Privacy
General information
This privacy policy covers how BlueOcean Technologies collects, uses and shares personal data in connection with the website www.smalt.eu (referred to below as the "website").
Sharing personal data
We do not pass your personal data to third parties unless we have to in order to meet a legal obligation or to deliver our services. Where that happens, we take appropriate steps to make sure your personal data is properly protected and handled in line with applicable data protection law.
Data security
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, disclosure, misuse or loss. Even so, no transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security for your personal data.
External links
Our website may contain links to external sites we do not run. We are not responsible for their privacy practices or their content. We would encourage you to read the privacy policy of any site you follow a link to.
Your rights
Under applicable data protection law you have certain rights over your personal data. These include the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and data portability, and the right to object to the processing of your personal data. To exercise any of them, please contact us using the details given below.
Contact
If you have questions, concerns or requests about this privacy policy, please get in touch:
BlueOcean Technologies GmbH
Veteranenstraße 12, 10119 Berlin, Germany
E-Mail: info@smalt.eu
The website of BlueOcean Technologies GmbH uses cookies. Cookies are small text files placed and stored on your computer by a web browser.
Like many other websites and servers, we use cookies. Many cookies contain a unique identifier called a cookie ID. A cookie ID is a string that lets the websites and servers you visit recognise the particular browser the cookie is stored in. That allows them to tell your individual browser apart from other browsers holding different cookies, so a given browser can be recognised and identified by its unique cookie ID.
Using cookies lets BlueOcean Technologies GmbH offer the people who use our website services that would not be possible without them.
You can stop our website setting cookies at any time through the relevant setting in your browser, and so refuse cookies permanently. Cookies already set can be deleted at any time through your browser or other software. This is possible in every common browser. If you switch off cookies in the browser you use, you may not be able to use every function of our website in full. You can change your cookie settings at any time through the link below.
Please note that the exact link for changing cookie settings may differ depending on how our website is built. Every time the BlueOcean Technologies GmbH website is called up, general data and information is recorded automatically and stored in the server log files. This may include:
The browser type and version used
The operating system of the system accessing the site
The website the accessing system came from (the referrer)
The sub-pages opened on our website
The date and time of the visit
The IP address of the accessing system
The internet service provider of the accessing system
Other similar data and information that serves the security of our IT systems
BlueOcean Technologies GmbH draws no conclusions about any individual from this general data and information. We need it in order to:
Deliver the content of our website correctly
Improve the content of our website and the advertising for it
Keep our IT systems and the technology behind our website working
Provide the information law enforcement would need in the event of a cyber attack
BlueOcean Technologies GmbH analyses this anonymous data and information statistically, in order to raise the level of data protection and data security in the company and to make sure the personal data we process is as well protected as it can be. The anonymous data in the server log files is stored separately from any personal data provided by an individual.
The BlueOcean Technologies GmbH website gives details that make it quick to contact us electronically, including a general email address. If someone contacts us by email or through a contact form, the personal data sent is stored. We process that data in order to deal with the enquiry and to get back in touch with the person who made it.
Contact form and partnership enquiries (Attio)
When you submit the contact form on this website, we send your name, your email address, your phone number, the name of your business, your trade and your message to our CRM system, Attio. There we create a contact and a record from it, so that we can answer your enquiry and keep track of the conversation that follows.
The provider is Attio Limited, 42 St John's Square, 2nd Floor, London EC1M 4EA, United Kingdom. Attio processes this data solely on our behalf and on our instructions, under a data processing agreement in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. Where data is transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area, this is done on the basis of the European Commission's standard contractual clauses. You will find more information at https://attio.com/legal/privacy.
The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where your enquiry is aimed at entering into a partnership, and otherwise our legitimate interest in answering and following up enquiries under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We delete the data once it is no longer needed for that purpose and no statutory retention period stands in the way. You can object to the processing at any time under Art. 21 GDPR, using the contact details above.
BlueOcean Technologies GmbH processes and stores personal data only for as long as is necessary to achieve the purpose of storage, or for as long as the applicable laws or regulations require. When the purpose of storage falls away or a statutory retention period expires, the personal data is routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the law.
Personal data belonging to applicants is collected and processed by BlueOcean Technologies GmbH for the purpose of running the recruitment process. That processing may be electronic, for example where an applicant sends their application documents by email or through a web form on the website. If the controller enters into an employment contract with an applicant, the data provided is stored for the purpose of administering the employment relationship, in accordance with the law. If no employment contract is entered into, the application documents are deleted automatically two months after the decision not to proceed is communicated, unless some other legitimate interest of the controller stands in the way of deletion. Such a legitimate interest might be a burden of proof in proceedings under the German General Equal Treatment Act (AGG).
Consent
This website loads no Google technology before you have agreed to it. On your first visit a banner asks you separately about session recording and about marketing; until you decide, Google Consent Mode stands at "denied" for ad storage, ad user data, ad personalisation and analytics storage. Your decision is stored in your browser under the key "smalt-consent-v1" and is not sent to us as a separate record. You can change or withdraw it at any time through the "Cookie settings" link in the footer of every page. Withdrawing takes effect immediately and does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out up to that point.
There is one thing this banner does not cover, and we would rather say so plainly: the usage measurement described under PostHog below runs on every visit. It records which page was opened and which steps were completed, without building a profile of you, as long as you do not create an account. Session recording, the part that reconstructs your visit, runs only with your consent.
Google Tag Manager
This website uses Google Tag Manager, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Tag Manager is a tool for managing other tags; it sets no cookies of its own and collects no personal data of its own. It does load the tags configured within it, which may collect data, and it receives your IP address in order to do so, as any server does with any request. Tags that require consent are not loaded until you have given it, through the Consent Mode signals described above.
PostHog (product analytics and session recording)
We use PostHog to understand how the free tools are used: which tool gets opened, where people get stuck, which steps get finished. We run the instance ourselves at posthog.smalt.eu. What is collected includes the pages visited, the actions taken on them, the time and duration of use, the referring page, browser and operating system, the approximate region derived from the IP address, and a randomly generated identifier stored in your browser. If you create an account, we link these events to that account.
PostHog can also record sessions: a replayable reconstruction of your visit showing page content, mouse movement, scrolling and clicks. Any text you type into a form field is masked before it leaves your browser, so it does not appear in the recording. We use these recordings solely to find places where the tools are confusing or broken. Session recording is off unless you agree to it in the banner, and switching it off again through the same banner stops it immediately.
The measurement described in the first two paragraphs runs on every visit. We rely on our legitimate interest in understanding how our own tools are used, under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, and you can object to it under Art. 21 GDPR using the contact details above. Session recording is based on your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You will find more information in PostHog's privacy documentation at https://posthog.com/privacy.