Privacy policy
This policy explains how we use the personal data we collect when you use our website.
We are responsible for your data
Genki
Genki UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Dorothee-Sölle-Platz 2, 50672 Cologne, Germany [email protected]
Values
We value your privacy as much as we do our own.
We’re committed to keeping your personal data safe.
We’ll not ask you for personal data that we don’t need to provide our services.
We’ll not use your personal data for any reason other than why you gave it.
We’ll not give anyone access to your personal data unless we’re forced to by law or if it’s necessary to provide our services to you.
Data
The data we collect
Technical data (date and time, IP address, information about your device and browser)
Referral data (what other website has brought you to our website, if any)
Personal data (name, email address, date of birth, phone number, home country, password)
Payment data (card information)
Insurance conditions (area of coverage, start date, deductible, travel status, prior insurance)
Consent status (accepting cookies, our terms of service, or updates about our services)
Behavioral data (how you use our websites)
How we collect your data
You explicitly provide us with most of the data we collect. We collect and process data when you…
request a quote for one of our insurance products,
purchase one of our insurance products,
make changes to your insurance, or
contact us.
Some data is automatically provided by using our websites:
Technical, referral, and behavioral data
How we use your data
We collect your data so that we can…
give you a quote for our insurance products,
process your insurance purchase,
ensure you the insurance coverage that you’ve bought,
manage your insurance,
respond to you contacting us,
notify you about important information regarding your insurance,
notify you about updates to our services,
improve the security, reliability, and usability of our services, and
advertise our services to potential customers through advertisements and remarketing.
Who processes your data
In order to provide our services we need to share some data with partner companies:
DR-WALTER concludes health insurance agreements, processes your claims, and provides insurance-related customer support. Please also have a look at their data protection notice.
Stripe is our payment processor. They charge cards on our behalf to keep payment data safe.
Cloudflare, Heroku, and DigitalOcean enable us to provide technical services like our websites.
Amazon Web Services and MongoDB enable us to store and process your data safely.
Intercom enables us to provide great customer support.
OpenAI enables us to make our customer support even better and faster.
Drip and Twilio enable us to send emails and SMS messages in a reliable way.
Google, Facebook, and Reddit enable us to advertise our services to the right audience on other websites by using behavioral data.
Google allows us to better understand our visitors and improve our websites and services by analyzing the technical, referral, and behavioral data we collect.
How we store your data
We securely store your data on servers within the European Union.
Your data is transferred using modern encryption.
Our systems are properly secured and maintained.
Payment data is stored exclusively by Stripe, a popular and trusted payment processor. They keep your payment information safe using highest standards.
How long we store your data
Technical data is stored for no longer than one year.
Personal and payment data is stored for no longer than one year. If they are required for providing the services that you’ve requested that period will extend accordingly.
Insurance conditions are stored indefinitely once you’ve bought an insurance product.
Consent status is stored indefinitely until you revoke the consent.
Referral and behavioral data are stored indefinitely.
Your data protection rights
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request us to complete information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you want to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email [email protected].
If you have access to our member center you can access and change your personal data there.
Complaints
You can file complaints with the controller that is responsible for us:
Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen (The North Rhine-Westphalia Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information)
Kavalleriestr. 2-4, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany +49 211 38424-0 [email protected]
Marketing
We occasionally send emails with updates about our services.
We only send you such emails if you’ve given us consent or have subscribed to our services.
You can opt out of receiving these emails
under “Your data” in the member center,
by following the “Unsubscribe” link in such emails, or
by telling us at [email protected].
Advertising
We use Google and Facebook for advertising our services to potential customers.
We use remarketing or similar services to advertise to potential customers on other websites that have previously visited our websites.
You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies in Google’s Ads Settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative.
Cookies
What cookies are
Cookies refer to data that is stored automatically on your device when you use a website. That data remains accessible to that website when you navigate between its various pages. Cookies can be used to identify you and to maintain information like website preferences.
For further information visit allaboutcookies.org.
How we use cookies
We use cookies…
to improve the security and reliability of our websites,
to give our visitors a more personalized experience,
to help us optimize our digital marketing campaigns, and
to participate in behavior-based advertising where a third party collects information about your use of our websites so that they can provide ads tailored to your interests on other websites.
What types of cookies we use
There are a number of different types of cookies. Our website uses:
Strictly necessary cookies – They ensure that you can access the services we provide, for example, our member center. They also help us to improve the security and reliability of our websites.
Performance cookies – They collect information about how you use our websites, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. None of this information can be used to identify you. It’s all aggregated and, therefore, anonymized. Their sole purpose is to improve our services for you. This includes cookies from third-party analytics services.
Marketing cookies – They track your online activity to help advertisers deliver more relevant advertising, and to limit how many times you see an ad. These cookies can share that information with other organizations or advertisers. These are persistent cookies and almost always from a third party.
How you can manage cookies
You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and allaboutcookies.org explains you how to remove cookies from your browser. Note that you may no longer be able to access some of our services if you no longer accept cookies.
Links
Our websites contain links to other websites. Our policy applies only to our websites. If you follow a link to another website you should consult their respective privacy policy.
Changes
We keep our privacy policy under regular review and list all changes here.
August 23rd, 2023
Added Drip and OpenAI to data processors.
June 11th, 2022
Removed Hotjar from data processors.
Added Twitter to data processors.
April 5th, 2022
Removed SendGrid from data processors.
Added Intercom to data processors.
December 18th, 2021
Clarified writing and overall structure.
Added DigitalOcean, Facebook, Google, and Hotjar to data processors.
Added information about advertising and performance analytics.
Any questions?
We’re happy to answer them.