Privacy

Bonn Consulting Group GmbH
Johannes Bernhardt
Reuterstr. 109
53113 Bonn

Provider’s email address: info@bonnconsulting.group

The personal data that this website processes, by itself or through third parties, include: usage data; trackers; email.

Complete details on each type of personal data processed are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the data collection.

Personal data may be freely provided by the user or, in the case of usage data, collected automatically when using this website.

Unless specified otherwise, all data requested by this website are mandatory. If the user refuses to provide them, this website may be unable to provide its services. In cases where this website specifically states that some personal data are optional, users are free not to provide such data without any consequences for the availability or the functioning of the service.

Users who are uncertain about which personal data are mandatory are welcome to contact the provider.

Any use of cookies – or of other tracking tools – by this website or by the providers of third-party services used by this website serves the purpose of providing the service required by the user, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in the cookie policy.

Users are responsible for any third-party personal data obtained, published or shared through this website.

Methods of processing

The provider processes the users’ personal data in a proper manner and takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorised access, disclosure, modification or destruction of the data.

The data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT-enabled tools, following organisational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the controller, in some cases, the data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge involved with the operation of this website, internally (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or externally (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies), appointed, if necessary, as data processors by the controller. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the provider at any time.

Place

The data are processed at the provider’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located.

Depending on the user’s location, data transfers may involve transferring the user’s data to a country other than their own. To find out more about the place of processing of such transferred data, users can check the section containing details about the processing of personal data.

Retention time

Unless specified otherwise in this document, personal data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for and may be retained for longer due to an applicable legal obligation or based on the users’ consent.

The data concerning the user are collected to allow the provider to provide its service, comply with its legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its users or third parties) and detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, as well as for the following purposes: platform services and hosting, contacting the user, and traffic optimisation and distribution.

For specific information about the personal data used for each purpose, users may refer to the section “Detailed information on the processing of personal data” of this document.

Personal data are collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

Contacting the user

Contact form

By filling in the contact form with their data, users authorise this website to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.

Personal data processed: email; usage data.

Traffic optimisation and distribution

This type of service allows this website to distribute its content using servers located across different countries and to optimise its performance.

Which personal data are processed depends on the characteristics and the way these services are implemented. Their function is to filter communications between this website and the user’s browser.

Considering the widespread distribution of this system, it is difficult to determine the locations to which the contents that may contain personal information of the user are transferred.

Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc.)

Cloudflare is a traffic optimisation and distribution service provided by Cloudflare Inc.

The way Cloudflare is integrated means that it filters all the traffic through this website, i.e. communication between this website and the user’s browser, while also allowing analytical data from this website to be collected.

Personal data processed: trackers; various types of data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

Place of processing: United States – Privacy policy.

Platform services and hosting

These services have the purpose of hosting and running key components of this website, therefore allowing the provision of this website from within a unified platform. Such platforms provide a wide range of tools to the provider – e.g. analytics, comment management, user and database management, e-commerce and payment processing – which imply the processing of personal data.

Some of these services work through geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the actual location where the personal data are stored.

Own website platform (Next.js and Payload CMS)

This website is operated by the provider itself using the open-source technologies Next.js and Payload CMS. Content, contact requests and server logs are stored in the provider’s own database and are not transmitted to the makers of this software.

Personal data processed: usage data.

Hosting provider: Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany. Place of processing: Germany – Privacy policy.

This website uses trackers. To learn more, users may consult the cookie policy.

Legal basis of processing

The provider may process personal data relating to users if one of the following applies:

• Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes.
• provision of data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the user and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;
• processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the provider is subject;
• processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the provider;
• processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the provider or by a third party.

In any case, the provider will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Further information about retention time

Unless specified otherwise in this document, personal data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for and may be retained for longer due to an applicable legal obligation or based on the users’ consent.

Therefore:

• Personal data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the provider and the user shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.
• Personal data collected for the purposes of the provider’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfil such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the provider within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the provider.

The provider may be allowed to retain personal data for a longer period whenever the user has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the provider may be obliged to retain personal data for a longer period whenever required to fulfil a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.

Once the retention period expires, personal data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right of access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.

The rights of users based on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Users may exercise certain rights regarding their data processed by the provider.

In particular, users have the right to do the following, to the extent permitted by law:

• Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their personal data.
• Object to processing of their data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent.
• Access their data. Users have the right to learn if data are being processed by the provider, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the data undergoing processing.
• Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.
• Restrict the processing of their data. Users have the right to restrict the processing of their data. In this case, the provider will not process their data for any purpose other than storing it.
• Have their personal data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right to obtain the erasure of their data from the provider.
• Receive their data and have it transferred to another controller. Users have the right to receive their data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance.
• Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority.

Users are also entitled to learn about the legal basis for data transfers abroad, including to any international organisation governed by public international law or set up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken by the provider to safeguard their data.

Details about the right to object to processing

Where personal data are processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in the provider or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the provider, users may object to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection.

Users must know that, however, should their personal data be processed for direct marketing purposes, they can object to that processing at any time, free of charge and without providing any justification. Where the user objects to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data will no longer be processed for such purposes. To learn whether the provider is processing personal data for direct marketing purposes, users may refer to the relevant sections of this document.

How to exercise these rights

Any requests to exercise user rights can be directed to the provider through the contact details provided in this document. Such requests are free of charge and will be answered by the provider as early as possible and always within one month, providing users with the information required by law. Any rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing will be communicated by the provider to each recipient, if any, to whom the personal data has been disclosed unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. At the users’ request, the provider will inform them about those recipients.

Legal action

The user’s personal data may be used for legal purposes by the provider in court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this website or the related services.

The user declares to be aware that the provider may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

Additional information about the user’s personal data

In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this website may provide the user with additional and contextual information concerning particular services or the collection and processing of personal data upon request.

System logs and maintenance

For operation and maintenance purposes, this website and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this website (system logs) or use other personal data (such as the IP address) for this purpose.

Information not contained in this policy

More details concerning the collection or processing of personal data may be requested from the provider at any time using the contact information provided.

Changes to this privacy policy

The provider reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by notifying its users on this page and possibly within this website and/or – as far as technically and legally feasible – by sending a notice to users via any contact information available to the provider. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification.

Should the changes affect processing activities performed on the basis of the user’s consent, the provider shall collect new consent from the user, where required.

Personal data (or data)

Any information that directly, indirectly or in connection with other information allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.

Usage data

Information collected automatically through this website (or third-party services employed by this website), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers used by the users who use this website, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method used to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server’s answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilised by the user, the various time details per visit (e.g. the time spent on each page within the application) and the details about the path followed within the application, with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the user’s IT environment.

User

The individual using this website who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the data subject.

Data subject

The natural person to whom the personal data refers.

Data processor (or processor)

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller, as described in this privacy policy.

Data controller (or provider, sometimes also owner)

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of this website. The data controller, unless otherwise specified, is the natural or legal person through which this website is offered.

This website (or this application)

The means by which the personal data of the user is collected and processed.

Service

The service provided by this website as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application.

European Union (or EU)

Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states of the European Union and the European Economic Area.

Cookie

Cookies are trackers consisting of small sets of data stored in the user’s browser.

Tracker

Tracker indicates any technology – e.g. cookies, unique identifiers, web beacons, embedded scripts, e-tags and fingerprinting – that enables the tracking of users, for example by accessing or storing information on the user’s device.

Legal information

This privacy policy relates solely to this website, if not stated otherwise within this document.

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