Pri­va­cy pol­i­cy

We, PHI­NEO gemein­nützige AG, as the oper­a­tor of this online ser­vice, are respon­si­ble for the pro­cess­ing of per­son­al user data. Our con­tact details as well as the con­tact per­sons for ques­tions regard­ing the pro­cess­ing of per­son­al data are list­ed direct­ly in this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy, see below.

Our man­age­ment and the Exec­u­tive Board take the pro­tec­tion of your pri­va­cy and your pri­vate data very seri­ous­ly. We col­lect, store and use your per­son­al data only in accor­dance with the con­tent of this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy and the applic­a­ble data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions, in par­tic­u­lar the Euro­pean Gen­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion (GDPR) and the nation­al data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions. Our employ­ees and the ser­vice providers com­mis­sioned by us are oblig­ed to main­tain con­fi­den­tial­i­ty and com­ply with the pro­vi­sions of the applic­a­ble data pro­tec­tion laws.

With this data pro­tec­tion dec­la­ra­tion, we would like to inform you to what extent and for what pur­pose per­son­al data is processed in con­nec­tion with the use of the online offer.

Per­son­al data

Per­son­al data is infor­ma­tion relat­ing to an iden­ti­fied or iden­ti­fi­able nat­ur­al per­son. This includes all infor­ma­tion about your iden­ti­ty, such as your name, your e‑mail address or your postal address. How­ev­er, infor­ma­tion that can­not be linked to your iden­ti­ty (such as sta­tis­ti­cal data, e.g. the num­ber of users of the online ser­vice) is not con­sid­ered per­son­al infor­ma­tion.

In prin­ci­ple, you can use our online offer with­out dis­clos­ing your iden­ti­ty and with­out pro­vid­ing per­son­al data. We will then only col­lect gen­er­al infor­ma­tion about your vis­it to our web­site. How­ev­er, per­son­al data is col­lect­ed from you for some of the ser­vices offered. This data is then only processed by us for the pur­pos­es of using this online ser­vice, in par­tic­u­lar for pro­vid­ing the request­ed infor­ma­tion. When col­lect­ing per­son­al data, only the data that is absolute­ly nec­es­sary must be pro­vid­ed. In addi­tion, fur­ther infor­ma­tion may be pos­si­ble, in which case it is vol­un­tary. We will indi­cate in each case whether these are manda­to­ry or vol­un­tary fields. We will then pro­vide infor­ma­tion on the spe­cif­ic details in the cor­re­spond­ing sec­tion of this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy.

Auto­mat­ed deci­sion-mak­ing based on your per­son­al data does not take place in con­nec­tion with the use of our online offer.

Pro­cess­ing of per­son­al infor­ma­tion

Your data is stored by us on spe­cial­ly pro­tect­ed servers with­in the Euro­pean Union. These are pro­tect­ed by tech­ni­cal and orga­ni­za­tion­al mea­sures against loss, destruc­tion, access, mod­i­fi­ca­tion or dis­sem­i­na­tion of your data by unau­tho­rized per­sons. Access to your data is only pos­si­ble for a few autho­rized per­sons. These per­sons are respon­si­ble for the tech­ni­cal, com­mer­cial or edi­to­r­i­al sup­port of the servers. Despite reg­u­lar checks, how­ev­er, com­plete pro­tec­tion against all risks is not pos­si­ble.

Your per­son­al data is trans­mit­ted in encrypt­ed form over the Inter­net. We use SSL encryp­tion (Secure Sock­et Lay­er) for data trans­mis­sion.

Dis­clo­sure of per­son­al data to third par­ties

We only use your per­son­al infor­ma­tion to pro­vide the ser­vices you have request­ed. If exter­nal ser­vice providers are used by us in the course of pro­vid­ing the ser­vice, their access to the data is also exclu­sive­ly for the pur­pose of pro­vid­ing the ser­vice. We take tech­ni­cal and orga­ni­za­tion­al mea­sures to ensure com­pli­ance with data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions and also oblige our exter­nal ser­vice providers to do the same.

Fur­ther­more, we do not pass on the data to third par­ties with­out your express con­sent, in par­tic­u­lar not for adver­tis­ing pur­pos­es. Your per­son­al data will only be passed on if you your­self have con­sent­ed to the data being passed on or if we are enti­tled or oblig­ed to do so on the basis of statu­to­ry pro­vi­sions and/​or offi­cial or court orders. In par­tic­u­lar, this may involve pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion for the pur­pos­es of crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion, avert­ing dan­ger or enforc­ing intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty rights.

