Privacy

Privacy Policy

– Information in accordance with Art. 13, 14 and 21 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) –

With this Privacy Policy Pansophers.com (hereafter: “Pansophers” or “we”) would like to give you an overview of the processing of your personal data by Pansophers and your rights under data protection law. This Privacy Policy applies to our blog (https://pansophers.com/).

Pansophers is committed to protecting the security and privacy of your personal data in accordance with applicable laws on data protection and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Pansophers may change this Privacy Policy by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are satisfied with any changes. This Privacy Policy is effective from May 25, 2018.

  1. General Information

 Who is responsible for processing of personal data and whom you can approach

Samuel Robinson
6 Selby Close
Cairns, 4869 QLD Australia
info@pansophers.com

Our representative in the European Union according to Art. 27 GDPR is:

Samuel Robinson
6 Selby Close
Cairns, 4869 QLD Australia
info@pansophers.com

What we process

We process personal data provided by you or through cookies and automatically allocated access data.

For further information, see section II. – “Processing of personal data”.

  1. For what purpose and on what legal basis do we process personal data

Generally, we process your personal data in accordance with the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) for various purposes. In principle, the following can be considered as the purposes of the processing: the processing for the initiation of contractual relationships and the performance of contracts (Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR), for the protection of legitimate interests (Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO), based on your consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR) and/ or statutory provisions (Art. 6 (1) lit. c GDPR).

For further information, see section II. – “Processing of personal data”.

  1. For how long do we process personal data

We process data only as long as it is necessary in relation to the initial specified, explicit and legitimate purpose.

Additionally, we are subject to various statutory filing and documentation obligations. The deadlines for storage and documentation can be up to ten years.

In light of possible legal claims, the processing period is also determined by statutory time limitations, which can be up to ten years.

  1. Are you obligated to provide personal data

There is no legal or contractual obligation to provide us with personal data. We only ask you to provide us with the data necessary for our services. Without this personal data, we cannot offer you our services.

  1. Who receives your personal data

We do not share your personal data with affiliated companies or other third party controllers (see Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR).

We use processors (see Art. 4 No. 8 GDPR) that process personal data on our behalf. These include the following processors:

  • IT-service providers
  • Google Inc.
  1. Transfer of personal data to a Third Country

We do not transmit your personal data to other third countries outside of the European Economic Area. Regarding Switzerland, the European Commission has released an adequacy decision according to Art. 45 GDPR, attesting Switzerland an adequate level of data protection.

  1. Automated decision-making and profiling

On this website, we do not use automated decision-making. Regarding profiling, we use the tracking tool Google Analytics. For further information about our use of Google Analytics see section II. 3. – “Google Analytics”.

  1. Your Rights

Every data subject has the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), the right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), the right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), the right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and the right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR). To exercise those rights, you can contact us under the contact information given in section 1. – “Who is responsible for the processing of personal data and whom you can approach”.

When personal data is processed based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent according to Art. 7 (3) GDPR.

As far as the personal data is processed for the purpose of our legitimate interest according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object according to Art. 21 GDPR. You can find further information regarding your right to object at the end of this Privacy Policy.

In addition, if you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data is unlawful, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). This right to complain is without any prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy.

  1. Processing of personal data

 Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.

We process the following categories of personal data through the use of cookies:

  • Acceptance of placement of cookies when visiting our websites
  • Session ID
  • Timestamp of last visit / activity
  • Last viewed pages

Processing of personal data through the use of cookies is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Purpose and our legitimate interest are improved functionality of our websites.

 

  1. Automated collection of access data / server-logfiles

While visiting our websites, the following specific data is stored during every retrieval:

  • IP-address
  • Time and date of the request
  • Requested resource
  • Size of the object returned to the client
  • Browser information

The processing of personal data is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Purpose and our legitimate interest are administration and improved functionality of our website as well as preventing security issues.

