Introduction

In this Privacy Policy, B2B Challenges GmbH sets forth its practices regarding information collected from users who access our website at https://www.b2b-challenges.com/ or otherwise provide us with personal information.

As a website operator, we take the protection of all personal information very seriously. All personal information is treated confidentially and in accordance with legal requirements, as explained in this privacy policy. Data transmission on the Internet, such as via e-mail, can always have security gaps. The complete protection of data is not possible on internet.

Hosting

We host our website at IONOS SE. The provider is IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany (hereinafter: IONOS). When you visit our website, IONOS collects various log files including your IP addresses. For details, please refer to the privacy policy of IONOS: https://www.ionos.com/terms-gtc/terms-privacy. The use of IONOS is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f German DSGVO.

We have a legitimate interest in ensuring that our website is presented as reliably as possible. Provided that a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a German DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TTDSG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user's terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. The consent can be revoked at any time.

We have concluded a subcontracting agreement with the above-mentioned provider. This is a contract prescribed by the data protection legislation, which guarantees that the latter processes the personal data of our website visitors only according to our instructions and in compliance with the German DSGVO.

Basis of data collection

We receive data from other providers, services, and from public registers (for example, data traffic analysis providers). We use data for statistical and analytical purposes to improve our website.

We do not share user data with third parties except as described in this Privacy Policy.

We may disclose information only when we believe in good faith that it is helpful or appropriate to:

• comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal process or governmental requests;
• enforce our policies (including our Agreement) and investigate possible violations thereof, if applicable;
• Investigate, detect, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities or other misconduct, suspected fraud, or security issues;
• assert or enforce our own legal claims or defend ourselves against the claims of others;
• protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our users, your safety, or the safety of others; or to
• cooperate with law enforcement authorities and/or protect intellectual property or other legal rights.

Collection of data by third parties

This policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information that we collect from you. If you post data on other websites or disclose it to third parties on the internet, different terms may apply. Therefore, you should always read the terms and conditions and privacy policy carefully when disclosing data.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the business practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to anyone other than our officers and employees, including third parties, to whom we disclose this information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Usercentrics Consent Management Platform

We use Usercentrics, a Consent Management Platform (CMP) on our website. The service provider is the company Usercentrics GmbH, Sendinger Straße 7, 80331 Munich, Germany.

Data processing is only possible with your explicit consent. Through this tool (via its logo, which is permanently visible at the bottom of each page during your navigation on this website), you can inform yourself at any time about the type of data collected, its destination and the purpose of the data processing, give consent or revoke consent already given. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation is not affected by the revocation.

You can find out more about the data processed through the use of Usercentrics in the Privacy Policy at https://usercentrics.com/privacy-policy/.

Cookies

To optimize our website, we and our partners use cookies.

A "cookie" is a small piece of information that a website assign to your device while you are viewing a website. Cookies are very helpful and can be used for various different purposes. These purposes include allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, enable automatic activation of certain features, remembering your preferences and making the interaction between you and our Services quicker and easier. Cookies are also used to help ensure that the advertisements you see are relevant to you and your interests and to compile statistical data on your use of our Services.

The Site uses the following types of cookies:

• 'session cookies' which are stored only temporarily during a browsing session in order to allow normal use of the system and are deleted from your device when the browser is closed;
• 'persistent cookies' which are read only by the Site, saved on your computer for a fixed period and are not deleted when the browser is closed. Such cookies are used where we need to know who you are for repeat visits, for example to allow us to store your preferences for the next sign-in;
• 'third party cookies' which are set by other online services who run content on the page you are viewing, for example by third party analytics companies who monitor and analyze our web access.

Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but Personal Information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. You may remove the cookies by following the instructions of your device preferences; however, if you choose to disable cookies, some features of our Site may not operate properly and your online experience may be limited.

We use a tool which is based on the Snowplow Analytics technology to collect information about your use of the Site. The tool collects information such as how often users access the Site, what pages they visit when they do so, etc. the tool does not collect any Personal Information and is only used by our site hosting and operating service provider to improve their site and services.

Transfer of data outside the European Economic Area

Please note that some recipients are not located in the European Economic Area. We will only transfer your data to countries approved by the European Commission with an adequate level of data protection or ensure an adequate level of data protection through a legal agreement.

Server-Log-Files

The site provider automatically collects and stores data in server log files that are transmitted to us by your browser. This data includes:

• Browser type/ browser version
• Operating system of the computer
• Referrer URL
• Host name of the accessing computer
• Time of the server request

These data are not personal. This data is not merged with other data sources. If we become aware of concrete indications of illegal use, we reserve the right to check this data retrospectively.

