Privacy Policy

This website is owned and operated by Gridfuse GmbH.

At Gridfuse, we recognize the importance of privacy to you and are firmly committed to protecting your privacy when you visit our website and provide information to us. This website privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") sets out how Gridfuse collects, uses, discloses and protects any information that you give to us when you use our website, any social media profile operated by Gridfuse or when you interact in any other way with Gridfuse. Gridfuse is the controller within the meaning of applicable data protection laws.If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@gridfuse.com. In general, you may visit our website and view its content while remaining anonymous by not providing any Personal Data. However, if you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not provide any information to us and do not use our website.We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. Therefore, you should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.As used in this Privacy Policy, "we," "our" and "us" means Gridfuse.

The meaning of Personal Data

“Personal Data” is defined in data protection laws applicable in your country. It usually includes data which either by itself or with other data held by us or available to us, can be used to identify you. For example, “Personal Data” will include a person’s name, I.D./passport number, address (including an IP address, if this can used to identify you) or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of a person.

Important notice about the transfer of Personal Data

Due to the global nature of our business, your Personal Data will be stored and transferred to parties located in other countries, includingoutside the United Kingdom and European Economic Area. These other countries may have different data protection laws than your country of residence.

We may store your Personal Data on servers in the United States of America (“US”). The US is not deemed by the European Commission to have adequate protections for Personal Data. Steps will be taken to put in place safeguards (including around security) to protect your Personal Data when it is in other countries. This may include the use of European Model Clause contracts, where required under applicable law. You can find out what these are online here.

Categories of Personal Data we may collect, the purpose and the lawful basis

In general, we need to retain certain categories of Personal Data in order to administer any contract with you. Certain other Personal Data is collected and processed for our legitimate interests where this does not result in any prejudice to you. The following categories of Personal Data may be collected from you:

Category: Data provided in the process of making a job application (e.g. name, email address and copy of your CV, cover letter, etc.). Purpose: Processing of this Personal Data is required to allow Gridfuse to administer the recruiting process, including (but not limited to) processing your application, scheduling interviews and corresponding with you. Lawful basis: Processing is necessary for us to enter into a contract with you.

Category: Contact information provided by you when making an enquiry. Purpose: Managing and responding to your enquiries. Lawful basis: Performance of contract and legitimate interests –it is important that we can respond to your enquiries.

Category: Browsing information (e.g. IP address and browser information). Purpose: Monitoring and producing statistical information regarding the use of our website and social media platforms and analyzing and improving their functionality. Lawful basis: Legitimate interests -we perform this monitoring to ensure our website works effectively and efficiently, to diagnose any problems with our server and administer our website.

Category: All information Purpose: Establishing and enforcing our legal rights and obligations and monitoring to identify and record any illegal activity.Complying with instructions from law enforcement agencies, any court or otherwise as required by law. For our general record-keeping requirement and for customer relationship management.Resolving any complaints from or disputes with you. Lawful basis: Legitimate interests –to safeguard Gridfuse.

Use of anonymized data

We may convert your Personal Data into statistical or aggregated data in such a way as to ensure that you are not identified or identifiable from that data. We may use this aggregated data to conduct market research and analysis, including to produce statistical research and reports.

We may also use technology to collect anonymous information about the use of our website. For example, we use technology to track which pages of our website are viewed and for how long. We also use technology to determine which web browsers our visitors use. This technology does not identify you personally, it simply enables us to compile statistics about our visitors and their use of our website.

We use this anonymous data to improve the content and functionality of our website and consider areas and subjects which are attracting interest. This allows us to better understand the interests of visitors to our website and therefore improve our website.