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Privacy Policy

Last Edited on December 15th 2020
§ 1 Preliminary remark

We, the "Vaayu Tech GmbH" as the responsible party in the sense of the following § 2, are pleased about your visit to our website and your interest in our company. In the following data protection declaration, we would like to inform you in particular about the processing of your personal data by us when using our website and about your rights.


§ 2 Responsible person

"Responsible person" within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 DS-GVO is

   Vaayu Tech Ltd.
   represented by the managing directors Namrata Sandhu and Luca Schmid
   Paul-Robeson-Str. 42, 10439 Berlin
   E-mail: hello@vaayu.tech
   (hereinafter "we" or "Vaayu").


§ 3 Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions about data protection, you can contact our data protection officer:
   Clément Battin
   privacy@vaayu.tech
   Paul-Robeson-Str. 42, 10439 Berlin


§ 4 Information on the processing of personal data

Personal data will only be processed by us if this is permitted under the applicable regulations on the protection of personal data or if you have given us your consent.

1. What data is collected by default when visiting our website?

When you visit our website, we collect such data from you as is transmitted by your browser to our server by default. Our web server automatically logs accesses to our website. When you visit our website, we collect

   • Name of the website accessed,
   • File, date and time of retrieval,
   • Volume of data transferred,
   • Message about a successful retrieval,
   • Call,
   • Browser type and version,
   • Operating system of the user,
   • Referrer URL (the previously visited page),
   • IP address and the requesting provider as well as
   • when using a mobile device, the following: Country code, language, name of the device, name of the operating        system and version

This information is processed for the purpose of ensuring the stability and operational security of our website and is stored on our servers for as long as is necessary to achieve the aforementioned purposes.

If the information relates to a person, the legal basis for its processing is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) DS-GVO, as we have a legitimate interest in ensuring the stability and operational security of our website.

2. Under what circumstances are other personal data collected and processed?
The provision of further (additional) personal data is voluntary. In principle, it will not have any negative consequences for you if you do not provide us with any further personal data. However, within the scope of each of the following processing processes, we as the responsible party require your personal data in order to act. In these cases, we cannot provide the service requested by you without recourse to the personal data required for this purpose.


a) Contact

If you contact us electronically (e.g. by e-mail), the data contained in the message will be transmitted to us and processed by us. The processing always takes place for the purpose of being able to process or answer your request. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b) DS-GVO, insofar as the contact is necessary to fulfil a contract to which you as the data subject are a party, or in order to be able to carry out pre-contractual measures in response to your request. In other cases, the legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) DS-GVO, as we have a legitimate interest in processing and responding to your enquiry.


b) Career section

If you are interested in a professional career with us, you have the opportunity to apply. If you submit your application documents such as cover letter, CV and references in digital form for this purpose, we will process the personal data submitted as part of the application process for the purpose of deciding whether to establish an employment relationship with you, including notification of acceptance or rejection. The legal basis for processing your data for this purpose is Art. 88 DS-GVO in conjunction with Section 26 (1) BDSG or Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b) DS-GVO.

If we enter into an employment relationship with you, we will also process your personal data processed as part of the application process for the purpose of implementing and terminating the employment relationship. In this case, the legal basis is Article 88 DS-GVO in conjunction with Section 26 (1) BDSG or Article 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b) DS-GVO. The related data protection information for our employees is provided separately and is not the subject of this data protection declaration.

In addition, we also process your personal data collected as part of the application process for the purpose of fulfilling legal obligations on the basis of Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. c) DS-GVO and on the basis of Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) DS-GVO to protect our legitimate interests, namely to assert, exercise and/or defend legal claims (e.g. in relation to possible claims that may arise from the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG)).

If your application documents contain special categories of personal data within the meaning of Art. 9 (1) DS-GVO, we will - unless another exception applies in individual cases (e.g. Art. 9 (2) (b) DS-GVO in conjunction with Section 26 (3) BDSG or Section 22 (1) sentence 1 (b) DS-GVO). in conjunction with Section 26 (3) of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) or Section 9 (2) (h) of the German Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO) in conjunction with Section 22 (1) sentence 1 (b) of the German Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO) - we assume that you expressly consent to their processing in accordance with Section 9 (2) (a) of the German Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO).

