ZOHO
GW uses services provided by Zoho Corporation B.V., Hoogoorddreef 15, 1101BA Amsterdam (hereinafter “Zoho”). You can see which services these are and what influence they have on your personal data in the following sections. Zoho is committed to complying with European data protection regulations. Further information on this can be found on the Zoho website. GW uses Zoho exclusively on European servers. We use the Zoho service “Campaigns” to register for and send newsletters.
The following information explains the content of our newsletters, the registration, dispatch and statistical evaluation process and your rights of objection. By subscribing to our newsletter, you agree to receive it and to the procedures described.
Content of the newsletter
We only send newsletters, emails and other electronic notifications with advertising information (hereinafter “newsletter”) with the consent of the recipient or with legal permission. If the contents of the newsletter are specifically described when registering for the newsletter, they are decisive for the user's consent. Our newsletters also contain information about our offers and promotions, our company and the latest news from the energy sector.
Zoho Campaigns
The e-mail addresses of our newsletter recipients, as well as their other data described in this notice, are stored on Zoho's EU servers in Amsterdam and Dublin. Zoho uses this information to send and analyze the newsletter on our behalf. Furthermore, Zoho may, according to its own information, use this data to optimize or improve its own services, for example to technically optimize the sending and presentation of the newsletter or for economic purposes in order to determine from which countries the recipients come. However, Zoho does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to write to them itself or to pass it on to third parties.
We trust in the reliability and IT and data security of Zoho and have concluded a ‘Data Processing Agreement’. This is a contract in which Zoho undertakes to protect the data of our users, to process it on our behalf in accordance with its data protection provisions and, in particular, not to pass it on to third parties. You can view Zoho's privacy policy here.
Registration Data
To register for a newsletter, it is sufficient to enter your e-mail address. Optionally, we ask you to enter your first name and surname. This information is only used to personalize the newsletter.
Statistical Survey and Analyses
The newsletters contain a so-called ‘web-beacon’, i.e. a pixel-sized file that is retrieved from the Zoho server when the newsletter is opened. As part of this retrieval, technical information such as information about the browser and your system, as well as your IP address and time of retrieval, is initially collected. This information is used for the technical improvement of the services based on the technical data or the target groups and their reading behavior based on their retrieval locations (which can be determined with the help of the IP address) or the access times. The statistical surveys also include determining whether the newsletters are opened, when they are opened and which links are clicked. For technical reasons, this information can be assigned to individual newsletter recipients. However, it is neither our endeavor nor that of Zoho to observe individual users. Rather, we use the analyses to recognize the reading habits of our users and to adapt our content to them or to send different content according to the interests of our users.
Online Access and Data Management
There are cases in which we direct newsletter recipients to Zoho's websites. For example, our newsletters contain a link that newsletter recipients can use to access the newsletter online (e.g. in the event of display problems in the e-mail program). Furthermore, newsletter recipients can subsequently correct their data, such as their e-mail address. Zoho's privacy policy is also only available on their website. In this context, we would like to point out that cookies are used on Zoho's websites and therefore personal data is processed by Zoho, its partners and the service providers used (e.g. Google Analytics). We have no influence on this data collection. Further information can be found in Zoho's privacy policy. We would also like to draw your attention to the options for objecting to the collection of data for advertising purposes on the websites www.aboutads.info and www.youronlinechoices.com (for the European area).
Cancellation/Revocation
You can cancel the receipt of our newsletter at any time, i.e. revoke your consent. You will find a link to cancel the newsletter at the end of each newsletter. You can also cancel your subscription at any time without giving reasons by sending an e-mail to office(at)gas(dot)info or in writing to: GW Wirtschafts GmbH, Neustädtische Kirchstraße 8, 10117 Berlin. After cancellation, your data will be deleted except for the e-mail address. The e-mail address will be stored in a blacklist and will only be used to ensure that we do not send any further e-mails to your e-mail address.
Legal Basis DSGVO
In accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), we inform you that consent to the sending of e-mail addresses is obtained on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a, 7 DSGVO and § 7 para. 2 no. 3 and para. 3 UWG.
The use of the mailing service provider Zoho, the implementation of statistical surveys and analyses as well as the logging of the registration process are based on our legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. We are interested in using a user-friendly and secure newsletter system that serves both our business interests and the expectations of users. We would also like to point out that you can object to the future processing of your personal data in accordance with the legal requirements pursuant to Art. 21 DSGVO at any time. In particular, you may object to processing for direct marketing purposes.