Privacy Policy

Basic information

This privacy policy is intended to inform users of this website about the nature, scope, and purpose of the collection and use of personal data by the website operator Smart Letter of Credit GmbH, Konrad-Adenauer-Ring 1, 23843 Bad Oldesloe, Germany, Phone.: +49 4533 4319 920, e-mail: contact@smartloc.link.

The website operator takes your privacy very seriously and treats your personal data confidentially and in accordance with legal requirements. As new technologies and the constant development of this website may result in changes to this privacy policy, we recommend that you review the privacy policy at regular intervals.

Definitions of the terms used (e.g., “personal data” or “processing”) can be found in Art. 4 GDPR.

Access data

We, the website operator or page provider, collect data about access to the website on the basis of our legitimate interest (see Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR) and store this data as “server log files” on the website server. The following data is logged:

Website visited
Time of access
Amount of data sent in bytes
Source/reference from which you accessed the site
Browser used
Operating system used
IP address used

The server log files are stored for a maximum of 7 days and then deleted. The data is stored for security reasons, e.g. to investigate cases of misuse. If data must be retained for evidentiary reasons, it is excluded from deletion until the incident has been finally clarified.

Reach measurement & cookies

This website uses cookies for pseudonymized reach measurement, which are transmitted to the user’s browser either from our server or from a third-party server. Cookies are small files that are stored on your device. Your browser accesses these files. The use of cookies increases the user-friendliness and security of this website.

If you do not want cookies for reach measurement to be stored on your device, you can object to the use of these files here:

Cookie deactivation page of the Network Advertising Initiative: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1#!/
Cookie deactivation page of the US website: http://optout.aboutads.info/? c=2#!/
Cookie deactivation page of the European website: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1#!/

Common browsers offer the option to disable cookies. Please note: If you make these settings, there is no guarantee that you will be able to access all functions of this website without restrictions.

Collection and processing of personal data

The website operator collects, uses, and discloses your personal data only if this is permitted by law or if you consent to the collection of data.

Personal data is any information that can be used to identify you and that can be traced back to you — for example, your name, email address, and telephone number.

You can also visit this website without providing any personal information. However, in order to improve our online offering, we store your access data to this website (without personal reference). This access data includes, for example, the file you requested or the name of your Internet provider. The anonymization of the data means that it is not possible to draw any conclusions about your person.

Personal data

In terms you are using the contact or application form, we process personal data such as first name, last name, IP address, email address, place of residence, postal code, and content details from the contact form. We only process personal data with the express permission of the users concerned and in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations. The processing of personal data is based on our legitimate interest in fulfilling our contractually agreed services and optimizing our online offering. If you contact us as the website operator using the contact or application options provided, your details will be stored so that they can be used to process and respond to your enquiry. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your consent.

Provided that your request contains personal data by using the contact or application feature this data is stored until the data subject exercises his right of objection, unless we can provide compelling grounds for processing worthy of protection which outweigh the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

User rights

You have the following rights: right of access, right to rectification, right to erasure, right to restriction of processing, right to data portability, right to object and the right to withdraw consent.

Users of this website may exercise their right to object and object to the processing of their personal data at any time.

Use of Matomo Analytics

Provider: InnoCraft Ltd, 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand, (“Matomo”).

Reason: We use the web analytics software Matomo for statistical evaluation of visitor accesses to make our website better and more user-friendly.

Functioanlity: “Matomo” is an open-source software that enables statistical evaluations on our website, in particular on visitor accesses and page views. The analyzed information and statistics are processed exclusively on our web servers or databases. The tool “Matomo” collects, analyses and categorizes incoming information generated by the user’s terminal equipment about the use of our website and interactions with our website as well as access data, in particular IP address, browser information, the website previously visited and the date and time of the server request, for the purpose of statistical analytics using technologies such as cookies and fingerprinting. We use “Matomo” with an extension, whereby the IP addresses are processed in abbreviated form to make it more difficult to relate them directly to individuals.

You can withdraw your consent to the processing at any time under cookie settings at the cookie banner.

Use of LinkedIn social media plugins

Provider: LinkedIn Inc., USA. Responsible party within the EU: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland

Reason: Business network connectivity and marketing for visitors.

Functionality: To connect easily through you personal LinkedIn account we provide a link and LinkedIn icon on our website. The link (LinkedIn icon) is embedded in a way, that no data about you as a user will be transferred to LinkedIn if you do not click on the link or LinkedIn icon. When you press the link or LinkedIn icon on our website, you will be forwarded to the LinkedIn website. LinkedIn receives the information that you have retrieved the corresponding page of our website. In addition, access data such as IP address, browser information, the website previously visited, and the date and time of the server request is transmitted to LinkedIn. This occurs regardless of whether LinkedIn provides a user account that you are logged in with or whether no user account exists. If you do not wish for this data to be associated with your LinkedIn profile, you must log out before activating the button. LinkedIn might store your data as usage profiles and processes it.

You can read about what data LinkedIn collects, uses, and processes, for what purpose, and to what extent, as well as what rights and settings you have to protect your privacy, in LinkedIn ‘s privacy policy. You can find it here: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.