If you apply to us via the recruiting portal of JOIN Solutions AG Landsgemeindeplatz 6, 9043 Trogen, Switzerland, JOIN Solutions AG will send us your application documents uploaded there.

If we reject your application, your data will be deleted after 6 months in accordance with § 61 b para. 1 ArbGG in conjunction with § 15 AGG. § Section 15 AGG, unless further processing is necessary for the purpose of asserting and/or defending legal claims. In the case of recruited applicants, the data will be processed for as long as is necessary for the establishment, implementation and settlement of the employment relationship.


c) Information about data processing on our social media presences

In order to provide you with information about our company and the opportunity to contact us, we maintain profiles of our company on the following social networks:

   • Instagram (Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland) at https://www.instagram.com/vaayutech/?hl=de

   • Twitter (Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07 Ireland; if you are a resident of the United States of America: Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA) at https://twitter.com/vaayutech.

   • LinkedIn (LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2 Ireland, if you are a resident of the European Union, the European Economic Area or Switzerland; in other cases LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W. Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 98585, USA) at . Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA) at https://de.linkedin.com/company/vaayu.

If you visit our company profile on one of the aforementioned social media sites, personal data is regularly processed.

The respective operator of the corresponding platform is solely responsible for the processing of personal data on the social network. Further information on the processing of your personal data by the operator of the social network can be found in the data protection declarations of the respective operator. These are available at:

   • Instagram at https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388

   • Twitter at https://twitter.com/de/privacy

   • LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-privacy-policy

Through our social media presences, we also have the opportunity to get in touch with users, interact and inform them about our offers as well as news. Likewise, you have the opportunity to contact us via our social media presence. In these cases, your personal data will also be processed by us (see below under point 1.). In addition, we also receive user statistics from the operators of social media platforms mentioned in section 2 as part of the "Insights" function.

aa) Data processing when contacting/ communicating via our social media profile

When you visit one of our social media profiles, you regularly have the opportunity to contact and interact with us on a voluntary basis (e.g. by sending a message/inquiry or creating your own comment/tweet). In the event of such contact/communication, we, as the operator of the respective social media profile and the responsible party, process the data and content transmitted by you as well as your publicly viewable profile data (e.g. your (user) name) in accordance with the provisions of data protection law. We process this data in order to interact with you, to answer your enquiry or comment and, if necessary, to provide you with further information about our company and our services.

If you have given us consent to process your personal data, the legal basis for data processing for the aforementioned purposes is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a) DS-GVO. If this is not the case, the legal basis for processing your personal data is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) DS-GVO, as we have a legitimate interest in contacting or responding to your enquiry or feedback on your contribution. If the purpose of the contact/communication is to initiate and/or establish a contract with us, the legal basis for processing your personal data is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b) DS-GVO.


bb) Data processing via "Insights" functions (usage statistics)

In addition, we receive anonymous usage statistics ("insights data") from the social media platforms in relation to our presences maintained there (e.g. on the number of visitors/followers and certain interactions and actions taken via our social media page).

By evaluating the transmitted statistics, we can assess the effectiveness of individual measures via our social media presence, improve our offer and make our posts even more interest- and target-oriented.

With Facebook (with regard to Instagram) and LinkedIn, we have concluded a corresponding data protection agreement within the meaning of Article 26 (1) sentence 2 of the GDPR with regard to such data processing within the scope of the Page Insights, which are carried out under joint responsibility. The agreements regulate, among other things, which of the joint controllers fulfils which obligation pursuant to the GDPR, in particular with regard to the exercise of the rights of the data subject and who fulfils which information obligations pursuant to Art. 13 et seq. GDPR. The (main) content of the joint responsibility agreement can be found under the following links.

