Privacy Policy

At QR Cloud, we are committed to protecting your Personal Data and to providing clear and transparent disclosures about the types of information we collect and how we use it. 

For your further visits to our website, we would like to inform you about data collection, processing and use when visiting and using our website. As well as objection, revocation, and other rights to which you are entitled as a person affected by data collection and use. 

We would like to ask you to read this policy along with our Cookie Policy and if you are a user of our services, please also refer to our Data Processing Agreement.

In principle, we will only use your Personal Data in accordance with the applicable data protection laws, in particular the German Federal Data Protection Act (“BDSG”) and the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), and only as described in this Privacy Policy.

General Information

  1. What is Personal Data?

Personal Data is any information relating to personal or material circumstances that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. This includes, for example, your name, date of birth, e-mail address, postal address, or telephone number as well as online identifiers such as your IP address. In contrast, information of a general nature that cannot be used to determine your identity is not Personal Data. This includes, for example, the number of users of a website. 

  1. What is processing?

“Processing” means any operation or set of operations which is performed upon Personal Data, whether or not by automatic means. The term is broad and covers virtually any handling of data.

  1. Responsible for data processing

Responsible for data processing is RiTZELMUt Ventures GmbH, Thorwaldsenstraße 3, 12157 Berlin

Germany (“QR Cloud”, “we”, “us” or “our”). We act as the data controller and ask you to direct all questions about your Personal Data directly to us using info@qr-cloud.com or write us to the above address. 

  1. The Legal Bases for processing Personal Data

In accordance with the above-mentioned laws, we have to have at least one of the following legal bases to process your Personal Data:

  • you have given your consent,
  • the data is necessary for the fulfillment of a contract / pre-contractual measures,
  • the data is necessary for the fulfillment of a legal obligation or
  • the data is necessary to protect our legitimate interests, provided that your interests are not overridden. 

General Principles

  1. Security

Our website uses SSL or TLS encryption to ensure the security of data processing and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders, login data or contact requests that you send to us. 

You can recognise an encrypted connection if the address line of your browser contains a “https://” instead of a “http://” and also has a lock symbol. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

We have also implemented numerous security measures (“technical and organizational measures”) for example encryption or need to know access, to ensure the most complete protection of Personal Data processed through this website. 

Nevertheless, internet-based data transmissions can always have security gaps, so that absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. And databases or data sets that include Personal Data may be breached inadvertently or through wrongful intrusion. 

Upon becoming aware of a data breach, we will notify all affected individuals whose Personal Data may have been compromised as expeditiously as possible after which the breach was discovered.

  1. Minors

We do not request Personal Data from minors and children and do not knowingly collect such data or pass it on to third parties.

  1. Automated decision-making

Automated decision-making is the process of making a decision by automated means without any human involvement. Automated decision-making including profiling does not take place.

  1. Do Not Sell

We do not sell your Personal Data.

  1. Special Category Data

Unless specifically required when using our services and consent is obtained for that particular service, we do not process special category data.

  1. Social Media

We are present on social media on the basis of our legitimate interest. If you contact us (or login/connect with us) via social media platforms, we and the relevant social media platform are jointly responsible for the processing of your data and enter into a so-called joint controller agreement. The legal basis is our legitimate interest, your consent or, in some cases, the initiation of a contractual service, if any.

  1. International Transfer

We may transfer your Personal Data to other companies and/or business partners as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. In doing so, your Personal Data may be transferred to so called third countries. In order to provide adequate protection for your Personal Data when it is transferred, we have contractual arrangements regarding such transfers. We take all reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the Personal Data we transfer.

  1. How long is your data stored?

We process and store your Personal Data only to achieve the respective processing purpose or for as long as a legal retention period exists (in particular Germany`s commercial and tax law for up to 10 years). Once the purpose has been achieved or the retention period has expired, the corresponding data is routinely deleted.

  1. Sharing and Disclosure

We will not disclose or otherwise distribute your Personal Data to third parties unless this is a) necessary for the performance of our services for example with our web host or with our logistic partners to deliver your order, b) you have consented to the disclosure, c) or if we are legally obliged to do so e.g., by court order or if this is necessary to support criminal or legal investigations or other legal investigations or other legal proceedings; as required by law or regulation; if QR Cloud (or a part of QR Cloud) is sold to or merged with another company; or proceedings at home or abroad or to fulfill our legitimate interests.

Data we collect automatically 

  1. Collection of access data and log files

We also collect data on every access to our platform. The access data includes the name of the website accessed, file, date and time of access, amount of data transferred, 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.

Log file information is stored for security reasons (e.g., for the clarification of abuse or fraud) for a maximum of 90 days and then deleted. Data whose further storage is necessary for evidentiary purposes is exempt from deletion until the respective incident is finally clarified. The legal basis for the data processing is our legitimate interest in providing an appealing platform.

  1. Hosting 

The website hosting service provider used is ALL-INKL.COM, Hauptstraße 68, 02742 Friedersdorf, Germany. In doing so, ALL-INKL.COM processes, on the basis of our legitimate interests in an efficient and secure provision of the website, inventory data, contact data, content data, usage data, metadata and communication data of interested parties and visitors to my website.

  1. Content Management System (CMS)

We use the Content Management System (CMS) of WordPress by Automattic Inc, 60 29th Street Suite 343 San Francisco, CA 94107 United States to publish and maintain the created and edited content and texts on my website. This means that all content and texts submitted to my website is transferred to WordPress. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest.

  1. Use of cookies

We use so-called cookies on our website. Cookies are pieces of information that are transmitted from our web server or third-party web servers to your web browser and stored there for later retrieval. Cookies may be small files or other types of information storage. There are different types of cookies:a)Essential Cookies. Essential cookies are cookies to provide a correct and user-friendly website; and b) Non-essential Cookies. Non-essential Cookies are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyze your behavior on a website (“analytical” cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (“advertising” cookies). 

As set out in Germany`s Telecommunications Act (“TKG”) and the EU`s Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (“PECR”), we need to obtain consent for the use of Non-essential Cookies and do so when you visit our website for the first time using the Cookie Consent Management Tool Cookie-Script.com operated by CookieYes Limited of 3 Warren Yard Warren Park, Wolverton Mill, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, MK12 5NW. For further information on the Cookies we use, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

Data we collect directly

  1. General

We may ask you for Personal Data when you:

  • use our website,
  • request services, support or information,
  • participate online or otherwise in marketing activities,
  • subscribe to QR Cloud marketing and promotional emails or other materials,
  • interact with us on third-party social networking sites (subject to the terms of use and privacy policies of said third parties), or
  • contact us.

Categories of Personal Data we collect may include your name, email address, and IP addresses. We may also collect demographic data such your interests, and preferences. 

In order to provide you with a more consistent and personalized user experience in your interactions with QR Cloud, data collected through one source may also be linked to other data collected by QR Cloud through other sources. This may include data that helps us identify you when you access our website through several different devices.

  1. Contacting us

Personal Data is processed depending on the contact method. In addition to your name and e-mail address, IP address or telephone number, we usually collect the context of your message which may also include certain Personal Data. The Personal Data collected when contacting us is to handle your request and the legal basis is both your consent and Contract.

For the Chat, we use Crisp Chat provided by Crisp IM. of 2 Boulevard de Launay, Nantes 44100 France. We have no influence on the processing of data by Crisp IM and no possibility to influence it. The legal basis of the data processing is our obligation to fulfill the contract and/or to fulfill our pre-contractual obligations and/or our legitimate interest in processing your enquiry.

  1. Account Registration 

If you register on our website, we will request mandatory and, where applicable, non-mandatory data in accordance with our registration form. The entry of your data is encrypted so that third parties cannot read your data when it is entered. The basis for this storage is our legitimate interest in communicating with registered users and, in the case of contracts, also the storage of contract data. 

  1. When using our services

We process the data of our registered users in order to be able to provide our contractual services as well as to ensure the security of our services and to be able to develop it further. This includes in particular our support, correspondence with you, invoicing, fulfillment of our accounting and tax obligations. Your data will not be used by us for automated decision making or profiling, nor will it be shared with third parties. Accordingly, the data is processed on the basis of fulfilling our contractual obligations as well as to fulfill our legal obligations.

The legal basis for the data processing is the fulfillment of our contractual obligations and, in individual cases, the fulfillment of our legal obligations as well as your consent.

We ensure that access by our employees to your data is only available on a need-to-know basis, restricted to specific individuals, and is logged and audited. We communicate our privacy and security guidelines to our employees and enforce privacy and protection safeguards strictly.

