Privacy Policy
How Aspire Innovation handles personal data when you visit this website or get in touch with us, and the rights you have under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
What you send us, plus basic technical data from your visit.
To answer your enquiry and to run and protect this website.
We do not sell your data or use it for advertising.
Access, correct or delete your data at any time.
01Who is responsible
The controller responsible for processing personal data on this website is:
- Company
- Aspire Innovation e. K., owner: Mark Adler Madsen
- Address
- Große Bleichen 1-3, 20354 Hamburg, Germany
- info@aspire-innovation.com
- Phone
- +49 172 3040758
For any question about this policy or your personal data, contact us using the details above.
02Data we process
When you visit this website
Each time you open a page, your browser automatically sends technical information to the server hosting this website. This includes your IP address, the date and time of the request, the page you visited, the referring page, your browser type and version, and your operating system. This information is needed to show you the website and to keep it secure.
When you use our contact form
If you send us a message through a contact form, we receive your first name, last name, email address and message.
When you email or call us
If you contact us by email or phone, we process the details you share with us, such as your name, contact details and the content of your message.
Business relationships
If we work together, we process the contact details of you and your colleagues that are needed to prepare and carry out the engagement.
We do not use this website to collect special categories of personal data, such as health data.
03Purposes and legal bases
We only process personal data where the GDPR allows it:
- Providing and securing the website (server data, necessary cookies, spam protection): our legitimate interest in a stable, secure website, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
- Answering your enquiry: taking steps at your request before entering into a contract, Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, or our legitimate interest in replying to messages, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
- Carrying out an engagement: performance of a contract, Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.
- Website statistics: only with your consent, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG. You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future.
- Meeting legal obligations, such as retention duties under commercial and tax law: Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR.
We do not use automated decision-making or profiling.
05Service providers
We use carefully selected providers who process data on our behalf under a data processing agreement (Art. 28 GDPR), or in their own responsibility where stated.
Squarespace (hosting, forms and statistics)
This website is hosted by Squarespace. For customers in the European Economic Area, the provider is Squarespace Ireland Limited, Le Pole House, Ship Street Great, Dublin 8, Ireland. Squarespace processes the server data described above, the data you send through our contact form, and, with your consent, website statistics. More information: Squarespace Privacy Policy.
Google reCAPTCHA (spam protection)
Our contact form is protected by Google reCAPTCHA, provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. reCAPTCHA checks whether a form is filled in by a person or an automated program. To do this, it analyzes information such as your IP address and how you interact with the page. We use it on the basis of our legitimate interest in protecting the form from spam, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. More information: Google Privacy Policy.
This website links to our LinkedIn page. No data is sent to LinkedIn until you click the link. After that, LinkedIn's own privacy policy applies.
06Transfers outside the EU
Some of our providers, or companies in their groups, are located in the United States. Where personal data is transferred to the United States, this is based on the European Commission's adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, where the recipient is certified under it, or on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
07How long we keep data
- Enquiries are deleted once the conversation has ended and there is no reason to keep them, unless they lead to an engagement.
- Business records are kept for the periods required by German commercial and tax law, generally six or ten years (§ 257 HGB, § 147 AO).
- Server and security data is stored by Squarespace for a limited period and then deleted or anonymized.
- Cookies are kept for the periods set out in Squarespace's cookie documentation, or until you delete them.
08Your rights
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
Find out what data we hold about you (Art. 15).
Have incorrect data corrected (Art. 16).
Have your data deleted (Art. 17).
Limit how we use your data (Art. 18).
Receive your data in a common format (Art. 20).
Object to processing based on legitimate interests (Art. 21).
Withdraw consent at any time, for the future (Art. 7(3)).
Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Art. 77).
To use any of these rights, email info@aspire-innovation.com. The supervisory authority responsible for us is the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Der Hamburgische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit), Ludwig-Erhard-Straße 22, 20459 Hamburg, Germany. You can also contact the authority in the EU country where you live or work.
09Security
This website is encrypted with TLS, which you can recognize by "https://" and the lock symbol in your browser. We and our providers use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data. No transmission over the internet is completely secure, so please do not send highly sensitive information through the contact form.
10Other information
Children
This website is aimed at businesses and is not directed at children under 16. We do not knowingly collect their personal data.
Links to other websites
This website contains links to websites run by others. We are not responsible for how they handle personal data, so please read their privacy policies.
Changes to this policy
We update this policy when our website or the law changes. The current version is always available on this page, with the date of the last update at the top.
11Contact
Questions about privacy, or want to use your rights? Get in touch and we will reply as soon as possible, and at the latest within one month.