Legal basis for data pro­cess­ing

Inso­far as we obtain con­sent for the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR serves as the legal basis for data pro­cess­ing.

Inso­far as we process your per­son­al data because this is nec­es­sary to ful­fill a con­tract or in the con­text of a con­tract-like rela­tion­ship with you, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR serves as the legal basis for data pro­cess­ing.

Inso­far as we process your per­son­al data to ful­fill a legal oblig­a­tion, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c) GDPR serves as the legal basis for data pro­cess­ing.

Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR also serves as the legal basis for data pro­cess­ing if the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data is nec­es­sary to safe­guard a legit­i­mate inter­est of our orga­ni­za­tion or a third par­ty and your inter­ests, fun­da­men­tal rights and free­doms do not require the pro­tec­tion of per­son­al data.

In this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy, we always indi­cate the legal basis on which we base the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data.

Data era­sure and stor­age dura­tion

We always delete or block your per­son­al data when the pur­pose of stor­age no longer applies. How­ev­er, data may be stored beyond this if this is pro­vid­ed for by legal require­ments to which we are sub­ject, for exam­ple with regard to statu­to­ry reten­tion and doc­u­men­ta­tion oblig­a­tions. In such a case, we delete or block your per­son­al data after the end of the cor­re­spond­ing require­ments.

Infor­ma­tion about your com­put­er

Each time you access our online offer, we col­lect the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion about your com­put­er, regard­less of your reg­is­tra­tion: the IP address of your com­put­er, the request from your brows­er and the time of this request. In addi­tion, the sta­tus and the amount of data trans­ferred as part of this request are record­ed. We also col­lect prod­uct and ver­sion infor­ma­tion about the brows­er used and the com­put­er’s oper­at­ing sys­tem. We also record the web­site from which the online offer was accessed. The IP address of your com­put­er is only stored for the dura­tion of your use of the online ser­vice and is then delet­ed or anonymized by short­en­ing it. The oth­er data is stored for a lim­it­ed peri­od of time.

We use this data for the oper­a­tion of the online offer­ing, in par­tic­u­lar to detect and elim­i­nate errors, to deter­mine the uti­liza­tion of the online offer­ing and to make adjust­ments or improve­ments. These pur­pos­es also con­sti­tute our legit­i­mate inter­est in data pro­cess­ing in accor­dance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR, which is the legal basis for this pro­cess­ing.

Use of cook­ies

Cook­ies are used for our online offer — as on many web­sites. Cook­ies are small text files that are stored on your com­put­er and that store cer­tain set­tings and data for exchange with our online offer via your brows­er. A cook­ie usu­al­ly con­tains the name of the domain from which the cook­ie file was sent as well as infor­ma­tion about the age of the cook­ie and an alphanu­mer­ic iden­ti­fi­er.

Cook­ies enable us to rec­og­nize your com­put­er and make any pre-set­tings imme­di­ate­ly avail­able. Cook­ies help us to improve our online offer­ing and to pro­vide you with a bet­ter and more per­son­al­ized ser­vice. This is also our legit­i­mate inter­est in data pro­cess­ing in accor­dance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

Most browsers are set to accept cook­ies auto­mat­i­cal­ly. How­ev­er, you can deac­ti­vate the stor­age of cook­ies or set your brows­er so that it noti­fies you as soon as cook­ies are sent. It is also pos­si­ble to delete cook­ies that have already been saved man­u­al­ly via the brows­er set­tings.

Analy­sis cook­ies

In addi­tion, we use cook­ies on our web­site that enable an analy­sis of your user behav­ior, so-called analy­sis cook­ies. We use these cook­ies to record and store infor­ma­tion such as the fre­quen­cy of page views, search terms, use of web­site func­tions, etc.

The data col­lect­ed with the help of cook­ies is anonymized so that it is no longer pos­si­ble to assign the data to the respec­tive user.

We use analy­sis cook­ies to improve and opti­mize the qual­i­ty of our online offer­ings and their con­tent and to check and improve the reach and find­abil­i­ty of our online offer­ings. These pur­pos­es also con­sti­tute the legit­i­mate inter­est with­in the mean­ing of the legal basis for pro­cess­ing in accor­dance with Art. 6 para. 1 f GDPR.

To ana­lyze user behav­ior for the above-men­tioned pur­pos­es, we use the fol­low­ing pro­grams, which in turn use cook­ies as explained.

Google Ana­lyt­ics

We use Google Ana­lyt­ics for sta­tis­ti­cal analy­sis. Google Ana­lyt­ics is a web analy­sis ser­vice pro­vid­ed by Google Inc, 1600 Amphithe­atre Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94034, USA (“Google”). Google Ana­lyt­ics uses “cook­ies”, which are text files placed on your com­put­er, to help the web­site ana­lyze how users use the site. The infor­ma­tion gen­er­at­ed by the cook­ies about your use of this web­site is usu­al­ly trans­mit­ted to a Google serv­er in the USA and stored there. How­ev­er, if IP anonymiza­tion is acti­vat­ed on this web­site, your IP address will be short­ened by Google with­in mem­ber states of the Euro­pean Union or in oth­er con­tract­ing states of the Agree­ment on the Euro­pean Eco­nom­ic Area. Only in excep­tion­al cas­es will the full IP address be trans­mit­ted to a Google serv­er in the USA and trun­cat­ed there. Google will use this infor­ma­tion on behalf of the oper­a­tor of this web­site for the pur­pose of eval­u­at­ing your use of the web­site, com­pil­ing reports on web­site activ­i­ty and pro­vid­ing oth­er ser­vices relat­ing to web­site activ­i­ty and inter­net usage to the web­site oper­a­tor. The IP address trans­mit­ted by your brows­er as part of Google Ana­lyt­ics will not be merged with oth­er Google data. You may refuse the use of cook­ies by select­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings on your brows­er, how­ev­er please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full func­tion­al­i­ty of this web­site. You can also pre­vent Google from col­lect­ing the data gen­er­at­ed by the cook­ie and relat­ing to your use of the web­site (includ­ing your IP address) and from pro­cess­ing this data by Google by down­load­ing and installing the brows­er plug-in avail­able at the fol­low­ing link http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on this can be found at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de or https://marketingplatform.google.com/about and https://support.google.com/analytics/search?q=privacy (gen­er­al infor­ma­tion on Google Ana­lyt­ics and data pro­tec­tion). We would like to point out that on our web­site Google Ana­lyt­ics has been extend­ed by the code ” anonymizeIp();” in order to anonymize the IP address­es, where­by the last octet is delet­ed.

We are of the opin­ion that due to the pro­tec­tive mea­sures tak­en (anonymiza­tion and pos­si­bil­i­ty of objec­tion), data pro­cess­ing to opti­mize our online offer is to be regard­ed as a legit­i­mate inter­est in data pro­cess­ing in accor­dance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

Google Tag Man­ag­er

This web­site uses Google Tag Man­ag­er. This ser­vice allows web­site tags to be man­aged via an inter­face. The Google Tool Man­ag­er only imple­ments tags. This means that no cook­ies are used and no per­son­al data is col­lect­ed. The Google Tool Man­ag­er trig­gers oth­er tags, which in turn may col­lect data. How­ev­er, the Google Tag Man­ag­er does not access this data. If deac­ti­va­tion has been car­ried out at domain or cook­ie lev­el, it remains in place for all track­ing tags, pro­vid­ed that these are imple­ment­ed with the Google Tag Man­ag­er.

Newslet­ter

When you reg­is­ter for our newslet­ter, your e‑mail address will be used until you unsub­scribe. You will receive reg­u­lar infor­ma­tion by e‑mail on cur­rent top­ics as well as e‑mails on spe­cial occa­sions, such as spe­cial pro­mo­tions. The e‑mails may be per­son­al­ized and indi­vid­u­al­ized based on our infor­ma­tion about you.

Unless you have giv­en us your con­sent in writ­ing, we use the so-called dou­ble opt-in pro­ce­dure to sub­scribe to our newslet­ter, i.e. we will only send you a newslet­ter by e‑mail if you have express­ly con­firmed to us before­hand that we should acti­vate the newslet­ter dis­patch. We will then send you a noti­fi­ca­tion e‑mail and ask you to con­firm that you wish to receive our newslet­ter by click­ing on a link con­tained in this e‑mail.

The legal basis for the pro­cess­ing of your data is your con­sent in accor­dance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR if you have express­ly reg­is­tered for the newslet­ter.

If you no longer wish to receive newslet­ters from us, you can revoke your con­sent at any time with effect for the future or object to the fur­ther receipt of the newslet­ter with­out incur­ring any costs oth­er than the trans­mis­sion costs accord­ing to the basic rates. Sim­ply use the unsub­scribe link con­tained in every newslet­ter or send a mes­sage to us or our data pro­tec­tion offi­cer.

Social Media

In our online offer you will find links to the social net­works of Face­book, Twit­ter, LinkedIn and Xing. You can rec­og­nize the links by the respec­tive provider’s logo.

