1. Data Protection at a Glance

General Information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data means any data by which you can be personally identified. Detailed information on data protection can be found in the full Privacy Policy provided below.

Data Collection on this Website

Who is responsible for the collection of data on this website?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. The operator’s contact details can be found in the legal notice (imprint) of this website.

How do we collect your data?
On the one hand, your data is collected when you provide it to us. This may, for example, be data you enter into a contact form.
Other data is collected automatically or after your consent when you visit the website through our IT systems. This is primarily technical data (e.g., Internet browser, operating system, or time of page access). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter this website.

What do we use your data for?
Some of the data is collected to ensure the error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyze your user behavior.

What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right, at any time, to receive free information about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data. If you have given consent to data processing, you may revoke it at any time with effect for the future. You also have the right, under certain circumstances, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
For this purpose and for any other questions on the subject of data protection, you may contact us at any time at the address indicated in the imprint.

Analysis Tools and Third-Party Tools

When visiting this website, your browsing behavior may be statistically evaluated. This is mainly done with analysis programs.
Detailed information on these analysis programs can be found in the following Privacy Policy.

2. Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

External Hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (host). Personal data collected on this website is stored on the servers of the host. This may include IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website access, and other data generated through a website.

The use of the host is for the purpose of fulfilling contracts with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and in the interest of the secure, fast, and efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Our host will process your data only to the extent necessary to fulfill its service obligations and will follow our instructions with respect to this data.

We use the following hosting provider:

alto.de New Media GmbH
Alter Stadtweg 1
DE – 37574 Einbeck

Data Processing Agreement

To ensure data protection-compliant processing, we have concluded a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) with our host.

3. General Information and Mandatory Disclosures

Data Protection

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with statutory data protection regulations and this Privacy Policy.

When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data means any data by which you can be personally identified. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

We point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g., communication by email) may have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Controller Information

The controller responsible for data processing on this website is:

FlexBio Technologie GmbH
Otto-Hahn-Straße 7a
37574 Einbeck, Germany

Represented by:

Mr. M. Eng. Waldemar Ganagin
Mr. M. Sc. Paul Bauer

Commercial Register:

Amtsgericht Göttingen, HRB 204389

VAT ID No.: DE 296319882

Phone: +49 5561-980 90 10
Email: info@flexbio.de

The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g., names, email addresses, etc.).

Storage Duration

Unless a more specific storage period has been stated in this Privacy Policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for the data processing ceases to apply. If you assert a legitimate request for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g., retention obligations under tax or commercial law). In the latter case, deletion will take place once these reasons no longer apply.

Note on Data Transfer to the USA

Our website may integrate tools from companies based in the USA. When these tools are active, your personal data may be transferred to the servers of these companies in the USA. Please note that the USA is not considered a secure third country under EU data protection law. US companies are obliged to hand over personal data to security authorities without you, as the data subject, being able to take legal action against this. It cannot be ruled out that US authorities (e.g., intelligence services) may process, evaluate, and permanently store your data located on US servers for monitoring purposes. We have no influence on these processing activities.

Revocation of Your Consent to Data Processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your explicit consent. You may revoke any consent already given at any time. The legality of data processing carried out before the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to Object to Data Processing in Special Cases and to Direct Marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)

If data processing is based on Art. 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR, you have the right at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object to the processing of your personal data, including profiling based on those provisions. The respective legal basis for processing can be found in this Privacy Policy. If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing which override your interests, rights, and freedoms or the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims (objection pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR).

If your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If you object, your personal data will no longer be used for direct marketing purposes (objection pursuant to Art. 21(2) GDPR).

Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority

In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, their place of work, or the place of the alleged violation. The right to lodge a complaint exists without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to have data which we process automatically, on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract, handed over to you or to a third party in a commonly used, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done if it is technically feasible.

SSL or TLS Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.
When SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Right of Access, Deletion, and Rectification

Within the scope of applicable statutory provisions, you have the right at any time to free access to your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of the data processing, and, if applicable, a right to rectification or deletion of this data. For this purpose, and for any other questions on the subject of personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint.

Right to Restriction of Processing

You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You may contact us at any time at the address indicated in the imprint. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:

If you contest the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we usually need time to verify this. For the duration of the verification, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If the processing of your personal data was/is unlawful, you may request the restriction of data processing instead of deletion.

If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it to exercise, defend, or assert legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of its deletion.

If you have filed an objection pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, a balance must be struck between your interests and ours. As long as it is not yet clear whose interests prevail, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, such data may – apart from being stored – only be processed with your consent or for the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of an important public interest of the European Union or a Member State.

Objection to Promotional Emails

We hereby object to the use of contact data published in the context of the imprint obligation for sending unsolicited advertising and information materials. The operators of the website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited advertising, such as spam emails.

4. Data Collection on this Website

Cookies
Our websites use so-called “cookies.” Cookies are small text files and do not cause any damage to your device. They are either stored temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies) on your device. Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Permanent cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them yourself or until they are automatically deleted by your web browser.

Some cookies may also be stored on your device by third-party companies when you enter our site (third-party cookies). These enable us or you to use certain services of the third-party company (e.g., cookies for handling payment services).

Cookies serve a variety of purposes. Many cookies are technically necessary since certain website functions would not work without them (e.g., the shopping cart function or the display of videos). Other cookies are used to evaluate user behavior or display advertising.

Cookies necessary for the electronic communication process (necessary cookies), or for the provision of certain functions you request (functional cookies, e.g., for the shopping cart function), or for optimizing the website (e.g., cookies for measuring the web audience) are stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, unless another legal basis is specified. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies to ensure the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. If consent to the storage of cookies was requested, the relevant cookies will be stored exclusively on the basis of this consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR); consent can be revoked at any time.

You can configure your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. The functionality of this website may be restricted if cookies are deactivated.

If cookies from third-party companies or for analysis purposes are used, you will be separately informed within this Privacy Policy and, where necessary, asked for your consent.

5. Contact Form

When you send us inquiries via the contact form, the information you provide in the form, including the contact data you specify, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

The processing of this data is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, provided that your request is related to the performance of a contract or necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of inquiries addressed to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), if this was requested.

The data you enter into the contact form will remain with us until you request its deletion, revoke your consent to its storage, or the purpose for the data storage ceases to apply (e.g., after your request has been fully processed). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular, retention periods – remain unaffected.

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6. Social Media

Facebook Plugins (Like & Share Button)

This website integrates plugins from the social network Facebook. The provider of this service is Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. According to Facebook, however, the collected data is also transferred to the USA and other third countries.

You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like Button” (“Gefällt mir”) on this website. An overview of the Facebook plugins can be found here: developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
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When you visit this website, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Facebook server via the plugin. Facebook thereby receives the information that you have visited this website with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “Like Button” while logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of this website to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to assign your visit to this website to your user account. Please note that we, as the provider of this site, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. Further information can be found in Facebook’s Privacy Policy: www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
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If you do not want Facebook to associate your visit to this website with your Facebook account, please log out of your Facebook account.

The use of Facebook plugins is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in achieving the widest possible visibility on social media. If consent was requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; consent may be revoked at any time.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the EU Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC). Details can be found here:
www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum
and
www.facebook.com/help/566994660333381
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LinkedIn Plugin

Our website uses functions of the LinkedIn network. The provider is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Each time a page containing LinkedIn functions is accessed, a connection to LinkedIn servers is established. LinkedIn is informed that you have visited our websites with your IP address. If you click the “Recommend Button” of LinkedIn while logged into your LinkedIn account, LinkedIn can assign your visit to our website to you and your user account. Please note that we, as the provider of this site, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by LinkedIn.

Further information can be found in LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy at: www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
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XING Plugin

Our website uses functions of the XING network. The provider is XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.

Each time one of our pages containing XING functions is accessed, a connection to XING servers is established. To our knowledge, no personal data is stored in this process. In particular, no IP addresses are stored, nor is usage behavior evaluated.

The use of the XING plugin is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in achieving the broadest possible visibility on social media.

Further information on data protection and the XING share button can be found in the XING Privacy Policy at: privacy.xing.com/en/privacy-policy
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7. Analytics Tools and Advertising

Statistics

This website uses “WordPress Statistics” to statistically analyze visitor access. The provider is Automattic Inc., 60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110-4929, USA.

WordPress Statistics uses technologies that allow the recognition of the user for the purpose of analyzing user behavior (e.g., cookies or device fingerprinting). WordPress Statistics collects, among other things, log files (referrer, IP address, browser, etc.), the origin of website visitors (country, city), and what actions they performed on the site (e.g., clicks, views, downloads). The information collected about the use of this website is stored on servers in the USA. Your IP address is anonymized after processing and before storage.

The use of this analysis tool is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the anonymized analysis of user behavior in order to optimize both its website and advertising. If consent was requested (e.g., consent to the storage of cookies), processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; consent can be revoked at any time.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies,” text files placed on your computer to help analyze how you use the website.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

IP anonymization is activated on this website, meaning that Google will shorten your IP address within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before transmission to the USA. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services related to website usage and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser within Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software; 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, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
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Alternatively, you can prevent data collection by Google Analytics on mobile devices by clicking the following link: Google Analytics Opt-out. An opt-out cookie will be set that prevents the future collection of your data when visiting this website.

Further information on terms of use and data protection can be found at: www.google.com/analytics/terms/
and policies.google.com/privacy

Google Ads (Conversion Tracking)

This website uses Google Ads. Google Ads is an online advertising program of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”).

As part of Google Ads, we use conversion tracking. When you click on an ad delivered by Google, a cookie is set for conversion tracking. Cookies are small text files that the internet browser places on the user’s computer. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used to personally identify users. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not expired, Google and we can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to that page.

Each Google Ads customer receives a different cookie. The cookies cannot be tracked across the websites of Ads customers. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for Ads customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive information that personally identifies users.

If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can opt out of this by disabling the Google Conversion Tracking cookie in your browser under user settings. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.

The storage of “conversion cookies” is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its website and advertising.

More information about Google Ads and Google Conversion Tracking can be found in Google’s Privacy Policy: www.google.de/policies/privacy/
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8. Newsletter

If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require an email address from you, as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the specified email address and agree to receive the newsletter. No further data is collected, or only on a voluntary basis. We use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.

The processing of the data entered into the newsletter registration form is based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You may revoke the consent you have given to the storage of the data, the email address, and its use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example via the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data you provide for the purpose of receiving the newsletter will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and deleted after you cancel the newsletter. Data stored by us for other purposes remain unaffected.

After unsubscribing from the newsletter distribution list, your email address may be stored by us in a blacklist to prevent future mailings. The data from the blacklist will only be used for this purpose and will not be merged with other data. This serves both your interest and our interest in complying with the legal requirements for sending newsletters (legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Storage in the blacklist is not time-limited. You may object to the storage if your interests outweigh our legitimate interest.

9. Plugins and Tools

YouTube

This website embeds videos from YouTube. The operator of the pages is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

When you visit one of our websites on which YouTube is embedded, a connection to YouTube’s servers is established. The YouTube server is informed which of our pages you have visited.

In addition, YouTube may store various cookies on your device or use similar recognition technologies (e.g., device fingerprinting). In this way, YouTube can obtain information about visitors to this website. This information is used, among other things, to record video statistics, improve user-friendliness, and prevent fraud attempts.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to directly associate your browsing behavior with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

The use of YouTube is in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offerings. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If consent was requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; consent may be revoked at any time.

Further information about the handling of user data can be found in YouTube’s Privacy Policy: policies.google.com/privacy
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Google Maps

This site uses the Google Maps map service. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transmission.

The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offerings and easy location of the places specified by us on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If consent was requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; consent may be revoked at any time.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the EU Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses. Details can be found here:
business.safety.google/controllerterms/
and
business.safety.google/controllerterms/sccs/
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More information on the handling of user data can be found in Google’s Privacy Policy: policies.google.com/privacy
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Google reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” on this website. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

reCAPTCHA is used to check whether the data entered on this website (e.g., in a contact form) is made by a human or by an automated program. For this purpose, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the site. For analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g., IP address, time spent on the website, or user mouse movements). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analyses take place entirely in the background. Website visitors are not informed that an analysis is taking place.

The storage and analysis of the data is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offerings from abusive automated spying and spam. If consent was requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; consent may be revoked at any time.

Further information on Google reCAPTCHA can be found in the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service under the following links:
policies.google.com/privacy
and
policies.google.com/terms