Data protection

Part 1: Data protection information for business partners, tenants, customers and interested parties

Information on data protection regarding our data processing pursuant to Articles (Art.) 13, 14 and 21 of the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (GDPR), Art. 19 of the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and Art. 13, 14 and 21 of the General Data Protec-tion Regulation of the United Kingdom (UK GDPR)

We take data protection seriously and hereby inform you about how we process your data and what claims and rights you are entitled to according to the statutory data protection regulations. Valid as of 1 September 2023.
These data protection guidelines do not apply to personal information obtained via our career page.

1 Controller and contact details of the data protection officer/advisor

Where reference is made in this data protection information to “we,” “us” and “our/s,” this refers to the respective con-troller for data processing. The contact details of the respective controller can be found here:

Livit AG
Privacy
Altstetterstrasse 124
8048 Zürich
privacy@livit.ch

The contact details of the data protection officer/advisor can be found here:

HEC Harald Eul Consulting GmbH
Datenschutz + Datensicherheit
Auf der Höhe 34
D-50321 Brühl

If you have any questions about data protection, you can contact the respective controller or the designated data pro-tection officer/advisor in confidence at any time.

2 Purposes and legal basis according to which we process your data

We process personal data in accordance with the applicable provisions of the GDPR, the FADP, the UK GDPR and other applicable data protection regulations (“Data Protection Legislation”) (details below). Which specific data are processed and the way in which they are used essentially depends on the individual services requested or agreed. Further details or supplements to the purposes of data processing can be found in the relevant contract documents, forms, a declaration of consent and/or other information provided to you (e.g. within the scope of use of our website or in our terms and conditions). In addition, this data protection information may be updated from time to time.

2.1 Purposes of contract fulfilment or pre-contractual measures

The processing of personal data is carried out to implement our contracts with you and execute your orders as well as to implement measures and activities within the scope of pre-contractual relationships information (e.g. with prospec-tive clients. In particular, such processing serves to facilitate the provision of services in accordance with your orders and wishes and real estate services such as the brokering, letting, sale and purchase of real estate in accordance with your orders and wishes and comprises the services, measures and activities necessary for this. These primarily in-clude contract-related communication with you, the corresponding invoicing and associated payment transactions, the traceability of transactions, orders and other agreements as well as quality control by means of corresponding docu-mentation, improvement in sustainability including by optimising consumption data (heat, energy, water and waste) for the building, goodwill procedures, measures for managing and enhancing business processes as well as for meeting general due diligence obligations, management and control by affiliated companies (e.g. parent company); statistical evaluations for corporate management, cost recording and controlling, reporting, internal and external communica-tion, emergency management, settlement and fiscal evaluation of operational benefits, risk management, assertion of legal claims and defence in case of legal disputes; safeguarding of IT security (including system and plausibility tests) and general safety, including building and equipment safety, upholding and exercise of domiciliary rights (e.g. by means of access controls); safeguarding of the integrity, authenticity and availability of data, prevention and investiga-tion of criminal offences; monitoring by supervisory boards or authorities (e.g. audit).

2.2 Purposes for the fulfilment of statutory requirements or in the public interest

Like all parties participating in economic affairs, we are also subject to a large number of statutory obligations:

the fulfilment of requests and requirements of supervisory and law enforcement authorities;
fulfilment of control and reporting obligations under tax law;
the fulfilment of legal requirements for the prevention of fraud and money laundering as well as for the preven-tion and combating of terrorist financing, asset-endangering criminal offences, comparison as obligated parties within the meaning of the Money Laundering Act. This includes, among other things, the identification of busi-ness partners and beneficial owners and verification of identity and age if required;
matching against European and international anti-terror lists
archiving of data for the purposes of data protection and data security and review by tax and other authorities;
local/judicial measures for the purpose of obtaining evidence, prosecuting or enforcing civil claims.

