Data Controller:

Name/Company: Carrot & Company GmbH

Street Nr.: Sparbersbachgasse 26

ZIP, City, Country: 8010, Graz, Austria

CEO: DI Christian Haintz, DI Karin Pichler

Phone number: +43 316 37 50 14

Email address: office@cnc.io

Our principles

We want to make communication and business relationships as simple and uncomplicated as possible. Therefore, we do not store or process any personal data that is not necessarily required to provide you with our services.

Your data will not be passed on to third parties. The only exceptions to this principle are compliance with the law, protection of our rights, further development of our product and operation of our services.

To learn more about how we treat your personal data, please read the following privacy policy carefully. We will be happy to help you if you have any questions. Simply contact us at office@cnc.io .

We respect your privacy with respect to all personal information collected during your visit to our website or for the purpose of quoting and fulfilling orders.

Arten der verarbeiteten Daten

• Inventory data (name, address)
• Contact details (e-mail address)
• Content data
• Contract data
• Meta/communication data
• Payment data

No special categories of data are processed.

Categories of data subjects

Visitors and users of the online offer, customers, interested persons.

Purpose of processing

• Provide the online offer, its contents and functions
• Contractual services, customer care and support
• Answering contact inquiries and communication with users
• Marketing, advertising and market research
• Safety procedures

Status: 14.9.2022

1. Relevant legal principles

In accordance with Art. 13 GDPR, we inform you of the legal basis of our data processing. If the legal basis is not mentioned in the data protection declaration, the following applies: The legal basis for obtaining consents is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a and Art. 7 GDPR, the legal basis for processing for the performance of our services and performance of contractual measures as well as for answering inquiries is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, the legal basis for processing to fulfil our legal obligations is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR, and the legal basis for processing to protect our legitimate interests is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. In the event that the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person require the processing of personal data, Article 6(1)(d) GDPR serves as the legal basis.

2. Changes and Updates to the Privacy Policy

We ask you to inform yourself regularly about the contents of our privacy policy. We will adapt the privacy policy as soon as changes to the data processing carried out by us make this necessary. We will inform you as soon as the changes require your cooperation (e.g. agreement) or other individual notification.

3. Security precautions

We shall take appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk, in accordance with Article 32 GDPR, taking into account the state of the technology, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, circumstances and purposes of processing and the different likelihood of occurrence and severity of the risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons; the measures shall include in particular ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data by controlling physical access to the data, as well as the access, input, transmission, security of availability and their separation. Furthermore, we have established procedures that guarantee the rights of data subjects, deletion of data and reaction to data risks. Furthermore, we already consider the protection of personal data during the development or selection of hardware, software and procedures, in accordance with the principle of data protection through technology design and data protection-friendly presettings (Art. 25 GDPR).

The security measures include in particular the encrypted transmission of data between your browser and our server.

4. Cooperation with contract processors and third parties

If we disclose data to other persons and companies (contract processors or third parties) within the scope of our processing, transmit it to them or otherwise grant them access to the data, this shall only take place on the basis of a legal permission (e.g. if a transmission of the data to third parties, such as payment service providers, in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR for contract fulfilment is necessary), if you have consented, if a legal obligation provides for this or on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. when using agents, web hosts, etc.).

If we commission third parties with the processing of data on the basis of a so-called “Data Processing Agreement”, this is done on the basis of Art. 28 GDPR.

5. Transfers to third party countries

If we process data in a third country (i.e. outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)) or if this occurs in the context of the use of third-party services or disclosure or transfer of data to third parties, this only takes place if it occurs for the fulfilment of our (pre)contractual obligations, on the basis of your consent, on the basis of a legal obligation or on the basis of our legitimate interests. We only process or leave the data in a third country if the special requirements of Art. 44 ff. Process GDPR. This means, for example, processing is carried out on the basis of special guarantees, such as compliance with officially recognised special contractual obligations (so-called “standard contractual clauses”).

6. Rights of data subjects

You have the right to request confirmation as to whether the data are being processed and to request information about these data as well as further information and a copy of the data in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR.

You have the right to request that the data concerning you be completed or incorrect data concerning you be corrected (Art 16 GDPR).

In accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, you have the right to demand that data concerning you be deleted immediately or, alternatively, to demand a restriction on the processing of the data in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR.

You have the right to request that the data concerning you that you have provided to us be received in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR and to request its transmission to other persons responsible.

In accordance with Art. 77 GDPR, you also have the right to file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

7. Right of withdrawal

You have the right to withdraw consents granted according to Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR with future effect.

8. Right of objection

You can object to the future processing of the data concerning you in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR at any time. The objection may be made in particular against processing for direct marketing purposes.

9. Cookies and right of objection in direct advertising

We use temporary and permanent cookies, i.e. small files that are stored on the user’s devices. In part, cookies serve security purposes or are required for the operation of our online offer (e.g., for the presentation of the website) or to save the user’s decision when confirming the cookie banner. In addition, we or our technology partners use cookies for range measurement and marketing purposes, about which the users will be informed in the course of this privacy policy.

A general objection to the use of cookies used for online marketing purposes can be declared for many of the services, especially in the case of tracking, via the US site http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ . Furthermore, the storage of cookies can be achieved by deactivating them in the browser settings. Please note that in this case not all functions of this online offer can be used.

10. Deletion of data

The data processed by us will be deleted or restricted in its processing in accordance with Articles 17 and 18 GDPR. Unless expressly stated in this data protection declaration, the data stored by us will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for its intended purpose and the deletion does not conflict with any legal storage obligations. If the data are not deleted because they are necessary for other and legally permissible purposes, their processing is restricted. This means that the data is blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to data that must be retained for commercial or tax reasons.

The data of registered users are automatically deleted after 24 months of inactivity.

Application documents are stored for 7 months. Afterwards, all documents will be deleted, except applicants wishing us to keep the data for further job offers. If the documents have been deleted, the names and birthdays of the applicants are saved for economic interests.

11. The provision of contractual services

We process inventory data (e.g., names and addresses as well as contact data of users), contract data (e.g., services used, names of contact persons, payment information) for the purpose of fulfilling our contractual obligations and services pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit b. GDPR. The entries marked as obligatory in online forms are required for the conclusion of the contract.

We process usage data (e.g., the websites visited on our website, interest in our products) and content data (e.g., entries in the contact form or user profile) for advertising purposes in a user profile in order to display the user, e.g. product information based on the services they have previously used.

The deletion takes place after the expiration of statutory warranty and comparable obligations, the necessity of the storage of the data is checked every two years; in the case of statutory archiving obligations the deletion takes place after their expiration (end of commercial law (6 years) and tax law (10 years) storage obligation); details in the customer account remain up to its deletion.

12. Establishing contacts

When contacting us (via contact form or email), the user’s details are used for the processing of the contact request and its handling in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.

User information can be stored in our Customer Relationship Management System (“CRM System”) or comparable system.

We use the CRM system “Pipedrive Inc, 460 Park Ave South, New York, NY 10016, USA and Intercom, Inc. a Delaware corporation with offices at 55 2nd Street, 4th Fl., San Francisco, CA 94105, USA based on our legitimate interests (efficient and fast processing of user requests). Pipedrive as well as Intercom comply with the standard contractual clauses.

We delete the requests if they are no longer necessary. We review the requirement every two years. In the case of statutory archiving obligations, the deletion takes place after their expiry (end of commercial law (6 years) and tax law (10 years) storage obligation).

13. Collection of access data and log files

We collect data on the basis of our legitimate interests within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO data on each access to the server on which this service is located (so-called server log files). Access data includes the name of the accessed website, file, date and time of access, transferred data volume, notification of successful access, browser type and version, the user’s operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page), IP address and the requesting provider. Furthermore, errors that occur in the web application are sent to the server with meta information and stored.

Log file information is stored for a maximum of seven days for security reasons (e.g. to investigate misuse or fraud) and then deleted. Data whose further storage is required for evidentiary purposes are excluded from deletion until the respective incident has been finally clarified.

14. Online presence in social media

We maintain online presence within social networks and platforms in order to communicate with active customers, interested parties and users and to inform them about our services. When accessing the respective networks and platforms, the terms and conditions and the data processing guidelines of their respective operators apply.

