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Privacy policy

This is the website of Pipeline Academy UG (haftungsbeschränkt). This privacy policy explains our data collection and use practices. By using or accessing the website www.dataengineering.academy, you signify your consent to our Privacy Policy.

You have the right to information, correction, blocking or deletion of your data at any time. Any given consent can be revoked at any time and you may partially object to the processing of your data, even if no consent was required from you for the processing. You can contact us at any time for further information on privacy issues by email [info@dataengineering.academy] or by post [Pipeline Academy UG (haftungsbeschränkt) | Stresemannstr. 25 | D-10963 Berlin].

We collect your data in three different ways: automated when you visit our website, through cookies, through your voluntary input.

  • Registration Information: When you register on our website, we collect the personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when registering through your access device.

  • Cookies: For the provision of our service and to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure, we also use so-called cookies for data collection and storage. Cookies are small data packets that are stored on your device and do no harm.

  • Tracking Services: We use tracking services to collect information about the behavior of visitors to our pages. So we can ensure an optimal user experience. These services use pseudonymised user profiles with the help of cookies, so that a direct inference to persons is not possible.

  • Newsletter: By providing your email address to us, you expressly consent to receive emails from us. We may use email to communicate with you, to send information that you have requested or to send information about other products or services developed or provided by us. We will not give your email address to any third party to promote their products or services directly to you. You expressly consent to us storing your email address with an at a third party in order to process our communication with you.

Our website may contain links to other websites. The owner is not responsible for or liable for the content or practices of other websites. All external websites are accessed at the user’s own risk. Likewise, views expressed in comments published on the website or other websites are those of the comment writers alone and the owner takes no responsibility for their content.

If you feel that our website has not complied with its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above postal address or email address.

Services used

Registration and contacting via email or contact form

You can register on our platform to use our services. We only use the data entered for the purpose of using the respective offer for which you have registered. The mandatory information requested during registration, such as name and email address, must be provided, otherwise the registration can not be completed. The data collected during registration will be stored by us as long as you are registered for our services and will subsequently be deleted. Legal retention periods remain unaffected.

If you contact us via email or the contact form, the data you provide will be used for the purpose of processing your request. We must have this data in order to process and answer your inquiry; otherwise we will not be able to answer it in full or at all. Your data will be deleted once we have fully answered your inquiry and there is no further legal obligation to store your data, such as if an order or contract resulted therefrom.

Platform services and hosting with Squarespace (Squarespace, Inc)

These services have the purpose of hosting and running key components of our website, therefore allowing the provision of this website from within a unified platform. Such platforms provide a wide range of tools to the owner – e.g. analytics, user registration, commenting, database management, e-commerce, payment processing – that imply the collection and handling of personal data. Some of these services work through geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the actual location where the Personal Data are stored.

Squarespace is a platform provided by Squarespace, Inc. that allows the owner to build, run and host this website. Personal data processed: various types of data as specified in the privacy policy of the service. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Google Analytics

Our sites use functions of the web analytics service Google Analytics for the purpose of needs-based design and continuous optimization. Provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland. Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies". These are text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. Google Analytics cookies are stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising.

Google complies with the privacy policy of the US Privacy Shield and is registered with the U.S. Department of Commerce's US Privacy Shield program, providing appropriate guarantees for an appropriate level of privacy.

YouTube

On our website and based on our legitimate interests under Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO to display video content we use components (videos) of the company YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave., 94066 San Bruno, CA, ("YouTube"), a company of Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland. Here we use the option provided by YouTube of "extended privacy mode". When you visit a page that has an embedded video, it will connect to the YouTube servers and display the content by notifying your browser on the website.

According to information provided by YouTube, in the "extended privacy mode" only your data - in particular, which of our websites you have visited and device-specific information including the IP address – is transmitted to the YouTube server in the US when you watch the video. By clicking on the video you confirm this transmission. If you do not want the transmission, stop playing the video. If you are logged in to YouTube at the same time, this information will be associated with your Membership account on YouTube. You can prevent this by logging out of your member account before visiting our website.

For more information about data protection related to YouTube, please see the Google Privacy Policy. Google complies with the privacy policy of the US Privacy Shield, is registered with the U.S. Department of Commerce's US Privacy Shield Program, and thus provides appropriate guarantees for an appropriate level of privacy.