Click­ing on the links opens the cor­re­spond­ing social media pages, for which this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy does not apply. For details on the pro­vi­sions applic­a­ble there, please refer to the cor­re­spond­ing data pro­tec­tion dec­la­ra­tions of the indi­vid­ual providers; you can find these at:

Face­book: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Twit­ter: https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=de

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?_l=de_DE

Xing: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung

Insta­gram: https://www.facebook.com/help/…

Mastodon

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/intl/A…

No per­son­al infor­ma­tion is trans­mit­ted to the respec­tive providers before the cor­re­spond­ing links are called up. Your access to the linked page is also the basis for data pro­cess­ing by the respec­tive provider.

Google Ana­lyt­ics
We use Google Ana­lyt­ics for sta­tis­ti­cal analy­sis. Google Ana­lyt­ics is a web ana­lyt­ics ser­vice pro­vid­ed by Google Inc, 1600 Amphithe­atre Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94034, USA (“Google”).
The cook­ies gen­er­at­ed by Google Ana­lyt­ics and the infor­ma­tion gen­er­at­ed about your use of this web­site are usu­al­ly trans­mit­ted to a Google serv­er in the USA and stored there. How­ev­er, if IP anonymiza­tion is acti­vat­ed on this web­site, your IP address will be short­ened by Google with­in mem­ber states of the Euro­pean Union or in oth­er con­tract­ing states of the Agree­ment on the Euro­pean Eco­nom­ic Area. Only in excep­tion­al cas­es will the full IP address be trans­mit­ted to a Google serv­er in the USA and trun­cat­ed there. Google will use this infor­ma­tion on behalf of the oper­a­tor of this web­site for the pur­pose of eval­u­at­ing your use of the web­site, com­pil­ing reports on web­site activ­i­ty and pro­vid­ing oth­er ser­vices relat­ing to web­site activ­i­ty and inter­net usage to the web­site oper­a­tor.
The IP address trans­mit­ted by your brows­er as part of Google Ana­lyt­ics will not be merged with oth­er Google data. You may refuse the use of cook­ies by select­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings on your brows­er, how­ev­er please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full func­tion­al­i­ty of this web­site. You can also pre­vent Google from col­lect­ing the data gen­er­at­ed by the cook­ie and relat­ing to your use of the web­site (includ­ing your IP address) and from pro­cess­ing this data by Google by down­load­ing and installing the brows­er plug-in avail­able at the fol­low­ing link http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
You can find fur­ther infor­ma­tion on this at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de or http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html (gen­er­al infor­ma­tion on Google Ana­lyt­ics and data pro­tec­tion). We would like to point out that on our web­site Google Ana­lyt­ics has been extend­ed by the code ” anonymizeIp();” in order to anonymize the IP address­es, where­by the last octet is delet­ed.
We are of the opin­ion that due to the pro­tec­tive mea­sures tak­en (anonymiza­tion and pos­si­bil­i­ty of objec­tion), data pro­cess­ing to opti­mize our online offer is to be regard­ed as a legit­i­mate inter­est in data pro­cess­ing in accor­dance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. A and F) GDPR.

Use of YouTube

Our online offer­ing includes videos for which we use a plu­g­in from the Google-oper­at­ed YouTube ser­vice (“YouTube”). The oper­a­tor of the ser­vice is YouTube LLC, 901 Cher­ry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you access a page on our web­site that con­tains an embed­ded video, a con­nec­tion to the YouTube servers is estab­lished. The YouTube serv­er will be informed which of our web­site pages you have vis­it­ed.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surf­ing behav­ior direct­ly to your per­son­al pro­file. You can pre­vent this by log­ging out of your YouTube account. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on the han­dling of user data can be found in Google’s pri­va­cy pol­i­cy at https://www.google.de/intl/de/…, which also applies to YouTube.

We use YouTube to show you videos so that we can tell you more about us and our ser­vices; this is also our legit­i­mate inter­est with­in the mean­ing of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

Your rights and con­tact

We attach great impor­tance to explain­ing the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data as trans­par­ent­ly as pos­si­ble and to inform­ing you of the rights to which you are enti­tled. If you would like more infor­ma­tion or wish to exer­cise your rights, you can con­tact us at any time so that we can take care of your request.

Rights of data sub­jects

You have exten­sive rights with regard to the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data. First of all, you have a com­pre­hen­sive right to infor­ma­tion in accor­dance with Art. 15 GDPR and, if nec­es­sary, you can request the rec­ti­fi­ca­tion and/​or era­sure of your per­son­al data in accor­dance with Art. 17 GDPR or the block­ing of your per­son­al data in accor­dance with Art. 16 GDPR. You can also request a restric­tion of pro­cess­ing in accor­dance with Art. 18 GDPR and have a right to object in accor­dance with Art. 21 GDPR. You also have the right to data porta­bil­i­ty with regard to the per­son­al data you have pro­vid­ed to us.

