The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data with which you can be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy listed below this text.
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the „Notice concerning the party responsible“ section of this privacy policy.
Your data is collected, on the one hand, by you providing it to us. This may, for example, be data that you enter into a contact form.
Other data are recorded automatically or after your consent when you visit the website by our IT systems. These are primarily technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of the page view). The collection of this data takes place automatically as soon as you enter this website.
A portion of the data is collected to ensure the error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour. Insofar as contracts can be concluded or initiated via the website, the transmitted data will also be used for contract offers, orders or
other order requests processed.
You have the right at any time to obtain free information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the rectification or erasure of this data. If you have given consent to data processing, you can revoke this consent at any time for the future. Furthermore, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances. In addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
You are welcome to contact us at any time regarding this or any other data protection queries.
When you visit this website, your browsing behaviour may be statistically analysed. This is primarily done using so-called analytics programmes. Detailed information on these analytics programmes can be found in the following privacy policy.
We host our website contents with the following provider:
The provider is IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur (hereinafter referred to as IONOS).
When you visit our website, IONOS collects various log files including your IP addresses. Details
please refer to the IONOS privacy policy: https://www.ionos.de/terms-gtc/terms-privacy.
The use of IONOS is based on Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. We have a legitimate
Interest in the most reliable possible presentation of our website. Where corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user's terminal equipment (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time.
We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) for the use of the above-mentioned service. This is a contract prescribed by data protection law, which guarantees that it processes the personal data of our website visitors only in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.
The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.
When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose that happens.
happens.
Please note that data transmission over the internet (e.g. via email communication) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. It is not possible to completely protect data against access by third parties.
The data controller responsible for data processing on this website is:
Berlin Governance Platform - BGP gGmbH
Pariser Platz 6 / Allianz Forum
10117 Berlin
Telephone: 030 206 201 10
E-Mail: kontakt@governance-platform.org
The data controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, email addresses or similar).
Unless a more specific storage period has been specified in this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for data processing ceases to apply. If you assert a justified request for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted, provided we have no other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g. retention periods under tax or commercial law); in the latter case, deletion will take place after these reasons cease to apply.
If you have consented to data processing, we process your personal data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR or Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR, provided that special categories of data are processed pursuant to Art. 9(1) GDPR. In the event of explicit consent to the transfer of personal data to third countries, the data processing is also carried out on the basis of Art. 49(1)(a) GDPR. If you have consented to the storage of cookies or to access to information on your end device (e.g. via device fingerprinting), the data processing is additionally carried out on the basis of § 25(1) TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time. If your data is required for the performance of a contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, we process your data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Furthermore, we process your data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR if it is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation. Data processing may also be carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The relevant legal bases applicable in each individual case are set out in the following paragraphs of this privacy policy.
Privacy policy noted.
As part of our business operations, we work with various external bodies. In some cases, this also requires the transfer of personal data to these external bodies. We only pass on personal data to external bodies if this is necessary for the performance of a contract, if we are legally obliged to do so (e.g. transfer of data to tax authorities), if we have a legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR in the transfer, or if another legal basis permits the data transfer. When using data processors, we only pass on our customers' personal data on the basis of a valid data processing agreement. In the case of joint processing, a joint controller agreement is concluded.
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke consent that has already been given at any time. The legality of the data processing carried out up to the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
WHERE DATA PROCESSING IS BASED ON ARTICLE 6(1)(e) OR (f)
Under the GDPR, you have the right at any time to object on grounds relating to your
PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH PROCESSING IS BASED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF
RIGHTS (OBJECTION UNDER ARTICLE 21(1) OF THE GDPR).
IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA ARE PROCESSED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR SUCH MARKETING, WHICH INCLUDES PROFILING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE PROCESSED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 21(2) GDPR).
In the event of breaches of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a
supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, of their
of the workplace or the place of the alleged infringement. The right to lodge a complaint exists
without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedies.
You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.
Under the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of the data processing, and, where applicable, a right to the rectification or erasure of this data. You can contact us at any time regarding this or if you have any further questions on the subject of personal data.
You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You can contact us at any time for this purpose. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:
If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, such data may not be
Data – apart from their storage – only with your consent or for the establishment,
To exercise or defend legal claims, or to protect the rights of another person
a natural or legal person, or on grounds of an important public interest of the
processed by the European Union or a Member State.
Our website uses what are known as „cookies“. Cookies are small data packets and do not cause any damage to your device. They are stored on your device either temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies). Session cookies are automatically deleted after your visit. Permanent cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them yourself or your web browser carries out an automatic deletion.
Cookies can originate from us (first-party cookies) or from third-party companies (so-called third-party cookies). Third-party cookies enable the integration of certain services from third-party companies within websites (e.g. cookies for processing payment services).
Cookies have various functions. Numerous cookies are technically necessary, as certain website functions would not work without them (e.g. the shopping basket function or the display of videos). Other cookies can be used to evaluate user behaviour or for advertising purposes.
Cookies that are required for the electronic communication process, to provide certain functions requested by you (e.g. for the shopping basket function) or to optimise the website (e.g. cookies to measure the web audience) (necessary cookies) are stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, unless another legal basis is specified. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of necessary cookies for the technically error-free and optimised provision of its services. Insofar as consent to the storage of cookies and comparable recognition technologies has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of this consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TDDDG); the consent can be revoked at any time.
You can configure your browser to notify you about the placement of cookies and only allow cookies on a case-by-case basis, exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific 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.
If further cookies and services are used on this website, you can find this out in this privacy policy.
