Privacy is great.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, 

this website is based in Germany and, as such, must must comply with the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, which is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union and the European Economic Area. That rocks because knowing what is happening with our data is great.

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit our site letsworkmagic.com or our social media channels. It also describes how personal information is collected, used, and shared in order to provide our services.

If you’ve already read everything on the blog, feel free to pour yourself a cuppa' tea and read this privacy policy.

Person Responsible 

While saying “us” and “we” is cute, it’s important to step up and own your stuff. The person responsible would be me, Anaïs (pronounced Ah-nah-ees). Here are the specs:

Let’s Work Magic
Anaïs Bock
Griebenowstr. 10
10435 Berlin

(I love hand-written cards.)

hello@letsworkmagic.com
+49 1573773626

In the following section I’ll be referring to myself as the Owner, with a capital “O” because it’s what makes you feel almighty on your own website. Just kidding. It’s what my legal admin support provided me with and I ain’t touching the copy because #coveryourass(ets).

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site.

For instance:

  • Inventory data (as names, addresses)

  • Contact data (as e-mail, phone numbers, mailings)

  • Content data (as text input, videos, photos)

  • Usage data 

  • Meta data (as IP-addresses, Device Information)

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO (hereafter referred to as GDPR because that’s what you folks call in in english), which allows the processing of data to fulfil a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.

WHY WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

  • To Provide our service online 

  • To respond to your requests and communicate with you

  • Safeguards

  • Ratings measurement/marketing: when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our services.

LEGAL BASIS

According to Art. 13 GDPR we inform you about our data processing. 

Legal basis of obtaining of permits is Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a and Art. 7 GDPR. 

According to Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR we process data and personal information

Legal basis of our legal obligations is Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. c GDPR and Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR.

The Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:

Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes. Note: Under some legislations the Owner may be allowed to process Personal Data until the User objects to such processing (“opt-out”), without having to rely on consent or any other of the following legal bases. This, however, does not apply, whenever the processing of Personal Data is subject to European data protection law;

Provision of Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the User and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;

Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject;

Processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Owner;

Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or by a third party.

In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

SECURITY PROCEDURES

The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.

The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of this Application (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time.


SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. However, we only do this after you accepted the sharing of your personal data.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights. #beagoodkitten

TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA OUT OF THE EEA

Whenever we transfer your personal information out of the EEA to countries not deemed by the European Commission to provide an adequate level of personal information protection, the transfer will be based on one of the following safeguards recognized by the European Commission as providing adequate protection for personal information, where required by EU data protection legislation:

Contracts approved by the European Commission which impose data protection obligations on the parties to the transfer. For further details, see European Commission Model contracts for the transfer of personal information to third countries.

For transfers to third parties in the United States, ensuring they participate in the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework.

DATA SUBJECT’S RIGHTS

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information above.

Additionally, if you are a European resident, we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfil contracts we might have with you, or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above.  Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

Most data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke your consent at any time.

Your rights in short:

  1. Request access to your personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

  2. Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. 

  3. Request erasure of your personal data. 

  4. Object to processing of your personal data, for example, to a third party

  5. Request the restriction of processing of your personal data.

  6. Request the transfer of your personal data to another party (right to data portability).


COOKIES

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by online service providers in order to (for example) make their websites or services work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner or service provider are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website or service you are using (such as advertising, interactive content and analytics). The third parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website or service in question and also when it visits certain other websites or services.

We use cookies and therefore inform you about the usage. Some are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain in your device’s memory until you delete them. 

You can configure your browser to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

DELETION OF DATA

We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless otherwise required by law. However, we delete personal data according to law.

ether we have a legal or contractual need to retain the data.

Whether the data is necessary to provide our Services.

Whether our Members have the ability to access and delete the data within their Mailchimp accounts.

Whether our Members would reasonably expect that we would retain the data until they remove it or until their Mailchimp accounts are closed or terminated.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your Personal Information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your Personal Information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your Personal Information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

CONTACT

If you contact us via email or the contact form, the data you provide will be used for the purpose of processing your request. We must have this data in order to process and answer your inquiry; otherwise we will not be able to answer it in full or at all.

The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.


NEWSLETTER

We dislike the term newsletter but alas, it’s the official term. So if you register for our free ‘newsletter'‘, the data requested from you for this purpose, i.e. your email address and, optionally, your name will be sent to us. We also store the IP address of your computer and the date and time of your registration. During the registration process, we will obtain your consent to receive this newsletter and the type of content it will offer, with reference made to this privacy policy. The data collected will be used exclusively to send the newsletter and will not be passed on to third parties, except 

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

You may revoke your prior consent to receive this newsletter under Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR with future effect. All you have to do is inform us that you are revoking your consent or click on the unsubscribe link contained in each newsletter.