  1. Google Analytics

Our websites use Google Analytics, a web tracking tool by Google Inc. (hereafter: “Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to analyze your use of our websites. The data created by the cookie is usually transferred to a server of Google in the USA and stored there.

In case the anonymization of IP-addresses is active on a website, the user’s IP-address will be truncated inside the European Union or the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the user’s full IP-address will be transmitted to a server of Google in the US and truncated there. IP-anonymization is active on our websites.

On behalf of us, Google will process this data in order to analyze your use of our websites, to generate reports on website activity and to render further services regarding the use of our websites. The IP-address transmitted by your browser will not be associated with other data in possession of Google.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by modifying your browser setting to decline cookies. Furthermore, you can prevent the collection and following procession of data by Google through this cookie by downloading a browser-plugin through the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

You can also prevent the processing of your personal data through Google Analytics on our websites by clicking on this link. An opt-out-cookie will be stored on your device. This will prevent further allocation of data through the Google Analytics cookie on our websites.

Preventing storage of cookies may prevent you from taking full advantage of our websites.

You can find further information about terms and conditions as well as data protection on https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

The processing of personal data through Google Analytics is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Purpose and our legitimate interest are analysis of the use of our websites as well as improved functionality.

  1. Email notifications/ blog updates

Based on your consent you may request to receive email notifications about new blog articles.

We use the so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that after you have registered, we will send you an email to the email address specified in which we ask you to confirm that you wish to receive email notifications. If you do not confirm your registration within 24 hours, your information will be blocked and automatically deleted after one month. In addition, we store your IP address and time of registration and confirmation. The purpose of the procedure is to prove your registration and, if necessary, to inform you about possible misuse of your personal data. Legal basis ist Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR.

If you request to receive email notifications, we process your email address.

The processing of personal data is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR. Purpose is the delivery of the email notifications/ blog updates.

You can withdraw your consent to sending of email notifications at any time and unsubscribe from the email notifications. You can declare the withdrawal by clicking on the link provided in each email, by email to [info@Pansophers.com] by unsubscribing on https://pansophers.com/newsletter-signup/profile/  or by sending a message to the contact details provided section I. 1. – “Who is responsible for the processing of personal data and whom you can approach”.,

  1. Comment/ rate blog articles

You can comment and rate blog articles.

If you leave a comment below a blog article, we process your name and email address. We also process your website, should you choose do disclose it, and any personal data given in the comment itself.

If you rate a blog article, your IP address is processed.

The processing of personal data is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Purpose and our legitimate interest are to give the users the opportunity to discuss and rate our blog articles as well as interact with each other.

  1. Contact

You can use the provided email addresses to get in touch with us. If you do so, we process the following categories of personal data:

  • Email address
  • Personal data included in the text of your email (e.g. name, firm etc.)

The processing of personal data is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Purpose and our legitimate interest are customer care and answering your inquiry.

  1. Data Subject rights management

We process your requests for information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing of personal data and data portability pursuant to the GDPR. In doing so we process the following personal data:

  • Master data
  • Privacy statements (consent to the processing of personal data, withdrawal of your consent, objections to the processing of personal data, statements asserting your rights of access, to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, and data portability, including the information you provide us by asserting your rights)
  • All data or categories of data that are the subject of the request.

The processing of personal data is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. c GDPR. Purpose is an effective affected rights management.

Information about your right to object in accordance with Art. 21 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR (processing of personal Data based on a balancing of interests); this includes profiling based on those provisions (Art. 4 No. 4 GDPR).

Should you decide to object the processing, we will stop to process personal data concerning you, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing serves the purpose of establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

You also have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of advertising; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with advertising.

Should you decide to object to the processing for advertising purposes, we will stop to process personal data concerning you for these purposes.

The objection is not subject to any form. Ideally, it should be lodged at the bodies mentioned in section I. 1. – “Who is responsible for the processing of personal data and whom you can approach”.