Privacy Policy

1. Content of the online offer

Change International GmbH – hereinafter referred to as the publisher – accepts no responsibility for the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided. Liability claims against the publisher relating to material or non-material damage caused by the use or non-use of the information provided or by the use of incorrect or incomplete information are excluded as a matter of principle, insofar as there is no demonstrable intentional or grossly negligent fault on the part of the publisher. All offers are subject to change and non-binding. The publisher expressly reserves the right to change, supplement or delete parts of the pages or the entire offer without separate announcement or to discontinue publication temporarily or permanently.

2. References and links

In its judgement of 12 May 1998 (312 O 85/98, CR 1998, 565 – “Liability for Links”), the Regional Court of Hamburg ruled that by providing a link (reference), one may be jointly responsible for the contents of the linked page. According to the Regional Court, this can only be prevented by expressly distancing oneself from these contents. The publisher has included links to other sites on the Internet on his pages. The following applies to all these links: The publisher hereby expressly distances itself from all content found on pages over which it has no influence, but which are referred to (“linked”) from our homepage, and does not adopt this content as its own. This restriction applies equally to third-party entries in guest books, discussion forums and mailing lists that may have been set up by the publisher.

3. Copyright

The publisher endeavours to observe the copyrights of the graphics, sounds and texts used in all publications, to use graphics, sounds and texts created by himself or to use licence-free graphics, sounds and texts. Should there nevertheless be an unmarked graphic, sound or text on the respective pages that is protected by third-party copyright, the copyright could not be determined by the publisher. In the event of such an unintentional copyright infringement, the publisher will remove the relevant object from the publication after notification or mark it with the appropriate copyright. The copyright for published objects created by the publisher himself remains solely with the publisher. Any duplication or use of objects such as diagrams, sounds or texts in other electronic or printed publications is not permitted without the publisher’s agreement.

4. Legal validity of the disclaimer

This disclaimer applies to all publications of the publisher as well as their internet domains. If sections or individual terms of this statement are not legal or correct, the content or validity of the other parts remain uninfluenced by this fact.

5. Privacy policy

5.1 Data privacy

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection declaration. As a rule, it is possible to use our website without providing personal data. Insofar as personal data (e.g. name, address or e-mail addresses) is collected on our pages, this is always done, as far as possible, on a voluntary basis. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent. We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. communication by e-mail) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

5.2 Data privacy

Some of the Internet pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser on your next visit.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.

5.3 Contact

When contacting us (via contact form or e-mail), the user’s details are processed for the purpose of handling the contact request and its processing pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. b) DSGVO.

The user’s details may be stored in our customer relationship management system (“CRM system”) or comparable enquiry organisation.

We use the CRM system “Daylite”, of the provider Marcetcircle Inc, 30 Centurian Drive, Suite 201, Markham, Ontrario L3R8B8, Canada, on the basis of our legitimate interests (efficient and fast processing of user enquiries). For this purpose, we have concluded a contract with Marketcircle with so-called standard contractual clauses, in which Marketcircle undertakes to process user data only in accordance with our instructions and to comply with the EU data protection level.

5.4 User rights

Users have the right to obtain, upon request and free of charge, information about the personal data we hold about them.

In addition, users have the right to correct inaccurate data, restrict processing and delete their personal data, if applicable, to assert their rights to data portability and, in the event of the assumption of unlawful data processing, to file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

Likewise, users can revoke consent, in principle with effect for the future.

5.5 Data deletion

The data stored by us will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for their intended purpose and the deletion is not contrary to any statutory retention obligations. If the user data is not deleted because it is required for other and legally permissible purposes, its processing is restricted. I.e. the data is blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to user data that must be retained for reasons of commercial or tax law.

According to legal requirements, data is stored for 6 years in accordance with § 257 para. 1 HGB (commercial books, inventories, opening balances, annual financial statements, commercial letters, accounting vouchers, etc.) and for 10 years in accordance with § 147 para. 1 AO (books, records, management reports, accounting vouchers, commercial and business letters, documents relevant for taxation, etc.).

5.6 Right of objection

Users may object to the future processing of their personal data in accordance with the legal requirements at any time. The objection can be made in particular against the processing for purposes of direct advertising.

5.7 Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“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 transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. In the event that IP anonymisation is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to 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. 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 to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. 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) by Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

For more information on terms of use and data protection, please refer to the Google Analytics Terms and Conditions or the Google Analytics Overview. We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure anonymised collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

5.8 Changes to the privacy policy

We reserve the right to change the data protection declaration in order to adapt it to changed legal situations or in the event of changes to the service as well as data processing. However, this only applies with regard to declarations on data processing. Insofar as user consent is required or components of the data protection declaration contain provisions of the contractual relationship with the users, the changes will only be made with the consent of the users.

Users are requested to inform themselves regularly about the content of the data protection declaration.

5.9 Data Protection Officer

Street, No.: Karlstraße 19
Postcode, town, country: 80333 Munich, Germany
E-mail address: k.wagner@leadag.com

Stand: 11.03.2019