2.3 Purposes in the event of a legitimate interest on our part or that of a third party

We may process your data beyond the actual fulfilment of the contract or preliminary contract if this is necessary for upholding our own legitimate interests or those of third parties, in particular for the purpose:

of advertising or market and opinion research as long as you have not revoked the use of your data;
of obtaining information and exchanging data with information bureaux as long as this exceeds our economic risk;
of reviewing and enhancing needs analysis procedures;
of launching and further developing products and services as well as existing systems and processes;
improving the sustainability of the property by, amongst other things, optimising consumption data (heat, energy, water and waste),
of disclosing personal data within the scope of due diligence during company sale negotiations;
of refinancing by another institution
of matching against European and international anti-terror lists as long as this exceeds the statutory obligations;
of enriching our data, for example through the use or research of publicly accessible data;
of statistical evaluations or market analysis and benchmarking;
of asserting legal claims and defending ourselves in the event of legal disputes that are not directly attributable to the contractual relationship;
of limited data storage if deletion is not possible or only possible with a disproportionately high outlay owing to the specific type of storage;
of developing scoring systems or automated decision-making processes;
of preventing and investigating criminal offences as long as this is not exclusively for the fulfilment of statutory requirements;
of building and equipment safety (e.g. by means of access controls and video surveillance) as long as this ex-ceeds the general due diligence obligations;
of internal and external investigations and security checks;
of potentially listening into or recording telephone conversations for quality control and training purposes;
of obtaining and upholding certifications of a private law or regulatory nature;
of upholding and exercising domiciliary rights through both corresponding measures and video surveillance for the protection of our clients and staff and the securing of evidence in the event of criminal offences and their pre-vention.

2.4 Purposes within the framework of your consent

The processing of your personal data for specific purposes (e.g. the use of your e-mail address for marketing purpos-es) may also take place subject to your consent. You can normally revoke this at any time. This also applies to the revocation of declarations of consent that were given to us before the applicable data protection legislation came into force. You will be informed separately in the text of the declaration of consent about the purposes and the conse-quences of revocation or not granting consent.
As a rule, any revocation of consent only applies to the future. Any processing taking place prior to the revocation is not affected by this and remains lawful.

3 The data categories processed by us for data we do not receive directly from you, and their origin

To the extent that this is necessary for the provision of our services, we process personal data permissibly received from other companies or third parties (e.g. information bureaux, address publishers). We also process personal data that we have permissibly obtained, received or acquired from publicly accessible sources (such as telephone directo-ries, commercial registers and registers of associations, civil registers, debtor registers, land registers, the press, Inter-net and other media) and are permitted to process.

Relevant personal data may in particular include:

Personal details (name, date of birth, place of birth, nationality, marital status, profession/sector and comparable data);
Contact details (address, e-mail address, telephone number and comparable data);
Address details (registration details and comparable data);
Payment confirmation/cover note for bank and credit cards;
Information about your financial situation (creditworthiness data including scoring, i.e. data for assessing the economic risk);
Client history;
Data about your use of the telemedia we offer (information (e.g. of retrieval of our websites, apps or newsletter, sites/links clicked on, entries and comparable data);
Video data

4 Recipients or categories of recipients of your data

Any forwarding of your data takes place exclusively in compliance with the applicable data protection legislation and only as long as the legal basis permits this. Within our organisation, only those departments receive your data that require them to fulfil our contractual and statutory duties or for the implementation of our legitimate interests.

Any forwarding of your data to external bodies takes place exclusively

in connection with contract conclusion;
for the purpose of fulfilling statutory requirements according to which we are obliged to disclose, report or for-ward data or where the forwarding of data is in the public interest;
to the extent that external service providers processing orders or assuming functions process data on our behalf (e.g. external data centres, support/maintenance of IT applications, archiving, document processing, call centre services, compliance services, controlling, data screening for anti-money laundering purposes, data validation and plausibility check, data destruction, purchasing/procurement, client administration, lettershops, marketing, media technology, research, risk controlling, invoicing, telephone services, website management, audit services, credit institutions, printers or data disposal companies, courier services, logistics);
on the basis of our legitimate interests or those of third parties for the purposes stated in section no. 2.3 above (e.g. to authorities, information bureaux e.g. Intrum AG or Crif AG, debt collection agencies, lawyers, courts, ex-perts, Group companies, committees and supervisory authorities);
if you have granted us your consent to the transmission of your data to third parties.

5 Duration of the storage of your data

We process and store your data for the duration of our business relationship. This also includes the initiation of a con-tract (pre-contractual legal relationship) and the conclusion of a contract.
We are also subject to various statutory and regulatory retention and documentation obligations resulting, inter alia, from company and commercial law, regulatory provisions and tax law.
The periods specified therein for retention and/or documentation may be up to ten years after the end of the contrac-tual relationship or pre-contractual legal relationship.
Furthermore, special statutory provisions can entail a longer period of retention such as the safeguarding of evidence within the framework of statutory periods of limitation.
Data no longer required for the fulfilment of contractual or statutory obligations and rights are deleted at regular inter-vals unless their further processing (for a limited period) is necessary in order to fulfil the purposes derived from an overriding legitimate interest listed in section 2.3. Such an overriding legitimate interest also exists, for instance, if deletion is not possible or only possible with a disproportionately high outlay owing to the specific type of storage and any processing for other purposes is ruled out by suitable technical and organisational measures.

