Privacy Policy

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 31, 2023

Our company places a high priority on the protection of personal data and respects your desire for privacy. In the following, we inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website. If there are any further questions regarding the handling of your personal data, please feel free to contact our data protection officer.

Contact

When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, name and telephone number, if applicable) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions and process your requests. The legal basis in this respect is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f GDPR. Insofar as we request input via our contact form that is not required for contacting you, we have always marked this as optional. This information serves us to specify your request and to improve the processing of your request. A communication of this information is expressly on a voluntary basis and with your consent, Art. 6 para.1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR. Insofar as this involves information on communication channels (for example, e-mail address, telephone number), you also consent to us contacting you via this communication channel, if necessary, in order to respond to your request. You can, of course, revoke this consent at any time for the future.

Your data that we have received in the course of contacting you will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected, your request has been fully processed and no further communication with you is necessary or desired by you.

As the controller, our company has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through this website. Nevertheless, internet-based data transmissions can generally have security gaps. Absolute protection cannot be guaranteed; in any case, sending unencrypted e-mails is not secure. We therefore ask you not to send sensitive data by unencrypted e-mail, but to use either encrypted communication channels (e.g. our contact form) or the postal service.

Your rights

We will gladly provide you with information as to whether personal data relating to you is being processed; if this is the case, you have a right to information about this personal data and to the information listed in detail in Art. 15 GDPR. In addition, you have the right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), the right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR), the right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR) and the right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR) under the respective legal conditions.

You have the right to object to processing under the legal conditions (Art. 21 GDPR).

To exercise your above rights, please contact us by e-mail to request.triage@level-ex.com or by post to 180 N. LaSalle, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60601. The exercise of your above rights is free of charge for you.

Without prejudice to these rights and the possibility of seeking any other administrative or judicial remedy, you may at any time exercise your right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, place of work or the place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes data protection law (Article 77 GDPR).

Legal bases for our data processing

The processing of personal data can be based on various legal bases. If we need your data to fulfill a contract with you or to respond to inquiries from you regarding a contract, the legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b GDPR. If we obtain your consent for certain data processing, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1. p. 1 lit. a GDPR. We carry out some data processing on the basis of our legitimate interest, always weighing your interests worthy of protection against our legitimate interests. The legal basis here is Art. 6 para. p. 1 lit. f GDPR. If processing is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation to which we are subject, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. c GDPR.

Below, we explain how we process personal data via our website.

Data processing when calling up the website

During the mere informational use of the website, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us (e.g., via a contact form), we collect the following technical information (log file data):

– Operating system of the end device with which you visit our website

– browser (type, version & language settings)

– the amount of data retrieved

– the current IP address of the end device with which you visit our website

– date and time of access

– the URL of the previously visited website (referrer)

– the URL of the (sub)page you are accessing on the website

– the Internet service provider of the accessing system

The collection of this data is technically necessary to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security. We and our service provider do not regularly know who is behind an IP address. We do not combine the data listed above with other data.

The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f GDPR. Since the collection of data for the provision of the website and the storage in log files are absolutely necessary for the operation of the website and to protect against misuse, our legitimate interest in data processing prevails at this point.

Data security

We have taken extensive technical and operational precautions to protect your data from accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. Our security procedures are regularly reviewed and adapted to technological progress.

Data transfer

As a matter of principle, your personal data will not be transferred to third parties unless we are legally obliged to do so, or the transfer of data is necessary for the performance of the contractual relationship, or you have previously given your express consent to the transfer of your data.

Applications

You can apply to our company electronically, e.g. via e-mail or web forms. Please note that unencrypted e-mails will not be transmitted with access protection.

Your details will be used for processing your application and deciding whether to establish an employment relationship. The legal basis is ยง 26 para. 1 in conjunction with. Abs. 8 S.2 BDSG. Furthermore, your personal data may be processed insofar as this should be necessary for the defense of asserted legal claims against us arising from the application process. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 p.1 lit. f GDPR. The stated purposes also constitute the legitimate interest in the processing.

Insofar as an employment relationship arises between you and us, we may, in accordance with Section 26 (1) BDSG, further process the personal data already received from you for the purposes of the employment relationship if this is necessary for the implementation or termination of the employment relationship or for the exercise or fulfillment of the rights and obligations of the representation of the interests of employees resulting from a law or a collective agreement, a works agreement or a service agreement (collective agreement).

Your application data will not be processed beyond the described use.

Your personal data will be deleted after completion of the application process after 6 months at the latest, provided that no other legitimate interests on our part oppose deletion or you have not given us your consent for longer storage. Other legitimate interest in this sense is, for example, a duty to provide evidence in proceedings under the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG).

Newsletter

General information

You can subscribe to a newsletter on our websites, which we use to inform you about our company’s activities, current information about our services, special offers, promotions, events and competitions. The content of the individual newsletter will be briefly described during the registration process. The legal basis for sending the respective newsletter is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR.

For the registration to our newsletter we use the double-opt-in procedure. This means that after your registration, we will send you an e-mail to the e-mail address you provided, in which we ask you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter. If you do not confirm your registration, information you provide for purposes of the newsletter will be automatically deleted after 3 days.

Mandatory information for sending the newsletter is only your e-mail address. The provision of further data is voluntary: this data is used to address you personally. After your confirmation, we store your e-mail address for the purpose of sending the newsletter and until revoked. We also store your IP address current at the time of registration, the time of registration and confirmation for up to three years after registration (statute of limitations). The purpose of this procedure is to be able to prove your registration in case of doubt and, if necessary, to clarify any misuse of your personal data. The legal basis for logging the registration is our legitimate interest according to Art. 6 para. 1 p.1 lit. f GDPR in proving a formerly given consent, see also Art. 7 para. 1 GDPR.

You can revoke your consent to the sending of the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can declare the revocation by clicking on the link provided in every newsletter email or by sending an email to request.triage@level-ex.com.

Newsletter Tracking

We would like to point out that we evaluate your user behavior when sending the newsletter in order to determine whether and when the newsletter was opened. For this evaluation, the sent e-mails contain so-called web beacons or tracking pixels, which are stored on our server and are loaded when the newsletter is opened. Technical information such as browser type, time of opening and IP address are transmitted. For the evaluations, we link the above data and the web beacons with your e-mail address and an individual ID. Links received in the newsletter also contain this ID and allow us to analyze your click behavior.

With the data thus obtained, we create a user profile in order to tailor the newsletter to your individual interests. In doing so, we record when you read our newsletters, which links you click on in them and infer your personal interests from this. We link this data to actions you have taken on our website. The legal basis for this data processing is your consent, Art. 6 para. 1 p.1 lit.a GDPR.

You may revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. In this case, the revocation includes the entire newsletter, as a separate revocation of tracking is unfortunately not technically possible. To do so, simply click the unsubscribe link provided in each e-mail.

Moreover, such tracking is not possible if you have deactivated the display of images by default in your e-mail program. In this case, the newsletter will not be fully displayed to you and you may not be able to use all of its features. If you display the images manually, the tracking mentioned above will take place.

If you do not confirm registration, any data you initially provided when requesting to receive the Level Ex newsletter, will be deleted, unless Level Ex already rightfully had such data in its possession for other purposes.

The data you provide for the purpose of receiving the newsletter will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will be deleted after you unsubscribe from the newsletter. Data that has been stored by us for other purposes remains unaffected by this.

What are cookies?

Cookies are data that are stored on your computer by a website you visit and allow your browser to be reassigned. Cookies transmit information to the entity that sets the cookie. Cookies can store various information, such as your language setting, the duration of your visit to our website or the entries you have made there. This avoids, for example, that you have to re-enter required form data each time you use the site. The information stored in cookies can also be used to recognize preferences and to tailor content according to areas of interest.

There are different types of cookies: session cookies are sets of data that are only temporarily held in memory and deleted when you close your browser. Permanent or persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a predetermined duration, which may vary depending on the cookie. The information can also be stored in text files on your computer with this type of cookie. However, you can also delete these cookies at any time via your browser settings.

First-party cookies are set by the website you are currently visiting. Only that website is allowed to read information from these cookies. Third-party cookies are set by organizations that do not operate the website you are visiting. For example, these cookies are used by marketing companies.

The legal basis for possible processing of personal data using cookies and their storage period may vary. Insofar as you have given us your consent, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR. Insofar as the data processing is based on our overriding legitimate interests, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f GDPR. The stated purpose then corresponds to our legitimate interest.

We use cookies to ensure the proper operation of the website, to provide basic functionalities, for range measurement and – with your consent – to tailor our services to preferred areas of interest.

You can delete cookies already stored on your terminal device at any time. If you wish to prevent cookies from being stored, you can do so via the settings in your Internet browser. You can find instructions for common browsers here: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Google Chrome mobile, Microsoft Edge Browser, Safari, Safari mobile. Alternatively, you can also install so-called ad blockers. Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.

When calling up our website, all users of our website are also informed by an info banner about our use of cookies and referred to this data protection notice. As a user, you will also be asked for your consent to the use of certain cookies, in particular for the personalization of services and for marketing measures. Once you have given your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future by calling up the cookie administration via the following link and unchecking the box next to the processing to which you had consented.

HubSpot

This website uses HubSpot for online marketing activities. HubSpot is a software company from the USA with a branch in Ireland. Contact: HubSpot, 2nd Floor 30 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland.

This is an integrated software solution that covers various aspects of online marketing. These include email marketing, social media publishing & reporting, contact management, landing pages and contact forms. In the process, cookies are also stored on the terminal device you use.

Our sign-up service allows visitors to our website to learn more about our company, download content, and provide their contact information and other demographic information. This information, as well as our website content, is stored on servers operated by our software partner HubSpot. It may be used by us to contact visitors to our website and to determine which of our company’s services are of interest to them. All information we collect is subject to this privacy policy. We use all collected information exclusively to optimize our marketing measures. HubSpot’s privacy policy can be found at: https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy.

You can find more information from HubSpot regarding the EU data protection regulations at: https://legal.hubspot.com/data-privacy.

More information on the cookies used by HubSpot can be found here and here.

The collection and storage of data only takes place after explicit consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 p. lit. a) GDPR. This can be revoked at any time with effect for the future.

You can unsubscribe from the sending of emails by HubSpot via a link in the respective email.

Twitter Advertising (Retargeting or Conversion Tracking)

We use services of Twitter Inc, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA on our website. Within the EU/EEA, the responsible party for dealing with data subjects’ rights is the Twitter International Company, Attn: Data Protection Officer, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07 IRELAND.

Twitter Ads allows advertisers to collect data from users who visit their website. Cookies and code are used that connect the website to another third-party platform such as Twitter. In the process, a non-reversible and non-personal checksum (hash value) is generated from your usage data and transmitted to Twitter for analysis and marketing purposes. In addition, a so-called “Twitter pixel” may be used to track the actions of users after they have seen or clicked on a Twitter advertisement.

User behavior is recorded, such as websites visited, content retrieved, time of visit, etc., but also device-related data such as applications and operating systems used. Your IP address is stored and used for the geographic targeting of advertising. In “cross-device personalization”, Twitter also attempts to identify and link all of a user’s devices. Since the data is stored and processed by Twitter, a link to the respective user profile on twitter.com is also possible.

The collection and storage of data only takes place after explicit consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 p. lit. a) GDPR. This can be revoked at any time with effect for the future.

Anonymized data is deleted within 6 months. Data that makes it possible to identify a specific user on Twitter is deleted within 90 days. For more information on the duration of storage, please contact the provider or visit https://legal.twitter.com/ads-terms/international.html.

For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data, as well as privacy settings, please refer to Twitter’s privacy policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy.

Twitter Analytics

We use services of Twitter Inc, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA on our website. Within the EU/EEA, the responsible party for dealing with data subjects’ rights is the Twitter International Company, Attn: Data Protection Officer, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07 IRELAND.

If you become active via our Twitter presence in the form of messages, comments, mentions or “likes” that contain personal data (e.g. your name, date of birth or address), this data is transmitted by Twitter to us as the operator of our Twitter account. Tweets and profile information are generally publicly accessible data, which means that every Twitter user can see your profile data and tweets. However, this also means that replies (e.g. comments or “like” votes) can be recorded. You can make settings for this in your account settings under the item “Privacy and security”: https://twitter.com/settings/safety.

We would like to point out that we also make use of the “Twitter Analytics” function when operating the Twitter presence. Via Twitter Analytics, owners of a Twitter account can retrieve and analyze a summary of data in the form of statistics within a tool. With the help of this tool, measures of the Twitter presence can be evaluated, insights into the target group can be gathered, fan engagement and the viral spread of one’s own posts can be obtained.

With Twitter Analytics, we have the option via Twitter to retrieve the following statistics, among others, which do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about individual users:

– “Like” views

– page views

– Gender ratio or regional distribution of users

– Post reach

The collection and storage of data only takes place after explicit consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 p. lit. a) GDPR. This can be revoked at any time with effect for the future.

For more information on data protection at Twitter, please visit: https://twitter.com/de/privacy

DoubleClick by Google

We use the online marketing tool DoubleClick by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA on our website. The responsible entity for users in the EU/EEA and Switzerland is Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland. DoubleClick uses cookies to display ads that are relevant to users, to improve campaign performance reports, or to prevent users from seeing the same ads more than once. Google records which ads are displayed in which browser via a cookie ID. This prevents the same ad from being displayed more than once. In addition, DoubleClick can use cookie IDs to record so-called conversions with reference to ads. This is the case, for example, when a user sees a DoubleClick ad and later calls up the advertiser’s website with the same browser and makes a purchase there.

When you call up a page that uses DoubleClick and for which the DoubleClick script is permitted, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with Google’s server. We as the website operator have no influence on the scope and further use of the data collected by Google through the use of this tool. We inform you according to our state of knowledge: Through the integration of DoubleClick, Google receives the information that you have called up the corresponding part of our website or clicked on an advertisement from us. If you are registered with a Google service, Google can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, there is a possibility that the provider may obtain and store your IP address.

For more information on DoubleClick by Google, please visit https://www.google.de/doubleclick and on data protection at Google in general: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. Alternatively, you can visit the website of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) at https://www.networkadvertising.org.

The collection and storage of data only takes place after express consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a) GDPR. This can be revoked at any time with effect for the future.

Google Ads (formerly Google AdWords), remarketing and conversion tracking

We use the service Google Ads. Google Ads is an online advertising program of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The responsible party for users in the EU/EEA and Switzerland is Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.

This means that we place Google Ads and also use Google Remarketing and Conversion Tracking as part of this. The ads are displayed after search queries on websites of the Google advertising network. In addition, we use Ads remarketing lists for search ads. This allows us to customize search ad campaigns for users who have visited our website before. Through the services, we have the opportunity to combine our ads with certain search terms or to display ads for previous visitors in which, for example, services are advertised that the visitors have viewed on our website. We can thus display interest-based advertising to users of our website on other websites within the Google advertising network (as a “Google ad” within Google Search or on other websites).

For interest-based offers, an analysis of online user behavior is necessary. Google uses cookies to perform this analysis. When clicking on an advertisement or visiting our website, a cookie is set on the user’s computer by Google. These cookies have a term of 90 days. The information collected by means of the respective cookie is used to target the visitor in a subsequent search query. Further information on the cookie technology used can also be found in Google’s notes on website statistics and in the privacy policy. With the help of this technology, Google and we as a customer receive information about the fact that a user has clicked on an advertisement and has been redirected to our web pages. The information obtained in this way is used exclusively for statistical evaluation for ad optimization. We do not receive any information with which visitors can be personally identified. Your IP address is transmitted to Google, but since we use Google Analytics IP masking on this website, your IP address is anonymized. The statistics provided to us by Google include the total number of users who clicked on one of our ads and, if applicable, whether they were redirected to a page on our website that is tagged with a conversion tag. Based on these statistics, we can track which search terms were clicked on our ad particularly often and which ads lead to the user contacting us via the contact form.

You can find more detailed information on data protection within the scope of Google Ads at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en.

The collection and storage of data only takes place after explicit consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a) GDPR. This can be revoked at any time with effect for the future.

If you do not want your visit to be included in the user statistics, you can prevent this by preventing the storage of the cookie required for these technologies, for example, via your browser settings.

You also have the option of selecting the types of Google ads or deactivating interest-based ads on Google via the ad setting. Alternatively, you can disable the use of cookies by third parties by calling the deactivation help of the network advertising initiative.

However, we and Google still receive statistical information about how many users have visited this site and when. If you do not want to be included in these statistics either, you can prevent this by using additional programs for your browser (for example, the Ghostery add-on).

