Privacy Policy
Learn more about how Pile collects and uses data and your rights as a Pile user.
The responsible party in terms of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), is:
Pile Capital GmbH
Große Hamburger Str. 17,
10115 Berlin
Your data subject rights
You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided by our data protection officer:
- Information about your data stored by us and its processing (Art. 15 DSGVO),
- Correction of incorrect personal data (Art. 16 DSGVO).
- Deletion of your data stored by us (Art. 17 DSGVO)
- Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 DSGVO)
- Objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 DSGVO)
- Data portability, provided you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 DSGVO).
If you have given us consent, you can revoke this at any time with effect for the future. You can file a complaint with a supervisory authority at any time, e.g. the competent supervisory authority in the federal state of your residence or the authority responsible for us as the controller.
A list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with address can be found at:https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Anschriften/Laender/Laender-node.html
Collection of general information when visiting our website
1. Nature and purpose of processing
When you access our website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise submit information, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider, your IP address and the like. Those information are processed for the following purposes:
- Ensuring a smooth connection setup of the website
- Ensuring the smooth use of our website
- Evaluating system security and stability
- Optimize our website
We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Information of this kind is statistically evaluated anonymously by us, if necessary, in order to optimize our website and the technology behind it.
2. Legal basis and legitimate interest
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.
3. Recipients
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as order processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.
Third country transfer
The collected data may be transferred to the following third countries:
US
The following data protection guarantees are in place:
Standard contractual clauses
1. Storage period
Data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected. This is generally the case for data used to provide the website when the respective session has ended.
2. Provision prescribed or required
The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services and services may not be available or may be restricted. For this reason, an objection is excluded.
Contact form
1. Type and purpose of processing
The data you enter will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide a valid email address and your name. This is used for the assignment of the enquiry and the subsequent response to it.
2. Legal basis
The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based on a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO).
By providing the contact form, we would like to enable you to contact us in an uncomplicated manner. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the enquiry and for possible follow-up questions.
If you contact us, the data entered in the contact form will be processed to carry out pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO).
3. Recipient
Recipients of the data are, if applicable, order processors.
Storage period
Data will be deleted no later than 6 months after the request has been processed.
If there is a contractual relationship, we are subject to the statutory retention periods according to the German Commercial Code (HGB) and delete your data after these periods have expired.
1. Provision mandatory or required
The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your request if you provide us with your name, e-mail address and the reason for the request.
Use of script libraries (Google Webfonts)
In order to display our content correctly and in a graphically appealing manner across browsers, we use "Google Web Fonts" from Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter "Google") on this website to display fonts.
Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
SSL encryption
To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption procedures (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.
Information about your right to object according to Art. 21 DSGVO
1. Individual right of objection
You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data relating to you which is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) DSGVO (data processing on the basis of a balance of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 DSGVO.
If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) DSGVO (data processing on the basis of a balance of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 DSGVO.
If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
2. Recipients of an objection
hello@pile.capital
Changes to our privacy policy
We reserve the right to adapt this data protection statement so that it always complies with the current legal requirements or in order to implement changes to our services in the data protection statement, e.g. when introducing new services. The new data protection statement will then apply to your next visit.
Questions to the data protection officer
If you have any questions about data protection, please write us an e-mail or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization directly:
hello@pile.capital
Cookie usage
When you visit websites, they may store or retrieve data in your browser. This storage is often necessary for the basic functionality of the website. The storage may be used for marketing, analytics, and personalization of the site, such as storing your preferences. Privacy is important to us, so you have the option of disabling certain types of storage that may not be necessary for the basic functioning of the website. Blocking categories may impact your experience on the website.