Social networks

We operate publicly accessible profiles on social networks. The social networks that we use are listed below.

Social networks can generally analyze your user behavior extensively when you visit their website or a website with integrated social media content (e.g. like buttons or advertising banners). Visiting our social network contents triggers numerous processing operations that are relevant to data protection. In detail: If you are logged into your social network account and visit our social network presence, the operator of the social network portal can assign this visit to your user account. However, your personal data may also be collected under certain circumstances if you are not logged in or do not have an account with the respective social network portal. In this case, this data collection takes place, for example, via cookies that are stored on your end device or by recording your IP address.

With the support of the data collected in this way, the operators of the social network portals can create user profiles in which your preferences and interests are stored. In this way, interest-based advertising can be displayed to you inside and outside the respective social network. If you have an account with the respective social network, the interest-based advertising can be displayed on all devices on which you are or were logged in.

Please also note that we cannot track all processing operations on the social media portals. Depending on the provider, further processing operations may therefore be carried out by the operators of these portals. For details, please refer to the terms of use and data protection provisions of the respective social media portals.

Use of LinkedIn

Our website uses functions of the LinkedIn network. The provider is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Each time one of our pages containing LinkedIn functions is accessed, a connection to LinkedIn servers is established. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of our pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by LinkedIn.

For more information, please refer to the privacy policy of LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Use of Xing

Our website uses functions of the Xing network. The provider is Xing AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. Each time one of our pages containing Xing functions is accessed, a connection to Xing servers is established. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of our pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Xing.

For more information, please refer to the privacy policy of  Xing at: https://privacy.xing.com/en/privacy-policy

Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland. Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager use cookies that are stored on your computer and allow an analysis of the use of the website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the website is usually transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. On this website, IP anonymization has been activated so that your IP address is shortened beforehand within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage for website operators. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google.

You can prevent the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. In this case, you may not be able to use all features of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en to disable Google Analytics for your current Internet browser.

For more information you can visit the following pages: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/gb/ or https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

Google Webfonts

To ensure that our content is displayed correctly and graphically appealing in every browser, we use script and font libraries such as Google Web Fonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts) from Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland for this website. Google Web Fonts are transferred to your browser's cache, so they only need to be loaded once. If your browser does not support Google Web Fonts or denies access, the content will be displayed in a standard font. 

When script or font libraries are called up, a connection to the operator of the library is automatically established. Theoretically, it is possible for this operator to collect data. It is currently not known whether and for what purpose the operators of the corresponding libraries actually collect data.

Here you can find the privacy policy of the operator of the Google library: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy

Font Awesome

For the uniform display of fonts, this site uses so-called web fonts, which are provided by Fonticons. Inc, 6 Porter Road, Apartment 3R, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose, the browser you use must connect to the servers of Fonticons, Inc. This enables Fonticons, Inc. to know that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of web fonts is in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f German DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.

For more information about Font Awesome, please visit https://fontawesome.com/help and see the Fonticons, Inc. privacy policy: https://fontawesome.com/privacy.

Amazon Cloudfront

We use the Content Delivery Network (CDN) Amazon CloudFront from Amazon Europe Core Sarl (AWS), 5 Rue Plaetis, 2338 Luxembourg, Luxembourg, to increase the security and delivery speed of our website. This corresponds to our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f German DSGVO). A CDN is a network of [globally] distributed servers that is able to deliver optimized content to the website user.

For this purpose, personal data may be processed in server log files by AWS. AWS is the recipient of your personal data and acts as a processor for us. This corresponds to our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) p. 1 lit. f German DSGVO not to operate a content delivery network ourselves.

You have the right to object to the processing. Whether the objection is successful is to be determined within the framework of a balancing of interests. The processing of the data provided under this section is not required by law or contract. The functionality of the website is not guaranteed without the processing.

For more information on how to object to and opt out of AWS, please visit: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/?

AWS has implemented compliance measures for international data transfers. These apply to all global activities where AWS processes personal data of individuals in the EU. These measures are based on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs). For more information, please visit: https://d1.awsstatic.com/legal/aws-gdpr/AWS_GDPR_DPA.pdf

Updates or changes to this privacy policy

This privacy policy is effective as of March 06, 2022.

We reserve the right to update the Privacy Policy from time to time in order to improve and/or adapt the Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Platform following the posting of such changes on our Website will constitute your consent to such changes to the Privacy Policy and will be deemed to be your agreement to be bound by the amended terms.

Contact us at s.megazzini@b2b-challenges.com with general questions about the Website, the information we collect about you, or our use of that information.