c. Our voucher offers

Some of our advertising partners will present our voucher offers after your online purchase on their website. In order to select a currently interesting voucher offer for you, our advertising partners will transmit your pseudonymised hash value of your e-mail address and your IP-address in encrypted form to us (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). The pseudonymised hash value of your e-mail address is used to consider a possibly existing objection to receive offers from us (Art. 21 (3), Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR). The IP-address will be exclusively used for data security purposes and as a rule the same will be anonymised after seven days.

Furthermore, our advertising partners will transmit order number, order value with currency, session ID, coupon code, and time stamp in pseudonymised form to us (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). If you are interested in one of our voucher offers, while there is no objection existing to receive such offers, and if you click on the voucher banner, our advertising partners will transmit your form of address, your name and your e mail address in encrypted form to us (Art. 6 (1) (b) and (f) GDPR).

When the required data have been processed to prepare your voucher, an e-mail with your voucher code will be sent to the e-mail address given by you (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR).

d. Our special offers

Some of our advertising partners present our special offers on their websites after you have made your online purchase on our site. To enable us to offer up-to-the-minute, regional offers that should be of interest to you, our advertising partners send us some pseudonymised and encrypted information, which includes the salutation, year of birth, country, postcode, hash value of the e-mail address and your IP address (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). The pseudonymised hash value of the e-mail address will also be used by us for any possible rejection of advertising by you (Art. 21 (3), Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR). We only use the IP address for the purpose of data security, and it is usually anonymised after seven days (Art. 6 (1) (b) and (f) GDPR).

When you click a special offer, your name, address details and e-mail address will also be forwarded to us by our advertising partner in encrypted form, so that we can prepare the personalised request for the special offer for the respective product provider (Art. 6 (1) (b) and (f) GDPR).

When you select one of our special offers, we first of all process your information that is required to order the special offer. Following this your details will also be sent to the product provider whose special offer you selected (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR). After this, we will only use your data in pseudonymised form for the purpose of analyses (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (see b. above).

Once the details have been transmitted, the respective product provider is then responsible for any further processing of your data.

e. Email newsletter from Sovendus

If you select by your express consent (which you may withdraw at any time) your personal newsletter of one of our advertising partners, the respective advertising partner will directly send you by e-mail the selected newsletter (Art. 7 (2) No. 3 UWG, Art. 6(1) (a) GDPR).

To this end we will transmit your data and your consent declaration to the respective advertising partner (Art. 6 (1) (a) and (f) GDPR). If you wish to withdraw your consent, you may at any time contact the advertising partner.

f. Friendly Captcha

Friendly Captcha (Friendly Captcha GmbH, Am Anger 3-5, 82237 Wörthsee, Germany) is a privacy-friendly solution that makes it more difficult for bots to access our website. We have integrated the programme code into our contact form so that each visitor’s device can connect to the Friendly Captcha servers to receive a puzzle to solve. Once the puzzle has been solved, the device sends the solution to our website server, which then checks whether the solution is correct. Depending on the outcome, we can process or reject requests based on security rules.

• Friendly Captcha will not set any cookies on your device.

• Your IP address will be stored in hashed form.

• Your personal data will be deleted within 30 days.

The legal basis for this form of processing is point (f) of Art. 6 (1) GDPR; we have a legitimate interest in protecting our website against abusive access by bots. You can find more information about the processing carried out by Friendly Captcha here: Privacy Policy for End Users – Friendly Captcha.

g. Forwarding to affiliate networks (third-party providers)

So-called “affiliate networks” (third-party providers) are used for the voucher offers of some of our advertising partners. Affiliate networks can track whether we contribute to a purchase or website visit by the advertising partner with our voucher offer (hereinafter “tracking”). This serves the purpose of billing between the advertising partner and us, as well as the analysis of the shopping behaviour by the advertising partner. An affiliate network is used if you have previously agreed to this, and are redirected from our website via a link to the affiliate network. The affiliate network can recognise from the link that you are arriving from our website, and to which advertising partner you want to go. The affiliate network forwards you directly to the advertising partner where you can redeem your voucher.

When forwarding to an affiliate network, the following data will be processed by the affiliate network: IP address, browser information, data on the origin of Sovendus, data on subsequent visits and purchases from the advertising partner. If applicable, the affiliate network stores information in your terminal device for tracking purposes (e.g. cookies).

We will only redirect you to an affiliate network if you have previously agreed to the redirection. The legal basis for the forwarding is then Art. 6 (1) Sentence 1 Lit. a) GDPR. As we do not store your consent, it will automatically expire after you have clicked on the link or closed the website.

The following affiliate networks are used (please note the additional data processing by the affiliate network depending on the affiliate network):

• retailAds GmbH & Co. KG, Kaiserstraße 23, 90403 Nürnberg, Deutschland (you can find their privacy policy here).

• Performance Horizon Group Limited (“Partnerize”), Level 8 West One, Forth Banks, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 3PA, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (you can see their privacy policy here). In addition to the above data processing, Partnerize also discloses data to its affiliates and transfers data abroad.

• AWIN AG (“AWIN”), Landsberger Allee 104 BC, 10249 Berlin, Germany (you can find their privacy policy here).

• TradeTracker Deutschland GmbH, Uhlandstraße 26 22087 Hamburg, Germany (you can find their privacy policy here).

• Tradedoubler AB, 556575-7423, c/o WeWork, Regeringsgatan 29, S-111 51 Stockholm, Sweden (you can find their privacy policy here)

• communicationAds GmbH & Co. KG, Kaiserstraße 23, 90403 Nuremberg, Germany (you can find their privacy policy here).

• financeAds GmbH & Co. KG, Karlstraße 9, 90403 Nuremberg (you can find their privacy policy here)

• Webgains GmbH, Frankenstraße 150C, 90461 Nuremberg, Germany (you can find their privacy policy here).

• Commission Junction LLC (“CJ”), 530 East Montecito Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, USA (you can find their privacy policy here).

  In addition to the above data processing, CJ also discloses data to its affiliates and transfers data abroad.

• Daisycon B.V., Alnovum Building, P.J. Oudweg 5, 1314 CH Almere, The Netherlands (find their privacy policy here).

• Impact Germany GmbH (“Impact”), Friedrichstraße 68, 10117 Berlin, Germany (you can find their privacy policy here). In addition to the above data processing operations, Impact also discloses data to its affiliates and transfers data abroad.

• Rakuten Europe S.à rl (“Rakuten”), 2 rue du Fossé, L-1536 Luxembourg (you can find their privacy policy here). In addition to the above data processing, Rakuten also discloses data to Rakuten Group companies and transfers data abroad.

• belboon GmbH, Weinmeisterstr. 12-14, 10178 Berlin, Germany (you can find their privacy policy here).

  In addition, data is transferred abroad if consent is given.

h. Sovendus Optimize

We use conversion optimisation technology to improve our targeted communication with customers. This technology enables us to track the use of our online shop. When our customers visit our online shop, for example, we can remind them of forgotten orders and point out special offers or allow them to subscribe to notifications and communications such as newsletters, to receive support and to have their shopping cart sent to them. We use email, instant messaging and other communication channels for this purpose. We need this conversion optimisation technology to run our online shop effectively and to make it more user-friendly in the long term. If and to the extent applicable, this processing will be carried out on the basis of points (a), (b) and (f) of Art. 6 (1) GDPR. You can object to the use of conversion optimisation technology in our online shop; we will make a note of your objection by setting a cookie in the browser you are currently using.

i. Email newsletter from our advertising partners

If you select by your express consent (which you may withdraw at any time) your personal newsletter of one of our advertising partners, the respective advertising partner will directly send you by e-mail the selected newsletter (§ 7 section 2 n° 3 Act Against Unfair Competition, UWG, Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR).

To this end we will transmit your data and your consent declaration to the respective advertising partner (Art. 6 (1) (a), (f) GDPR). If you wish to withdraw your consent, you may at any time contact the advertising partner.

j. Email newsletter from product suppliers

If you select by your express consent (which you may withdraw at any time) or on the basis of a contract your personal newsletter of a product supplier, the respective product supplier will directly send you by e-mail the selected newsletter (Art. 7 (2) No. 3 UWG, Art. 6 (1) (a) and (b) GDPR).

