Welcome and thank you for your interest in our training offer "Choice Training". For reasons of better readability alone, we will refrain - within the scope of the following explanations - from using masculine and feminine and various language forms at the same time. All references to persons apply to all genders: m/f/d. Besides these and other things, we also take your rights to privacy, data protection and informational self-determination very seriously. Therefore, we would like to inform you about the following:
Who are we? Who is our data protection officer?
We are Choice GmbH and can be reached as follows: Thomas-Mann-Strasse 16 - 20, 90471 Nuremberg, Germany, Phone: +49 911 480499-0, E-Mail: info@choice.de, Managing Directors: Antonio Pardo, Bego Jasenac. We appear under with our product “Choice Training”. Everyone at our company is responsible for data protection. We have also decided to appoint a data protection officer. To ensure his independence, we have appointed an external consultant. This consultant is the lawyer Dr. Stephan Gärtner. You are welcome to contact him at any time. You can reach him as follows: Dr. Stephan Gärtner, StanhopeONE, dsb@stanhope.de.
What happens when I use the website for information purposes only?
(1) If you use our website for purely informational purposes, i.e. if you neither register as a user nor otherwise transmit information, we collect the following data from you: IP address, date and time of the request, time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), content of the request (specific page), access status/HTTP status code, amount of data transferred in each case, website from which the request comes, browser, operating system and its interface, language and version of the browser software. We receive this data via cookies and directly from your browser.
(2) The purpose of this processing is the provision of our website and statistical evaluation.
(3) The legal basis for this is Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 (f) of the DPA, according to which the processing of personal data may be carried out without the consent of the data subject if the processing is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the controller or of a third party, except where such interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject require the protection of personal data to be protected, in particular where the data subject is a child. The purposes referred to in paragraph 2 are in our economic interest. Insofar as we use cookies, we refer to our explanations under "How do we use cookies on this website", especially with regard to the maximum storage period.
What happens to your data when you use our platform?
(1) When you register on our learning platform, we usually process the following data: Title, first name, surname, company, telephone, address, e-mail address, user name, contact subject, comments on the order, payment method, products ordered.
(2) We process this data for the purposes of carrying out the booked training and instruction, the qualification of employees, proof of the implementation and completion of a training course, the creation of certificates after successful completion, and for the purpose of organizing events and workshops. Furthermore, we process information on how you use the learning platform in order to be able to invoice our services if necessary.
(3) The legal basis for the processing is Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 (b) of the DPA. According to this provision, we may also process your data without your consent if the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures taken at your request. The obligation to be fulfilled is the usage relationship with regard to our platform.
(4) We always store the data until the end of the user relationship. The legal basis for this storage is described in paragraph 3. However, if the user relationship ends before the end of six years since the data was collected, we will store the data for at least six years, whereby this retention period begins at the end of the calendar year in which we collected your data. The legal basis for this minimum retention period is Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 (c) of the DPA in conjunction with § 147 AO.
(5) With regard to the processing of your data for advertising purposes, we refer to the following section "How do we process your data for advertising purposes? "
How do we process your data for advertising purposes?
(1) We hereby inform you that we process the above-mentioned data ("What happens to your data when you use our platform?") in order to address you in advertising. We expressly point out that you can object to this use at any time without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic rates. This can be done by sending an informal message to one of the above-mentioned contact channels ("Who are we?").
(2) The promotional approach includes all communication channels that you have announced to us through your details. In terms of content, the promotional approach includes every statement made by us in the course of our specific business activities with the aim of promoting the sale of our goods or the provision of services. This includes in particular, but not exclusively, regular and periodic newsletters, invitations, customer satisfaction surveys and offers for specific products. In addition to advertising our own products and services, advertising also includes products and services of third parties, whereby we do not make your data available to these third parties, but merely recommend them to you.
(3) The legal basis is your permission in accordance with Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 (f) of the DPA. According to this, the processing of your data for advertising purposes is permitted even without your consent, if it is necessary to protect our legitimate interests, unless your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms, which require the protection of personal data, outweigh this. In this respect we refer to our legitimate interest in direct advertising. Your interests are safeguarded by the fact that we have made these procedures transparent to you and that you can exercise a right of objection without stating reasons, for example by sending an informal message to one of the above-mentioned contact channels ("Who are we?").