If you wish to assert one of your rights and/​or receive fur­ther infor­ma­tion about this, please con­tact our data pro­tec­tion offi­cer.

With­draw­al of con­sent and objec­tion

Once you have giv­en your con­sent, it can be freely with­drawn at any time with effect for the future in accor­dance with Art. 21 GDPR. The with­draw­al of con­sent does not affect the law­ful­ness of pro­cess­ing based on con­sent before its with­draw­al. Con­tact per­sons for this are also our cus­tomer ser­vice or our data pro­tec­tion offi­cer.

If the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data is not based on con­sent, but on anoth­er legal basis, you can object to this data pro­cess­ing. Your objec­tion will lead to a review and, if nec­es­sary, ter­mi­na­tion of the data pro­cess­ing. You will be informed of the result of the review and — if the data pro­cess­ing is nev­er­the­less to be con­tin­ued — you will receive more detailed infor­ma­tion from us as to why the data pro­cess­ing is per­mis­si­ble.

Secu­ri­ty through tech­ni­cal and orga­ni­za­tion­al mea­sures

PHI­NEO gAG uses tech­ni­cal and orga­ni­za­tion­al mea­sures to pro­tect per­son­al data against acci­den­tal or inten­tion­al manip­u­la­tion, loss, destruc­tion or access by unau­tho­rized per­sons in accor­dance with Art. 32 para. 1 EU GDPR. The secu­ri­ty mea­sures in use are con­tin­u­ous­ly improved in line with tech­no­log­i­cal devel­op­ments.

E‑mail secu­ri­ty

The user agrees to elec­tron­ic com­mu­ni­ca­tion as soon as he/​she estab­lish­es elec­tron­ic con­tact with PHI­NEO gAG. The user is advised that e‑mails may be read or mod­i­fied dur­ing trans­mis­sion with­out autho­riza­tion or detec­tion. PHI­NEO gAG uses soft­ware to fil­ter unwant­ed e‑mails (spam fil­ter). The spam fil­ter can reject emails if they have been false­ly iden­ti­fied as spam due to cer­tain char­ac­ter­is­tics.

Con­tact and data pro­tec­tion offi­cer

You can reach us at:

PHI­NEO gemein­nützige AG
Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Str. 2
10178 Berlin
Tel: +49 (0)30 520 065 400
E‑Mail: info@phineo.org

Man­age­ment Board: Dr. Andreas M. Rick­ert (Chair­man), Dr. Anna K. Her­rhausen
Autho­rized sig­na­to­ry: Juliane Hage­dorn
Chair­man of the Super­vi­so­ry Board: Michael Peters
Reg­is­tered office of the com­pa­ny: Berlin
Reg­is­ter entry: HRB 123682 B
VAT ID: DE268115039
Com­pe­tent super­vi­so­ry author­i­ty: Berlin Char­lot­ten­burg Local Court

We have appoint­ed a data pro­tec­tion offi­cer. You can con­tact the data pro­tec­tion offi­cer by post at the above address with the addi­tion “Data Pro­tec­tion Offi­cer” or by e‑mail at: datenschutz@phineo.org

Com­plaints

If you believe that we are not pro­cess­ing your per­son­al data in accor­dance with this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy or the applic­a­ble data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions, you can lodge a com­plaint with our data pro­tec­tion offi­cer. The data pro­tec­tion offi­cer will then inves­ti­gate the mat­ter and inform you of the out­come of the inves­ti­ga­tion. You also have the right to lodge a com­plaint with a super­vi­so­ry author­i­ty.

Links to oth­er web­sites

Our online offer con­tains links to oth­er web­sites. These links are gen­er­al­ly iden­ti­fied as such. We have no influ­ence on the extent to which the applic­a­ble data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions are com­plied with on the linked web­sites. We there­fore rec­om­mend that you also inform your­self about the data pro­tec­tion dec­la­ra­tions of oth­er web­sites.

Changes to this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy

The sta­tus of this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy is indi­cat­ed by the date (below). We reserve the right to amend this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy at any time with effect for the future. Changes will be made in par­tic­u­lar in the event of tech­ni­cal adjust­ments to the online offer or changes to data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions. The cur­rent ver­sion of the data pro­tec­tion dec­la­ra­tion can always be accessed direct­ly via the online offer. We rec­om­mend that you inform your­self reg­u­lar­ly about changes to this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy.

Sta­tus of this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy: Jan­u­ary 2023