Last updated: November 2025
We take the protection of your personal data seriously. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your data when you visit www.am-i-navigator.com
CONTROLLER
The provider of this website and controller (within the meaning of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other national data protection laws of the member states of the EU, as well as other data protection regulations) of all personal data collected and processed in connection with this website is:
DyeMansion GmbH
Robert-Koch-Straße 1
82152 Planegg-Munich
Germany
+49 89 4141705 00
hallo@dyemansion.com
https://dyemansion.com/
This website publishes content of the AM I Navigator initiative. The AM I Navigator initiative is a joint initiative that supports businesses in evaluating and optimizing the use of additive manufacturing solutions. The members of the AM I Navigator initiative are:
- EOS GmbH (Krailling, Germany)
- HP Inc. (Palo Alto, USA)
- Forward AM (Heidelberg, Germany)
- Siemens AG (Munich, Germany)
- Stratasys Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel)
- Materialise NV (Leuven, Belgium)
- AZO GmbH + Co. KG (Osterburken, Germany)
- AMT – Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Ltd. (Sheffield, UK)
- The Boston Consulting Group GmbH (“BCG”) (Munich, Germany)
- Capgemini Engineering S.A.S (Paris, France)
For information on how DyeMansion as the controller of your personal data may share such personal data with other members of the AM I Navigator initiative, see below under “SHARING OF DATA”.
HOSTING
External hosting provider:
We use an external service provider to host our website.
Provider:
1&1 IONOS SE
Elgendorfer Str. 57
56410 Montabaur
Germany
Purpose:
Reliable accessibility and presentation of our website.
Legal basis:
The use of our hoster is based on our legitimate interest in the most reliable accessibility and presentation of our website, pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR.
Data processing agreement:
We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) with our hoster, which ensures that the personal data of our website visitors is only processed according to our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.
SSL- / TLS:
To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use the SSL or TLS encryption method via HTTPS.
Server-Log-Files:
When you browse our website, technical information of your browser session is automatically processed by our server. This data (so-called server log files) includes for example: the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, your IP address and the like.
Purpose:
Ensuring a stable and smooth connection to the website, a responsive use of our website and the guarantee of system security and stability. We also reserve the right to check the server log files on a regular basis if there are concrete indications of illegal use.
Legal Basis:
The legal basis for the processing of the server log files is our legitimate interest in an error-free and secure presentation of our website, pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR.
DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS AND INFORMATION ON THE RIGHT TO OBJECT
Your rights of access, rectification, restriction, erasure, data portability and to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority
Every data subject has the right of access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR, the right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR, the right to erasure pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR, the right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR, the right to object pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR and the right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR.
With regard to the right of access and the right of erasure, the restrictions pursuant to §§34 and 35 BDSG apply.
You may object to the processing of your personal data at any time. This also applies to objections of declarations of consent given to us before the applicability of the General Data Protection Regulation, i.e. before May 25, 2018. Please note that the objection is only effective for the future. Processing that took place before the objection is not affected by it.
In addition, there is a right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR in conjunction with § 19 BDSG). A list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with address can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Anschriften/Laender/Laender-node.html
Information on the right to object pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR
Right to object to the collection of personal data in special cases and recipient of the request
You have the right to object at any time, based on reasons relating to your particular situation, to the processing of your personal data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (data processing on the basis of a balance of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 GDPR.
If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims.
The objection can be made informally with the subject “Objection” stating your name, address or other identification features to the contact data stored in the imprint.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Data security
We use technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against misuse, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. The security measures taken into account (such as encryption procedures, firewall and virus protection, back-up and recovery procedures) correspond to the current state of the art and are continuously updated.
Nevertheless, we would like to point out that there is always a certain residual risk when communicating on the Internet, which depends on the user’s respective usage behavior and over which we consequently have no influence.
Scope (external links)
This privacy policy applies exclusively to visits to our own website. At some points on our website, external websites of third parties are linked. These websites are subject to the liability of the respective operators. If you notice that links on the websites refer to Internet pages whose contents violate applicable law, please notify us via the e-mail address provided in the imprint. We will then immediately remove these links from our website. The providers do not assume any liability for the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided.
