Thank you for your visit to the Rails LTS website (hereinafter the “Website”). The website is operated by makandra GmbH (hereinafter “makandra” or “we”).
The processing of personal data on, and through, our Website is made in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz - BDSG) and the German Telemedia Act (Telemediengesetz - TMG). In this privacy policy, we inform you of the collection of personal data from the data subject on, and through, our Website in accordance with Article 13 GDPR.
In this privacy policy, the definitions in Article 4 GDPR apply.
The controller for the processing of personal data in accordance with this privacy policy is:
makandra GmbH
Melli-Beese-Straße 5
86159 Augsburg
Germany
Email: info@makandra.com
Website: https://makandra.com
makandra has appointed a data protection officer in accordance with Article 37 GDPR and § 38 BDSG with the following contact details:
makandra GmbH
- Datenschutzbeauftragter -
Melli-Beese-Straße 5
86159 Augsburg
Germany
Email: datenschutz@makandra.de
If you visit or use the Website or subscribe to Rails LTS, makandra will collect, process and use your personal data for the following purposes.
Upon a visit to the Website, we collect and process only that information and those personal data which are automatically transmitted to us by your Internet browser such as:
That information and those personal data are required to correctly deliver the contents of the Website, to optimize the contents of, and advertising for, the Website, as well as to ensure network and information security, and to protect the Website against attacks, disruption and damage.
The personal data and information collected on that basis are evaluated by makandra statistically and for the purpose of enhancing data protection and data security in order to ensure a level of security for the personal data processed by us which is appropriate to the risk. The personal data collected when you access the website, in particular, the user’s IP address, will be deleted, at the latest, seven days from their collection, unless an attack or a threat by the user was discovered.
To the extent that we collect and use personal data of the user such as, in particular, the user’s IP address, upon an access to the Website, the legal basis therefor is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, as that processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by makandra. The legitimate interests pursued by makandra are the enhancement of data protection and data security in order to ensure a level of security for the personal data processed by makandra which is appropriate to the risk, to ensure network and information security, to optimise the Website and to protect the Website against attacks, disruption and damage.
You can contact makandra while providing your personal data (name, company name, email address, phone number). The personal data transmitted by you to makandra in that context result from the relevant contact form on the Website. The personal data transmitted to makandra in that respect will only be collected and stored for the purpose of processing your contact request.
Legal basis for processing these personal data is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR as the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract between makandra and the data subject or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract.
You can sign-up and subscribe to Rails LTS through the Website by providing your personal data (organisation, name and e-mail address). When you choose to purchase a paid subscription plan, you also have to provide us with your billing address and credit card information for billing purposes. The personal data transmitted to makandra in that respect will only be collected, stored and processed for the purpose of administering your subscription of Rails LTS and for invoicing.
Legal basis for processing these personal data is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR as the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract between makandra and the data subject or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract.
By subscribing to Rails LTS and choosing to receive e-mail notifications when new versions of Rails LTS are released we will use your e-mail address to send you such e-mail notifications.
Legal basis for processing these personal data is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR as the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract between makandra and the data subject or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract.
In using the Website, cookies will be used. The purpose of cookies is the personalisation of the Website for your visit and the facilitation of the use of the Website. Cookies are small text files which the Website transmits to the cookie file of the Internet browser on your terminal device and which are kept there for a later retrieval, so that the Website can, inter alia, remember who you are. Typically, a cookie will include the name of the domain from where it was set, the “lifetime” of the cookie and a unique identifier. The following types of cookies are used on the Website:
If you do not want to accept cookies of the Website, you can deactivate them and object to the access to information stored before by setting your Internet browser accordingly. The settings of your browser which allow you to do this vary from browser to browser and can normally be found under “Data Protection” or “Cookies” of the “Internet Options” or “Settings” menu of your browser. If you need help to deactivate or delete cookies, you should use the “Help” menu in your browser. Details regarding the management and deletion of cookies, as well as relevant instructions for the most common browsers, are available, for example, at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/. Please note, however, that you may not be able to use all of the interactive features and functions of the Website if cookies are blocked or deleted.
This Website uses the open source tool Matomo for analytics to gather statistics about the use of this Website. Matomo is hosted on servers operated by makandra.
No data is sent to third parties. All data stored is anonymized, including the user's IP address. No cookies are stored on the user's device.
Legal basis for using Matomo is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, as using Matomo is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by makandra. The legitimate interests pursued by makandra are to evaluate the number of visits and to analyse the use of the Website in order to improve the Website, its user-friendliness and the offers from makandra and make them more interesting for the user.
We will only transfer your personal data to the companies stated in section 3 and to the following companies:
For processing your payments for the subscription for Rails LTS we will transfer your personal data necessary for payment (organization, billing address, credit card information, payment amount) to one of the following payment providers:
For e-mail notifications to subscribers of Rails LTS when new versions of Rails LTS are released, we may use an external service provider to send e-mails on our behalf.
Other than in the cases stated in section 3 and section 4 a) and b), we will not transfer your personal data to a third country.
We only store your personal data as long as necessary for the purposes for which the personal data have been collected or processed unless statutory data retention periods require a longer storage.
You have the following rights:
The provision of personal data is necessary to use the Website and Rails LTS. If personal data are not provided, the Website and Rails LTS may not be used at all, or only be used with a limited scope of functions; in particular, no contact requests can be sent to makandra and no subscription for Rails LTS is possible.
We do not make any automated decision-making or profiling.
It could be necessary to update and change the content of this privacy policy from time to time. Therefore, makandra reserves the right to change this privacy policy and will provide the changed privacy policy on the Website and will notify the data subjects prior to implementing the change if makandra intends to further process the personal data for another purpose.
You shall have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Article 6(1)(e) (public safety) or Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (data processing based on weighing of interests), including profiling based on those provisions. makandra shall no longer process the personal data unless makandra demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of you or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
Where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. Where you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data shall no longer be processed for such purposes.
The right to object can be exercised informally, e.g. by post to makandra GmbH, Melli-Beese-Straße 5, 86159 Augsburg, Germany or by e-mail to datenschutz@makandra.de.