GROWTERNITY CONSULTING LTD

Evagora Pallikaridi, 38

8010 Paphos

Phone: +49 2152 8742009

Email: support@dominikbiss.de

If you have any questions regarding data protection or wish to exercise your rights under data protection law, please contact us using the contact information provided above.

We use Google Analytics—based on your consent, which you may revoke at any time—to compile statistics and analyses regarding how our website is found and used, as well as to optimize our website and our advertising efforts. The legal basis for this is Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. Withdrawing your consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent prior to its withdrawal.

You may withdraw your consent with future effect by withdrawing it here on this website. Withdrawing your consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent prior to its withdrawal.

In addition, these services offer you the option to object to their use in general, not just for our website. Please refer to the information provided by the respective services for details.

Google Analytics is used to process the following data regarding the use of our website:

• approximate location at the regional level

• anonymized IP address

• Technical information about the browser and device used (e.g., language settings, screen resolution)

• The user’s Internet service provider

• approximate location at the regional level

• Which website or advertising medium a user used to access this website; the pages viewed by the user

• whether users perform certain actions on our website—so-called conversions—such as purchasing a product, subscribing to a newsletter, or making a download

• user behavior (for example, which links are clicked, how long a user stays on a webpage, and from which webpage the user leaves our site)

No personal profiles are created; rather, the corresponding statistics contain only aggregated data that does not allow for the identification of any specific individual. The reports generated by Google Analytics enable us to understand how our website is used and which advertising measures are effective. This allows us to optimize our website (particularly its structure, content, and features) as well as our advertising campaigns, thereby enhancing our business success. The legal basis for this processing is your consent under Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR.

In Google Analytics, we have set a retention period of 14 months for the relevant personal data. Data that has reached the end of its retention period is automatically deleted once a month.

You can withdraw your consent to the use of Google Analytics on our website by clicking here.

Google offers only a so-called browser plugin as a cross-website feature for opting out of Google Analytics. You can find information about it here.

As part of its data processing activities, Google is authorized to engage subcontractors. You can find a list of these subcontractors at [link].

As part of Google Ireland Limited’s operations, data may be transferred to a third country within the meaning of Article 44 of the GDPR.

The legal basis for this, pursuant to Article 46(2)(c), is the so-called Standard Contractual Clauses that we have entered into with Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Please note our warnings regarding third countries, as Google Analytics may process personal data in countries where the level of data protection does not meet the standards of the GDPR.

You may revoke your consent at any time here, effective for the future. Revoking your consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent prior to the revocation.

For Google Analytics, we use Google Analytics, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, under a data processing agreement, which utilizes your anonymized IP address. IP anonymization is performed by Google within the EEA. According to Google, the full IP address is transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there only in exceptional cases. Google further states that the IP address transmitted by your browser is not combined with any other data held by Google.

To promote the services we offer and thereby attract customers, we use the services listed below based on your consent, which you may revoke at any time. The legal basis for this is Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. Withdrawing your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of your consent prior to its withdrawal. You may revoke your consent with future effect by revoking it here on our website. Revoking your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of your consent up until the time of revocation.

In addition, these services offer you the option to object to their use in general—not just for our website. We provide information about this for each service.

Please note that the consent you have provided applies to two specific matters:

The storage of cookies on the device you are using;

The use of the respective service as such

It should also be noted that we are not the data controller for the Google Ads service under data protection law. Rather, these services operate under their own responsibility. We are merely a customer who uses these services to carry out advertising activities and obtains all necessary consent to allow these services to store cookies on your device and to use the service on your behalf.

a. Google Ads

With your consent, cookies for the Google Ads service will be stored in the browser you are using when you visit our website. In the “Cookies” section, we explain what these cookies are and what rights and options you have in this regard.

The provider of Google Ads in the European Union and the data controller is Google Ireland Limited (see Legal Notice). You can find the privacy policy applicable to Google Ads here

You can opt out of the use of your data for interest-based advertising via Google Ads here. If you have a Google account, you can adjust your privacy settings for that account here.

You can withdraw your consent to the use of Google Ads on our site by clicking here.

Please note our warnings regarding third countries, as Google Analytics may process personal data in countries where data protection standards do not meet the requirements of the GDPR.

