Privacy policy

Privacy policy of FOLO GmbH
FOLO GmbH (hereafter 'Folo' or 'We' or 'Us') is pleased with your interest in our company, our services and your visit to our website.

  1. Folo protects your privacy
  2. It is important to us to protect your personal information. The data we collect when you visit our website is processed confidentially and only in accordance with the law.
    Privacy, security and privacy are fundamental to our corporate policy.
    Data-protection, security and privacy are fundamental to our corporate policy.

  3. Person responsibility
  4. Responsible for the processing of your data:

    FOLO GmbH
    Rotlintstraße 45
    60316 Frankfurt
    E-mail: hello@foloaround.com
    Phone: +49 15206318626

    To assert your rights and to report data protection incidents, please contact the above E-mail address. If you have any suggestions and / or complaints regarding the processing of your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact us.

  5. Processing of personal data
  6. 3.1 Processed data categories

    We process your communication data (such as name, telephone number, e-mail address, address, IP address)

    3.2 Processing principles

    Personal information is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person; a natural person is considered to be identifiable, directly or indirectly, in particular by means of Assignment to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or one or more special features.
    We, as well as service providers commissioned by us, process your personal data for the following purposes:

    3.3 Processing purposes and legal bases

    We, as well as service providers commissioned by us, process your personal data for the following purposes:

    3.3.1 Provision of the online offer
    Legal basis: Legitimate interest on our part to present ourselves publicly and to show our services.

    3.3.2 Answering user requests by means of common communication channels
    Legal basis: Legitimate interest on our part to get in touch with interested parties and customers. In addition, to improve our products and services and marketing activities, as long as this is in accordance with legal requirements.

    3.3.3 Determination (Investigation?) of faults and for security reasons
    Legal basis: Fulfillment of our legal obligations and legitimate interest in the safety of our Offers and to eliminate interference.

    3.3.4 Own and third-party advertising
    Legal basis: By consent or legitimate interest on our part.

    3.3.5 Upholding our rights
    Legal basis: legitimate interest on our part.

    3.4 Log-files

    When using the Internet, data will be automatically transmitted by you. The data you send to us to transfer, are stored by us in log files.

    In particular, the following information is stored in the log files.

    • IP address (Internet Protocol address) of the terminal from which the online offering is accessed
    • Internet address of the website from which the online offer was called (so-called origin or Referrer URL)
    • Name of the service provider used to access the online offer
    • Name of the retrieved files or information
    • Date and time as well as the duration of the call
    • Transferred amount of data
    • Operating system and information about the Internet browser used, including installed add-ons
    • http status code (for example, 'request succeeded' or 'requested file not found')

    The log files are used by us to identify faults and for security reasons (e.g. for the clarification of Attempted attacks), stored for a short period and then deleted. Log files whose further retention is required, are exempt from the deletion until the final clarification of the incident and may in individual cases be passed on to investigative authorities.

    Log files are used (without or without full IP address) Log files are used (with either partial or no IP address) OR Log files are used (with partial or without IP address) under the conditions of Section 3.3.4 'Own and third-party advertising as well as market research and range measurement to the legally permissible extent or consent-based' and also for analysis purposes.

    3.5 Disclosure of data

    3.5.1 Transfer of data to other persons responsible
    Your personal data will only be communicated by us to other persons responsible, insofar as this is necessary for the fulfillment of the contract, or if we or the third party have an overriding legitimate interest in the disclosure or if your consent exists.

    In addition, data may be transmitted to other persons responsible, as long as there are legally liable provisions, or we should be obliged to do so by enforceable administrative or court order.

    3.5.2 Transfer of data to service providers
    We commission external service providers with tasks such as data hosting. The service providers are carefully selected and used by us for confidentiality and obligation to comply with legal requirements.

