Privacy Policy

Data security is our top priority. Read here how we keep your data safe and private!Data security is our top priority. Read here how we keep your data safe and private!

KINEXON Data Protection Policy

KINEXON appreciates your visit to this website and your interest in our services and products. We want you to feel comfortable in your interactions with our company and your privacy is of high importance to us. As such, please feel free to contact us if you find any part of this policy unclear or if you have any questions.

This policy therefore explains what personal data may be collected and processed either through your use of the KINEXON website or when contacting us. It applies to all webpages hosted on the domain www​.kinexon​.com and to the services we use when conducting our business processes. It does not apply to any linked websites provided by other companies.

We reserve the right to amend this policy, particularly if the website is updated, if new technologies are deployed, if the legal requirements are amended or if relevant decisions are handed down by the courts.

GENERAL

  • Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified.
  • The website refers to any webpages hosted on the domain www.kinexon.com

KINEXON GmbH
Schellingstr. 35
80799 Mnchen
Represented by the management as stated in the imprint.
Phone: +49 (0)89 2006 1650; info@kinexon.com

You can reach our data protection officer at
datenschutz@kinexon.com

What data do we collect?

Some data are collected when you contact us, for example by providing them to us on the contact form.

  • Names
  • Company information
  • Contact information (Email, phone number)
  • Any additional content you choose to enter

Other data are collected automatically by our IT systems as soon as you visit our website. These are:

  • browser type/version
  • operating system used
  • browser software language and version
  • host name of the end device accessing the website
  • IP address
  • requesting website
  • content of the request (specific page)
  • date and time of the server request
  • access status/HTTP status code
  • referrer URL (last page visited)
  • quantity of data transferred
  • time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

Additional data may be collected if you wish to apply for a role at KINEXON

  • Further contact information
  • Career and experience information (CV, qualifications, work experience)
  • Personal details (interests, motivation letter)
  • Categories of sensitive personal data (e.g. information of a disability or other as relevant)

How we use your data

KINEXON will process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • for the technical administration and development of the website
  • for customer and user administration
  • to maintain or develop our business relationships including marketing activities
  • to conduct research and analysis regarding our business relationships
  • to inform you about events, products and news when you visit the website or when you subscribe to our newsletter or contact form
  • for fraud prevention and detection
  • to comply with any legal obligations (e.g. tax, accounting and administrative obligations)
  • if you apply for a role at KINEXON, to evaluate your candidacy

We will inform you where we require your consent to process your personal data. Otherwise, we will process your personal data to meet our legitimate business interests or where it is needed to comply with a legal obligation. Our legitimate interest typically consists of wanting to provide the best possible quality for our services such as our website. In addition, we may also process your personal data to enter into a contract with you or to perform our obligations under an existing contract.

In order to conduct the processing described above, your data may be forwarded to other subsidiaries of the KINEXON group. For the purpose of responding to your contact request, we may transfer your data to relevant selected local sales partners. This processing may take place outside the European Economic Area (EEA), subject to the limitations on confidentiality and security in accordance with applicable data protection regulations.

We will not retain your personal data for longer than is necessary and we will hold it only for the purposes for which it was obtained.

For the purpose of building a business relationship, we will evaluate your data and have defined the following deletion deadlines. If the evaluation shows that there is no chance for a cooperation, your data will be deleted immediately. Should we see an opportunity to build a business relationship, your data will be saved to our systems. They will be automatically deleted however, if we do not see any interaction for two years (e.g. opening a newsletter, visiting the website, downloads). Your rights in terms of the GDPR remain unaffected by these typical periods.

KINEXON has implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, misuse, loss or destruction.

Cookies

Our website use cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are session cookies. They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain in your devices storage until you delete them. These cookies make it possible to recognize your browser when you next visit the site.

You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of the website.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You are entitled to exercise the following rights in respect of your personal data:

  • right to information (art. 15 GDPR),
  • right to rectification (art. 16 GDPR) or erasure (art. 17 GDPR),
  • right to restriction of processing (art. 18 GDPR),
  • right to object to the processing activity, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation (art. 21 GDPR)
  • right to object if we process your data for the purpose of direct marketing or profiling to the extend that it is related to such direct marketing (art. 21 (2) GDPR),
  • right to withdraw consent (art 7 (3) GDPR),
  • if applicable, the right to data portability and right to transmit data (art. 20 GDPR)
    You can exercise these rights by contacting us using the contact details provided above.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data (art. 77 GDPR). Should you have a complaint, we would be grateful if you would contact us first to address the matter!

