Privacy Policy
We, SEEK Development, Strategic and Organizational Consultants GmbH, Cotheniusstraße 3, 10407 Berlin, Germany (“we”, “us”, “our”) are the operator of this website and therefore the controller regarding any processing of your personal data when you use www.seekdevelopment.org (“website”). Personal data means data that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes, for example, your name, your e-mail address and your IP address. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this Privacy Policy. It is of great importance to us to handle your personal data properly. If you have any questions regarding the processing activities of your personal data, you can reach our data protection officer via email to datasecurity@seekdevelopment.org.
This Privacy Policy informs you about how your personal data is handled. We will update this Privacy Policy from time to time and encourage you to review it frequently to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the information that we process. While you are using our website, we will process your personal data to the extent and for the purposes shown below:
1. Extent and purpose of processing personal data; Legal basis for processing
1.1 Use of the Website When you visit our website, our servers temporarily store all access operations in a log file. The following data is acquired automatically and stored for three months:
• The IP address of the requesting computer (pseudonymized)
• Date and time of access • The name and URL of the file called
• The website from which the access originated
• The operating system of your computer and the browser you are using
• The country and the name of your internet access provider
This data is processed to enable the use of our website (connection establishment), to permanently ensure system security and stability and to enable the optimisation of our internet-based services as well as for internal statistical purposes. The IP address will be used only in the case of attacks on the network infrastructure of www.seekdevelopment.org, for statistical purposes and to assert or defend against legal claims. The processing of this data takes place on the basis of our legitimate interest (art. 6 (1) sent. 1 lit. f GDPR).
1.2 Contacting, advertising
We may use your personal data (i.e. surname, first name and address (professional and/or private) as well as your contact details that you provided to us, including e-mail address and/or telephone number) to promote our products and services if we believe that you are interested in our products and services. This is our legitimate interest in the processing of your personal data (art. 6 (1) sent. 1 lit. f GDPR).
You can object to this use of your personal details for direct marketing purposes at any time.
1.3 Contract initiation, contract execution
We process your personal data, i.e. surname, first name and address (professional and/or private) as well as your contact data, including the e-mail address and/or telephone number for the preparation and/or performance of consulting services and/or to provide you with additional information on our consulting services, if you have requested such information and have provided us with your personal data (art. 6 (1) sent. 1 lit. b GDPR).
If you provide us with further contact data and/or personal data of third parties (e.g. employees, partners, representatives, agents, consultants or other third parties), we have a legitimate interest in also processing their personal data for the preparation and/or performance of consulting services and/or providing you with additional information on our consulting services (art. 6 (1) sent. 1 lit. f GDPR).
1.4 E-mail job application
We process your job application data (salutation, name, address, job, CV/education) and your files (certificates/diploma, cover letter, CV, references (i.e. from previous employers)) that you have provided to us. We use the aforementioned personal data solely for the purpose of processing your job application (art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR). We will get in touch with you during the application process to inform you about the progress of the application process and/or to inform you if we want to invite you for a job interview. Following the application process, your personal data will usually be deleted within six months, if you have not agreed to let us keep your personal data to send you further job application offers (art. 6 (1) sent. 1 lit. a GDPR). If you accept an offer from us to join us, we will add your application data to your employee’s file.
2. Disclosure to third parties
We work with several third parties that act on our behalf and are subject to our instructions. Among these are, for example, service providers which host our website and our newsletter service. All disclosures to such service providers are safeguarded by executing the required agreements under applicable law. If you want to get more information about our service providers, please contact us at the above contact details. We will not disclose your personal data to other third parties unless there is a statutory obligation to do so or you gave us your permission before or if disclosure is necessary for the assertion of our rights.
3. Cookies
Cookies help in many different ways to make your visit to our platform easier, more comfortable and more intuitive. The processing of this data takes place on the basis of our legitimate interest (art. 6 (1) sent. 1 lit. f GDPR). We have a legitimate interest in enhancing the usability of our website, which is also in your interest. Cookies are alpha-numerical information files that your web browser automatically stores on the hard drive of your computer when you visit our Internet site. Cookies do not harm the hard drive on your computer. The use of the cookies does not allow us to obtain new personal data about you as an online visitor. The majority of Internet browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can configure your browser to reject cookies or to notify you whenever you receive a new cookie. Deactivation of cookies can lead to you not being able to use all of the functions of our platform.