Unless otherwise stated in our privacy policy, we will process the data of users who communicate with us within social networks and platforms, e.g. write articles on our websites or send us messages.

15. Cookies & range measurement

Cookies are information that is transferred from our web server or third party web servers to the user’s web browser and stored there for later retrieval. Cookies can be small files or other types of information storage.

We use “cookies” or the local storage of the browser (e.g. to store your login status so that we can even use our online offer). A randomly generated unique identification number is stored in our cookies or local storage, a so-called session ID, but also settings that affect our web application. A cookie also contains information about its origin and the storage period. Session cookies are partially deleted when you have finished using our online offer and log out, for example.

Users will be informed about the use of cookies in the context of pseudonymous range measurement within the scope of this data protection declaration.

If users do not want cookies to be stored on their computer, they are asked to deactivate the corresponding option in the system settings of their browser. Stored cookies can be deleted in the system settings of the browser. The exclusion of cookies can lead to functional restrictions of this online offer.

You may opt-out of the use of cookies for range measurement and advertising purposes via the deactivation page of the network advertising initiative ( http://optout.networkadvertising.org/ ) and additionally the US website ( http://www.aboutads.info/choices ) or the European website ( http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/ ).

16. Google Analytics

On the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the analysis, optimisation and economic operation of our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR) we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC (“Google”). Google uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about the use of the online offer by users is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Google complies with the standard contractual clauses.

Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our online offer by users, to compile reports on the activities within this online offer and to provide us with further services associated with the use of this online offer and the use of the Internet. Pseudonymous user profiles of users can be created from the processed data.

We use Google Analytics to display the ads placed by Google and its partners within advertising services only to users who have also shown an interest in our online offer or who have certain characteristics (e.g. interests in certain topics or products that are determined by the web pages visited) that we transmit to Google (so-called “remarketing” or “Google Analytics Audiences”). With the help of remarketing audiences we would also like to ensure that our ads correspond to the potential interest of the users and are not annoying.

We use Google Analytics only with IP anonymization enabled. This means that Google will reduce the IP address of users 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 transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

The IP address transmitted by the user’s browser is not merged with other Google data. Users can prevent the storage of cookies by setting their browser software accordingly; users can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to their use of the online offer and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de .

Further information on data use by Google, possible settings and objections can be found on Google’s websites: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners (“Data use by Google when using our partners’ websites or apps”), https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads (“Data use for advertising purposes”), https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated (“Manage information that Google uses to show you advertising”).

17. Google Remarketing Services

On the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the analysis, optimisation and economic operation of our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO) the marketing and remarketing services (“Google Marketing Services” for short) of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, (“Google”).

Google complies with the standard contractual clauses.

The Google marketing services allow us to target ads for and on our site in order to present users only with ads that potentially match their interests. For example, if a user sees ads for products he has been interested in on other websites, this is referred to as “remarketing”. For these purposes, when our and other websites on which Google marketing services are active are accessed, Google directly executes a code from Google and (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 the user’s device (comparable technologies can also be used instead of cookies). Cookies can be set by various domains, including google.com, doubleclick.net, invitemedia.com, admeld.com, googlesyndication.com or googleadservices.com. In this file it is noted which websites the user visits, which contents he is interested in and which offers he has clicked on, furthermore technical information about the browser and operating system, referring websites, visiting time as well as further information about the use of the online offer. The IP address of the users is also recorded, whereby we inform within the framework of Google Analytics that the IP address is shortened within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states of the European Economic Area Agreement and only in exceptional cases completely transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The IP address is not combined with the user’s data within other Google offers. The above information may also be linked by Google to such information from other sources. If the user then visits other websites, the ads tailored to his interests can be displayed.

Users’ data is processed pseudonymously within the framework of Google marketing services. This means that Google does not store and process, for example, the names or email addresses of users, but processes the relevant data cookie-related within pseudonymous user profiles. This means from Google’s point of view, the ads are not managed and displayed for a specifically identified person, but for the cookie holder, regardless of who this cookie holder is.

