Curious Company® Privacy policy

The responsible party within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Curious Company GmbH
Völckersstr. 14-20
22765 Hamburg

Represented by Herrn Henning Westerwelle (Geschäftsführer)
mail@curiouscompany.de

Rights of concern:

You may exercise the following rights at any time by contacting our data protection officer using the contact details provided:

Information about your data stored by us and its processing (Art. 15 GDPR),
Correction of inaccurate personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),
Deletion of your data stored by us (Art. 17 GDPR),
Restriction of data processing, provided that we are not yet permitted to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR),
Objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 GDPR) and
Data portability, provided that you have consented to data processing or have entered into a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR).

If you have given us your consent, you may revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

You may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority at any time, e.g. with the competent supervisory authority of the federal state in which you reside or with the authority responsible for us as the responsible body.

A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at:https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html

Collection of general information when visiting our website:

Nature and purpose of processing:

When you access our website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise submit information, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, your IP address and similar information.

They are processed in particular for the following purposes:

Ensuring problem-free connection to the website,
ensuring smooth use of our website,
evaluating system security and stability, and
optimising our website.

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Information of this kind may be anonymised and statistically evaluated by us in order to optimise our website and the technology behind it.

Legal basis and legitimate interest:

Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Recipient:

The recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Storage period:

The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected. For data used to provide the website, this is generally the case when the respective session has ended.

In the case of data storage in log files, this is the case after 14 days at the latest. Storage beyond this period is possible. In this case, the IP addresses of the users are anonymised so that it is no longer possible to assign them to the calling client..

Provision prescribed or required:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither required by law nor contractually stipulated. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services may be unavailable or restricted. For this reason, objection is excluded.

Contact form:

Nature and purpose of processing:

The data you enter will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide a valid email address and your name. This serves to assign the enquiry and subsequently respond to it. The provision of further data is optional.

Legal basis:

The data entered in the contact form is processed on the basis of a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

By providing the contact form, we want to make it easy for you to contact us. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing your enquiry and for possible follow-up questions.

If you contact us to request a quote, the data entered in the contact form will be processed for the purpose of implementing pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR)..

Recipient:

Recipients of the data may be processors..

Storage period:

Data will be deleted no later than 6 months after processing the request.

If a contractual relationship is established, we are subject to the statutory retention periods under the German Commercial Code (HGB) and will delete your data after these periods have expired.

Provision prescribed or required:

The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your enquiry if you provide us with your name, email address and the reason for your enquiry.

Use of Google Analytics:

If you have given your consent, this website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (hereinafter: “Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on these websites, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data..

Further information on terms of use and data protection can be found athttps://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.htmlund athttps://policies.google.com/?hl=de

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.

The data sent by us and linked to cookies, user IDs (e.g. user ID) or advertising IDs is automatically deleted after 14 months. Data that has reached its retention period is automatically deleted once a month..

You can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our website by clicking on this link. This will install an opt-out cookie on your device. This will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data for this website and for this browser in future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

You can also prevent cookies from being stored by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent.

You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: Browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics.

Use of script libraries (Google Web Fonts):

In order to display our content correctly and in a graphically appealing manner across browsers, we use “Google Web Fonts” from Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter “Google”) to display fonts on this website.

Further information about Google Web Fonts can be found athttps://developers.google.com/fonts/faqundely in Google’s privacy policy:https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Using Typekit web fonts from Adobe Fonts:

We use Typekit web fonts from Adobe Fonts for the visual design of our website. Adobe Fonts is a service provided by Adobe Systems Software Ireland Companies (4-6 Riverwalk, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, Republic of Ireland; hereinafter referred to as “Adobe”), which grants us access to a font library.

In order to integrate the fonts we use, your browser must connect to an Adobe server in the USA and download the font required for our website. This provides Adobe with information that our website has been accessed from your IP address.

For more information about Adobe Fonts, please refer to the Adobe Fonts privacy policy, which you can access here:https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policies/adobe-fonts.html

If your browser does not support web fonts, or if you do not give your consent, a standard font from your computer will be used.

The provider does not currently offer a simple opt-out or blocking option for data transmission. If you wish to prevent your activities on our website from being tracked, please revoke your consent for the relevant cookie category or all technically unnecessary cookies and data transmissions in the cookie consent tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website or only to a limited extent.

Use of Google Maps:

We use Google Maps on this website. Google Maps is operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter referred to as “Google”). This allows us to display interactive maps directly on the website and enables you to conveniently use the map function.
For more information about data processing by Google, please refer to Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. There you can also change your personal privacy settings in the privacy centre.

Detailed instructions on managing your own data in connection with Google products can be found here: https://www.dataliberation.org

When you visit the website, Google receives information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account that you are logged in to or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be directly associated with your account.

If you do not want this allocation to your Google profile, you must log out of Google before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or the design of its websites in line with requirements. Such evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact Google to exercise this right..

Embedded YouTube videos:

We embed YouTube videos on our website. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (hereinafter “YouTube”). YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter “Google”). When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube servers is established. YouTube is informed which pages you visit. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your surfing behaviour to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

When a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behaviour.

Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by YouTube can be found in the provider’s privacy policy, where you will also find further information on your rights in this regard and settings options for protecting your privacy:https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google AdWords:

Our website uses Google conversion tracking. The operator of Google AdWords services is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. If you have reached our website via an advertisement placed by Google, Google AdWords will place a cookie on your computer. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an ad placed by Google.

If the user visits certain pages on our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognise that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot therefore be tracked across the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users.

For more information about data processing by Google, please refer to Google’s privacy policy:https://policies.google.com/privacyDortely, you can also change your personal privacy settings in the Privacy Centre.

Use of Google Remarketing:

This website uses the remarketing function of Google Inc. The operator of Google Remarketing services is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter referred to as “Google”).

The function serves to present website visitors with interest-based advertisements within the Google advertising network. A so-called “cookie” is stored in the website visitor’s browser, which makes it possible to recognise the visitor when they visit websites that belong to the Google advertising network. On these pages, visitors may be presented with advertisements that relate to content that the visitor has previously viewed on websites that use Google’s remarketing function.

For more information about data processing by Google, please refer to Google’s privacy policy:https://policies.google.com/privacyDort. You can also change your personal privacy settings in the Privacy Centre.

SSL encryption:

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS..

Right of objection in individual cases

You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (data processing based on a balancing of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Article 4(4) GDPR.

If you object, we will no longer process your 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.

Recipient of an objection

Curious Company GmbH
Volckersstr. 14-20
22765 Hamburg

Represented by Mr Henning Westerwelle (Geschäftsführer)
mail@curiouscompany.de

Changes to our privacy policy:

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

Questions for the data protection officer:

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organisation directly.:

Curious Company GmbH
Völckersstr. 14-20
22765 Hamburg

Represented by Mr Henning Westerwelle (Geschäftsführer)
mail@curiouscompany.de

The privacy policy was created with the help of activeMind AG, the experts for external data protection officers. (Version #2020-09-30).

Privacy policy

Rights of concern:

Collection of general information when visiting our website:

Nature and purpose of processing:

Legal basis and legitimate interest:

Recipient:

Storage period:

Provision prescribed or required:

Contact form:

Nature and purpose of processing:

Legal basis:

Recipient:

Storage period:

Provision prescribed or required:

Use of Google Analytics:

Withdrawal of consent:

Use of script libraries (Google Web Fonts):

Using Typekit web fonts from Adobe Fonts:

Withdrawal of consent:

Use of Google Maps:

Withdrawal of consent:

Embedded YouTube videos:

Withdrawal of consent:

Google AdWords:

Withdrawal of consent:

Use of Google Remarketing:

Withdrawal of consent:

SSL encryption:

Information about your right to object pursuant to Article 21 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

Right of objection in individual cases

Recipient of an objection

Changes to our privacy policy:

Questions for the data protection officer: