Vector Real Estate Group

DATA PROTECTION

This data protection declaration informs you about the nature, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data (hereinafter referred to as „data“) within our online offer and the websites, functions and content associated with it, as well as external online presences, such as our social media profiles. (hereinafter collectively referred to as „online offer“). With regard to the terms used, such as „personal data“ or their „processing“, we refer to the definitions in Article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

DATA PROTECTION oFFICER:

VECTOR Real Estate GmbH
Königsallee 33
40212 Düsseldorf
Registergericht Düsseldorf:
HR B 93763

Ralf Niggemann
P: +49 (0)211 542 260 0
F: +49 (0)211 542 260 88
E-Mail: info@vector-realestate.com

TYPES OF DATA PROCESSED:

Contact data (e.g., email). Content data (e.g., photographs, videos). Meta/communication data (e.g., device information, IP addresses).

PROCESSING OF SPECIAL CATEGORIES OF DATA (ART. 9(1) DSGVO):

No special categories of data are processed.

CATEGORIES OF PERSONS CONCERNED BY THE PROCESSING:

Visitors and users of the online offer.
In the following, we also refer to the data subjects collectively as „users“.

PURPOSE OF PROCESSING:

Responding to contact requests and communicating with users. Marketing, advertising and market research. Security measures.

DATA PROTECTION RULES ANALOGOUS TO THE DSGVO (AS OF MAY 25, 2018)

1. RELEVANT LEGAL BASES

In accordance with Article 13 of the GDPR, we inform you about the legal bases of our data processing activities. If the legal basis is not mentioned in the Privacy Policy, the following applies: The legal basis for obtaining consent is Art. 6(1)(a) and Art. 7 DSGVO, the legal basis for processing to fulfill our services and carry out contractual measures and respond to inquiries is Art. 6(1)(b) DSGVO, the legal basis for processing to fulfill our legal obligations is Art. 6(1)(c) DSGVO, and the legal basis for processing to protect our legitimate interests is Art. 6(1)(f) DSGVO. In the event that vital interests of the data subject or another natural person make processing of personal data necessary, Art. 6 (1) lit. d DSGVO serves as the legal basis.

2. CHANGES AND UPDATES TO THE DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION

3. SECURITY MEASURES

3.1 We take security measures in accordance with Art. 32 DSGVO, taking into account the state of the art, the implementation costs and the nature, scope, circumstances and purposes of the processing, as well as the varying likelihood and severity of the risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk; The measures include, in particular, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data by controlling physical access to the data, as well as access concerning them, input, disclosure, ensuring availability and their separation. Furthermore, we have established procedures to ensure the exercise of data subjects' rights, deletion of data, and response to data compromise. Furthermore, we already take the protection of personal data into account during the development or selection of hardware, software and procedures, in accordance with the principle of data protection through technology design and through data protection-friendly default settings (Article 25 of the GDPR).

3.2 The security measures include in particular the encrypted transmission of data between your browser and our server.

4. COOPERATION WITH CONTRACT PROCESSORS AND THIRD PARTIES

4.1 If, in the course of our processing, we disclose data to other persons and companies (order processors or third parties), transmit it to them or otherwise grant them access to the data, this will only be done on the basis of a legal permission (e.g. if a transmission of data to third parties, such as payment service providers, is necessary for the performance of the contract pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. b DSGVO), you have consented, a legal obligation provides for this or on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. when using agents, web hosts, etc.).

4.2 If we commission third parties to process data on the basis of a so-called „order processing agreement“, this is done on the basis of Art. 28 DSGVO.

5. TRANSFERS TO THIRD COUNTRIES

If we process data in a third country (i.e. outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)) or if this is done in the context of using third-party services or disclosing, or transferring data to third parties, this is only done if it is done in order to fulfill our (pre)contractual obligations, on the basis of your consent, due to a legal obligation or on the basis of our legitimate interests. Subject to legal or contractual permissions, we process or allow the processing of data in a third country only if the special requirements of Art. 44 et seq. DSGVO are met. I.e. the processing is carried out, for example, on the basis of special guarantees, such as the officially recognized determination of a level of data protection corresponding to the EU (e.g. for the USA by the „Privacy Shield“) or compliance with officially recognized special contractual obligations (so-called „standard contractual clauses“).

