Privacy Policy

The protection of your data is important to us. We naturally collect, store and use your data only in accordance with legal requirements. Below you will be informed about the manner in which we collect, store and process your data.

When you use this website, various personal data is collected. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens. We point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating via email) may have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

1. Information about the collection of personal data

Below we inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, email addresses, user behavior.

Responsible according to Art. 4 para. 7 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for data processing on this website is

When you contact us by email or via a contact form, the data you provide (your email address, possibly your first name, name and your phone number as voluntary information) will be stored by us to answer your questions. We delete the data that arises in this context after storage is no longer necessary, or restrict processing if legal retention obligations exist.

Processing of data entered in the contact form takes place on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time. An informal message by email to info@energie-durch-entwicklung.com is sufficient. The legality of the data processing operations carried out up to the point of revocation remains unaffected by the revocation. The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions - especially retention periods - remain unaffected.

If we use commissioned service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below. We also state the defined criteria for the storage period.

Your personal data will be deleted if you have revoked your consent to processing or if the personal data is no longer required to fulfill the purpose pursued with the processing. Cookies (see § 3 para. 2) are deleted after 12 months. Data that arose in connection with contact will be deleted after 12 months.

Your personal data will not be transmitted to a third country outside the EU or the EEA. Any other transmission only takes place if we are legally or officially obliged to do so or the disclosure is necessary within the scope of your use of the website.

Data transmission to the USA: We point out that we use and have integrated tools from US providers on our website (see § 7 to § 9). Your personal data may be transmitted to US companies and stored on US servers or otherwise processed. The data protection level in the USA does not correspond to the standard of the European Union. There is in particular the risk that US authorities may access and process the transmitted personal data for inspection and monitoring purposes. For those affected, there is a risk that no (legal) legal protection options are generally available in this regard. The legal basis for data transmission to the USA is your consent in accordance with Art. 49 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

2. Your Rights

You have the right regarding the personal data concerning you

• to request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR. In particular, you can request information about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right to complain, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us, and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about their details;
• to immediately request the rectification of incorrect or completion of your personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR
• to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, unless processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
• to request the restriction of processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR if the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful but you refuse to delete it and we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or you have lodged an objection to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
• to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request transmission to another responsible party in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR (right to data portability);
• to revoke your once-given consent to us at any time in accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR. This has the consequence that we may no longer continue the data processing based on this consent for the future and
• to complain to a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR (right to lodge a complaint). As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our company headquarters. The competent supervisory authority for data protection issues is the state data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to object to processing in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e or f GDPR:

You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of your personal data based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit e or f GDPR, which takes place on the basis of the following provisions: for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of your personal data based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit e or f GDPR, which takes place on the basis of the following provisions:

The processing is necessary for the performance of a task that is in the public interest or takes place in the exercise of official authority that has been transferred to the responsible party, or the processing is necessary to safeguard the legitimate interests of the responsible party or a third party, unless the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject that require the protection of personal data prevail, particularly when the data subject is a child.

If you lodge an objection, we will no longer process your personal data in this case, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

If you wish to make use of your right to withdraw or object, an email to info@energie-durch-entwicklung.com

3. Collection of personal data when visiting our website

When using the website for purely informational purposes, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you want to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability, security and comfortable use (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR):

• IP address
• Date and time of access
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Content of the request (specific page)
• Access status/HTTP status code
• Amount of data transferred
• Website from which the access originates (referrer URL)
• Browser, browser type and browser version
• Language and version of the browser software
• Operating system used

In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive assigned to the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the party that sets the cookie (here by us). Cookies cannot execute programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the internet offer more user-friendly and effective overall.

4. SSL/TLS Encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use SSL/TLS encryption on our website. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the address line of your browser changing from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

When SSL/TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties. The encryption takes place through:

• Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol
• 256-bit encryption
• Regular updates of security certificates

This technical measure ensures that your data is protected during transmission between your browser and our server and meets current security standards.