Google Analytics

Insofar as you have given your consent, Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, is used on this website. The responsible party for users in the EU/EEA and Switzerland is Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”).

Scope of processing

Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of our websites. The information collected by means of the cookies about your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Google Analytics 4 has IP address anonymization enabled by default. Due to IP anonymization, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.

During your website visit, your user behavior is recorded in the form of “events”. Events can be:

– Page views
– First visit to the website
– Start of session
– Your “click path”, interaction with the website
– Scrolls (whenever a user scrolls to the bottom of the page (90%))
– clicks on external links
– internal search queries
– interaction with videos
– seen / clicked ads

Also recorded:

– Your approximate location (region)
– your IP address (in shortened form)
– technical information about your browser and the end devices you use (e.g. language setting, screen resolution)
– your internet service provider
– the referrer URL (via which website/advertising medium you came to this website)

Purposes of the processing

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your pseudonymous use of the website and compiling reports on website activity. The reports provided by Google Analytics are used to analyze the performance of our website and the success of our marketing campaigns.

Recipients

Recipients of the data are/may be.

Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (as processor under Art. 28 GDPR).

Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

Alphabet Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

It cannot be ruled out that US authorities may access the data stored by Google.

Storage period

The data sent by us and linked to cookies are automatically deleted after 2 OR 14 months. Data whose retention period has been reached is automatically deleted once a month.

Legal basis

The legal basis for this data processing is your consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR.

Revocation

You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by accessing the cookie settings and changing your selection there. The legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation remains unaffected.

Alternatively, you can prevent the storage of cookies from the outset by setting your browser software accordingly. However, if you configure your browser to refuse all cookies, you may experience limitations in functionality on this and other websites. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google, by

a. Not giving your consent to the setting of the cookie or

b. downloading and installing the browser add-on to disable Google Analytics HERE.

For more information on Google Analytics’ terms of use and Google’s privacy policy, please visit https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/de/ and at https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.

Google Re/Marketing Services

We use the marketing and remarketing services (in short “Google marketing services”) of the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, to optimize and economically operate our online offer. The responsible entity for users in the EU/EEA and Switzerland is Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.

Google’s marketing services allow us to display advertisements for our website in a more targeted manner in order to present you only with ads that potentially match your interests. For example, if you are shown ads for our services on other websites, this is referred to as “remarketing”. For these purposes, when you call up our website and other websites on which Google marketing services are active, a code is executed directly by Google and so-called (re)marketing tags (invisible graphics or code, also known as “web beacons”) are integrated into the website. With their help, an individual cookie, i.e. a small file, is stored on your device (comparable technologies can also be used instead of cookies).

The cookies can be set by various domains, including google.com, doubleclick.net, invitemedia.com, admeld.com, googlesyndication.com or googleadservices.com. This file records which websites you visited, which content you were interested in and which offers you clicked on, as well as technical information on the browser and operating system, referring websites, time of visit and other information on the use of the online offer. Your IP address is also recorded, whereby we inform you within the scope of Google Analytics that the IP address is shortened within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and only in exceptional cases is transferred in full to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

The IP address will not be merged with your data within other Google offers. The aforementioned information may also be combined on the part of Google with such information from other sources. If you subsequently visit other websites, you can be shown ads tailored to your interests.

We process your data as part of the Google marketing services pseudonymously. This means that Google does not store and process your name or e-mail address, for example, but processes the relevant data on a cookie basis within pseudonymous user profiles. The information collected by Google marketing services about users is transmitted to Google and stored on Google’s servers in the USA.

The Google marketing services we use include the online advertising program “Google Ads” (formerly: “Google AdWords”). In the case of Google Ads, each Ads customer receives a different “conversion cookie”. Cookies can therefore not be tracked across Ads customers’ websites. The information obtained using the cookie is used to create conversion statistics for Ads customers who have opted in to conversion tracking. Ads customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users.

Furthermore, we may use the “Google Tag Manager” to integrate and manage Google analytics and marketing services on our website.

For more information on the use of data for marketing purposes by Google, please refer to the overview page: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads, Google’s privacy policy is available at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy.

The collection and storage of data only takes place after explicit consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a) GDPR. This can be revoked at any time with effect for the future.

Google Tag Manager

For reasons of transparency, we would like to point out that we use the Google Tag Manager of the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The responsible entity for users in the EU/EEA and Switzerland is Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.