6. RIGHTS OF THE DATA SUBJECTS

6.1 You have the right to request confirmation as to whether data in question is being processed and to be informed about this data and to receive further information and a copy of the data in accordance with Art. 15 DSGVO.

6.2 You have according to. Art. 16 DSGVO the right to request the completion of the data concerning you or the correction of incorrect data concerning you.

6.3 In accordance with Art. 17 DSGVO, you have the right to demand that data concerning you be deleted without delay or, alternatively, in accordance with Art. 18 DSGVO, to demand restriction of the processing of the data.

6.4 You have the right to request that the data concerning you that you have provided to us be received in accordance with Art. 20 DSGVO and to request that it be transferred to other data controllers.

6.5 You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 DSGVO.

7. RIGHT OF REVOCATION

You have the right to revoke given consents pursuant to Art. 7 (3) DSGVO with effect for the future.

8. RIGHT OF OBJECTION

You may object to the future processing of data concerning you in accordance with Art. 21 DSGVO at any time. The objection can be made in particular against the processing for purposes of direct advertising.

9. COOKIES AND RIGHT OF OBJECTION TO DIRECT ADVERTISING

We use temporary and permanent cookies, i.e. small files that are stored on users' devices (for an explanation of the term and its function, see the last section of this Privacy Policy). In part, the cookies serve security purposes or are necessary for the operation of our online offer (e.g., for the display of the website) or to store the user decision when confirming the cookie banner. In addition, we or our technology partners use cookies for range measurement and marketing purposes, about which users are informed in the course of the privacy policy.

A general objection to the use of cookies used for online marketing purposes can be declared for a large number of the services, especially in the case of tracking, via the U.S. site http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. Furthermore, the storage of cookies can be achieved by disabling them in the browser settings. Please note that not all functions of this online offer can then be used.

10. DELETION OF DATA

We use temporary and permanent cookies, i.e. small files that are stored on the user's devices (for an explanation of the term and its function, see the last section of this privacy policy). In part, the cookies serve security purposes or are necessary for the operation of our online offer (e.g., for the display of the website) or to store the user decision when confirming the cookie banner. In addition, we or our technology partners use cookies for range measurement and marketing purposes, about which users are informed in the course of the privacy policy.

A general objection to the use of cookies used for online marketing purposes can be declared for a large number of the services, especially in the case of tracking, via the U.S. site http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. Furthermore, the storage of cookies can be achieved by disabling them in the browser settings. Please note that in this case not all functions of this online offer can be used.

11. PROVISION OF CONTRACTUAL SERVICES

11.1 In the context of the use of our online service, we store the IP address and the time of the respective user action. The storage is based on our legitimate interests, as well as those of users in protection against abuse and other unauthorized use. In principle, this data is not passed on to third parties, unless it is necessary for the pursuit of our claims or there is a legal obligation to do so pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c DSGVO.

11.2 Deletion shall take place after the expiry of statutory warranty and comparable obligations, the necessity of storing the data shall be reviewed every three years; in the case of statutory archiving obligations, deletion shall take place after their expiry (end of commercial law (6 years) and tax law (10 years) storage obligation); information in the customer account shall remain until it is deleted.

12. CONTACTING

12.1 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 in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) DSGVO.

12.2 The User's details may be stored in our Customer Relationship Management System („CRM System“) or comparable inquiry organization.

12.3 We delete the inquiries if they are no longer necessary. We review the necessity every two years; we store inquiries from customers who have a customer account permanently and refer to the customer account details for deletion. In the case of legal archiving obligations, deletion takes place after their expiry (end of commercial law (6 years) and tax law (10 years) retention obligation).

13. COLLECTION OF ACCESS DATA AND LOG FILES

13.1 We collect on the basis of our legitimate interests within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO, we collect data about each access to the server on which this service is located (so-called server log files). The access data includes the name of the website accessed, file, date and time of access, amount of data transferred, notification of successful access, browser type and version, the user's operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page), IP address and the requesting provider.

13.2 Log file information is stored for security reasons (e.g. for the clarification of abuse or fraud) for a maximum of seven days and then deleted. Data whose further storage is required for evidentiary purposes is exempt from deletion until final clarification of the respective incident.

14. ONLINE PRESENCES IN SOCIAL MEDIA

14.1 We maintain online presences on the basis of our legitimate interests within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO, we maintain online presences within social networks and platforms in order to be able to communicate with customers, interested parties and users active there and to inform them about our services there. When calling up the respective networks and platforms, the terms and conditions and data processing policies of their respective operators apply.

14.2 Unless otherwise stated in our privacy policy, we process the data of users if they communicate with us within the social networks and platforms, e.g. write posts on our online presences or send us messages.

15. COOKIES & REACH MEASUREMENT

15.1 Cookies are information that is transmitted from our web server or third-party web servers to users' web browsers and stored there for later retrieval. Cookies may be small files or other types of information storage.

15.2 Users are informed about the use of cookies in the context of pseudonymous reach measurement as part of this privacy policy.

15.3 If users do not want cookies to be stored on their computer, they are asked to deactivate the corresponding option in the system settings of their browser. Stored cookies can be deleted in the system settings of the browser. The exclusion of cookies can lead to functional restrictions of this online offer.

15.4 You can object to the use of cookies used for reach measurement and advertising purposes via the Network Advertising Initiative deactivation page (http://optout.networkadvertising.org/) and additionally the US website (http://www.aboutads.info/choices) or the European website (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/).

16. GOOGLE ANALYTICS

16.1 We use on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO) Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC („Google“). Google uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about the use of the online offer by the users is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

16.2 Google is certified under the Privacy Shield agreement and thereby offers a guarantee of compliance with European data protection law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active).

16.3 Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our online offer by users, to compile reports on the activities within this online offer and to provide us with other services related to the use of this online offer and internet usage. In doing so, pseudonymous usage profiles of the users can be created from the processed data.

16.4 We only use Google Analytics with IP anonymization activated. This means that the IP address of the users is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of 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.

16.5 The IP address transmitted by the user's browser is not merged with other data from Google. Users can prevent the storage of cookies by setting their browser software accordingly; users can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to their use of the online offer to Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

16.6 For more information on data usage by Google, setting and objection options, please visit the Google websites: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/ privacy/partners („Data usage by Google when you use our partners' websites or apps“), https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads („Data usage for advertising purposes“), https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated („Manage information Google uses to show you ads“).

16.7 Otherwise, the personal data will be anonymized or deleted after an expiration of 14 months

17. INTEGRATION OF THIRD-PARTY SERVICES AND CONTENT

17.1 We use content or service providers within our online offer on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO) to integrate content or services offered by third-party providers, such as videos or fonts (hereinafter uniformly referred to as “content“). This always requires that the third-party providers of this content are aware of the IP address of the user, since without the IP address they could not send the content to their browser. The IP address is thus required for the display of this content. We endeavor to use only such content whose respective providers use the IP address only for the delivery of the content. Third-party providers may also use so-called pixel tags (invisible graphics, also known as “web beacons“) for statistical or marketing purposes. The “pixel tags“ can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on the pages of this website. The pseudonymous information may also be stored in cookies on the user's device and may contain, among other things, technical information about the browser and operating system, referring websites, time of visit and other information about the use of our online offer, as well as be linked to such information from other sources.

17.2 The following presentation provides an overview of third-party providers and their content, along with links to their data protection declarations, which contain further information on the processing of data and, in part already mentioned here, options for objection (so-called opt-out):

this website uses „fonts.com“, a font service of Monotype GmbH („fonts.com“), Werner-Reimers-Straße 2-4, 61352 Bad Homburg („fonts.com“). Each time you visit this website, files are loaded from a „fonts.com“ server to display texts in a specific font. In the process, your IP address may be transmitted to a „fonts.com“ server and stored as part of the usual server log. The further processing of this information is the responsibility of „fonts.com“, please refer to the data protection information (www.monotype.com/legal/privacy-policy) of „fonts.com“ for the corresponding conditions and setting options.