   • Facebook: https://de-de.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

   • LinkedIn: https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum

Please note that joint responsibility only exists for the data processing carried out via the Insights service and mentioned in the agreement. The legal basis for the data processing that we carry out in joint responsibility with the aforementioned social media providers is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) DS-GVO, as we have a legitimate interest in evaluating the use of our social media presences for the aforementioned purposes.Further information on the processing of personal data by the operator of the respective social media platform in the context of the creation and use of usage statistics can be found in the following links:

   • Instagram information on Page Insights data at https://help.instagram.com/788388387972460?helpref=faq_content,

   • LinkedIn Privacy Policy at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-privacy-policy


3. Duration of the storage of personal data; retention obligations

Your personal data will generally be stored for as long as is necessary to achieve the aforementioned (see § 4 number 1 and 2.) defined purposes. If you object to data processing that we carry out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) DS-GVO ("legitimate interest"), we will no longer use your personal data for the purposes in question and will delete them from our systems unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims. If you have given us consent, we will process your data for the purpose covered by the consent until we receive the revocation of your consent.

In addition, legal requirements, in particular archiving obligations, may result in a duty to retain data. For example, due to existing commercial and tax law requirements, we are obliged to retain or store certain of your data for a period of up to ten years. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data for the purpose of fulfilling legal archiving/retention obligations is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. c) DS-GVO in conjunction with the respective legal provision (in particular §§ 147 AO, 257 HGB).


4. Categories of recipients of personal data

We disclose the personal data processed through our website to the following categories of recipients:

   • Website host
   • Operator of our Content Delivery Network System
   • Providers of the social media platforms on which we maintain company profiles
   • E-mail provider
   • Operator of our customer and applicant database and technical service provider for (customer and applicant)        information


5. Third country transfer

We transfer personal data covered by this Privacy Policy to the United States and the United Kingdom (UK), and therefore to third countries outside the EU or the EEA. The data transfer to the UK is based on an adequacy decision of the Commission. Insofar as personal data is transferred to the USA, this is done on the basis of the standard data protection clauses concluded with the respective data recipient (Art. 46 para. 2 lit. c) DS-GVO) due to the lack of an adequacy decision for the USA. We will be happy to provide you with a copy of the standard data protection clauses upon request (you can find our contact details in § 2 of this privacy policy).


6. Automated decision-making; profiling
With regard to the data processed via our website, there is no automated decision-making, including profiling, pursuant to Article 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR.


§ 7 Links to social networks

We have integrated various links to our company profiles in social networks (e.g. LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram) into our website. If you click on one of these links, you will be taken to our online presence on the network in question. If you do not click on any of these links, no data will be transmitted to the operators of these social networks when you visit our website.


§ 8 Right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability, revocation of consent

You have the following rights in relation to personal data relating to you:
   • Right of access (Art. 15 DS-GVO),
   • Right to rectification or erasure (Art. 16 and 17 of the GDPR),
   • Right to restriction of data processing (Art. 18 DS-GVO),
   • Right to data portability (Art. 20 DS-GVO),
   • Right to revoke consent, whereby the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until        revocation is not affected by the revocation.


§ 9 Right of appeal to the data protection supervisory authority

If you are of the opinion that we are not processing your personal data in accordance with the specifications described herein and/or applicable data protection laws, you can complain about the processing of your personal data by us to the competent data protection supervisory authority at any time (Art. 77 DS-GVO). In principle, the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information is responsible for us (as of March 2022: Friedrichstr. 219, 10969 Berlin, Tel.: +49 (0)30 13889-0, Fax: +49 (0)30 2155050, E-Mail: mailbox@datenschutz-berlin.de).


§ 10 Right of objection

Pursuant to Art. 21 (1) DS-GVO, you have the right to object at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation to the processing of personal data relating to you which is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) DS-GVO. You can address your objection to the person responsible (see § 2) or to our data protection officer (see § 3). In the event of an objection, we will no longer use your personal data for the purposes in question and will delete them from our systems unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.