Data Protection Declaration

The following declaration gives you an overview of how we guarantee this protection, what kind of data is collected and for what purpose. In this context, we endeavour always to take account of the principles of data avoidance and data minimisation.

 1. Name and address of the party responsible

The party responsible in the sense of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other national data protection legislation of the member states as well as other data protection-law provisions is:

Green Business Development GmbH

Am Rosenwald 14, 65779 Kelkheim, Germany

+49 (0)6174 256 590

info@gbd.green

www.gbd.green 

Managing Director: Egbert Huenewaldt

The data protection officer of the party responsible for the processing is: Egbert Huenewaldt

2. Definitions

3. Legal basis for the processing of personal data

We only process your personal data, such as your first and last names, email address, IP address, etc., if there is a statutory basis for this. Here three rules pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation come into consideration in particular:

about the purpose(s) of the processing and your express consent is documented.

b) Processing your personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract or to implement pre-contractual measures with you, Art. 6 paragraph 1, sentence 1 b of the GDPR.

c) Processing the personal data is necessary for the safeguarding of our justified interests, insofar as these are not outweighed by your interests or fundamental rights and fundamental freedoms, Art. 6 paragraph 1, sentence 1 f of the GDPR.

However, we still inform you again at the respective place about the legal basis on which the processing of your personal data is taking place.

4. Passing on personal data

Your personal data is not transmitted to third parties for purposes other than those set out below. We only pass your personal data on to third parties if:

a) you have given express consent thereto pursuant to Art. 6, paragraph 1, sentence 1 a of the GDPR,

b) it is necessary to pass that data on pursuant to Art. 6, paragraph 1, sentence 1 f of the GDPR to assert, exercise or defend legal claims, and there is no reason for assuming that you have an overwhelming protection-worthy interest in the data not being passed on,

c) in the event that there is a statutory obligation to pass the data on pursuant to Art. 6, paragraph 1, sentence 1 c of the GPDR, as well as

d) this is legally permissible and necessary pursuant to Art. 6 paragraph 1, sentence 1 b of the GDPR for the execution of contract relationships with you.

5. Storage duration and deletion

We save all of the personal data which you transmit to us only as long as it is needed to fulfil the purposes for which that data was transmitted, or for as long as is prescribed by law. Upon purpose fulfilment and/or the expiry of the statutory storage periods, the data is deleted or blocked by us.

6. SSL encryption

If SSL encryption is activated, the data which you send to us cannot be read en route by third parties.

7. Collection and saving of personal data, as well as the type and purpose of its utilisation

·browser used, and if applicable the operating system of your computer, as well as the name of your access provider.

The data named is processed by us for the following purposes:

data which permits inference about your person, such as the IP address, is deleted after 7 days at the latest. Should we store the data beyond that period, that data is pseudonymized so that it is no longer possible to allocate it to you.

The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6 paragraph 1, sentence 1 f of the GDPR. Our justified interests arise from the above-listed purposes regarding data collection. In no case do we use the data collected for the purpose of drawing conclusions about you or your identity. Moreover, when you visit our website, we use cookies and analysis services. You can find more detailed explanations in this regard in sections 9 and 10 of this Data Protection Declaration.

The queries as well as the accompanying data are deleted 3 months after receipt at the latest, insofar as they are not required for a further/another contract relationship.

8. Forwarding (links) to websites of business partners

If the party affected makes use of the possibility via the links on our website to arrive at the website of business partners, then only the data protection declaration by the respective operator of the website is authoritative for the usage of that website.

In order to prevent misuse, the user’s IP address as well as the date and time of registration are saved. This serves to prevent misuse of the services. The data is not passed on to third parties. An exception exists if there is a statutory obligation to pass the data on.

9. Cookies

The website of Green Business Developmnet GmbH uses cookies. Cookies are small files which are automatically generated by your browser and are stored on your end device when you visit our website. These cookies serve to deposit information in connection with the end device respectively used. However, it is not possible to personally identify you as a result of the cookies.

Various kinds of cookies are used in this context:

c.) The data processed by cookies is necessary for the named purposes for the safeguarding of our justified interests as well as of third parties pursuant to Art. 6 paragraph 1, sentence 1 f of the GDPR.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically on the basis of their default setting. However, you can configure your browser in such a way that either no cookies at all are saved on your end device, or at least a notice is displayed before a new cookie is saved. If you completely deactivate the cookie function in your browser, it can happen that you are not able to use all of our website's functions.

10.) Analysis and tracking tools

These interests are to be regarded as justified in the sense of Art. 6 paragraph 1, sentence 1 f of the GDPR. The respective data-processing purposes and data categories can be taken from the corresponding tools.

a.) Google Analytics

is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and saved there.

Because we have activated IP anonymization on this website, your IP address is abbreviated within member states of the European Union or in other contract states to the Treaty concerning the European Economic Area first. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transferred to a Google server in the USA and abbreviated there.

On our behalf, Google will use this information in order to evaluate your usage of the website, in order to draw up reports about website activity and in order to render further services associated with the website usage and Internet usage to us. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the framework of Google Analytics is not conflated with other data by Google.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by configuring your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to inform you that in such case it is possible that you will not be able to use all of this website’s functions to the full extent.