6 Processing of your data in a third country or by an international organisation

Data transmission to entities in countries other than the one in which the controller is based (so-called third country) takes place if this proves necessary for the execution of an order from or contract with you, if it is legally prescribed (e.g. reporting obligations under tax law), it constitutes a legitimate interest of ours or a third party or you have granted us your consent for this.
The recipients of your data may be located in Switzerland, the European Economic Area (EEA), the UK, the USA and any other country in the world.

The processing of your data in a third country can also take place in connection with the commissioning of service providers for the purpose of order processing. If, for the third country in question or for specific sectors in the third country, there is no decision by the competent data protection authority of the country in which the data transferring entity is located on an appropriate level of data protection in the third country, corresponding agreements (such as EU standard contracts) and additional measures may be used as a basis for the transfer. Information about the suitable and adequate safeguards and the possibility of receiving a copy of these can be obtained on request from the individ-ual controller or from the data protection officer/advisor.

7 Scope of your obligations to supply us with your data

You only need to supply the data that is required for initiating and implementing a business relationship or for a pre-contractual relationship with us or that we are legally obliged to collect. Without these data we will normally be unable to conclude or execute the contract. This can also apply to data required at a later stage within the scope of the busi-ness relationship. Should we request any further data from you above and beyond this, we will notify you separately of the voluntary nature of such disclosures.

8 Existence of automated decision-making in each case (including profiling)

We do not use purely automated decision-making processes. Should we use such a procedure in individual cases in the future, we will inform you about this separately insofar as this is required by law.
Under certain circumstances we may partially process your data with the aim of assessing specific personal aspects (profiling).
To enable us to inform and advise you about products in a targeted manner, we may make use of evaluation tools. These facilitate needs-based product design, communication and publicity including market and opinion research.
Such procedures can also be used to assess your solvency and creditworthiness and to combat money laundering and fraud. So-called “score values” can be used to assess your solvency and creditworthiness. Scoring uses mathe-matical procedures to calculate the probability of a client meeting his or her payment obligations in accordance with the contract. Such score values accordingly support us, for example, in assessing creditworthiness and making deci-sions regarding the sale of products and are incorporated in our risk management. The calculation is based on math-ematically and statistically recognised and proven procedures and carried out on the basis of your data, in particular your income situation, outgoings, existing liabilities, profession, employer, length of employment, experience from existing business relationships, timely contractual repayment of previous loans and information from credit agencies.
Information on nationality and special categories of personal data are not processed here.

9 Your data protection rights

Under certain conditions, you can assert your data protection rights towards us.

You are entitled to receive information from us about your data stored with us in accordance with the provisions of (possibly with restrictions under national law).
At your request we will correct the data stored about you if they are inapplicable or erroneous.
If you wish, we will delete your data unless prevented from doing so by other statutory regulations (e.g. statutory retention obligations or any restrictions under national law) or an overriding interest on our part (e.g. for the de-fence of our rights and claims).
You can ask us to restrict the processing of your data.
You can also register an objection to the processing of your data requiring us to cease processing your data. However, this right of objection only applies if special circumstances pertain with regard to your personal situa-tion and the rights of our Group may obstruct your right of objection.
You also have the right to receive your data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to transmit it to a third party.
You are furthermore entitled to revoke consent granted to us for the processing of personal data at any time with future effect (see 2.4).
You also have recourse to a right of complaint to a data protection supervisory authority. However, we rec-ommend that you first always address a complaint to the respective controller or to the data protection of-ficer/advisor.

If possible, your requests to exercise your rights should be addressed in writing to the respective controller spec-ified above or to the data protection officer/advisor.

Information about your right to object

You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your data on the basis of a balancing of interests or in the public interest, if there are reasons for doing so arising from your particular situation. This also applies to profiling based on this provision. Should you register an objection, we will no longer process your personal data unless we are able to provide evidence of compelling legitimate grounds for such processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or processing serves the assertion, exercise or defence of your legal claims.
We may also process your personal data to conduct direct advertising. If you do not wish to receive any advertising, you are entitled at any time to register an objection to this; this also applies to any profiling connected with such direct advertising. We will observe this objection in the future. We will no longer process your data for the purposes of direct advertising if you object to its processing for these purposes.

