Privacy policy

Basic

This privacy policy is intended to inform the users of this website about the nature, scope and purpose of the collection and use of personal data by the website operator sprylab technologies GmbH.
The website operator takes your privacy very seriously and treats your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory provisions. Since new technologies and the constant further development of this website may result in changes to this data protection declaration, we recommend that you read through the data protection declaration again at regular intervals.
Definitions of the terms used (e.g. "personal data" or "processing") can be found in Art. 4 DSGVO.
We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
The use of contact data published within the framework of the imprint obligation by third parties for sending unsolicited advertisements and information materials is hereby expressly prohibited. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e-mails.

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Data Protection Officer

For all questions related to the processing of your personal data and the exercise of your rights under the GDPR, you can consult our data protection officer Jens Bimberg, who can be reached at the email privacy(at)sprylab.com.


Access data

We, the website operator or page provider, collect data about accesses to the website sprylab.com and purplemanager.com on the basis of our legitimate interest (see Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO) and store them as "server log files" on the website server. The following data is logged in this way:

  • Visited website
  • Time at the time of access
  • Amount of data sent in bytes
  • Source/reference from which you reached the page
  • Browser used
  • Operating system used
  • IP address used

The data is stored for security reasons, e.g. to be able to clarify cases of misuse. If data must be retained for evidentiary reasons, it is exempt from deletion until the incident is finally resolved.
For purplemenager.com, we also collect personal data that is necessary for the performance of our services. This data is only collected for internal purposes and is not passed on to third parties.

Reach measurement & cookies

This website and our Purple DS service (www.purplemanager.com) use cookies for pseudonymized reach measurement, which are transmitted to the user's browser either by our server or the server of a third party. Cookies are small files that are stored on your end device. Your browser accesses these files. The use of cookies increases the user-friendliness and security of this website.
If you do not want cookies for range measurement to be stored on your end device, you can object to the use of these files here:

  • Cookie deactivation page of the Network Advertising Initiative: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1#!/
  • Cookie deactivation page of the US website: http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2#!/
  • Cookie deactivation page of the European website: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1#!/

Common browsers offer the setting option to not allow cookies. Note: It is not guaranteed that you will be able to access all functions of this website without restrictions if you make the corresponding settings. Our Purple DS service does not function without cookies.

Collection and processing of personal data

The website operator collects, uses and discloses your personal data only if this is permitted by law or if you consent to the collection of such data.
Personal data is any information that can be used to identify you personally and can be traced back to you - for example, your name, e-mail address and telephone number.
You can also visit this website without providing any personal information. However, in order to improve our online services, we store (without personal reference) your access data to this website. This access data includes, for example, the file you requested or the name of your Internet provider. By anonymizing the data, it is not possible to draw conclusions about your person.

Handling contact data

General

If you contact us as the website operator through the contact options offered, your information will be stored so that we can use it to process and respond to your request. Without your consent, this data will not be disclosed to third parties.

Use of Akismet to avoid spam

This site uses the Akismet plugin from Automattic Inc, 60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110-4929, USA. With the help of this plugin, contact requests from real people are distinguished from spam requests. For this purpose, all entries are sent to a server in the USA, where they are analyzed and stored for four days for comparison purposes. If an entry has been classified as spam, the data is stored beyond this time. This information includes the name entered, the email address, the IP address, the comment content, the referrer, information about the browser used as well as the computer system and the time of the entry.

You can completely prevent the transfer of data by not using our contact form and writing instead and directly to hello@sprylab.com. That would be a pity, but unfortunately we do not see any other alternatives that work just as effectively. You can object to the use of your data for the future at support@wordpress.com, subject "Deletion of Data stored by Akismet" under specification/description of the stored data.

For more information, read Akismet's privacy policy in English and Automattic's privacy policy.

Dealing with comments and contributions

If you leave a post or comment on this website, your IP address will be stored. This is done due to our legitimate interests within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO and serves the security of us as website operator: Because if your comment violates applicable law, we can be prosecuted for it, which is why we have an interest in the identity of the comment or post author.

Analysis tools and advertising

HubSpot

Our services allow visitors to our website to learn more about our company, download content, and provide contact information and other information. This information is stored on servers operated by our software partner HubSpot. This information may be used by us to contact visitors to our website and determine which of our services are of interest to those visitors. All information we collect is subject to this Privacy Policy. We use all collected information exclusively to optimize our marketing.

HubSpot is a software company based in the USA with an office in Ireland. Contact: HubSpot, 2nd Floor 30 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland, Phone: +353 1 5187500, is subject to the TRUSTe Privacy Seal and the U.S. - EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S. - Swiss Safe Harbor Framework.

Google Analytics

Due to our legitimate interests, this website uses the service "Google Analytics" for the optimization and analysis of our online offer in terms of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO the service "Google Analytics", which is offered by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). The service (Google Analytics) uses "cookies" - text files that are stored on your terminal device. The information collected by the cookies is usually sent to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
Google LLC complies with European data protection law and is certified under the Privacy Shield agreement: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active
IP anonymization is used on this website. The IP address of the user is shortened within the member states of the EU and the European Economic Area and in the other contracting states of the agreement. Only in individual cases is the IP address initially transmitted unabbreviated to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. This shortening eliminates the personal reference of your IP address. The IP address of the user transmitted by the browser is not combined with other data stored by Google.
As part of the agreement on the order data agreement, which we as website operators have concluded with Google Inc., the latter uses the information collected to create an evaluation of website use and website activity and provides services associated with internet use.
The data collected by Google on our behalf is used to evaluate the use of our online offering by individual users, for example, to create reports on website activity in order to improve our online offering.
You have the option of preventing cookies from being stored on your device by making the appropriate settings in your browser. It is not guaranteed that you will be able to access all functions of this website without restrictions if your browser does not allow cookies.
Furthermore, you can use a browser plug-in to prevent the information collected by cookies (including your IP address) from being sent to and used by Google Inc. The following link will take you to the corresponding plugin: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Alternatively, you can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data about you within this website by clicking on this LINK. By clicking on the above link, you will download an "opt-out cookie". Your browser must therefore generally allow the storage of cookies for this purpose. If you delete your cookies regularly, you will need to click on the link again each time you visit this website.
The opt-out is not valid for Purple DS Manager (www.purplemanager.com).
Here you can find more information about the use of data by Google Inc:

