1. An Overview of Data Protection
General Information
The following information provides a straightforward overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is defined as any information that can be used to personally identify you. For comprehensive legal details regarding our data collection practices, please review our full policy detailed below.
Data Collection on This Website
Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?
The data processing operations on this website are executed by the website operator:
Finance Elevator
Editorial Management: Marcus Berger
Musterstrasse 1
10115 Berlin
Germany
Email: [email protected]
How do we collect your data?
Your data is collected in two main ways. First, data you explicitly provide to us (such as entering information into a contact form or subscribing to a service). Second, technical data is recorded automatically by our IT systems when you interact with the website (e.g., your internet browser type, operating system, IP address, or time of access).
What do we use your data for?
A portion of the data is collected to guarantee the flawless, secure operation of the website. Other data components may be analyzed to understand visitor trends and improve the structural delivery of our financial insights.
2. General Conditions and Mandatory Information
Data Protection Commitments
The operators of Finance Elevator treat your personal data with the utmost confidentiality. We strictly adhere to statutory data protection regulations alongside the precise parameters outlined in this policy statement.
Please note that when navigating this website, various pieces of personal data are processed. If you utilize external links to third-party comparison portals or banking systems presented on our platform, those networks operate completely independently of us. We bear no administrative liability or regulatory control over external third-party data processing behaviors.
Revocation of Consent to Data Processing
Many data processing actions are only permissible with your explicit, affirmative consent. If you have granted us consent, you maintain the legal right to revoke this consent at any absolute point in time. An informal notification via email to us is sufficient. The legality of data processing carried out prior to the revocation remains unaffected.
Right to Lodge a Complaint with Supervisory Authorities
In the event of data protection breaches, data subjects retain the legal right to lodge an official complaint with a competent supervisory authority or data protection commissioner.
Right to Data Portability
You have the right to request that data we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract be delivered to you or a designated third party in a standard, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of data to another controller, this will only be completed if it is technically feasible.
3. SSL and/or TLS Encryption
To ensure rigorous structural safety and to safeguard the transmission of sensitive or confidential content—such as contact form submissions, financial feedback lines, or account queries sent to us as the platform owner—this website strictly deploys SSL or TLS encryption protocol layers.
You can verify an actively encrypted state by observing the change in your browser's address tracking line from "http://" to "https://", alongside the appearance of the lock icon indicator in your browser navigation bar. When encryption is enabled, data transferred across our network cannot be intercepted by unauthorized third parties.
4. Data Collection & Server Log Files
The provider hosting these pages automatically collects and stores diagnostic information in systemic server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. This information includes:
- Browser type and browser software version
- The operating system operating on the user's device
- Referrer URL (the specific page from which you arrived)
- Host name of the accessing computer terminal
- Exact timestamp of the server request
- IP address (anonymized or pseudonymous where required)
This data is not combined with other distinct data pools. The underlying legal basis for this processing is the legitimate interest in optimizing website stability, security, and defense against malicious activities.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our web framework utilizes cookies. Cookies are small data files that do not damage your user terminal or introduce malicious elements. They serve to make our financial portal more user-friendly, efficient, and reliable.
We use both "session cookies" (which are instantly wiped upon your exit) and "persistent cookies" (which remain cached on your device until manually purged, allowing us to recognize your browser settings during subsequent visits).
You can adjust your local web browser rules to ensure you are consistently alerted about cookie installation, to permit cookie rules on a singular basis, or to systematically block cookies. Please notice that complete suppression of cookie structures might limit the complete functional scaling of this website.
6. Contact Forms and Communications Handling
Should you choose to communicate through our integrated Contact template page, the full spectrum of data entered into the form field blocks—including your name, email address, subject line selection, and message body—will be stored on our internal database systems.
This data retention exists purely to process your request, manage follow-up dialogue lines, and maintain clear records of communication. We strictly refrain from distributing or selling this data to third-party marketing brokers without your definitive prior confirmation.
7. Information, Erasure, and Rectification Rights
Within valid statutory frameworks, you maintain an absolute right to receive information regarding your stored personal data, its specific origin channels, its recipients, and the intended purpose of processing at any given time free of charge. Furthermore, you hold a fundamental right to demand the immediate correction, blocking, or total erasure of this data asset pool.
For any inquiries regarding data control, deletion requests, or further clarification on our operational data boundaries, feel free to drop us a line via our central email node listed under our primary contact guidelines.