Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the website cdr-fn.com (“website”) as well as all associated services and resources. Please note that the provider declaration, and all disclaimer and licensing terms as stated on the Imprint page fully apply. To prevent unauthorized access to your personal data by third parties, TLS encryption is used for all connections. Please note that data transfer via the internet may always be subject to security risks and therefore complete protection against abuse or third-party access is not possible.

This website offers services and information for IT professionals. It is imperative for us to understand how we can help you best and what you are mostly concerned about. We also must understand what you don’t care about so that we don’t waste resources on doing something that is irrelevant for you.

Therefore, we must collect data so that we can:

• Provide our services with newsletters, webinars, videos or other means.
• Perform and evaluate surveys and user interviews that you volunteer to do.
• Email you with special offers on other products and services we believe you might like.

In particular, we collect:

• Data your browser automatically submits when accessing this website.
• Personal identification information (such as your name and email address) if you register with our services.

We collect personal information in accordance with the provisions of international data protection statutes. The legal frameworks for data protection are the ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act), the GDPR (European General Data Protection Regulation), the BDSG (German Federal Data Protection Act) and the TMG (German Telemedia Act). The provider responsible pursuant to Art. 4 paragraph 7 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is cdr-fn GmbH, Fraunhoferstr. 13, 24118 Kiel, Germany, represented by its managing director Dr. Wolfram Schroers, email: wolfram.schroers -at - cdr-fn.com. The policy below explains the manner, extend and purpose for collecting, using and processing personal information by this website.

This privacy policy is based on the template provided at: https://gdpr.eu/privacy-notice/.

Your Rights

We want to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

• The right to access — You have the right to request us for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
• The right to rectification — You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request us to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure — You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing — You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing — You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability — You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us via (our contact page)[/contact.html].

Service Providers and Browser Data

We host our websites and related services at Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany.

Upon visiting our website, Hetzner may store information about the access that has been provided by you or your browser. These information may include the browser type and version, the language preferences configured in your browser, the operating system, the website that linked to our site (the so-called referrer URL), the date and time of your visit, your browser’s timezone and your IP address. These data is not personalized, but anonymized. It will only be stored and evaluated for statistical purposes in order to improve this website and its services.

The legal basis for providing these services is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. We have signed a GDPR-compliant Data Processing Agreement with Hetzner. This guarantees that any data regarding usage of this website are processed in compliance with GDPR regulations.

Cookies

This website may use “cookies”, i.e. text files stored by the browser on your computer. You can prevent storage of “cookies” by configuring the browser appropriately. “Cookies” are used to improve usability of this website, e.g. by storing whether a user clicked a popup or not. They do not contain personally identifiable data and are not used to identify the user upon subsequent visits.

The legal basis for providing these services is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. When storing cookies it is for complying with the regulations of GDPR which forces us to display interactive opt-in dialogs in some situations, and we need to store the user’s decisions to prevent taking additional steps to identify the user. Cookies are the technical means to accomplish that.

Matomo

This website uses Matomo, an Open Source analytics software for websites which helps us understand usage of our websites and identify which parts are most relevant to our readers and which parts are irrelevant. This helps us improve this website and associated services. We host the Matomo software ourselves on servers operated by Hetzner in Germany, and the data collected and analyzed is the same as has been listed above (see the section “Service Providers and Browser Data”).

Matomo offers better means to visualize and analyze the visitor data.

Linked Websites and Services

This website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Booking Online Meetings

We offer to book online appointments for introductory and consulting calls. This is an alternative to reaching us by email or by phone. Scheduling of Appointments and processing of calls is provided by Brevo (Sendinblue GmbH), Köpenicker Straße 126, 10179 Berlin, Germany.

When booking an online appointment, Brevo may store all information provided by you and your browser. This information may include the browser type and version, the language preferences configured in your browser, the operating system, the date and time of your visit, your browser’s timezone and your IP address. Brevo must also store your email address that you provide in order to send you confirmation and reminder emails. Data collected includes how you interacted with the emails. The specific data protection terms of Brevo can be found at https://www.brevo.com/en/legal/privacypolicy/.

The legal basis for offering an online appointment booking tool is Art. 6 Para. 1 let. a) GDPR. If you choose to book a meeting online, we must gather sufficient information to provide the service. Furthermore, collecting data regarding email confirmation is required due to legal regulations like GDPR. We have signed a GDPR-compliant Data Processing Agreement with Brevo. This guarantees that any data regarding usage of this website are processed in compliance with GDPR regulations.

X

We have an X Corp. (formerly Twitter) account to present ourselves and our services and to communicate with our audience. X is a service provided by X Corp., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. We do not have access to X’s user data. The specific data protection terms of X can be found at https://twitter.com/privacy.

LinkedIn

We have an online presence on LinkedIn to present ourselves and our services and to communicate with our audience. LinkedIn is a service of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Irland, a subsidiary of LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W. Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA. We do not have access to this user data. The specific data protection terms of LinkedIn can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Google

We use the following services provided by Google:

• We have an online presence on YouTube to present ourselves our services and to communicate with our audience. Content is played on user request on selected pages of this site. This allows us to present ourselves to readers in a more personal and pleasant manner.
• This website may also use fonts that are supplied by Google Fonts. These fonts are hosted by us, access is not made to Google servers. This allows us to choose a pleasant design that is easy on the eyes of our readers.

All of these services are offered by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA. The legal basis for analyzing these anonymized data of our visitors is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. We have signed a GDPR-compliant Data Processing Agreement with Google. The specific data protection terms of Google can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Application Documents

At irregular intervals we may publish job descriptions. You can apply for these positions with us. In order to process your application you must provide personal data and enclose attachments required in the job advertisement. The processing of the data serves the selection of future employees. All submitted documents and related data arising in this context is deleted once the data is no longer used for the purpose of the application. This is the case after a maximum period of three months after the end of the application procedure if employment does not take place.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We keep this privacy policy under regular review and place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on August 12th, 2023.

Appropriate Authority

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that we have not addressed your concern satisfactorily, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office: