sonoware GmbH is committed to respect your privacy and to comply with applicable data protection and privacy laws. The purpose of this Privacy Notice is to explain how sonoware GmbH and its authorised partners and affiliates (“sonoware”, “we” or “us”) process your personal data related to our websites (“websites”).

“Personal data” means any information that can be directly or indirectly used to identify you or another individual. sonoware processes your personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679) and other applicable personal data legislation.

In the following, we provide information on the kinds of data we collect on these websites and the purposes for which we use such data.

Collected personal data

Observed data about your online usage

When visiting our websites, observed data about your online usage is collected. The data includes e.g.: Data collected using server-side logging, such as the pages browsed by the user, the sites the user accessed sonoware’s websites from, the device model, individual device and/or cookie identifier, the channel through which the service is accessed (web browser, mobile browser, application), browser version, IP address, session identifier, session time and duration, geographical location data, date and time, screen resolution, operating system and clicks.

Google Analytics

This website does not use Google Analytics or any cloud-based tracking service.

Cookies

This website does not use Cookies.

Purpose of processing

The purpose of processing your personal data is to

• Ensure an efficient and secure use of our websites and services
• Develop our websites for a better quality and broader scope of services
• Conduct research and collect statistics (e.g. what sections of our websites the users visit and how much time they spend on the websites)

Legal basis for processing

The legal basis for processing your personal data is legitimate interest of sonoware, especially observing your website usage in order to ensure an efficient and secure use of our websites and to collect statistics as a basis to improve our websites.

Sources of personal data

Your personal data is only collected from you and your browser at the time of your site visit.

Storing personal data

We handle your personal data that you have provided to us (such as profile and contact details) separately from data observed on our websites, typically in separate databases. Data observed or derived from websites usage is neither intended nor eligible to personally identify the websites visitors.

Your personal data is stored as long as necessary in relation to the purposes for which the personal data was collected, unless there is a legal obligation to retain the personal data longer (e.g. in case of an ongoing legal proceeding).

Disclosure and transfer of personal data

We may handle your personal data only according to the defined purposes of processing.

Personal data can be disclosed to third parties in the following situations:

• We may disclose personal data to authorities or to other parties based if required to do so by law
• In the case of mergers, acquisitions, or other kinds of re-arrangements of our business operations, personal data may be transferred to buyers and their advisors

In some cases, the recipients of personal data may be located outside of EU/EEA, in which case we will ensure that sufficient level of data protection is maintained through appropriate safety measures, e.g. by using EU commission’s standard contractual model clauses.

Your rights

sonoware is committed to providing you choices and control over data processing. In this section we list different ways of influencing data collection and processing.

Right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction, to object and to data portability

You have the right to check what kind of personal data has been collected about you. Upon your request we will modify, remove or supplement any incorrect, unnecessary, incomplete or outdated personal data. You may also have a right to restrict the processing of your personal data or when the processing is based on our legitimate interests, to object the processing on grounds relating to your particular situation. If your personal data is being processed automatically based on your consent or in connection with a contract between you and us, you may request your personal data to be provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and your personal data to be transferred to another data controller, when technically feasible.

Right to withdraw consent

If the processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent to such processing at any time.

Right to file a complaint

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority in relation to our processing of your personal data.

Privacy Notices

The applicable Privacy Notice related to processing of your personal data depend on the data subject category to which you belong to.

If you are a business partner, supplier, looking to do some other co-operation or a person providing your personal data for e.g. marketing purposes or inquiring about our products, please see our Privacy Policy for Business Partners .

In some cases, we have a legal obligation to process your personal data.

Updating the Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Notice as we regularly need to develop our business processes, related policies, and follow up the changing personal data legislation. We encourage you to review this Privacy Notice from time to time for any amendments.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Notice or the use of your personal data in sonoware, please contact us at:

sonoware GmbH
z.Hd. Datenschutzbeauftragter
Schauenburgerstr. 116
24118 Kiel
Germany
E-Mail: kontakt(at)sonoware.de