We do not transmit any data about you in connection with Google Ads; rather, data is transmitted solely by the browser you use based on the cookies stored with your consent. We do not have access to the personal data processed via Google Ads, nor are we the data controller for this service under data protection law. You can revoke your consent to the use of Google Ads on our site with future effect by clicking here. Revoking your consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent up until the time of revocation.

b. Facebook Pixel

With your consent, the so-called Facebook Pixel will be stored in your browser when you visit our website. The provider of this feature for the EU is Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

We use the Facebook Pixel to have Facebook display our ads on Facebook and through its partner networks (known as the “Audience Network”) only to people who have visited our website and whom we therefore believe are interested in our offerings and, consequently, our ads. Furthermore, the Facebook Pixel allows us to measure the effectiveness of these ads by tracking whether a person was redirected to our website after clicking on a specific ad.

Under data protection law, Facebook Ireland Ltd. acts in part as a processor on our behalf and, in part, we are joint controllers with Facebook Ireland Ltd. pursuant to Article 26 of the GDPR. In all other respects, Facebook Ireland Ltd. is the sole controller responsible for the processing of personal data in question.

(i) Data Processing on Behalf of a Client

Facebook Ireland Ltd. acts as a data processor to the extent that it processes so-called event data on our behalf in order to generate reports for us on the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns run through Facebook and other Facebook content (e.g., our posts on facebook.com) as well as to generate analyses and insights regarding users of our website and their use of the website. No profiles are created for this purpose that we can associate with specific users of our website. “Event data” refers to information that we share with Facebook via the Facebook Pixel and that relates to individuals and their actions on our website, such as visiting our website and purchasing the products we offer. Event data includes information that is collected and transmitted when individuals access our website using Facebook Login or Facebook plugins (e.g., the “Like” button). However, it does not collect information generated when a user interacts with our website via Facebook Login, Facebook plugins, or in any other way (for example, by logging in, “liking,” or sharing a post).The legal basis for data processing by Facebook Ireland Ltd. is the Terms of Use for Facebook Business Tools, as well as the corresponding Data Processing Terms. In addition, with regard to the processing of personal data by Facebook in the United States, the Standard Contractual Clauses and the “Facebook-EU Data Transfer Addendum” apply.

(ii) Joint liability

Pursuant to Article 26 of the GDPR, we are joint controllers with Facebook Ireland Ltd. for the use of event data generated through our use of the Facebook Pixel, to the extent that this data is used to improve the display of our ads served via Facebook and to optimize the delivery of these advertising campaigns. To this end, Facebook Ireland Ltd. associates this event data with individuals who use products of the Facebook companies in order to show our advertising campaigns only to those who have visited our website (so-called ad targeting) or who are presumed to also be interested in our services. In connection with ad targeting and the optimization of ad delivery, Facebook Ireland Ltd. uses the event data we generate to optimize ad delivery only after it has been aggregated with other data collected from other Facebook advertisers or otherwise on Facebook products. Facebook does not permit other advertisers or third parties to target ads solely on the basis of the event data we provide. An overview of which personal data is processed by us and Facebook Ireland Ltd. as joint controllers as a result of the use of the pixel can be found here. According to Facebook, this includes the following data:

HTTP header information, such as information about the web browser or app being used (e.g., user agent, country-specific language setting/language)

Information about standard and optional events such as “Page View” or “App Installation,” additional object properties, and buttons clicked by website visitors, all in accordance with the Business Tool’s configuration

Online identifiers such as IP addresses and, where provided, Facebook-related identifiers or device IDs (such as advertising IDs for mobile operating systems), as well as information regarding the status of ad tracking deactivation or restriction;

The legal basis for joint controllership is the agreement available here pursuant to Article 26 of the GDPR. This agreement was entered into to define the respective responsibilities for fulfilling the obligations under the GDPR with regard to joint processing. The information required under Article 13(1)(a) and (b) of the GDPR can be found in Facebook Ireland’s Privacy Policy. The Facebook Pixel is used as described in the Terms of Use for this product.Information on how Facebook Ireland Ltd. processes personal data, including the legal basis on which Facebook Ireland Ltd. relies and the options for data subjects to exercise their rights vis-à-vis Facebook Ireland, can be found in Facebook Ireland’s Privacy Policy. Under the contract concluded with us, Facebook Ireland Ltd. is responsible for enabling data subjects to exercise their rights under Articles 15–20 of the GDPR with respect to the personal data stored by Facebook Ireland Ltd. pursuant to the joint processing arrangement. Of course, your rights under the GDPR with respect to us, as set forth in these provisions (see “Your Rights”), remain unaffected by this. You may therefore assert these rights against us in parallel.

