Privacy Policy of Reiner Projekte

We appreciate your visit to the sfera-software.com website, operated by Reiner Projekte, Brucker Straße 2, 85232 Bergkirchen, Germany. We place great value on your privacy and the protection of your personal data. Therefore, we would like to inform you at this point how we use and protect the data collected about you. It is a matter of course for Reiner Projekte to comply with all applicable legal provisions and regulations on data protection, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR").

Use of this Website

This privacy policy describes the data we collect about you and how this data may be stored and processed within Germany and the Reiner Projekte Communications Publishing Network as described below. This website and the associated events and publications from Reiner Projekte provide products, content, and services for a professional and consumer audience and are not intended for persons under the age of 13. We knowingly do not collect or store personal data from children under 13 years of age.

In this document, the following are described:

• What data we collect and how they are collected
• How we protect your personal data
• How we handle the personal data we collect
• What legal basis we have for processing your personal data
• When and how we pass on your personal data to third parties
• How long we store your personal data
• Your rights and preferences
• How you can contact us

What Data We Collect

The data collected by Reiner Projekte about you is limited to the information that is typically found on a business card: first name, last name, job/position title, name of the employer/company name as well as the employer's/company's address, e-mail address, and telephone number. In some cases, we may ask you for additional professional data, such as the industry and size of the company for which you work.

To improve and/or update the information you provide, we may combine it with the professional information or personal data collected from third party sources. The personal data described in this document includes the personal and professional data you provide, as well as data we receive from third party sources, with both types of data typically combined in a user data record.

Additionally, this website collects and stores certain data automatically using cookies and similar technologies. This includes IP addresses, region or location of a computer or device used for internet access, browser type, operating system, history of accessed web pages, and other usage data. For more information, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

How Personal Data is Collected

We may collect your personal data when you register for the products, content, or services offered by Reiner Projekte or its external partners ("partners"), such as publications, subscriptions, contests, newsletters, memberships, premium content, webcasts, videos, whitepapers, online seminars, conferences, and events.

What Happens if You Do Not Provide Personal Data?

In order to provide the products, content, or services you request, we need your personal data. If you do not provide this personal data, we cannot provide the products, content, or services.

Reiner Projekte Communications Publishing Network

This website is one of the many websites operated by Reiner Projekte and its sister companies, collectively referred to by us as the Reiner Projekte Communications Publishing Network. Where legally permissible, we may transfer the personal data we collect about you to another company within the Reiner Projekte Communications Publishing Network for internal analytical and business development purposes and to provide information about products, content, and services that may be of interest to you. Please click here to view a list of online and print publications included in the Reiner Projekte Communications Publishing Network.

How We Protect Your Personal Data

SFERA SOFTWARE has technical and organizational security measures in place to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorized use, access, accidental disclosure, alteration, and deletion. We also require appropriate security measures from third parties contracted to support SFERA SOFTWARE's business operations (see section "When and How We Share Your Personal Data with Third Parties").

We regularly update and test our security measures and restrict access to your personal data to those who need to know it to provide you with SFERA SOFTWARE's products, content, or services.

Storing Your Personal Data

We may store your personal data on our own website servers or using other internally hosted technology by SFERA SOFTWARE. Through cloud services or other technologies, your personal data may also be stored by third parties contracted by SFERA SOFTWARE to support its business operations (see section "When and How We Share Your Personal Data with Third Parties").

These third parties are only allowed to use or access your personal data for storage in the cloud or retrieval from the cloud. SFERA SOFTWARE requires these third parties to provide at least the same level of security for the protection of your personal data (see section "Security of Your Personal Data").

How We Handle the Personal Data We Collect

We use the personal data we collect to communicate with you, fulfill your wishes, improve our service, and display other information and offers that may be of interest to you.

For Communication with You

We may use your personal data for sending important notifications, such as notices about your registration, transactions, changes to REINER PROJEKTE's terms, conditions, or policies, and/or for other internal purposes.

To Fulfill Your Wishes

We may use your personal data to provide the products, content, or services you desire. If you participate in a contest, competition, or similar promotion from SFERA SOFTWARE, we may use your personal data to administer these promotions.

To Improve Our Service

We may use your personal data for auditing, data analysis, and improvement of SFERA SOFTWARE's products, content, and services.

To Display Offers of Interest to You

We may contact you to offer further products, content, or services from SFERA SOFTWARE or third parties that may be of interest to you.

Legal Basis for Processing Your Personal Data

SFERA SOFTWARE uses the personal data you provide to deliver the products, content, and services you request, to send important messages, and for internal purposes, such as auditing, data analysis, and research to provide you with the information you need for thoroughly informed technology purchasing decisions.

We may also use your personal data to offer you products, content, or services based on your stated interests or preferences that may be of interest to you. We may also transmit your personal data to external sponsors of content, events, and other services or offers.

The legal basis for processing your personal data is your consent. Under certain circumstances, we may otherwise process your personal data if SFERA SOFTWARE has a legitimate interest in doing so and it does not violate your rights and fundamental freedoms.

If SFERA SOFTWARE processes your personal data for its legitimate interests, SFERA SOFTWARE will duly consider any possible impact on you and your rights under data protection and other relevant legal provisions. However, our legitimate business interests do not override your interests. In cases where your rights and fundamental freedoms override our legitimate interests, SFERA SOFTWARE will only use your personal data with your consent, if we are otherwise obligated to do so, or if this is legally permitted.

If you want to know the legal basis we use for different processing operations, please click here to learn more.

When and How We Share Your Personal Data with Third Parties

To provide content and services from our websites and affiliated companies, as well as services from third parties that may be of interest to you, including sponsored content and events, for business operations and to comply with valid legal procedures, SFERA SOFTWARE may share your personal data.

For Content and Services That May Interest You or You Request

As previously mentioned, we may share your personal data within the SFERA SOFTWARE Communications Publishing Network for internal analytical and business development purposes and to provide information about products, content, and services that may interest you (see section "SFERA SOFTWARE Communications Publishing Network"). We may also share your personal data with third parties to provide sponsored content or third-party services you request (see section "Sponsored Content and Third-Party Events").

For Business Operations

We may also share your personal data with third parties we have contracted to support SFERA SOFTWARE's business operations, such as delivery, settlement, payment processing, providing email messages, managing suppression or Robinson lists, and data processing.

For Sponsored Content and Third-Party Events

SFERA SOFTWARE collaborates with external sponsors to provide a comprehensive library of content for our users, such as whitepapers, professional (live or online) events, and other services or offers. In return for access to such offers, we may ask you to provide personal data during registration.

We may use your personal data to send you the offer you requested. Also, your personal data may be shared with the sponsor(s) of the offer to inform you about the offer as well as other products, content, or services that may interest you.

To Comply with Legal Regulations

Your personal data may be shared if it is legally permissible or necessary to comply with a valid legal process.

In Case of a Change of Ownership

If all or certain ownership shares, products or services of SFERA SOFTWARE are sold or transferred, your personal data will be transferred to the new owner.

International Data Transfer

If SFERA SOFTWARE shares your personal data within the SFERA SOFTWARE Communications Publishing Network or with third parties, as described in this Privacy Policy, and your personal data is transferred to a country that is not a member of the European Union or the European Economic Area (EEA), or is considered by the European Commission to not provide an adequate level of data protection, then SFERA SOFTWARE (as the controller/data exporter) will only carry out this data transfer (to a processor/data importer) if appropriate security precautions are in place, such as binding internal data protection rules, standard contractual clauses, an approved code of conduct, or an approved certification mechanism. For more information, please contact SFERA SOFTWARE's Data Protection Officer (see contact details below).

How Long We Store Your Personal Data

We store your personal data for the duration of your business relationship with us and only keep your data as long as it is necessary for each individual purpose of use, unless you have given us your consent to use your data for other or similar purposes.

Your Rights and Preferences

If you notify us that your personal data should be deleted, or that we should no longer send you marketing communications, or otherwise restrict the processing of your personal data, we will only retain some basic data to prevent the sending of unwanted material in the future and keep a record of your request and our response.

Confirmation and Information about Your Personal Data

Please send an email to info@sfera-software.com if you want to receive confirmation and information about your personal data processed by SFERA SOFTWARE, access your personal data stored at SFERA SOFTWARE, update or correct them, or receive a copy of these data for further use for your own purposes.

Deletion of Your Personal Data

If your personal data should be deleted, please send an email to: info@sfera-software.com

Unsubscribe from Marketing Communications

If you no longer wish to receive marketing communications from SFERA SOFTWARE, please send an email to info@sfera-software.com

Limiting the Processing of Your Personal Data

If SFERA SOFTWARE should otherwise restrict the processing of your personal data, please send an email to: info@sfera-software.com

How to Contact Us

Questions, concerns or complaints:

For questions, concerns or complaints about SFERA SOFTWARE's handling of personal data or this privacy policy, you should contact our data protection officer.

If you believe that you have suffered harm as a result of a violation of your rights by SFERA SOFTWARE under this privacy policy and that SFERA SOFTWARE has not appropriately dealt with your complaint, you can also submit a complaint to the competent supervisory authority.

Contact details of SFERA SOFTWARE Tech Media GmbH's data protection officer:

Reiner Projekte

Brucker Straße 2

85232 Bergkirchen, Germany

+49 173 6119177

info@sfera-software.com

Contact details of the data protection officer of the international SFERA SOFTWARE Communications Publishing Network:

Mr. Sergej Reiner

Email : info@sfera-software.com