We are informing you how we collect personal data when you use our website. Personal data means any data relating to you personally, for example name, email addresses, user behaviour.

The controller within the meaning of Art. 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is makd GmbH, Urbanstr. 71, 10967 Berlin, Germany; Phone +49 160 938 713 35, Email: info@makd.io.

You have the following rights concerning your personal data in relation to us: Right of access, Right to rectification or erasure, Right to restriction of processing, Right to object to the processing, Right to data portability. To exercise your rights, please contact us using the above contact details. In addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint regarding processing of your personal data by us with a supervisory authority.

If you have given your consent to processing of your data, you may revoke this at any time. Such revocation influences whether processing of your personal data is permissible after you have notified us of the revocation. If processing of your personal data is based on a consideration of interests, you can object to the processing. This is the case particularly if the processing is not required to perform a contract with you, which we outline in the relevant subsequent description of the functions. When you exercise your objection, we ask you to provide reasons why you do not wish us to process your personal data in the way that we process data. If your objection is justified, we examine the circumstances and either cease or adjust data processing or provide you with our compelling legitimate grounds for continuing the processing.

Collection of personal data when you use our website

If you use our website for information purposes only, meaning you do not register or send us information in any other way, we only collect the personal data which your browser sends to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which we need for technical reasons in order to display the website to you and to ensure stability and security (the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. f GDPR): IP address, Date and time of the request, Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), Content of the request, Access status/HTTP status code, The website sending the request, Websites which the user's system calls via our website, Transferred bytes of the requested URL, Browser, Operating system and its GUI, Browser software language and version.

Cookies and analytics

We do not use any tracking and/or marketing cookies.

We use anonymous metrics to understand how you use our website and where our traffic comes from. We use this insight to improve our website and create a better experience for visitors. We do not track you, serve personalized advertising, or sell the data to anyone. Our website is powered by Simple Analytics, a privacy-friendly web analytics provider. Simple Analytics is offered by Simple Analytics B.V., Jacob van Lennepstraat 78 H, 1053 HM, Amsterdam, Netherlands. You can learn more about Simple Analytics on their website: https://simpleanalytics.com.

Website hosting

We use website hosting services provided by Vercel Inc, 340S Lemon Ave #4133, Walnut, CA 91789, USA. For this reason, all personal data collected on our website is stored on the servers of our hoster, unless an external service of a third party is integrated. This may be the IP address, your email address, communication data or similar. You can find out which specific personal data is involved in the individual functions and services explained by us below. If we use an external service from a third party, this will be made clear in the description of the respective service or tool. The processing of data by the hoster is necessary to fulfil the services on the website. The data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: https://vercel.com/legal/dpa. More information regarding the data protection of Vercel can be found here: https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Contact via email, phone, scheduling service or contact form

When you contact us, e.g. by email or phone, we save the data that you send to us (your email address, if applicable the date of your query, your name and your message) in order to respond to your query. We delete the data collected in this context once they no longer need to be saved, or we restrict the processing, if statutory storage durations apply. We process these data in order to be able to deal with your query. Data processing to respond to your queries is in our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. f GDPR), because it enables satisfying communication.

We use meetergo, a service to schedule online meetings. meetergo is offered by meetergo GmbH, Hauptstr. 44, 40789 Monheim am Rhein, Germany. The processing of data by meetergo is necessary to fulfil the services on the website. If you schedule a meeting with us, your data is processed by meetergo on their own servers and then sent to us. Data processing to schedule an online meeting with you is in our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. f GDPR), because it enables satisfying communication. More information regarding the data protection of meetergo can be found here: https://meetergo.com/datenschutz.

We use Slack, a chat and communication service. Slack is offered by Slack Technologies Limited, One Park Place, Upper Hatch St., Dublin 2, Ireland. The processing of data by Slack is necessary to fulfil the services on the website. If you contact us via our contact form, your entered data is processed by Slack on their own servers and then sent to us so that we can respond to your query. Data processing to respond to your queries is in our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. f GDPR), because it enables satisfying communication. The data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. More information regarding the data protection of Slack can be found here: https://slack.com/legal.

Video streaming

We use Mux, a video streaming service. Mux is offered by Mux, Inc, 1182 Market St. Suite 425, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA. The use of Mux service is necessary to allow us to provide you with the video content on our website. When you stream a video, Mux may collect and process anonymized data, such as pseudonomyized IP addresses, geographic information, device data, video playback data, and user interactions, to help optimize their video streaming services. Data processing to stream video content is in our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. f GDPR), because it enables the proper functioning of our website and display of content on our website. The data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. More information regarding the data protection of Mux can be found here: https://www.mux.com/privacy.