The Google Tag Manager itself does not collect any personal data. The Google Tag Manager makes it easier for us to integrate and manage our tags. Tags are small code elements that are used, among other things, to measure traffic and visitor behavior, track the impact of online advertising and social channels, set up remarketing and targeting, and test and optimize websites. We use the Tag Manager for the Google Analytics service. If you have made a deactivation, this deactivation will be taken into account by Google Tag Manager. For more information on Google Tag Manager, see: https://www.google.com/intl/de/tagmanager/use-policy.html.

Facebook Connect

We use “Facebook Connect” on our website, a service provided by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland, a subsidiary of Meta Platforms, Inc, 1601 S California Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA (hereinafter “Facebook”). Facebook Connect makes it easier for you to register for services on the Internet. Through this, we offer you the opportunity to register and log in to our website via your Facebook account in order to use our services.

When you register through Facebook, Facebook will ask for your consent to share certain data in your Facebook account with us. This may include your first name, last name and email address to verify your identity and gender, general location, a link to your Facebook profile, time zone, date of birth, profile picture, “likes” and friends list.

This information is collected by Facebook and transmitted to us in compliance with Facebook’s data policy (https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation). You can control the information we receive from Facebook through the privacy settings on your Facebook account.

This data is used to set up, provide and personalize your account.

When you register with us via Facebook, your account is automatically connected to your Facebook account and information about your activities on our websites may be shared on Facebook and published in your chronicle and news display for friends.

The legal basis for the data processing of your personal data in connection with Facebook Connect is your consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a) GDPR. You can prevent Facebook from processing the above information by using our registration mask and not using Facebook Connect.

Facebook Custom Audiences (Facebook Pixel)

We use the service Custom Audiences of Meta Platforms, Inc. in the context of usage-based online advertising. (1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA). For this purpose, we define target groups of users in the Facebook Ads Manager based on certain characteristics, who are subsequently shown ads within the Facebook network. Users are selected by Facebook based on the profile information they provide and other data provided through their use of Facebook. If a user clicks on an advertisement and subsequently arrives on our website, Facebook receives the information that the user has clicked on the advertising banner via the Facebook pixel embedded on our website. Basically, a non-reversible and non-personal checksum (hash value) is generated from your usage data, which is transmitted to Facebook for analysis and marketing purposes. A Facebook cookie is set in the process. This collects information about your activities on our website (e.g. surfing behavior, subpages visited, etc.). Your IP address is also stored and used for the geographic targeting of advertising. Facebook Custom Audiences via the customer list is not used by us, as is the “extended matching” function.

The data is deleted after 720 days at the latest.

You can find Facebook’s privacy policy here: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php- You can object to the collection by the Facebook pixel and use of your data here: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads.

The legal basis for this data processing is your consent pursuant to Art.6 para.1 p.1 lit. a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by accessing the cookie settings here and changing your selection there.

LinkedIn Analytics (Insight Tag)

This website uses the LinkedIn Insight Tag to evaluate anonymized reports on target groups and display performance. In addition, it offers the possibility to display targeted advertising outside of your own website (“retargeting”). The provider is LinkedIn Corporation, 599 N Mathilda Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA.

Among other things, the following data is processed: URL, referrer URL, device properties, browser properties and the IP address. Further information on the cookies used by LinkedIn can be found at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy. Further information on data protection at LinkedIn can be found at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.  

The legal basis for this data processing is your consent pursuant to Art.6 para.1 p.1 lit.a GDPR. This can be revoked at any time with effect for the future.

In order to prevent LinkedIn from collecting data for advertising purposes, you can set a cookie via this link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.

In addition, you can make further data protection adjustments via this link: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/62931/manage-advertising-preferences?lang=en

Contact details of the controller and the Data Representative in the EU for GDPR Compliance

The responsible party within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

Level Ex Inc.

180 N. LaSalle
Suite 500
Chicago, IL 60601.

Support@level-ex.com

You may contact our data representative in the EU as required under Art. 27 GDPR directly:

E-mail:

EU-Rep-LevelEx@intersoft-consulting.de 

Postal address:

intersoft consulting services AG
EU Representative of LevelEx Inc.
Beim Strohhause 17
20097 Hamburg
Germany