GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) Statement

Power Genius GmbH
GDPR Statement

This website service is operated by Power Genius GmbH. The following terms are considered as being implemented by Power Genius GmbH as the executing entity.

The European Union published the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on May 25, 2018. Power Genius GmbH is based in Germany and has customers in the European Economic Area (EEA). Therefore, Power Genius GmbH must ensure that the design of its products, the protection measures for customer data, and its internal data protection management system comply with the GDPR.

Given the complexity of the GDPR, Power Genius GmbH must establish appropriate measures internally and within its products. Below, you'll find a brief and straightforward explanation of the protective measures that Power Genius GmbH takes to help its customers or anyone communicating with Power Genius GmbH easily understand. If you have any questions about the content, please feel free to contact Power Genius GmbH.

1. Subjects Covered by GDPR

(1) Data Subjects:

· If you provide personal data to use Power Genius GmbH's business activities and services, you are a data subject.

· If Power Genius GmbH uses your personal data for marketing and advertising purposes, you are a data subject.

· If you provide personal data as a registered member of the Power Genius GmbH e-commerce website, you are a data subject.

· If you consult, complain, or state your personal data on social media platforms such as Facebook, you are a data subject.

(2) Data Controller:

· By collecting your personal data through business activities and services, Power Genius GmbH is the data controller.

(3) Data Processor:

· Power Genius GmbH is not a data processor.
Data controllers and data processors have different responsibilities and should implement different safeguards and management measures according to GDPR regulations. The following is a description of the protections and management measures implemented by Power Genius GmbH as the data controller.

2. Legal Basis and Purpose

(1) The main purpose of Power Genius GmbH is to provide relevant services and business activities on its premises and e-commerce website.

(2) Power Genius GmbH will use your personal data for the following purposes:

· Registering accounts

· Warranty services

· Managing and recording user information

· Consumption habits

· Product sales and delivery

· Service feedback

· Data collection and analysis

· Sending advertisements

· Other local legal requirements, such as tax laws.

(3) Power Genius GmbH will conduct data research, statistics, comparison, and analysis on your personal data for precise marketing or business activities. If you do not agree to the processing of your personal data, please contact support.eu@indevolt.com. We will ensure that your personal data is no longer used for this purpose as soon as possible.

(4) Power Genius GmbH will use your personal data for marketing and advertising to promote business activities, products, or services, such as Email Direct Marketing (EDM), social media, etc. If you disagree with the processing of your personal data, please contact support.eu@indevolt.com. We will ensure that your personal data is no longer used for these purposes as soon as possible. The above purposes are based on the consent provided under the member conditions for processing your personal data related to Power Genius GmbH’s business activities and services.

3. Data Security

Power Genius GmbH collects your personal data through its business activities and services, as well as via social media (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Google, or similar platforms) and other channels. This personal data is also stored on Power Genius GmbH's servers. Given that personal data is crucial for the business and operations of Power Genius GmbH, we take the following protective and management measures to ensure data security:

(1) Data collected while using this website will be stored in data centers located in the European Economic Area (EEA) in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
(2) Data stored outside the EEA will be processed in accordance with the European Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC), and the data subject will be made aware of this through the privacy policy.
(3) Power Genius GmbH takes all necessary technical and organizational security measures to protect personal data and stores this data in a secure operating environment that restricts external access. We use encryption whenever possible to protect personal information during transmission.

Please note that, although Power Genius GmbH takes all reasonable measures to protect data, no website, transmission, system, or technological facility is completely secure. If personal data loss or damage occurs, Power Genius GmbH will promptly notify the data subjects in an appropriate manner.

