1. data protection at a glance

General notes

The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data are all data with which you can be personally identified. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please refer to our data protection declaration listed below this text.

Data collection on our website
Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find his contact details in the imprint of this website.

How do we collect your data?
On the one hand, your data is collected when you provide it to us. This may be data that you enter in a contact form or our inquiry form.

Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit the website. These are mainly technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or time of the page call). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?
Part of the data is collected to ensure that the website is provided without errors. Other data can be used to analyse your user behaviour.

What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right to receive information free of charge at any time about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to demand the correction, blocking or deletion of this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions regarding data protection, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint. Furthermore, you have the right to complain to the responsible supervisory authority.

Analysis tools and third-party tools
When you visit our website, your surfing behaviour can be statistically evaluated. This is mainly done with cookies and with so-called analysis programs. The analysis of your surfing behaviour is usually anonymous; the surfing behaviour cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. You will find detailed information on this in the following data protection declaration.  You can contradict this analysis. We will inform you about the possibilities of objection in this data protection declaration.

2. general notes and mandatory information

Data protection
The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and according to the legal data protection regulations as well as this privacy policy.

When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is data with 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 (e.g. communication by e-mail) can have security gaps. A complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Note to the responsible authority
The person responsible for data processing on this website is:

Teamgeist International GmbH
Kumeliusstraße 11  61440 Oberursel

Telefon: 49 (0)30 84317082
E-Mail: p.havenstein@teamgeist.com

Responsible body is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).

Revocation of your consent to data processing
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent.  You can revoke a previously given consent at any time.  For this purpose, an informal notification by e-mail to us is sufficient.  The legality of the data processing carried out up to the time of revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right of complaint to the responsible supervisory authority
In the event of violations of data protection law, the person concerned has a right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority.  The competent supervisory authority for data protection issues is the State Data Protection Commissioner of the federal state in which our company is based.  A list of the 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 data portability
You have the right to have data which we process automatically based on your consent or in fulfilment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another responsible party, this will only take place to the extent that it is technically feasible.

SSL or TLS Encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries that you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize 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. If the SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, blocking, deletion
Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right to obtain information free of charge at any time about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing and, if applicable, a right to correct, block or delete this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions regarding personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint.

Objection to advertising mails
The use of contact data published within the scope of the imprint obligation for the transmission of not expressly requested advertising and information material is hereby contradicted. The operators of the website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e-mails.

 

3. data collection on our website

Cookies
The Internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, more effective, and safer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies". They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.

Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions that you have requested (e.g. shopping basket function) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimised provision of his services. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies for analysing your surfing behaviour) are stored, these are treated separately in this data protection declaration.

Server log files
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL
• Host name of the accessing computer
• Time of the server request
• IP address
• This data is not merged with other data sources.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO, which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Contact form and inquiry form
If you send us enquiries via contact form or enquiry form, your details from the respective form including the contact details you provided there will be forwarded for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the case of follow-up questions to the location you specified as the event location or to the regional company responsible due to functional assignments within the association (teamgeist group) and stored there for further processing. Between the companies of the teamgeist group the data will only be forwarded and saved for the purpose of a possibly necessary determination of responsibility. Beyond that we will not pass on your data to third parties without your consent. Here you will find a list of the corresponding regional companies.

The processing of the data entered in the form is therefore based on our legitimate interests (Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f DSGVO).

The data entered by you in the contact form will remain with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent for storage or the purpose for which the data was stored no longer applies. Mandatory legal provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.

However, Teamgeist International GmbH and its regional companies will also store or process your data for their own advertising purposes to inform you about our services, for example by means of a regular newsletter, provided that you provide us with your e-mail address, or for individual contact with you by e-mail, post, fax, SMS or telephone, based on your contacting us. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 f) DS-GVO. In detail we also refer to § 7 UWG.

Depending on the type of offer or a concrete contract or depending on the expression of your interest in our services, we process the following personal data:

• Surname, first name - Company, position in the company
• address - e-mail address - telephone number, fax number
• Bank details
• To offer our services, at least your name, first name, and in the case of business offers your company, your e-mail address and your postal address are required to identify you. When concluding a contract for our services or those of our regional companies, we also need your billing address. To be able to inform you as a prospective customer of our services, we need at least your name, first name, in the case of business offers your company, and your e-mail address.

If we have received your consent - the legal basis is then Art. 6 para. 1 a) DS-GVO - we will process your data for the purposes specifically stated in the consent, in particular for customer service, customer surveys and customer information tailored to your personal needs.

If necessary, we will also process your data to protect the legitimate interests of ourselves or third parties in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 f) DS-GVO, for example to assert legal claims and/or to defend ourselves in legal disputes or to guarantee IT operations and security. To comply with legal requirements, we may or must process your data if necessary, for example to fulfil tax obligations. The legal basis for this is then Art. 6 para. 1 c) DS-GVO).

We do not use your data in any way for automated decision-making or profiling.