4.Hosting
Wir hosten unsere Website bei Webflow. Anbieter ist die Webflow, Inc., 398 11th Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA (nachfolgend: Webflow). Wenn Sie unsere Website besuchen, erfasst Webflow verschiedene Logfiles inklusive Ihrer IP-Adressen.
Webflow ist ein Tool zum Erstellen und zum Hosten von Websites. Webflow speichert Cookies oder sonstige Wiedererkennungstechnologien, die für die Darstellung der Seite, zur Bereitstellung bestimmter Webseitenfunktionen und zur Gewährleistung der Sicherheit erforderlich sind (notwendige Cookies). Details entnehmen Sie der Datenschutzerklärung von Webflow: EU & Swiss Privacy Policy | Webflow 164.
Die Verwendung von Webflow erfolgt auf Grundlage von Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO. Wir haben ein berechtigtes Interesse an einer möglichst zuverlässigen Darstellung unserer Website. Sofern eine entsprechende Einwilligung abgefragt wurde, erfolgt die Verarbeitung ausschließlich auf Grundlage von Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a DSGVO und § 25 Abs. 1 TTDSG, soweit die Einwilligung die Speicherung von Cookies oder den Zugriff auf Informationen im Endgerät des Nutzers (z. B. Device-Fingerprinting) im Sinne des TTDSG umfasst. Die Einwilligung ist jederzeit widerrufbar.
Die Datenübertragung in die USA wird auf die Standardvertragsklauseln der EU-Kommission gestützt. Details finden Sie hier: EU & Swiss Privacy Policy | Webflow 164.
Auftragsverarbeitung
Wir haben einen Vertrag über Auftragsverarbeitung (AVV) mit dem oben genannten Anbieter geschlossen. Hierbei handelt es sich um einen datenschutzrechtlich vorgeschriebenen Vertrag, der gewährleistet, dass dieser die personenbezogenen Daten unserer Websitebesucher nur nach unseren Weisungen und unter Einhaltung der DSGVO verarbeitet.
5. Webflow
Our website is hosted by Webflow, Inc., located at 398 11th Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103 (hereinafter referred to as "Webflow"). At the same time, Webflow provides the content management system for our website. We have entered into a data processing agreement with Webflow, which includes the standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to processors in third countries according to Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (available in German here). Webflow's global privacy policy can be accessed here: https://webflow.com/legal/privacy. The privacy policy for the EU and Switzerland can be accessed here: https://webflow.com/legal/eu-privacy-policy
5.1. Hosting
Webflow hosts our website through the Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) of the American companies Fastly Inc. and Amazon Web Services, Inc. A Content Delivery Network is a network of geographically distributed, possibly interconnected servers. The server closest to the respective user of the website is always used. The CDN used here includes servers in North America and parts of Europe. More information can be found on the following Webflow page: https://webflow.com/blog/what-to-look-for-in-a-web-hosting-service
5.1.1. Fastly
Webflow hosts our website through the Content Delivery Network of the American company Fastly Inc., 475 Brannan St. #300, San Francisco, CA 94107. The company's privacy policy can be accessed here: https://www.fastly.com/privacy/
5.1.2. Amazon CloudFront
Webflow hosts our website through the Content Delivery Network of the American company Amazon Web Services, Inc., 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle WA 98109. The CDN is called Amazon CloudFront. The company's legal notice can be accessed here: https://aws.amazon.com/de/impressum/?nc1=f_cc The company's privacy notice can be accessed here: https://d1.awsstatic.com/legal/privacypolicy/AWS_Privacy_Notice_German_2020-08-15.pdf
5.2. Cloudflare
To ensure cross-browser compatibility, so that the modern functionality of Webflow pages is also available in older browsers that do not support it natively, Webflow incorporates JavaScript through the CDN of Cloudflare. The operator of the CDN is Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107. The company's privacy policy can be accessed here: https://www.cloudflare.com/de-de/privacypolicy/
5.3. website-files.com
Furthermore, there is a connection to the domain website-files.com. This domain belongs to Webflow, where images and other assets that are integrated into our website are hosted. This domain of Webflow is also hosted through the CDNs of Fastly and Amazon CloudFront.
