1.1 These Terms & Conditions of Service Use govern the use of our Website (https://planet.planetgroups.net) (Hereinafter referred to as our Service [or website where specificity is required]) and any services provided within, through or by our Service.
1.2 By using our Service, you accept the Terms & Conditions of Service Use in full. Full acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Service Use also entails acceptance of our Privacy Policy (separate), Cookies Policy (separate), Acceptable Use Policy (No 4 of this agreement), and the Community Statement (no 5 of this agreement). If you do not agree with any part of these Terms & Conditions, or any part of the Privacy Policy, Cookies Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, and/or Community Statement; you must not use our Service.
1.3 If you register with our Service, submit any material to our Service or use any of the services provided within, through or by our Service, we will ask you to expressly agree to the Terms & Conditions of Service Use.
1.4 You must be at least 18 years of age to use our Service. By using our Service or agreeing to the Terms & Conditions of Service Use, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age.
2.1. Copyright © 2021 planetgroups UG.
2.2. Subject to the express provisions of the Terms & Conditions of Service Use:
2.2.1. Any user entering or uploading any kind of material on our website assures to possess and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights to it; and
2.2.2. All the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.
3.1.1. you may:
3.1.1.1. View pages from our website in a web browser;
3.1.1.2. Download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;
3.1.1.3. Print pages from our website for your personal and non-commercial use; providing that such printing is not systematic or excessive;
3.1.1.4. Stream audio and video files from our website;
3.1.1.5. Use our website service by means of a browser, subject to the other provisions of the Terms & Conditions of Service Use;
3.1.1.6. Enter and upload information and documents as is required by your role as a planetgroups member or PlaNet moderator.
3.1.2. You may only use our Service for your own personal and business purposes, and you must not use our Service for any other commercial use.
3.1.3. You must not use our Service, or any material or content within our Service in any way that could be construed as likely to damage the business of planetgroups support UG.
3.1.4. Except as expressly permitted in the Terms & Conditions of Service Use, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our Service.
3.1.5. Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:
3.1.5.1. Republish material from our Service (including republication on another website)
3.1.5.2. Sell, rent or sub-licence material from our Service;
3.1.5.3. Show any material from our Service in public;
3.1.5.4. Exploit material from our Service for a commercial purpose; or
3.1.5.5. Redistribute material from our Service.
3.1.5.6. Notwithstanding this section, you may, without editing or variation, redistribute planetgroups newsletters in print and in electronic form.
3.1.5.7. We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our Service, or the whole of our Service, at our discretion. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our Service.
3.2.1. You may access our RSS feeds using any compatible feed reader or aggregator.
3.2.2. By accessing our feeds, you agree to the Terms & Conditions of Service Use in their entirety.
3.2.3. Subject to your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Service Use, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferrable, non-sub-licence licence to display content from our feeds in unmodified form on any website owned and operated by you, providing that you do not aggregate any of our feed content with any third-party feed when displaying it in accordance with section 3.2.2.
3.2.4. It is a condition of this licence that you include a credit for use and a hyperlink to our Service on each page where our feed is published (in such form as we may specify from time to time or, if we do not specify a particular form, then in reasonable form.
3.2.5. We may revoke any licence relating to our feed content at any time with or without notice.
3.3.1. Our Service uses features that enable users to directly interact with other social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
3.3.2. Using the social media features on our Service you may:
3.3.2.1. Share data and content from our Service, and
3.3.2.2. Like or upvote content from our Service;
3.3.2.3. Embed or share video from or to our Service.
3.3.3. You acknowledge that the use of social media platforms is subject to the terms and conditions of the relevant platform operator and that the use of any personal data transferred to the operator’s service is subject to the privacy policy and notices of the relevant platform operator.
3.3.4. Subject to section 11.1, we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage arising from:
3.3.4.1. Your use of any third-party social media platform; and
3.3.4.2. Any act or omission of any third-party social media platform.
3.3.5. When using social media features on our Service or browsing pages on our Service that incorporate social media features, third-party social media platform operators may collect information about you (or your use of our Service and those features) including by means of cookies. For more information about these cookies and the use of personal data, see our Cookies Policy and Privacy Policy.
4.1.1. Use our Service in anyway or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the Service or impairment of the performance, availability, or accessibility of the Service;
4.1.2. Use our service in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
4.1.3. Use our Service to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit, or other malicious computer software;
4.1.4. Conduct any systematic automatic or manual data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on, or in relation to our Service, without our express written consent ;
4.1.5. Access or otherwise interact with our Service using any robot, spider or other automated means (except for the purpose of search engine indexing)
4.1.6. Violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our Service;
4.1.7. Use data collected from our Service for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing, and direct mailing);
4.1.8. Use data collected from our Service to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.
4.2.1. Ensure that all information you supply to us through our Service, or in relation to our Service, is true, accurate, current, complete, and not misleading.
4.3. Use on Behalf of an Organisation
4.3.1. If you register an account on behalf of an organisation or business and accept the Terms & Conditions of Service Use in the course of that registration, then by doing so you bind both
to the Terms and Conditions of Service Use. In these circumstances, references to “you” in the Terms and Conditions of Service Use refer to both the individual user and to the person, company or other legal entity that operates that organisation or business.
4.4. Registration and Accounts
4.4.1. You may register for an account with our Service by completing and submitting the account registration form on our Service and clicking on the verification link our Service will send to you via email.
4.4.2. You must not allow any other person to use your account to access our Service.
4.4.3. You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account.
4.4.4. You must not use any other person’s account to access our Service unless you have that person’s express permission to do so.
4.5. User Login Details
4.5.1. If you register for an account with our Service, you will be asked to create a User ID and password.
4.5.2. Your User ID must not be likely to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out in Section 7 of these Terms & Conditions of Service Use. You must not use your account or User ID for, or in connection with, the impersonation of any person.
4.5.3. You must keep your password confidential.
5.1.1. By agreeing to the Terms & Conditions of Service Use you agree with this Community Statement.
5.1.2. The purpose of this Community Statement is to inform users of the values we expect to be applied in your use of our Service on the collaboration platform PlaNet (planet.planetgroups.net).
5.1.3. The values set out in this Community Statement are designed to ensure that all members can enjoy using our Service, get what they expect from our Service, and are not exposed to inappropriate content that could detract from the value of using our Service.
5.1.4. In agreeing to the Terms & Conditions of Service Use you agree to be bound by the values set out in this Community Statement.
Our mission is to support collaboration, community building, the creation of momentum and motivation, and the sharing of best practices and mutual learning between companies (both management and employees), consultants, research organizations, NGOs, and interested individuals in the arena of sustainability and climate action.
5.3.1. Professional
Please be professional in your use of our Service. Keep content (posts, discussions, etc) relevant and appropriate to the reasonable expectations of members of the Community.
5.3.2. Respectful
5.3.2.1. Please respect the rights of others.
5.3.2.2. Do not post, share, or claim the right to, content where you do not have the legal right or permission to do so.
5.3.2.3. Do not defame, slander or otherwise discredit others, or their works, and be appreciative, resource oriented and respectful when offering recommendations, advice, or criticism.
5.3.2.4. If you have a legitimate concern about content posted within the Community please refer to Sections 9 & 10 of the Terms & Conditions of Service Use.
5.3.3. Safe
5.3.3.1. Our Service should be a safe and friendly on-line space for all members. Please do not post or send messages that could be construed as threatening, harassing or otherwise abusive.
5.3.3.2. Any form of hate speech will not be tolerated within our Service. Any content that we consider can be construed as hate speech will be removed and your account may be suspended.
5.3.4. Polite
5.3.4.1. We understand that differences of opinion can occur, especially when discussing potentially sensitive areas of political, social, scientific or technological developments however, this should not preclude polite and civil exchanges of opinion.
5.3.4.2. Please always use polite and civil language when using our Service.
5.3.5. Honest
5.3.5.1. Any information posted or shared by members should be true.
5.3.5.2. Please do not post or share anything you know, or suspect, to be untrue.
5.3.5.3. Please do not share any misleading information about you or the organisation you represent (including claims about results, achievements, experience, or affiliations)
As a PlaNet community member you commit to uphold the values described above. You commit to helping the PlaNet community remain a professional, respectful, safe, polite and honest on-line space for the benefit of all members.
5.5.1. Breaching the Community Statement will be considered a breach of the Terms & Conditions of Service Use.
5.5.2. See Section 13 of the Terms & Conditions of Service Use for information on the actions we may take in the event of a breach of the Terms & Conditions of Service Use.
6.1. We may at any time, at our sole discretion without notice or explanation:
6.2. You may cancel your account using the account control panel on our Service. To cancel your account, in your profile go to “Account” > “Delete Account”
6.3. Cancelling an account will delete all of your content. It will be completely irrecoverable.
7.1.1. In the Terms and Conditions of Service Use, “your content” means all works and materials (including without limitation: text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our Service for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our Service.
7.1.2. You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, store, adapt, and translate your content on, and in relation to, our Service and any successor Service.
7.1.3. You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licences under section 7.1.2.
7.1.4. You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
7.1.5. You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our Service.
7.1.6. Without prejudice to our other rights under the Terms and Conditions of Service Use, if you breach any provision of the Terms and Conditions of Service Use in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached the Terms & Conditions of Service Use in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.
7.2.1. You warrant and represent to us that your content will comply the Terms & Conditions of Service Use.
7.2.2. Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action by any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).
7.2.3. Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with the Terms & Conditions of Service Use must not:
7.2.3.1. Be libellous or maliciously false
7.2.3.2. Be obscene or indecent
7.2.3.3. Infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trademark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right
7.2.3.4. Infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy, or right under data protection legislation
7.2.3.5. Constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement
7.2.3.6. Constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime, or the promotion of criminal activity.
7.2.3.7. Be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order
7.2.3.8. Be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation
7.2.3.9. Be blasphemous
7.2.3.10. Be in breach of official secrets legislation
7.2.3.11. Be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person
7.2.3.12. Depict violence in an explicit or gratuitous manner
7.2.3.13. Be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit
7.2.3.14. Be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading
7.2.3.15. Consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage.
7.2.3.16. Constitute SPAM (unsolicited commercial communications)
7.2.3.17. Be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory, or
7.2.3.18. Cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.
8.1. If you feel that any content posted on our Service breaches any of the criteria set out in the Acceptable Use Policy, Community Statement or Content Rules you can report this by email to info@planetgroups.net or using the “report” links associated with posts on our Service.
8.2. We will acknowledge receipt of your concern either by email or direct message within the Service itself.
8.3. We will investigate your concern and take any action required based on the outcome of that decision.
8.4. We will advise you of the outcome, and any action taken as a result of your report, within 14 days of our receipt of your concern.
9.1. Any dispute between members about the ownership of any content posted on our Service is a dispute between those parties.
9.2. We (planetgroups support UG) will not investigate, mediate or otherwise become involved in any legal dispute between members – save under the order of a court with relevant jurisdiction.
9.3. We (planetgroups support UG) will comply with any legal order to remove a posting upon receipt of such order made by any court with relevant jurisdiction.
10.1. We do not warrant or represent
10.1.1. The completeness or accuracy of the information published on our Service
10.1.2. That the material published on our Service is up to date; or
10.1.3. That our Service or any service associated with our Service will remain available
10.2. We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website (our Service) at any time at our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in the Terms & Conditions of Service Use, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website (our Service).
10.3. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 11.1. we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of the Terms & Conditions of Service Use, our Service, and the use of our Service.
11.1. Nothing in the Terms & Conditions of Service Use will:
11.2. The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 11 and elsewhere in the Terms & Conditions of Service Use:
11.3. We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses or damage, direct or indirect, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.
11.4. We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.
11.5. You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a Non-For-Profit entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with our Service or the Terms & Conditions of Service Use (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the NGO entity itself for the acts or omissions of our officers and employees).
11.6. Nothing offered by our Service is intended to represent professional advice. You shall not construe anything offered by planetgroups to represent professional advice.
12.1. As a condition of your use of our Service, you agree to indemnify us and our third-party content providers harmless from and against any and all claims, losses, liability, costs and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees) arising from your use of our Service, or from your violation of the Terms and Conditions of Service Use.
13.1. Without prejudice to our other rights under the Terms & Conditions of Service Use, if you breach the Terms & Conditions of Service Use in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached the Terms & Conditions of Service Use, we may:
13.2. Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our Service or a part of our Service, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking including, without limitation, creating and/or using a different account.
13.3. Breaching the Acceptable Use Policy, Content Rules and/or Community Statement constitutes a breach of the Terms & Conditions of Service Use.
14.1. We may revise the Terms & Condition of Service Use from time to time.
14.2. Any revised Terms & Conditions of Service Use shall apply to the use of our Service from the date of publication of the revised Terms & Conditions of Service Use on our Service, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of the Terms & Conditions of Service Use.
14.3. Subject to Section 15.2 we will however make every attempt to provide written notice of any revision to the Terms & Conditions of Service Use either by email, direct message within our Service, or by displaying advice of revision prominently on our Service.
14.4. If you have given your express agreement to the Terms & Conditions of Service Use we will ask for your express agreement to any revision of the Terms & Conditions of Service Use; and if you do not give your express agreement to the revised Terms & Conditions of Service Use within such time period as we may specify, we will disable or delete your account on our Service, and you must stop using the website.
15.1. You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under the Terms & Conditions of Service Use.
15.2. You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under the Terms & Conditions of Service Use.
16.1. If a provision of the Terms & Conditions of Service Use is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.
16.2. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of the Terms & Conditions of Service Use would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
17.1. A contract under the Terms & Conditions of Service Use is for our benefit and your benefit; and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.
17.2. The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under the Terms & Conditions of Service Use is not subject to the consent of any third party.
18.1. Subject to Section 11.1, the Terms & Conditions of Service Use together with our Privacy Policy, Cookies Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, and Community Statement shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our Service and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our Service.
19.1. The Terms & Conditions of Service Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Germany.
19.2. Any disputes relating to the Terms & Conditions of Service Use shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Germany
20.1. Our details:
20.1.1. Our Service (https://planet.planetgroups.net) is owned and operated by planetgroups support UG
20.1.2. planetgroups support UG is registered in the district court of Berlin Charlottenburg under the Registration No. HRB 227736B:
Name and contact details of the responsible person:
planetgroups support UG (in Steward Ownership)
Represented by the Managing Director Tim Riedel
Parkstraße 15
13086 Berlin
Germany
info@planetgroups.net
(hereinafter referred to as: planetgroups) acts in accordance with the statutory provisions in all processes of data processing (eg collection, processing and transmission). The following statement gives you an overview of what kind of data is collected and how it is used and shared, what security measures planetgroups takes to protect your information, and how you can exercise your rights.
You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided for our data protection officer:
If you have given us consent, you can revoke this at any time with effect for the future.
You can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority at any time, e.g. the competent supervisory authority in the federal state of your residence or the authority responsible for us as the controller.
A list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with address can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.
For questions about privacy, and your rights as a data subject, contact the planetgroupes data privacy officer at:
Telephone: +49 (0)30 9237 1469
E-mail: datenschutz@planetgroups.net
§1 Collection, use and storage of personal data
If you use the planetgroups project and collaboration platform (“PlaNet”)’s website, planetgroups collects different data from you, in part so-called personal data. It is information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘the person concerned’).
This Data Privacy Agreement does not refer to any data, documents or information you intentionally share and disclose on the platform for the purpose of networking, mutual learning, and benchmarking your activities. With regard to these data please read the General Terms & Conditions of the site.
1.1 This Privacy Policy is designed to inform you about the collection and use of your data and the disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.
1.2 planetgroups (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the http://planet.planetgroups.net collaboration platform / website – hereinafter referred to as the “Service”.
1.3 planetgroups uses your data to improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions of Service Use.
1.4 This policy is also signposted in the “PlaNet” ’s Terms and Conditions of Service Use. Agreement to this policy, and “PlaNet” ’s Cookies Policy, is a requirement of acceptance of “PlaNet” ’s full Terms and Conditions of Service Use.
1.5 If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy (or other requirements within our Terms & Conditions of Service Use, you must not use our Service.
1.6 The term “you” or “your” refers to you as an individual or to any organisation for which you are acting.
When you visit the PlaNet websites, through technical necessity you transmit usage data to our web server via your internet browser. The following data is recorded during an ongoing connection for communication between your Internet browser and our web server:
When you access the Service via a mobile device, Usage data may include information such as; the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique identifier, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
For reasons of technical security, in particular to ward off attacks on our web server, we store this usage data for a short time. A conclusion to individual persons is not possible on the basis of this data.
Further personal information will only be collected if you provide it voluntarily, for example as part of a request or registration. These may include, but is not limited to:
Depending on the area concerned, planetgroups will use the personal data provided by you to answer your inquiries, to process your order and for the purpose of technical administration of the websites. Specifically, use in the respective areas follows as follows:
Legal basis and legitimate interest:
The processing is carried out pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.
Recipients:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as order processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.
Storage period:
The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected. For data used to provide the website, this is generally the case when the respective session has ended.
In the case of storage of data in log files, this is the case after 14 days at the latest. Storage beyond this period is possible. In this case, the IP addresses of the users are anonymised so that an assignment of the calling client is no longer possible.
Provision prescribed or required:
The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services and services may not be available or may be restricted. For this reason, an objection is excluded.
Use of Data
We use the collected information for various purposes, including;
Transfer of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your own jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy, agreement to our Terms and Conditions, followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. No transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including for the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Data
Legal Requirements – planetgroups may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith and belief that such action is necessary to;
Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services, or to assist us in analysing how our Service is used.
Such third parties will have access to your Personal Data only to perform the tasks listed above on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose it or use it for any other purpose.
Nature and purpose of the processing:
When you contact planetgroups through a contact form or a generic e-mail address on the planetgroups web pages, the information you provide will be stored so that your message can be forwarded to the right person. For other purposes, the data you provide via a contact form could be used for advertising purposes if previously agreed. Your data will be automatically stored in our CRM (Hubspot)
Legal basis:
The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based on a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO).
By providing the contact form, we would like to enable you to contact us in an uncomplicated manner. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the enquiry and for possible follow-up questions.
If you contact us to request a quote, the data entered in the contact form will be processed to carry out pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO).
Recipients:
Recipients of the data are, if applicable, order processors.
Storage period:
Data will be deleted no later than 6 months after processing the request.
If a contractual relationship arises, we are subject to the statutory retention periods according to the German Commercial Code (HGB) and delete your data after these periods have expired.
Provision mandatory or required:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your request if you provide us with your name, e-mail address and the reason for the request.
Type and purpose of processing:
When users leave comments on our website, in addition to these details, the time of their creation and the user name previously selected by the website visitor are also stored. This is for our security, as we can be prosecuted for unlawful content on our website, even if it was created by users.
Legal basis:
The processing of data entered as comments is based on a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO).
By providing the comment function, we would like to enable you to interact in an uncomplicated manner. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions.
Recipients:
Recipients of the data are, if applicable, order processors.
Storage period:
The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected. This is generally the case when the communication with the user has been concluded and the company can infer from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified. We reserve the right to delete comments without giving reasons and without prior or subsequent information.
You can also have your comment deleted by us at any time. To do so, please write an e-mail to the data protection officer listed below or the person responsible for data protection and submit the link to your comment as well as, for identification purposes, the e-mail address used when creating the comment.
Provision mandatory or required:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary. Without the provision of your personal data, we cannot grant you access to our comment function.
Like many other websites, we also use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone or similar) when you visit our website.
Cookies we use include;
You can delete individual cookies or the entire cookie inventory. In addition, you will receive information and instructions on how to delete these cookies or block their storage in advance. Depending on the provider of your browser, you will find the necessary information under the following links:
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-loeschen-daten-von-websites-entfernen
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de
Opera: http://www.opera.com/de/help
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?locale=de_DE&viewlocale=de_DE
Storage period and cookies used:
If you allow us to use cookies through your browser settings or consent, the following cookies may be used on our websites:
Technically necessary cookies
Type and purpose of processing:
We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the calling browser can be identified even after a page change.
The purpose of using technically necessary cookies is to simplify the use of websites for users. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these, it is necessary that the browser is recognised even after a page change.
We require cookies for the following applications:
Legal basis and legitimate interest:
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO on the basis of our legitimate interest in a user-friendly design of our website.
Recipients:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as order processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.
Provision prescribed or required:
The provision of the aforementioned personal data is not required by law or contract. However, without this data, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services and services may not be available or may be restricted.
Objection
Please read the information about your right to object according to Art. 21 DSGVO below.
Technically unnecessary cookies
Furthermore, we use cookies to better tailor the offer on our website to the interests of our visitors or to generally improve it on the basis of statistical evaluations.
Please refer to the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used to find out which providers set cookies.
Legal basis:
The legal basis for these processing operations is in each case your consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO.
Recipients:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as order processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.
For further recipients, please refer to the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used.
Third country transfer:
Please refer to the listings of each display, tracking, remarketing and web analytics provider for information on this.
Provision prescribed or required:
Of course, you can also view our website without cookies in principle. Web browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings (see Revocation of consent).
Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.
Withdrawal of consent:
You can withdraw your consent at any time via our cookie consent tool.
Profiling:
To what extent we analyse the behaviour of website visitors with pseudonymised user profiles, please see the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analytics technologies used.
We cannot grant you access to the content we offer.
If you have given your consent, this website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (hereinafter: “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. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on these websites, your IP address will be truncated beforehand 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. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
You can find more information on the terms of use and data protection at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and at
https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.
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 data sent by us and linked to cookies, user IDs (e.g. user ID) or advertising IDs are automatically deleted after 14 months. Data whose retention period has been reached is automatically deleted once a month.
Withdrawal of consent:
You can stop tracking by Google Analytics on our website by clicking this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. This will install an opt-out cookie on your device. This will prevent the collection by Google Analytics for this website and for this browser in the future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.
You may also 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 by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: Browser Add On to deactivate Google Analytics.
In order to display our content correctly and in a graphically appealing manner across browsers, we use “Google Web Fonts” from Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter “Google”) on this website to display fonts.
Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
We embed YouTube videos on our website. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (hereinafter “YouTube”). YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter “Google”). When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube servers is established. This tells YouTube which pages you are visiting. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your surfing behaviour to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account first.
If a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behaviour.
Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by YouTube can be found in the provider’s data protection declarations, where you will also find further information on your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy (https://policies.google.com/privacy).
Withdrawal of consent:
No option for a simple opt-out or blocking of data transmission is currently offered by the provider. If you wish to prevent tracking of your activities on our website, please revoke your consent for the relevant cookie category or all technically unnecessary cookies and data transfers in the cookie consent tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website or only to a limited extent.
Nature and purpose of the processing:
We offer you the option of using so-called “social media buttons” (e.g. for LinkedIn, Instagram, facebook, TicToc, etc..) on our website. To protect your data, we rely on the “Shariff” solution for implementation. This means that these buttons are only integrated on the website as a graphic that contains a link to the corresponding website of the button provider. By clicking on the graphic, you are thus redirected to the services of the respective provider. Only then will your data be sent to the respective providers. If you do not click on the graphic, there is no exchange between you and the providers of the social media buttons. Information about the collection and use of your data in the social networks can be found in the respective terms of use of the corresponding providers. You can find more information about the Shariff solution here: http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Shariff-Social-Media-Buttons-mit-Datenschutz-2467514.html
Nature and purpose of the processing:
We offer you the option of using so-called “social media buttons” on our website. To protect your data, we rely on the “Shariff” solution for implementation. This means that these buttons are only integrated on the website as a graphic that contains a link to the corresponding website of the button provider. By clicking on the graphic, you are thus redirected to the services of the respective provider. Only then will your data be sent to the respective providers. If you do not click on the graphic, there is no exchange between you and the providers of the social media buttons. Information about the collection and use of your data in the social networks can be found in the respective terms of use of the corresponding providers. You can find more information about the Shariff solution here: http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Shariff-Social-Media-Buttons-mit-Datenschutz-2467514.html
To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption procedures (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.
The data stored at the mere visit of the “PlaNet” websites (§ 1) will not be disclosed to third parties.
planetgroups has taken a variety of security measures to adequately protect personal information.
All data stored at planetgroups will be protected by physical, technical and procedural measures that restrict access to the information to specifically authorized persons in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
The planetgroups websites are behind a software firewall to block access from other networks connected to the Internet. In addition, only employees who need the information to perform a specific task will have access to personal information. These employees are trained in security and privacy practices and treat your information confidentially.
You have the right to information about the data stored regarding your person at any time, their origin and recipient as well as the purpose of the data processing. Please contact the planetgroups Data Protection Officer (§ 1).
You may revoke your consent to the use of your personal data by planetgroups, please contact the Data Protection Officer of planetgroups support UG.
You have the right to rectification or deletion or limitation of the processing of your personal data, a right to object to processing for the future and a right to data portability.
You, as the person concerned, have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of the person’s place of stay, employment or the place of the alleged infringement, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, if you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you violates data protection regulations.
You can also contact for complaints the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Maja Smoltczyk
Friedrichstr. 219
10969 Berlin
Tel .: +49 (0) 30 13889-0
Fax: +49 (0) 30 2155050
E-Mail: mailbox@datenschutz-berlin.de
Website: www.datenschutz-berlin.de
Information about your right to object according to Art. 21 DSGVO
Individual right of objection
You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data relating to you which is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) DSGVO (data processing based on a balance of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 DSGVO.
If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
planetgroups support UG (in Steward Ownership)
Parkstraße 15
13086 Berlin
Change of our privacy policy
We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always complies with the current legal requirements or in order to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services. The new data protection statement will then apply to your next visit. We will notify you of a change to the policy via e mail and/or prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective. We will update the “effective date” shown at the top of this Policy. You are advised to review this policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are published on our Service.