akquinet GmbH
Commercial Register: AG Hamburg HRB 176604
VAT registration number: DE 232 835 231

Board of management:
Herr Olaf Lange
Herr Thomas Muszal
Herr Thomas Tauer
Herr Till Vieregge
Herr Olaf Zöftig

Person responsible for IT:
Herr Thomas Tauer

The purpose of the company is to operate an IT enterprise that advises other enterprises for all kinds of questions regarding information technology, along with the development, authoring, implementation, adaptation, maintenance, and placement of computer software and hardware and IT services, and conducting training courses. We also purchase, hold, manage, and divest holdings, particularly majority holdings in a number of companies, particularly companies in the IT sector, on our own behalf and for our own account, and we assume and perform services such as administration and marketing for such companies and all transactions conducted in this context. All data collection is exclusively for the purpose of fulfilling the business purposes of the company.

Public authorities if there are overriding legal requirements, external contractors, and external bodies and internal departments to fulfill the purposes described in "Intended purpose of data collection, processing, or usage".

In general, we do not currently transfer any data to third countries. The dispatch of our newsletter is an exception to this.

You are at any time entitled to receive information from us about the data stored for you. If required, please contact:

akquinet GmbH
Datenschutzbeauftragter
Mr. Eugen Deperschmidt
Paul-Stritter-Weg 5
22297 Hamburg

IT controller
Herr Thomas Tauer
Paul-Stritter-Weg 5
22297 Hamburg

or send an e-mail to: datenschutz@akquinet.de

In addition, you can revoke your consent to us recording and saving your personal data at any time. If required, please send an e-mail to our marketing department (datenschutz@akquinet.de).

If you have further questions regarding our information about data protection and the processing of your personal data, you can contact our data protection officer directly.

He is also available to you as a contact person for information requests, suggestions, or complaints.

We also process personal data when you visit our web pages.

To enable the pages to be displayed in your browser, we have to process the IP address of the device you are using. We also collect other information about the browser on your device.

We are required by data protection laws to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the personal data processed in our IT systems.

For this purpose, we log the following data:

• IP address of the calling computer
• Operating system of the calling computer
• Browser version of the calling computer
• Name of the retrieved file
• Date and time of access
• Data volume transmitted
• Referral URL

The IP address is deleted within 7 days from all systems related to the operation of the web pages. As a result, we can no longer trace the remaining data back to a specific individual.

We also use this data to correct errors on the web pages and to defend against potential attacks.

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our "interest" pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f is the operation of this website and implementation of the protection objectives confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data.

Our web pages use cookies. Cookies are small text files that are saved on your user device by your browser. These cookies are required to enable certain features of our web pages. We set session cookies, which are deleted from your browser automatically as soon as you leave our website. We also use persistent cookies for web analytics.

We are required to document your agreement with or objection to setting these cookies before they are created. The following information is saved in general:

• User's IP address in anonymized form (the last three digits are set to "0")
• Date and time of agreement
• User browser
• URL from which the agreement was sent
• Anonymous, random, encrypted key value
• Approval status of the user, which serves to document the approval

The key and approval status are also saved in the user's browser, in the "CookieConsent" cookie, which enables the website to read and respect the user's decision automatically for all subsequent page requests and future user sessions for up to 12 months.

You have the possibility to prevent the setting of cookies by configuring your browser accordingly. We wish to point out, however, that you may not be able to use the full features of our web pages in this case. Cookies do not install or start any programs or other applications on your computer.

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR in connection with section 15 of the Telemedia Act (TMG).

If you want to deactivate Google Analytics you can do so here: Privacy settings. This will install an opt-out cookie on your device. This will prevent Google Analytics from collecting cookies for this website and browser in the future as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

We embed YouTube videos on some of our web pages. The operator of the corresponding plugin is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, United States. When you visit a page with the YouTube plug in, a connection is established with YouTube's servers. In this process, YouTube is notified which pages you visit. If you are logged in to your YouTube account at the time, YouTube can assign your surfing patterns to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

When you start a YouTube video, the provider sets cookies that collect information about user behavior.

If you have deactivated the saving of cookies for Google's ad program, you do not have to expect any such cookies when watching YouTube videos, either. YouTube also saves non-personal usage information in other cookies, however. If you wish to prevent this, you must block the saving of cookies in your browser.

Additional information about privacy at YouTube can be found in the provider's privacy statement at:

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

Our website contains a contact form, which you can use to request information about or products or establish contact with us in general. In addition to the voluntary information and the contents of your message, we require you to provide the following information:

• E-mail address
• Form of address
• Last name

We need this information to process your inquiry, to address you correctly, and to send you an answer.

Should data no longer be needed in the framework of a customer or prospective customer relationship or if a conflicting interest of the customer takes priority, we will delete all the relevant data, as long as no legal data retention requirements prevent its deletion.

The data collected via the contact form will be stored in our CRM system to process your request. The system used is Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the processing of the data takes place in Ireland.

The legal basis for contacting us is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

The legal basis for contract fulfillment is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.