Privacy policy

1. Name and contact details of the controller and the company data protection officer.

This data protection information applies to data processing on the website www.fraunhofer.de by the controller

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
Hansastrasse 27c, 80686 Munich, Germany
Phone +49 89 1205-0
Fax +49 89 1205-7531
info@zv.fraunhofer.de
www.fraunhofer.de

(hereinafter referred to as “Fraunhofer”)

Fraunhofer’s data protection officer can be contacted at the above address, for the attention of the data protection officer or at datenschutz@zv.fraunhofer.de.
You can contact our data protection officer directly at any time if you have any questions about data protection law or your rights as a data subject.

2. processing of personal data and purposes of processing

When visiting the website

You can access the website www.fraunhofer.de without having to disclose your identity. The browser used on your device only automatically sends information to the server of our website (e.g. browser type and version, date and time of access) to enable the website to establish a connection. This also includes the IP address of your requesting device. This is temporarily stored in a log file and automatically deleted after 4 days:

The IP address is processed for technical and administrative purposes of connection establishment and stability in order to ensure the security and functionality of our website and to be able to prosecute any illegal attacks on it if necessary.

The legal basis for the processing of the IP address is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the aforementioned security interest and the need to provide our website without disruption.

We cannot draw any direct conclusions about your identity from the processing of the IP address and other information in the log file.

We also use tracking pixels and analysis services when you visit our website. You can find more detailed explanations on this in section 4 of this privacy policy.

3. disclosure of personal data to third parties

Except in the cases mentioned above (registration for events, use of the ordering service, registration for a newsletter), we will only pass on your personal data to third parties if

you have given your express consent to this in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR,
this is necessary for the performance of a contract with you pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR,
in the event that there is a legal obligation for the transfer pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR.

If personal data is transferred to a third country (outside the EU) or an international organization, this is excluded separately.

4. YouTube

We use the video portal “YouTube” of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (hereinafter: “Google”) on our website (videos). The implementation is based on Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, whereby our interest lies in the smooth integration of the videos and the appealing design of our website.

We use the “extended data protection mode” option provided by Google.

When you access a page that has an embedded video, a connection to the Google servers is established and the content is displayed on the website by notifying your browser.

According to Google, in “extended data protection mode” your data – in particular which of our websites you have visited and device-specific information including your IP address – is only transmitted to the YouTube server in the USA when you watch the video. By clicking on the video, you consent to this transmission.

If you are logged in to Google at the same time, this information will be assigned to your YouTube member account. You can prevent this by logging out of your member account before visiting our website.

In some cases, information is transmitted to the parent company Google Inc. based in the USA, to other Google companies and to external Google partners, some of which may be located outside the European Union. Google uses standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission and relies on the adequacy decisions issued by the European Commission with regard to certain countries.

Further information on data protection in connection with YouTube can be found in Google’s privacy policy.

5. rights of data subjects

You have the right:

in accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR, to withdraw your consent once given to us at any time. As a result, we may no longer continue the data processing based on this consent in the future;
to request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR. In particular, you can request information about the purposes of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us, and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on its details;
in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to demand the immediate correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us
in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, to demand the erasure of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims
in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data if the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful, but you refuse to delete it and we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or you have lodged an objection to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR
in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request its transmission to another controller; and
to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our company headquarters.

6. information about your right to object pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Article 6(1)(e) GDPR (data processing in the public interest) and Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (data processing on the basis of a balancing of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision of Article 4(4) GDPR.

If you object, we will no longer process your 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 defense of legal claims.

If you object to the processing of data for the purpose of direct marketing, we will cease processing immediately. In this case, it is not necessary to specify a particular situation. This also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with such direct advertising.

If you wish to exercise your right to object, simply send an email to datenschutz@zv.fraunhofer.de.

7. data security

All data transmitted by you personally is encrypted using the generally accepted and secure TLS (Transport Layer Security) standard. TLS is a secure and proven standard that is also used in online banking, for example. You can recognize a secure TLS connection by the s appended to the http (i.e. https://..) in the address bar of your browser or by the lock symbol at the bottom of your browser.

We also use suitable technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

8. topicality and amendment of this data protection information

This data protection information is currently valid and was last updated in January 2020.

It may become necessary to amend this data protection information as a result of the further development of our website and offers on it or due to changes in legal or official requirements. You can access and print out the current data protection information at any time on the website at https://www.fraunhofer.de/datenschutz.