Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy at a glance

General Information

The following guidelines will give an overview of what happens with your personal data when you are visiting our website. Personal data is all data that could identify you personally. You will find detailed information regarding privacy protection in our privacy statement mentioned below this text.

Data collection on our website

Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?

The data processing on this website is made by the website operator whose contact data can be found in the imprint of this website.

How are we processing your data?

For one thing, your data will be collected if you give it to us. This can be data that you enter in a contact formula, for example.

Other data will automatically be recorded by our IT systems while visiting the website. This is mainly technical data (e. g. internet browser, operating system or the time of the page view). The processing of this data happens automatically, as soon as you enter our website.

What are we using your data for?

 A part of the data is collected to guarantee an error-free provision of the website. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior.

Which rights do you have regarding your data?

You always have the right to obtain free information about origin, recipient and purpose of your collected personal data. Furthermore, you have a right to demand the correction, blocking or deletion of this data.

For this purpose, as well as for other questions regarding the topic of privacy protection, you can contact us under the address given in the imprint at any time. Furthermore, you have a right of appeal at the responsible regulatory agency.

Analytical tools and tools from third-party providers

When visiting our website, your surfing behavior may be statistically analyzed. This mainly happens by the use of cookies and so-called analysis programs. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually processed anonymously; the surfing behavior cannot be traced back to you.

You are allowed to contradict this analysis or to prevent it by the non-usage of certain tools. You will find detailed information hereto in the following privacy statement.

You can contradict this analysis. We will inform you about the options of appeal in this privacy statement.

General information and mandatory information

Data protection

The providers of these sites take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and according to the legal data protection regulations as well as according to this privacy statement.

When you use this website, different personal data will be collected. Personal data is data which can identify you personally. The present privacy statement explains which data we collect and what we are using it for. It also explains how and for which purpose this is happening.

Please note that the data transmission on the internet (for example during communication via email) may have security holes. A complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

Information on the responsible authority

The responsible authority for data processing on this website is:

Swanlane Advisors GmbH
Rupertus Rothenhäuser
Kaiser Friedrich Promenade 161
61352 Bad Homburg

Tel: +49 (0) 6172 682596
Fax: +49 (0) 6172 682562
info@swanlane.de

The responsible authority is the natural or legal person who decides upon the purposes and means of processing personal data (e. g. name, email address, etc.) alone or together with others.

Withdrawal notice of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can withdraw a consent that you have already granted at any time. An informal email will be sufficient. The legality of the data processing that has already been made until the time of the withdrawal will remain unaffected.

Access, blocking, deletion

You have the right of free access to your saved personal data, its origin and recipient as well as the purpose of data processing and, where appropriate, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data as given in the framework of the legal requirement at any time.

You may contact us for this purpose as well as further questions regarding personal data at any time under the address given in the imprint.

Data collection on our website 

Cookies

Websites partly use so-called cookies. Cookies will not cause damage on your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are used to make our offer user-friendly, more effective and safer. Cookies are small text files that will be stored on your computer and that will be saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They will be deleted automatically after your visit on our website. Other cookies will be saved on your terminal until you delete them. These cookies help us to recognize your browser the next time you visit our website.

You may set your browser in a way that you will be informed about the placement of cookies and only accept cookies on a case-by-case basis, refuse the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or refuse them in general, as well as activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. However, the deactivation of cookies may restrict the functionality of our website.

Cookies which are necessary for the execution of the electronic communication process or for the provision of certain functions chosen by you (for example shopping cart function), will be saved on the legal basis of art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO.

The website provider has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies to provide a technologically error-free and optimized provision of his services. As far as other cookies (for example cookies to analyze your surfing behavior) are stored, these will be handled separately in this privacy statement.

Server log files

The provider of the sites automatically collects information in so-called server log files which will automatically be transmitted to us by your browser. These include:

  • Browser type and browser version
  • The operating system used
  • Referrer URL
  • Host name of the accessing computer
  • Time of the server request
  • IP address

This data will not be merged with other data sources.

The legal basis for the data processing is article 6 (1) lit. b DSGVO, which authorizes the processing of data for the fulfillment of a contract or precontractual measures.

Contact form

When you send us a request via contact form, your data from the contact form will be saved including the contact data which you entered there for the processing of your request and in case of follow-up questions. This data will not be forwarded without your consent.

The processing of the data entered in the contact form will only happen on the basis of your consent (art. 6 (1) lit. a DSGVO). You may withdraw this consent at any time. It will suffice to send us an informal email.

The legality of the data processing that has already been made until the time of the withdrawal will remain unaffected.

The data you have entered in the contact form will remain with us until you ask us for deletion or revoke your consent to storage or when the purpose of the data storage is omitted (for example after the concluded processing of your request). Mandatory legal provisions – especially retention periods – remain unaffected.

Data processing (customer and contract data)

We only collect, process and use personal data if it is required for the justification, content-related design or modification of the legal relationship (inventory data). This happens based on art. 6 (1) lit. b DSGVO, which authorizes the processing of data for the fulfillment of a contract or precontractual measures. We will only collect, process and use personal data about the use of our websites (usage data) if it is necessary to enable the user to use the service or to deduct it.

The collected customer data will be deleted after completion of the order or termination of the business relation. Legal storage periods remain unaffected.

Withdrawal against data processing

You can avoid the collection of your data through Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be stored that avoids the collection of your data on future visits of this website: deactivate Google Analytics.

You will find more information on the handling of user data of Google Analytics in Google’s privacy statement: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Google reCAPTCHA

 We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”) is the provider.

By means of reCAPTCHA it is to be reviewed if the data entry on our websites (for example in a contact form) is made by a person or by an automated program.

For this purpose, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website user by means of different characteristics. This analysis automatically starts as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (for example IP address, length of time spent on the website or mouse movements effected by the user). The data recorded during the analysis will be forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analysis run completely in the background. Website visitors will not be informed that an analysis is taking place.

The data processing is made based on art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. The website provider has a legitimate interest in protecting his web content against abusive, automated spying and against SPAM.

You will find further information on Google reCAPTCHA as well as Google’s privacy statement under the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.

Plugins and tools

Google Web Fonts

This site uses so-called web fonts for a uniform presentation of fonts which are provisioned by Google. When opening a page, your browser is loading the necessary web fonts in your browser cache, to show texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose, the browser that you are using needs to connect to the Google servers. By this, Google will be informed that our website was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts is made in the interests of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This represents a legitimate interest according to art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO.

If your browser does not provide web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.

Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found under https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy statement: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Google Maps

This site uses the map service Google Maps via an API. Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, is the provider.

For the use of Google Maps functions, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information will usually be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and will be stored there. The provider of this site does not have an influence on this data transmission.

The use of Google Maps happens in the interests of an appealing presentation of our online offers and an easy discoverableness of the locations indicated on our website. This represents a legitimate interest according to art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO.

You will find more information on the handling of user data in Google‘s privacy statement: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Contact

Rupertus Rothenhäuser
CEO & Founder
Swanlane Advisors GmbH

Tel. +49 (0) 6172 682596

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