Privacy policy

Welcome to the website of Ventus Maritime GmbH, which is registered in the commercial register of the Hamburg District Court under the number HRB 138144. We are pleased about your interest in our company and products. In the following, we will inform you about the collection, processing and use of your data.

1. Name and contact details

Person responsible for data processing:

Tom Hennig, Managin director
Ventus Maritime GmbH
Christoph-Probst-Weg 3
20251 Hamburg
datenschutz@ventusventures.com
+49 40 2265 923 70

2. Information on the data protection officer

3. Collection and storage of personal data and the nature and purpose of their use
4. a) When visiting the website

When you visit our website, the browser used on your device automatically sends information to our website’s server. This information is stored temporarily in a so-called log file. The following information is collected without any action on your part and stored until it is automatically deleted::

• IP-Address of the requesting computer,
• Date and time of accesss,
• Name and URL of the file retrieved,
• Website from which the access was made (referrer URL),
• the browser used and, if applicable, your computer’s operating system and the name of your access provider.

We process the above data for the following purposes:

• To ensure a smooth connection to the website,
• to ensure that our website is easy to use,
• to analyse system security and stability
• for other administrative purposes.

The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the purposes for data collection listed above. Under no circumstances do we use the data collected for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person.

We also use cookies when you visit our website. You can find more detailed explanations on this in section 4 of this privacy policy.

4. Disclosure of data to third parties, processing for marketing purposes, duration of storage
   Your personal data will only be collected, processed and used to the extent and for as long as this is necessary to provide, process and respond to the information or services requested by you, e.g. via the contact form (e.g. information material on the portfolio of offers, processing of applications received by us). In this context, we only collect the data that is absolutely necessary for fulfilment. Any further use for advertising purposes (e.g. newsletter, customer service) by VentusVentures Holding GmbH or its affiliated companies will only take place if you have given your written consent.

You can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future by sending an e-mail to datenschutz@ventus-maritime.com.
Your personal data will not be processed or transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed unless

• the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in the non-disclosure of your data,,

• that there is a legal obligation for the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR.

5. Cookies
   We use cookies on our website. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website. Cookies do not cause any damage to your end device and do not contain any viruses, Trojans or other malware.

Information is stored in the cookie that results in each case in connection with the specific end device used. However, this does not mean that we obtain direct knowledge of your identity.
On the one hand, the use of cookies serves to make the use of our website more pleasant for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies to recognise that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after you leave our site.
In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimise user-friendliness, which are stored on your end device for a specified period of time. If you visit our site again to use our services, it is automatically recognised that you have already visited us and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.
On the other hand, we use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimising our offer for you (see section 5). These cookies enable us to automatically recognise that you have already visited our website when you visit it again. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period of time.
The data processed by cookies is required for the purposes mentioned to protect our legitimate interests and those of third parties in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.
Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or a message always appears before a new cookie is created. However, completely deactivating cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website.

6. Analysis tools
   The tracking measures listed below and used by us are carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. With the tracking measures used, we want to ensure a needs-based design and the continuous optimisation of our website. On the other hand, we use the tracking measures to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimising our offer for you. These interests are to be regarded as legitimate within the meaning of the aforementioned provision..

The respective data processing purposes and data categories can be found in the corresponding tracking tools.

1. a) Use of Matomo
   This website uses the web analysis service software Matomo (www.matomo.org), a service of the provider InnoCraft Ltd, 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand, (“Matomo”) to collect and store data on the basis of our legitimate interest in the statistical analysis of user behaviour for optimisation and marketing purposes in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Pseudonymised user profiles can be created and evaluated from this data for the same purpose. Cookies can be used for this purpose. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the cache of the website visitor’s internet browser. Among other things, cookies make it possible to recognise the Internet browser. The data collected using Matomo technology (including your pseudonymised IP address) is processed on our servers.
   The information generated by the cookie in the pseudonymised user profile is not used to personally identify the visitor to this website and is not merged with personal data about the bearer of the pseudonym.
   If you do not agree to the storage and analysis of this data from your visit, you can object to its storage and use at any time by clicking below. In this case, a so-called opt-out cookie will be stored in your browser, which means that Matomo will not collect any session data. Please note that the complete deletion of your cookies means that the opt-out cookie will also be deleted and may have to be reactivated by you.

7. Social Media
   We link from our website to the social networks of LinkedIn and Xing. The platform operators are responsible for the content and data processing on these websites. Information can be found in the data protection information of the operator of the respective platform:

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung

We do not use social media plugins on our website.

8. Rights of data subjects
   You have the right to:

• in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, to request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you can request information about the purposes of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on its details;
• in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to immediately request the correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us;
• to demand the erasure of your personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
• in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data if the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful but you refuse to delete it and we no longer need the data, but you need it for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims or you have lodged an objection to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
• in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request that it be transmitted to another controller;
• in accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR, to revoke your consent once given to us at any time. The consequence of this is that we may no longer continue the data processing that was based on this consent in the future and
• to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our company headquarters.

9. Right to object
   If your personal data is processed on the basis of consent or legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR.

If you wish to exercise your right of cancellation or objection, simply send an e-mail to datenschutz@ventus-maritime.com

10. Data security
    We use the widespread SSL (Secure Socket Layer) method in conjunction with the highest level of encryption supported by your browser when you visit our website. As a rule, this is 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we use 128-bit v3 technology instead. You can recognise whether an individual page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.

We also use suitable technical and organisational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorised access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

11. Up-to-dateness and amendment of this privacy policy

This privacy policy is currently valid and was last updated in April 2020.

Due to the further development of our website and offers on it or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to change this data protection declaration. We will notify you in advance of any significant changes in relation to its use. You can call up and print out the current data protection declaration at any time on the website at ventus-maritime.com/datenschutz/.