4. Systems and Regulations

In addition to efforts to protect and manage products and data, Power Genius GmbH has established an internal compliance system to ensure that our employees comply with the GDPR regulations and do not infringe upon your or third parties' personal data:

(1) The personal data stored by Power Genius GmbH mainly comes from the data you provide. Except for marketing and advertising purposes, we do not obtain personal information or other data from other companies or individuals to compile or analyze.
(2) Power Genius GmbH uses service analysis tools to check, verify, compare, and analyze data to confirm, understand, and adjust the status of goods or services offered in marketing, advertising, and business activities. However, during this process, we do not share any personal information about users with other companies or individuals.
(3) Power Genius GmbH processes your personal data only to the minimum extent necessary for business activities and to provide services through the e-commerce website or social media consultations.
(4) For the personal data processed for our business activities, e-commerce website, and social media services, Power Genius GmbH offers data subjects the opportunity to exercise their rights under GDPR, such as rights to know, correct, restrict processing, deletion, objection, data portability, and withdrawal of consent.
(5) If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please email support.eu@indevolt.com. After you submit your data, we will execute internal procedures to confirm your identity.
(6) The retention period of the personal data you provide to Power Genius GmbH depends on the business activities and services provided (see Section 2). If the data subject has not logged in to use the relevant functions for ten years or if the user exercises their right to delete, the data will be deleted, unless local laws require otherwise.

5. Marketing and Advertising Tools

(1) To effectively promote products, Power Genius GmbH employs third parties to collect data on consumer interactions on social media (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Google, or similar platforms). This data is provided to Power Genius GmbH for analysis and comparison with internally stored data to identify Power Genius GmbH members. This enables the research, statistics, and analysis of marketing channels as well as the precise evaluation of resource investment.
(2) Power Genius GmbH’s business activities and services use service analysis tools to track advertising and service flows. It uses cookies that incorporate Google Analytics technology to collect operational data from e-commerce websites, such as visitor reading habits, click rates, frequency, or time spent. It is essential to emphasize that Power Genius GmbH does not accept or request any personal data during this process, nor does it provide or disclose this data to other companies or individuals.

· When browsing the website, cookies are used to record, retrieve, and collect data about online activities. The purpose of using cookies on Power Genius GmbH's website is to provide better personalized services and understand usage tendencies (including but not limited to analyzing visitor numbers, site traffic, user distribution, product/service awareness, behavior, and usage patterns) to enhance service quality.

· For the above reasons, most browsers automatically recognize users and accept cookies. If you wish to disable cookies, you must configure your browser and choose the level of cookie acceptance. However, enabling cookies optimizes the functionalities of the e-commerce website. Some functionalities may be limited if cookies are disabled.

· To disable cookies in your browser, please refer to the official instructions for your respective browser.

6. Security Incident Response System

Power Genius GmbH is committed to protecting and managing products and data to prevent data loss. In the event of a security incident, we may notify the affected individuals, providing appropriate information and cooperating with local legal or regulatory authorities to enable you to exercise your rights under the GDPR, or Power Genius GmbH may take on the responsibilities of a data controller.

7. Responsibilities of Power Genius GmbH to Customers

As a data controller, Power Genius GmbH is responsible for complying with GDPR regulations. On the other hand, as individuals using Power Genius GmbH's business activities and services, we remind you not to share your account or password with third parties or engage in other risky behaviors (such as logging into applications using someone else's phone) to protect the security and privacy of your personal information.

8. Questions, Suggestions, Complaints, or Feedback

If you have any questions, suggestions, complaints, or feedback regarding Power Genius GmbH's products or personal data processing, please email support.eu@indevolt.com.

9. Confidentiality of All Issues

Power Genius GmbH treats all issues, suggestions, complaints, or feedback with confidentiality. We would like to point out that if you are not satisfied with how Power Genius GmbH processes personal data and responds to complaints, or if your privacy has been or may be infringed upon, you may lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

10. Amendments to This Statement

Power Genius GmbH is committed to maintaining the accuracy of this policy. Therefore, we reserve the right to update the privacy policy of Power Genius GmbH at any time without notice when necessary. We encourage you to frequently or periodically check our privacy policy to see whether it has been updated.