Imprint & Privacy Policy

Imprint

intersoft consulting services AG
Beim Strohhause 17, 20097 Hamburg, Germany

Phone: +49 (0)40 790235 – 0
Fax: +49 (0)40 790235 – 170
Email: info@intersoft-consulting.de

CEO: Thorsten Logemann
Executive Board: Dr. Nils Christian Haag
Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Ralf Schmidt

VAT Reg No.: DE 175966522
German commercial register: HRB 114727
The registration court is Hamburg

Responsible for content:
Thorsten Logemann,
intersoft consulting services AG, Beim Strohhause 17, 20097 Hamburg, Germany

The content of this website has been prepared with the utmost care to ensure that information on this website is accurate. Nevertheless we do not warrant that the sites information are current, complete or accurate. For Feedback or if you should notice any inaccuracies feel free to contact us. We will correct them as soon as possible.

Privacy Policy

Below you will find comprehensive information on how we process your personal data in our company or on our website. If you have any remaining questions about the handling of your personal data, you are welcome to contact our data protection officer. You will find the contact details further down on this page.

What is personal data?

The meaning of “personal data” is defined in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). According to the new regulation, personal data includes all information that refers to an identified or identifiable natural person. This can include for example, your rightful name, your address, your telephone number or your date of birth. Even information on how you can use this or other websites may contain personal data.

Provision of the website

Access and error logs are activated on our server by default. Access log files log the activities of website visitors on the websites. As the operator of this website, we collect this data in order to properly provide the website, to detect attacks and to protect ourselves from such. Error logs record erroneous page views. Where possible and reasonable, the IP address is shortened and thereby pseudonymized (WordPress).

If there is reason to suspect that our system is under attack, data from the visitor’s computer system is automatically logged and stored in firewall logs for forensic purposes.

Type of data
We process the following data for this purpose: the IP address, the date and time of the website access, the browser user agent, the host name accessed, the website content accessed, the status code, protocols (https, http) and the type of request (GET, POST, etc.). For firewall protocols, the type of attack is also logged.

Purpose of processing
The collected log files are used to log blocked or malicious website access, to analyse the (potential) attack forensically and to ensure the security and stability of the website.

Legal basis
The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. (f) GDPR; insofar as it is absolutely necessary to access the information stored on the user’s terminal equipment, the legal basis is also Section 25 para. 2 no. 2 TDDDG.

Legitimate interests
The aforementioned purposes constitute the legitimate interest in data processing within the meaning of Article 6 (1) 1 (f) GDPR.

Data retention period
Data is deleted when it is no longer necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected. Typically, data is deleted after one month.

To identify systemic problems with websites, it is useful to keep logs for more than 7 days. This is because errors often occur sporadically and therefore cannot be detected in the short term. The same applies to performance and security optimisation. Bots or crawlers that negatively affect our site often return at longer intervals. Within 30 days, we can classify them as either problematic or non-problematic.

Possibility to object
To the extent described above, the processing of data is absolute necessary for the security and operation of the website. Therefore, you do not have the right to object.

Data storage – duration

Your personal data will be deleted or the processing will be restricted as soon as the data has met the purpose for which it was stored. Storage of the data beyond this may be possible if this is stipulated by European or national legislators in EU directives, laws or other regulations to which the controller is subject. The data will be deleted or its processing will be restricted when a prescribed deadline expires, unless it is necessary to continue storing the data to conclude or perform a contract.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit our website and allow us to reassign your browser.  Cookies store information such as your language setting, the duration of your visit to our website or the information you enter there.

There are different types of cookies. Session cookies are temporary cookies that are stored in the user’s Internet browser until the browser window is closed and the session cookies are deleted. Permanent or persistent cookies are used for repeated visits and stored in the user’s browser for a predefined time. First-party cookies are set by the website the user visits. Only this website may read information from cookies. Third-party cookies are set by organizations that are not operators of the website that the user visits. These cookies are used by marketing companies, for example.

The cookies used on this website are:

  • PHPSESSID: First-party session cookie for the purpose of identifying the user’s current session on our website. The storage time is identical to the current session.
  • wp-gdrts-log: Initial provider session cookie for the purpose of identifying the user and preventing double evaluations. The storage period is 12 months.

Legal basis
Article 6.1(f) GDPR provides the legal basis for deploying cookies.

Legitimate interests
We use cookies to duly operate the website, to provide basic functionalities and to tailor our website to preferred areas of interest. This is also the legitimate interest in data processing within the meaning of Article 6.1(f) GDPR.

Objection
You can delete cookies already stored on your end device at any time. If you wish to avoid the deployment of cookies, you can refuse to accept cookies in your browser. Check your browser manual to see how this works in detail.

Matomo

We use the open source web analysis service Matomo on this website, a service by “InnoCraft Ltd”, a company based in 7 Waterloo Quay PO625 Wellington, New Zealand. InnoCraft is based outside the EU and has appointed a representative in the EU: ePrivacy Holding GmbH, Große Bleichen 21, 20354 Hamburg, Germany (privacy@innocraft.com).

Matomo processes certain user information for a short period of time. To protect the privacy of users, instead of a fingerprint, we use a so-called config_id at Matomo, in order to summarize various actions as ‘visits’ within a short time window of up to 24 hours.
The visitor’s config_id is a randomly set, time-limited hash of a limited set of the visitor’s settings and attributes. The config_id is a character string that is calculated for a visitor based on their operating system, browser, browser plugins, IP address and browser language. The basis for creating the “config_id” is an anonymized IP address of the website visitor.
The data collected using Matomo technology is not transmitted to Matomo but processed exclusively on our server.

Legal basis and right of withdrawal
The legal basis for this data processing is our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. This consists of the statistical analysis of user behavior for the purpose of optimizing the functionality of the website and for marketing purposes. The interests of the users are sufficiently preserved through anonymization. You have the option to object to the collection of your data at any time.

Social Bookmarks

So-called social bookmarks (e.g. from Facebook, Twitter and Xing) have been integrated on our website. Social bookmarks are internet bookmarks that allow users of such services to collect links and news messages. These are only included on our website as a link to the corresponding services. After clicking on the integrated graphic you will be forwarded to the page of the respective provider, i.e. only then will user information be transferred to the respective provider. For information on the handling of your personal data when using these websites, please refer to the respective data protection regulations of the providers.

GD Star Rating

The users of our website are entitled to rate us. To make this possible, we use the GD Star Rating plug-in on this website. To prevent double ratings, a cookie is placed on the device of the person rating us. In addition to that, we store your IP address as an MD5 hash, which means that we will not be able to recognize your IP address. Therefore, at no time can we trace back the origin of a rating. In the backend we only see the hashed IP address, the date and time of the rating and the rating itself.

Contact

We also collect your personal data when you yourself give your approval to do so – for example when you want us to contact you. Of course, personal data transferred in this manner is solely used for the purpose intended: establishing contact.

These details are provided voluntarily and, in these cases, are initiated by you yourself. Provided the details supplied are details of communication channels (such as email address, phone number), we will use these channels to contact you to deal with your concerns.

Purpose of the processing
The purpose of processing your data in this sense is to deal with and answer your concern.

Legitimate interests
The purpose described also represents the legitimate interest in processing your data.

Legal basis
The legal basis for processing the data you entered to establish contact with us is Article 6.1(f) GDPR.

Data storage – duration
We will delete the data we received from you in establishing contact either as soon as it is no longer required to fulfil the purpose for storing it, as soon as your concern has been dealt with in full and no further communication with you is necessary, or if you wish us to delete the data.

Objection
You can refer to our data protection officer at any time with respect to deleting the data to your query (see below for contact details). However, this might also mean that we cannot fully deal with your concern.

Data transmission to third parties

As a matter of principle, your data will not be transferred to third parties unless we are legally obliged to do so. If external service providers have access to your personal data, we have taken legal, technical and organizational measures, and conduct regular checks to ensure that they comply with the provisions of the data protection laws. Furthermore, these service providers may only use your data in accordance with our instructions.

We value processing your data within the EU / EEA. However, we may use service providers who process data outside the EU / EEA. In these cases, we ensure that an adequate level of data protection comparable to the standards within the EU is established at the recipient before transferring your personal data. This can be achieved, for example, via EU standard contractual clauses or Binding Corporate Rules or special agreements to whose regulations the company can submit.

Your Rights

We will gladly provide you with information on whether personal data relating to you is being processed; if this is the case, you have right to access this personal data and to the information listed in detail in Art. 15 GDPR. In addition, you have the right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), the right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR), the right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR) and the right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR) under the respective legal conditions.

What right do you have in case of data processing based on your legitimate or public interest?

Pursuant to Article 21 (1) GDPR, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data relating to you which is carried out based on Article 6 (1) 1 (e) GDPR (data processing in the public interest) or on the basis of Art. 6 (1) 1 (f) GDPR (data processing for the protection of a legitimate interest) for reasons arising from your particular situation.

You can withdraw your consent to the processing of personal data at any time. Please note that the withdrawal is only effective for the future.

Without limiting these rights and the possibility of seeking any other administrative or judicial remedy, you may at any time exercise your right to submit a complaint to a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes data protection law (Article 77 GDPR).

Controller and contact details of the data protection officer

The controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the

intersoft consulting services AG
Beim Strohhause 17
20097 Hamburg
Germany

Phone: +49 40 790235 – 0

If you have any data protection concerns, please do not hesitate to contact our data protection officer at the above address or the following email address:
datenschutz@intersoft-consulting.de

Links to websites of other providers
Our websites may contain links to websites of other providers to which this data protection policy does not extend. Insofar as the collection, processing or use of personal data is associated with the use of the websites of other providers, please observe the data protection information of the respective providers.

Changes to the privacy policy
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations. The current status is December 2024.