Privacy Policy
General Information
Use of our website is possible to a limited extent without providing personal data. If personal data (such as name, address, date of birth, or email address) is collected on our website or forms, this is always done on a voluntary basis.
Please note that data transmission over the Internet (e.g., communication by email) can have security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible. We have implemented technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction, or access by unauthorized persons. Our security procedures are regularly reviewed and adapted to technological advancements.
We only process the personal data that we receive from you voluntarily during your visit to our website or through other information you provide.
Hosting
Hosting provider: Worldsoft AG, Summelnweg 91, 8808 Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland
General Information & Mandatory Disclosures
Information on the Data Controller
The data controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:
RDM GEO Network Planning Canada Inc.
4 Julies Walk
B3M 2Z7 Halifax, Nova Scotia
+1 902 456 1334
info@rdm-geo.com
Data Retention Period
Unless specific retention periods are stated in this privacy policy, we will store your personal data, as necessary, for the duration of the entire business relationship in accordance with statutory retention periods and documentation obligations, or for as long as there is a legitimate interest in processing it beyond that period. Legally required retention periods may also arise, for example, from civil or commercial law.
Legal Basis for Data Processing
We process your data to fulfill contractual obligations (Art. 6 para. 1b GDPR), within the scope of your consent/registration (Art. 6 para. 1a GDPR), and, where applicable, to comply with legal obligations (Art. 6 para. 1c GDPR). Furthermore, we may process your data to protect our legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1f GDPR) for advertising or market and opinion research, provided you have not objected to such use pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR. In the case of your explicit consent for the transfer of personal data to third countries, the data processing is also based on Art. 49 para. 1a GDPR.
Rights of Data Subjects
Withdrawal of your consent to data processing / Right to object to data collection (Art. 21) / Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority / Right to data portability / Right to access, rectification & erasure / Right to restriction of processing
Among other things, you are entitled to: (i) check whether and which personal data we have stored about you and to receive copies of this data; (ii) request the rectification, completion, or erasure of your personal data that is incorrect or not processed lawfully; (iii) request that we restrict the processing of your personal data; (iv) under certain circumstances, object to the processing of your personal data or withdraw your previously given consent to processing; (v) request data portability; (vi) know the identity of third parties to whom your personal data is transferred; and (vii) lodge a complaint with the competent authority, i.e., the data protection authority responsible for your place of habitual residence, your place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement.
You are entitled, among other things, to: (i) check whether and which personal data we have stored about you and to receive copies of this data; (ii) request the rectification, completion, or erasure of your personal data that is incorrect or not processed lawfully; (iii) request that we restrict the processing of your personal data; (iv) object to the processing of your personal data or withdraw your previously given consent to processing under certain circumstances; (v) request data portability; (vi) know the identity of third parties to whom your personal data is transferred; and (vii) lodge a complaint with the competent authority, i.e., the data protection authority responsible for your place of habitual residence, your place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement.
You are entitled, among other things, to: (i) request the processing of your personal data; (vi) request the identity of third parties to whom your personal data is transferred; and (vii) lodge a complaint with the competent authority, i.e., the data protection authority responsible for your place of habitual residence, your place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement. For this and other questions regarding personal data, you can contact us at any time using the contact details provided above.
SSL/TLS Encryption on the Website
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential information, we use SSL/TLS encryption.
You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the browser's address bar changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the padlock icon in your browser's address bar.
When SSL/TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Objection to Promotional Emails
We hereby object to the use of published contact information for sending unsolicited advertising and informational materials. The operators of these pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited advertising, such as spam emails.
Cookies & Servers
Cookies
Our pages sometimes use so-called cookies. Cookies are small files that allow us to store specific, device-related information on the user's access device (PC, smartphone, etc.). Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. They serve, firstly, to improve the user-friendliness of websites and thus benefit users (e.g., by storing login data). Secondly, they serve to collect statistical data on website usage and to analyze this data in order to improve our services. Users can influence the use of cookies.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies." They are automatically deleted after your visit ends. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit. You can configure your browser to notify you when cookies are set and to allow cookies only in individual cases, to block cookies in certain cases or entirely, or to automatically delete cookies when you close your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of our website.
If third-party cookies or cookies for analytical purposes are used, you will be informed about this in this privacy policy or separately, and your consent will be requested if necessary.
The following cookies and their respective storage durations are present:
PHPSESSID – Session – 2 hours
Vc – Statistics – 30 days
wsw-logger-session-id – Statistics & Session – 2 hours
wbs_wdiget_session – Session / Forms – 2 hours
Server Log Files
Our hosting provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us in so-called server log files. This includes:
Browser type/browser version
Operating system used
Referrer URL (the previously visited page)
Hostname or anonymized IP address of the accessing computer
Time of the server request
IP address
This data cannot be attributed to specific individuals. This data is not merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to review this data subsequently if we become aware of concrete indications of unlawful use.
Contact form, email, telephone, fax, chatbot
If you send us inquiries by email or other means, your information, including the contact details and file attachments you provide, will be processed by us for the purpose of handling your inquiry and stored for 3 months in case of follow-up questions. After this period, the data will be deleted unless a contractual relationship arises, you request its deletion beforehand, or you revoke your consent to its storage. We will not share this data without your consent.
Social Media
Our website integrates the LinkedIn service provided by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.
When you use this service, LinkedIn collects, among other things, your IP address and potentially other information stored on your computer in the form of cookies. This information is used to provide us, as the operators of the LinkedIn pages, with statistical information about the use of the LinkedIn page.
Further information can be found at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=hb_ft_priv.
The data collected about you in this context is processed by LinkedIn Inc. and may be transferred to countries outside the EU. The data usage policy is available at the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
When you access a LinkedIn page, the IP address assigned to your device is transmitted to LinkedIn. According to LinkedIn, this IP address is anonymized and deleted after 90 days.
If you are currently logged into LinkedIn, a cookie containing your identifier is stored on your device. This allows LinkedIn to track that you visited this page and how you used it.
If you wish to prevent this, you should log out of LinkedIn beforehand, deactivate the "stay logged in" function, delete the cookies stored on your device, and restart your browser.
The data collected by this service may be transferred to a third country (USA). Your explicit consent, in accordance with Article 49 Paragraph 1 Letter a in conjunction with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter a of the GDPR, forms the legal basis for this data transfer. Even before you gave your consent, we informed you that the USA currently does not have a level of data protection equivalent to EU standards. For this reason, the European Court of Justice declared the "Privacy Shield" (adequacy decision pursuant to Article 45 of the GDPR) invalid.
You have the right to withdraw your consent to data processing at any time.
Information on how to delete or manage information stored about you can be found at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Newsletter & Video
Newsletter Data
By voluntarily subscribing to the newsletter, you consent to your personal data being processed by the data controller for marketing purposes related to its goods and services and agree to be contacted by email for this purpose. Your data will be stored with us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can revoke your consent at any time using the contact address provided above. Revocation does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
YouTube
Our website integrates features of the YouTube video service. The provider is Google Inc., 600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
When you visit one of our web pages that includes embedded YouTube videos, a connection to YouTube's servers is established. This informs the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.
Furthermore, YouTube may store various cookies on your device or use similar technologies for recognition (e.g., device fingerprinting). In this way, YouTube can obtain information about visitors to this website. This information is used, among other things, to compile video statistics, improve user-friendliness, and prevent fraud.
If you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to directly associate your browsing behavior with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
The use of YouTube is in the interest of optimally presenting our online content. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
The data collected by this service is transferred to a third country (USA). Your explicit consent, pursuant to Article 49(1)(a) in conjunction with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, also forms the legal basis for this data transfer. Even before you gave your consent, we informed you that the USA currently does not have a level of data protection equivalent to EU standards. For this reason, the European Court of Justice declared the “Privacy Shield” (adequacy decision pursuant to Article 45 GDPR) invalid.
You have the right to withdraw your consent to data processing at any time.
Further information can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.
Google Fonts
Our website uses Google Fonts. The provider is Google Inc., 600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The purpose is to provide the fonts required by your web browser to display the website. This data is processed only for the duration necessary to select and transmit the fonts. The individual fonts are stored on the server of our technical provider.
The legal basis for this data processing is, on the one hand, our legitimate interest (technical necessity for providing and delivering our website) pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
If Google Fonts processes the data independently beyond this, Google is solely responsible for this processing.
The data collected by this service may be transferred to a third country (USA). Your explicit consent also forms the legal basis for this data transfer pursuant to Art. 49 para. 1 lit. a in conjunction with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. Even before you gave your consent, we informed you that the USA currently does not have a level of data protection equivalent to EU standards. For this reason, the European Court of Justice declared the “Privacy Shield” (adequacy decision pursuant to Article 45 GDPR) invalid.
Further information and Google's privacy policy can be found at: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/
Google Maps
Our website uses the Google Maps service. The provider is Google Inc., 600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is generally transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the USA. The provider of this website has no influence on this data transfer. When Google Maps is activated, Google may use Google Web Fonts for the purpose of uniform font display. When you access Google Maps, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
The use of Google Maps is in our legitimate interest in presenting our online services in an appealing way and ensuring that the locations we specify on the website are easy to find. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
The data collected by this service is transferred to a third country (USA). Your explicit consent, pursuant to Article 49(1)(a) in conjunction with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, also forms the legal basis for this data transfer. Even before you gave your consent, we informed you that the USA currently does not have a level of data protection equivalent to EU standards. For this reason, the European Court of Justice declared the “Privacy Shield” (adequacy decision pursuant to Article 45 GDPR) invalid.
The data transfer to the USA is based on the EU Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses. Details can be found here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/ and https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/sccs/.
More information on how user data is handled can be found in Google's Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.