Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy was posted on 30 Sep 2017 and last updated on 15 October 2024.

Please read this statement carefully to understand how we collect, use and process your personal information. We will explain in detail how we protect your privacy, how you can check and adjust your information at any time, and how to control the strict application of this policy.

General Information Security Policy

Protect GlassDollar’s informational and IT assets (including but not limited to all computers, mobile devices, networking equipment, software, and sensitive data) against all internal, external, deliberate, or accidental threats and to mitigate the risks associated with the theft, loss, misuse, damage or abuse of these systems;

Ensure information will be protected against any unauthorized access. Users shall only have access to resources that they have been specifically authorized to access. The allocation of privileges shall be strictly controlled and reviewed regularly.

Protect CONFIDENTIALITY of information. When we talk about confidentiality of information, we are talking about protecting the information from disclosure to unauthorized parties;

Ensure INTEGRITY of information. Integrity of information refers to protecting information from being modified by unauthorized parties;

Maintain AVAILABILITY of information for business processes. Availability of information refers to ensuring that authorized parties can access the information when needed.

Comply with and, wherever possible, exceed, national legislative and regulatory requirements, standards, and best practices;

Develop, Maintain and Test business continuity plans to ensure we stay on course despite all obstacles that we may come across. It is about “keeping calm and carrying on!”;

Raise awareness of information security by making information security training available for all Employees. Security awareness and targeted training shall be conducted consistently, security responsibilities reflected in job descriptions, and compliance with security requirements shall be expected and accepted as a part of our culture;

Ensure that no action will be taken against any employee who discloses an information security concern through reporting or in direct contact with Information Security Management Leader, unless such disclosure indicates, beyond any reasonable doubt, an illegal act, gross negligence, or a repetitive deliberate or willful disregard for regulations or procedures;

Report all actual or suspected information security breaches to [email protected]

Definitions

This Privacy Policy refers to the website of GlassDollar www.glassdollar.com and other pages regulated by GlassDollar (hereinafter: GlassDollar).

Introduction Controller

GlassDollar as Controller (Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR) manages the GlassDollar site, including all the data and materials it contains.

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us using the contact details listed below. GlassDollar is committed to protecting the privacy of all its users. This Privacy Policy applies to all pages on the GlassDollar website. It does not apply to websites of other organizations, including websites of close organizations and third party sites. The GlassDollar web site may contain links to the websites of such organizations that have their own privacy policy applied to them.

Information for the use of our website

This privacy policy informs you in accordance with Art. 12 et seq. GDPR about how we handle your personal data when you use our website. In particular, it explains which data we collect and what we use it for. In addition, it informs you about how and for what purpose this is done.

By using any GlassDollar website, you recognize the terms of this Privacy Policy. GlassDollar reserves the right to periodically modify the terms of this Privacy Policy, which will be notified to you.

What types of data are we collecting and keeping?

The type and amount of data we receive and store depends on the way you use the GlassDollar site.

You can access most of the pages on GlassDollar without revealing your identity or any personality information. Our network servers collect anonymous logs during a user visit to GlassDollar to provide us with useful information for its improvement. For more information, please refer to the Cookie Policy Statement below.

We do not collect personally identifiable information (such as name, address of residence, telephone number or e-mail address) through GlassDollar unless you decide to provide them, for example:
If you want to register on our blog and / or forum or to receive our Newspapers we collect only your e-mail and name.
If you apply for a job, internship or volunteering in GlassDollar, we will collect your information to process your application and assess your suitability for that role.
When you decide to receive one of our Newspapers, we can use services that allow us to see if you have received and opened an email, which links you clicked on within the email, etc.
Using our site, social networks, email and email management services, cookies, clicks on content, navigation through site content, and other technologies, we can collect information about you.

How do we use the information we collect?

Your personal information will be kept secret. It will be used only for the purposes for which it is downloaded, as otherwise explained on GlassDollar, or, if necessary, in order to comply with our legal obligations and audit obligations.

In order to provide the services we request, we process personal information, such as personal information delivered with the interest to join GlassDollar, and we will use them exclusively for activities related to your interest and providing information about GlassDollar.

How long do we keep your information?

If you use this website to download a publication, register for an event or a given donation, your data will be kept as long as it takes to service the service. GlassDollar can also decide to use some data in anonymous and aggregate form over a longer period of time to evaluate and customize their own activities, e.g. statistics on attendance at events or the number of downloads of our publications. This does not imply the identification of individuals. We are trying to make your information accurate and up to date, and we only retain them in a reasonable and necessary time.

How safe is your data?

Your personal information GlassDollar and their service providers are kept in a safe environment.

We take appropriate security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, loss, or disclosure. These systems and measures are regularly tested and updated if necessary, and in accordance with the goals of the association, we tend to maintain the IT security of our systems at an enviable level.

However, the transmission of information via the Internet is never completely safe, and even though we are trying to protect personal information, we can not guarantee the security of information transmitted through GlassDollar.

Do we share your personal information?

No information will be sold to a third party or person. GlassDollar believes that your data is strictly confidential and according to our goals we represent and defend the confidentiality of personal data. We will not share your information with third parties, unless we are required to disclose information by law or in the following circumstances:

Data processors

We use the following processors (Art. 28 GDPR) to whom we transmit data for the purposes listed below:

A. Company: Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL

Address: 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855, Luxembourg

Purpose: Secure cloud services platform offering compute power, database storage, and other functionalities. Like Data Storage (S3), Application Deployment (Elastic Beanstalk),

Infrastructure, Provisioning (Cloud Formation), Database Management (RDS)

B. Company: Hasura, Inc.

Address: 576 Folsom St., Floor 3, San Francisco, CA - 94105

Purpose: Provides the GraphQL API necessary for the GlassDollar apps to work

C. Company: Okta, Inc.

Address: 100 First Street, Floor 6, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA

Purpose: Identity management platform for authenticating and authorizing users and applications.

D. Company: PostHog, Inc.

Address: 2261 Market Street #4008, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA

Purpose: User usage analytics

E. Company: Cloudflare, inc.

Address: 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, California 94107, USA

Purpose: DNS management

F. Company: Elasticsearch, Inc.

Address: Keizersgracht 281, 1016 ED Amsterdam Purpose: Search engine and data storage.

G. Company: Chatwoot, Inc.

Address: 50 California St Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94111, United States

Purpose: Customer engagement and support inside the GlassDollar Venture Clienting app

H. Company: OpenAI Ireland Ltd

Address: 1st Floor, The Liffey Trust Centre, 117-126 Sheriff Street Upper, Dublin 1, D01 YC43, Ireland

Purpose: Semantic startups, and startups lists search

I. Company: Sentry

Address: 132 Hawthorne St, San Francisco, CA 94107

Purpose: An application monitoring and error tracking software.

Data transfer to third countries

When using our website, your personal data may be passed on or disclosed to third parties. These can also be located outside the European Economic Area (EEA), i.e. in third countries. We will inform you about the details of the transfer in the relevant places below.

In some third countries, the European Commission certifies data protection comparable to the EEA standard through so-called adequacy decisions. However, in other third countries to which personal data may be transferred, there may not be a consistently high level of data protection due to a lack of legal regulations. If this is the case, we ensure that data protection is sufficiently guaranteed. This is possible via binding company regulations, standard contractual clauses of the European Commission for the protection of personal data in accordance with Art. 46 Para. 1, 2 lit. c GDPR), certificates or recognized codes of conduct.

Using cookies

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Information on the rights of individuals

You have the right:

in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, to request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you can obtain information about the purposes of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a Right to complain, the origin of your data, if it was not collected by us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if necessary, meaningful information about its details;
in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to immediately request the correction of incorrect or complete personal data stored by us;
in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is carried out to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims is required;
in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data if you dispute the accuracy of the data, the processing is unlawful but you refuse its deletion and we no longer need the data but you use it to assert or exercise your rights or need to defend legal claims or you have objected to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request that it be transmitted to another person responsible;
In accordance with Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR, you can revoke your consent to us at any time. This means that we are no longer allowed to continue the data processing that was based on this consent in the future
to complain to a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority at your usual place of residence or place of work.

If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f of the GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Article 21 of the GDPR, provided there are reasons for doing so. which arise from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right to object, which we will implement without specifying a special situation.

If you would like to exercise your right of withdrawal or objection, simply send an email to [email protected]

Obligation to provide data

In principle, you are not obliged to provide us with your personal data. However, if you do not do this, we will not be able to provide you with our website without restrictions or respond to your inquiries to us. Personal data that we do not necessarily need for the processing purposes mentioned above are marked as voluntary information.

DPO and authority

We have appointed a company data protection officer for our company:

Fabian Dudek

‍[email protected]

If you have any further questions or concerns regarding the GlassDollar Privacy Policy, please contact:

[email protected]

GlassDollar GmbH

Urbanstr. 71

10967 Berlin

If you believe that your data has been misused, you can file a complaint or contact the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection.

Useful Links:

Cookie Policy: https://www.glassdollar.com/cookie-policy
Compliance Policy: https://www.glassdollar.com/compliance-policy