Privacy policy

Privacy policy

The Internet pages at www.aquilliance.de, www.pardot-berater.de, www.anaplan-berater.de, www.connectedplanning.de and www.salesforce-berater.de (the “Website”) are an offer of aquilliance GmbH, Bella-Spanier-Weg 6, 20097 Hamburg (“we”, “us”). We take the protection of your personal data (‘personal data’ within the meaning of the Federal Data Protection Act) very seriously and adhere strictly to the rules of data protection laws. Data collected by us will never be sold and will only be passed on to third parties with your consent. The following declaration gives you an overview of how we guarantee data protection and what type of data is collected and processed for what purpose. Separate information on the collection, processing and use of personal data as part of our consulting services and recruiting offers can be found in our GTC Consulting and GTC Recruiting.

1. Log data

Each time a page of our website is accessed, the following browser information of the visitor is automatically stored in the log files of our web server: Browser type, browser version, operating system used, date and time of the page view, access time, address of the Internet pages visited, name of the files accessed and data volume, IP address and previously visited third-party websites. This data is collected for the statistical evaluation of visitor usage behavior, for the future optimization of our online offering and for data protection control, data security and to ensure the proper operation of our data processing systems. This data is deleted after the purpose for which it was collected has been fulfilled.

2. Cookies

We use so-called cookies in several places on our website. A cookie is a text file that is generated by our web server and stored in your browser as soon as you visit our website. Cookies can store various data and serve to make our website more user-friendly and effective. You can prevent the storage of cookies on your hard disk by setting your Internet browser accordingly, for example by generally deactivating the automatic setting of cookies. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of our website to their full extent. By agreeing to the use of cookies when using our website for the first time by confirming the so-called cookie acceptance banner or by continuing to use our website, you consent to the use of the cookies described below:

2.1 Session cookies

We use so-called session cookies, which are automatically deleted when the browser is closed. A session cookie contains information that enables the server to recognize your end device and thus make our website more user-friendly and effective overall.

2.2 Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics on our website, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter: “Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how you use our website. The information generated by these cookies about your use of our website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to us. You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your Internet browser. 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 Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. You can find more information about data collection and processing by Google in Google’s privacy policy, which you can access at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy.

2.3 Google Adsense

We also use Google AdSense on our website, a service for integrating advertisements. Google AdSense uses cookies and so-called web beacons (invisible graphics). The information generated by cookies and web beacons about the use of this website (including your IP address) and the delivery of advertising formats is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. This information may be passed on by Google to Google’s contractual partners. However, Google will not merge your IP address with other data stored by you. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can find more information about data collection and processing by Google in Google’s privacy policy, which you can access at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy.

2.4 Google Tag Manager

We use the service called Google Tag Manager from Google. “Google” is a group of companies and consists of the companies Google Ireland Ltd (provider of the service), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland and Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA as well as other affiliated companies of Google LLC. We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google. Google Tag Manager is an auxiliary service and processes personal data itself only for technically necessary purposes. The Google Tag Manager ensures that other components are loaded, which in turn may collect data. The Google Tag Manager does not access this data. You can find more information about Google Tag Manager in Google’s privacy policy. Please note that American authorities, such as intelligence agencies, could possibly gain access to personal data that is inevitably exchanged with Google when this service is integrated on the basis of the Internet Protocol (TCP) due to American laws such as the Cloud Act.

2.5 Pardot Marketing Automation System

We use the Pardot Marketing Automation System (“Pardot MAS”) from Pardot LLC, 950 E. Paces Ferry Rd. Suite 3300 Atlanta, GA 30326, USA (“Pardot”) on our websites. Pardot is a special software for recording and analyzing the use of a website by website visitors. Insofar as Pardot LLC processes personal data, the processing is carried out exclusively on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions. We have concluded an individual agreement with Pardot LLC to ensure that Pardot LLC complies with the EU Data Protection Directive. When you visit our website, Pardot MAS records your click path and uses this to create an individual user profile using a pseudonym. For this purpose, cookies are used that enable your browser to be recognized. By agreeing to the use of cookies when using our website for the first time by confirming the so-called cookie acceptance banner or by continuing to use our website, you also agree to the use of cookies from Pardot. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To do so, please use the contact details provided at the end of this privacy policy. In addition, you can deactivate the creation of pseudonymized user profiles at any time by configuring your Internet browser so that cookies from the domain “pardot.com” are not accepted. However, this may lead to certain restrictions in the functions and user-friendliness of our website.

2.6 Social Plugins

Our website uses buttons (“plugins”) from various social networks that allow you to use the interactive features of the social networks you use on our website. Various functions are provided with these plugins. These are determined by the providers of the social networks. Please note that we are not the provider of the social networks and have no influence on the data collection and processing by the respective service providers. You can find more information about the individual plugins on the websites of the respective operators. These are:

• LinkedIn

We use the LinkedIn Insight Conversion Tool from LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, which allows us to obtain information about the use of our website and to present you with advertising content tailored to your interests on other websites. For this purpose, a cookie with a validity of 120 days is set in your browser, which enables LinkedIn to recognize you when you visit a website. LinkedIn uses this data to create anonymous reports for us on advertising activities and information about how you interact with our website. You can deactivate the LinkedIn Insight Conversion Tool and interest-based advertising by opting out at this link. If you are a LinkedIn member, click on the “Decline on LinkedIn” field. Other visitors click on “Reject”. Further information on data protection at LinkedIn can be found here.

