Privacy Policy
etventure Startup Hub GmbH and its affiliates (“eSH” or “we”) is committed to protecting the privacy of the personally-identifiable information that we collect from you as you use this Web site (the “Site”). The scope of eSH’s commitment is detailed in this Privacy Policy. By submitting information, you agree to eSH’s use of such information as described herein. Please see our Terms of Use for more information about our on-line policies in general.
What personally-identifiable information is collected?
eSH collects personally-identifiable information on certain areas of the Site when users register, request publications or other information, sign up for conferences and events, apply for jobs, and participate in user posting areas, such as bulletin boards, discussion forums, and surveys. The personally-identifiable information collected may consist of information that you provide, such as names, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and, for recruiting purposes, any other personally-identifiable information on your resume. In addition, eSH collects certain information that you do not visibly enter, such as your IP address, browsing pattern on the Site, click stream, and the status of cookies placed on your computer by eSH, as described below.
How may eSH use my personally-identifiable information?
eSH uses your personally-identifiable information to fulfill your requests for information, to process your requests to participate in conferences and events, to evaluate any job applications or other employment-related inquiries that you may submit, or for such other business purposes as you may initiate or request. We may keep any of your personally-identifiable information on file and use it to contact you for recruiting purposes. eSH also uses personally-identifiable information to perform statistical analyses of user behavior in order to measure interest in specific areas and information posted on our Site. eSH uses personally-identifiable information collected from cookies and IP addresses as described below. eSH may provide your personally-identifiable information to any of its affiliates worldwide for such purposes.
Are cookies and IP addresses used?
The Site uses cookies to identify you and your interests and to track usage of the Site. Cookies are small pieces of text stored on your computer that help us know which browser you are using and where you have been on the Site and on Web sites to which you may link in order to use some of our features. By accepting our cookie, you will be permitted access to certain pages of the Site without having to log in each time you visit. A user who does not accept the cookie from the Site may not be able to access certain areas of the Site. eSH also logs IP addresses, or the location of computers on the Internet, to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer the Site. If you prefer not to accept a cookie, you can set your web browser to warn you before accepting cookies, or you can refuse all cookies by turning them off in your web browser.
Is personally-identifiable information disclosed to third parties?
eSH shall not intentionally disclose or transfer (and shall take reasonable steps to protect the confidentiality and security, and to prevent the unauthorized or accidental disclosure of) your personally-identifiable information to third parties (i.e., persons or entities that are not affiliates eSH), whether for such third parties’ marketing purposes or otherwise, subject only to the following four exceptions: eSH may disclose your personally-identifiable information to third parties in the event that such disclosure is required by the laws, rules, or regulations of any nation, state, or other applicable jurisdiction; eSH may disclose your contact information to third parties as appropriate for eSH to make transmissions or deliveries to you; eSH may disclose your personally-identifiable information if, in connection with submitting the information, you consent to such disclosure; and eSH may disclose contact information for you in response to inquiries by bona-fide rights owners in connection with allegations of infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights arising from information you have posted on the Site or otherwise provided to eSH.
Links to third-party sites
We may provide links to third-party Web sites as a service to our users. In addition, some of the content appearing to be on this Site is in fact supplied by third parties, for example, in instances of framing of third- party Web sites or incorporation through framesets of content supplied by third-party servers. Please be aware that we cannot control and are not responsible for the information collection practices of such third-party Web sites, which may differ from those of this Site. We encourage you to review and understand the privacy policies on these Web sites before providing any information to them.
How can I access, change, and/or delete information?
You may access, correct, update, and/or delete any personally-identifiable information that you submit to the Site. You may also unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations on the Site. To do so, please either follow instructions on the page of the Site on which you have provided such information or subscribed or registered or contact us at etventure Startup Hub GmbH, Ackerstraße 14-15, D-10115 Berlin.
Security
eSH has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally-identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized eSH personnel are provided access to personally-identifiable information, and these employees are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, eSH cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personally-identifiable information.
Transborder hosting and transfer of information
Personally-identifiable information collected on the Site may be transferred from time to time to eSH offices or personnel, or to third parties, located throughout the world, including offices located outside the European Economic Area (EEA), and the Site may be viewed and hosted anywhere in the world, including countries (such as the United States) that may not have laws of general applicability regulating the use and transfer of such data. By using the Site and submitting such information on it, you voluntarily consent to such transborder transfer and hosting of such information.