(iii) Facebook’s Sole Liability

For any processing of personal data related to the Facebook Pixel that goes beyond what is described above, Facebook Ireland Ltd. is solely responsible under data protection law. You can find Facebook Ireland Ltd.’s privacy policy here. Here you will find additional options for objecting to Facebook’s use of your personal data for these purposes. Finally, you can withdraw your consent to the use of the Facebook Pixel on our site by clicking here. Withdrawing your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of your consent prior to its withdrawal.

Please note our warnings regarding third countries, as personal data may be processed for Facebook Pixel in countries where data protection standards do not meet those of the GDPR.

c. LinkedIn

With your consent, we use the following services on our website:

• LinkedIn Ads

• LinkedIn Insight Tag

• LinkedIn Analytics

These services are provided by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (hereinafter referred to as “LinkedIn”).

We use LinkedIn Ads to display advertisements for our offerings to visitors to our website and to third parties on the internet and in apps. The LinkedIn Insight Tag allows us to collect data about visits to our website, including the URL, referrer URL, IP address, device and browser characteristics (user agent), and timestamps. IP addresses are truncated or (if used to reach LinkedIn members across devices) hashed. If you are a LinkedIn member, this data is linked to your LinkedIn user profile. Members’ direct identifiers are removed within seven days to pseudonymize the data. The remaining pseudonymized data is then deleted within 180 days.

LinkedIn does not share any personal data with us; it only provides reports and notifications (in which you are not identified) regarding the website’s target audience and ad performance. LinkedIn also offers retargeting for website visitors, allowing us to use this data to display targeted ads outside of our website without identifying the LinkedIn member. LinkedIn also uses non-identifying data to improve ad relevance and reach LinkedIn members across devices. LinkedIn members can control the use of their personal data for advertising purposes in their account settings.

We use the LinkedIn Analytics service to process information about how you use our website so that we can gain a non-personalized understanding of usage patterns through analysis. We also use this data to improve the financial performance of our website by making adjustments.

The legal basis for the above processing is your consent, pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR.

You can withdraw your consent to the use of LinkedIn services on our site with future effect by clicking here. Withdrawing your consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent prior to its withdrawal.

Please review our warnings regarding third countries, as personal data may be processed in connection with LinkedIn services in countries where data protection standards do not meet those of the GDPR.

You can find LinkedIn’s privacy policy here

If you have given your consent to the use of services on our website that may only be used with the consent of the data subject, we use Google Tag Manager to manage and utilize these services. Google Tag Manager does not use cookies, and according to Google, no personal data is collected when it is used. Google Tag Manager cannot access the data processed by other services. Google Tag Manager is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland, which acts as a data processor on our behalf.

Vimeo videos are embedded on our website. Vimeo is provided by Vimeo, Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. You can find Vimeo’s privacy policy here. We use Vimeo because we do not have the technical capabilities to deliver the videos in a way that allows them to be accessed simultaneously and efficiently by any number of users. This allows us to enhance the usability and appeal of our website. The legal basis for this is Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. We have embedded the videos in such a way that Vimeo does not store any cookies unless you play the video.

This website uses SalesViewer® technology provided by SalesViewer® GmbH to collect and store data for marketing, market research, and optimization purposes, based on the website operator’s legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

To this end, JavaScript-based code is used to collect company-related data and track its use. The data collected using this technology is encrypted using a one-way function that cannot be reversed (known as hashing). The data is immediately pseudonymized and is not used to personally identify visitors to this website.

Data stored in Salesviewer is deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary for its intended purpose and there are no legal retention requirements that prevent its deletion.

You may object to the collection and storage of your data at any time, effective for the future, by clicking this link https://www.salesviewer.com/opt-out to prevent SalesViewer® from collecting data on this website in the future. This will place an opt-out cookie for this website on your device. If you clear your cookies in this browser, you will need to click this link again.

We use fonts provided by third parties to display our website. If the browser you are using does not yet recognize a particular font, it will download it from the respective provider’s server. Our legitimate interest in using such fonts is to ensure a consistent appearance of our website and, thereby, its functionality on all devices. If your browser does not support such fonts, a standard font from your device will be used to display our website. The legal basis for this processing is Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.

a. Google Fonts

Google Fonts are provided by companies within the Google Group. If you are located in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, these are provided to you by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), a company incorporated and operating under Irish law (registration number: 368047) with its registered office at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; For more information about Google Web Fonts, please visit. Google’s general privacy policy applies here and is available at.

b. fontawsome.com

Fonts from fontawsome.com are provided by Fonticons, Inc., USA. The privacy policy is available at.