You can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and pertaining to your usage of the website (incl. your IP address) being transferred to Google, as well as the processing of that data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link:

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

You can prevent your data from being collected by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie is placed, which prevents collection of your data when visiting this website in future. <a href=“javascript:gaOptout()“>Google Analytics deaktivieren</a>

11.) Newsletter

evaluate the newsletters on our behalf.

 a.) Newsletter content

We send newsletters, e-mails and other electronic notifications containing promotional information (hereinafter referred to as "Newsletter") only with the consent of the recipient or a legal permission. 

b.) Double opt-in and logging

The subscription to our newsletter takes place in a so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that after registration you will receive an e-mail asking you to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary for no one can log in with other people's e-mail addresses. Subscriptions to the newsletter are logged to ensure that the subscription process complies with legal requirements. to be able to prove. This includes the storage of the login and confirmation time, as well as the IP address.

c.) Cancellation/Revocation

You can cancel the receipt of our newsletter at any time, i.e. revoke your consent. So that goes out at the same time your consents to its dispatch via MailChimp and the statistical analyses. A separate revocation of sending via MailChimp or the statistical evaluation is unfortunately not possible. A link to cancel the newsletter can be found at the end of each newsletter.

12.) Rights of the parties affected

You are entitled to the following rights

a.) Information

Pursuant to Art. 15 of the GPDR, you have the right to request information about your personal data processed by us. This information right encompasses information about the processing purposes, the categories of personal data, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage duration or at least the criteria for determining the storage duration, the existence of a right to correction, deletion, restriction of the processing, or objection, the existence of a right to complain to a supervisory authority, the origin of your personal data if it was not collected by us, as well as about the existence of automatized decision-making, including profiling and - where applicable - meaningful information about its/their details.

 b.) Correction

You are entitled pursuant to Art. 16 of the GDPR to a right to prompt correction of incorrect or incomplete data saved by us.

c.) Deletion

You have the right to request prompt deletion of your personal data by us insofar as further processing is not necessary due to one of the following reasons:

to exercise the right to free expression of opinion and information;

to fulfil a legal obligation which requires processing pursuant to the law of the Union or the member  states to which the party responsible is subject, or to perform a task which is in the public interest or in exercise of public authority which has been transferred to the party responsible;

for reasons of public interest in the area of public health pursuant to Art. 9 paragraph 2 h and I as well as Art. 9 paragraph 3 of the GDPR;

for archive purposes in the public interest, scientific or historic research purposes, or for statistical purposes pursuant to Art. 89 paragraph 1 of the GDPR, insofar as the right named in a) probably makes realisation of the aims of this processing impossible or seriously detrimentally impacts thereon, or

for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.

d.) Processing restriction

Pursuant to Art. 18 of the GDPR you can request restriction of the processing of your personal data for one of the following reasons:

You file an objection to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 paragraph 1 of the GDPR.

e.) Notification   

When you have requested the correction or deletion of your personal data or a restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 16, Art. 17 paragraph 1 and Art. 18, we communication this to all recipients to whom your personal data has been disclosed, unless this proves to be impossible or is associated with disproportionate time, work and/or expense. You can ask us to tell you who these recipients are.

f.) Transmission

You have the right to receive in a structured, common and machine-readable format your personal data which you have provided to us.

You also have the right to request transmission of this data to a third party insofar as the processing was done with the assistance of automated processes and is based on a consent pursuant to Art. 6 paragraph 1 a or Art. 9 paragraph 2 a or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6 paragraph 1 b.

g.) Revocation

You have the right pursuant to Art. 7 paragraph 3 of the GDPR to declare revocation of your consent to us at any time. The revocation does not affect the lawfulness of the processing which took place on the basis of the consent until the revocation. In future we may no longer continue the data processing which was based on your revoked consent.

h.) Complaints

Pursuant to Art. 77 of the GDPR, you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority when you are of the view that the processing of your personal data breaches the GDPR.

i.) Objection

Insofar as your personal data is being or will be processed on the basis of justified interests pursuant to Art. 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 f of the GDPR, you have the right pursuant to Art. 21 of the GDPR to file an objection to the processing of your personal data insofar as there are reasons for this which arise from your special situation or the objection is directed against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general objection right, which will be implemented by us without citing a special situation. If you would like to make use of your revocation or objection right, an email to info@gbd.green is sufficient.

j.) Automated decision in the individual case, including profiling

You have the right not to be subject to decisions exclusively based on automated processing - including profiling - which have legal effect against you or which substantially detrimentally impact on you in another way. This does not apply if the decision is necessary for entry into or performance of a contract between you and us, is permissible due to legal provisions of the Union or the member states to which we are subject, and these legal provisions contain reasonable measures to safeguard your rights and  reedoms as well as your justified interests or take place with your express consent.

 13.  Amending the Data Protection Declaration

A. v. Humboldt Foundation | New Business Models for a Sustainable Lifestyle

E. Hünewaldt is member of the study advisory board "mobility management" Rhein-Main University  Wiesbaden

GBD is member of the TUMI network by GIZ.