Privacy Policy

1. Controller

The controller responsible for data processing on this website is:
GSENSE GmbH
Jürgen-Hornemann-Straße 6, 48268 Greven, Germany
Commercial register: HRB 16150
Represented by: Jan Vondráček, Karel Vondráček, Martin Vondráček (CEO)
Phone: +49 2571 5607716
Email: info@g-sense.de

We are not legally required to appoint a data protection officer. For questions about data protection or to exercise your rights, please contact info@g-sense.de.

2. Principle

This website loads external services only with your consent. Without consent, no data is transmitted to Google or any other third party, and the site remains fully usable. Fonts are served from our own server, not from Google Fonts.

3. Hosting

The website and the content management system run at Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany, in a data centre in Nuremberg. A data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR is in place. Personal data does not leave the European Union in the course of hosting.

4. Server log files

When you open the website, access data is logged automatically: IP address, date and time, the address requested, the volume of data transferred, referrer and browser identification. This logging is technically necessary to deliver the website and to detect attacks. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in secure operation). Logs are deleted after no more than seven days.

5. Contact form and enquiries

If you contact us through the enquiry form, we process the data you provide: name, email address, phone number (optional), subject, your message, the project location (optional), the service your enquiry relates to, the language version of the site, your consent to this privacy policy, and the time of submission. No IP address or browser identification is stored.

You may optionally attach one file – an area of interest (KML, KMZ, GeoJSON, GPX, DXF, ZIP) or a document (PDF, JPG, PNG), up to 20 MB. The attachment is stored together with your enquiry on the same server, used solely to handle it, and deleted automatically with the enquiry after twelve months. Please do not send us documents containing special categories of personal data (Art. 9 GDPR).

The data is used solely to handle your enquiry. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (steps preliminary to a contract) or Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR for general enquiries. Enquiries are stored in our content management system on the server named above and deleted automatically after twelve months. Where an enquiry leads to an order, the associated records fall under commercial and tax retention obligations (§ 257 HGB, § 147 AO) and are kept correspondingly longer as part of our business documentation.

After submitting the form you receive an automatic confirmation by email, and we notify the responsible contact person internally at the same time. Both emails contain the details you submitted.

For email delivery and our mailboxes (including inquiry@g-sense.de) we use Microsoft 365, a service of Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland. Microsoft processes the content of your enquiry as a processor under the Microsoft Products and Services Data Protection Addendum. Processing in EU data centres is covered by the EU Data Boundary; where a transfer to the USA nevertheless occurs, it relies on the adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

6. Cookies and storage on your device

We use cookies and comparable technologies only where they are strictly necessary or where you have consented (§ 25 TDDDG). Specifically:

• gsense-consent – stores your choice in the privacy settings. Strictly necessary, lifetime 180 days.
• _ga, _gid, _gat – Google Analytics; set only after your consent and deleted automatically when you withdraw it.
• gsense_intro_seen – remembers within a browser session that the intro animation has already been shown. Stored in session storage, contains no identifier, and is deleted when you close the browser tab.

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time via the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page. Withdrawal takes effect from that moment; processing carried out beforehand remains lawful.

7. Google Analytics 4

With your consent we use Google Analytics 4, a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, to record which pages are visited so we can improve our offering. The analytics code is loaded only after your consent – without it, no connection to Google is established.

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. A data processing agreement with Google is in place. A transfer to Google LLC in the USA cannot be ruled out; it relies on the European Commission's adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Analytics data retention is limited to 14 months. Advertising features (“Google signals”) and data sharing with Google for advertising purposes are disabled.

8. Google Maps and Street View

On the contact page you can load a map and a Street View panorama. This content comes from Google Ireland Limited. As long as you do not load the map, no connection to Google is established and only our address is shown. By clicking “Load map” you consent to your IP address being transmitted to Google and to Google setting cookies. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. For the purpose and scope of Google's processing, see Google's privacy policy.

9. Your rights

You have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18), data portability (Art. 20), and to object to processing based on legitimate interests (Art. 21). Consent once given may be withdrawn at any time. Please contact us at the address above.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The authority responsible for us is: Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kavalleriestraße 2–4, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany.

10. No automated decision-making

No automated decision-making or profiling within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR takes place.