You can find our LinkedIn Business Profile here: https://de.linkedin.com/company/fair-finance-institute

General notes

The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our LinkedIn site.

Personal information is any information that can be used to identify you personally.

For more detailed information about privacy, please refer to the privacy notices listed below this text.

When you visit our LinkedIn page, which we use to draw attention our products and services, certain information about you is processed.

Page Insights

LinkedIn provides us with statistics and insights for our LinkedIn site in an anonymous form, which helps us to gain insights into the types of actions that people do on our site (so-called „page insights“). These page-insights are based on certain information about people who have visited our site.

This processing of personal data is carried out by LinkedIn and us as joint controllers.

Name and address of the responsible persons

Jointly responsible for the operation of this LinkedIn site are in the sense of

EU general data protection regulation (EU-GDPR) as well as other data protection regulations:

LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (hereinafter referred to as “LinkedIn“)

Wilton Place
Dublin 2
Irland

And

FaFin – Fair Finance Lab gGmbH
Montpellierstr. 10
69115 Heidelberg
Germany

The agreement on joint responsibility according to Art. 26 GDPR can be found here: https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum.

This agreement has been provided in this form by LinkedIn and we, as operator of a LinkedIn site, accept it by using LinkedIn. Whether this agreement meets the requirements of Art. 26 GDPR, we cannot judge.

Information about our LinkedIn page

We run this page to draw attention to our services and products, and to interact with you as a visitor and user of this LinkedIn page (establishing and maintaining contacts, acquisition).

The operation of this LinkedIn page, including the processing of users‘ personal data, is based on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR, to draw attention to our products and services by means of modern marketing opportunities and to offer (potential) customers and other interested parties a further opportunity to make contact.

(Consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b) GDPR for the processing of personal data can technically only be obtained by LinkedIn. To our knowledge, LinkedIn does not currently offer such a consent option).

Processing of personal data by LinkedIn

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided in its ruling of 5 June 2018 that the operator of a Facebook page is jointly responsible with Facebook for the processing of personal data. Since LinkedIn is a Facebook page similar in concept to Facebook (social media platform), the ruling must also be extended to LinkedIn.

We are aware that LinkedIn processes users‘ data for the following purposes:

• To provide, support, personalize and develop its services (for this purpose, LinkedIn also shares data with affiliates)
• Display of customized ads by LinkedIn & External
• Fade in news, events and ideas regarding professional topics
• Recommendation of jobs or mentees
• Show interesting network partners
• Enabling the search function
• Also use member data and content for invitations and communications to encourage membership growth, network expansion, interaction and services
• Research
• Provision of measurements, analyses and other company services
• Promotion of protection, integrity and security

Depending on your settings, excerpts from your profile may appear on third-party services (for example, search engine results, email and calendar apps that display limited profile data of the person being messaged or texted, social media aggregators, talent and lead managers). 

LinkedIn also transfers your personal data to third-party advertisers or ad networks in the following ways:

• Data that is already available to any user of the Services (e.g., profile).
• other data with your separate permission (e.g. via a lead generation form) 
• hashed IDs or device identifiers.

LinkedIn uses so-called cookies to store and further process this information, i.e. small text files that are stored on the various user devices. If the user has a LinkedIn profile and is logged in to it, the storage and analysis is also done across devices.

LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy contains further information on data processing.

Questions about privacy can be directed to LinkedIn directly here: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/PPQ?lang=de.

You can contact the LinkedIn Ireland Privacy Officer via the following form: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TSO-DPO.

LinkedIn services by their nature require the transfer of data from the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland to the United States of America (US) and back.

These data transfers are necessary to provide the services set forth in the LinkedIn Terms of Use and to operate globally and provide users with their products.

LinkedIn ensures the security of the processing of member data and the provision of page insights by implementing appropriate technical and organizational measures, which can be found here in Appendix D of the LinkedIn Data Processing Agreement, which must be concluded when using services such as LinkedIn Insight Tag.

To ensure that personal data from the European Union is adequately protected when transferred outside the EU, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires that such transfers take place using certain legal instruments:

LinkedIn uses standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.

LinkedIn has active certification under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the USA, which is intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards for data processing in the USA. Companies in the USA can undertake to comply with these data protection standards and can obtain certification. The certificate can be viewed in the Data Privacy Framework list.  

Statistical data

Using the so-called „Insights“ of the LinkedIn page, statistical data of different categories are available for us. These statistics are generated and provided by LinkedIn. We have no influence on the generation and display of these statistics. We cannot turn off this function. Also, we cannot prevent the generation and processing of the data.

When a member visits, tracks, or engages with the site, LinkedIn processes personal information to provide us with insight into the site. Specifically, LinkedIn processes data provided by the member to LinkedIn, such as function, country, industry, seniority, company size, and employment status data from the member’s profile. In addition, LinkedIn will process information about how a member has interacted with our business site, such as whether a member is a follower.

Selectable by time period and different categories (contacts, followers, people reached, people interacting), LinkedIn will provide us with the following data related to our LinkedIn site:

Total number of page views, „Like“ information, comments, shared content, page activity, post interactions, reach, video views, post reach, responses.

It also provides data about the LinkedIn groups linked to our LinkedIn page. As Linkedin continues to evolve, the availability and format of the data changes, so we refer you to the LinkedIn privacy policy above for more details.

We use this aggregated available data to make our contributions and activities on our LinkedIn page more attractive to users. For example, we use the users‘ preferred visiting hours to optimize the scheduling of our contributions or to distribute them by age, profession & industry for an adapted approach. Information about the type of terminal devices used by visitors helps us to make our contributions more responsive, i.e. visually and creatively adapted to the different terminals. According to the LinkedIn terms of use, which every user has agreed to when creating a LinkedIn profile, we can identify our network partners and followers of the site and view their profiles and other shared information from them.

Rights of the users

User rights were strengthened under the GDPR: Members can exercise their rights via their account settings or by contacting LinkedIn directly.

You have a right to free information about your personal data stored by LinkedIn as well as a right to correction, restriction of processing or deletion of this data. Please contact LinkedIn directly.

Besides, you also have the right to complain about the processing of your personal data by LinkedIn to the data protection supervisory authority.

LinkedIn and we have agreed that the Irish Data Protection Commission is the lead regulatory body overseeing processing for Site Insights. You always have the right to file a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission (see www.dataprotection.ie) or any other regulatory authority.

If requests for information are made to us as the site operator, we are obliged under the supplementary agreement with LinkedIn to forward these requests to LinkedIn within 3 days, regardless of whether they are requests for information from private individuals or public authorities (see Controller Addendum https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum).

Last but not least

If you no longer want the data processing described here in the future, simply remove the link between your user profile and ours by removing the „Follow“ from our site!

26/07/2024