Privacy Policy of InstaFreight GmbH

 

The basis of effective data protection is comprehensive information about the collection, processing and use of your data (“data processing”). With this section we would like to inform you

 

  • when and for which actions we process data
  • which data we process for which reason
  • who receives data
  • about your rights regarding data processing by us.

 

This privacy policy only regulates the use of personal data on our website https://instafreightblog.de including its subpages. If you leave our website via a link or visit our pages on a social media platform, you leave the scope of this privacy policy as well.

The transmission of information to or from this website is secured with TLS encryption.

You can access, print or download this privacy notice permanently and at any time here via the functions of your browser.

 

I. Contact Details

Controller of the data processing in the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) within the scope of this website is:

InstaFreight GmbH

Oranienstraße 25

10999 Berlin

Telefon: +49 (0)30 340603300

Fax: +49 (0 )30 398200509

Email: info@instafreight.com

 

You can find further information regarding InstaFreight GmbH here.

Additionaly, we have appointed a data protection officer. You can reach him at:
Toni Scheibe, privacy@instafreight.com.

 

II. General Information on Data Processing

 

  1. Scope of processing of personal data

The provision of this website requires the processing of various information. In addition, the scope of data processing depends on your use of the functionalities of this website, for instance if you communicate with us or consent to the processing of data.

 

When visiting our website, you are not obliged to provide us with personal data. However, if the provision of this data is technically required for accessing our site, you will be unable to enter and use our website in case of your refusal. Under a concluded freight contract, you may be contractually or legally obliged to provide personal data, especially if this is necessary to fulfil your own contractual or legal duties. In this respect, you might be liable for administrative fines or damages. Where the provision of your data is necessary for the fulfilment of our duties, there is an obligation on your part. A refusal may result in the loss of your entitlement to benefits as well as administrative fines.

 

As a visitor to our websites, you are not subject to any automated decision-making according to Article 22 GDPR.

 

  1. Lawfulness of processing of personal data

 

The following legal bases apply to the processing of personal data on this website.

 

Reason for Data Processing Legal basis in GDPR Explanation
Performance of a contract or steps prioir to entering into a contract Art. 6 (1) b) Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;
Legitimate Interests Art. 6 (1) f) Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.
Consent Art. 6 (1) a) The data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes
Legal Obligation Art. 6 (1) c) Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject;

 

  1. Erasure and storage of data

 

We delete personal data as soon as the legal basis for its processing expires. If there are several legal bases for a situation, the deletion occurs with the expiration of the last legal basis, for instance, after fulfillment of all legal storage obligations.

 

III. Data processing for the provision of this website

In order to display the website, it is necessary to process certain information. This commences with your visit on our website. In addition, we offer functionalities on our website which require further data processing.

  1. Log Files

 

When you visit our website, your browser sends various information to our server. We need these to establish and maintain the connection. Among the data is also your IP address, which we treat as personal data. In addition, the following data is collected:

  • Date and time of visit
  • Requested data volume
  • Request successful / not successful
  • Referer (previous page)
  • Subsequent website
  • Browser / version
  • Operating system / version

We store this data in so-called server log files. This data is not combined with any other data about you. The storage of log files including your IP address serves the legitimate interest of providing our website and preventing misuse. Stored log files will be deleted after 30 days at the latest, unless longer storage is necessary, for example to prevent or clarify an attack on our website.

 

  1. Cookies

We use cookies to establish and maintain the connection. A cookie is a small text file containing information transmitted by your browser and stored on your computer. These cookies do not contain any personal data. You can also control the use of cookies in your browser and delete cookies yourself at any time. Cookies may be required to establish a connection or to improve the use of the website.

The use of technically required cookies and the respective data processing takes place due to our legitimate interest in a technically flawless and convenient way of using our website. Technically required cookies are usually deleted automatically when you close your browser (session cookies), in other cases only after some time (persistent cookies). The duration of storage of persistent cookies is determined by the provider and can, for example, be viewed by you in your browser.

The use of cookies for advertising and analytical purposes is described below in detail.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting up your browser software accordingly. This can be done generally or specifically for individual cookies. Additionally, individual tracking and analytic cookies can provide special options for deactivation. These are explained separately below. Please note that you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent if individual or all cookies are deactivated.

 

  1. Social-Media-Plugins

If you like contributions from our website, you can share them directly in various social media networks via buttons. For this purpose, corresponding social media plug-ins are integrated on our website.

If you call up a subpage on which a plugin of a social media network is implemented, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of the respective operators. When the connection is established, various pieces of information including your IP address are sent to the operators and stored by them. Since the operators are mostly based in the USA, the information is also stored there. The operators thus learn that your browser has accessed the relevant subpage of our website. This also applies if you do not have a user account with the social media network or are not logged in there at the time you visit our website.

If you are logged into your social media account at the same time, the operator assigns your visit to our website and any further interaction with the plugin (activation of the respective consent buttons, comments) directly to your account and saves this information. These actions may also be visible to other users of the network. You can prevent this data processing by not visiting the relevant subpages. You can also log out of your social media network before visiting our site. In addition, you can also use add-ons such as the script blocker “NoScript” (http://noscript.net/) to prevent your browser from executing social media plug-ins in general.

The legal basis for data processing is the consent you have given us.

For further information on data processing, in particular its scope and legal basis as well as rights in this regard, please refer to the data protection information and terms of use of the respective networks.

Our website uses the following social media plug-ins:

 

Facebook

Our website contains a social plugin of the social media network Fa-cebook from Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Facebook”). The corresponding button can be recognized by the Facebook logo and the word “share”.

