Privacy Statement
As of November, 2023

The protection of your personal data, such as your name, your telephone number, your email and IP address (known as "personal data"), is important to us. Therefore we operate this website and the services offered by us in accordance with the valid data protection laws, specifically the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG).

Below you will find an explanation of how we handle your personal data in this context.


1 Responsible and Data Protection Officer
1.1 Name and contact details of the person responsible and their representative

smartgroups GmbH
Schloßstraße 19
82031 Grünwald
Represented by: Christian Marchsreiter (managing director)
E-mail address: info@smartgroups.io

1.2 Name and contact details of the data protection officer

smartgroups GmbH
Schloßstraße 19
82031 Grünwald
Represented by: Christian Marchsreiter (managing director)
Email address: info@smartgroups.io

2 Processing of personal data
2.1 Informational use of the website

If you use our website for informational purposes and do not contact us or use special services, we process your personal data as follows:

Object
If you use our website for informational purposes, we process your personal data to provide you with our website.

Legal Basis
We use your personal data to provide this website on the basis of our legitimate interest.

Balancing of Interests
With respect to the balancing of legitimate interests required by the law, we have weighed your interest in maintaining the confidentiality of your personal data and our interest in providing this website. Your interest is outweighed. Otherwise, we may not be able to provide this website to you.

Recipient Categories
We use service providers to maintain our website. For this purpose, we transmit personal data to these service providers.

Obligation to provide data
Without you providing your personal data such as the IP address, the informational use of the website is not possible for you.

2.2 Contacting
You have the possibility to contact us via our contact form (in addition, telephone, fax and email are possible). For this we have to process your personal data that you provide to us.

Object
We process your personal data in order to handle process and answer your request or inquiry.

Legal Basis
The processing of your personal data to communicate via this website is done on the basis of our legitimate interest.

Balancing of Interests
With respect to the balancing of interests required by law of legitimate interests, we have weighed your interest in maintaining the confidentiality of your personal data and our interest in contacting you. Your interest is outweighed. Otherwise, we do not have to respond to your contact request.

Recipient Categories
We use service providers to maintain our website. For this purpose, we transmit personal data to these service providers.

Obligation to provide data
Without you providing your personal data the use of the contact form (or any other means of contact) is not possible and we cannot process or answer your request.

2.3 Use of hub
You can register on this website for our hub service and use it afterwards. For this we have to process your personal data.

Object
We process your personal data to provide our hub service.

Legal Basis
The handling of your personal data within hub takes place for the initiation, implementation and processing of the corresponding usage contract.

Balancing of Interests
With respect to the balancing of legitimate interests required by law, we have weighed your interest in maintaining the confidentiality of your personal data and our interest in providing hub. Your interest is outweighed. Otherwise, we may not be able to provide hub to you.

Recipient Categories
Within the framework of hub, we transfer personal data to service providers within the framework of the provision of services.

Obligation to provide data
Without you providing your personal data, the use of hub is not possible.

Cookies
We use cookies within hub. They are necessary to login to your hub system and to provide our services.
Cookies are data sets that are placed on the user's device (e.g. computer, smartphone, tablet) by a web server. The information generated by the cookie will be sent back to our website ("First Party Cookie") or to another website to which the cookie belongs ("Third Party Cookie") when you return to our website on the same device.
The information (e.g. internet browser and operating system used; domain name of the website from which you came; average time spent on the site, pages called up) indicates that you have already requested and visited the website with the browser of your terminal device. When you visit our websites, information is automatically collected in anonymous manner.
This allows us to enable the user to utilize our websites more effectively over time by improving the content and making it easier to use. The statistical data obtained helps us to improve the performance and attractiveness of our websites. We use this information to provide you with services and information that are more specifically tailored to your needs. We do not store any information that goes beyond the above-mentioned purpose without your consent. This will be the case when you create a customer account, conclude a contract or contact us. Your personal data will be used exclusively for the processing of your respective request.
Our cookies typically remain on your device for one day, unless you delete them beforehand. Disabling the cookie function in your browser restricts the use of hub.

2.4 Newsletter and information services
You can register on our website to receive our newsletter or other promotional information by giving your consent. For this we have to process your personal data.

Objective
We process your personal data to provide you with our newsletter or information services.

Legal Basis
Your consent is the legal basis for our data processing.

Recipient Categories
We use service providers to provide the newsletter and advertising information. For this purpose, we transmit personal data to these service providers.

Obligation to provide data

Without you providing your personal data, it is not possible to receive our newsletter or our information services.

2.5 Criteria for the storage period of personal data
We delete your personal data if the respective purpose of storage no longer applies and no legal regulation requires storage.

2.6 Your rights
You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. The processing carried out before a revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
You have the right to request information about all personal data that we process from you at any time. If your personal data is incorrect or incomplete, you have the right to correct and amend it.
You can request the deletion of your personal data at any time, unless we are legally obliged or entitled to further processing of your data.
If the legal requirements are met, you can demand a restriction on the processing of your personal data.
You have the right to object to the processing if the data is processed for the purpose of direct advertising or profiling. If the processing is based on a balancing of interests, you can object to the processing by stating reasons resulting from your particular situation.
If the data is processed on the basis of your consent or within the framework of a contract, you have the right to transfer the data provided by you, provided that this does not impair the rights and freedoms of other persons.
You also have the right to file a complaint with a data protection authority at any time if you believe that data processing violates applicable law.