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Data Protection

This information is relevant if you use the WeVenture website at https://weventure.de (“Services“).

At a glance

Scope: This privacy policy applies to processing by WeVenture as the controller. If WeVenture processes personal data on behalf of customers, it is the responsibility of the respective customers to inform the data subjects accordingly about the processing when they use the service.
Contact details of the controller: WEVENTURE Performance GmbH, Bettina Wille, info@weventure.de
Contact details of the data protection officer: HYAZINTH, info@hdrcontrol.de
Source of the processed data: Automatically or actively provided data, publicly available information (e.g., from registers and public sources), data provided by third parties (e.g., social networks, etc.).
Purposes of processing: Access to services, security and improvement of services, contract management, legal requirements, product development, communication, and marketing.
Recipients: Service providers, authorities, consultants and debt collection service providers, auditors and other contractual partners who are bound to confidentiality.
Legal basis: Consent; contractual purposes; compliance with legal requirements; protection of legitimate interests of us and third parties after balancing interests.
Storage period: The data will be stored for as long as necessary for the above purposes, or longer if required by law or otherwise necessary and permissible.

Your control

  • Withdrawal of consent: You may withdraw your consent at any time without giving reasons. Upon withdrawal, processing based on consent will cease in the future.
  • Objection to processing based on legitimate interests: You may object to data processing based on legitimate interests, stating your reasons. The processing will be stopped unless compelling legitimate reasons override your interests, rights, and freedoms, e.g., if the processing serves to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims. Any processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes will be stopped immediately upon notification by the data subjects (objection that does not require any specific justification). 

Your rights as a data subject: access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability, and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. To exercise these rights, you can contact the data controller at any time and free of charge, without having to provide any form or justification.

In detail

The following information is intended to help you understand from which sources WeVenture obtains personal data about you, who is responsible for processing it, and for what purposes WeVenture, as the controller, processes personal data, on what legal basis and for how long we may disclose personal data, and what rights you have as a data subject in relation to the processing of your personal data.

1. Contact information of the controller:
You can reach us at
WEVENTURE Performance, Cuvrystraße 1, 10997 Berlin

You can find further contact information in our imprint.

 

2. Responsibility and roles
We have different roles when processing personal data, i.e. 
as data controller: WeVenture acts as the sole data controller for data directly related to your interactions with our services (e.g., when you send inquiries, participate in webinars, or subscribe to newsletters).
as a processor: In cases where WeVenture acts as a processor on behalf of customers, WeVenture processes personal data exclusively on the basis of the customer’s instructions (as the controller).

  • Note: This privacy policy does not apply to processing where WeVenture acts as a processor. In such cases, customers (as controllers) are responsible for informing data subjects about the processing of their data.  

 

3. Origin of personal data processed by WeVenture 
We process personal data from customers or data subjects in connection with our services.
The data processed by WeVenture comes from the following sources:

  • Automatically collected data: Technical data collected when you interact with WeVenture services (e.g., IP addresses, browser information, cookies).
  • Data actively provided by customers or users: Contact details (e.g., name, email, organization, business phone number).
  • Information from publicly available sources: WeVenture may process personal data from publicly available sources such as registers, government agencies, or commercial registers, etc., to the extent necessary to fulfill legal and contractual obligations.
  • Third party services or platforms: Data from social networks or services connected to WeVenture accounts.

 

4. Purposes and legal basis for the processing of personal data 
We process personal data for limited purposes and only if we are contractually or legally obliged to do so, or if this is necessary on the basis of legitimate interests, or if you have expressly consented to the processing of your personal data. 

4.1 Security and operation
For technical reasons, your browser or device sends us technical information every time you visit or interact with our services, which is stored in server files. This includes connection and access data such as the date and time of your visit and the duration of your use of our services, your device’s IP address, the referrer URL (the website from which you may have been referred), the subpages visited, and, if applicable, other information about your device, such as device type, browser type and version, settings, installed plug-ins, operating system, logins, settings, tasks performed, and other information related to your use of our services. 
We use this data to enable interaction with our service and to protect and improve our offering, to prevent misuse, and to detect, prevent, and correct errors. The legal basis for the processing of this data is Article 6 (1) lit. f) of the GDPR, the protection and functionality of the services are legitimate interests in this sense. 

4.2 Data provided 
We process personal data from you if you wish to contact us (e.g. via our contact form, by email or by telephone). 
We process this data if it is necessary for contractual purposes or legitimate interests in order to respond to your request and stay in contact with you. 
The legal basis for processing is Article 6 (1) lit. b) of the GDPR and Article 6 (1) lit. f) of the GDPR. 

4.3 Communication and support
If you are a business contact, a prospective buyer, or an applicant, we process the personal data provided to us in order to communicate with you, to take steps at your request before entering into a contract with you, and to enable us to follow up on previous business discussions we have had with you in order to provide you with additional information about our offering.
At your request, we process personal data that is necessary to enable you to participate in a webinar or other event organized by us, to download a white paper, or to participate in an event.
The legal basis for processing is Article 6 (1) lit. b) of the GDPR and Article 6 (1) lit. f) of the GDPR.

4.4 Direct marketing
From time to time, we may contact you by email or phone for commercial reasons, e.g., to inform you about available updates or new offers.
If you are not a customer of ours, we will only use your contact details for direct marketing purposes if you have given us your express consent to receive such information. As an existing customer, we process your relevant contact details on the basis of our legitimate interest in providing you with commercial information relating to the services you use, unless you have objected to such communication.
The legal basis for processing is either Article 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR or, if applicable, Article 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR.
You can opt out of receiving marketing communications from us at any time, free of charge and without giving any reason, e.g. by clicking on the link at the end of an email or by notifying us.

4.5 Compliance with legal obligations
We also process personal data for other purposes, e.g. if we are required to do so by law, for tax purposes or on the basis of our legitimate interests, e.g. if this is necessary to assert or defend legal claims.
In these cases, the legal basis is either a legal obligation pursuant to Article 6 (1) lit. c) or a legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) lit. f) of the GDPR.

4.6 Audits and business transactions
During the review or negotiation of mergers, financing, acquisitions, bankruptcies, or similar transactions, we may analyze personal data and, after weighing the interests of the parties involved and affected, disclose it to external auditors, consultants, or lawyers, as well as other third parties in connection with or during the negotiation of such a transaction. 
The legal basis in these cases is Article 6 (1) lit. f) of the GDPR and our legitimate interest in demonstrating compliance and the necessary business functionality. 

5. Recipients
We do not sell personal data to third parties; however, we may disclose personal data to others, including

  • Customers: If you have registered to use our services as a corporate/business user of one of our customers, we may provide the enterprise with personal data in connection with your use of our services. 
  • Service providers: We only engage carefully selected and contractually bound service providers to provide our services, with whom we may share personal data in connection with your use of our services.
  • Authorities: We only disclose personal data to authorities if we are requested to do so by our customers or if we are legally obliged to do so.
  • Debt collection agencies, consultants, auditors, and other third parties: In addition, we only disclose personal data to the extent necessary to debt collection agencies, our legal or financial advisors, auditors, or other third parties who are subject to legal or contractual confidentiality obligations.

Upon request, we can provide you with additional information about your personal data. 

6. Data transfers to third countries
We only transfer your personal data if   

  • the recipient offers adequate guarantees for the protection of personal data (including all necessary additional measures) in accordance with Article 46 of the General Data Protection Regulation,   
  • you have expressly consented to the transfer after we have informed you of the risks in accordance with Article 49 (1) lit. a) GDPR,  
  • the transfer is necessary for the fulfillment of the contractual obligations between you and us or between you and one of our users, or  
  • or another exception to Article 49 of the General Data Protection Regulation applies.   

Appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 GDPR may be so-called standard contractual clauses, whereby a recipient in a third country with limited protection guarantees that it will protect the data adequately and thus ensure a level of protection comparable to that provided by the GDPR.
Upon request, we can provide you with additional information about your personal data.

7. Storage and deletion
In general, we only process personal data until the specified purposes have been fulfilled. We then anonymize or delete personal data unless we are legally obliged to retain and document it for longer for tax or commercial reasons, or you have consented to further storage, or we have a legitimate interest in further processing in individual cases that outweighs  your interest in deletion, for example because processing is necessary to assert or defend legal claims.  
We store the personal data processed during registration and login for the duration of the contractual relationship with us and beyond, insofar as the data is necessary to prove the fulfillment of contractual or legal obligations or to assert and defend legal claims.

