Privacy Policy

Data Protection Regulations

Status: August 01, 2024

As the operator of apadua.com, we attach great importance to the security and confidentiality of your data. In this privacy policy, we explain how we handle personal and company-related data and ensure its security. We make every effort to keep this policy up to date and will therefore amend it from time to time. In the event of significant changes, we will inform you via the e-mail address you have provided. If you continue to use our services after receiving the change information, you declare that you agree to these changes. In the event of an objection, you can block your account at any time and have your personal and project-related data deleted. By registering on our platform, you agree to these data protection provisions.

Protection of your data

Company and project-related data that you have stored on our platform will only be made available to the groups of persons or legal entities that you have personally selected. This also applies to data provided by you that is considered "confidential" within your company. You provide data of this type at your own risk. Data in your user profile will be checked and confirmed by our employees as part of a verification process. This does not apply to your selected passwords or information that you have stored in the system as a result of a project tender. In addition, we have taken industry-standard technical security precautions to protect your data from unauthorized external access.

Forwarding your data to third parties

apadua.com only forwards your data to selected users of our services if (1) you give the order to do so by starting a request for proposal (RfP) via our web service; (2) if the potential recipients have been personally checked and approved by our employees; (3) if you personally request us to view your data and have it processed by one of our employees; (4) if it has become necessary to hand over the data to government agencies due to legal violations.

Handling of your user profile data

In order to register with apadua.com, you must provide a minimum amount of information that allows us to verify and confirm its authenticity. We always endeavor to check the originators of the external data provided on apadua.com in order to ensure maximum reliability. Therefore, the user profile data provided by you should always correspond to the truth and enable the identification of your person and the business organization you represent.

Furthermore, by registering, you consent to your profile data being made available to participants in the course of tenders initiated by you. This also applies to company and project-related information that you have entered.

Optimization of our offer

As soon as you use our services, our system automatically records and stores your usage data within the functions of our web services. This data is collected anonymously for research and optimization of user-friendliness and evaluated internally. In addition, we use the data to constantly optimize the scope of our offer so that it meets the needs and requirements of our users. If you have any reservations regarding the handling of your usage data, you can delete your account at any time.

Notifications from apadua

We will contact you via the e-mail address you have provided to us for information relevant to usage or legal matters. Therefore, please ensure that you always have an active e-mail address in your user profile. We also recommend that after receiving the first e-mail from us, you classify the sender @apadua.com as secure in order to rule out possible classification as spam.

Data security

Our website uses the latest HTTPS encryption technologies to ensure the security of your data during use and storage. Nevertheless, we ask you to be careful when using web-based services due to various potential risks and to always use secure passwords and change them regularly.