Notes on data protection

The responsible body within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is

VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH, Prognos AG, INZIN e.V.

VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH
VDI-Platz 1
40468 Düsseldorf
Hartmut Schug
Phone: 0211-6214-365

Geschäftsführer: Sascha Hermann
Amtsgericht Düsseldorf HRB 49295
USt.-ID: DE813846179

Data protection officer:
TÜV Technische Überwachung Hessen GmbH
E-Mail: datenschutz@vdi.de

You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided for our data protection officer:

  • Information about your data stored by us and its processing,
  • Correction of incorrect personal data,
  • Deletion of your data stored by us,
  • Restriction of data processing if we are not yet permitted to delete your data due to legal obligations,
  • Objection to the processing of your data by us and
  • Data portability if you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us.

If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

The Kompetenznetzwerk Umweltwirtschaft.NRW takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We want you to know when we collect which data and how we use it. We have taken technical and organizational measures to ensure that data protection regulations are observed both by us and by external service providers.

In the course of the further development of our website and the implementation of new technologies to improve our service for you, changes to this privacy policy may also become necessary. We therefore recommend that you read this privacy policy again regularly.

Purposes of data processing by the responsible body and third parties

We only process your personal data for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those stated. We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

  • You have given your express consent to this,
  • the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you
  • the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation
  • the processing is necessary to safeguard legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in your data not being passed on.

Newsletter

In order to be able to send you our newsletter, we must collect and process personal data from you. Here we differentiate between mandatory information that is necessary for sending the newsletter, such as your e-mail address, and voluntary information that is useful for processing and implementing the contractual relationship. The information is marked accordingly. We process mandatory information to fulfill your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. For the voluntary information, we require your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You give us this consent by voluntarily providing the relevant data. In general, we require a so-called double opt-in to order a newsletter in order to have the necessary security that you yourself are also the subscriber to the newsletter.

The purpose of the processing is to fulfill your request and, if necessary, to send you further information on your area of interest.

Your data will be deleted as soon as we no longer need it for the execution and processing of the contractual relationship.

To send the newsletter and process your data, we use the MailingWork tool from the service provider Mailingwork GmbH, with whom we have concluded an order agreement to protect your data. You can find the service provider's privacy policy at https://mailingwork.de/datenschutzerklaerung.

As the data subject, you have the right to object to the further delivery of the newsletter at any time with effect for the future. Furthermore, you can request information about your personal data stored by us at any time. You also have the right to rectification, blocking and erasure of your personal data in accordance with the provisions of data protection law.

Interest in an event

In order to inform you about events, e.g. the SUMMIT, we need to collect and process personal data from you. Here we distinguish between mandatory information that is necessary to send you information about the event, such as your e-mail address, and voluntary information that is useful for processing and implementing the contractual relationship. The information is marked accordingly. We process mandatory information to fulfill your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. For the voluntary information, we require your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You give us this consent by voluntarily providing the relevant data. In general, we use a so-called double opt-in for sending information about events in order to have the necessary security that you yourself are the interested party.

The purpose of the processing is to fulfill your request and send you further information on your area of interest.

We use the MailingWork tool from the service provider Mailingwork GmbH to process your data. We have concluded an order agreement with the service provider to protect your data. You can find the service provider's privacy policy at https://mailingwork.de/datenschutzerklaerung.

Als Betroffener haben Sie das Recht, jederzeit mit Wirkung für die Zukunft der weiteren Zusendung von Informationen zu widersprechen. Darüber hinaus können Sie jederzeit Auskunft über die von Ihnen bei uns gespeicherten personenbezogenen Daten verlangen. Zudem haben Sie nach Maßgabe der datenschutzrechtlichen Bestimmungen ein Recht auf Berichtigung, Sperrung und Löschung Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten.​ Ihre Daten werden gelöscht, sobald wir sie für die Durchführung und Abwicklung des Vertragsverhältnisses nicht mehr benötigen.​

Photo and/or video recordings at events

Film and sound recordings as well as photos are made at publicly advertised events of the Kompetenznetzwerk Umweltwirtschaft.NRW, which you consent to the subsequent use of by attending the events. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the controller to document the event it has organized visually and to report positively on it to a wider public (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). You have the right to information, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and data portability. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection officer.
Recipients of data and use by third parties

The recipients of the data of participants and interested parties are initially ourselves

We commission third parties to perform various tasks and the associated processing of data. In this context, we also transmit some or all of the data of participants in online events and interested parties to these third parties or the third party collects or uses the data through the conference software provided by it. We use the following conference software in this respect:

Experience-Cafe's: Wonder.me
You can find the service provider's privacy policy here: https://www.wonder.me/privacy-policy

In this context, your information, in particular personal data, may be transferred to computers outside Germany and stored there. Consent to the relevant data protection declarations is given by participating in the event; by doing so, you also consent to the transfer of your data. We have no knowledge of the further type of processing or the duration of data storage outside of order processing.

Personal data will also be disclosed to the state investigative and judicial authorities on request in compliance with the statutory provisions.

Registration on our website

When registering to use our personalized services, some personal data is collected, such as name, address, contact and communication data such as telephone number and e-mail address. If you are registered with us, you can access content and services that we only offer to registered users. Registered users also have the option of changing or deleting the data provided during registration at any time. Of course, we will also provide you with information about the personal data we have stored about you at any time. We will also be happy to correct or delete this data at your request, provided there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary. To contact us in this regard, please use the contact details provided at the beginning of this privacy policy.
 

SSL encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Use of script libraries (Google Web Fonts)

In order to display our content correctly and graphically appealing across browsers, we use script libraries and font libraries on this website, e.g. Google Web Fonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts/). Google web fonts are transferred to the cache of your browser to avoid multiple loading. If the browser does not support Google web fonts or prevents access, content is displayed in a standard font.

Calling up script libraries or font libraries automatically triggers a connection to the library operator. It is theoretically possible - although it is currently unclear whether and for what purposes - that operators of such libraries collect data.

The privacy policy of the library operator Google can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Embedded YouTube videos

We embed YouTube videos on some of our websites. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube servers is established. YouTube is informed which pages you visit. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your surfing behavior to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

When a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behavior.

If you have deactivated the storage of cookies for the Google Ad program, you will not have to expect any such cookies when watching YouTube videos. However, YouTube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you wish to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in your browser.

Further information on data protection at “Youtube” can be found in the provider's privacy policy at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/ 

Links to websites of other providers

Our online offer contains links to websites of other providers. We have no influence on whether these providers comply with data protection regulations.

Changes to our data protection provisions

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

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This translation is for informational purposes only. The legally binding version is the German one.

 

 

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