Data Privacy Policy

This document informs you about privacy issues such as the collection, storage, use and disclosure of Personal Information received from users of this site.

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If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your data, or if you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact the Company at:

Dinghy GmbH Blumenstraße 77 63069 Offenbach am Main, Germany hello@dinghy.studio

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From our website visitors, the Company collects data such as:

• Name
• Email
• Other applicable information when you reach out to us, such as the company you are affiliated with, your job title, and your inquiries.

We may also collect potential names and emails we received from partners and business connections because we understand we could potentially be a business match.

We usually reach out to you via LinkedIn, however, we may use also other marketing business tools that could connect us.

Such information is kept within the business tool and by the business tool, based on their terms, unless we have started an engagement.

Those business tools have come to find your information (personal information such as, company name, representative name, job title, and email) via business registers and business connectivity tools such as LinkedIn.

We suggest checking with trade registers and connectivity tools such as LinkedIn to understand which business tools have access to your company data.

We collect this data based on your consent, Article 6 (1) (a) of the European General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, because you like to stay updated on our newsletters, marketing offers, or you have reached out to us for information or questions.

Regarding our customers, we collects data such as:

• Names of people we work with
• Emails and potential phone numbers to have contact with you about the projects
• Company Address
• Company Name
• The service we agreed to provide for you
• The personal data that you provide to us, or that we see incidentally during the provision of the service

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We are determined to keep your data in secure locations, such as the password protected and authorization-accessible database of the host domain of Dinghy GmbH, Microsoft Office 365, and Hubspot.

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With regards to European data protection legislation and German taxation laws, Dinghy GmbH will store your data that is necessary for tax-related purposes for a minimum of 10.

Marketing data, such as email and inactive accounts will be stored for no longer than 1 year. Dinghy GmbH will review this retention schedule every six months.

Other type of data, such as for website projects, will be stored for as long as the project lasts. Once your personal data is removed based on one of the reasons as stated above, it cannot be retrieved unless you provide it again to Dinghy GmbH for reasons as stated previously in this policy.

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The Company will not internationally transfer your data. It has been ensured by the Third Parties Microsoft and Hubspot, that they have implemented the utmost technical and organizational measures within their infrastructure. We refer to the privacy policy of these Third Parties.

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When making use of the Company’s services, you may be subjected to automated decision-making tools. This means that throughout the entire process, from the moment you engage in the our purchasing process, until the service has been fulfilled, there is no human contact involved.

You have the right to not be subject to automated decision-making. If you wish to order services Dinghy GmbH without automated decision-making, please reach out via: hello@dinghy.studio. We have implemented suitable measures to safeguard your rights, freedoms and legitimate interests by having our tools regularly checked and updated.

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We collect personal data for marketing purposes as described above. Under no circumstances, do we sellcollected data to Third Party partners. We may share your name and email with Third Parties when you ask us to do so, and when we received your consent for sharing your information. For example, when you ask us to connect you to a partner for their services we share your email and name and the minimum of details, as you have specified.

We use Plausible.io for tracking analytics and website visitations. This tool does not collect any cookies, it tracks entirely anonymously and aggregated so we can understand what aspect of our website has gained the most attraction.

Your rights Link to this headline

You, have at all times the right to:

1. Access your data and request copies of all processing activities concerning your data;
2. Rectify information concerning any data about you that you believe is inaccurate;
3. Request to be forgotten, to which the Company under certain conditions cannot comply, such as when it is following a legal obligation from a National Authority, or reasons for public interest or public health;
4. Request to restrict or object to processing, to which the Company under certain conditions cannot comply, such as when it is following a legal obligation from a National Authority, or reasons for public interest or public health;
5. Request a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format to transfer the data to another controller or directly to you (portability).

We will make sure to answer to your data protection right within 30 days. We will explain to you carefully if we are not able or allowed to comply to your data protection right, for example, because your data is aggregated and we cannot identify you, or because there is a legal rule that prohibits us from complying to your request.

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This policy was last updated in August 2024. Dinghy GmbH will keep this privacy policy continuously under review and reserves the right to modify this document. Dinghy GmbH advises you to regularly consult this document for the latest updates.

Should you wish to report a complaint or you feel Dinghy GmbH has not addressed your concerns in a satisfying manner, you may contact the Data Protection Authority in Germany or in your country of residence.