Please note when using our services, you become the data controller and we become the data processor in accordance with Chapter 4 of the GDPR. Where we process your Personal Data as a data intermediary on behalf of you, we will process the Personal Data involved in accordance with your instructions and shall use it only for the purposes agreed between you and us, for further information please refer to our Data Processing Agreement.

f) Administration, financial accounting, office organization, contact management

We process data in the context of administrative tasks as well as organization of our business, and compliance with legal obligations, such as archiving. In this regard, we process the same data that we process in the course of providing our contractual services. The processing bases are our legal obligations and our legitimate interest. 

g) Credit/Debit Cards Payments

Payment by credit card and debit card is made via the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, 2449 Luxembourg and Stripe Technology Europe, The One Building, 1, Lower Grand Canal Street, Dublin 2, Ireland to which you pass on your payment details during the checkout, for payment processing. The legal basis for the provision of a payment system is the establishment and implementation of the user contract for the use of the service.

Data processing through integration of third-party services and content

We use content or service offers of third-party providers on the basis of our legitimate interests in order to integrate their content and services (“content”). 

This always requires that the third-party providers of this content are aware of the IP address of the user, as without the IP address they would not be able to send the content to their browser. The IP address is therefore necessary for the display of this content. 

The following provides an overview of third-party providers and their content, together with links to their privacy policies, which contain further information on the processing of data and so-called opt-out measures, if any:

  • Analytics and Tracking:
    • Google Analytics by Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, US, und Google Ireland Limited Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
    • Hotjar provided by Hotjar Ltd, Level 2, St Julian’s Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julian’s STJ 1000, Malta.
  • Fonts: Google Font API by Google LLC 
  • Advertising:
    • Google Adsense by Google LLC
    • Bing Ads “Clarity” by Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA

If you do not wish to participate in our advertising personalization or retargeting/tracking you can object to behavioral advertising at the following websites: Your Online Choices, Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada, Network Advertising Initiative or AdChoices.

Hotjar

We use Hotjar, to better understand usage patterns, the needs of our users and to optimize our services and user experience. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect information about user behavior and user devices (in particular, a device’s IP address (which is collected and stored in anonymized form), screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic information (on a country-by-country basis only), preferred language for viewing our website). Hotjar stores this data in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will use this information to identify individual users, nor will the data be merged with other data about individual users. You can object to the creation of user profiles, the storage of data about your use of our website by Hotjar, and the use of tracking cookies by Hotjar on other sites at any time by following this link https://www.hotjar.com/opt-out. The use of Hotjar is based on your consent.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics which means that the data collected can in principle be transmitted to a Google server in the USA, whereby the IP addresses are anonymized by means of IP anonymization so that an allocation is not possible. Google analytics places cookies. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can object to the collection and processing of this data by Google Analytics by setting an opt-out cookie that prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this website: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is based on your consent.

Data from third party sources

We may obtain data about you from third-party sources, such as our marketing partners, social networks, and other third parties. We may use this data to better analyze your user behavior to improve our ability to provide you with relevant marketing information and services, and to prevent and combat fraud.

Insofar as you have also given us your consent to process your Personal Data for marketing and advertising purposes, we are entitled to contact you for these purposes via the communication channels you have given your consent to.

Your Rights and Privileges 

  1. Privacy rights 

Under the BDSG and the GDPR, you can exercise the following rights:

  • The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your Personal Data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
  • The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request us to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
  • The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your Personal Data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your Personal Data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions. 

If you have any questions, please contact us.

  1. Updating your information

If you believe that the information, we hold about you is inaccurate or request its rectification, deletion, or object to its processing, please do so by contacting us.

  1. Withdrawing your consent 

You can withdraw consents you have given at any time by contacting us. 

  1. Access Request 

In the event you want to make a Data Subject Access Request, please contact us. We will respond to requests regarding access and correction as soon as reasonably possible. Should we not be able to respond to your request within thirty (30) days, we will tell you why and when we will be able to respond to your request. If we are unable to provide you with any Personal Data or to make a correction requested by you, we will tell you why.

  1. Complaint to a supervisory authority

You have the right to complain about our processing of Personal Data to a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. The supervisory authority is: The Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Alt-Moabit 59-61, 10555 Berlin, www.datenschutz-berlin.de 

Updates 

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy or materially change our use of your Personal Data, we will revise the Privacy Policy accordingly. This Privacy Policy was last updated on Tuesday, 28 March 2023.

Questions?

If you have any questions about the processing of your Personal Data, please contact us using info@qr-cloud.com or write us to the above address.