Our website uses Borlabs Cookie to obtain your consent for the storage of certain cookies and the use of services requiring consent, and to document this in compliance with data protection regulations.
The provider is Borlabs GmbH, Hamburger Str. 11, 22083 Hamburg.
When you visit our website, a technically necessary cookie is saved in which your granted consents or the revocation of these consents are stored. Personal data is only processed here to the extent necessary for the management and documentation of your consents.
Processing is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR for the fulfilment of our legal obligation to provide evidence of given consents, and on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the data protection-compliant management of cookie consents. Insofar as consent is requested, the processing is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR and Section 25(1) of the TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time with effect for the future.
If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact data you provided there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.
The processing of this data is based on Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, provided your request is related to the performance of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective handling of requests directed to us (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR) or on your consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR) if this has been requested; consent can be revoked at any time.
The data you entered in the contact form will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent for storage, or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.
If you contact us by email, telephone or fax, your enquiry, including all resulting personal data (name, enquiry), will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of handling your request. We will not pass on these data without your consent.
The processing of this data is based on Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, provided your request is related to the performance of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective handling of requests directed to us (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR) or on your consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR) if this has been requested; consent can be revoked at any time.
The data you send to us via contact enquiries will remain with us until you request that we delete it, withdraw your consent to its storage, or the purpose for which the data is stored no longer applies (e.g. once your enquiry has been dealt with). Mandatory legal provisions – in particular
Statutory retention periods – remain unaffected.
This website uses the open-source web analysis service Matomo.
With the help of Matomo, we are able to collect and analyse data on how visitors use our website. This enables us, amongst other things, to find out when specific pages are viewed
and which region they come from. We also collect various log files (e.g. IP-
address, referrer, browsers and operating systems used) and can measure whether our
Website visitors carry out certain actions (e.g. clicks, purchases, etc.).
The use of this analytics tool is based on Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour in order to optimise both its website and its advertising. Where consent has been sought, the processing takes place
solely on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR and Section 25(1) of the TDDDG, insofar as the consent covers the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent may be withdrawn at any time.
We host Matomo with the following third-party provider:
Bajorat Media
Tündel 20
32791 Lage
We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) for the use of the above-mentioned service. This is a contract prescribed by data protection law, which guarantees that it processes the personal data of our website visitors only in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.
If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require an email address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the email address provided and that you agree to receive the newsletter. No further data is collected, or is only collected on a voluntary basis. We use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.
The processing of the data entered into the newsletter subscription form is based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR). You may revoke the consent you have given to the storage of the data, the email address and their use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example via the „Unsubscribe“ link in the newsletter. The lawfulness of data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.
The data you have provided to us for the purpose of receiving the newsletter will be stored by us or the newsletter service provider until you unsubscribe from the newsletter, and will be deleted from the newsletter distribution list after you unsubscribe or once the purpose has ceased to apply. We reserve the right to delete or block email addresses from our newsletter distribution list at our own discretion within the scope of our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Data stored with us for other purposes remains unaffected by this.
Following your removal from the newsletter distribution list, your email address may be stored by us or the newsletter service provider on a blacklist, provided this is necessary to prevent future mailings. The data from the blacklist is used solely for this purpose and is not merged with other data. This serves both your interests and our interests in complying with legal requirements when sending newsletters (legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). There is no time limit on storage on the blacklist. You may object to the storage, provided your interests override our legitimate interest.
For sending our newsletter, we use the Brevo service. The provider is Brevo SAS, 106 Boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris, France.
If you sign up for our newsletter, the data you enter (in particular your email address and, where applicable, your name) will be stored on Brevo's servers and processed for the purpose of sending our newsletter.
Processing is carried out solely on the basis of your consent in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. Consent may be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future, for example via the unsubscribe link in every newsletter.
We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) with Brevo. This ensures that Brevo processes personal data exclusively in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with data protection regulations.
Further information on data protection at Brevo can be found at: https://www.brevo.com/de/legal/privacypolicy/
This website embeds videos from YouTube.
The website is operated by Google Ireland Limited („Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street,
Dublin 4, Ireland.
When you visit one of these websites where YouTube is embedded, a connection to YouTube's servers is established. This informs the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to directly associate your browsing behaviour with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
If necessary, further data processing operations may be triggered after a YouTube video has been activated, over which we have no influence.
YouTube is used in the interest of presenting our online offerings in an appealing manner. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Where corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user's terminal equipment (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent may be revoked at any time.
Further information on data protection at YouTube can be found in their privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.
The company is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the USA designed to ensure compliance with European data protection standards when processing data in the USA. Every company certified under the DPF undertakes to comply with these data protection standards. You can obtain further information on this from the provider at the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780.
We use Cloudflare Turnstile (hereinafter „Turnstile“) on this website. The provider is Cloudflare Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA (hereinafter „Cloudflare”).
Turnstile is used to check whether data entry on this website (e.g. in a contact form) is made by a human or by an automated program. To this end, Turnstile analyses the behaviour of the website visitor based on various characteristics.
This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website visitor enters a website with Turnstile enabled. For the analysis, Turnstile evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, length of time the website visitor spends on the website or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Cloudflare.
The storage and analysis of data take place on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offerings from abusive automated snooping and from spam. If corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user's terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time.
Data processing is based on standard contractual clauses, which can be found here: https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-customer- scc/.
For further information on Cloudflare Turnstile, please refer to the privacy policy at https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-customer-dpa/.
The company is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the USA designed to ensure compliance with European data protection standards when processing data in the USA. Every company certified under the DPF undertakes to comply with these data protection standards. You can obtain further information on this from the provider at the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5666.
Source: eRecht24