Jonas Dossmann

Privacy Statement

With this privacy policy, we would like to inform you about the nature, scope, and purpose of the processing of personal data (hereinafter also referred to as “data”). Personal data is any data that has a personal connection to you, e.g., name, address, email address, or your user behavior. The privacy policy applies to all data processing operations carried out by us, both within the scope of our core business and for the online media we provide.

Who is responsible for data processing at our company

The entity responsible for data processing is:

Jonas Dossmann
Tübinger Str. 6
10715 Berlin
+49I63 IO9O5O5
antispam@dossmann.me
https://www.en.dossmann.me/imprint

Processing of your data within the scope of our company’s core business

If you are our customer or business partner or are interested in our services, the type, scope, and purpose of the processing of your data depends on the contractual or pre-contractual relationship between us. In this sense, the data we process includes all data that is or was provided by you for the purpose of using the contractual or pre-contractual services and that is required to process your request or the contract concluded between us. Unless otherwise stated in the further information in this privacy policy, the processing of your data and its transfer to third parties is limited to the data that is necessary and appropriate for responding to your inquiries and/or fulfilling the contract concluded between you and us, for safeguarding our rights, and for fulfilling legal obligations. We will inform you of the data required for this purpose before or during the data collection process. If we use third-party providers to perform our services, the privacy policies of the respective third-party providers apply.

Data concerned:

  • Inventory data (e.g., names, addresses)
  • Payment data (e.g., bank details, invoices)
  • Contact data (e.g., email address, telephone number, postal address)
  • Contract data (e.g., subject matter of the contract, contract term)

People concerned: Prospective customers, business partners, and contractual partners

Purpose of processing: Handling contractual services, communication, and responding to contact requests, office and organizational procedures

Legal basis: Contract fulfillment and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, legal obligation, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR, legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR

Processing of your data in connection with the education and training services we provide

If you participate in our education and training services or are interested in our services, the type, scope, and purpose of the processing of your data is based on the contractual or pre-contractual relationship between us. In this sense, the data we process includes all data that is or was provided by you for the purpose of using the contractual or pre-contractual services and that is required to process your request or the contract concluded between us. This also includes the performance assessment and evaluation of our services and teaching staff. Unless otherwise stated in the further information in this privacy policy, the processing of your data and its transfer to third parties is limited to those data that are necessary and appropriate for responding to your inquiries and/or for fulfilling the contract concluded between you and us, for safeguarding our rights, and for fulfilling legal obligations. We will inform you of the data required for this purpose before or during the data collection process. If we use third-party providers to provide our services, the data protection information of the respective third-party providers applies.

Special categories of data

If you participate in our training and educational services or submit an inquiry to us because you are interested in the training and educational services we offer, so-called special categories of data may also be affected by data processing. This includes, in particular, information about your health, as well as information that reveals your political opinions or religious or philosophical beliefs (Art. 9 (1) GDPR). We process this data exclusively for training services, to protect your health, social protection, or your vital interests. If we require the aforementioned information for purposes other than those mentioned above, we will inform you of this in detail before processing this data and will then obtain your express consent.

If it is necessary for the fulfillment of the contract concluded between us, for training services, for the protection of your health, social protection, or your vital interests, we may also transfer your data to third parties, such as authorities or tax advisors.

Data concerned:

  • Inventory data (e.g., names, addresses)
  • Payment data (e.g., bank details, invoices)
  • Contact data (e.g., email address, telephone number, postal address)
  • Contract data (e.g., subject matter of the contract, contract term)

Special categories of personal data:

  • Health data
  • Data revealing religious or political beliefs

Affected people: pupils, trainees, students, interested parties, business and contractual partners

Purpose of processing: Processing contractual services, communication, responding to contact requests, office and organizational procedures

Legal basis:Contract fulfillment and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, legal obligation, Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR, legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR

Your rights under the GDPR

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights, which you can exercise at any time by contacting the controller named in section 1 of this privacy policy:

  • Right to information: You have the right to request information from us about whether and which of your data we process.
  • Right to rectification: You have the right to request the rectification of inaccurate data or the completion of incomplete data.
  • Right to erasure: You have the right to request the erasure of your data.
  • Right to restriction: In certain cases, you have the right to request that we only process your data in a restricted manner.
  • Right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer your data to you or another controller in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
  • Right to lodge a complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The supervisory authority responsible is that of your usual place of residence, your place of work, or our company headquarters.

Revocation right

You have the right to revoke your consent to data processing at any time.

Right of objection

You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your data, which we base on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. If you exercise your right to object, we ask you to explain the reasons. We will then no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate to you that compelling legitimate grounds for the data processing override your interests and rights.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes.

Please send your objection to the contact address of the responsible party listed above.

When do we delete your data?

