Privacy Policy

This privacy policy informs you about processing of your personal data.
This privacy policy is available on our website and may be printed at any time.

What are Personal Data?

We process personal data only to the extent necessary and for the purpose of providing a functional and user-friendly internet presence, including its contents and the services offered there. We also process your personal data for communication and recruiting purposes as well as for purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

“Processing” of data means any operation or set of operations carried out with or without the aid of automated processes relating to personal data, such as collection, recording, organisation, sorting, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or integration, limitation, erasure or destruction.

The legal basis for data protection can be found, in particular, in Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (“General Data Protection Regulation”, GDPR), the German Data Protection Act (BDSG) and Telemedia Act (TMG).

Controller

The controller of your data processed is:

Atlantic Labs Manager GmbH

Rosenthaler Str. 13, 10119 Berlin/Germany
Registration Court: Amtsgericht Berlin (Charlottenburg)
Registration No.: HRB 150308B
Managing Director: Christophe F. Maire
Email: info@atlanticlabs.de

We also refer to further third party providers named in this Privacy Policy who control your data.

Controller is any natural or business person, which decides on the purpose and means of data processing on its own or jointly with others.

Scope and location of Data Processing

We as well as our external service partners process your data for the purpose of providing the services, including providing hard- and software through such external service partners. You provide data if this is necessary for the aforementioned purposes.

The data categories affected are contact information, user behavior or other information that constitutes personal data provided to us.

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • Communication in order to establish, implement and/or process a contractual relationship (also orally) with you (legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b. GDPR);
  • compliance with legal obligations, e.g. commercial, tax and social security detention obligations (legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1lit. c. GDPR);
  • Enforcement, exercise and defence of legal claims (legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR), with our legitimate interest that may be, for example, in the assertion of legal claims and defence in legal disputes;
  • Your consent to data processing for the purpose named there (legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a. GDPR); or
  • As otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or information provided to you.

In the event you refrain from providing such data you may face legal disadvantages, for example, no answer to your email send to us.

In general, we process your personal data in the EU/EEA. The non-careers related parts of our website are hosted by the hosting provider Host Europe GmbH, Cologne/Germany (more information: https://www.hosteurope.de/AGB/Datenschutzerklaerung/) in the EU/EEA. If we process personal data outside the EU/EEA, data protection standards applicable in the EU are ensured and we will inform you accordingly in this Privacy Policy or otherwise.

Furthermore, we have implemented technical and organisational measures to ensure that the data protection regulations are observed both by us and by external service providers. The website is operated through a safe SSL-connection. If an SSL-connection is activated third parties are prevented from reading any data that are transferred by you to us.

Your Rights

You have the following rights:

  • the right to access,

  • the right to rectification or erasure,

  • the right to restriction of processing

  • the right to data portability,

  • the right to withdraw your consent.

You further have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of your personal data based on point e or f of Art. 6 para. 1 GDPR, including profiling based on those provisions.

To act according to your rights set forth above you may contact us at info@atlanticlabs.de.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data (for example for Berlin at the Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, email: mailbox@datenschutz-berlin.de).

Storing and Deleting Data

The data are deleted if you withdraw your consent and/or such data are no longer necessary for the purpose of processing. We or the engaged third party services delete your data according to the following criteria: Time and completion of requests, settings provided by third party providers etc. Furthermore, we store your data if we are obliged to do so in accordance with legal retention periods (e.g. German Commercial Code (HGB) or German Fiscal Code (AO)).

Visiting the Website

We (or the web space provider) collect data on each visit to our website (so-called server log files), which include:

name of the website visited, file, date and time of the visit, data amount transferred, information on a successful call, browser type as well as version, operating system of the user, referrer URL (the page visited before), IP address and the requesting provider as well as the following, if a mobile end device is being used:

country code, language, name of device, name of operating system and version.

We use these server log files only for statistical evaluations for the purpose of optimizing our services and in order to guarantee the stability and operational security of the website. When personal data (such as the IP-address) are stored the legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c. GDPR based on our legal obligation for data safety or Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR based on our legitimate interest of quality assurance.

Cookies

Our website partly uses so-called technical cookies for a user friendly and technical adequate presentation of the website. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your device and in your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called session cookies. After the end of the session these cookies will be deleted automatically. The session cookies are used in order to associate successive page requests with the individual users, who at the same time access our website. Other cookies will be stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser during your next visit.

OPT-OUT: You can adjust your browser to notify you, before you receive a cookie or to decide to accept cookies on a case-by-case basis, to completely or partly exclude all incoming cookies and to activate the deletion of cookies automatically when the browser is closed. You may manage many online advertisement cookies provided by companies via the American web page http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the web page of the European Union http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/. We would like to inform you that the usage and especially the convenience of usage without using any cookies may be limited.

In the event personal data are processed such processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR with our legitimate interest of the presentation of a user friendly and technical correct website, or, where required, your consent (legal basis Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a. GDPR).

Web Fonts by Adobe Typekit

This website uses so-called web fonts, which are provided by Adobe Typekit, for the uniform display of fonts. When visit a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose, the browser you use must connect to the Adobe Typekit servers. This allows Adobe Typekit to gain the information that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Adobe Typekit Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our website. In the event personal data are processed such processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR with our legitimate interest of the presentation of a user friendly and technical correct website, or, where required, your consent (legal basis Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a. GDPR). If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your device.

Adobe Typekit may also process data outside the EU/EEA (namely: USA). The US company of Adobe (Inc.) may process data in the USA but complies with EU data protection standards according to its certification under EU-US-Privacy-Shield (more information: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list). Further information on Adobe Typekit Web Fonts can be found at: https://typekit.com/ or https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policies/adobe-fonts.html / OPT-OUT: https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/opt-out.html

Contacting us; emails

If you send us any requests via email or otherwise contact us your details in this request, including the contact data, name, email address and other data provided respectively, are processed by us in order to deal with your inquiry or to be able to contact you at a later time for follow up questions. These data are processed only on the basis of your consent (legal basis Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a. GDPR) or on the basis of an initiating or existing business relationship with us (legal basis Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b. GDPR).

Data Processing for recruitment and on our careers section on the website

In the event you apply for a job with us or for recruitment purposes, we will process certain data. Such data include name, email, address and telephone number, gender, your career history, qualifications, country of residence, language skills and any other personal information you include in your interactions with us. We may also ask for additional information to assist us with our recruitment process and in the event you are offered a job an example would be date of birth, work documents.

You may also share details of other people with us; for example, if somebody else referred the job to you. In those circumstances, you will need to check with that person that they are happy for you to share their personal information with us, and for us to use it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We process your personal data for fulfilling our contractual or pre-contractual obligations (based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b. GDPR) or – as applicable – for the purpose of the employment relationship with you (Section 26 BDSG), in particular, we use your data:

  • To get in touch with you, communicate with you, update you and to facilitate your application,

  • To offer an online-application system that is linked to our website,

  • To respond to your questions or concerns,

  • To carry out vetting of staff members (where required); this may involve our collection and use of sensitive personal information including information obtained from criminal background checks about offences or alleged offences and information relating to any proceedings for offences committed or allegedly committed,

  • To verify your identity and get agreements signed with you, this may involve our collection and use of sensitive personal information such as your biometric data,

  • When necessary and for the purposes of our legitimate interests to maintain adequate records, we may collect and handle information related to medical information, ethnic origin or criminal records,

  • To assist in any disputes, claims or investigations relating to your application, or

  • To comply with our legal, regulatory and professional obligations.

We may also use your non-sensitive and sensitive data with your explicit consent (based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a. GDPR, Art. 9 para. 1 lit. a. GDPR or Section 26 BDSG).

For the online recruiting process we use the service by third party providers. In our job/careers section (https://atlanticlabs.recruitee.com/) we use ‘Recruitee’ by Recruitee B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands that processes the data through the job/careers section on our website on our behalf (for more information please also refer to: https://recruitee.com/privacy. The talent pool website linked to our website (https://talent.atlanticlabs.de/jobs) is operated by Sompani UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Berlin/Germany and we only receive your data from such talent pool with your prior consent. For more information on data processing by Sompani UG (haftungsbeschränkt) please refer to: https://home.sompani.com/privacy-policy/

We only keep your personal information for as long as we need to, to be able to use it for the reasons given in this Privacy Policy, and for as long as we are required to keep it by law (for example due to legal retention periods, such as set forth in the German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch, HGB) or German Fiscal Code (Abgabenordnung, AO)). Criteria for the data storage and erasure are our internal policies, pre-set periods by the providers used and our economic and your personal interests.

Unless otherwise required by law (for example due to an employment with us) we delete your application data after 3 months following the end of the application process. With your explicit consent (as set forth in the form here), we will keep your information in case any other opportunities become available which you might be interested in. Provided your explicit consent we will keep your data for such purpose after the end of the application process. You may withdraw such consent with effect for the future at any time via email to info@atlanticlabs.de.