• Facebook

Plugins of the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”) are integrated on our website. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo on our website. You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection with the Facebook servers. Even if you are not logged into your Facebook account, Facebook may already collect and store usage data. Facebook may, for example, receive the information that you have visited our website with your IP address. If you click on the Facebook “Share” button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can share content from our website on your Facebook profile. We would like to point out that we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook and that we are not responsible for Facebook’s data collection and processing. Details on data collection, analysis and processing of your data by Facebook can be found in Facebook’s privacy policy at http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.

• Twitter

Functions of the social network “Twitter” are integrated on our website. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc, 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. When you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Twitter servers. Even if you are not logged into your Twitter account, Twitter may collect and store usage data. For example, Twitter may receive the information that you have visited our website with your IP address. If you are logged into your Twitter account and use a Twitter button on our website via the “Share”/”Tweet” function, Twitter links the websites you visit with your Twitter account and makes this known to other users. We would like to point out that we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Twitter and that we are not responsible for Twitter’s data collection and processing. Details on data collection, analysis and processing of your data by Twitter can be found in Twitter’s privacy policy at http://twitter.com/privacy.

• Google+

Our website includes plugins of the social network “Google+”, which is operated by Google Inc. which is operated by Google Inc. You can use the Google “+1” button to publish information worldwide. When you access a web page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection with Google’s servers. Even if you are not logged into your Google account, Google may still collect and store usage data. Google may, for example, receive the information that you have visited our website with your IP address. If you are logged into your GooglePlus account, Google stores both the information that you have given “+1” for content and information about the page that you viewed when you clicked on “+1”. In addition, your “+1” activities may be displayed as references together with your profile name and your photo in Google services, such as in search results or in your Google profile, or in other places on websites and advertisements on the Internet. We would like to point out that we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Google and that we are not responsible for Google’s data collection and processing. Details on data collection, analysis and processing of your data by Google can be found in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

3. Contact form Google Calendar

3.1 Contact form

We provide a web form on our website which you can use to request a free quote for our services. If you use this form, the data you enter will be transmitted to us and stored. This data includes: The user’s e-mail address, first and last name, title and the name of the company, the position in the company and the desired date of contact. The following data is also stored at the time the message is sent: Date and time. The transmission of personal data via the web form is exclusively encrypted. We do not pass on any data to third parties in this context and use it exclusively within the scope of the stated purpose: preparation and dispatch of an offer. The legal basis for the processing of data transmitted in the course of sending an e-mail is the implementation of pre-contractual measures or a contract in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO oder Ihre uns erteilte Einwilligung nach Art. 6 Abs. 1 S. 1 lit. a DSGVO. You can object to the processing of your personal data at any time. Your personal data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected. The personal data collected for the purpose of obtaining a quotation will be deleted as soon as the quotation has been sent and you have been contacted by telephone in a timely manner or unsuccessfully. Continued processing will only take place if it is necessary in the context of the initiation and execution of a contract or for the fulfillment of contractual purposes.

4. Order of our newsletter

In particular, you can register on our website for our newsletter, through which you can receive information about our recruiting services. When you register for our newsletter, we ask you for your e-mail address. Shortly afterwards, you will receive an e-mail from us asking you to confirm your newsletter subscription via an electronic link. Only when this confirmation has been given will your address be added to our mailing list and you will automatically receive the upcoming newsletter (so-called double opt-in procedure). We would like to point out that your e-mail address will be stored and used exclusively for the purpose of sending the newsletter to your e-mail address. An evaluation for marketing purposes or disclosure of your personal information stored for this purpose to third parties will only take place within the framework of this data protection declaration and/or if you have given your consent to this.

5. Right to information, correction, blocking and deletion of your data

You are entitled to receive information about the personal data stored about you free of charge. Upon request, we will inform you in writing in accordance with the applicable law whether and which personal data we have stored about you. In addition, you have the right to rectification, blocking and erasure of your personal data in accordance with the statutory provisions. If you have such a request, please use the contact details provided at the end of this privacy policy.

6. Revocation of your consent to the collection, processing and use of your data

If you have given your consent to the collection, processing and use of personal data in the context of our offers, you have the option of revoking this consent at any time with effect for the future vis-à-vis aquilliance GmbH, online via the corresponding “unsubscribe link” in every newsletter e-mail received, by e-mail to datenschutz@aquilliance.de, by telephone on 040-609 41 33 80, by fax on 040-609 41 33 89 or by post to aquilliance GmbH, Bella-Spanier-Weg 6 in 20097 Hamburg. Please indicate for which channels (email, telephone, letter post) you wish to withdraw your consent. There are no special charges (over and above the regular transmission charges of your telephony or Internet provider or the postage for letters). If you revocate your consent, your data will be deleted accordingly and blocked for the sending/transmission of product information outside the postal service until you withdraw your consent again. We will then no longer be able to send you our product information in accordance with your revocation.

7. Amendment of this privacy policy

We reserve the right to change the contents of this privacy policy from time to time in accordance with the statutory provisions in order to adapt them to technical or legal changes. As soon as a change is made to the privacy policy, we will make the current version available to you on this page.

8. Contact; data protection officer

Your concerns are important to us. We will be happy to answer any questions you may have about data protection. You can reach us at: aquilliance GmbH Data Protection Officer Reza Ghalamkarizadeh Bella-Spanier-Weg 6 20097 Hamburg datenschutz@aquilliance.de