Privacy Policy

Thank you for your interest in our website www.smartbusinessplan.com. We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. With this data protection information you will receive information about the type, scope and purpose of the collection and use of your personal data by us. You will also receive information about the rights you are entitled to.

Technical and organisational measures have been taken to ensure that the data protection regulations are observed both by us and by our service providers.

Should you have any further questions regarding data protection in connection with our website, please do not hesitate to contact our data protection officer.

Responsible body is:

EVEREST GmbH, Deichstraße 29, 20459 Hamburg, +49 (0)40 368 09 68-0, [email protected]

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes, for example, your name and contact details.

With every access to this offer we automatically collect information. This information, also known as server log files, is of a general nature and does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.

Among other things, data is recorded for each access:
IP address of the calling computer So-called referrer URL (the page from which you accessed our site) date and time of access information about the browser and operating system used.

This data is automatically stored in log files each time the website is accessed.

The processing of this personal data is justified in accordance with Article 6(1), first sentence, letter f) of the DSGVO. We have a legitimate interest in data processing for this purpose,
–    to quickly establish a connection to our website,
–    to enable a user-friendly use of the website,
–    to recognize and guarantee the security and stability of the systems and
–    to facilitate and improve the administration of the website.
The processing does not take place expressly for the purpose of gaining knowledge about the person of the visitor of the website.

To protect against attacks and to ensure proper operation, accesses to the Internet offering with the complete IP address are automatically analyzed for possible risks on a security system (firewall) and stored for a maximum of seven days. This does not include data on accesses that are necessary for the further tracking of attacks and malfunctions.

We will only try to find out who is behind an IP address in the case of illegal attacks on our platform. Otherwise, this information will not be disclosed to us and we will not attempt to obtain the data of the owner of an IP address.

We use cookies on our websites. Cookies are small text files that can be stored and read on your terminal device. A distinction is made between session cookies which are deleted again as soon as you close your browser and permanent cookies which are saved beyond the individual session. Cookies may contain data that make it possible to recognize the device used. In some cases, however, cookies only contain information on certain settings that cannot be related to individuals.

We use session cookies on our websites.

The processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Par. 1 S.1 lit. f DSGVO and in the interest of optimizing or enabling user guidance and adapting the presentation of our website.

On your first visit to our site, we will show you a note that we use cookies. If you click the “Got it!” button in the message, a cookie will be set that shows us that you have seen the message. This cookie remains stored for your further visits. If you then call up our offer again, the aforementioned note will not be displayed again. However, if you delete the cookies separately in your browser or access our website via another terminal device, the message will be displayed again.

Most browsers are set by default to accept cookies automatically. You can set your browser so that it informs you about the placement of cookies. This makes the use of cookies transparent for you. You can also delete cookies at any time via the corresponding browser setting and prevent the setting of new cookies. Please note that our web pages may not be displayed optimally and that some functions may no longer be technically available.

If you register on our website in order to make use of personalized services such as the use of our platform, personal data will be processed in order to carry out the necessary pre-contractual measures and to fulfill the user contract in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit b) DSGVO.

During the registration process, you must provide the personal data that is required for the acceptance and execution of the user contract. Without these data we will not be able to give you access to our portal. You can still visit our website.

This includes the name, address and e-mail address as contact and communication data. In addition, we refer to our General Terms and Conditions.

Registration allows access to services and content that are only available to registered users. If necessary, registered users have the possibility to change or delete the data provided during registration at any time. Upon request, we will of course inform you which personal data has been collected and stored. Beyond that we correct or delete the data on request, provided that the request does not conflict with any legal storage obligations.

After termination of your contract of use in accordance with the General Terms and Conditions, data that is not covered by the legal obligation to retain data will be deleted after 30 days. All other data is stored for the duration of the legal retention period and then automatically deleted.

If you contact us by e-mail or contact form, we will save your e-mail address and other information.
To use our contact form we need your name and e-mail address. You can provide further information, but you do not have to.
Information that you provide to us when contacting us will be used based on Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 b DSGVO or Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f DSGVO in the interest of being able to answer your inquiry as simply, quickly and in a customer-friendly manner as possible. Your data will only be processed to answer your inquiry and will be deleted immediately afterwards, unless we are legally obliged to store it. The data will not be passed on to third parties.
If you would like to object to the processing of your data transmitted via the contact form, please contact [email protected]

We use YouTube to integrate videos. The videos were embedded in the extended data protection mode. Like most websites, however, YouTube also uses cookies to collect information about the visitors to its website. YouTube uses them, among other things, to collect video statistics, to prevent fraud and to improve user-friendliness. This also leads to a connection with the Google DoubleClick network. Starting the video could trigger further data processing. We have no influence on that. For more information about privacy at YouTube, please see their privacy policy at: http://www.youtube.com/t/privacy_at_youtube

We do not pass on personal data under any circumstances.
Excluded from this are service partners whose services we make use of to provide and process the services owed. These are in particular

–    a small number of technical service providers in connection with the operation, maintenance and further development of technical systems and in order to continuously improve online services

–    Service providers who take over the e-mail marketing for us.

–   For the processing of payments we pass on the payment data required for this to the credit institution commissioned with the payment and, if applicable, to the payment service provider commissioned by us or to the payment service selected by you in the order process. We do not store credit card data. These are forwarded directly to our payment service provider and processed there.

Further data recipients can be public authorities if there is a legal obligation to pass on your data.

We store and process your data, unless otherwise stated in this declaration, as long and as far as this is necessary for the business relationship with you. We observe the principle of storage limitation, i.e. we delete your data as soon as we no longer need it and are also not legally obliged to store it.

A transfer into a third country does not take place in principle, unless it is expressly mentioned in this data protection information.

You have a right to information pursuant to Art. 15 DSGVO, correction pursuant to Art. 16 DSGVO, deletion pursuant to Art. 17 DSGVO, restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 DSGVO and a right to data transfer ability pursuant to Art. 20 DSGVO.

If the processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you have the right to revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.

If you have any questions or requests for information, correction, restriction of processing, data transfer or deletion of data or revocation of your consent, please use the contact data stated in this data protection declaration.

Right of objection (Art. 21 DSGVO):
If data are collected based on Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter f (data processing to protect legitimate interests), you have the right to object to the processing at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation. We will then no longer process the personal data unless there are demonstrably compelling reasons worthy of protection for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

According to Art. 77 DSGVO, you have the right of appeal to a supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of data concerning you violates data protection regulations. The right of appeal may be exercised before a supervisory authority in the Member State where you are staying, working or suspected of infringing.

In order to protect your data from unwanted access as comprehensively as possible, we take technical and organizational measures. We use an encryption method on our pages. Your information is transmitted from your computer to our server and vice versa via the Internet using TLS encryption. You can recognize this by the fact that the lock symbol in the status bar of your browser is closed and the address line starts with https://

We will update our data protection information at irregular intervals as our platform evolves or new technologies are introduced and recommend that you re-read our data protection information from time to time.