Privacy Policy
1. Privacy at a Glance
General Information
The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data means any data by which you can be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our Privacy Policy set out below.
Data Collection on This Website
Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. The operator’s contact details can be found in the section “Information on the Controller” in this Privacy Policy.
How do we collect your data?
Some data is collected when you provide it to us. This may include, for example, data that you enter into a contact form.
Other data is collected automatically or after your consent when you visit the website by our IT systems. This mainly includes technical data, such as your internet browser, operating system, or the time at which the page was accessed. This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter this website.
What do we use your data for?
Part of the data is collected to ensure the error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour. Where contracts can be concluded or initiated via the website, the transmitted data will also be processed for contract offers, orders, or other order enquiries.
What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right at any time to receive information free of charge about the origin, recipients, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the rectification or erasure of this data. If you have given consent to data processing, you may withdraw this consent at any time with effect for the future. You also have the right, under certain circumstances, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
You may contact us at any time regarding this and any other questions relating to data protection.
2. Hosting
We host the content of our website with the following provider:
Strato
The provider is Strato AG, Otto-Ostrowski-Straße 7, 10249 Berlin, Germany, hereinafter referred to as “Strato”.
When you visit our website, Strato collects various log files, including your IP addresses.
Further information can be found in Strato’s Privacy Policy:
https://www.strato.de/datenschutz/
The use of Strato is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in ensuring the most reliable possible presentation of our website. Where corresponding consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and Section 25 para. 1 TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s terminal device, such as device fingerprinting, within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent may be withdrawn at any time.
Data Processing Agreement
We have concluded a data processing agreement, or DPA, for the use of the above-mentioned service. This is a contract required under data protection law, which ensures that the provider processes the personal data of our website visitors only in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.
3. General Information and Mandatory Information
Data Protection
The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with statutory data protection regulations and this Privacy Policy.
When you use this website, various items of personal data are collected. Personal data means data by which you can be personally identified. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.
We would like to point out that data transmission over the internet, for example when communicating by email, may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
Information on the Controller
The controller responsible for data processing on this website is:
Beyond Green GmbH
Eckenerstraße 2
52078 Aachen
Germany
Phone: +49 241 91994847
Email: info@beyond-green.de
The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing personal data, such as names, email addresses, or similar data.
Storage Period
Unless a more specific storage period has been stated within this Privacy Policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for data processing no longer applies. If you submit a justified request for erasure or withdraw your consent to data processing, your data will be erased unless we have other legally permissible grounds for storing your personal data, such as retention periods under tax or commercial law. In the latter case, erasure will take place once these grounds no longer apply.
General Information on the Legal Bases for Data Processing on This Website
Where you have consented to data processing, we process your personal data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR or Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a GDPR, where special categories of data pursuant to Art. 9 para. 1 GDPR are processed. In the event of express consent to the transfer of personal data to third countries, data processing is also carried out on the basis of Art. 49 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.
Where you have consented to the storage of cookies or to access to information on your terminal device, for example via device fingerprinting, data processing is additionally carried out on the basis of Section 25 para. 1 TDDDG. Consent may be withdrawn at any time.
If your data is required for the performance of a contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, we process your data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Furthermore, we process your data where this is required for compliance with a legal obligation on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR.
Data processing may also be carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Information on the legal basis applicable in each individual case is provided in the following sections of this Privacy Policy.
Recipients of Personal Data
In the course of our business activities, we cooperate with various external parties. In some cases, it is also necessary to transfer personal data to these external parties.
We only disclose personal data to external parties where this is necessary for the performance of a contract, where we are legally obliged to do so, for example by transferring data to tax authorities, where we have a legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR in the disclosure, or where another legal basis permits the disclosure of data.
When using processors, we disclose our customers’ personal data only on the basis of a valid data processing agreement. In the event of joint processing, a joint processing agreement will be concluded.
Withdrawal of Your Consent to Data Processing
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may withdraw consent already given at any time. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out until the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.
Right to Object to Data Collection in Specific Cases and to Direct Marketing
Art. 21 GDPR
WHERE DATA PROCESSING IS CARRIED OUT ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6 PARA. 1 LIT. E OR F GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME, ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH PROCESSING IS BASED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA CONCERNED UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS, AND FREEDOMS, OR UNLESS THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE, OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS. THIS IS AN OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 PARA. 1 GDPR.
WHERE YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING INSOFAR AS IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING.
IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL THEREAFTER NO LONGER BE USED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES. THIS IS AN OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 PARA. 2 GDPR.
Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority
In the event of infringements of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, their place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement. The right to lodge a complaint is without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedies.
Right to Data Portability
You have the right to receive data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in performance of a contract, or to have such data transmitted to a third party, in a commonly used, machine-readable format. Where you request the direct transmission of the data to another controller, this will be carried out only insofar as it is technically feasible.