NEWSLETTER VIA MAILCHIMP

We use “Mailchimp” in order to provide sporadic email news, for managing contacts and messages. Mailchimp is an email address management and message sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC, 675 Ponce de Leon AVE NE #5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, U.S.A. To view the privacy policy of The Rocket Science Group LLC, visit the following link: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

Mailchimp participates in and has certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. We are committed to subjecting all Personal Information received from European Union (EU) member countries and Switzerland, respectively, in reliance on each Privacy Shield Framework, to each Framework’s applicable Principles. To view the certificate, visit the following link: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG&status=Active

The Personal Information that MailChimp may collect or receive about you broadly falls into the following categories:

(i) Information Mailchimp receive about Contacts from us: We may provide Personal Information about you to through the Services. For example, when we upload our Distribution List or integrate the Services with another website or service, or when you sign up for our Distribution List (Newsletter) on a Mailchimp signup form, we may provide Mailchimp with certain contact information or other Personal Information about you such as your name, email address, address or telephone number. You may have the opportunity to update some of this information by electing to update or manage your preferences via an email you receive from us.

(ii) Information Mailchimp collect automatically: Mailchimp use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect some of this information. 

MAILGUN TECHNOLOGIES INC.

We use Mailgun INC in order to provide you with the results of our “The Purpose Test”. This service functions automatically and is provided by Mailgun Technologies, Inc, 535 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94105, U.S. To view the privacy policy of The Rocket Science Group LLC, visit the following link: https://www.mailgun.com/privacy-policy

Mailgun Technologies participates in and has certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. We are committed to subjecting all Personal Information received from European Union (EU) member countries and Switzerland, respectively, in reliance on each Privacy Shield Framework, to each Framework’s applicable Principles. To view the certificate, visit the following link: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000PCbmAAG&status=Active

Mailgun may collect, store und use your data in pseudofile form in order to provide, improve and support its service.


HOSTING AND LOGFILES

This type of service has the purpose of hosting Data and files that enable this Application to run and be distributed as well as to provide a ready-made infrastructure to run specific features or parts of this Application (website). Some of these services work through geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the actual location where the Personal Data are stored. 

The hosting service is provided by Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC 14455 N. Hayden Road, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254 In order to view the privacy policy of GoDaddy.com, visit the following link: https://de.godaddy.com/agreements/showdoc?pageid=PRIVACY

GoDaddy participates in and has certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. We are committed to subjecting all Personal Information received from European Union (EU) member countries and Switzerland, respectively, in reliance on each Privacy Shield Framework, to each Framework’s applicable Principles. To view the certificate, visit the following link: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TN9xAAG&status=Active

GoDaddy collect various types of personal Data:

  • Browser type and browser version

  • Operating system used

  • Referrer URL

  • Host name of the accessing computer

  • Time of the server request

  • IP address

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.

SOCIAL MEDIA

We may interact with you via social media channels. This type of service allows interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of this Application.

The interaction and information obtained through this Application are always subject to the User’s privacy settings for each social network.

This type of service might still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.

View the following list for detailed information and the opportunity to opt out.

Facebook (Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland) - Privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/, Opt-Out: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads and http://www.youronlinechoices.com, Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active.

- Google/ YouTube (Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, U.S.) – Privacy policy:  https://policies.google.com/privacy, Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated, Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.

- Instagram (Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, U.S.) – Privacy policy / Opt-Out: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

- Twitter (Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, U.S.) - Privacy policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy, Opt-Out: https://twitter.com/personalization, Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO&status=Active.

- Pinterest (Pinterest Inc., 635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, U.S.) – Privacy policy / Opt-Out: https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy

- LinkedIn (LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland) - Privacy policy https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy, Opt-Out: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out, Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L0UZAA0&status=Active.

- Xing (XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany) - Privacy policy / Opt-Out: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung.

- Soundcloud (SoundCloud Limited, Rheinsberger Str. 76/77, 10115 Berlin, Germany) – Privacy policy/ Opt-Out: https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.

DISPLAYING CONTENT FROM EXTERNAL PLATFORMS

This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this Application and interact with them.

This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.

YOUTUBE

The YouTube button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the YouTube social network provided by Google LLC. We also may use video plugins from the platform “Youtube”, which is a service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, U.S. Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ for opt-out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated 

GOOGLE FONTS

We may the fonts provided by “Google Fonts” which is a service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, U.S. Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ for opt-out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated 

INSTAGRAM

Instagram is an image visualization service provided by Instagram, Inc. that allows this Application to incorporate content of this kind on its pages. This service is provided by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025 US. To view its privacy policy, visit the following site: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/ 

This service collects Cookies and Usage Data.

LINKEDIN

We may use the service of LinkedIn, which is provided by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland. To view its privacy policy, visit the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy/ 

LinkedIn participates in and has certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. We are committed to subjecting all Personal Information received from European Union (EU) member countries and Switzerland, respectively, in reliance on each Privacy Shield Framework, to each Framework’s applicable Principles. To view the certificate, visit the following link: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L0UZAA0&status=Active

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site--you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information
here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

CHANGES

The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page and possibly within this Application and/or - as far as technically and legally feasible - sending a notice to Users via any contact information available to the Owner. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom. 

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, if you would like your information removed or if have a concern, please contact us by e-mail at hello@letsworkmagic.com.

Have a wonderful joy-drenched day!

To transparency and openness!