Data Privacy Policy Thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in our company. The protection of your personal data is a matter of great importance to us. Below we inform you according to art. 12, 13 and 21 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) about the handling of your personal data when visiting our websites. Personal data are individual details about personal or factual circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person. This includes information such as the civil name, address, tele-phone number and date of birth. I. Responsible Body Responsible Body according to GDPR British Chamber of Commerce in Germany e.V. II. Purposes and Legal Basis of the Data Processing 1. Informational Use of the Website You can visit our website without providing any personal information. If you use our website for informational purposes only, i.e. do not otherwise provide us with information about your-self, we do not collect any personal data, with the exception of the data that your browser transmits to enable you to visit the website. a. Technical Provision of the Website For the purpose of the technical provision of the website, it is necessary that we process cer-tain automatically transmitted information about you so that your browser can display our website and you can use the website. This information is automatically collected for each visit of our website and stored in our server log files. This information refers to the computer system of the requesting computer. The following information is collected thereby: Furthermore, we use cookies to make our website available to you for use. Cookies are text files that are stored in the internet browser or by the internet browser when you visit a website on your computer system. A cookie contains a characteristic string of characters that enables a unique identification of the browser when the website is called up again. We use these cookies exclusively to provide you with our website and its technical functions. Some functions of our website may not be offered without the use of cookies. The following infor-mation is stored in the cookies and transferred to us: Your information, collected by us through the aforementioned cookies, will not be used by us to create user profiles or to evaluate your browsing behavior. b. Social Links The website includes links to services such as Twitter, Blogspot, LinkedIn, Xing, Facebook, and YouTube. After clicking on the link you will be redirected to the page of the respective provider, i.e. only then will user information be transferred to the respective provider. For in-formation on the handling of your data when using the websites of other providers, please refer to the respective data privacy policies by these providers. 2. Active Use of the Website In addition to the merely informational use of our website, you can also actively use our web-site to contact us. In addition to the above-mentioned processing of your personal data for merely informational purposes, we will also process other personal data that we require from you to respond to your inquiry. a. User Requests In order to process and answer your inquiries to us, we process your personal data provided by you in this context. In any case, this includes your name and e-mail address in order to send you an answer, as well as the other information that you send us in the context of your message. b. Registration and Membership You can register as a member both online and offline. For your registration we process the data you provide us. This includes in particular your name, company, address, contact details and data on your profession, industry for which you would like to be registered. c. Newsletter With your consent we use your data for the transmission of our newsletter with current infor-mation and invitations to events. III. Links Some sections of our web pages contain links to the web pages of third parties. These web-sites are subject to their own data protection principles. We are not responsible for their op-eration including the data handling. If you send information to or about such third party sites, you should review the privacy statements of those sites before you submit any information that may assigned to you. IV. Categories of Recipients Firstly, only our employees will be informed of your personal data. In addition, we share your personal data with other recipients who provide services to us in connection with our website, insofar as this is legally permitted or prescribed. We limit the transfer of your personal data to what is necessary, in particular to be able to complete your order. In some cases, our service providers receive your personal data as contract data processors and are then strictly bound by our instructions when handling your personal data. In some cases, the recipients act in-dependently with your data, which we transmit to them. V. Transfer into Third countries We do not transfer your personal data to countries outside the EU or the EEA or to interna-tional organizations. VI. Duration of Storage 1. Informational Use of the Website When using our website for information purposes only, we store your personal data on our servers exclusively for the duration of your visit to our website. After you have left our web-site, your personal data will be deleted immediately. 2. Active Use of the Website If you actively use our website, we initially store your personal data for the duration of re-sponding to your inquiry or for the duration of our business relationship. This also includes the initiation of a contract (pre-contractual legal relationship) and the execution of a contract. VII. Your Rights as Data Subject Under the legal provisions you are entitled to the following rights as data subject, which you can assert against us: VIII. Scope of your Obligations to provide Data Generally, you are not obliged to provide us with your personal data. However, if you do not provide this information, we will not be able to make our website available to you, answer your questions and enter into a contract with you. IX. Automated Decision Making/ Profiling We do not use automated decision making or profiling (an automated analysis of your per-sonal circumstances). You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your data on the basis of art. 6 para. 1 f GDPR (data processing on the basis of a balance of interests) or art. 6 para. 1 e GDPR (data pro-cessing in the public interest), if there are reasons for this arising from your particular situation. 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 prove compelling and applicable reasons for the pro-cessing, which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims. The objection can be made without formality and should be addressed to British Chamber of Commerce in Germany e.V. X. Amendments We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time. Any changes will be an-nounced by publishing the amended privacy policy on our website. Unless otherwise speci-fied, such amendments shall take immediate effect. Please check this privacy policy regularly to ensure you have the latest version. |
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