SDRs of Germany – Privacy Notice

Welcome to the SDRs of Germany Privacy Notice! We’ve created a special world for the seller in the German speaking market and offer the biggest online community (for collab, tips and guidance), a super job board (bringing opportunities directly to you) and exciting events too (let’s get that networking buzz going). We are firm believers that if we do things with each other, we are doing them for each other because together we achieve more! With our offering, we naturally collect information on people and have written this Privacy Notice to explain whose information we collect, how we collect it as well as why we collect it.

This Privacy Notice was last updated on 10 November 2023 by our Legal & Compliance Team and it’s regularly kept under review and updated as and when necessary. If you have any questions about it, please do reach out to our Legal & Compliance Team on legal@sdrsofgermany.com.

Okay, so we all know that legal terminology can be quite complicated to sometimes understand. Don’t worry about it here though. Our Legal & Compliance Team have made a little dictionary below with the key data protection words and phrases and have explained them in this section!

It’s super important to us that all of the people that trust us with their information, understand exactly what we’re doing with it. For each word in the little dictionary below, it’s been capitalised and throughout the rest of the Privacy Notice, if you see a capitalised word or phrase, you know that it’s defined in this little dictionary, and you can refer to it to check the meaning if you’re unsure.

If there is anything at all that you don’t understand in this little dictionary, you can reach out to our Legal & Compliance Team on legal@sdrsofgermany.com.

We run our business as SDRs of Germany Ltd which is incorporated in England & Wales and has the registration number of 14399458 and registered address of Flat 26 Maple House, 213 Junction Road, London, United Kingdom, N19 5QA. 

Data Protection Laws have created the concepts of a Data Controller and a Data Processor. SDRs of Germany’s status is that of a Data Controller. To keep us (and all other organisations) in check, we are supervised by the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) which is the data protection supervisory authority in England & Wales. Our registration identification with the ICO is ZB409153.

SDRs of Germany has appointed Aria Grace Law (Ireland) as its EU Representative for any individuals and data protection supervisory authorities in the EU that have any queries concerning SDRs of Germany and how it complies with Data Protection Laws.

We’re super strong believers in protecting the confidentiality and integrity of Personal Data and our Legal & Compliance Team have built an entire data protection compliance program on this important topic. This means that we have in place the following:

We live by certain data protection principles at SDRs of Germany and these include believing: 

We hope that you can see that we are serious about looking after your Personal Data. You have trusted us, and we won’t let you down.

We collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of Personal Data depending on our relationship with you. In general, we collect the following types: 

We also collect, use and share “Aggregated Data” such as statistical or demographic data for other purposes including research and analysis. Aggregated Data could be derived from your Personal Data but is not considered Personal Data under Data Protection Laws as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. 

We feel really lucky that so many people have connected with us at SDRs of Germany. We are grateful to everyone that helps us to deliver our offering and uses our services. In particular, we collect Personal Data on:

We know that this is a lot of people that have given us their Personal Data and we want you to know that we really do protect and guard this information (see section 3, 12 and 13 to find out more!). 

Hello, hello and a big welcome! Thank you for clicking on our website to find out more. If you like what you see and want to find out more, please do reach out to us as we definitely want to hear from you! In the meantime, check us out on LinkedIn too and connect with our founders Helena and Mattia. 

What do we collect? We collect your Technical Data and Usage Data (for tracking purposes). We also collect your Identity Data, Contact Data and Communications & Marketing Data (if you decide to get in touch with us). 

How do we collect this? As you interact with our website, we automatically collect this Personal Data about you by using cookies and similar technologies (check out our Cookies Notice). We also collect this Personal Data through our direct interactions with you such as when you contact us through our website (we have our fingers crossed that you do!).

What’s our legal ground(s) for Processing? One or more of the following apply: 

Hi-five! Thanks so much for considering SDRs of Germany as a potential workplace. As we grow and further develop SDRs of Germany, we are totally ready to recruit enthusiastic and talented people to join us on our mission.

What do we collect? We collect your Technical Data and Usage Data (for tracking purposes). We collect your Communications & Marketing Data. We also collect your Identity Data, Contact Data and Profile Data (for when you submit your application to join us). We collect some Special Category Personal Data about you (such as information about your health where we are required to put in place reasonable adjustment for your interview). We only collect this type of Personal Data when we have a legal ground in which to do so (i.e., you have given us your Consent and chosen to provide us with this Personal Data). 

How do we collect this? As you interact with our website, we automatically collect this Personal Data about you by using cookies and similar technologies (check out our Cookies Notice). We also collect this Personal Data through our direct interactions with you and third parties (such as through background check providers).

What’s our legal ground(s) for Processing? One or more of the following apply:

Whoopee! We love that you’re a part of our community and huge thank you for trusting us to help you in your sales career. We’ve built a safe haven where we help to bring out your superpower in sales. All of this is done through sharing tips, tricks and bringing together all of our knowledge in one place - all for you. Our community platform is the place where you can really engage with others and to do this, we have made each users’ profile accessible, so that you connect and really benefit from our offering.  

What do we collect?  We collect your Technical Data and Usage Data (for tracking purposes). We also collect your Identity Data, Contact Data, Financial Data, Transaction Data, Profile Data and Communications & Marketing Data (for when you entered into our website terms and conditions). In addition, we collect your Special Category Data where you choose to share it with us (e.g., when it is featured in the CV that you are submitting via our job boards which publishes opportunities for sellers with our business clients). We also take photographs and video recordings during some of our virtual and face-to-face events.