Facebook’s privacy policy can be found here:
http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

 

LinkedIn

Our website contains a social plugin of the social media network Lin-kedIn of the LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, (“LinkedIn”) in Europe represented by the LinkedIn Ireland Unli-mited Company Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland. The corresponding button can be identified by the “in” logo.

LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy can be found here:

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

 

Twitter

Our website contains a social plugin of the microblogging service Twitter of Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA (“Twitter”). The corresponding button can be recognized by the Twitter bird and the word “tweet”.

Twitter’s privacy policy can be found here:
https://twitter.com/privacy

 

Instagram

Our website contains a social plugin of the social media network Insta-gram of Facebook Inc, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Facebook”) represented in Europe by Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. The corresponding button is indicated by the camera logo.

Instagram’s Privacy Policy can be found here:
https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

 

  1. Newsletter, Einsatz von MailChimp

 

To send our newsletter, we use the e-mail provider MailChimp, The Rocket Science Group LLC, 675 Ponce de Leon Avenue NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA (“MailChimp”). To register for the newsletter, the following data is required: e-mail address, first and last name, company and whether you are a shipper or freight carrier. The data is transmitted to MailChimp in the US and stored there. Initially, we will use your e-mail address to verify your registration by sending you an e-mail requesting confirmation by clicking on a link. The newsletter will not be sent until you have done so. Besides the e-mail dispatch MailChimp offers different analytic possibilities to find out whether, when and where the sent newsletters are opened, used or rejected. MailChimp uses cookies and similar technologies for this purpose.

 

You can cancel your subscription to the newsletter at any time with effect for the future, the easiest way is to click on the corresponding link to unsubscribe in the newsletter. Alternatively, you can also send your revocation to privacy@instafreight.com.

 

The legal basis of the processing is your consent. We process your data until it is withdrawn, but no later than two years after the last dispatch.

At the following web addresses youcan find further information about the data protection regulations of MailChimp:

https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

https://mailchimp.com/legal/cookies/

 

 

IV. Usage analysis and tracking

We would like to further improve the usability of this website and the attractiveness of our services. For this reason, we also collect data on usage behavior, when you visit our website and evaluate it for this purpose. For this reason, the following tracking and analytic cookies are used on our website in addition to the technically required cookies shown above.

The legal basis of data processing for analystic purposes is our legitimate interest in a statistical evaluation of your user behaviour in order to be able to constantly optimise and better market our website and our services.

Data processing for usage analysis takes place during your visit to our website and only up to the time of your effective objection.

 

  1. Google (Universal) Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google. Google collects information about your use of this website (including your IP address) in the USA via a cookie, and stores the information. However, we only use Google Analytics with an anonymisation function in which the IP address is shortened within a Member State of the European Union or the European Economic Area before it is transmitted to Google. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. Google analyses the information collected and sends us reports on the usage activities on our website and provides us with additional services for this purpose. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. In addition to blocking all cookies by your browser, you can also prevent Google from processing your data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

As an alternative to the browser plug-in or within browsers on mobile devices, please click on the following link to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data within this website in the future (this opt-out cookie works only in this browser and only for this domain, if you delete your cookies in this browser, you have to click this link again.): deactivate Google Analytics

You can find more information about Google Analytics in Google’s privacy notice: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=d

The legal basis of data processing for analytic purposes is our legitimate interest in a statistical evaluation of the usage in order to identify errors on our website and adapt the service to the demands of users.

 

It is technically impossible for us to assign the analytic data to a specific person. This analytic data is therefore anonymous information. We are consequently unable to provide any personal information regarding this data.

 

V. Right to object and right to withdraw consent

If the data processing is based on your consent or our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to the processing or to withdraw your consent at any time. Your objection or withdrawal only has an effect for the future. Where the analytic cookies used offer their own technical options for deactivation, this explained above. You may contact privacy@instafreight.com at any time to exercise your right of objection or revocation. If you object to processing on the basis of our legitimate interest, we may nevertheless continue processing if we can prove compelling reasons worthy of protection which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms.

VI. Rights of data subjects

If the data processing is based on your consent or our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to the processing or to withdraw your consent at any time. Your objection or withdrawal only has an effect for the future. Where the analytic cookies used offer their own technical options for deactivation, this explained above. You may contact privacy@instafreight.com at any time to exercise your right of objection or revocation. If you object to processing on the basis of our legitimate interest, we may nevertheless continue processing if we can prove compelling reasons worthy of protection which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms.

 

Right of access by the data subject according to Art. 15 GDPR

You have a right of access concerning your personal data processed by us. This includes the mandatory information set out in Art. 15 GDPR.

Right to rectification according to Art. 16 GDPR

You have the right to request the immediate correction of inaccurate personal data and the completion of incomplete personal data.

Right to erasure according to Art. 17 GDPR

You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data if one of the grounds mentioned in Art. 17 GDPR applies, in particular if there is no longer a legal basis for the processing.

Right to restriction of processing according to Art. 18 GDPR

You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data if one of the grounds mentioned in Art. 17 GDPR applies, in particular if there is no longer a legal basis for the processing.

Right to data portability according to Art. 20 GDPR

You have the right to request all personal data stored by us about you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to transmit this data to another controller without obstruction by the controller to whom the personal data was made available.

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority according to Art. 77 GDPR

According to Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for you.

patch of newsletters and the use of analytic tools. These are included exclusively on the basis of an agreement about the commissioned data processing in accordance with Art. 28 para. 3 GDPR.

 

VIII. Data transfer to third countries

The personal data we collect from you through this website will to some extend be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area. This is particularly the case with the integration of the services of Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, MailChimp, Microsoft and Twitter described above from. The data is stored in the US and thus in a so-called “third country” in accordance with Art. 44 DSGVO. All providers are certified under the “EU-US Privacy Shield” which guarantees compliance with a European data protection level.

 

Last updated: September 2018