Privacy Policy

Using our website does not require you to enter any personal data, unless you use the contact options or tools offered online. By doing so, you are entering into a business-cooperative relationship, and we will store your information electronically from that moment on.

Any information you provide when contacting us or when submitting your own diagnostic results will be stored for the specified period. Your responses do not leave your own computer. Only if you request your results via email will we store the results along with your email address.

If you request the results of your quick diagnosis via email, we will process your email address and the results of your quick diagnosis (the identified field, e.g., “Field 3”). Your individual answers to the questions are neither transmitted nor stored.

Purpose: We use this data exclusively to send you your results and to ask you once whether you would like to discuss them. You will only be added to additional mailing lists—such as for the blog series—if you give your separate consent.

Legal basis: Your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. You provide this consent by submitting the form and clicking the confirmation link in the email sent to you afterward (double opt-in). This ensures that the results are sent only to you.

Service Provider: For the form and email delivery, we use Brevo, provided by Brevo GmbH, a German limited liability company headquartered at Köpenicker Str. 126, 10179 Berlin, Germany. Brevo processes the data on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions on servers located in the European Union. We have a data processing agreement with Brevo in accordance with Article 28 of the GDPR. You can find Brevo’s privacy policy here: https://www.brevo.com/de/legal/privacypolicy/

Retention Period: Your email address and your results will be deleted as soon as you withdraw your consent, but no later than 12 months after they were sent to you. If you do not click the confirmation link, the data will be deleted after 30 days.

Withdrawal: You may withdraw your consent at any time with future effect—via the unsubscribe link in every email or by sending an informal email to eckhard.schoelzel@e-schoelzel.de.

Loading Only After Clicking: The form and the associated services from Brevo and Google are loaded only when you click “Receive Results as PDF.” As long as you use the diagnostic tool online only, no data is transmitted to Brevo or Google.

Your personal data will not be shared with third parties. We may disclose the data to government authorities only if we are required to do so by law (Germany, EU).

To protect the form from automated submissions, we use Google reCAPTCHA, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. reCAPTCHA uses characteristics such as IP address, browser information, and mouse movements to verify that the submission is made by a human. In this process, the transfer of data to Google LLC in the United States cannot be ruled out. Google is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The legal basis is your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, which you provide by clicking “Receive results as a PDF.” Further information: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

Any storage of data in electronic storage systems carries the risk that unauthorized persons may gain access to your data or information, such as the content of emails.

Our systems are secured by:

• —Access control [No unauthorized access to data processing facilities]
• —Keys/controlled key distribution
• —Access control [No unauthorized system use]
• —Access control to all applications via authentication with a secure password
• —Regulated password policy (including special characters, minimum length, and regular password changes)
• —Access Control [No unauthorized reading, copying, modification, or deletion of sensitive data and documents within the system]
• —We send our emails encrypted (SSL/TLS).
• —We send personal test results and other confidential documents in paper form marked “Personal, Confidential,” and by certified mail if necessary.

Our IT hardware is protected against unauthorized access—both on-site and via the Internet—using professional security software from ESET. ESET’s Privacy Policy: https://www.eset.com/de/datenschutzerklarung/

All electronically stored data and documents that we generate from, with, and for our customers are also protected against loss through the daily creation of encrypted backups at our own business premises.

…is hosted by the provider IONOS SE. IONOS SE is subject to European law and publishes its privacy policy here: https://mein.ionos.de/privacy-overview. This is a static IONOS page without tracking.

Based on our legitimate interest (see Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR), the internet provider collects data regarding access to the website and stores it as “server log files” on the website’s server. The following data is logged:

• —Website visited
• —Time of access
• —Amount of data transmitted in bytes
• —Source/link from which you accessed the page
• —Browser used
• —Operating system used
• —IP address used

The server log files are stored for a maximum of 7 days and then deleted. The data is stored for security reasons, for example, to investigate cases of misuse. If data must be retained for evidentiary purposes, it is exempt from deletion until the incident has been fully resolved.

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer. They contain information about how you use our websites and the Internet. Cookies allow us to identify you on your next visit to our website as a user who is interested in specific content—for example, someone who has looked up information about certain products.