8. Your control options 
You may revoke your consent to us at any time without giving reasons. As a result, we will cease processing your data based on your consent in the future. 
You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data on the basis of legitimate interests at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation.
If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we or our customers can demonstrate compelling reasons for processing that outweigh your interests, rights, and freedoms, e.g., if the processing serves to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims. 
If your objection is directed against the processing of data for direct marketing purposes, we will cease processing immediately without further examination. This also applies to any profiling related to such direct marketing.

9. Your rights as a data subject vis-à-vis the controllers
In addition, you have the right  

  • to request access to your personal data processed by us in accordance with Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation. In particular, you can request information about the purposes of the processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the intended storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us, and the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, as well as, where applicable, meaningful information about its details;
  • to request the immediate rectification of inaccurate or incomplete personal data stored by us in accordance with Article 16 of the GDPR;
  • in accordance with Article 17 of the GDPR, to request the erasure of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims;
  • in accordance with Article 18 of the GDPR, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data if you dispute the accuracy of the data, the processing is unlawful, but you object to its erasure and we no longer need the data, but you need it for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims, or you have objected to the processing; 
  • pursuant to Article 20 of the GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request its transfer to another controller; and
  • to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in accordance with Article 77 of the General Data Protection Regulation. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our company headquarters for this purpose. 

If you have any questions about data protection at WeVenture, please do not hesitate to contact us. 

Cookies and similar technologies

When you use our services, usage data is collected as part of what is known as “web tracking.” This means that the behavior of certain users can be tracked in pseudonymized form in order to improve and personalize our services and optimize advertising. We also use cookies and similar technologies for this purpose.
What are cookies? Cookies are small text files containing information that are stored on your device when you visit a website. They are generally used to assign a specific action or preference on a website to a user without identifying the user as a person or revealing their identity.  
Cookies are not automatically good or bad, but it is worth understanding what you can do about them and making your own choices about your data.   
We use the following types of cookies, the scope and functionality of which are explained below: session cookies and longer-term cookies.  
Session cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. They store a so-called session ID, which can be used to assign various requests from your browser to the shared session. This allows your device to be recognized when you return to our website. 
Longer-term cookies remain even after you close your browser and are automatically deleted after a certain period of time, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can also actively delete  cookies at any time in your browser’s security settings.  
You can set your browser before or after visiting our website so that all cookies are rejected or so that it indicates when a cookie is being sent. These settings can usually be managed in your browser settings, including settings that prevent cookies from being set or that delete cookies. Your browser may also have a function for anonymous browsing. You can use these functions of your browser at any time. However, if you have disabled cookies in your browser by default, our services may not function properly.   
In addition to cookies, we also use other technologies to track users. These include, for example, so-called pixel tags (also known as “web beacons,” “GIFs,” or “bugs”).   
What are pixel tags? Pixel tags are transparent one-pixel images that are displayed on the website. They track, for example, whether a specific area of the website has been clicked on. When the pixel tag is triggered, it logs a user interaction and can read or set cookies. Since tracking pixels often rely on cookies to function, disabling cookies may impair their functionality. However, even if you disable cookies, tracking pixels can still recognize a website visit.  
The pixels send your IP address, the referrer URL of the website you visited, the time you viewed the pixel, the browser you used, and previously set cookie information to a web server. This enables us to carry out reach measurements and other statistical evaluations that serve to optimize our services.  

Purpose and Required cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies to improve your experience when using our website. For example, we use session cookies to recognize that you have filled in certain fields or selected language settings. These are automatically deleted after you leave our site. In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimize user-friendliness, which are stored on your device for a certain period of time. When you visit our site again to use our services, we automatically recognize that you have already visited and what entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again. 
The data processed by these cookies is necessary  to protect our legitimate interests and the interests of third parties in accordance with Section 25 TDDDG and Article 6 (1) lit. f) of the GDPR.  

Optional cookies
On the other hand, we use these technologies—with your consent, § 25 TDDDG and Article 6 (1) lit. a) of the GDPR—to statistically record the use of our services and to evaluate them for the purpose of optimizing our offers and to display   advertising on third-party websites.   
You can revoke your consent at any time with future effect via the cookie management tool. You can access the tool at any time via the “Cookie settings” button at the bottom of the website to review and adjust your consent settings.