Thinqist GmbH (“Thinqist”; hereinafter also “we”) collects and uses personal data collected when visiting the Thinqist website. All data is collected and used confidentially and only in accordance with the applicable provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (EU-GSDVO), as of 25.05.2018.
Name and address of the controller
The responsible party within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation, other data protection laws applicable in the Member States of the European Union and other provisions of a data protection nature is:
Thinqist GmbH
Weissbadstrasse 8b
9050 Appenzell
E-mail: info@thinqist.com
Collection, processing and use of personal data
On the one hand, we collect your personal data via our contact form; in doing so, the data collected from you is sent to Thinqist via an encrypted communication channel.
We process and use your personal data for the purposes of technical administration of the website, customer administration or to process your inquiries in order to be able to offer you the information and services you require, and only to the extent necessary in each case. In addition, some data from visits to our website are used for our internal analysis in order to constantly optimize our Internet pages.
IP addresses
With each request, the IP address is sent so that the server knows where to send its responses. Every Internet user receives an Internet address from an Internet service provider (ISP) as soon as he accesses the Internet. The ISP knows which IP addresses are used when and by which Internet user. The ISP is required by law to store this information.
Cookies
We use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are stored by the browser of an Internet user on his hard drive when he visits a website. Most cookies are so-called “session cookies”. These cookies do not damage the Internet user’s hard drive and do not contain viruses. This data cannot be linked to individual users.
Use of Google services
Thinqist uses the following Google products on its websites: Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Google SearchConsole.
Legal basis
The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is your consent in accordance with DSGVO Art. 6 para. 1 p.1: https://dsgvo-gesetz.de/art-6-dsgvo/.
Use of Google Analytics
Insofar as you have given your consent, the Thinqist website you visit uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
Thinqist uses this information to evaluate your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
Google Analytics is used in accordance with the conditions agreed with Google by the German data protection authorities. Information of the third party provider: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. User conditions: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, overview of data protection: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html, as well as the data protection declaration: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
Use of Google AdWords
This website uses Google AdWords, an online advertising program of Google Inc. (“Google”) and in this context also conversion tracking (visit action evaluation). Google Conversion Tracking is an analysis service of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”). With conversion tracking, Google Adwords sets a cookie on your computer (“conversion cookie”) if you have reached our website via a Google ad. These cookies lose their validity after 90 days and are not used for personal identification. If you visit certain pages of ours and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that someone has clicked on the ad and thus been redirected to our site.
Each AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information obtained with the help of the conversion cookie serves the purpose of creating conversion statistics. Here, only the total number of users who clicked on one of our ads and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag is recorded. However, Thinqist does not receive any information with which users can be personally identified. The processing is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO from the legitimate interest in targeted advertising and the analysis of the effect and efficiency of this advertising.
You can prevent participation in this tracking process in several ways: a) by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly, in particular the suppression of third-party cookies will result in you not receiving ads from third-party providers; b) by disabling cookies for conversion tracking by setting your browser to block cookies from the domain ” googleadservices.com”, https://adssettings.google.de/, deleting this setting when you delete your cookies; c) by disabling the interest-based ads of the providers that are part of the self-regulatory campaign “About Ads”, through the link http://www.aboutads.info/choices, deleting this setting when you delete your cookies; d) by permanently disabling them in your browsers Firefox, Internetexplorer or Google Chrome at the link http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin. Please note that in this case you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
Recipients of the collected data
The recipient of the collected data is Google Inc (“Google”).
Duration of data storage (user and event data at Google)
The retention period of the data sent and linked to cookies, user IDs or advertising IDs is 14 months. After this period, the data is automatically deleted. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached takes place automatically once a month.
Right of withdrawal
You can revoke your consent to data storage at any time with effect for the future by preventing the storage of cookies through a corresponding setting in your browser software.
Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading the following browser add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
As an alternative to the browser add-on or within browsers on mobile devices, you can also set an opt-out cookie. Opt-out cookies prevent the future collection of your data when visiting this website. To do so, please click the hyperlink (https://webgilde.com/en/analytics-opt-out/) below to set the opt-out cookie: Disable collection of data from Google Analytics for this website.
Contact
You can revoke your consent to the use of your personal data for promotional purposes at any time with effect for the future, either by e-mail to info@thinqist.com. The revocation will not incur any costs for you other than any transmission costs according to the prime rates. In addition, you have the right to request information at any time about the personal data stored by us or a correction of your data and information.
Data protection officer
Your trust is important to us. If you have any questions about data protection or our data protection policy, please contact our data protection officer Alexander Weis at a.weis@thinqist.com.