This website itself does not set any cookies. Cookies can only be set by the Brevo form and reCAPTCHA after you have actively opened them.

If you leave a post or comment on this website, your IP address will be stored. This is done based on our legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR and serves our security as the website operator (if your comment violates applicable law, we may be held liable. Therefore, we have an interest in knowing the identity of the author of the comment or post).

The use of the contact information provided in the legal notice or elsewhere for commercial advertising purposes is expressly prohibited. The provider and all persons named on this website hereby object to any commercial use or disclosure of their data.

You may request information from us at any time, free of charge, regarding what data we have stored about you or a pseudonym you use, and for what purposes it is being used.

You have the right to have your data corrected, deleted, or to restrict its processing. Provided your request does not conflict with a legal obligation to retain data (e.g., data retention), you have the right to have your data deleted.

Data stored by us will be deleted if it is no longer necessary for its intended purpose and there are no statutory retention periods. If deletion cannot be carried out because the data is required for permissible legal purposes, data processing will be restricted. In this case, the data will be blocked and not processed for other purposes.

If you have any requests or questions regarding data protection, please contact us at the address listed in the footer or the legal notice section of the website.

The data protection policies for which we are responsible are governed exclusively by the laws applicable in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Appointment Bookings via cal.com

We use cal.com to schedule appointments. Read the privacy policy here: https://cal.com/de/privacy

BREVO Privacy Policy

When you enter personal data on our website, it is processed by BREVO so that we can provide you with related services.

• —Your email address and the results of the quick assessment are stored,
• —and we consider your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) to be confirmed through the double opt-in process,
• —Retention period: 1 year or until you revoke your consent: You can unsubscribe from further emails at any time. Your data will then be deleted.

You can find BREVO’s Privacy Policy here: https://www.brevo.com/de/legal/privacypolicy/

The reCAPTCHA used is a Google service and is subject to the privacy policies of BREVO and Google. Google may transfer data to the United States.

Privacy Policy for Creating a TMS Profile (TMS = Team Management Systems Development International™)

Team Management Services GmbH, Ernst-Ludwig-Ring 2, 61231 Bad Nauheim, supports management consultants (accredited trainers) in conducting training and coaching sessions that include the creation of Margerison-McCann (“TMS”) Team Management Profiles. Team Management Profiles are written feedback reports based on a questionnaire completed electronically by a client.

Team Management Services GmbH outlines its data protection obligations here: https://team.energy/meta/datenschutz/

Privacy Policy for the Creation of a VMI Profile

Data collection and the creation of VMI profiles are carried out by Values Technology’s German contractual partner, Santa Cruz (USA), in Munich. Data protection is covered by the privacy policy provided here and our partnership agreement with this German contractual partner.

Audio/Video Conferences via ZOOM

We use the services of the company ZOOM to provide our services (coaching, seminars, training) remotely. ZOOM complies with the legal requirements of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360000126326-Official-Statement-EU-GDPR-Compliance

ZOOM’s privacy policy covers our clients’ personal data when they use ZOOM services with us. https://zoom.us/privacy

As a general rule, we do not store the content of communications with our conversation partners, clients, or customers. In exceptional cases, we will obtain explicit permission at the beginning and end of the relevant meeting directly within the recording.

Regardless of whether you have a Google account or not, you can configure your browser to delete or disable Google cookies. Depending on which browser you use, this works in different ways. The following instructions show you how to manage cookies in your browser:

• —Chrome: Delete, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome
• —Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari
• —Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data
• —Microsoft Edge: Deleting and managing cookies

If you do not want to accept cookies at all, you can set your browser to always notify you when a cookie is about to be set. This allows you to decide whether to allow each individual cookie or not. Since YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, there is a joint privacy policy. If you’d like to learn more about how your data is handled, we recommend reviewing the privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Our website is continuously being developed. In the future, services from well-known internet service providers may be integrated; in such cases, we will make their privacy policies available here.

Where trademarks and service marks are mentioned on this website, they are subject without restriction to the provisions of the applicable trademark law and, where applicable, to the ownership rights of the respective registered owners.