5. Hosting

Our website is hosted on servers of Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany. You can find Hetzner's privacy policy at: https://www.hetzner.com/de/rechtliches/datenschutz

Data processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in providing a reliable and secure website.

The data is processed and stored exclusively in data centers in Germany. This ensures compliance with strict German data protection standards and the GDPR.

6. Additional Functions of the Website

In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. This usually requires you to provide additional personal data that we use to provide the respective service and for which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.

We sometimes use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored.

Furthermore, we can pass on your personal data to third parties if we offer promotions, competitions, contract conclusions or similar services together with partners. You will receive more detailed information on this when you provide your personal data or in the description of the offer below.

If our service providers or partners are based in a state outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you about the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the offer.

7. Objection or Withdrawal Against the Processing of Your Data

If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke this at any time. Such a revocation affects the permissibility of processing your personal data after you have pronounced it to us.

Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balancing of interests, you can object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary in particular to fulfill a contract with you, which is shown by us in the following description of the functions. When exercising such an objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as carried out by us. In the case of your justified objection, we will examine the situation and either stop or adjust the data processing or show you our compelling legitimate grounds on which we continue processing.

Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes at any time. You can inform us about your advertising objection using the contact details listed above in § 1.

8. Newsletter

With your consent, you can subscribe to our newsletter, with which we inform you about our current interesting offers. The advertised goods and services are named in the declaration of consent.

For registration to our newsletter, we use the so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that after your registration, we will send you an email to the specified email address asking you to confirm that you want the newsletter to be sent. If you do not confirm your registration within 48 hours, your information will be blocked and automatically deleted after one month. In addition, we store your IP addresses used and the times of registration and confirmation. The purpose of the procedure is to be able to prove your registration and, if necessary, to clarify any possible misuse of your personal data.

The only mandatory information for sending the newsletter is your email address. Providing further data is voluntary and is used to address you personally. We also store the language you set at the time of registration in order to send you the newsletter in your preferred language. After your confirmation, we store your email address for the purpose of sending the newsletter. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR.

You can revoke your consent to the newsletter being sent at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can declare the revocation by clicking on the link provided in every newsletter email, by email to info@energie-durch-entwicklung.com or by sending a message to the contact details given in the imprint.

The data you have stored with us for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter will be stored by us until you are removed from the newsletter and deleted from both our servers and CleverReach's servers after unsubscribing from the newsletter (see CleverReach's privacy policy at: https://www.cleverreach.com/de/datenschutz/). Data that has been stored by us for other purposes remains unaffected by this. The legality of the data processing operations that have already taken place remains unaffected by the revocation.

9. Web Analytics & Third-Party Services

On our website we use various external services that help us optimize our website and provide you with a better user experience. These services are only used with your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

You can revoke your consents at any time. Please use the consent manager in the footer of our website for this purpose. Alternatively, you can also adjust the cookie settings in your browser.

10. Social Media

On our website you will find links to our LinkedIn profile. These links are implemented as normal hyperlinks and do not transmit any data to LinkedIn as long as you do not actively click on the link.

When you click on such a link, you will be redirected to LinkedIn. Please note that LinkedIn has its own privacy policies over which we have no influence. We recommend that you read LinkedIn's privacy policy before visiting the page.

11. Booking a Development Path

A development path is understood as a type of "blended learning" concept for managers, teams and organizations, which are regularly based on a multi-month duration.

Energie durch Entwicklung processes the information provided by the customer and/or their employees to enable access to the ordered services.

Energie durch Entwicklung uses the digital services of Blink.it GmbH & Co KG, Robert-Bosch-Straße 13, 64293 Darmstadt for its e-learning platform. Blink.it collects data such as IP address, technical information about the customer's browser type, their operating system or basic device information.

Insofar as the data to be processed is personal data, commissioned processing (AV) is present and Blink.it will follow the instructions of Energie durch Entwicklung. The data is stored and processed exclusively on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. Blink.it has also implemented technical and organizational security measures in accordance with the data protection regulations applicable in Germany pursuant to § 32 GDPR. A data processing agreement has also been concluded between Blink.it and Energie durch Entwicklung.