1) Introduction and Contact Information of the Controller

1.1 We are delighted that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. Below, we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data by which you can be personally identified.

1.2 The controller for data processing on this website, in terms of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is Nanopool GmbH, Zum Felsacker 76, 66773 Schwalbach, Germany, Tel.: 06831-8902712, Email: info@nanopool.eu. The controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

 

2) Data Collection When Visiting Our Website

2.1 When you use our website for information purposes only, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called “server log files”). When you visit our website, we collect the following data which are technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

• The website visited
• Date and time at the moment of access
• Amount of data sent in bytes
• Source/reference from which you came to the page
• Browser used
• Operating system used
• IP address used (possibly in anonymised form)

 

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to retrospectively check the server log files should concrete evidence point to illegal use.

2.2 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g., orders or inquiries to the responsible person), this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the string “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser line.

 

3) Cookies

To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, which are small text files stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the browser session, i.e., after closing your browser (so-called “session cookies”). Other cookies remain on your device and enable us to recognise your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). If cookies are set, they collect and process specific user information such as browser and location data as well as IP address values. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie.

If personal data are also processed by individual cookies implemented by us, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR either for the execution of the contract or according to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR in the case of a granted consent or according to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR to protect our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website as well as a customer-friendly and effective configuration of the site visit.

You can configure your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually about their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally.

Please note that the functionality of our website may be limited if you do not accept cookies.

4) Contacting Us

During the contact with us (e.g., via contact form or email), personal data is collected. Which data are collected in the case of a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form. These data are stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your request or for contacting you and the related technical administration.

The legal basis for processing these data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, then additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted after final processing of your inquiry; this is the case if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the relevant facts have been conclusively clarified and provided there are no legal storage obligations to the contrary.

 

5) Use of Client Data for Direct Marketing

MailChimp

The sending of our e-mail newsletters is carried out via “MailChimp”, a newsletter dispatch platform of the US provider Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE #5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.

Based on our legitimate interests in an efficient and secure newsletter system, we pass on your data to MailChimp, provided you have subscribed to our newsletter and consented to receive it, in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

Subject to your explicit consent, the newsletter provider may carry out a statistical analysis of newsletter campaigns. This analysis includes the opening rates and link click behaviors. The evaluations serve much to detect reading habits and adapt our content or send different content according to the interests of our users.

Your consent to the storage of data, the email address and their use for sending the newsletter can be revoked at any time, either via a link in the newsletter or by notifying us accordingly.

We have entered into a data processing agreement with the provider that safeguards the data of our website visitors and prohibits their dissemination to third parties. For data transfers to the USA, the provider has adhered to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with European data protection standards based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

6) Web Analytics Services

6.1 Google (Universal) Analytics
This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”), which enables the analysis of your use of our website.

By default, when you visit the website, Google (Universal) Analytics sets cookies, which are small text files stored on your device that collect specific information, including your IP address, which is however truncated by Google to prevent direct personal identification.The information is transferred to Google servers and processed there. Transfers to Google LLC based in the USA are also possible.

Google uses this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity for us, and provide other services related to website and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. The data collected by Google (Universal) Analytics are stored for two months and then deleted. All the processing described above, particularly the setting of cookies on the device used, only occurs if you have given us your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.

Without your consent, Google (Universal) Analytics will not be deployed during your visit to the site. You can revoke your consent at any time with future effect by disabling this service via the “Cookie Consent Tool” provided on the website.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google, which ensures the protection of our site visitors’ data and prohibits the unauthorized transfer of data to third parties.

Further legal information about Google (Universal) Analytics can be found at https://business.safety.google/intl/en/privacy/, https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en, and https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

 

Demographic Features

Google (Universal) Analytics uses the “demographic features” function to compile statistics that can provide information about the age, gender, and interests of site visitors. This is done by analysing advertising data and information from third-party providers, which helps identify target audiences for marketing activities. However, the data collected cannot be attributed to any specific individual and is deleted after being stored for two months.

 Google Signals

As an extension to Google (Universal) Analytics, this website may use Google Signals to generate cross-device reports. If you have personalized ads enabled and your devices are linked to your Google account, Google can analyze your usage behavior across devices, subject to your consent to the use of Google Analytics, and create database models, including for cross-device conversions. We do not receive personal data from Google, only statistics. If you wish to stop the cross-device analysis, you can disable the “Personalized Advertising” function in the settings of your Google account. Follow the instructions here: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en. More information about Google Signals can be found at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7532985?hl=en.

User IDs
As an extension to Google (Universal) Analytics, this website may use the “User IDs” feature. If you have consented to the use of Google (Universal) Analytics, created an account on this website, and log in on various devices with this account, your activities, including conversions, can be analyzed across devices. For data transfers to the USA, the provider adheres to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with European data protection standards based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

6.2 Google Analytics 4

This website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”), which enables the analysis of your use of our website.

By default, when you visit the website, Google Analytics 4 sets cookies, small text files that are stored on your device and collect specific information, including your IP address, which is truncated by Google to prevent direct personal identification.

The information is transferred to Google servers and processed there. Transfers to Google LLC based in the USA are also possible.

Google uses the collected information on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activities for us, and provide further services related to the use of the website and the internet. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics 4 is not merged with other Google data. The data collected by Google Analytics 4 are stored for two months and then deleted.

All the processing described above, especially the setting of cookies on the device used, only takes place if you have given us your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.

Without your consent, Google Analytics 4 will not be deployed during your visit to the site. You can revoke your consent at any time with future effect by disabling this service via the “Cookie Consent Tool” provided on the website.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google, which ensures the protection of our site visitors’ data and prohibits the unauthorized transfer of data to third parties.

Further legal information about Google Analytics 4 can be found at https://business.safety.google/intl/en/privacy/ , https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en , and https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

 Demographic Features

Google Analytics 4 uses the “demographic features” function to compile statistics that can provide information about the age, gender, and interests of site visitors. This is done by analyzing advertising data and information from third-party providers, which helps identify target audiences for marketing activities. However, the data collected cannot be attributed to any specific individual and is deleted after being stored for two months.

Google Signals

As an extension to Google Analytics 4, this website may use Google Signals to generate cross-device reports. If you have personalized ads enabled and your devices are linked to your Google account, Google can analyze your usage behavior across devices, subject to your consent to the use of Google Analytics, and create database models, including for cross-device conversions. We do not receive personal data from Google, only statistics. If you wish to stop the cross-device analysis, you can disable the “Personalized Advertising” function in the settings of your Google account. Follow the instructions here: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en. More information about Google Signals can be found at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7532985?hl=en.

 User IDs

As an extension to Google Analytics 4, this website may use the “User IDs” feature. If you have consented to the use of Google Analytics 4, created an account on this website, and log in on various devices with this account, your activities, including conversions, can be analyzed across devices. For data transfers to the USA, the provider adheres to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with European data protection standards based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

6.3 Google Tag Manager

This website uses the “Google Tag Manager”, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”).

The Google Tag Manager provides a technical foundation to bundle various web applications, including tracking and analytics services, and to calibrate, control, and condition them via a unified user interface. The Google Tag Manager itself does not store information on user devices or read it out. Nor does the service perform its own data analysis. However, the Google Tag Manager does transmit your IP address to Google at the time of page loading, where it may also be stored. Transfers to Google LLC servers in the USA are also possible.

This processing is only carried out if you have given us your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. Without this consent, the use of Google Tag Manager will not occur during your site visit. You can revoke your consent at any time with future effect by disabling this service using the “Cookie-Consent-Tool” provided on the website.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our site visitors’ data and prohibits the unauthorized transfer of data to third parties.

For data transfers to the USA, the provider adheres to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with European data protection standards based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

Further legal information about Google Tag Manager can be found at https://business.safety.google/intl/en/privacy/  and https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en .

7) Website Functionalities

7.1 YouTube

This website uses plugins to display and play videos provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.

Data may also be transferred to Google LLC, USA.

When you access a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of the provider to load the plugin. In doing so, certain information, including your IP address, is transmitted to the provider.

When playback of embedded videos via the plugin is initiated, the provider also sets cookies to collect information about user behavior, compile playback statistics, and prevent misuse.

If you are logged into a user account with the provider during your site visit, your data will be directly associated with your account when you click on a video. If you do not want the association with your account, you must log out before activating the play button.

