Privacy

November 2024

Manova Partners ("Manova Partners", "we" or "us") takes the protection of your personal data very seriously.

The below privacy notice informs you about the collection, storage and other processing of your personal data by Manova Partners when you visit our website at www.manovapartners.com ("Website") and use the various functionalities and services there.

We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") and this privacy notice.

1. What are personal data?

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, for example your name or contact details, but also any other information that can be used to identify you directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to your physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

2. Who is responsible for data processing on this Website?

Manova Partners is the controller within the meaning of the GDPR for the processing of your personal data in connection with the provision of the Website. You can contact Manova Partners at any time using the contact details below:

Manova Partners GmbH, Gollierstraße 4, 80339 Munich, Germany
data@manovapartners.com

3. What data will be collected from you? For what purposes and on what legal basis is it processed?

In most cases, there will not be an obligation that you disclose certain personal data about yourself to us. However, we may be required to collect certain personal data about you in order to provide the functionalities and services offered on our Website, to fulfil our legal obligations or for the performance of a contract with you. Failure to provide this information may prevent or delay the fulfilment of our obligations or result in you only being able to use the functionalities and services offered on our Website to a limited extent.

Depending on your use of our Website and interaction with us, we collect, store and process different types of personal data.

On the one hand, we receive your data directly from you by communicating it to us (e.g. by entering it in the contact form). Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the Website.

Below we explain what data we collect and process from you when you use the Website, as well as for what purposes and on what legal basis we use it:

3.1  Access data (log files)

You can generally visit the Website without providing any personal data. In this case, Manova Partners only collects and stores data about your Website access which will automatically be transmitted to Manova Partners by your browser when you access the Website. This is done for the technical provision of the Website and is necessary so that the Website can be displayed in your browser and you can use it. When using the Website for purely informational purposes, log data (so-called server log files) are automatically stored temporarily and anonymised on our web server. These are:

  • IP address of the requesting computer

  • Date and time of the request

  • Name and URL of the requested page

  • Website from which the request is made (referrer URL)

  • Message whether the call was successful (access status/http status code)

  • Browser type and browser version

  • Language of Browser software

  • Host name of the requesting computer

  • Data volume transferred

  • Operating system

This access data is required by us for the duration of your session in order to enable the technical delivery of the content of our Website to your end device.

In addition, we store the data in log files for a short period of time for the purposes of the technical security of our Website, in particular to defend against attempted attacks on our web server.

The processing of your data is based on Manova Partner's legitimate interest in the effective provision of the Website and in ensuring the stability and security of the Website (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR).

In addition, Manova Partners uses cookies on the Website, which may store limited information about the settings you have selected or other information required to provide the services (see section 3.3 and the Manova Partners Cookie Policy).

3.2  Contact Manova Partners via the Website

If you contact us by e-mail or via our web form, we process the personal data that you provide in the course of communicating with us or that you transmit due to the nature of your request (e.g. title, first and last name, e-mail address, communication content, time of communication).

If you use the web form on the Website for this purpose, you have to provide information marked as mandatory (e.g. your name, your e-mail address, your message). We need the mandatory information to be able to efficiently process your request. In addition, you can optionally disclose further information. This optional information helps us to better attributing your request and to process it more efficiently

We process the personal data that we receive through the different communication channels exclusively for the processing of your request. In this respect, the processing is based on the necessity of the processing for purposes of our legitimate interests in ensuring efficient and user-friendly communication and processing of your request (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR). The processing of your personal data in the context of the establishment of a contract is further based on the necessity of the processing in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract in order to make a decision about establishing the contract with you (Art. 6(1) lit. b) GDPR).

3.3  Cookies

Manova Partners uses "cookies" to make your visit to the Website as pleasant as possible and to enable you to use all the functionalities of the Website. A cookie is a text file that is temporarily stored on your end device when you visit the Website. For the storage period of the cookies used by us, please see our cookie policy.

Some of the cookies used on the Website are technically necessary to operate the Website and/or provide the functionalities offered on the Website (so-called "essential Website cookies"). These cookies are set by Manova Partners itself ("first party cookies"). If information is stored in your terminal equipment or data already stored in your terminal equipment is accessed, this is absolutely necessary so that Manova Partners can provide the telemedia service expressly requested by you (§ 25 para. 2 no. 2 TDDDG). The storage of or access to already stored, non-essential Website cookies in your terminal equipment will only take place after you have been clearly and comprehensively informed about this and have given your consent (Section 25 (1) TDDDG).  For further information regarding cookies that we use please see our cookie policy.

3.4  Legal obligations and legal claims

Furthermore, we process your data if we are legally obliged to do so (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c) GDPR) or if the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR).

4. How long will the personal data be stored?

Unless expressly regulated otherwise in this data protection declaration, your data will only be stored by us for as long as is necessary for the respective purpose for which we collect and process your data.

The following data categories are stored as follows:

4.1  Access data (log files)

The access data collected as part of your use of the Website (see section 3.1) will be directly accessible to us for a maximum of [24 hours], stored [ML3] by our technical service provider for a maximum of [6 days] and then deleted or anonymised by shortening your IP address , [ML4] unless longer storage is necessary to achieve the purposes pursued with the data and the storage can be justified on the basis of your consent or another legal basis

4.2  Contact Manova Partners via the Website

Your data collected in the course of contacting us, such as an request via the web form (see section 3.2) will be stored by Manova Partners for as long as is necessary to fully process and fulfil your request.

4.3  Cookies

The cookies stored on your terminal equipment when you use our Website (see section 3.3) are only stored for as long as is necessary to provide the respective functionalities and services or to achieve the purposes pursued with the respective cookies. The storage duration of the cookies used can be found in our cookie policy.

All of the data listed above will be completely deleted after the aforementioned periods have expired, unless deletion is contrary to statutory retention obligations (in particular due to commercial and tax law requirements) or longer storage is necessary in a specific case to protect Manova Partner's legitimate interests (assertion, exercise or defence of our legal claims). If we are unable to delete the data completely for technical reasons, we will take appropriate measures to prevent further processing or use of the data.

5. Who will the personal data be disclosed to?

We disclose personal data to the following recipients:

  • We transmit your data to external service providers if this is necessary for the operation of our Website and the processing of the data stored or transmitted by the systems (e.g. for data centre services, IT security). In this respect, we base the transfer of your data on Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b) and lit. f) GDPR, unless they are processors.

  • We will transfer the data you provide to us when you contact us to other companies of Manova Partners if this is necessary to process your request.

Otherwise, your data will not be transmitted to third parties without your prior consent, unless this is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of our legal claims or we are legally obliged to do so. This may be the case, for example, if we are obliged to cooperate with government authorities in the context of legal investigations. The legal basis for the disclosure in this respect is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c) and f) GDPR.

6. Is personal data transferred to third countries?

We process your personal data exclusively within the European Union ("EU") or the European Economic Area ("EEA"). This data is not transferred to recipients in countries outside the EU/EEA ("third countries").

7. Which rights do I have?

To the extent you are affected by the data processing carried out by Manova Partners, you have the right in accordance with applicable legal provisions:

  • to obtain information on the personal data processed concerning you and to obtain a copy of such data (right of access);

  • to obtain the rectification of any inaccurate personal data and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have incomplete personal data completed (right to rectification);

  • if there are legitimate reasons, to request the deletion of the personal data (right to erasure);

  • to request the restriction of the processing of the personal data, if the legal requirements are met (right to restriction of processing);

  • if the legal requirements are met, to receive the personal data provided by you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to transfer this personal data to another controller or, if technically feasible, to have it transferred by us (right to data portability); and

  • not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing which produces legal effects concerning you or significantly affects you in a similar way, if the legal requirements are not met. We do not carry out automated decision-making.

You also have the right to object, in accordance with the statutory provisions, to the processing of personal data, which is necessary for the purpose of Manova Partner’s legitimate interests, on grounds relating to your particular situation (right to object). If your personal data is processed by us for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object to this processing at any time without any special reasons.

If the data processing is based on consent you can withdraw the consent at any time. The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your personal data until withdrawal.

In order to exercise your rights (including the withdrawal of any consent you may have given) and if you have any questions about the processing of your personal data, you can contact us at any time using the details provided in section 2.

Without prejudice to other legal remedies, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority at any time.

8. Social media

Our Website contains links from selected social media referring directly to our account in these social media. This means that no processing of your data or storage of information in your terminal equipment takes place during your visit to our Website. We have no influence on the processing of your data when you use social media; this is the sole responsibility of the media providers. For the sake of transparency, we would like to draw your attention below to the linked social media sites and their own privacy policies:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

9.  Adaptation of this privacy notice

For factual or legal reasons, it may become necessary to amend this privacy notice. Where legally required, we will inform you of any changes in advance. The current version of this privacy notice can be found on this Website www.manovapartners.com/privacy.