5.4. Legal Basis
The legal basis for the data processing as mentioned above is in Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b GDPR. In sections 7.1. - 7.3., there is also a transfer of data to the USA and thus to a so-called unsafe third country within the meaning of the GDPR. Nevertheless, the data transfer is permissible. The legal basis for this lies in Art. 46 Para.1, Para.2 lit. c GDPR (standard contractual clauses) or in Art. 49 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR and thus in the fulfillment of a contract between us and you as a user or in the necessity of carrying out pre-contractual measures. Currently, there is neither an adequacy decision by the EU for the USA nor other suitable guarantees. Therefore, the protection of your data cannot be guaranteed in the destination country, the USA. The current level of data protection in the USA is not equivalent to that of the EU. Therefore, the transmission involves corresponding risks. In particular, there are no guarantees regarding the non-disclosure of your transmitted data to government agencies. For example, it cannot be ruled out that US authorities may access your data on the basis of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA; a law that regulates foreign intelligence and counterespionage activities of the United States).
6. Matomo
We use the web analytics tool "Matomo" (https://matomo.org/). Matomo is an open-source tool managed by InnoCraft Ltd, 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand, https://www.innocraft.com/ (hereinafter referred to as "InnoCraft"). InnoCraft Ltd was founded by the developers of Matomo. The privacy policy of Matomo can be accessed here: https://matomo.org/privacy-policy/. This tool does not use cookies, but rather stores what is known as a digital fingerprint. This fingerprint is generated through various technical data, such as the browser used, creating a hash value—a combination of characters from which the original data cannot be derived—to enable identification of you as a user. This digital fingerprint is changed every 24 hours. We use Matomo based on our legitimate interest according to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR, to optimize and economically operate our website. We use Matomo in the cloud version provided by InnoCraft (https://www.innocraft.cloud/de/). The privacy policy of InnoCraft can be viewed here: https://www.innocraft.com/privacy. InnoCraft's servers are located in Germany (Frankfurt). The data ownership remains solely with us. The data is not shared with third parties. You can object to the data processing at any time here:
7. Your rights regarding your personal data
You may at any time request information about your personal data that we have processed and exercise the rights listed below. You may do this by sending the relevant request via email with proof of your identity.
You have the right to:
Data Access and Portability: You may be entitled to request copies of your personal information held by us. You may also be entitled to request copies of personal information you have provided to us in machine-readable format.
Change or Correct Data: You have the right to ask us to correct change, update or rectify your data. Data Retention and Deletion: We only retain data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose set out above. You have the right to ask us to delete all or some of the personal data we hold about you.
Restriction of Processing: Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to limit the ways in which we use your personal information.
Withdrawing Consent: Where you provide consent to the processing of your personal information by us, you may withdraw your consent at any time. Please note that the withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing activities based on such consent before its withdrawal.
Right to object: If you object to such processing we will no longer process your personal information for these purposes unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for such processing or such processing is required for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or obligations.
Lodging Complaints In addition to these listed rights, you have the right to lodge complaints about the data processing activities carried out by us before a competent data protection authority.
8. Data retention and storage periods
If your data is deleted, it will no longer be possible to use some or all of our services. Please note that by law certain kinds of data must be kept for a certain period of time. Such data must be stored by us until these periods run out. We block this data in our system and use it only in order to fulfill statutory requirements.
9. Contact
If you have any questions about data privacy on our website, wish to request information or wish to request the deletion of your data,
please contact: SEEK Development Cotheniusstraße 3 10407 Berlin Germany
Email: datasecurity@seekdevelopment.org