This does not apply if a user has expressly permitted Google to process the data without this pseudonymisation. The information collected by Google marketing services about users is transmitted to Google and stored on Google’s servers in the USA.

We can integrate third-party advertisements based on the Google marketing service “DoubleClick”. DoubleClick uses cookies to enable Google and its partner sites to serve ads based on users’ visits to this site or other sites on the Internet.

We may include third-party advertisements based on the Google marketing service “AdSense”. AdSense uses cookies to enable Google and its partner sites to serve ads based on users’ visits to this site or other sites on the Internet.

We can also use the “Google Optimizer” service. Google Optimizer allows us to track the effects of various changes to a website (e.g. changes to input fields, design, etc.) within the framework of so-called “A/B testing”. Cookies are stored on the user’s devices for these test purposes. Only pseudonymous user data is processed.

We can also use the “Google Tag Manager” to integrate and manage Google analysis and marketing services into our website.

Further information on Google’s use of data for marketing purposes can be found on the overview page: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads , Google’s privacy policy can be accessed at https://policies.google.com/privacy .

If you wish to object to interest-based advertising by Google marketing services, you can use the setting and opt-out options provided by Google: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated .

18. Facebook, custom audiences and Facebook marketing services

Due to our legitimate interests in the analysis, optimisation and economic operation of our online offer and for these purposes the so-called “Facebook pixel” of the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or, if you are based in the EU, Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Facebook”), is used within our online offer.

Facebook complies with the standard contractual clauses.

With the help of the Facebook pixel, Facebook is able to determine the visitors of our online offer as a target group for the presentation of ads (so-called “Facebook ads”). Accordingly, we use the Facebook pixel to display the Facebook ads we post only to Facebook users who have also shown an interest in our online offering or who have certain features (e.g. interests in certain topics or products that are determined by the websites visited) that we transmit to Facebook (so-called “custom audiences”). We also want to use the Facebook pixel to ensure that our Facebook ads meet the potential interest of users and are not a annoying experience. The Facebook pixel also helps us understand the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes by showing whether users have been redirected to our website after clicking on a Facebook ad (so-called “conversion”).

Facebook processes the data in accordance with Facebook’s Data Usage Policy. Accordingly, general information on the display of Facebook ads can be found in the Facebook Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php . For specific information and details about the Facebook pixel and how it works, please visit the Facebook Help section: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/651294705016616 .

You can object to the collection by the Facebook pixel and use of your data to display Facebook ads. To set what types of ads you see within Facebook, you can visit the page set up by Facebook and follow the instructions on usage-based advertising settings: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads .

The settings are platform-independent, i.e. they are applied to all devices, such as desktop computers or mobile devices.

You may also object to the use of cookies for range measurement and advertising purposes via the deactivation page of the network advertising initiative ( http://optout.networkadvertising.org/ ) and additionally the US website ( http://www.aboutads.info/choices ) or the European website ( http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/ ).

19. Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services & Hetzner

The infrastructure for Carrot Seed is hosted at Amazon Web Services. The infrastructure is located in Ireland and is therefore also subject to EU data protection legislation.

Our data backups are stored on a physical server in Germany, at Hetzner Hetzner Online GmbH Industriestr. 25 91710 Gunzenhausen Germany.

You can find Hetzner’s Privacy Policy under the following link: https://www.hetzner.com/rechtliches/datenschutz?country=us

Our forum is hosted by DigitalOcean, Inc. on a server in Germany. DigitalOcean, Inc. complies with the standard contractual clauses.

20. Document management with Google

We use Google LLC (“Google”), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA for our internal administration of support requests and answers as well as for our email dispatch. Email traffic data, support requests and data exports are stored. Google complies with the standard contractual clauses.

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

21. Spinbackup backup system

Our documents and emails are stored by our document backup service provider Spinbackup Inc, 1426 Fillmore Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA.