Data Collection Through Contact Form
When you contact us via the contact form on our website, we collect the following data:
- Name
- Email address
- Company
- Phone number
- Country
- Industry
The form is implemented using Gravity Forms. The submitted information is stored temporarily on our secure web server and may be transmitted by email to our internal team for follow-up.
DyeMansion may share your inquiry and data with other members of the AM I Navigator initiative (listed above). For more information see below under “SHARING OF DATA”.
Purpose of processing: handling and responding to your inquiry, and forwarding it to relevant members of the AM I Navigator initiative to provide an appropriate response.
Legal basis:
- Art. 6 (1)(b) GDPR – performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures, and
- Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR – our legitimate interest in effective communication with website visitors.
Retention
Contact form data is stored by DyeMansion for up to 12 months after receipt and then deleted, unless longer retention is required for follow-up or legal reasons.
Data transfer to non-EU countries
When browsing our website, personal data may be transferred to servers in third countries outside the European Union through the integration of individual plug-ins and tools. Details about these data transfers, if any, including the respective valid legal basis, can be found in the section of the respective third-party tool in this privacy policy.
COOKIES AND CONSENT MANAGEMENT
We use cookies to enhance the usability of our website.
Consent management is handled via CookieYes, which stores your consent preferences in a consent cookie valid for 1 year.
Cookies are pieces of information that are transmitted from our web server or third-party web servers to users’ web browsers, where they are stored for later retrieval. They are stored either temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies) on your terminal device. Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Permanent cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them yourself or until they are automatically deleted by your web browser.
If you agree, cookies from third-party companies may also be stored on your end device (third-party cookies). These enable us or you to use certain services of the third-party company (e.g., reach measurement and evaluation of the usage behavior of our website, etc.)
Cookies have various functions. Many cookies are technically necessary, as certain website functions would not work without them (e.g. saving your cookie preferences). Other cookies are used to evaluate user behavior or, for example, to display advertising.
Cookies that are necessary to carry out the electronic communication process (necessary cookies) or to provide certain functions that you have requested (functional cookies, e.g. for storing your cookie preferences) or to optimize the website (e.g. cookies for measuring the web audience) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR, unless another legal basis is specified. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. If consent to the storage of cookies has been requested, the storage of the cookies in question is based exclusively on this consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR and §25 (1) TTDSG); a given consent can be objected at any time.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.
As far as cookies are used by third-party companies or for analysis purposes, we will inform you separately about this within the framework of this data protection declaration and, if necessary, ask for your consent.
SHARING OF DATA WITHIN THE AM I NAVIGATOR INITIATIVE
We do not share personal data collected on this website with other members of the AM I Navigator initiative except in the following circumstances:
If you send us an inquiry via the contact form on our website, your inquiry and the data identified above with respect to your inquiry will be forwarded to other members of the AM I Navigator initiative (listed above), if and to the extent that this is necessary or expedient to address your inquiry.
In such case, each member of the AM I Navigator initiative acts as an independent controller for any subsequent processing of such information. DyeMansion no longer controls such processing. For more information on such processing please refer to the privacy policy of the respective member.
Legal basis:
We share data with other members of the AM I Navigator initiative to address your inquiry on the following legal basis:
- Art. 6 (1)(b) GDPR – performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures, and
- Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR – our legitimate interest, and the legitimate interest of the other members of the AM I Navigator initiative, in effective communication with persons or entities who have expressed an interest in the AM I Navigator initiative.
Data transfer to non-EU members of the AM I Navigator initiative
Some of the members of the AM I Navigator initiative are located outside of the European Union.
The European Commission has recognized Israel and the United Kingdom as providing adequate protection in accordance with the requirements of the GDPR.
With respect to the USA, HP Inc. is a participant in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework which the European Commission has also recognized as providing adequate protection in accordance with the requirements of the GDPR.
You can contact us at the address provided above to receive more information.