Privacy Policy
1) Information about the Collection of Personal Data and Contact Details of the Controller
1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following, we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data includes all data with which you can be personally identified.
1.2 The controller for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is AidPioneers, Email: donaid@aidpioneers.com. The controller for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.
1.3 This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g., orders or inquiries to the controller). You can recognize an encrypted connection by the string "https://" and the lock symbol in your browser line.
2) Data Collection When Visiting Our Website
When you use our website purely for informational purposes, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called "server log files"). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website:
- Our visited website
- Date and time of access
- Amount of data sent in bytes
- Source/referral from which you reached the page
- Browser used
- Operating system used
- IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively if there are concrete indications of illegal use.
3) Cookies
To make the visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e., after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit (so-called persistent cookies). If cookies are set, they collect and process specific user information such as browser and location data as well as IP address values to an individual extent. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may differ depending on the cookie.
You can configure your browser settings to be informed about the setting of cookies and to decide individually about their acceptance or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general. For more information, please refer to the help function of your browser.
4) Contacting Us
When contacting us (e.g., via contact form or email), personal data is collected. The data collected in the case of a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your request or for contacting you and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact aims at the conclusion of a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted after the final processing of your request; this is the case if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter concerned has been conclusively clarified and provided that there are no statutory storage obligations to the contrary.
5) Use of Affiliate Programs
- AWIN Performance Advertising Network
We participate in the performance advertising network of AWIN AG, Eichhornstraße 3, 10785 Berlin (hereinafter "AWIN"). As part of its tracking services, AWIN stores cookies on end devices of users who visit or use websites or other online offers of its customers (e.g., register for a newsletter subscription or place an online order). These cookies serve solely to correctly assign the success of an advertising medium and the corresponding billing within its network. A cookie only contains the information of when a specific advertising medium was clicked from which device. In the case of AWIN, an individual number sequence is assigned, which is not personally identifiable, to document the partner program of an advertiser, i.e., the partner, and the specific time of the visitor's action (click or view). In doing so, AWIN also collects information about the device from which a transaction is carried out, for example, the operating system and the referring browser.
- Data Processing Purposes
The described cookies are used for the correct attribution of success and billing of our affiliate marketing efforts. AWIN only uses the data if a user has clicked on an AWIN partner affiliate link beforehand. The information is collected only if you have decided to use the affiliate link and thus implicitly agree to processing. The legal basis for the described processing of personal data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is based on our desire to offer an attractive and technically secure website, optimization of our marketing activities, billing, and evaluation of the efficiency of affiliate marketing for us and our partners.
6) Rights of the Data Subject
6.1 The applicable data protection law grants you comprehensive rights (rights of access and intervention) against the controller regarding the processing of your personal data, about which we inform you below:
- Right of access in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR
- Right to rectification in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR
- Right to erasure in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR
- Right to restriction of processing in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR
- Right to notification in accordance with Art. 19 GDPR
- Right to data portability in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR
- Right to withdraw consent granted in accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR
- Right to lodge a complaint in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR
6.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT
IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA BASED ON OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST IN THE CONTEXT OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING AT ANY TIME FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE AFFECTED DATA. HOWEVER, FURTHER PROCESSING REMAINS RESERVED IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS, AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ASSERTION, EXERCISE, OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.
7) Duration of Storage of Personal Data
The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing, and – if applicable – additionally by the respective statutory retention period (e.g., commercial and tax retention periods). When processing personal data based on explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, this data is stored until the data subject withdraws their consent.