HUBSPOT CRM-PLATFORM

We use the tool HubSpot CRM (hereinafter HubSpot) to store and process the data in our sales and marketing processes. This is an all-in-one platform for inbound marketing, sales, CRM and customer service provided by HubSpot Inc., 25 First Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02141 USA. As HubSpot cannot guarantee that data will not be transferred to the USA, we have entered into agreements with HubSpot involving EU standard contractual clauses. HubSpot, Inc. participates in the EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement and the SwissU.S. Privacy Shield and is certified for compliance with them.

Details and information about HubSpots privacy policy can be found at https://legal.hubspot.com/de/privacy-policy
Specific details and information about the cookies used by HubSpot can be found at https://legal.hubspot.com/cookie-policy and https://legal.hubspot.com/de/cookie-policy

HubSpot helps us to manage customer-related profiles that are generated as soon as an initial contact with us takes place by telephone, digitally, by email, via our website (e.g. by submitting a form) or in any other way.

We use HubSpot in our company for the following processing operations:

  • Contact forms / email
  • Individualised email marketing (newsletter/infomail, automated emails, e.g. to provide downloads)
  • Content management (landing pages)
  • Social media publishing & reporting
  • Reporting (e.g. traffic sources, hits, etc. )
  • To organise, control and optimise our inbound marketing

Contact forms, download of information material, registration for events, newsletter:
On our website you will find various contact forms through which you can request free information material from us (e.g. product brochures, case studies, white papers, etc.), event tickets, registration for webinars and/or newsletters. In order to receive this information material from us, you must complete a form and send it to us. Form fields that must be completed to receive the information material are marked with an * as mandatory fields.

The data collected via these forms will be processed and stored in HubSpot. In addition to the data you enter, your IP address and the time at which you subscribed to the marketing newsletter are stored. In addition to the form data, HubSpot evaluates the data collected about you via cookies when you send the form data. With the help of HubSpot, we can send you individualised and tailored information about our services. This not only has the advantage for us that we only send you targeted information that we think you may be interested in. In addition, we monitor how you respond or interact with the information we provide. If we determine that you are not interested in the content offered, we will stop providing you with more information.

The legal basis for this processing is your consent, which you can of course revoke at any time

ANALYTICS AND THIRD-PARTY TOOLS

When visiting our website, your behavior may be evaluated using cookies and third-party analytics. This analysis is pseudonymised/anonymised where possible. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information can be found below.

GOOGLE

Unless otherwise stated in this privacy policy, the operator of all Google services mentioned here is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (Google).

YOUTUBE

Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established and the information about which of our pages you have visited is transmitted.

If you're logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube associates your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used to help make our website appealing and is in our justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Further information can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

GOOGLE TAG MANAGER

This website uses the Google Tag Manager service. The Tag Manager is a tool for the management of tags used for tracking in online marketing. The Tag Manager itself does not process any personal data, since it is purely for the administration of other services  e.g. Google Analytics, etc. -. For more information about the Tag Manager, please visit theprivacy policy.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

Our website uses Google Analytics, a Google web analytics tool using cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your usage of the website is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We have activated IP anonymization for this website so that Google will shorten your IP address if you are located within the EEA.

Only on rare occasions, the entire IP address will be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the website operator, Google will use this information to analyze your usage of the website in order to compose reports about the website activities and to perform further services related to the website and web usage towards the website operator. The transfer of your IP address for the purposes of Google Analytics wont be merged with other Google data.

You can prevent your browser software from storing cookies with a change of settings; we however point to the fact that in this case you may not be able to use all features of this website to its full extent. Moreover, you can prevent the assessment of the data generated by the cookie and related to your usage of the website (including your IP address) as well as Google processing this data with downloading and installing the following browser Plug-In retrievable from https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en or by clicking on the link: Disallow Google Analytics to track me.

GOOGLE ADS (FORMERLY GOOGLE ADWORDS)

KINEXON uses the Google Ads service for conversion tracking, i.e. we can see what happens after you click on one of our ads. Cookies are used for this with a limited validity and they do not contain any personal data. Personal identification of the user is therefore not possible. Our legitimate interest in using this service is to analyze and optimize the operation of our website.

GOOGLE REMARKETING TAG

We also use Googles remarketing technology. This allows us to serve you personalised advertising on appropriate advertising spaces on other websites, based on the interests you have shown on our website. This option is limited to a maximum of 18 months.

You can find more information on this in Googles data protection statement. You can prevent interested advertisements by installing this browser plug-in.

HOTJAR

We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users needs and to optimize our service and user-experience (e.g. how much time you spend on which pages, which links you choose to click, what users do and dont like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users behavior and their devices. This includes a devices IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf.

For further details, please see the about Hotjar section of Hotjars support site.

GREENHOUSE

Should you apply for a role at KINEXON, your data will be entered into our recruiting platform Greenhouse https://www.greenhouse.io/de/privacy-policy based in New York, USA. We use this to manage our available roles, schedule interviews and document potential new hires. This processing activity may include all categories of personal data listed above including any sensitive data that you may need to provide in the recruiting process. If relevant, we may also share data you have entered into Greenhouse with parties involved in the hiring process such as investors or recruiters.

This processing activity may include hosting the service, storing your data and using the data for internal development and improvement of the Greenhouse platform. In the provision of the services, Greenhouse also uses sub-processors as detailed in their privacy policy.

Should you wish to revoke this processing activity, you can contact the Data Protection Officer at KINEXON and we will delete the data from the platform with immediate effect. Otherwise an automatic deletion of the data is configured for 180 days with an automated reminder asking if you want to extend the storage.

SOCIAL PLUGINS

Social network plug-ins are integrated on our website. Please keep in mind that user data might be processed outside the scope of the GDPR, which can result in risks for the users. Social networks also process personal data for marketing or advertising purposes and create user profiles. For detailed information about processing of your data and ways to object, please refer to the Privacy Policies of the particular social media provider.

Should you wish to prevent the tracking of your activity on this website from being attributed to your account with the plugin provider, we would ask that you please logout from the account before using our website.

Plugins are included by the following providers:

  • a) Facebook
    The social plugin of the social network Facebook is provided by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (www.facebook.com), and Facebook Ireland Limited, Hanover Reach, 57 Hanover Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland (www.facebook.de) (Facebook).

    On overview of the Facebook plugins can be found here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins

    Information regarding data protection from Facebook can be found here: www.facebook.com/policy.php

    Should data be transferred to a location where the data protection level is below European standards outside of the EEA, it takes place under cover of the EU-US Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC

    Should you desire to withdraw your consent from Facebook for this functionality, you may do so here: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads

    Facebook provides us with so called Insights for our social media site on their platform. These are statistical analysis of the performance of our social media site. Your data is processed under joint controllership of Facebook and us pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR. Please find the essential information at
    https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum
  • b) Instagram
    Instagram Plugins are provided by Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (Instagram).

    An overview of the plugins can be found here: https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/introducing-instagram-badges-for-webpage-embedding

    Information regarding data protection from Instagram can be found here: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388/
  • c) LinkedIn
    LinkedIn plugins are provided by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company
    Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Irland. Information regarding data protection from LinkedIn can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

    Should you desire to withdraw your consent from LinkedIn for this functionality, you may do so by creating an Opt-Out-Cookie:
    https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out

    LinkedIn provides us with so called Insights for our social media site on their platform. These are statistical analysis of the performance of our social media site.

    Your data is processed under joint controllership of LinkedIn and us pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR. Please find the essential information at
    https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum
  • d) Xing
    Xing Plugins are provided by XING AG, Dammtorstrae 2932, 20354 Hamburg, Deutschland (Xing).

    Information regarding data protection from Xing can be found here: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection.
  • e) Twitter
    Twitter plugins are provided by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA (Twitter).

    An overview of the Twitter plugins can be found here: https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons

    Information regarding data protection from Twitter can be found here: twitter.com/privacy

    Should data be transferred to a location where the data protection level is below European standards outside of the EEA, it takes place under cover of the EU-US Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO

    Should you desire to withdraw your consent from Twitter for this functionality, you may do so by creating an Opt-Out-Cookie: https://twitter.com/personalization

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Cookie List

A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website  when visited by a user  asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies  which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting  for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Cookie Subgroup Cookies Cookies Used
kinexon.com eupubconsent, CRAFT_CSRF_TOKEN, CraftCookieTest, OptanonAlertBoxClosed, OptanonConsent, CraftSessionId 1st Party
cookielaw.org __cfduid 3rd Party

Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

Cookie Subgroup Cookies Cookies Used
kinexon.com _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress, _hjFirstSeen, _ga, _gid, _gat_UA-, _hjIncludedInSessionSample, _hjid, _hjIncludedInPageviewSample, _gclxxxx 1st Party
script.hotjar.com _hjIncludedInPageviewSample 3rd Party

Targeting Cookies

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

Cookie Subgroup Cookies Cookies Used
slideslive.com _ga, _gid 3rd Party
linkedin.com lidc, UserMatchHistory, lang, lissc, bcookie 3rd Party
ads.linkedin.com lang 3rd Party
www.linkedin.com bscookie 3rd Party
doubleclick.net test_cookie 3rd Party
youtube.com GPS, YSC, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, CONSENT 3rd Party