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Privacy Policy
Last update to this policy: 24 August 2021Definitions
Personal datais any information relating to a natural person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, or an online identifier.
Processingis any operation which is performed on personal data, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or any kind of disclosure or other use. MetaShort UG (haftungsbeschränkt) (
MetaShort,
we,
our) provides information to its
clients. Visitors of meta-short.com are its
users.
This is the privacy policy (
policy) for the website meta-short.com which is run and provided by MetaShort in Germany. For company and contact details on MetaShort view the Impressum/information.
Our data processing activities
We publish summaries and meta-study reports based on public information. Some of this material is freely available; some of it is only available to paying customers.MetaShort will only use the user data, including personal data, gathered over this website as set out in this policy. Below you will find information on how we use your data, for which purposes it is used, with whom it is shared and what control and information rights you may have.
MetaShort does not share or sell any of its customer data to third parties in any event other than a merger or acquisition of the company. This includes data gathered by tools and databases on it's website, as well as data emailed to us, including the email header and the email itself. Excluded from this rule is technical data housing by our web hosting provider and facilitators of transactions and payments who ensures compliance with EU's General Data Protection Regulation (
GDPR). The transfer and housing of any data is safeguarded by EU Model Clauses in accordance with Article 46 GDPR. You can find further information about the aforementioned safeguards by following this link https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection_en. The following list offers a brief summary of the data processing activities that are undertaken on our website.
• When you visit our website for informational reasons, only limited personal data will be processed to provide you with the website itself (see 3. below)
• Your personal data will be used for statistical analysis that helps us to improve our website (see 3. below)
• We have implemented appropriate safeguards to secure your personal data and retain your personal data only as long as necessary
• Under the legislation applicable to you, you may be entitled to exercise certain rights with regard to the processing of your personal data (see 8. below).
Use of the website
When you visit our website without registering for any of our provided services and without providing us with personal data in any other form, we may automatically collect additional user information which will contain personal data only in limited cases and which is automatically gathered by our industry-standard server tools. Examples might include:• user IP address;
• user device type, name and IDs;
• the date and time of a request;
• the content of a request;
• information on the users' browser version;
• the user's screen resolution;
• information on the user's operating system, including language settings.
We use such information only to assist us in providing an effective service (e.g. to adapt our website to the needs of your device), and to collect broad demographic information for anonymised, aggregated use.
If you are identified by IP or equivalent method as belonging to a customer organisation such as company or a university then we will also collect the identity of that organisation. This information does not contain anything related to a personal login unless (a) you are a nominated administrator for that organisation or (b) your organisation specifically requires it as a part of a usage-based access contract.
The personal data automatically collected is necessary for us to provide the website, Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. b GDPR, and for our legitimate interest to guarantee the website’s stability and security, Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR.
Third party content and social media plug-ins
This website may contain links to third party websites. We are not responsible for the content and the data collection on respective third party websites; please check the privacy policy of respective websites for information of respective websites’ data processing activities.Security
We have reasonable state of the art security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of personal data under our control. Only authorised personnel have access to personal data. Whilst we cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of information will never occur, we use all reasonable efforts to prevent it.Be aware that submission of information over the internet is never entirely secure. We cannot guarantee the security of information you submit via our website whilst it is in transit over the internet and any such submission is at your own risk.
Data retention
We aim to keep our processing activities with respect to your personal data as limited as possible. In the absence of specific retention periods set out in this policy, your personal data will be retained only for as long as we need it to fulfil the purpose for which we have collected it and, if applicable, as long as required by statutory retention requirements.Your rights
Under the legislation applicable to you, you may be entitled to exercise some of the following rights:require information as to whether your personal data is retained and access to and/or duplicates of your personal data retained, including the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned, and the data recipients as well as potential retention periods;
request rectification, removal or restriction of your personal data, e.g. because it is incomplete or inaccurate, it is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was collected, or the consent on which the processing was based has been withdrawn;
refuse to provide and – without impact to data processing activities that have taken place before such withdrawal – withdraw your consent to processing of your personal data at any time;
object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, that your personal data shall be subject to a processing. In this case, please provide us with information about your particular situation. After the assessment of the facts presented by you we will either stop processing your personal data or present you our compelling legitimate grounds for an ongoing processing;
take legal actions in relation to any potential breach of your rights regarding the processing of your personal data, as well as to lodge complaints before the competent data protection regulators;
require to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from our side;
where technically feasible you shall have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from us to another controller;
and/or not to be subject to any automated decision making, including profiling (automatic decisions based on data processing by automatic means, for the purpose of assessing several personal aspects) which produce legal effects on you or affects you with similar significance.
You may exercise the rights referred to above or pose any questions or make any complaints regarding our data processing by contacting us using the contact details set out below.