privacy policy

We are glad to welcome you on our website and that you are interested in our company. At the same time, it is our intention protecting your personal data. Personal data are all information about natural persons, which are determined or become determinable due to this information, either of personal or impersonal kind. The term personal data includes for example data such as name, surname, address, telephone number but also the IP address is part of the personal data nowadays.

On our internet appearance, we collect and process personal data. Those are subject to legal protection we comply with. In the following points, we will provide you some information about the data privacy and inform you how we are collecting and processing personal data. Such processing is done in compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the Federal data protection Act 2018 as well as further national regulations.
Responsible within the meaning of Article 4 Paragraph 7 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU DSGVO)

nanopool GmbH

Managing director: Sascha Schwindt, Lilli Schwindt, Saskia Lokermans-Schwindt

Zum Felsacker 76 DE – 66773 Schwalbach

Data subject rights

Due to the EU General Data Protection Regulation, you as person concerned have different rights which you can exercise of course also at our company. Please contact us in this regard at the above-mentioned contact data.
You, as person concerned, have the following rights:

    • Right of Access
    • Right of Correction
    • Right to Erasure (right to be forgotten)
    • Right to Limitation
    • Right to Oppose
    • Right for data portability

You can also revoke the consent you gave us at any time at the above-mentioned contact data.

You still have the right to issue a complaint at the Regulatory Authority in charge for you. The Regulatory Authority responsible for you depends on the respective federal state where your residence is. A list of the respective Regulatory Authorities is given here:
https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html

Deletion / blocking of personal data

An important principle of the EU General Data Protection Regulation is the data reduction and data economy. Our company adheres to those principles and we save personal data only as long as those are required for the designated purposes, respectively according the legal retention period. After cessation of a respective basis (contract, accordance, legal regulation,…) we routinely delete, respectively block those data.

Collecting data when visiting our website

When visiting our website, our server automatically collect data and the following data are saved in the log files of our system:

      • Browser type and versioning
      • operating system used by the visitor
      • IP-address
      • date and time of the website visit
      • domain name of the provider

A direct assignment of personal data to a concrete user is not done so that the single website visitors cannot be identified.
We collect those data due to our legitimate interest to further optimise the technics, to ensure the connection to our website, to ensure the availability of our web services and for further administrative purposes.
Possibly, anonymised information are assessed for statistical purposes, but which won’t allow any conclusions to certain or determinable persons.

Contact form

You can contact us via our contact form at any time. Thereby, you are granting us your consent to us for contacting you back. For such contacting, the indication of a correct e-mail address or telephone number us required. Without you giving those information, contacting you won’t be possible for us.

Possibly further optional information allow us to react to your enquiry in an improved manner. When your enquiry has been processed by us and there is no reason to further process those data, they are automatically deleted.

Newsletter

Due to the consent you’ve provided, we will send you regularly or irregularly our newsletter or comparable information via e-mail to the e-mail address you’ve indicated.

To receive our newsletter only the indication of your e-mail address is required. If we request further personal data during the application process for the newsletter then only for the reason to be able to formulate the newsletter in a more personal way.

Ro ensure that the registering person also have the right e-mail address, we use a so-called Double-Opt-In method for our newsletter. By this, after the registration, a confirmation e-mail is sent to the addressee to have this confirmed again. By this, it is ensured that no third person registered you for the newsletter.

Passing on to a third party as well as another use of your saved, personal data is not done. The data are only used for the newsletter for which you registered.

You have, at any time, the possibility to revoke the storage and the forwarding of our newsletter to your e-mail address. At the end of our newsletter you find the respective link to file such revoke. You can of course also send an e-mail to the contact data in this privacy policy (see above) to inform us about the revocation.

Sending newsletters via MailChimp

Our e-mail newsletters are sent via the technical service provider The Rocket Science Group, LLC d / b / a MailChimp, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA (http: //www.mailchimp .com /), to which we pass on the data you provided when registering for the newsletter. This transfer takes place in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR and serves our legitimate interest in using an effective, secure and user-friendly newsletter system. Please note that your data is usually transferred to a MailChimp server in the USA and stored there.

MailChimp uses this information to send and statistically evaluate the newsletter on our behalf. For the evaluation, the e-mails sent contain so-called web beacons or tracking pixels, which represent one-pixel image files that are stored on our website. In this way it can be determined whether a newsletter message has been opened and which links have been clicked. Technical information is also recorded (e.g. time of access, IP address, browser type and operating system). The data is collected exclusively in pseudonymised form and is not linked to your other personal data; direct personal reference is excluded. This data is used exclusively for the statistical analysis of newsletter campaigns. The results of these analyzes can be used to better adapt future newsletters to the interests of the recipients.

If you want to object to the data analysis for statistical evaluation purposes, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter.

