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Processing of (personal) data by the entity in charge of the online application process

PRIVACY AND PERSONAL DATA 

The guidelines below detail the data protection policy of Cleantech Group regarding personal data. 

Cleantech Group strives for transparency and takes very seriously the confidentiality of personal information and data provided by you. 

By providing your personal information and data, you consent to the use, analysis and, where applicable, disclosure of such information by us according to the terms and conditions described herewith. 

  1. GENERAL INFORMATION 

Cleantech Group may collect personal data via its website from, among other things, requests to create a user account or requests to subscribe to our newsletter and other mailings. Cleantech Group will also collect personal information if you subscribe to our premium services, or if you register for Cleantech Group events. 

If you communicate with us by phone, email, post messages to any of our social media groups, forums, or otherwise complete online forms, surveys or contest entries, any information provided in such communication may be collected as Personal Information. 

Personal Information may include: (1) Contact Data (such as your name, company name, title, phone number, mailing and email addresses); (2) Traffic Data (such as your IP address, domain server, type of computer, type of web browser, search history and page view history). 

All personal data that you are transmitting to Cleantech Group for the benefit of services provided in this website will be treated according to the Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003 – Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003 – California Business and Professions Code sections 22575-22579 and The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) effective from May 25, 2018. 

  1. RIGHT TO ACCESS, CORRECT AND DELETE DATA AND TO OBJECT TO DATA PROCESSING 

All mailings from us will provide a link to allow you to unsubscribe. 

Beyond unsubscribing, you are also entitled to access, correct and delete personal data which relates to you, and to object to the processing of such data. You may exercise this right at any time by contacting us via the following methods: 

  • Complete our contact form on our website 

  • Send an email to:  news@cleantech.com 

  • Write to: Cleantech Group, 1714 Franklin St, 100-286, Oakland CA 94612, United States 

  1. MANAGEMENT OF PERSONAL DATA BY THE COMPANY 

3.1 Purpose of data collection 

Cleantech Group collects your personal data via its website for the following purposes only: 

  • managing subscriptions to our research services, our newsletter and press releases 

  • managing attendance at and/or participation in our international events series 

  • sending documents requested via the website 

  • sending periodic notifications of our events series and releases of our research, and occasional promotional materials of relevance, given your past interactions with us 

  • billing and account management 

3.2 Retention of data 

We retain data collected for the purposes of managing premium subscriptions and active user accounts for a minimum of the term of service. Otherwise, data may be retained indefinitely unless you request that we delete it. Once we receive a data deletion request, we will undertake to delete all data within one week of the request. 

3.3 Data recipients 

Cleantech Group is the recipient of the data. We have security and privacy measures in place to ensure an adequate level of data protection. We do not in the normal course of business share your data with third parties. Cleantech Group will only send your personal data to a third party if: 

  • you have given us your prior approval to share such information, 

  • Cleantech Group must share such information with third parties to provide a service you have requested, or 

  • Cleantech Group is required by a judicial authority or any other administrative authority to provide such information. 

3.4 Data security and privacy 

Cleantech Group has made every effort to put in place suitable precautions to safeguard the security and privacy of personal data, and to prevent it from being altered, corrupted, destroyed or accessed by unauthorized third parties. 

However, the company does not control every risk related to the use of the Internet, and therefore warns visitors of the potential risks involved in the functioning and use of the Internet. 

  1. COOKIES 

When you visit our company website, a cookie may be automatically installed and temporarily saved in your computer’s memory or on its hard disk to make it easier for you to navigate around our site and to save your password. Cookies do not enable us to identify you, but are used to record information about the pages you have viewed on our website, the date and time of your visit to the site, etc. 

You can disable cookies in your web browser. However, this will disable all cookies used by your browser, including those from other websites, which may cause certain settings or information to be altered or lost. Disabling cookies may change your browsing experience on our website or may make navigating around the site more difficult. 

Cookies we use: 

Necessary 





Cookie 




Duration 




Description 




__hssrc 



session 



This cookie is set by Hubspot whenever it changes the session cookie. The __hssrc cookie set to 1 indicates that the user has restarted the browser, and if the cookie does not exist, it is assumed to be a new session. 




cf_use_ob 



past 



Cloudflare sets this cookie to improve page load times and to disallow any security restrictions based on the visitor’s IP address. 




__cfruid 



session 



Cloudflare sets this cookie to identify trusted web traffic. 




cookieyes-consent 



1 year 



CookieYes sets this cookie to remember users’ consent preferences so that their preferences are respected on their subsequent visits to this site. It does not collect or store any personal information of the site visitors. 




_GRECAPTCHA 



5 months 27 days 



This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. 




PHPSESSID 



session 



This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users’ unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. 




XSRF-TOKEN 



2 hours 



This cookie is set by Wix and is used for security purposes. 

Functional 





Cookie 




Duration 




Description 




__cf_bm 



30 minutes 



This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. 




__hssc 



30 minutes 



HubSpot sets this cookie to keep track of sessions and to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. 

Analytics 





Cookie 




Duration 




Description 




_ga_HYL3DZNSBF 



2 years 



This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. 




_ga 



2 years 



The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. 




_gid 



1 day 



Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. 




_gat_UA-963086-10 



1 minute 



A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. 




__hstc 



5 months 27 days 



This is the main cookie set by Hubspot, for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). 




hubspotutk 



5 months 27 days 



HubSpot sets this cookie to keep track of the visitors to the website. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. 




vuid 



2 years 



Vimeo installs this cookie to collect tracking information by setting a unique ID to embed videos to the website. 




CONSENT 



2 years 



YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. 

Advertisement 





Cookie 




Duration 




Description 




YSC 



session 



YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. 




VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE 



5 months 27 days 



A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. 




yt-remote-device-id 



never 



YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. 




yt-remote-connected-devices 



never 



YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. 




yt.innertube::requests 



never 



This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. 




yt.innertube::nextId 



never 



This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. 

Others 





Cookie 




Duration 




Description 




DEVICE_INFO 



5 months 27 days 



No description 




leadgen_session 



2 hours 



No description available. 

  1. HOW WE RESPOND TO DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS (DNT) 

This site does not respond to DNT signals. If we are providing services to you, such as subscriptions or user accounts, we will track page views and sign-in logs for purposes of providing and improving our services. Clients or account holders who opt in to our services agree to this per this policy. 

Some third-party sites accessed through our site will also track your browsing activities when they serve you content. If you are visiting such sites, your browser may allow you to set the DNT signal on your browser so that third parties (particularly advertisers) know you do not want to be tracked. 

  1. CHANGES TO DATA PROTECTION POLICY 

Cleantech Group may make changes to its Data Protection Policy at any time, and you will be notified if and when this occurs. 

  

Date: February 17, 2023

Processing of (personal) data by the operator of the recruitment website

General information

This recruitment website is operated by Personio SE & Co. KG, which offers a human resource and candidate management software solution (https://www.personio.com/legal-notice/). Data transmitted as part of your application will be transferred using TLS encryption and stored in a database. The sole controller of this data within the meaning of article 24 of the GDPR is the enterprise carrying out this online application process. Personio’s role is limited to operating the software and this recruitment website and, in this context, being a processor under article 28 of the GDPR. In this case, the processing by Personio is based on an agreement for the processing of orders between the controller and Personio. In addition, Personio SE & Co. KG processes further data, some of which may be personal data, to provide its services, in particular for operating this recruitment website. We will refer to this in more detail below.

The controller

The controller under data protection law is:
Personio SE & Co. KG
Seidlstraße 3
80335 München
Tel.: +49 (89) 1250 1004
Entry in the commercial register
Commercial register entry number: HRA 115934
Registration Court: Amtsgericht München
Data Protection Officer contact: privacy@personio.com

Access logs (“server logs”)

Each access to this recruitment website automatically causes general protocol data, so-called server logs, to be collected. As a rule, this data is a pseudonym and thus does not allow for inferences about the identity of an individual. Without this data, it would, in some cases, be technically impossible to deliver or display the contents of the software. In addition, processing this data is absolutely necessary under security aspects, in particular for access, input, transfer, and storage control. Furthermore, this anonymous information can be used for statistical purposes and for optimizing services and technology. In addition, the log files can be checked and analyzed retrospectively when unlawful use of the software is suspected. The legal basis for this is §25 subsection 2 Sentence 2 TDDDG. Generally, data such as the domain name of the website, the web browser and web-browser version, the operating system, the IP address, as well as the timestamp of the access to the software is collected. The scope of this log process does not exceed the common log scope of any other site on the web. These access logs are stored for a period of up to 7 days. There is no right to object to this.

Error logs

So-called error logs are generated for the purpose of identifying and fixing bugs. This is absolutely necessary to ensure we can react as quickly as possible to possible problems with displaying and implementing content (legitimate interest). As a rule, this data is a pseudonym and thus does not allow for inferences about the identity of an individual. The legal basis for this is §25 subsection 2 Sentence 2 TDDDG. When an error message occurs, general data such as the domain name of the website, the web browser and web-browser version, the operating system, the IP address, as well as the timestamp upon occurrence of the respective error message and/or specification is collected. These error logs are stored for a period of up to 7 days. There is no right to object to this.

Use of cookies

So-called cookies are used on parts of this recruitment website. They are small text files which are stored on the device with which you access this recruitment website. As a general rule, cookies serve the purpose of ensuring secure access to a website (“absolutely necessary”), implementing certain functionalities such as standard-language settings (“functional”), improving the user experience or the performance of the website (“performance”), or placing targeted advertisements (“marketing”). On this recruitment website, we generally use only cookies that are absolutely necessary, functional or performance-related, in particular for implementing certain default settings such as language, for identifying the job advertising channel, or for analyzing the performance of a job advert via which a user accessed this recruitment website. The use of cookies is absolutely necessary for providing our services and thus for the performance of the contract (article 6 (1) b) of the GDPR). Period of storage: up to 1 month or until the end of the browser session Right to object: You can determine via your browser settings whether you allow or object to the use of cookies. Please note that deactivating cookies may result in limited or completely blocked functionalities of this recruitment website.

Rights of data subjects

If Personio SE & Co. KG as the controller processes personal data, you as the data subject have certain rights under Chapter III of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), depending on the legal basis and the purpose of the processing, in particular the right of access (article 15 of the GDPR) and the rights to rectification (article 16 of the GDPR), erasure (article 17 of the GDPR), restriction of processing (article 18 of the GDPR), and data portability (article 20 of the GDPR), as well as the right to object (article 21 of the GDPR). If the personal data is processed with your consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent under article 7 III of the GDPR. To assert your rights as a data subject in relation to the data processed for the purpose of operating this recruitment website, please refer to Personio SE & Co. KG’s Data Protection Officer (see item B).

Concluding provisions

Personio reserves the right to adjust this data privacy statement at any point in time to ensure that it is in line with the current legal requirements at all times, or in order to accommodate changes in the services offered, for example when new services are introduced. In this case, the new data privacy statement applies to any later visit of this recruitment website or any later job application.