We use cookies on our website. For an explanation of what cookies are in this context, please refer to the relevant explanation under the heading “Definitions.”

a. Technically necessary cookies

We use cookies primarily for purposes that are technically essential, as it would otherwise be impossible to use our website.

b. Cookies used with your consent

On the other hand, cookies are used based on the consent you have provided, which you may revoke at any time. Revoking your consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent up until the time of revocation. Please note that the party designated as the controller for the service to which the cookies relate is responsible, within the meaning of the GDPR, for the processing of personal data carried out using such cookies.

Please note that, depending on the scope of your consent, these services may include those that process your personal data in countries where the level of data protection does not meet the standards of the GDPR.

In these countries, for example, your data may be subject to access by government agencies against which you have no effective legal remedies. Furthermore, it is possible that the data subject rights to which you are entitled under the GDPR may not be enforceable in these countries and/or against these government agencies.

c. The Significance of Your Consent

If you give your consent using the feature we provide, this consent applies both to the storage of cookies in your browser and to the processing of data through the services associated with it. Therefore, please also review the information in these privacy notices regarding the respective services.

d. Withdrawal of Your Consent

You can revoke your consent at any time by clicking here. Once you revoke your consent, our website will no longer use the cookies affected by your revocation. Please note that this will not delete the relevant cookies from your browser. To prevent the respective data controller from accessing these cookies from other websites, you would need to delete them. Instructions on how to delete cookies in commonly used browsers can be found here:

Google Chrome

Firefox

Safari for Mac

Internet Explorer

Microsoft Edge

Please refer to the table below to see which cookies are associated with which services.

In addition to deleting cookies, you have the option to object to the use of cookies in connection with the services used on our website. Please read the information regarding the respective services for more details. Please note that, depending on the service, its opt-out option may apply only to our website, and additional cookies may be stored to save your opt-out preference in your browser. Therefore, if you also use other browsers (on other devices), you may need to submit a separate opt-out request for each service in each browser.

e. Cookies Used

You can find out which cookies are used on our website here. To do so, please select “Manage Cookies,” expand the section you’re interested in by clicking the arrow, and then click the (i) icon next to the respective service.

For various services used on our website with your consent or that process this data (e.g., for advertising purposes), this privacy notice includes a warning that data may be transferred to third countries.

What does this warning mean?

When data is transferred to a third country, your personal data leaves the local scope of the GDPR. In some cases, the level of data protection in that third country may not meet the requirements of the GDPR. For some countries, such as Switzerland, there is a so-called adequacy decision. In these countries, the European Commission considers the level of data protection to be in line with the requirements of the GDPR. They are therefore considered secure for data protection purposes. For other countries, particularly the United States, no such decision exists, as these countries do not provide a level of protection for your personal data that is equivalent to that of the GDPR. When data is transferred to a third country, it is therefore possible that your personal data may be transferred to a country that does not have a level of data protection compatible with the GDPR.

What does this mean for your personal data?

In an economy based on the division of labor, many companies use service providers to process personal data. In other cases, large companies—such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, or Apple—have numerous different subsidiaries in various countries, not all of which process data on their own. Rather, they use group-wide IT services, so that, for example, a company in Ireland uses services provided by its parent company in the U.S. To do this, either personal data is transferred to the U.S., or the parent company in the U.S. has access to the data in the EU.

The GDPR allows parties to agree, through the adoption of so-called standard contractual clauses, that the contracting party—for example, the parent company in the United States—must comply with the GDPR’s requirements for the relevant data processing, even if those requirements would not otherwise apply to that contracting party. The purpose of this is to establish, through a contract, a level of data protection that corresponds to that of the GDPR, so that data subjects are not placed in a less favorable position than if their personal data were processed within the EU.

However, contracts are binding only on the parties involved in them, not on third parties such as government agencies. Therefore, it may be the case that in a country—such as the United States—government agencies have the right to access the personal data of EU citizens, even if this infringes on their rights. Such access may be very extensive and may pertain to all of your data processed there. It may occur without a judge or similar authority having to issue an order. It may be conducted in secret, so that you are unaware of such access. Furthermore, you may have no means of defending yourself against such access or any use of your data, particularly not in a court of law. Additionally, the data subject rights to which you are entitled under the GDPR (e.g., the right to access, the right to erasure) may not apply or may not be enforceable. The data processed in this manner may also be combined with other data concerning you from other sources, for example, to create a profile of you.

Any such use of your data may, but does not necessarily, result in disadvantages for you. Since government agencies in third countries, in particular, are not subject to EU law or German law, it is not possible to specify exactly what these disadvantages might be.

Disadvantages can therefore be of any nature—for example, economic or political. For instance, you might be denied entry into a country, or this data could be used against you in criminal proceedings in a foreign country. The disadvantages can therefore be very serious in individual cases.

How high are my risks?

We cannot provide a general answer as to how significant the risks described are in individual cases. We can only point out that the decisive factor is, first and foremost, which service—and thus which company—has access to data concerning you in connection with your use of our website. Furthermore, the type of personal data involved is also a decisive factor. In our opinion, our website is concerned solely with the potential processing of personal data in third countries that occurs in connection with advertising services such as Google, Microsoft, or Facebook. This will include data such as which website you visited and when, how long you stayed on it, the approximate location from which you accessed it, which device or software (browser, app) was used for this purpose, and what interactions you carried out on the website—if this information is transmitted to the service provider (e.g., the purchase of a product after clicking on an ad. Please refer to the information provided by the respective services) and, if applicable, other data processed by the respective operator. For this, we refer you to the respective privacy policies of the services. You can find links to these in this privacy policy in the section explaining the respective service.

You must decide for yourself whether giving your consent and a potential transfer to a third country could create a situation for you that you would not want to live with. In that case, please do not give your consent to the use of these services.

You will not face any negative consequences if you do not give your consent.

If you do not wish to give your consent to the use of certain or all services or to the storage of cookies, this will not result in any disadvantages for you on our website. All of our offerings are available to our customers under the same terms, regardless of whether they give their consent or not. Of course, you may also revoke any consent you have given at any time, effective for the future.

Browser—this is the software you use to browse the Internet and visit our website.

EEA – stands for the European Economic Area. In addition to the EU member states, it includes Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

Third countries—are countries that are not part of the EEA and for which there is no adequacy decision by the European Commission.

IP Address – Every device that exchanges data over the Internet requires a unique identifier; otherwise, data (e.g., web pages) intended for that device cannot be delivered. The computer, smartphone, tablet, etc., that you use therefore has an IP address so that it can retrieve and receive data from the Internet. Typically, you do not use a separate IP address for each device; instead, the equipment used to connect to the Internet (e.g., your home router) allows all devices on a network to appear externally under a single shared IP address.

lit. – is a Latin abbreviation for “letter” that is used when citing legal texts. Thus, Art. 6, para. 1, lit. a) of the GDPR means “letter a).”

Standard Contractual Clauses—are a set of contractual provisions provided by the European Commission that, pursuant to Article 46(2)(d) of the GDPR, may serve as the basis for a data transfer to a third country.

In particular, you have the rights listed below with regard to your personal data under the GDPR. For details, please refer to the applicable legal provisions (in particular, Art. 15 et seq. of the GDPR).

Right to Information

Under Article 15 of the GDPR, you have the right to request confirmation from us as to whether we are processing personal data concerning you. If this is the case, you have the right to access this personal data and to receive further information as specified in Article 15 of the GDPR.

Right to Rectification

Under Article 16 of the GDPR, you have the right to request that we promptly rectify any inaccurate personal data concerning you. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you also have the right to request that incomplete personal data be completed—including by means of a supplementary statement.

Right to Erasure (“Right to Be Forgotten”)

Within the limits of Article 17 of the GDPR, you have the right to request that we erase personal data concerning you without delay. We are obligated to erase personal data without undue delay, provided that the relevant conditions set forth in Article 17 of the GDPR are met. For further details, please refer to Article 17 of the GDPR.

Right to Restriction of Processing

Pursuant to Article 18 of the GDPR, you have the right, under certain conditions, to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data. For further details, please refer to Article 18 of the GDPR.

Right to Data Portability

Under the conditions set forth in Article 20 of the GDPR, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. Furthermore, under Article 20 of the GDPR, you have the right to transmit this data to another controller without hindrance from us, provided that the processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR, or on a contract pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, and the processing is carried out by automated means.

Right to File a Complaint with the Supervisory Authority

Pursuant to Article 77 of the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy. This right applies in particular in the Member State where you reside, where you work, or where the alleged infringement occurred, if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR.

Right to Object

Under Article 21 of the GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data that is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(e) or (f) of the GDPR; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

If we process your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right at any time to object to the processing of your personal data for such marketing purposes; this also applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing.