Introduction and Contact Details of the Responsible Party

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We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. Below, we provide information on how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data are all data with which you can be personally identified.

1.2

The responsible party for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is AIPERIA GmbH, Gitterle 2, 97950 Großrinderfeld, Germany, Tel.: +49 9344 42899 80, Email: info@aiperia.com. The responsible party for processing personal data is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.

Data Collection When Visiting Our Website

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When you visit our website for information purposes only, meaning you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called “server log files”). When you access our website, we collect the following data that are technically necessary for us to display the website:

• Our visited website
• Date and time at the time of access
• Amount of data sent in bytes
• Source/reference from which you reached the page
• Browser used
• Operating system used
• IP address used (if applicable: in anonymised form)

Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to retrospectively check the server log files if there are concrete indications of unlawful use.

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This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries to the responsible party). You can recognise an encrypted connection by the string “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser line.

Cookies

To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, which are small text files stored on your device. Some of these cookies are deleted automatically after closing the browser (so-called “session cookies”), while others remain on your device longer and allow us to save your site settings (so-called “persistent cookies”). The storage duration of persistent cookies can be found in your browser’s cookie settings.

If personal data are also processed by individual cookies we use, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR either for the performance of the contract, in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in the case of consent given, or in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to protect our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the page visit.

You can set your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and to decide individually about their acceptance or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general.

Please note that the functionality of our website may be limited if cookies are not accepted.

Contacting Us

4.1 Calendly

To provide an online appointment booking function, we use the services of the following provider: Calendly, LLC, BB&T Tower, 271 17th St NW, Atlanta, GA 30363, USA

For the purpose of scheduling appointments, first and last names as well as email addresses (and possibly the phone number if a phone appointment is desired) are collected in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR and are transmitted to the provider based on our legitimate interest in effective customer management and efficient appointment management in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, and stored there for appointment organisation purposes.

After holding the appointment or after the agreed appointment period has expired, your data will be deleted by the provider.

We have concluded an order processing contract with the provider, which ensures the protection of our site visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.

For data transfers to the USA, the provider is affiliated with the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European data protection level based on a European Commission adequacy decision.

4.2 Hubspot

To provide an online appointment booking function, we use the services of the following provider: HubSpot Ireland Ltd., 2nd Floor 30 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland

For the purpose of scheduling appointments, first and last names as well as email addresses (and possibly the phone number if a phone appointment is desired) are collected in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR and are transmitted to the provider based on our legitimate interest in effective customer management and efficient appointment management in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, and stored there for appointment organisation purposes.

After holding the appointment or after the agreed appointment period has expired, your data will be deleted by the provider.

We have concluded an order processing contract with the provider, which ensures the protection of our site visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.

4.3

When contacting us (e.g. via contact form or email), personal data are collected. The data collected when using a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form. These data are stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your request or for contacting you and the associated technical administration.

The legal basis for processing these data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact aims at concluding a contract, an additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted after the final processing of your request. This is the case if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and provided that there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary.

Comment Function

When using the comment function on this website, in addition to your comment, information on the time the comment was created and the chosen commenter name will be stored and published on the website. Furthermore, your IP address will be logged and stored. This storage of the IP address is for security reasons and in the event that the person concerned violates the rights of third parties or posts illegal content through a comment. We need your email address to contact you if a third party objects to your published content as unlawful.

The legal bases for storing your data are Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b and f GDPR. We reserve the right to delete comments if they are claimed to be unlawful by third parties.

Use of Customer Data for Direct Advertising

Signing Up for Our Email Newsletter

If you sign up for our email newsletter, we will send you regular information about our offers. The only mandatory information for sending the newsletter is your email address. The provision of further data is voluntary and is used to address you personally. For sending the newsletter, we use the so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that we will not send you an email newsletter until you have expressly confirmed that you consent to the receipt of newsletters. We will then send you a confirmation email asking you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter in the future by clicking on a link.

By activating the confirmation link, you give us your consent to use your personal data in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. When registering for the newsletter, we store your IP address entered by the Internet Service Provider (ISP) as well as the date and time of registration to trace possible misuse of your email address at a later time. The data collected by us when registering for the newsletter are used exclusively for advertising purposes via the newsletter. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time via the link provided in the newsletter or by notifying the responsible party mentioned at the beginning. After unsubscribing, your email address will be immediately deleted from our newsletter distribution list unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration.

Web Analysis Services

7.1 Google (Universal) Analytics

This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”), which allows us to analyse the use of our website.

By default, when you visit the website, cookies are set by Google (Universal) Analytics, which are small text blocks stored on your device and collect certain information. This information includes your IP address, which, however, is shortened by Google by the last digits to exclude direct personal reference.

The information is transmitted to Google’s servers and further processed there. This may also involve transmission to Google LLC servers in the USA.

Google uses the collected information on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activities, and provide other services related to website use and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. The data collected using Google (Universal) Analytics are stored for two months and then deleted.

All processing described above, in particular the setting of cookies on the device used, is carried out only if you have given us your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. Without your consent, Google (Universal) Analytics will not be used during your visit to the site. You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of withdrawal, please deactivate this service via the “cookie-consent tool” provided