How do we collect this? As you interact with our website, we automatically collect this Personal Data about you by using cookies and similar technologies (check out our Cookies Notice). We also collect this Personal Data through our direct interactions with you such as when you utilise and engage with us through our community platform.

What’s our legal ground(s) for Processing? One or more of the following apply: 

Hurray! We are delighted that you’ve put your faith in us in helping you to recruit, train and guide Sellers. The crème de la crème of German B2B sales tactics is all happening here with us at SDRs of Germany and we love that you’ve picked us to help your business in this area.

What do we collect?  We collect your Technical Data and Usage Data (for tracking purposes). We also collect your Identity Data, Contact Data, Financial Data, Transaction Data, Profile Data and Communications & Marketing Data (for when you entered into our terms and conditions). 

How do we collect this? As you interact with our website, we automatically collect this Personal Data about you by using cookies and similar technologies (check out our Cookies Notice). We also collect this Personal Data through our direct interactions with you such as when you engage with us through our community platform (we have our fingers crossed that you do!).

What’s our legal ground(s) for Processing? One or more of the following apply: 

Kudos for being a part of our journey! We know that we cannot carry out our big sales development community mission alone and we appreciate you.  We are grateful for all of the external support that we receive ranging from SDR coaches and ambassadors to accountants to software providers.

What do we collect? We collect your Technical Data and Usage Data (for tracking purposes). We also collect your Identity Data, Contact Data, Financial Data, Transaction Data and Profile Data (for when we are engaging you for your services and expertise). 

How do we collect this? As you interact with our website, we automatically collect this Personal Data about you by using cookies and similar technologies (check out our Cookies Notice). We also collect this Personal Data through our direct interactions with you (i.e., we will hold Personal Data on your staff that have engaged with us).

What’s our legal ground(s) for Processing? One or more of the following apply: 

Thank you for entering one of our awesome prize draws! We’re excited about the possibility of you winning and are thrilled to have you join the fun. We are genuinely appreciative of your participation in our prize draws as it really adds to the vibrancy and excitement of our community.

What do we collect? We collect your Technical Data and Usage Data (for tracking purposes). We also collect your Identity Data, Contact Data and Communications & Marketing Data (if and where you agree for us to contact you).

How do we collect this? As you interact with our website, we automatically collect this Personal Data about you by using cookies and similar technologies (check out our Cookies Notice). We also collect this Personal Data through our direct interactions with you.

What’s our legal ground(s) for Processing? One or more of the following apply:

We really will only share your Personal Data when necessary and have outlined examples of the types of organisations with whom we would share it with: 

We require all third parties to respect the security of your Personal Data and to treat it in accordance with Data Protection Laws. We enter into contractual agreements with all of our third parties (with the exception of regulators and governmental authorities) which include the appropriate data protection clauses. 

We have put in place appropriate technical and organisational security measures (such as multi-factor authentication and encryption) to prevent your Personal Data from being accidentally lost, falsified, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your Personal Data to those employees, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. We have put in place policies, plans and procedures to deal with any suspected or actual personal data breaches (although we hope not to ever be in that position!).  

Our founders are globe trotters, often hosting events in different countries, so there are situations when Personal Data is transferred across borders. We ensure though that Personal Data is transferred safely and securely at all times. Whenever your Personal Data travels outside of the UK and/or the EEA, we ensure that it’s protected by putting in one of the following safeguards:  

If you want to find out the specific mechanism used when transferring your Personal Data out of the UK and/or the EEA, please reach out to our Legal & Compliance Team on legal@sdrsofgermany.com.

We will only keep your Personal Data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. 

To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we Process your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

We may retain your Personal Data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you (although, of course, we really don’t want to be in that situation).

Under certain circumstances, you have specific rights in respect of the Personal Data that we Process about you. Your rights include:

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact our Legal & Compliance Team on legal@sdrsofgermany.com. You won’t have to pay a fee to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances. 

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity. This is a security measure also in your own interest to ensure that Personal Data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within 1 month. Occasionally it could take us longer than 1 month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will definitely notify you and keep you updated.

We also need to let you know that if you have any concerns and/or you’re not happy with our approach, you have the right to make a complaint to the ICO which can be contacted on www.ico.org.uk. 

Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share Personal Data about you. We want to let you know that we do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements and notices. When you leave our website, we really do encourage you to read the privacy documentation of the website you visit.

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain Personal Data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We may use your Identity Data, Contact Data, Technical Data, Usage Data and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. 

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased services from us and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing. We will get your express opt-in Consent before we share your Personal Data with any third-party for marketing purposes. You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us and withdrawing your Consent. Where you opt-out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to messages that we need to send you a result of performing a contract that we have with you (e.g., as we may be required to contact you in order to perform the contract).

We value your participation in our community, and we appreciate your trust in us to support your career in sales. Our commitment to your success extends to virtual and face-to-face events we host where we strive to create a welcoming environment and empower your sales journey. As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance your experience, we may collect Personal Data at these events, which could include photographs and videos of attendees for marketing purposes. We respect your privacy choices and if you attend our events and prefer not to have your Personal Data used for marketing purposes, you have the right to object and can do so by getting in touch with our Legal & Compliance Team on legal@sdrsofgermany.com to exercise your right.

Feel free to get in touch with our Legal & Compliance Team on legal@sdrsofgermany.com. We’d welcome the opportunity to share more information on our practices with you.