We will delete your data when we no longer need it or when you instruct us to do so. This means that, unless otherwise specified in the individual data protection notices in this privacy policy, we will delete your data

  • if the purpose of data processing no longer applies and the respective legal basis specified in the individual data protection notices no longer exists, e.g.
    • after termination of the contractual or membership relationship between us (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR) or
    • after our legitimate interest in the further processing or storage of your data has ceased to exist (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR),
  • if you exercise your right of withdrawal and no other legal basis for processing within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) (b)-(f) GDPR applies,
  • if you exercise your right of objection and there are no compelling legitimate grounds for the deletion.

However, if we still need to retain (certain parts of) your data for other purposes, for example because tax retention periods (usually 6 years for business correspondence and 10 years for accounting documents) or the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims arising from contractual relationships (up to four years) require this, or if the data is needed to protect the rights of another natural or legal person, we will delete (part of) your data. exercise, or defense of legal claims arising from contractual relationships (up to four years), or if the data is needed to protect the rights of another natural or legal person, we will only delete (part of) your data after these periods have expired. Until these periods expire, however, we will restrict the processing of this data to these purposes (fulfillment of retention obligations).

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files consisting of a series of numbers and letters that are stored on the device you are using. Cookies are primarily used to exchange information between the device you are using and our website. This includes, among other things, the language settings on a website, the login status, or the point at which a video was viewed.

When you visit our websites, two types of cookies are used:

  • Temporary cookies (session cookies): These store a so-called session ID, which can be used to assign various requests from your browser to the shared session. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.
  • Permanent Cookies: Permanent cookies: Permanent cookies remain stored even after you close your browser. This allows our website to recognize your computer when you return to our website. These cookies store information such as language settings or log-in information. These cookies can also be used to document and store your surfing behavior. This data can be used for statistical, marketing, and personalization purposes.

In addition to the above classification, cookies can also be distinguished according to their purpose:

  • Necessary cookies: These are cookies that are absolutely necessary for the operation of our website, for example to store logins or shopping carts for the duration of your session, or cookies that are set for security reasons.
  • Statistics, marketing, and personalization cookies: These are cookies that are used for analysis purposes or to measure reach. Such “tracking” cookies can store information about search terms entered or the frequency of page views. In addition, the surfing behavior of an individual user (e.g., viewing certain content, using functions, etc.) can also be stored in a user profile. Such profiles are used to display content to users that corresponds to their potential interests. If we use services that store cookies on your device for statistical, marketing, and personalization purposes, we will inform you separately in the following sections of our privacy policy or when obtaining your consent.

Data concerned:

  • Usage data (e.g., access times, websites clicked on)
  • Communication data (e.g., information about the device used, IP address).

Affected people: Users of our online services

Purpose of processing: Displaying our websites, ensuring the operation of our websites, improving our Internet offering, communication, and marketing

Legal basis:
Legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR
If we do not obtain your consent to set cookies, we base the processing of your data on our legitimate interest in improving the quality and user-friendliness of our website, in particular its content and functions. You can object to the use of cookies set by us within the scope of our legitimate interest via your browser’s security settings. There you have the option of specifying whether you accept cookies from the outset, only accept them on request, or specify that cookies are deleted each time you close your browser. If cookies are deactivated for our website, it may no longer be possible to use all the functions of the website to their full extent.

Consent, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR
If we ask you before you visit our website for permission to place certain cookies on your device and you agree to this, the legal basis for this is your consent. We will inform you in detail about which cookies we set as part of the consent process. If you do not give your consent, only the so-called technically necessary cookies will be set, which are required for the proper functioning of our website and its display in your browser. If you have consented to the setting of cookies, you have the option of revoking your consent at any time.

Web hosting

We use a provider to host our website, whose server stores our website and makes it available for retrieval on the Internet (hosting). In doing so, the provider may process all data transmitted by the browser you use that is generated when you use our website. This includes, in particular, your IP address, which the provider needs in order to deliver our online offering to the browser you are using, as well as all entries you make via our website. In addition, the provider we use may process data on the following kind:

  • the date and time of access to our website
  • time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • access status (HTTP status)
  • the amount of data transferred
  • the Internet service provider of the accessing system
  • the browser type and version you are using
  • the operating system you are using
  • the website from which you may have accessed our website
  • the pages or subpages you visit on our website.

The aforementioned data is stored as log files on our provider’s servers. This is necessary to ensure the stability and security of our website’s operation.