The objection can be made informally and should, if possible, be addressed to the respective controller named in section 1.

Livit AG, September 2023

PART 2: Supplementary privacy policy for our website

With the following data protection information, we would like to explain to you in detail how your data is handled when using our websites.
This description is not exhaustive. Further information on data protection in connection with individual business activities and the processing of your data in connection with our services can be found at www.livit.ch/privacy.

1 Data controller and contact details of the data protection advisor

Where this data protection information refers to "we", "us" and "our", this refers to the respective data controller. You can find the contact details of the data controller here:
Livit AG
Privacy
Altstetterstrasse 124
8048 Zürich
privacy@livit.ch

You can find the contact details of the data protection advisor here:

HEC Harald Eul Consulting GmbH
Datenschutz + Datensicherheit
Auf der Höhe 34
D-50321 Brühl
privacy@livit.ch

If you have any questions on the subject of data protection, you can contact the respective data controller or the specified data protection advisor in confidence at any time.

2 Visiting the website

Each time you visit our website, our systems automatically collect data and information from the computer system of the calling computer (personal data that your browser transmits to our server). This also occurs if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, for example by actively entering it. The following data is collected in any case when visiting our websites and stored in the log files:

IP-Adresse des Nutzers in anonymisierter Form
Datum und Uhrzeit der Anfrage bzw. des Zugriffs
Zeitzonendifferenz zur Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Inhalt der Anforderung (konkrete Seite)
Zugriffsstatus/HTTP-Statuscode
jeweils übertragene Datenmenge
Website from which the request comes (from which the user's system accesses our website)
Website that is accessed by the user's system via our website
Information about the type of browser and the version used
Operating system and its interface
Language and version of the browser software

The storage of the aforementioned data is generally only temporary for the duration of the session and is necessary to enable the proper operation and presentation of the website. This processing of your data also serves the purposes of evaluating and continuing to ensure system security and system stability, as well as other administrative purposes. If your data is stored in our log files, this is also only done to ensure the functionality of our websites. In addition, we use the data to optimise and ensure the security of our information technology systems. Your data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected and we are not legally obliged to retain it or the retention is permitted on the basis of a legal justification. In the case of the collection of data for the provision of the website, this is the case when the respective session has ended. Case. Storage beyond this is only provided for in exceptional cases, for example if this is necessary for technical reasons or to improve our systems. In this case, the IP addresses of the users are deleted or alienated so that an assignment is no longer possible.

2.1 General information on the use of cookies

When you visit and use our website, cookies are stored on your computer. Cookies are text files that are stored in the internet browser or by the internet browser on the user's computer system. When a user accesses a website, a cookie may be stored on the user's operating system. Some cookies are absolutely necessary for the operation of our website. Other cookies are used for statistical purposes or to analyse access to our website, or for marketing purposes or to offer you the use of external media. Both temporary/session cookies and longer stored/permanent cookies are used. Temporary cookies are deleted as soon as you close your browser. Permanent cookies remain for a longer period of time, but can be deleted manually at any time. Some of the cookies are set by third parties. The legal basis for data processing in the use of strictly necessary cookies is our legitimate interest in the smooth operation of our website, and your consent in the use of all other cookies. If we do not process your data on the basis of your explicit consent, your personal data will only be processed to the extent necessary to protect our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party and to the extent that this does not override your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms which require the protection of personal data.
Detailed information about the use of the respective cookies, in particular about their purpose, their legal basis, the respective function duration and the extent to which they are set by third parties or third parties have access to the data collected via the cookies, can be found in our cookie banner on our website in addition to the information provided in our data protection declaration. You can access this at any time by clicking on the icon at the bottom left of the screen. You can consent to the use of the respective categories of cookies individually. You can change or revoke your consent at any time in the cookie banner.