How do we use Google Analytics?
(1) This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. 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, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google.
(2) The legal basis is your consent within the meaning of Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 (a) of the DPA, which you have given via our cookie banner, which you can revoke either by sending us an informal message ("Who are we?") or by deactivating it in the cookie banner.
(3) 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 also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google if you download and install the browser plug-in available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
(4) This website uses Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp()". This allows IP addresses to be further processed in a shortened form, thus excluding the possibility of personal references. If the data collected about you contains a personal reference, this is immediately excluded, and the personal data is immediately deleted.
(5) We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website and to improve it regularly. We can use the statistics obtained to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has subjected itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.
(6) Third party information: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. user terms and conditions: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, privacy policy overview: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html, and the data protection statement: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
To whom do we transmit the data? And: Do the data leave the European Union or the European Economic Area?
The following companies receive the above-mentioned data, whereby we point out below if the data leaves the European Union or the European Economic Area
Used systems:
Third country reference:
• H5P, Joubel, Flow Coworking, Storgata 5, 9008 Tromsø, Norway; https://h5p.org/plugin-gdpr-compliance
• Drupal, The Drupal Association, 3439 NE Sandy Blvd # 269, Portland, OR 97232, USA; https://www.drupal.org
• Opigno, Connect-i, ZI Tresi 6, 1028 Préverenges, Schweiz; https://www.opigno.org
• Stripe; Stripe, Inc., 510 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA; https://www.stripe.com
Other:
• Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001 (Google Analytics)
Do we guarantee sufficient data security?
We maintain current technical measures to ensure data security, in particular to protect your personal data from dangers during data transmission and from third parties gaining knowledge of it. These measures are adapted to the current state of the art.
How do we use cookies on this website?
(1) Furthermore, cookies are stored on your computer when you use the website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive in accordance with the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the site that sets the cookie (in this case us). Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer. They are used to make the website more user-friendly and effective overall.
(2) We use transient cookies. Transient cookies are automatically deleted when the user closes the browser. This includes in particular session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from the visitor's browser can be assigned to the common session. This enables the visitor's computer to be recognised when the visitor returns to your websiteThe legal basis for this is Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 (f) of the DPA, according to which the processing of personal data may be carried out without the consent of the data subject if the processing is necessary to safeguard the legitimate interests of the controller or of a third party, unless the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require the protection of personal data outweigh these, in particular if the data subject is a child. The purposes referred to in paragraph 2 are in our economic interest. Insofar as we use cookies, we refer to the declaration on the respective cookie, particularly with regard to the maximum storage period.
(3) We use persistent cookies. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period of time, which may vary depending on the cookie. The legal basis is your permission in terms of article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 (a) of the DPA, which you have given via our cookie banner and which you can revoke in particular by deactivating it in the cookie banner. Upon revocation, we delete the data immediately. Without revocation, at the latest after [14 months].
(4) The legal basis for the processing required under paragraph 3 to obtain consent is Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 (c) of the DPA. According to this provision, we may process your data if this is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation to which we are subject. The legal obligation to which we are subject follows from Article 7 paragraph 1 of the DPA or Article 5 paragraph 1 of the DPA. Because according to these regulations we are legally obliged to document the obtaining of a permission. This is only possible if we collect your data for this purpose for verification purposes. We store the data for as long as this is necessary for verification purposes. If you confirm your consent, the retention period ends only after you have revoked your consent plus the period until any civil law claims become statute-barred, i.e. generally on 31 December of the 3rd calendar year following the year in which you revoked your consent.
(5) Unless explicit reference is made to Article 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 (c) of the DPA, there is no legal obligation to process the data.
What are your rights?
You have several rights. You have the right of access to the personal data processed concerning you, as well as the right of correction or deletion, restriction of processing, opposition to processing and transferability of data. You also have the possibility to complain about us to the supervisory authority responsible for us. We would like to point out politely that these rights may be subject to conditions, the existence of which we will insist on.