DIGNUS

Privacy policy of DIGNUS Project Financing & Holding GmbH

Your rights under Art. 12ff. DSGVO

They should know which data for which purpose we collect, process and use about you. That is your right and corresponds to the requirements of the EU data protection regulation (EU-DSGVO) of 27.04.2016, valid from 25.05.2018, as well as the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG-2018). Therefore, here we give you an overview of both the personal data you have stored and the data protection organization of DIGNUS Project Financing & Holding GmbH. In this way we would like to enable you to exercise your "fundamental right to informational self-determination".

Contact Person

Responsible body

DIGNUS Project Financing & Holding GmbH Phone: +49 (0) 30 499 51 09Internet: www.dignus-project.com
E-Mail:info@dignus-project.com
Data Protection Officer
Hauke Bruhn
phone.: +49 (0) 30 499 51 099
E-Mail: hauke.bruhn@dignus-project.com
Responsible supervisory authority concerning data protectionCommissioner for Data Protection of the Berlin Senateor the supervisory authority responsible for DIGNUS Project Financing & Holding GmbH
Data origin and categoriesDIGNUS Project Financing & Holding GmbH receives personal data from customers and other business partners in the course of contract initiation and fulfillment. Furthermore, we process personal data from publicly available sources, eg. telephone directories, Internet.



Possible data categories
• Name / Contact
• ID card data
• Bank data
• Credit Data
• Asset data
• Order data
• Billing Details
• Payment data
• Control data
• Curriculum Vitae
• Qualification data
• Insurance information
• Marital status and situation
• Corporate Contact
• Project data
• Contract Data
• Processing purposes
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We process your personal data according to the EU-DSGVO limited to the necessary extent.
Conceivable processing purposes
• Contracting and conclusion
• Contract fulfillment in general
• Master data maintenance
• Order Processing
• Credit check
• Appraisal
• Completion of electronic communication
• Strengthening customer loyalty
• Sending a newsletter
• Accounting / Collection
• Prevention of crime
• Compliance with higher-level legislation (e.g., various EU regulations and directives)
• Respect of legal claims


Legal basis of processing
Due to the conditions of the EU-DSGVO, the processing of personal data by DIGNUS Project Financing & Holding GmbH is lawful.
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Accepted legal basis
• Consent
• Contract negotiations
• Contract, contract-like relationship of trust
• Legal obligation, overarching legislation, public interest

Balancing of interests

Recipient of dataThe employees of DIGNUS Project Financing & Holding GmbH process the corresponding personal data in order to fulfill their contractual and legal obligations. This happens within the employment relationship - the data does not leave our catchment area. In addition, entities outside DIGNUS Project Financing & Holding GmbH (third parties) receive personal data based on a defined legal basis. These jobs will only get the data they need for the job.
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Possible data receivers
• Public authorities (tax authorities, etc.)
• External accounting
• Shipping Service
• Other, contractually bound vicarious agents
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Other bodies for which you have given us your consent to the transfer of data.
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Transmission to third countries
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A transfer of data to countries outside the EU or the EEA (so-called third countries) will only take place if required by law or if you have given us your consent. If service providers are deployed in a third party, they are obliged to comply with the data protection level in Europe in addition to written instructions through the agreement of the EU standard contractual clauses.
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Deletion periods
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We process (and store) your personal data in order to fulfill our contractual and legal obligations or for the purpose for which you provide us with the data. As soon as the processing is discontinued, these data are deleted on a regular basis, unless their temporary processing is necessary for the following purposes.
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• Fulfillment of commercial and tax retention periods: The Commercial Code (HGB) and the Tax Code (AO) must be mentioned. The deadlines for storage and documentation are two to ten years.
• Preservation of evidence under the statute of limitations. According to §§ 195ff of the Civil Code (BGB) these limitation periods may be up to 30 years, whereby the regular limitation period is three years.
Your rights under the EU Data Protection Regulation
• (Preliminary) Information: You are reading this right now.
• Information: On request you will receive from us a compilation of the personal data stored about you.• Correction: You have a right to rectify mis-recorded data without delay.
• Deletion: We delete your data as soon as their processing is no longer necessary. There are exceptions, however, cf. following paragraph.
• Restriction of processing: Your data will no longer be used by us if the processing purpose ceases, but we are not yet allowed to delete it due to higher-level legal provisions.
• Data portability: Upon request, you will receive your data in an appropriate form for transfer to a third party.
• Withdrawal: If you have given us consent to the processing of your personal data for specific processing purposes, you may revoke it at any time without notice.
• Objection: If the data processing is in the public interest or justified on the basis of a balance of interests ("predominant legitimate interest"), you may object to the processing of your personal data for contractual purposes.
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Complaint: If you believe that the processing of your personal data by DIGNUS Project Financing & Holding GmbH is unlawful, you have the right to complain to the supervisory authority of your place of residence.
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Are there any obligations to provide and process data?
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As part of our business relationship, you must therefore provide the personal information necessary to enter into a business relationship and perform the related contractual obligations, or that we are required to collect by law. Without this data, we will generally have to be able to refuse to conclude the contract or to execute the order, or to be unable to complete an existing contract and possibly terminate it. If you do not provide us with the necessary information and documents, we may not take up or continue the business relationship you have requested.
Is there automatic decision making (including profiling)?In principle, we do not use fully automated decision-making pursuant to Article 22 of the GDPR to justify and implement the business relationship. If we use these procedures in individual cases, we will inform you about this separately, provided that this is prescribed by law.
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Electronic communication
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Send us an e-mail message, processing is usually required as a pre-contractual or contractual action. In addition, you give us for the purpose of establishing contact your voluntary consent to the processing of your personal data required. This requires the specification of a valid e-mail address, which serves to allocate your request and answer it. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions.
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Consequences of the revocation of a consent and a contradictionIf you revoke a necessary and already given consent, we will no longer process your personal data. If you object to data processing in the public interest or on the basis of a balance of interests, we will no longer process your personal data, unless we can prove compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.
If you object to the processing for direct marketing purposes, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes.
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Collecting general information when visiting our website
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When you look at our website, a cookie automatically collects general information. This information (log files or server log files) describes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider and the like. This data is collected by the internet service hosting our website. They are technically necessary to display the contents of the website correctly and are always collected when you are on the internet. They are processed in particular for the following purposes:
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• Ensuring a hassle-free connection of the website.
• Ensuring a smooth use of our website.
• Evaluation of system security and stability.

According to the Internet host, the access logs of the web server log which page views took place at what time. They include the following information: IP, directory protection user, date, time, pages accessed, logs, status code, dataset, referer, user agent, hostname invoked.
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The IP addresses are stored anonymously. For this, the last three digits are removed, i. 127.0.0.1 becomes 127.0.0. *. IPv6 addresses are also anonymized. The anonymized IP addresses are kept for 60 days. Information about the directory protection user used will be anonymized after one day.
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Error logs that log pageview errors are deleted after seven days. In addition to the error messages, these include the accessing IP address and, depending on the error, the website accessed.
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Anonymous information of this kind can also be statistically evaluated by us to optimize our website and the underlying technology.
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Due to our legitimate interest, this processing of your personal data is permissible. We do not use your information to draw conclusions about you. The recipient of the data is only the DIGNUS Project Financing & Holding GmbH as the responsible entity and the Internet host.
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Use of web page analytics services
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We do not use tracking tools like Google Analytics, Matamo and others!
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Device width detection
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This website is programmed in HTML5 and offers you the advantage of a responsive design. Using the same computer language, we have created several pages of the same content, allowing you to view our offerings on different devices (desktop, tablet, smartphone). No cookies are used for device width detection! Your device only transfers technical data and browser information, from which the programming derives a percentage for the presentation. This information will not be linked to personally identifiable information and stored.

Newsletter
If you have consented, we will periodically send you our newsletter or similar information to the e-mail address you give us. Subscribers may also be notified by email about circumstances that are relevant to the service or registration (such as changes to the newsletter offer or technical conditions).
For an effective registration we need a valid e-mail address. To verify that you are actually signing up, we use a "double opt-in" procedure. For this purpose we record the order of the newsletter, the dispatch of our confirmation email your answer. We do not collect further data. The data will be used exclusively for newsletter delivery and will not be passed on to third parties.
You can revoke your consent to the subscription to the newsletter at any time. In each newsletter you will find a corresponding link. In addition, you can tell us your wish using the contact information provided at the end of this Privacy Notice.
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Electronic communication
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Send us a message via the contact form, and for the purpose of establishing contact, give us your voluntary consent to process your personal data. This requires the specification of a valid e-mail address, which serves to allocate your request and answer it. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions. Validity of this Privacy Policy
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Our privacy policy should always comply with current legal requirements and reflect changes in our services, such as: For example, when introducing new services. Therefore, the latest privacy policy applies to your new visit.
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Status of the Privacy Policy: May 23, 2018
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Questions about privacy
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If you have questions about the privacy of DIGNUS Project Financing & Holding GmbH, our data protection officer can help you:
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Contact Data Protection Officer of
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DIGNUS Project Financing & Holding GmbH
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Hauke Bruhn
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 499 51 099
E-Mail: hauke.bruhn@dignus-project.com

The competent supervisory authority depends on the state of your domicile, your work or a suspected violation of data protection. A list of non-public-sector supervisory authorities can be found at:
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https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html
Contradiction advertising mails1
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The use of contact data published in the context of the imprint obligation for the purpose of sending unsolicited advertising and information materials is hereby rejected. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e-mail
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1 - Sorce: https://www.e-recht24.de