    3.5.3 Transfer to recipients outside the European Economic Area (EEA)
    We may also transfer personal information to recipients located outside the EEA in so-called third countries. In this case, before the passing on, we ensure that the recipient has either an adequate level of data protection (e.g. based on a decision on the adequacy of the EU Commission for the respective country or countries) agreement of so-called EU standard contractual clauses of the European Union with the recipient or your consent to disclosure.

    3.6 Duration of storage and retention periods

    As a matter of principle, we store your data for as long as this is necessary for the provision of our online offer and that connected services are required, or we have a legitimate interest in the further storage. We delete your personal data other than information that we need to retain in order to fulfill our legal obligations (For example, due to tax and commercial retention periods, we are required to submit documents such as contracts and invoices for a certain period of time).

  7. Use of cookies
  8. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small Text files that are stored on your computer and stored by your browser.

    4.1 Categories of cookies

    Most of the cookies we use are so-called 'session cookies'. They will be automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit.

    4.2 Third party cookies via external links

    When using external content via www.Folo.io e.g. in the case of a link, third-party cookies may be used without our explicit reference.

    4.3 Disable cookies

    If you want to disable all cookies, then please go to your browser settings and deactivate the setting of cookies. Please note that this may affect the functionality of the website.

  9. External links
  10. Our online offer may contain links to third party websites - providers not affiliated with us. After clicking on the link, we no longer have any influence on the collection, processing and use of any personal data transmitted by clicking on the link to the third party (such as the IP address or the URL of the page on which the link is located) because the behavior of third parties is naturally beyond our control. We are not responsible for the processing of such personal data by third parties.

  11. Security
  12. Our employees and our service providers commissioned by us are bound by confidentiality and compliance with the regulations committed to applicable data protection laws.

    We take all necessary technical and organizational measures to ensure an adequate level of protection of your Data managed by us, especially against the risks of unintentional or unlawful destruction, Manipulation, loss, Change or unauthorized disclosure or unauthorized access. Our security measures are constantly being improved in line with technological developments.

  13. Your rights
  14. Please use the information in the section 'Responsible body and contact' to assert your rights. (see no. 2). Please make sure that we can clearly identify you.

    9.1 Information law and access right

    You have the right to receive information about the processing of your data from us. You can do this by claiming a Right to information in relation to the personal information we process about you.

    9.2 Right to rectification and erasure

    You can correct the wrong data and - as far as the legal requirements are met - completion or delete your data.

    This does not apply to data that is required for billing and accounting purposes or the statutory retention requirements subject. As far as access to such data is not needed, but their processing restricted (see below).

    9.3 Restriction of processing

    As far as the legal requirements are met, you can demand that we restrict processing of your data.

    9.4 Data portability

    You also have the right to receive data provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or, if technically feasible, to request that the data be transmitted to a third party.

    9.5 Right of objection

    9.5.1 Individual right of objection
    Unless we have processing of data based on a predominant legitimate interest, as this Privacy policy set out to make, you have the right at any time, for reasons that arise from your particular situation to object against this Processing.

    We will then stop processing your data, unless we can - in accordance with the law Specifications – prove legitimate, worthy reasons for further processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the Further processing serves the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.

    9.5.2 Objection to the processing of data for advertising purposes
    You may also at any time object to the processing of your personal information for advertising purposes ('Advertising Objection'). Please take into account, that for organizational reasons, if there is an overlap between the use of your data and your objection, your data may still be visible in the context of an ongoing campaign.

    9.6 Cancellation right

    If you have given us consent to the processing of your data, you can withdraw them at any time with effect for the future.

    9.7 Right of appeal to the supervisory authority

    You have the right to file a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. You can contact the responsible Hessian commissioners for data protection and freedom of information.
    https://datenschutz.hessen.de/

Change of privacy policy

We reserve the right to change our security and privacy practices to the extent necessary for technical Development. In these cases, we will also adjust our privacy policy to comply. Please note that only the current version of our privacy policy is valid.

Updated 2020.11.25