-vis the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data, with reference to the legal basis cited for the respective exercise requirements:

• Right of access according to Art. 15 GDPR;

• Right to rectification according to Art. 16 GDPR;

• Right to erasure according to Art. 17 GDPR;

• Right to restriction of processing according to Art. 18 GDPR;

• Right to notification according to Art. 19 GDPR;

• Right to data portability according to Art. 20 GDPR;

• Right to withdraw consent according to Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR;

• Right to lodge a complaint according to Art. 77 GDPR.

12.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT

IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA BASED ON OUR LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING AT ANY TIME FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE.

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 THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE, OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH ADVERTISING. YOU CAN EXERCISE THE OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.

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

13) Duration of Storage of Personal Data

The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the processing purpose and – if applicable – additionally by the respective legal retention period (e.g., commercial and tax retention periods).

When processing personal data on the basis of explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR, this data is stored until the data subject revokes their consent.

If there are legal retention periods for data that is processed within the framework of legal or similar obligations on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR, this data will be routinely deleted after expiry of the retention periods if it is no longer necessary for the fulfillment of the contract or the initiation of the contract and/or if we no longer have a legitimate interest in continuing to store it.

When processing personal data on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data is stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21 Para. 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 defense of legal claims.

When processing personal data for the purpose of direct marketing on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data is stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21 Para. 2 GDPR.

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

Copyright notice: This privacy policy was created by the specialist lawyers of the IT-Recht Kanzlei and is protected by copyright (https://www.it-recht-kanzlei.de)

Status: April 12, 2025, 02:42:19