To this end we will transmit your data and your consent declaration or your contract declaration to the respective product supplier (Art. 7 (2) No. 3 UWG, Art. 6 (1) (a), (b) and (f) GDPR). If you wish to withdraw your consent, you may at any time contact the product supplier.

k. Documentation of consent

When we obtain your consent to the sending of e-mail newsletters, your IP address will be collected and stored for documentation purposes (Art. 7 (1), Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR).

l. Duration of storage

We store the data we collected from you for advertising purposes until we receive your revocation of consent or your objection to the processing of your data for advertising purposes.

m. Change of purpose

If we decide to change the purposes of the processing over time, we will update this privacy policy before doing so.

n. Online applications

If you apply for a job with Sovendus, we will process your data to handle and evaluate your application (Art. 26 (1) GDPR). We need your address and telecommunication data marked as mandatory data to correctly assign your application and to contact you. Your application data marked as mandatory data allow us to assess the chances of success of your application.

If you are not chosen for or if you refuse the offered job, we will store your data for another three months for documentation purposes and then delete them, unless you have given us your consent to use your data for further application procedures (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR).

o. Use of SalesViewer® technology:

On the website https://staging.sovendus.com, data is collected and stored for marketing, market research and optimisation purposes using the SalesViewer® technology of SalesViewer® GmbH on the basis of the legitimate interests of the website operator (Art. 6 [1] Lit.f GDPR).

For this purpose, a javascript-based code is used to collect company-related data and the corresponding use. The data collected with this technology is encrypted via a non-reversible one-way function (so-called “hashing”). The data is immediately subject to pseudonymisation and is not used to personally identify the visitor to this website.

The data stored within the framework of Salesviewer will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for its intended purpose, and the deletion does not conflict with any statutory retention obligations.

You can object to the collection and storage of data at any time with effect for the future by clicking on this link https://www.salesviewer.com/opt-out to prevent the collection of data by SalesViewer® within this website in the future. This places an opt-out cookie for this website on your device. If you delete your cookies in this browser, you must click this link again.

p. Data processing when displaying the Trustpilot seal.

Sovendus will share your IP address with Trustpilot A/S Ltd Pilestræde 58, 5 1112 Kopenhagen Dänemark after you have given your consent via our Cookie Consent Manager in order to show you Sovendus’ current rating on Trustpilot. If you would like to know more about how Trustpilot processes your data, you can view Trustpilot A/S’s privacy policy here.

q. Use of your data for web analysis and tracking purposes (Google Analytics)

In order to optimise this website and our services, we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, a company incorporated and operated under Irish law (registration number: 368047) with its registered office at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google“). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, if IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will first be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the full IP address will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

Google will use this information on our behalf to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity for us and to provide us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data in this context is your consent in accordance to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR.

Your personal data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the aforementioned purposes or you withdraw your consent.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. As an alternative to the browser add-on or within browsers on mobile devices, please click on this link to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data within this website in the future (the opt-out only works in this browser and only for this domain). An opt-out cookie will be stored on your device. If you delete your cookies in this browser, you must click this link again. You can find more information on this at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en or at https://policies.google.com/privacy#products, https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de (general information on Google Analytics and data protection).

We would like to point out that Google Analytics is used on this website in the form of server-side tracking to ensure anonymised collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

In order to fully comply with the statutory data protection requirements, we have concluded a data processing agreement with Google. It cannot be ruled out that data processing may take place outside the scope of application of EU law. Any transfer of personal data to the USA takes place on the basis of the EU Commission’s adequacy decision of 10 July 2023 regarding the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

r. Google Tag Manager (GTM)

We use GTM, a tool from Google Inc., on our website. With GTM, we can manage our website tags via an interface. The GTM itself does not set any cookies and does not process any personal data, but works more like an asynchronous JavaScript tag injector. GTM also respects any tracking tags originally implemented by GTM and deactivated by you.