3 Editing purposes

We process your personal data when you use the website, in particular for the following purposes:

•   Statistical collection and optimisation of the user experience (e.g. tracking of website visitors, statistical evaluations for the further development of our offer, to determine the attractiveness of our services and to optimise and improve the user satisfaction of websites);
•   To ensure the functionality and guarantee the security of the website (e.g. to maintain IT security, to defend against possible attacks and to optimise the functionality and content of the website). For this purpose, we use cookies in some areas. These make it easier for you to use our website;
•   Fulfilment of statutory and other legal requirements (e.g. from self-regulations, industry standards, official instructions and internal requirements, e.g. for the fulfilment of disclosure, information obligations, archiving, processing of complaints and other reports, monitoring of communication);
•   Market research and to improve our services (e.g. analysis of the use of our offers). For this purpose, we process your master data in particular, but also communication data and information from customer surveys, polls and studies and other information, e.g. from media monitoring services, from the media, from social media, from the Internet and from other public sources.

marketing and for relationship management (e.g. transmission of information and advertising from us and from third parties or for third parties, e.g. as newsletters or printed matter, targeted addressing of existing customers, implementation of customer events and of prize games and competitions, personalisation of information and advertising). For this purpose, we use in particular master data and communication data, but also behavioural data and preference data. You can object to the processing for marketing purposes at any time by notifying us or revoking any consent given to this effect.
Communication: We use online data to communicate with you via electronic channels. For this purpose, we process the content of the communication, but also log data about the type and time of the communication.
Other purposes: e.g. in connection with communication with you, in particular to respond to enquiries, internal administration, training and education, data archiving, administration of IT, safeguarding our rights, evaluation and improvement of internal processes, statistics and research, safeguarding other legitimate interests.

4 Data recipient

In particular, we may disclose data to the following categories of recipients to the extent necessary for the purposes:

companies of the Swiss Life Group;
Authorities and agencies: In connection with the exercise of rights, the defence against claims and the fulfilment of legal requirements, we may pass on online data to authorities, offices, courts and other public bodies, e.g. in the context of official, judicial and pre- and extra-judicial proceedings and in the context of legal obligations to provide information and to cooperate. The authorities process data about you that they receive from us on their own responsibility.
External service providers (e.g. IT service providers, address and shipping service providers, marketing, sales, communication or printing service providers, etc.).

These recipients may be located abroad (e.g. for the transfer of personal data when using IT services, etc.). Your data may therefore be processed worldwide by countries that do not all have a level of data protection that corresponds to Swiss law. We therefore take contractual precautions and generally use the so-called standard contractual clauses (further details can be found at www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/de/home/datenschutz/handel-und-wirtschaft/uebermittlung-ins-ausland.html), unless an exception applies (e.g. in the case of legal proceedings abroad, in cases of overriding public interests, if the performance of a contract requires such disclosure or if you have consented).

5 Contact forms and other forms of enquiry

5.1 Contact forms

There are several contact forms on our website which you can use to get in touch with the management team commissioned by us or another person responsible for the topic in question. The contact forms are available, for example, for damage reports or general concerns. When using the contact form, the data entered in the input mask is collected and transmitted to the person responsible for the enquiry for the purpose of establishing contact. In addition, your IP address and the date and time of the enquiry are stored. The legal basis for processing your data when using the contact form is your consent. The processing of the personal data from the input mask only serves to process your contact with the responsible person.

5.2 Request by e-mail or telephone

If you contact us by e-mail or telephone, your enquiry including all personal data arising from it will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of dealing with your request. The processing of this data is based on the performance of a contract, insofar as your enquiry is related to a contract or is necessary for the performance of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the enquiries addressed to us or on your consent, if this has been requested. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.

6 Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. We have no influence on whether the operators of these websites comply with data protection regulations. We also have no influence on the legality of the content of these websites. We therefore disclaim any responsibility for the content of other websites. Livit is not responsible for their content or handling of personal data. Third-party websites are not subject to this declaration.

7 Web Analysis / Other Third Party Technologies

We use service providers to analyse the behaviour of visitors to our website. They may receive log data and other data from us and may themselves use cookies and similar technologies to collect data about our website.
Livit accepts no responsibility or liability for any data processing by the providers of the tools.

Use of Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter "Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. If the information generated by the cookie about the use of the website is transmitted to a Google server, then the settings ensure that the IP address is anonymised before geolocation and replaced by a generic IP address before storage.
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating the use of the website by users, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
You can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de .
Enclosed you will find further information on the use of data by Google Inc.: Privacy - Google Analytics Help.

Use of Google Ads
The website uses Google Ads, an online advertising service provided by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter "Google"). Google Ads can be used to reach users with advertisements who have searched for Livit in Google Search or on the web. We use this tool to support our online marketing (including the use of remarketing).

Use of Google Tag Manager
We use Google Tag Manager, a domain offered by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter "Google"). The tool does not collect any personal data, but is a so-called tag management system (TMS) with which the various tracking tools can be organised. The Google Tag Manager is used in particular when several tracking tools (such as Google Analytics or Google Ads) are used. If a deactivation of data processing has been made, this remains in place for all tracking tags that are implemented with Google Tag Manager.

Use of Google Search Console
Google Search Console, an analysis tool from Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter "Google"), supports Livit in search engine optimisation (SEO). The tool makes it possible to view various reports and statistics on, for example, speed, user-friendliness or security. The tool does not collect any personal data, but supports online marketing in the analysis of the organic search performance of the website.

Use of LinkedIn Ads
LinkedIn Ads, an online advertising service of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (hereinafter "LinkedIn"), allows marketing campaigns to be targeted more precisely to appropriate target groups. LinkedIn's privacy policy is available at https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. Furthermore, the tool helps to operate employer branding and is thus a support for online marketing.
As a LinkedIn member, you have the option of preventing the processing of data by changing this in the account settings of your LinkedIn profile.

Use of LinkedIn Insight Tag
LinkedIn Pixel is a technology for collecting member data (e.g. device IDs), which is provided by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (hereinafter "LinkedIn"). LinkedIn's privacy policy is available at https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. The data can be used to measure conversions or to create target groups for future advertising measures. The data provided by means of this technology does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the identity of the respective members.
As a LinkedIn member, you have the option to prevent the processing of the data by changing it in the account settings of your LinkedIn profile.

Use of Xovi
Our website uses Xovi, an SEO (search engine optimisation) controlling and online marketing suite operated by Xovi GmbH, Hohenzollernring 72, 50672 Cologne (hereinafter "Xovi"). The software supports online marketing in the analysis of the organic search performance of one's own website.

Use of Drupal
Drupal is a so-called Content Management System (hereinafter "CMS"), an open source software and registered trademark of Dries Buytaert. The CMS helps to easily organise Livit's website. The basic purpose of the tool is to manage the website. However, when data is entered in the contact forms, personal data may be passed on to the third-party provider (e.g. Antibot).

Social Media Buttons
Functions (plug-ins) of third-party providers or social media platforms (Facebook, Xing, LinkedIn and YouTube) are integrated on Livit websites. These plug-ins enable the user to share content on the aforementioned social networks . As soon as the user clicks on the buttons, the plug-ins automatically transmit data, including personal data, to the corresponding third-party provider. If the user is logged into the network of the respective third-party provider at the same time as visiting the website, the provider can assign the visit to the user's network account. Livit has no influence on this. The purpose and scope of this data collection and the further processing of the personal data can be found in the data protection declarations of the respective social networks.

Video platform YouTube
We use the YouTube platform to post our own videos and make them publicly accessible. YouTube is the service of a third party not affiliated with us, namely YouTube LLC , the subsidiary of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland . Google's privacy policy is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.
Some of the Internet pages on our website contain links to YouTube. In general, we are not responsible for the content of websites to which links are provided. In the event that you follow a link to YouTube, however, we would like to point out that YouTube stores the data of its users (e.g. personal information, IP address) in accordance with its own data usage guidelines and uses it for business purposes.
We directly embed YouTube saved videos on some of our internet pages.
When YouTube videos are integrated, content from the YouTube website is displayed in parts of a browser window. However, the YouTube videos are only called up by clicking on them separately. This technique is also called "framing". When you call up a (sub-)page of our website on which YouTube videos are embedded in this form, a connection is established to the YouTube servers and the content is displayed on the website by informing your browser.
YouTube content is only integrated in "extended data protection mode". YouTube itself provides this mode and thus ensures that YouTube does not initially save any cookies on your device. However, when you call up the relevant pages (i.e. when you click on the video), the IP address and possibly other data (see the respective provider's data protection declaration) are transmitted and may thus indicate which of our Internet pages you have visited. As a rule, however, this information cannot be assigned to you personally, unless you have logged in to YouTube or another Google service before accessing the page or are permanently logged in.
As soon as you start the playback of an embedded video by clicking on it, YouTube only saves cookies on your device through the extended data protection mode, which do not contain any personally identifiable data, unless you are currently logged in to a Google service. These cookies can be prevented by appropriate browser settings and
extensions ("opt-out").

8 Changes to the privacy policy

The rapid development of new Internet technologies makes it necessary to adapt our data protection declaration from time to time. This privacy policy is not part of any contract with you. We may amend this privacy policy at any time. The version published on this website is the current version.

Livit AG, 01.09.2023