Privacy Policy

This privacy policy informs you about how deltaDAO AG (in the following deltaDAO) processes your personal data when you visit our portal demonstrator, when you use one of our portal demonstrator functionalities and when you contact us. Moreover, this privacy policy informs you about your rights.

Last updated on March 13, 2023.

Table of contents

1. Contact details of the controller and Data Protection Officer
2. What's personal data?
3. Recipients and cross-border data transfer
4. Processing operations according to Article 13 GDPR
5. Automated decision making including profiling according to Article 13(2)(f) GDPR
6. Cookies and web storage
7. External links
8. Your rights
9. Questions
10. Changes to the Privacy Policy

1. Contact details of the controller and Data Protection Officer

The controller pursuant to the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") for the processing of your personal data is:

deltaDAO AG
Katharinenstraße 30a
20457 Hamburg
Germany
E-mail: contact@delta-dao.com

If you have any questions about the protection of your personal data at deltaDAO, please contact our Data Protection Officer:

Data Protection Officer
deltaDAO AG
Katharinenstraße 30a
20457 Hamburg
Germany
E-mail: privacy@delta-dao.com

2. What's personal data?

Personal data is any information that can be (directly or indirectly) related to you. deltaDAO processes a minimal amount of personal data, as we believe your personal data belongs to you. We process the following personal data.

• IP address: Your IP address is processed when visiting our portal demonstrator.
• E-mail: If you contact deltaDAO via e-mail, we process your e-mail address and any personal data you decide to provide in your message (such as your name).

For detailed information about the processing operations, lawfulness, purposes, and how your personal data serves to reach these purposes, please take a look at the chapter "Processing operations according to Article 13 GDPR".

3. Recipients and cross-border data transfer

Visiting our portal demonstrator
When visiting our portal demonstrator, your IP address is processed by Netlify, a service provider that hosts our portal demonstrator. Our portal demonstrator is served by Netlify using a Content Delivery Network, a geographically distributed network, with servers within and outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). This means, if you are located within the EEA, your IP address will most likely be processed on a Netlify server within the EEA. We signed Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) with Netlify to ensure a data protection compliant processing of your personal data. You have the right to receive a copy of these SCC. To exercise your right, please contact us at privacy@delta-dao.com.

• Here you can find Netlify's current SCC ↗.
• Here you can find Netlify's privacy policy ↗.

Contact via e-mail
When you contact us via e-mail, our (mail) service provider Microsoft supports us in processing your personal data so we can communicate with you. We have restricted storage on the EEA and signed SCC with our provider. You have the right to receive a copy of these SCC. To exercise your right, please contact us at privacy@delta-dao.com.

4. Processing operations according to Article 13 GDPR

We process your personal data for the following purposes.

4.1 Providing our portal demonstrator and its functionalities and creating logfiles
We collect and use your IP address for providing our portal demonstrator and its functionalities. Our portal demonstrator is hosted externally by our service provider Netlify (see also chapter 3), which stores your IP address in a server logfile. deltaDAO does not store your data and will not receive your personal data from Netlify.

Purposes:
Collecting and using your IP address is necessary for providing our portal demonstrator and its functionalities because it is a technical requirement for ensuring communication between your device and our portal demonstrator.

Logfiles are created to troubleshoot connectivity issues, maintain security, and to ensure an error free usage of the portal demonstrator.

Legal basis:
The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest, pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Legitimate interests:
Our legitimate interest is to provide our portal demonstrator and its functionalities to you.

Your IP address is stored by Netlify in a logfile because of the legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation, security, and optimization of the website.

Retention period:
Netlify stores your IP address for 30 days.

4.2 Contact via e-mail
If you contact us via e-mail, deltaDAO collects, uses and stores your e-mail address, and any other information you provide us in your message, such as your name.

Purpose:
We collect, use and store this personal data to respond to your inquiries.

Legal basis:
The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest, according to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Legitimate interests:
Our legitimate interest is to answer your inquiries.

Retention period:
deltaDAO deletes your personal data as soon as we no longer require them for processing your inquiry, except deltaDAO is obliged to comply with legal retention periods or in case of legal disputes.

5. Automated decision making including profiling according to Article 13(2)(f) GDPR

Automated decision making including profiling does not take place.

6. Cookies and web storage

A cookie is a small file that stores Internet settings. Your web browser downloads it on the first visit to a website. The next time you open this website with the same device, the cookie and the information stored in it are either sent back to the website that created it (first-party cookie) or sent to another website it belongs to (third-party cookie). This enables the website to detect that you have opened it previously with this browser and, in some cases, to vary the displayed content. Web storage (local storage and session storage) has similar functionality to cookies.

Our portal demonstrator does not use cookies or web storage for analytics or marketing purposes. We use your web storage to remember your page preferences, enable functionalities and to enhance your user experience. Your browser will remove the session storage once you close your browser. You have the option of disabling cookies and deleting cookies and web storage from your computer's hard disk at any time in your browser settings.

7. External links

Our portal demonstrator contains links to external websites that are beyond the control and responsibility of deltaDAO.

8. Your rights

If you want to make use of your rights described below, do not hesitate to contact us.

8.1 Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR)
You have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether deltaDAO processes personal data about you. If we are processing personal data about you, you have the right to access these personal data and to gain the information defined in Art. 15 GDPR.

8.2 Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
You have the right to obtain without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data about you. Additionally, you have the right that incomplete personal data about you are completed.

8.3 Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
You have the right to obtain without undue delay the erasure of personal data about you, where the defined legal grounds in Art. 17 GDPR apply.

8.4 Right to restriction (Art. 18 GDPR)
Moreover, you have the right to obtain the restriction of processing your personal data where the defined legal grounds in Art. 18 GDPR apply.

8.5 Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. Additionally, you have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance, where the defined legal grounds in Art. 20 GDPR apply. You can make use of your right to data portability by contacting us.

8.6 Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR)
On grounds relating to your particular situation, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data where we based the processing on legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). If you object, deltaDAO will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing, overriding your rights, freedoms, and interests, or if the processing is required to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

8.7 Right to lodge a complaint (Art. 77 GDPR)
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you consider the processing of your personal data by deltaDAO to infringe the GDPR. You can lodge a complaint in particular

• in the Member State of your habitual residence,
• in the Member State of your place of work, and
• in the place of the alleged infringement.

9. Questions

For any requests regarding our privacy policy, please send us an e-mail to privacy@delta-dao.com.

10. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We adjust this policy from time to time, by publishing a new version on our portal demonstrator. You can find the date of the current version at the beginning of this policy. The latest version of this policy applies to the processing of your personal data.