  • https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners?hl=de (Daten, die von Google-Partnern erhoben werden)
  • https://adssettings.google.de/authenticated (Einstellungen über Werbung, die Ihnen angezeigt wird)
  • https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=de (Verwendung von Cookies in Anzeigen)

Newsletter subscription or release notes subscription

The website operator offers you a newsletter and release notes in which he informs you about current events, updates or offers. If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter or the release notes, you must provide a valid e-mail address. If you subscribe to the newsletter or the release notes, you agree to receive the newsletter or the release notes and to the explained procedures.
The newsletter as well as release notes are sent by the shipping service provider MailChimp, a shipping platform of the provider The Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000,Atlanta, GA 30308 USA. Information about the privacy policy of the shipping service provider is available at: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.
Cancellation and termination: You can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter or release notes at any time and thus cancel the respective subscription. After your cancellation, your personal data will be deleted. Your consent to receive the newsletter or release notes will expire at the same time. At the end of each newsletter or all release notes you will find the link to cancel.
Your data will be stored by the above-mentioned shipping service provider and will only be used for sending internal information emails. These can be product updates, company news or industry insights.

What rights do you have if we have data from you?

Depending on the situation in the individual case (e.g. contact data for newsletters, applicants, business inquiries), you have the following data protection rights, which you can exercise at any time by contacting us or our data protection officer at the above data:

a. Information
You have the right to obtain information about your personal data processed by us and to request access to and/or copies of your personal data. This includes information about the purpose of the use, the category of data used, its recipients and authorized persons and, if possible, the planned duration of data storage or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining this duration.

b. Correction, deletion or restriction of processing
You have the right to demand that we correct any inaccurate personal data relating to you without undue delay. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you have the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data - also by means of a supplementary declaration.

c. Right of objection
If the processing of personal data concerning you is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO, you have the right to object to the processing of such data at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation. We will then no longer process this personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

d. Right of withdrawal
If the processing is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the withdrawal. To do this, you can contact us or our data protection officer at any time using the above data.

e. Right to erasure
You have the right to request that we delete personal data concerning you without undue delay and we are obliged to delete personal data without undue delay if one of the following reasons applies:

  • The personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed
  • The object to the processing in accordance with point.c above and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing.
  • The personal data have been processed unlawfully.
  • The deletion of personal data is necessary for the fulfillment of a legal

obligation under Union law or Member State law to which we are subject. This does not apply insofar as the processing is necessary:

  • for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing under the law of the Union or the Member States to which we are subject.
  • to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
    If you believe that your data has been processed unlawfully, you may lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

Privacy policy for the use of Twitter

Functions of the Twitter service are integrated on our pages. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc, Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the "Re-Tweet" function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users. In the process, data is also transmitted to Twitter.
We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Twitter. For more information, please refer to Twitter's privacy policy at http://twitter.com/privacy.
You can change your privacy settings on Twitter in the account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.

Notes for applicants

We process personal data about you for the purpose of your application for employment, insofar as this is necessary for the decision on the establishment of an employment relationship with us. The legal basis for this is Section 26 (1) in conjunction with (8) sentence 2 BDSG. Furthermore, we may process personal data about you insofar as this is necessary for the defense of asserted legal claims against us arising from the application process. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1, Letter f DSGVO; the legitimate interest is, for example, a duty to provide evidence in proceedings under the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG). Insofar as an employment relationship arises between you and us, we may, in accordance with Section 26 (1) of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), further process the personal data already received from you for the purposes of the employment relationship if this is necessary for the implementation or termination of the employment relationship or for the exercise or fulfillment of the rights and obligations of the employees' interest representation resulting from a law or a collective bargaining agreement, a company or service agreement (collective agreement).
We process data related to your application. This may be general personal data (such as name, address and contact details), information on your professional qualifications and school education or information on further professional training or other information that you provide to us in connection with your application. In addition, we may process job-related information that you have made publicly available, such as a profile on professional social media networks.
We store your personal data for as long as is necessary to make a decision about your application. Insofar as an employment relationship between you and us does not come about, we may continue to store data beyond this, insofar as this is necessary for the defense against possible legal claims. In this case, the application documents will be deleted two months after notification of the rejection decision, unless longer storage is required due to legal disputes.
The provision of personal data is neither legally nor contractually required, nor are you obliged to provide the personal data. However, the provision of personal data is required for the conclusion of a contract for employment with us. This means that if you do not provide us with personal data when applying for a job, we will not enter into an employment relationship with you.

Sources: Datenschutz.org, Disclaimer eRecht24, Stepstone, Facebook Disclaimer, Google Analytics Terms and Conditions, Mailchimp Privacy, Twitter Privacy Policy.

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