Privacy & Cookie Policy

1. General

We are delighted that you have shown interest in our organisation. Data protection is of great importance to COOL Research DAO. The use of the website of the COOL Research DAO is possible without any indication of personal data. However, you would like to use online services that transmit information, processing of your personal data could become necessary. If there is no statutory basis for such processing, we generally obtain consent from you.

The processing of personal data, such as your name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to the COOL Research DAO. By means of this data protection declaration, our organisation would like to inform you of the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Furthermore, you are informed, by means of this data protection declaration, of the rights to which you are entitled.

As the controller, COOL Research DAO has implemented numerous technical and organisational measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through this website. However, Internet-based data transmissions may in principle have security gaps, so absolute protection may not be guaranteed.

2. Information we collect

We collect data from you when you contact us through our contact form or when you send us a direct e-mail.

When you contact us through our Contact Form or by sending a direct e-mail, we ask for — or you send us — your name and e-mail address in order for us to reply to your message. These data will be used by us solely to reply to your enquiry and to meet any of your specific requests or services that may follow from it.

We will not use your personal information to send you any unsolicited e-mails or mail, such as newsletters, notifications, or publicity-related messages without your explicit consent.

We will not share, sell or distribute any personal information provided to us with any third party.

Should you wish for us to refrain from storing your name and e-mail address when you contact us, please state this in your message and we will not store these data. Furthermore, should you wish us to delete any personal information from our lists at any later date, we will do so on request anytime.

3. Collection of general data and information

The website of COOL Research DAO may collect general data when you access the website. These general data are stored in the server log files. Collected may be (1) the browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrers), (4) the sub-websites, (5) the date and time of access to the Internet site, (6) an Internet protocol address (IP address), (7) the Internet service provider of the accessing system, and (8) any other similar data that may be used in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.

COOL Research DAO does not use these general data to draw any conclusions about you. This information is solely needed to (1) deliver the content of our website correctly, (2) optimise the content of our website as well as its advertisement, (3) ensure the long-term viability of our information technology systems and website technology, and (4) provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack. Therefore, COOL Research DAO may analyse anonymously collected data and information statistically, with the aim of increasing the data protection and data security of our organisation, and to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data that you may provide when using our online services.

4. Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google utilises the data collected to track and examine the use of this site, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network. Personal data collected: Cookie and Usage Data. Place of processing: USA. Find Google's privacy policy here.

5. Cookies

Cookies are pieces of data sent from a website to the computer of the user of that website. They are stored on the user's computer by the user's web browser while visiting and browsing that particular website. You can adjust the way in which your browser generally uses and stores cookies by adjusting the settings of your particular browser. Please visit the website of your browser for more information.

We do not use first-party cookies and do not permit any third party to install cookies and share, sell or distribute this data in any way.

Thank you very much for reading our privacy policy.