Privacy Policy and Legal Notice

Lead Innovation protects your privacy. This privacy policy applies to the use of our website and our online registration service. They govern data collection, processing and use. If you use our website or online registration service, you agree to this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or how we treat personal data, please contact our data protection officer at privacy@lead-innovation.com.

When accessing our websites, information about the access (date, time, pages viewed, IP address, etc.) is saved to our server as log files. We do this on the basis of a justified interest in monitoring technical operations, to optimize our information content, and to detect attacks on our website. This data is evaluated by us in anonymized form exclusively for our own statistical purposes. The log files are deleted after six months.

Processing is performed on behalf of Lead Innovation Management GmbH.

We usually do not collect any personal data when you use our Web content. If you contact us using the contact forms provided or subscribe to our newsletter, your email address and other personal data is only used for the individual correspondence for responding to your query. We assure you that your details will exclusively be used by us, never passed on, and treated confidentially in accordance with the statutory regulations that apply. An exception is transmission to data processing companies, which work exclusively upon the instruction of Lead, do not use the data for their own purposes, and which are bound to the data protection obligations of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation by particular agreements. In rare cases, this may involve data being transmitted to countries outside the European Union. Therefore, to safeguard the rights and freedoms of the data subjects, an agreement has been concluded with such data processing companies in accordance with the standard contractual clauses (Art. 46 of the GDPR) approved by the EU Commission and the data processing company has provided additional assurances guaranteeing a level of data protection equal to that of the EU.

You have the right to information, the rectification, and erasure of data, the right to restrict and object to processing (in particular to object to the sending of direct advertising), and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

In the event of questions, please refer to our data protection officer at privacy@lead-innovation.com.

We process the data from your query (name, company, contact details, content of the query, history of previous contact with us) that you send to us through the contact form or via email for the purpose of customer care (pre-contractual measures) and for marketing purposes (legitimate interest in sending direct advertising and profile building).

Your data is supplemented by us with publicly accessible information from your website or the website of your company/employer, your social media profiles, telephone directories, or other directories available on the Internet and combined with your profile.

Your data will be deleted by us seven years after the last time of contact unless there are statutory obligations for retaining the data.

The newsletter is only sent with your explicit consent, which you grant us voluntarily when completing a contact form and checking the appropriate box and then clicking on the confirmation link in the follow-up confirmation email which is sent automatically (double opt-in). Upon receipt of the newsletter, your clicking and reading behavior is logged.

You can revoke your consent for the sending of the newsletter at any time by providing your data via email to privacy@lead-innovation.com. Every newsletter also contains an option for unsubscribing. The legal basis applicable up to the time of revocation is not affected by this.

Your data will be stored up to the time of revocation / unsubscribing from the newsletter.

Software is used on this website for analyzing its use.

Valuable findings on users' needs can be gained by analyzing this data. These findings help to improve the quality of the content even further.

So-called "cookies" are used to this end. Cookies are stored in your browser, which enable a visitor to be recognized on any anonymous basis. In general, cookies can be rejected or deleted with the appropriate browser settings. The statements made here relating to cookies also apply in a similar way to other technical browser functions, such as local storage and session storage.

Some of the cookies on this website are necessary for the website to function and are placed based on our legitimate interest in the secure and efficient operation of the website. We never pass on information to third parties for their own commercial purposes.

Cookies intended for analysis and profile building are only used with your explicit consent.

You can revoke the consent you have granted at any time by either changing the cookie settings on our website or your browser settings.

With your consent, our website uses LinkedIn Analytics to measure the performance of advertisements inserted by the business network LinkedIn.

LinkedIn Analytics is provided by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Gardner House 4,5,6, 2 Dublin, Ireland, which then sends your data to the USA for further processing. You should note that the USA has a lower level of data protection than the EU, and US companies are obligated to release data to courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory authorities, or securities bodies.

When embedding LinkedIn Analytics in our website, technical telemetry data, such as your IP address, is passed on to LinkedIn and relevant cookies are placed.

You can find the privacy statement from LinkedIn at https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

We use HubSpot for our marketing activities. This is an integrated software solution which we use to cover different aspects of our online marketing.

This includes:

• Content management (website und blog)
• Email marketing (newsletters and automated mailings)
• Reporting (e.g. traffic sources, accesses, etc.)
• Contact management (e.g. user segmentation and CRM)
• Landing pages and contact forms

The service allows visitors to our website to learn more about our company and to provide contact information and other demographic information.

This information and the content of our website are stored on the servers of our software partner HubSpot. This can be used by us to get into contact with visitors to our website and to determine which of our company's services are of interest to them.

All of the information collected by us is subject to this privacy policy. We use all the information collected exclusively for optimizing our marketing.

HubSpot is a software company from the USA with an office in Ireland:

HubSpot
2nd Floor 30 North Wall Quay
Dublin 1, Ireland
Tel.: +353 1 5187500

More information on HubSpot's privacy policy: https://legal.hubspot.com/de/privacy-policy

More information on the cookies used by HubSpot: https://knowledge.hubspot.com/account/hubspot-cookie-security-and-privacy

To improve the performance of our website and to detect attacks on the website, we use the services of Cloudflare Inc., 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA-94107, USA.

Some of the contents of the website are downloaded directly by your browser from the servers of Cloudflare, during the process of which, Cloudflare obtains knowledge about your IP address. This information is only used to provide IT security services.

You can find the privacy statement of Cloudflare at https://www.cloudflare.com/security-policy

If you register for paid events via our website and process the payment online, the payment service provider Stripe is used. As part of the order process, your contact, order and credit card information will be transmitted to Stripe Payments Europe Ltd, 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, D02 H210, Ireland. Your data will only be passed on for the purpose of payment processing with the payment service provider Stripe Payments Europe Ltd. and only to the extent necessary for this purpose. For more information about Stripe's privacy policy, please visit: https://stripe.com/privacy. 

We continuously review and update the content that we have published on our website. We assume no liability or guarantee for the timeliness, accuracy and completeness of the published content.