As part of the use of this website, your personal data will be processed by us as the person responsible for data processing and stored for the period necessary to fulfill the specified purposes and legal obligations. In the following we will inform you about what data is involved, how it is processed and what rights you are entitled to in this regard.

According to Article 4 No. 1 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Contents

  1. Name and contact details of the person responsible for processing and the company data protection officer
  2. Processing of personal data and purposes of processing
  3. Disclosure of personal data to third parties

4.Cookies

  1. Data subject rights
  2. Information about your right of objection according to Art. 21 GDPR
  3. Data Security
  4. Updating and changing this data protection information
  5. Name and contact details of the person responsible for processing and the company data protection officer

This data protection information applies to data processing on our website by the person responsible:

Email: see contact

Telephone: see contact

The data protection officer at Fraunhofer can be reached at the above address, attn: data protection officer.

You can contact our data protection officer directly at any time with questions about data protection law or your rights as a data subject.

  1. Processing of personal data and purposes of processing

a) When visiting the website

When you visit our website, the web server on our website temporarily stores every access by your end device in a log file. The following data is recorded and stored until it is automatically deleted:

IP address of the requesting computer

Date and time of access

Name and URL of the retrieved data

Amount of data transferred

Message whether the retrieval was successful

Browser and operating system used

Name of the Internet access provider

Website from which access is made (referrer URL)

This data is processed for the following purposes

Enabling the use of the website (establishing a connection)
Administration of the network infrastructure
Appropriate technical and organizational measures for IT system and information security, taking into account the state of the art
Error analysis and risk prevention
Ensuring user-friendliness of use
Optimization of the internet offer
Legal bases for the above processing are

for processing for visiting the websites according to numbers 1-2 Art. 6 Para. 1 S.1 lit. b (necessity for the fulfillment of the website usage contract relationship),

for processing according to number 3 Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter c GDPR (legal obligation to implement technical and organizational measures to secure data processing according to Article 32 GDPR) and Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f GDPR (legitimate interests in data processing for network and information security) and for

the processing according to numbers 4-5 Art. 6 Para. 1 S.1 lit. f GDPR (legitimate interests). The legitimate interests of our data processing are to make our offer user-friendly and to optimize it. Within the framework of legitimate interests, we can also deliver direct mail.

The above data is automatically deleted from the web server after a defined period of 30 days. If data is processed longer for purposes according to numbers 2-5, it will be anonymized or deleted if storage is no longer required for the respective purpose.

In addition, we use cookies and analysis services when you visit our website. You can find more detailed explanations in sections 4 and 5 of this data protection information.

Any other mandatory information is marked as such (e.g. with an *). In addition, further information can often be provided voluntarily.

The mandatory information is processed in order to be able to identify you as a participant in the event, to reserve a place to participate and to establish or implement the contract for participation with you and to provide you with information about the event before, during and after the event to enable you to participate optimally and to enable us to plan and guarantee a smooth process. Providing the voluntary data enables us to plan and carry out the event according to your interests and age.

The data processing takes place at the request of the interested participants and is, according to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit