Data protection policy

Drone Industry Insights UG, its subsidiaries, and partner companies (hereinafter referred to jointly and singly as “DII”) consider the protection of your personal data and your right of informational self-determination to be of great importance. DII will collect, process, and use the personal data it collects during your visit to its website and integrated online store (hereinafter referred to jointly and individually as the “Website”). In doing so, it will comply with the principles described below as well as with the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz), and the Telemedia Act (Telemediengesetz).

1. Definition of personal data

Personal data consists of information regarding personal or factual circumstances that could be used to establish a link to your person. Such data includes, for example, your name, telephone number, and postal and e-mail addresses. In detail, DII may process:

• Personal details: Given name(s), preferred name, and photograph (if provided), date of birth
• Contact details: Address, telephone number, email address, and details of your public business networking profile(s).
• Payment details: Invoice records, payment records, billing address, payment method, bank account number, card or account security details, payment amount, and payment date.
• Data relating to our websites: Device type, operating system, browser type, browser settings, IP address, language settings, dates and times of connecting to a Site, usage data, aggregate statistical information, internet service provider details, referring and exit pages, and clickstream data.
• Views and opinions: Any views and opinions that you choose to send to us, or publicly post about us on social media platforms.

2. Collection of personal data

DII collects information from you when you place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, respond to a survey, fill out a form, or enter information on our site. In detail, DII may collect or receive:

• your personal information if you provide it directly to us (for example, if you contact us via email or phone)
• your personal information in the process of our business relationship (for example, if we provide a service to you or your employer)
• your personal information if you make it explicitly available to the public. This also includes social media (e.g., information from your profiles in social media or business networks)
• your personal information when you visit any of our websites or use features or resources provided on or through a website
• your personal information when you log in to one of our websites or use this or one of our services (e.g., Newsletter)
• or use your personal data when handling suggestions and comments that you submit on a contact form on its website
• your personal information from third parties who provide or transmit it to us (e.g., credit bureaus, law enforcement agencies)

3. Regulatory basis for the processing of personal data

DII is authorized to process your personal data when:

• You have previously given us your express consent
• The data processing is necessary for a contract between you and us
• the processing of the data is necessary for the protection of the fundamental interests of a person
• have a legitimate interest in the processing of the data

4. Purpose of data processing

DII may process your data for the following purposes:

• Operation of our websites and provision of services or services on request, and for the necessary communication
• Operating and administering our websites, providing content, communicating and otherwise interacting with you, notifying you of changes to our websites or services.
• Providing (via e-mail, telephone, social media, mail, or in person) information to you that you may be interested in (such as upcoming events, new products, and other relevant information), provided that such transfer complies with applicable law.
• Maintaining and updating your contact details, if appropriate.
• Maintaining our communication system and operating our IT security system.
• Finance and Sales Management.
• Contacting you to conduct surveys for our services.
• Electronic security (including login and access details).
• Detection, investigation, and prevention of violations of the terms and conditions and justification, enforcement, and defense of legal claims
• Improvement of our websites and services
• Job recruitment

5. Transfer of personal data to third parties

DII may disclose your personal information to:

• judicial and regulatory authorities
• our external consultants or companies working for us
• any other agency, if necessary for conducting legal transactions or for the detection, investigation, or prevention of criminal offenses

6. Data security

DII implements adequate technical and organizational security measures to protect the integrity of your personal information. For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (for example, orders or inquiries to the person responsible), our websites use SSL, TLS, or an encrypted connection. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the string “https://” and the lock icon in your browser bar.

7. Data accuracy and storage

We take all reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is stored and kept accurate only as long as it is needed to fulfill our legitimate objectives.

8. Your rights

The law grants you the right:

• not to pass on your personal data to us
• to access your personal data
• to correct erroneous data
• to delete or restrict the processing of your personal data
• to revoke consent statements

If you would like to delete, block, or update the personal data which we have stored about you, you can contact us by e-mail, fax, or letter at any time. Contact details below. To enforce these rights, we may require proof of identity from you.

9. Cookies and similar technologies like Google Analytics

The DII Website also uses cookies. Cookies are small text files stored by your browser on your hard drive. We use the information in the cookies to make your online visit more pleasant and personal, for example, to manage your virtual shopping cart. In addition, we use cookies to save your individual settings, such as your language selection, so you do not have to change them each time you go online. We save the following data in encrypted form in the cookies we use: an anonymous ID for your computer and the settings that you have made at our Website.

Google Analytics:

DII’s websites use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc.

Google Analytics also uses cookies stored on the user’s computer to analyze the user’s website use. The information generated by the cookie about the user’s use of the website (including the user’s IP address) is transmitted to and stored by Google on a server that DII uses to improve its websites and services. Google may transfer such information to third parties where required by law or as required by third parties to process such data on Google’s behalf. By using this website, users agree to the processing of data collected about them by DII and Google in the manner and for the purposes described above. You may disable cookies by configuring your browser accordingly. Please note that if you do this, you may not be able to fully use all features of this website.

10. Direct marketing

DII may also process your personal information for contacting you via e-mail, telephone, post, or other means of communication, and to provide you with information of interest to you. If we provide services to you, we may send you information about services, new offers, upcoming publications, and other information that may be of interest to you. To do this, we use the contact information you provided in accordance with applicable law.

Newsletter: For sending newsletters, DII uses specialized service providers to which it will pass the necessary personal data. These service providers will use your personal data only on behalf of DII and in accordance with its instructions. Compliance with these data protection provisions is ensured, as are the necessary security measures.

You can always unsubscribe from the e-mail distribution list created for such actions. After unsubscribing, we will not send you any more promotional emails, but you may continue to contact us to request other services.

11. Contact details

If you have comments or questions about this policy or the way your personal information is processed by us or on our behalf, please contact our contact:
Drone Industry Insights UG, Wiesendamm 55A, 22305 Hamburg, E-Mail: info@droneii.com