Who receives your personal data Art. 13 (1) e), f) DS-GVO?
We work together with other companies of the Teamgeist Group to be able to offer our services or those of the Teamgeist Group nationwide and uniformly under the Teamgeist concept in Germany - but also outside Germany in Europe. This includes Teamgeist AG, which operates the website www.teamgeist.com and provides services for the regional companies named below. The regional companies are the companies from which you can book services - regionally and objectively coordinated. These include Teamgeist GmbH, Teamgeist Nord GmbH, Teamgeist Ost GmbH, Teamgeist Süd GmbH, Teamgeist West GmbH, Teamgeist OWL GmbH, Teamgeist Mitte GmbH, Teamgeist International GmbH and the Austrian Teamgeist Wien GmbH. For the proper and appropriate processing of your customer enquiries including the provision of services and for the coordinated support of you, as our customers, it is necessary to process your customer data in a common CMR-System (Customer-Relations-Management-System; customer data administration). This means that your customer data can also be viewed and if necessary processed by other companies of the Teamgeist Group. Especially if we determine that we cannot process your inquiry ourselves, especially because of local divisions and functional responsibilities within the Teamgeist Group, we will forward your inquiry and your data to the company within the Teamgeist Group and responsible for your inquiry within the Teamgeist Group. The legal basis for the aforementioned processing activities is Art. 6 Par. 1 f) DS-GVO.     

Apart from this, we do not pass on personal data to third parties, unless you have given your consent to do so, or the transfer is permitted or required for legal reasons, or the transfer is necessary to fulfill the contractual relationship, for example to service providers (organizers, hotels, etc.).  The legal basis for this is also in individual cases Art. 6 para. 1 a) to f) DS-GVO).

We may be legally obliged to pass on data in individual cases on the order of a competent authority, in particular if and to the extent that this is necessary for the purposes of criminal prosecution, for the prevention of danger by the police authorities of the federal states, for the fulfilment of the statutory tasks of the federal and state constitution protection authorities, the Federal Intelligence Service or the Military Counter-Intelligence Service or the Federal Criminal Police Office within the scope of its task of preventing dangers of international terrorism or enforcing intellectual property rights.

We process your data exclusively in countries of the EU and have no intention of processing the data in other countries.

4. social media

Facebook plugins (Like & Share button)

Our pages integrate plugins from the social network Facebook, provider Facebook Inc. 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the "Like-Button" ("Like") on our page. You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins here:https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

When you visit our pages, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Facebook thereby receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click the Facebook "Like-Button" while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the contents of our pages on your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the Pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. You can find further information on this in the Facebook privacy policy at: https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.

If you do not want Facebook to be able to assign visits to our Pages to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

Twitter plugin
Functions of the Twitter service are integrated on our pages. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the "Re-Tweet" function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users. Data is also transferred to Twitter. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the sites, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Twitter. For further information, please refer to the Twitter privacy policy at: https://twitter.com/privacy.

You can change your privacy settings on Twitter in the account settings at https://twitter.com/account/settings.

Google plugin
Our pages use functions of Google. Provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Collection and sharing of information: You can use the Google button to publish information worldwide. The Google button allows you and others to receive personalized content from Google and our partners. Google stores both the information that you have given for content 1 and information about the page you were viewing when you clicked 1. Your 1 may appear as a tag along with your profile name and photo in Google services, such as search results or your Google Profile, or elsewhere on websites and ads on the web.

Google records information about your 1 activity to improve Google services for you and others. To use the Google button, you must have a public Google profile that is visible worldwide and must contain at least the name you choose for your profile. This name is used in all Google services. In some cases, this name may replace another name you've used when sharing content through your Google Account. The identity of your Google Profile may be visible to users who know your email address or have other identifying information about you.

Use of information collected: In addition to the uses described above, the information you provide will be used in accordance with the applicable Google Privacy Policy. Google may publish aggregated statistics about users' 1 activity and may share these statistics with our users and partners, such as publishers, advertisers, or affiliated websites.

5. analysis tools and advertising

Google Analytics
This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies". These are text files which are stored on your computer and which enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

The storage of Google Analytics cookies is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the analysis of user behaviour to optimise both his website and his advertising. 

Browser plugin
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. 

Objection to data collection
You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by clicking on the following link An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent the collection of your information on future visits to this site: Disable Google Analytics.

 For more information about how Google Analytics treats user information, please see the Google Privacy Policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Google Analytics Remarketing

Our websites use the functions of Google Analytics Remarketing in conjunction with the cross-device functions of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

This feature allows you to link the advertising audiences created with Google Analytics Remarketing to the cross-device capabilities of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. In this way, interest-based, personalized advertising messages that have been adapted to you on one device (e.g. mobile phone) depending on your previous usage and surfing behavior can also be displayed on another of your devices (e.g. tablet or PC).

If you have given us permission, Google will link your web and app browsing history to your Google Account for this purpose. In this way, the same personalized advertising messages can be displayed on any device that you sign in with your Google Account. To support this feature, Google Analytics collects Google-authenticated user IDs that are temporarily linked to our Google Analytics data to help us define and create audiences for cross-device advertising. You can opt-out of cross-device remarketing/targeting permanently by turning off personalized advertising in your Google Account, following this link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.

The aggregation of the collected data in your Google Account is based solely on your consent, which you can give or withdraw to Google (article 6, paragraph 1, letter a DSGVO). For data collection operations that are not merged into your Google Account (e.g. because you do not have a Google Account or have objected to the merging), the collection of data is based on article 6, paragraph 1, letter f of the DPA. The legitimate interest arises from the fact that the website operator has an interest in the anonymised analysis of website visitors for advertising purposes.

Further information and the data protection regulations can be found in the Google data protection declaration at:https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/. 

Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking
This website uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising program of Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States ("Google").

As part of Google AdWords, we use what is known as conversion tracking. When you click on an ad placed by Google, a conversion tracking cookie is set. Cookies are small text files that the Internet browser stores on the user's computer. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used to personally identify users. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not expired, Google and we can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to that page.

Every Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. The cookies cannot be tracked on the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to compile conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted into conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users. If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can opt-out of this use by slightly disabling the Google conversion tracking cookie on your web browser under User Preferences. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.

The storage of "conversion cookies" is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the analysis of user behaviour to optimise both his website and his advertising.

More information on Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking can be found in the Google data protection regulations: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.

Adform A/S
This website uses Adform A/S technology. This system uses cookies for tracking and controlling digital advertising campaigns. The legality of the corresponding data processing is based on the "legitimate interest" granted by the legislator (Art. 6 EU-DSGVO, par. 1, f)). This is guaranteed until further notice.

By setting cookies, Adform does not store any personal data such as name, e-mail addresses or other personal information. All information is purely anonymous and contains technical information such as the frequency and date of display of advertising media, the browser used or even the installed operating system. A conclusion to your person is not possible. Since IP addresses in Germany are evaluated as personal data, Adform never saves complete IP addresses in Germany, but shortens the last octet to comply with data protection regulations. You can object to tracking by cookies. Please use this link to do so: https://site.adform.com/privacy-policy-opt-out. This stores a so-called OptOut cookie on your device, which signals to the technical systems that no further data may be measured in the future and no cookies may be set.

6. newsletter

Newsletter data
If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we need an e-mail address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided and that you agree to receive the newsletter. Further data will not be collected or only on a voluntary basis. We use these data exclusively for sending the requested information and do not pass them on to third parties.

The processing of the data entered in the newsletter registration form is based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the e-mail address, and its use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link in the newsletter. The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data you have provided us with for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and deleted after you cancel the newsletter. Data that has been stored by us for other purposes (e.g. e-mail addresses for the member area) remain unaffected.

7. plugins and tools

Google Web Fonts
This page uses so-called web fonts, which are provided by Google, for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache to display text and fonts correctly. For this purpose, the browser you use must connect to Google's servers. This enables Google to know that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our online offers. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. If your browser does not support Web Fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.

 Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the Google privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Hotjar
This website uses Hotjar, an analysis software of Hotjar Ltd. ("Hotjar") (http://www.hotjar.com, Level 2, St Julian's Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julian's STJ 1000, Malta, Europe). With Hotjar it is possible to measure and evaluate the usage behaviour (clicks, mouse movements, scroll heights, etc.) on our website. The information generated by the "tracking code" and "cookie" about your visit to our website is transmitted to the Hotjar servers in Ireland and stored there. The following information is collected by the Tracking Code:

Device dependent data
The following information can be recorded by your device and browser:

• The IP address of your device (collected and stored in an anonymous format)
• Your e-mail address including your first name and surname, if you have provided it to us via our website
• Screen size of your device
• Device type and browser information
• Geographical viewpoint (country only)
• The preferred language to display our website
• User Interactions
• Mouse events (movement, position and clicks)
• Keyboard entries

log data
The following data is automatically generated by our servers when Hotjar is used

• Referring domain
• Visited pages
• Geographical viewpoint (country only)
• The preferred language to display our website
• Date and time when the website was accessed

Hotjar will use this information to evaluate your use of our website, to create reports on the use of our website, and to provide other services related to website use and internet analysis of the website. Hotjar also uses the services of third-party companies, such as Google Analytics and Optimizely, to provide services. These third parties may store information that your browser sends when you visit the website, such as cookies or IP requests. For more information on how Google Analytics and Optimizely store and use data, please see their respective privacy policies.

If you continue to use this website, you agree to the above-mentioned processing of the data there by Hotjar and its third-party providers in accordance with their data protection declarations . The cookies that Hotjar uses have different "lifespans"; some last up to 365 days, some last only during the current visit.

You can prevent Hotjar from collecting the data by clicking on the following link and following the instructions there: https://wwwhttps://www.hotjar.com/legal/compliance/opt-out.

Chat
This website uses Userlike, a live chat software of the company Userlike UG (limited liability). Userlike uses "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and allow a personal conversation in the form of a real-time chat on the website with you. The collected data is not used to personally identify the visitor of this website and is not merged with personal data about the bearer of the pseudonym.

March 2020