Access, Rectification, and Erasure
Within the scope of the applicable statutory provisions, you have the right at any time to receive information free of charge about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of the data processing, and, where applicable, a right to rectification or erasure of this data. You may contact us at any time regarding this and any other questions relating to personal data.
Right to Restriction of Processing
You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You may contact us at any time for this purpose. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:
If you contest the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we generally need time to verify this. For the duration of the verification, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
If the processing of your personal data was or is unlawful, you may request the restriction of data processing instead of erasure.
If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it for the exercise, defence, or establishment of legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of erasure.
If you have lodged an objection pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, a balancing of your interests and our interests must be carried out. As long as it has not yet been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, such data may, apart from being stored, only be processed with your consent, or for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims, or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person, or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or of a Member State.
SSL or TLS Encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or enquiries that you send to us as the website operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption.
You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.
When SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
4. Data Collection on This Website
Cookies
Our websites use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small data packets and do not cause any damage to your terminal device. They are stored either temporarily for the duration of a session, known as session cookies, or permanently, known as permanent cookies, on your terminal device. Session cookies are automatically deleted after the end of your visit. Permanent cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them yourself or they are automatically deleted by your web browser.
Cookies may originate from us, known as first-party cookies, or from third-party companies, known as third-party cookies. Third-party cookies enable the integration of certain services provided by third-party companies within websites, such as cookies for the processing of payment services.
Cookies have various functions. Many cookies are technically necessary because certain website functions would not work without them, such as the shopping cart function or the display of videos. Other cookies may be used to analyse user behaviour or for advertising purposes.
Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process, to provide certain functions requested by you, such as the shopping cart function, or to optimise the website, such as cookies for measuring web audience, are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, unless another legal basis is specified.
The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of necessary cookies for the technically error-free and optimised provision of its services. Where consent to the storage of cookies and comparable recognition technologies has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of this consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and Section 25 para. 1 TDDDG. Consent may be withdrawn at any time.
You can configure your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only permit cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.
Information on which cookies and services are used on this website can be found in this Privacy Policy.
Contact Form
If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We do not disclose this data without your consent.
The processing of this data is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, where your enquiry is related to the performance of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of enquiries addressed to us, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, or on your consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, where such consent has been requested. Consent may be withdrawn at any time.
The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you request that we erase it, withdraw your consent to storage, or the purpose for data storage no longer applies, for example after your enquiry has been fully processed. Mandatory statutory provisions, in particular retention periods, remain unaffected.
Enquiries by Email, Telephone, or Fax
If you contact us by email, telephone, or fax, your enquiry, including all personal data arising from it, such as your name and enquiry, will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of handling your request. We do not disclose this data without your consent.
The processing of this data is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, where your enquiry is related to the performance of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of enquiries addressed to us, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, or on your consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, where such consent has been requested. Consent may be withdrawn at any time.
The data transmitted to us by way of contact enquiries will remain with us until you request that we erase it, withdraw your consent to storage, or the purpose for data storage no longer applies, for example after your request has been fully processed. Mandatory statutory provisions, in particular statutory retention periods, remain unaffected.
5. Plugins and Tools
Google Maps
This site uses the map service Google Maps. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, “Google”, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. This service enables us to integrate map material into our website.
To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is generally transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the United States. The provider of this site has no influence over this data transmission.
When Google Maps is activated, Google may use Google Fonts for the purpose of uniform font display. When Google Maps is accessed, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.
The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offerings and the easy findability of the locations indicated by us on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
Where corresponding consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and Section 25 para. 1 TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s terminal device, such as device fingerprinting, within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent may be withdrawn at any time.
Data transfer to the United States is based on the Standard Contractual Clauses of the European Commission. Details can be found here:
https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/
https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/sccs/
Further information on the handling of user data can be found in Google’s Privacy Policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
The company is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, DPF. The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the United States intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards for data processing in the United States. Each company certified under the DPF undertakes to comply with these data protection standards. Further information is available from the provider at the following link:
https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780
Google Ads
We use Google Ads. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, “Google”, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google Ads is used to advertise our offerings in Google search results and within the Google advertising network. Advertisements may be displayed on the basis of certain search queries or on the basis of characteristics such as interests, location, or previous interactions by users.
In addition, we receive statistical analyses showing which advertisements were displayed, how often they were clicked, and through which search queries or target groups users accessed our website.
The use of this service is carried out exclusively on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and Section 25 para. 1 TDDDG. Consent may be withdrawn at any time via the cookie settings.
The data collected by Google may be transferred to the United States and other third countries. Google bases data transfers, among other things, on the Standard Contractual Clauses of the European Commission. Google is also certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, DPF.
Further information on Google Ads and Google Conversion Tracking can be found in Google’s privacy provisions:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en