As a person affected by the EU GDPR, you have various rights, which you can of course also exercise at our company.
Please contact us at the above mentioned contact details. As a data subject, you have the following rights:
• Right of access by the data subject
• Right to rectification
• Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’)
• Right to restriction of processing
• Right to data portability
• Right to object
You can also revoke your consent at any time using the above contact data. You also have the right to file a complaint with your competent supervisory authority. The supervisory authority responsible for you depends on the respective federal state in which you reside.

An important principle of the GDPR is data avoidance and data economy. Our company adheres to these principles and we only store personal data for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or in accordance with the legal retention periods. After the loss of a legal basis (contract, consent, legal regulation,...) we routinely delete or block this data.

We take all reasonable technical and organizational precautions to protect your information. All webpages that request information from you are encrypted before being transmitted to us. This provides the best possible protection against unauthorized access.

You can contact us at any time via our contact form. In doing so, you give us your consent for the purpose of contacting you. A correct email address or telephone number is required for this contact. We will not be able to contact you without this information.
If necessary, further optional information allows us to better respond to your request. If your request has been processed by us and there is no reason to process this data further, it will be automatically deleted. If users leave comments or evaluations, the time of their creation and the user name previously chosen by the website visitor will be saved in addition to this information. This serves our security, because we can be prosecuted for illegal contents on our web page, even if these were provided by users.

So-called "cookies" are also used on our website. Cookies are not text files that are transferred from our system to your hard drive. These cookies automatically provide us with certain information. These could include your IP address, the browser you use to access our website, your operating system and other data.
Cookies are usually used to facilitate the use of the website for the user and to enable a perfect display of our services. Cookies cannot start programs or even transmit viruses to your system. Under no circumstances will the data we collect be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.
Most browsers are set to automatically accept cookies. However, you can deactivate the storage of cookies or set your browser so that it informs you as soon as cookies are sent. Once cookies have been set, you can delete them yourself at any time by calling up the corresponding menu item in your Internet browser or deleting the cookies on your hard disk. Details can be found in the help menu of your Internet browser.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (following: 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 cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on these websites, your IP address will previously be reduced by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to 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 shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities and to provide the website operator with further services associated with website and Internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on activities on the website. Other related services will then be provided based on the use of the website and the Internet. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.
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 under the following link: Browser Add On to disable Google Analytics

As part of the public relations work on network activities, personal data may be published on our website or passed to the press. The publication of personal data on the Internet or in local, regional, national or international print media is carried out to safeguard the legitimate interests of the network (cf. Article 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR). The legitimate interest of the network is to inform the public by reporting on our activites. In this context, personal data, including pictures of the participants, can be published, for example, in the context of reporting on our events.

The list of members or participants are made available to the respective employees of the network to the extent required by the respective task. When it comes to the extent of the personal data used, we will follow the guideline of minimal use of data. Personal data of members may be published on the website’s member area to enable communication between members. The use of participant lists, in which the participants of meetings and other events register for example as proof of attendance, is not regarded as a publication.