Children’s on-line privacy protection
eSH understands the importance of protecting children’s privacy, especially in an on-line environment. The Site is not intentionally designed for or directed at children 13 years of age or younger, and eSH will not intentionally collect or maintain information about anyone under the age of 13.
Consent; Changes to Privacy Policy
By using the Site, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your information by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Site. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy was last updated on February 18, 2011.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at etventure Startup Hub GmbH, Ackerstraße 14-15, D-1011 Berlin.
Like-Button
Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) provided by the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are identifiable by a Facebook logo (white letter f on blue background or a thumb up icon) or the notice “Facebook Social Plugin”. For a full list of all social Plugins please seehttp://developers.facebook.com/plugins.
When you visit a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook servers. Facebook directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter into the website, enabling Facebook to receive information about your having accessed the respective page of our website. Thus we have no influence on the data gathered by the plugin and inform you according to our state of knowledge:
The embedded plugins provide Facebook with the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged into Facebook, your visit can be assigned to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking “Like”, or entering a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook and stored by it. Even if you are not logged into Facebook, there is possibility that the plugins transmits your IP-address to Facebook.
For the information on the purpose and scope of data collection and procession by Facebook, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy please visit Facebook’s privacy policy:http://www.facebook.com/policy.php.
If you are a Facebook member and do not want Facebook to connect the data concerning your visit to our website with your member data already stored by Facebook, please log off Facebook before entering our website. Further you can block Facebook social Plugins by using add-ons for your browser, like the “Facebook Blocker“.
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Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies” which are text files that are stored on your computer and allow you an analysis of the use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this site are generally sent to a Google server in the U.S. and stored there. In the case of activation of IP anonymization on this website, your IP address from Google will be shortened within Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to a Google server in the USA and is shortened. On behalf of the operator of this site Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity together and provide for more use of the website and internet related services to the site operators. The transferred IP address by your browser due to the service of Google Analytics won’t be merged with other data held by Google. You can prevent the use of cookies by adjusting your browser, we point out however that in this case not all the features of this site will be fully able to use. You can also prevent the capture of data generated by the cookie and your site-related use (including your IP address) to Google as well as the processing of these data through Google by following the link below, and downloading plus installing the available browser plug-in.[The current link is http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de]
Data privacy statement for the usage of Facebook-Plugins
Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) provided by the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are identifiable by a Facebook logo or for instance the Like-Button or Recommend-Button on our website. For a full list of all social plugins please see http://developers.facebook.com/plugins . When you visit a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook servers. The embedded plugins provide Facebook with the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged into Facebook and click on the Like-Button or Recommend-Button, you can link content from our website to your Facebook account. Your visit can be assigned to your Facebook account by Facebook. We indicate, that we as the provider of the websites have no knowledge about the content of transfered data or their usage by Facebook. For further information please visit Facebook’s privacy policy: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php . If you don’t want Facebook to assign your visit of our sites to your Facebook account, please log out of your Facebook account.
Data privacy statement for the usage of Google +1
Collection and Sharing of information: The Google +1 button is a way for you to share information publicly with the world. The Google +1 button helps you and others receive personalized content from Google and our partners. The fact that you +1’d something will be recorded by Google, along with information about the page you were viewing when you clicked on the +1 button. Your +1’s may appear to others as an annotation with your profile name and photo in Google services (such as in search results or on your Google Profile) or elsewhere on websites and ads on the Internet. Google will record information about your +1 activity in order to provide you and other users with a better experience on Google services. In order to use the Google +1 button, you need to have a public Google Profile visible to the world, which at a minimum includes the name you chose for the profile. That name will be used across Google services and in some cases it may replace another name you’ve used when sharing content under your Google Account. Google may display your Google Profile identity to people who have your email address or other identifying information. Use of the collected information: In addition to the above-described uses, the information you provide to Google is used subject to the main Google Privacy Policy. Google may share aggregate statistics related to users’ +1 activity with the public, our users, and partners, such as publishers, advertisers, or connected sites.
Data privacy statement for the usage of Twitter This website embeds features of the webservice Twitter. These features are provided by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. Through using Twitter and its feature “Re-Tweet” your visited websites will be assigned to your Twitter account and will be announced to other users. Data is also transfered through this. We indicate, that we as the provider of the websites have no knowledge about the content of transfered data or their usage by Twitter. For further information please visit Twitter’s privacy policy: http://twitter.com/privacy . You can change your Twitter data protection settings within the account settings under:http://twitter.com/account/settings
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