The following personal data from groups of natural persons is collected, processed, or used to the extent needed to fulfill the purposes described in "Intended purpose of data collection, processing, or usage":

• Contractors (suppliers, subcontractors)
• Clients (customers)
• Prospective customers
• Collaboration partner employees
• Employees
• Applicants

Public authorities if there are overriding legal requirements, external contractors, and external bodies and internal departments to fulfill the purposes described in "Intended purpose of data collection, processing, or usage".

The legislator has defined a variety of retention requirements and periods. The corresponding data is deleted routinely after these periods expire. Any data that is not affected by this is deleted if the purposes described in "Intended purpose of data collection, processing, or usage" no longer apply.

In general, we do not currently transfer any data to third countries. The dispatch of our newsletter is an exception to this.

In addition, you can revoke your consent to us recording and saving your personal data at any time. If required, please send an e-mail to our marketing department (datenschutz@akquinet.de).

If you have further questions regarding our information about data protection and the processing of your personal data, you can contact our data protection officer directly.

He is also available to you as a contact person for information requests, suggestions, or complaints.

You have the right to request information about the use of your personal data. To request information, you may contact our data protection officer or us directly at any time.

If you request information in a form other than in writing, please understand that we may request proof that you are the person you are claiming to be.

You also have the right to rectification or deletion of data, or to restriction of its processing, provided you are granted these rights by law. The same applies to the right to data portability.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority regarding the processing of your personal data.

We also process personal data when you visit our web pages.

To enable the pages to be displayed in your browser, we have to process the IP address of the device you are using. We also collect other information about the browser on your device.

We are required by data protection laws to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the personal data processed in our IT systems.

For this purpose, we log the following data:

• IP address of the calling computer
• Operating system of the calling computer
• Browser version of the calling computer
• Name of the retrieved file
• Date and time of access
• Data volume transmitted
• Referral URL

The IP address is deleted within 7 days from all systems related to the operation of the web pages. As a result, we can no longer trace the remaining data back to a specific individual.

We also use this data to correct errors on the web pages and to defend against potential attacks.

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our "interest" pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f is the operation of this website and implementation of the protection objectives confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data.

Our web pages use cookies. Cookies are small text files that are saved on your user device by your browser. These cookies are required to enable certain features of our web pages. We set session cookies, which are deleted from your browser automatically as soon as you leave our website. We also use persistent cookies for web analytics.

We are required to document your agreement with or objection to setting these cookies before they are created. The following information is saved in general:

• User's IP address in anonymized form (the last three digits are set to "0")
• Date and time of agreement
• User browser
• URL from which the agreement was sent
• Anonymous, random, encrypted key value
• Approval status of the user, which serves to document the approval

The key and approval status are also saved in the user's browser, in the "CookieConsent" cookie, which enables the website to read and respect the user's decision automatically for all subsequent page requests and future user sessions for up to 12 months.

You have the possibility to prevent the setting of cookies by configuring your browser accordingly. We wish to point out, however, that you may not be able to use the full features of our web pages in this case. Cookies do not install or start any programs or other applications on your computer.

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR in connection with section 15 of the Telemedia Act (TMG).

This website uses ClickDimensions, a web analysis service provided by ClickDimensions LLC. This solution allows users' activities on our web pages to be tracked. ClickDimensions uses cookies for this purpose. The information about your use of this website collected by ClickDimensions (e.g. pages visited) is transmitted to a ClickDimensions server in the USA where it is saved, analyzed and the result provided to us. The privacy notices for newsletters are available here:

Our website contains a contact form, which you can use to request information about or products or establish contact with us in general. In addition to the voluntary information and the contents of your message, we require you to provide the following information:

• E-mail address
• Form of address
• Last name

We need this information to process your inquiry, to address you correctly, and to send you an answer.

Should data no longer be needed in the framework of a customer or prospective customer relationship or if a conflicting interest of the customer takes priority, we will delete all the relevant data, as long as no legal data retention requirements prevent its deletion.

The data collected via the contact form will be stored in our CRM system to process your request. The system used is Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the processing of the data takes place in Ireland.

The legal basis for contacting us is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

The legal basis for contract fulfillment is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.