Data concerned:

  • Content data (e.g., posts, photos, videos)
  • Usage data (e.g., access times, websites clicked on)
  • Communication data (e.g., information about the device used, IP address)

Affected people: Users of our website

Purpose of processing: Displaying our websites, ensuring the operation of our websites

Legal basis: Legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR

Web host(s) commissioned by us:

Fsit AG

Service provider: Fsit AG
Website: Eichmattstrasse 16, 5612 Villmergen, Switzerland
Privacy policy: https://www.fsit.com/ueber-uns/impressum

Contact

If you contact us via email, social media, telephone, fax, post, our contact form, or in any other way and provide us with personal data such as your name, telephone number, or email address, or provide further information about yourself or your request, we will process this data in order to respond to your inquiry within the framework of the pre-contractual or contractual relationship between us.

Data concerned:

  • Inventory data (bspw. Namen, Adressen)
  • Contact details (e.g., email address, phone number, postal address)
  • Content data (texts, photos, videos)
  • Contract data (e.g., subject matter of the contract, contract duration)

Affected people: Prospective customers, customers, business and contractual partners

Purpose of processing: Communication and responding to contact requests, office and organizational procedures

Legal basis: Contract fulfillment and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR

Web analytics und statistics

We use web analytics services to record and statistically evaluate visitor traffic on our website. Among other things, these services collect data about which website you came to our website from (known as referrers), which pages of our website you accessed, how long you visited our pages, and what interactions you made there. In addition, data about the browser, computer system, and device type you are using is collected. Such a service can also be used to collect demographic information, such as age or gender, as pseudonymous values. If you have consented to the collection of your location data, this may also be processed, depending on the provider.

In order to collect and store this data, the web analysis service we use usually places a cookie on the device you are using, which is also used to collect the IP address assigned to you. However, this is shortened using a so-called IP masking procedure, so that the IP address can no longer be assigned to your visit to our website. Furthermore, no clear data such as names or email addresses are stored. Neither we nor the service we use know the identity of the visitors to our website.

We would like to point out that, depending on the country of residence of the service provider listed below, the data collected via the service may be transferred and processed outside the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection required by the GDPR may not be complied with and that it may be difficult or impossible to enforce your rights.

Data concerned:

  • Usage data (e.g., access times, websites clicked on)
  • Communication data (e.g., information about the device used, IP address).

Affected people: Users of our online services

Purpose of processing: Reach measurement, campaign performance monitoring, remarketing, and interest- and behavior-based marketing

Legal basis: If we have asked for your consent before using the respective service, this constitutes the legal basis, Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. Otherwise, we use the respective service on the basis of our legitimate interest in analyzing visitor traffic to our website in order to continuously improve its functions, offerings, and user experience, Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

We use the following web analytics services:

Matomo Analytics (with Cookies)

Service provider: InnoCraft Ltd. 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, Neuseeland
Homepage: https://matomo.org/
Privacy Statement: https://matomo.org/privacy/

When using Matomo, the data collected via the analysis tool is not transferred to the service provider, but rather remains on our server.

Our online presence on social networks

We operate online presences within the social networks listed below. If you visit one of these presences, the respective provider will collect and process the data specified below. As a rule, this data is collected for advertising and market research purposes and used to create user profiles. Data can be stored in the user profiles regardless of the device you are using. This is particularly the case if you are a member of the respective platform and are logged in to it. The user profiles can be used by the providers to display interest-based advertising to you. You have the right to revoke the creation of user profiles. To exercise this right, you must contact the respective provider.

If you have an account with one of the providers listed below and are logged in there when you visit our website, the respective provider may collect data about your usage behavior on our website. To prevent such linking of your data, you can log out of the provider’s service before visiting our site.

The purpose and scope of data collection by the provider can be found in the respective privacy policies of the providers listed below.

We would like to point out that, depending on the country of residence of the provider listed below, the data collected via its platform may be transferred and processed outside the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection required by the GDPR may not be complied with and that it may be difficult or impossible to enforce your rights.

Data conerned:

  • Inventory and contact data (e.g., name, address, telephone number, email address)
  • Content data (e.g., posts, photos, videos)
  • Usage data (e.g., access times, websites clicked on)
  • Communication data (e.g., information about the device used, IP address).

Purpose of processing: Communication and marketing, tracking and analysis of user behavior

Legal basis: Consent, Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, legitimate interests Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR

Opt-out options: For information on the respective opt-out options, please refer to the information provided by the providers linked below.

We maintain online presences on the following social networks:

GitHub

Service provider: GitHub Inc. 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
Homepage: https://github.com/
Privacy Statement: https://docs.github.com/de/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-general-privacy-statement

LinkedIn

Service Provider: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland
Homepage: https://linkedin.com/
Privacy Statement: https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Security measures

We also take state-of-the-art technical and organizational security measures to comply with data protection laws and protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction, or unauthorized access by third parties.

Current status and changes to this privacy policy

This privacy policy is currently valid and was last updated in February 2024. Due to changes in legal or regulatory requirements, it may be necessary to amend this privacy policy.

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