All the processing described above, particularly the setting of cookies to read out information on the device used, only takes place if you have given us your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with future effect by disabling this service using the “Cookie-Consent-Tool” provided on the website.

For data transfers to the USA, the provider adheres to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with European data protection standards based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

7.2 Google reCAPTCHA

This website uses the CAPTCHA service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.

Data may also be transferred to Google LLC, USA. “Google Fonts,” fonts loaded from the internet by Google, are used for the visual design of the CAPTCHA window. There is no processing of further information beyond that already transmitted to Google via the functionality of reCAPTCHA.

The service checks whether an input is made by a natural person or abusively through mechanical and automated processing, and blocks spam, DDoS attacks, and similar automated harmful access. To ensure that an action is taken by a human and not an automated bot, the provider collects the IP address of the device used, recognition data of the browser and operating system type used, as well as the date and duration of the visit, and transmits these for evaluation to servers of the provider.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in determining individual responsibility on the internet and preventing misuse and spam according to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our site visitors’ data and prohibits the unauthorized transfer of data to third parties.

For data transfers to the USA, the provider adheres to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with European data protection standards based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

 

8) Tools and Miscellaneous

Cookie-Consent-Tool

This website uses a so-called “Cookie-Consent-Tool” to obtain effective user consents for cookies requiring consent and cookie-based applications. The “Cookie-Consent-Tool” is displayed to users at the time of page access in the form of an interactive user interface where consents for certain cookies and/or cookie-based applications can be granted by setting checkboxes. Here, the use of the tool ensures that all cookies/services requiring consent are only loaded if the respective user grants the corresponding consents by setting checkboxes. This ensures that such cookies are only set on the respective user’s device in the event of granted consent.

The tool sets technically necessary cookies to store your cookie preferences. User data is generally not processed in this context.

If personal data (such as the IP address) are processed in individual cases for the purpose of storing, assigning, or logging cookie settings, this is done according to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR based on our legitimate interest in legal-compliant, user-specific, and user-friendly consent management for cookies and thus in a legally compliant design of our internet presence.

A further legal basis for processing is also Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR. As controllers, we are subject to the legal obligation to make the use of technically non-essential cookies dependent on the respective user consent.

Where necessary, we have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our site visitors’ data and prohibits the unauthorized transfer of data to third parties.

Further information about the operator and the settings options of the Cookie-Consent-Tool can be found directly in the corresponding user interface on our website.

9) Rights of the Data Subject

9.1 The applicable data protection law grants you certain rights (access and intervention rights) against the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data, for which the respective prerequisites are referred to the legal basis:

• Right of access by the data subject according to Art. 15 GDPR;
• Right to rectification according to Art. 16 GDPR;
• Right to erasure according to Art. 17 GDPR;
• Right to restriction of processing according to Art. 18 GDPR;
• Right to notification according to Art. 19 GDPR;
• Right to data portability according to Art. 20 GDPR;
• Right to withdraw consent given according to Art. 7 (3) GDPR;
• Right to lodge a complaint according to Art. 77 GDPR.

 

9.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT

IF, WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA BASED ON OUR PREDOMINANT LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION.

IF YOU MAKE USE OF YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED. HOWEVER, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO FURTHER PROCESSING IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ASSERTION, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING. YOU CAN EXERCISE THE OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.

IF YOU MAKE USE OF YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.

10) Duration of Storage of Personal Data

The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and, if relevant, additionally by the respective legal retention period (e.g., commercial and tax retention periods).

If personal data are processed on the basis of an express consent according to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, these data are stored until the consent is revoked.

If there are statutory retention periods for data that are processed within the framework of legal or business-related obligations on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, these data are routinely deleted after expiry of the retention periods, provided they are no longer necessary for the fulfillment of the contract or the initiation of a contract and/or there is no longer a legitimate interest in their further storage on our part.

If personal data are processed on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, these data are stored until you exercise your right to object according to Art. 21 (1) GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.

If personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, these data are stored until you exercise your right to object according to Art. 21 (2) GDPR.

Unless otherwise specified in the other information in this statement about specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.

This Privacy Policy is subject to the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, with due regard to the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).