Spinbackup complies with the basic EU data protection regulation. Spinbackup’s privacy policy can be viewed at: https://spinbackup.com/privacy/

22. CRM Pipedrive

All customer relationships that arise in addition to registered users are recorded in our CRM by Pipedrive Inc, 460 Park Ave South, New York, NY 10016, USA. The following data is stored:

• name
• contact details (email address, telephone number, website)
• organization
• VAT ID
• communication flow

Pipedrive complies with the standard contractual clauses. You can view Pipedrive’s data protection declaration at the following link: https://www.pipedrive.com/en/privacy

23. Internal communication: Slack

For the internal communication Slack Technologies Limited 4th Floor, One Park Place Hatch Street Upper Dublin 2, Ireland is used. Slack complies with the standard contractual clauses. You can view Slack’s data protection declaration at the following link: https://slack.com/privacy-policy

24. Transfer of customer data to us

For order fulfillment, it is sometimes necessary to define data in advance with which the system has to work. Please never pass on any production databases. Data must be pseudonymised before being passed on to us so that no person can be identified.

25. Integration of third-party services and content

Within our online offer, we use based on our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the analysis, optimisation and economic operation of our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR) content or service offerings of third parties to incorporate their content and services, such as videos or fonts (hereinafter uniformly referred to as “content”). This always presupposes that the third party providers of this content perceive the IP address of the users, since without the IP address they could not send the content to their browser. The IP address is therefore required for the display of this content. We make every effort to use only those contents whose respective providers use the IP address only for the delivery of the contents. Third-party providers may also use so-called pixel tags (invisible graphics, also known as “web beacons”) for statistical or marketing purposes. Pixel tags” can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on the pages of this website. The pseudonymous information may also be stored in cookies on the user’s device and may include technical information about the browser and operating system, referring websites, visiting time and other information about the use of our online offer, as well as may be linked to such information from other sources.

The following list provides an overview of third-party providers and their contents, together with links to their data protection declarations, which contain further information on the processing of data and, in some cases already mentioned here, possibilities of objection (so-called opt-out):

Youtube

Videos of the platform “YouTube” of the third party Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy , Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated .

Instagram

Functions of the Instagram service are integrated in our online offer. These functions are provided by Instagram Inc, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. If you are logged into your Instagram account you can link the contents of our pages to your Instagram profile by clicking the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate the visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of these pages, we are not aware of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Instagram. Privacy Policy: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/ .

LinkedIn

Within our online offer we use the marketing functions (so-called “LinkedIn Insight Tag”) of the network LinkedIn. The provider is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Every time you visit one of our pages that contains functions of LinkedIn, a connection to LinkedIn’s servers is established. LinkedIn is informed that you have visited our website with your IP address. With the help of the LinkedIn Insight Tag we can analyse the success of our campaigns within LinkedIn or determine target groups for them based on the interaction of the users with our online offer. If you are registered with LinkedIn, it is possible for LinkedIn to associate your interaction with our online service with your user account. Even if you click on the “Recommend-Button” of LinkedIn and are logged into your LinkedIn account, LinkedIn is able to assign your visit to our website to you and your user account. LinkedIn complies with the standard contractual clauses. Privacy Policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy , Opt-Out: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out .

Twitter

Functions of the service or the Twitter platform (hereinafter referred to as “Twitter”) can be integrated within our online offer. Twitter is an offer of Twitter Inc, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. The functions include the presentation of our contributions within Twitter within our online offer, the link to our profile on Twitter as well as the possibility to interact with the contributions and the functions of Twitter and to measure whether users reach our online offer via the advertisements we place on Twitter (so-called conversion measurement). Twitter complies with the standard contractual clauses. Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy , Opt-Out: https://twitter.com/personalization .

XING

We use functions of the XING network. The provider is XING AG, Dammtorstrasse 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. Every time you visit one of our pages that contains functions of XING, a connection to XING servers is established. To our knowledge, personal data will not be stored. In particular, no IP addresses are stored or the usage behavior is evaluated. Privacy Policy:
https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection .

Mailchimp

We use functions of Mailchimp which is owned by Intuit Inc. The provider is Intuit Inc., 2700 Coast Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043. We use Mailchimp as a service to provide our Newsletters and other email campaigns. Data such as email address first name, last name and additional data which is provided during the newsletter sign up is processed by Mailchimg. Mailchimp complies with the GDPR and the standard contractual clauses (SCCs). Privacy Policy:
https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/ .