Privacy policy

Thank you for your interest in Factiv. The protection of personal data is important to us. The following information is provided in accordance with Articles 13 and 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and describes how personal data is processed when you visit this website.

1. Controller

The controller within the meaning of the GDPR is:

2. Data Protection Officer

Given the size and activities of our business, we are not required to appoint a Data Protection Officer (Art. 37 GDPR, § 38 BDSG). For any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, please contact us directly at the address given above.

3. General information collected on visiting the website

This website is hosted via GitHub Pages, a service of GitHub, Inc. (88 Colin P Kelly Jr St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA). When you access individual pages, technically necessary data is processed by the hosting provider in server log files:

• IP address of the requesting device
• Date and time of access
• Name and URL of the requested file
• Volume of data transferred
• Notification of successful retrieval
• Browser type and version
• Operating system
• Referrer URL (previously visited page)

Purpose: provision and technical stability of the website.
Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (legitimate interest in a technically functional and secure website).
Retention period: the log files are processed by GitHub in accordance with their retention policy (see GitHub Privacy Statement). We ourselves have no access to this raw data.

Note on transfers to third countries: using GitHub Pages involves transfers of data to the United States. GitHub, Inc. is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework; an EU Commission adequacy decision applies (Art. 45 GDPR).

4. Cookies

This website sets no cookies and uses no tracking, analytics, or marketing tools. We do not build profiles of your usage behaviour.

5. Web fonts

All fonts (Bebas Neue, Open Sans) are served directly from factiv.eu. No font files are loaded from third-party CDNs, and no data — including your IP address — is transmitted to Google or any other external font provider.

6. Contact by email

If you contact us by email, the data you provide (email address, name, message body, and any further information you choose to send) is stored solely for the purpose of answering your enquiry and for any follow-up correspondence.

Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR for contract-related enquiries, otherwise Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (legitimate interest in effective communication with prospects and business partners).
Retention period: we delete the data once it is no longer required for the original purpose. For contract-related correspondence, statutory retention periods apply (typically up to ten years under German commercial and tax law).

7. External links

Our website contains a link to our LinkedIn profile. When you click this link, you are redirected to the website of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company. We have no influence over what data LinkedIn collects from you or how it is processed. For details, see the LinkedIn privacy policy.

8. Your rights as a data subject

Under the GDPR you have the following rights, provided the respective conditions are met:

• Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR)
• Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
• Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
• Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
• Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
• Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR)

To exercise these rights, an informal message to hello@factiv.eu is sufficient.

9. Right to withdraw consent

Where processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time with effect for the future (Art. 7 (3) GDPR). The lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of your consent until its withdrawal remains unaffected.

10. Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority concerning our processing of your personal data (Art. 77 GDPR). The supervisory authority responsible for us is:

11. SSL/TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, this website uses SSL/TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the change in the address bar from "http://" to "https://".

12. No automated decision-making

No automated decision-making, including profiling, within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR takes place on this website.

13. Changes to this privacy policy

We reserve the right to update this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to reflect changes to our services, for example when introducing new offerings. The version available at the time of your visit applies.