In addition, MailChimp can use this data in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. However, MailChimp does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to write to them itself or to pass them on to third parties.

To protect your data in the USA, we have concluded a data processing order (“Data Processing Agreement”) with MailChimp on the basis of the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission to enable the transmission of your personal data to MailChimp. If you are interested, this data processing contract can be viewed at the following Internet address: https://mailchimp.com/legal/data-processing-addendum/.

MailChimp is also certified under the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield” and is committed to complying with EU data protection regulations.

You can view MailChimp’s data protection provisions here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

Cookies

On our website also so-called “Cookies” are used. Cookies are small test data which are transferred from our system to your hard drive. By those Cookies we are automatically receiving certain information. Those could be for example your IP address, the Browser you are using for visiting our website, your operating system and other data.

The Cookies generally serve to facilitate the website use to the user and to allow a perfect display of our services. Cookies cannot start any programs or even transfer viruses to your system.

In no way, the data we gathered are forwarded to third or a conjunction with personal data is made without your consent.

Most Browsers are set up in a way that they automatically accept Cookies. But you can inactivate saving Cookies or set up your Browser in a way that it informs you as soon as Cookies are sent. Cookies once set can be deleted by you at any time by selecting the respective menu item in your internet Browser or by deleting the Cookies from your hard drive. You’ll find further details in this regard in the help menu of your Browser.

SSL-encryption of the website

To protect the transfer of your data, we are using a respective encryption on our website (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc. (following: Google). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, ie text files that are stored on your computer and that enable your use of the website to be analyzed. 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. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The full IP address will only be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there in exceptional cases. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on activities on the website. Based on the use of the website and the Internet, further related services are then to be provided. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; we would like to point out, however, that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install: Browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics.

As an alternative to the browser plug-in or within browsers on mobile devices, please click on the following link to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future (this opt-out cookie only works in this browser and only for this domain, delete your cookies in this browser, you have to click this link again): Deactivate Google Analytics
Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified for the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield”, which guarantees compliance with the data protection level applicable in the EU.
You can find more information on how Google Analytics handles user data in Google’s data protection declaration: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

Facebook Social PlugIns

Our internet presence uses Social Plugins („Plugins“) of the social network facebook.com, which is run by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The Plugins are recognisable by one of the Facebook logos (white “f” on blue tile or a “thumb up” symbol) or are marked with the information “Facebook Social Plugin”.
When you view a website of our internet presence that contains such a Plugin, the Browser builds up a direct connection with the Facebook servers. The content of the Plugin will be transferred from Facebook directly to your Browser and the Browser includes that in the website. Therefore, we have no influence of the extent of the data Facebook is collecting with the help of this Plugin and we inform you therefore according our state of knowledge.
By the inclusion of the Plugins, Facebook receives the information that you entered the respective page of our internet presence. If you are logged-in at Facebook, Facebook can assign your visit to your Facebook-account. When you are interacting with the Plugins, for example push the “like” button or leave a comment, the respective information is transferred by the Browser directly to Facebook and saved there. If you are no member of Facebook there is nevertheless the possibility that Facebook gets to know your IP address and saves it.
Purpose and extent of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook as well as your respective rights and setting possibilities for the protection of your privacy can be ready in the data privacy statement of Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php.
If you are a member at Facebook and do not want that Facebook collects data about you via our internet presence and links to the member data saved at Facebook, then you need to log-out from Facebook before visiting our internet presence.
It is also possible to block Facebook Social Plugins by Add-ons for your Browser, e.g. with the “Facebook Blocker”.

YouTube

Our website integrates YouTube videos. The imbedded clips deposit Cookies on the computers of the users when opening the page. Who inactivated the set-up of Cookies for the Google advertising program would also not need to expect any such Cookies when viewing YouTube clips. But, YouTube also deposits non person-related usage information other Cookies. If you would like to prevent this, you need to have them blocked by the Browser.

Personal data

Within this internet presence, there is the possibility to provide us personal data. Personal data are information which can be used to get to know your identity. Such can be information as your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address.
Regarding your personal data, we inform according §33 Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) that those are saved and /or transferred in accordance to the applicable data protection regulations.

Furthermore, personal data are handled absolutely confidential and are only forwarded to third after specific consent.

Precautionary, we clearly make you aware that the data privacy in public nets such as the internet is not fully ensured, depending the current state of the art.

Communication with us via e-mail

If you contact us via e-mail and you send us this e-mail unencrypted, we cannot ensure the data safety of the transmission path to us. If you want to send us data which require a protection so we would like to ask you to send them to us as encrypted or chose the sending them by post.

Change of our privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt our privacy policy at any time to update them regarding our services. When visiting our website again, the respective current privacy policy is effective.

Hülzweiler, 21st September 2023
Privacy policy issued by DSM-online GmbH