Privacy Notice
The Controller within the meaning of the data protection legislation; in particular, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:
acatech – Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften e. V.
Karolinenplatz 4
80333 München
Managing Director: Manfred Rauhmeier
Registration:
Entered in the register of associations
Court of registration: Amtsgericht München
Registration number: VR202021
Your rights as a data subject
- the right to information on the data we have stored on you and how these data are processed (Art. 15 GDPR),
- the right to rectification of inaccurate personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),
- the right to erasure of the data we have stored on you (Art. 17 GDPR),
- the right to restriction of processing where we are not yet permitted to erase your data on,
- the grounds of statutory obligations (Art. 18 GDPR),
- the right to object to processing of the data we have on you (Art. 21 GDPR) and
- the right to data portability where you have consented to data processing or entered into a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR).
If you have provided consent, you may withdraw it any time with future effect.
You may at any time lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority relevant to you (Art. 77 GDPR in conj. with section 19 of the German Federal Data Protection Act [Bundesdatenschutzgesetz – BDSG]). The supervisory authority relevant to you goes by the federal state in which you reside, work or the alleged breach took place. A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) and their addresses can be found here (in German).
Newsletter
Nature and purpose of processing
To receive the newsletter, providing your e-mail address is sufficient. Additional data is not collected. The data will be used exclusively for sending the newsletter and will not be shared with third parties.
Legal Basis
On the basis of your express consent (point (a) of Art. 6(1) GDPR), we regularly send you our newsletter or comparable information to the email address you give.
You may withdraw your consent to the storage of your personal data and their use for sending you the newsletter at any time with future effect by clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. In addition, you may withdraw consent by unsubscribing to the newsletter on the website. Alternatively, you may inform us of the withdrawal of your consent using the contact form at the bottom of this privacy policy.
Recipient
Recipients of the data may be contract processors.
Duration of storage
The data are only processed for this purpose as long as consent is given. Then they are erased.
Provision prescribed or required
The provision of your personal data is voluntary, solely on the basis of your consent. Unfortunately, without your consent we cannot send you our newsletter.
Withdrawal of consent
You may revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time with effect for the future. The cancellation can be requested via the contact address contained in each e-mail or from the data protection officer listed below or the person responsible for data protection.
Contact form
Type and purpose of the processing
The data you enter are used for individual communication with you. A valid e-mail address and your name are required for this communication, which serves to organize your inquiry and the respective subsequent reply. Providing additional information is optional.
Legal basis
The data entered in the contact form are processed on the basis of legitimate interests (point (f) of Art. 6(1) GDPR).
We provide the contact form to give you a simple means of contacting us. The data you provide are stored for the purpose of dealing with the query and for potential follow-up questions.
If you make contact with us for a quotation, the data entered in the contact form are processed to take steps prior to entering into a contract (point (b) of Art. 6(1) GDPR).
Duration of storage
Your data are erased no later than six months after the query has been dealt with.
If a contractual relationship results, we are subject to the statutory storage periods under the German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch), and will delete your data at the end of such periods.
Recipient
Recipients of the data may be contract processors.
Provision prescribed or required
The provision of your data is voluntary. However, we can only deal with your query if you give us your name, your email address, your subject and your medium/background to your enquiry.
Contact via e-mail
Type and purpose of the processing
The data you enter are used for individual communication with you. A valid e-mail address and your name are required for this communication, which serves to organize your inquiry and the respective subsequent reply. Providing additional information is optional.
Legal basis
The data sent via email are processed on the basis of legitimate interests (point (f) of Art. 6(1) GDPR).
We provide email addresses to give you a simple means of contacting us. The data you provide are stored for the purpose of dealing with the query and for potential follow-up questions.
If you make contact with us for a quotation, the data sent via email are processed to take steps prior to entering into a contract (point (b) of Art. 6(1) GDPR).
Recipient
Within acatech, the parties who are given access to your data are those that require them to fulfil contractual, statutory and supervisory obligations.
Duration of storage
Your data are erased no later than six months after the query has been dealt with.
If a contractual relationship results, we are subject to the statutory storage periods under the German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch), and will delete your data at the end of such periods.
Provision prescribed or required
The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only deal with your query if you tell us your name, your email address and the reason for your query.
Embedded YouTube videos
If you start a YouTube video, the provider uses cookies that collect information about the user’s behaviour.
Further information on the purpose and extent of data collection and data processing by YouTube is available in the provider’s privacy statements. They also contain further information on your rights in relation to this and configuration options to protect your privacy.
Withdrawal of consent
Users who have disabled cookies for Google Ads need not concern themselves with such cookies when viewing YouTube videos. However, YouTube also files non-personal user information in other cookies. If you wish to prevent this, you must block cookie storage in your browser.
Further information on YouTube’s privacy policy can be found here.
Social Media PlugIns
Nature and purpose of the processing
We do not use social media plugins to store or analyse our users’ data. While our website does contain links to LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, these are not directly connected to us, which means that your data are not collected, stored, or used otherwise or for other purposes.
On our website are links to the following Social Media platforms:
www.twitter.com
www.linkedin.de
SSL encryption
Amendment of our privacy provisions
Questions for the Data Protection Officer
If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email or contact us direct as follows:
activeMind Management- und Technologieberatung AG
Potsdamer Straße 3
80802 München
Telefon: +49 (0) 89 / 91 92 94-900
E-Mail: datenschutz@acatech.de
Die Datenschutzerklärung wurde mithilfe der activeMind AG erstellt, den Experten für externe Datenschutzbeauftragte (Version #2020-09-30).