Privacy policy

The protection of your personal data is of particular concern to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). For this reason, we only process personal data to the extent necessary. Which data is required and processed for which purpose and on which basis depends largely on the type of service you are using or on the task for which we need it.

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data or an online identifier.

For more information on what data is collected, for what purpose and on what basis, how you can contact the controller and the data protection officer(s) and what rights you have in relation to the processing of personal data, please refer to this privacy statement.

When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data is data by which you can be personally identified. This privacy statement explains what data we process. It also explains how this is done and for what purpose.

Note on the responsible body

The person responsible for the processing of personal data is the

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

D-53170 Bonn

Telephone: +49 (0)228 9957-0

Fax: +49 (0)228 99578-3601

Electronic mail: bmbf@bmbf.bund.de

DE-Mail: poststelle@bmbf-bund.de-mail.de

The data controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).

Storage period

Unless a more specific storage period has been specified within this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for processing the data no longer applies. If you assert a justified request for deletion or revoke consent to data processing, your data will be deleted unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g. retention periods under tax or commercial law); in the latter case, the data will be deleted once these reasons no longer apply.

General information on the legal basis for data processing on this website

If you have consented to data processing, we process your personal data on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. a DSGVO or Art. 9 (2) lit. a DSGVO if special categories of data are processed in accordance with Art. 9 (1) DSGVO. In the event of express consent to the transfer of personal data to third countries, data processing is also carried out on the basis of Art. 49 (1) a DSGVO. If you have consented to the storage of cookies or to the access to information in your terminal device (e.g. via device fingerprinting), the data processing is additionally carried out on the basis of Section 25 (1) TTDSG. This consent can be revoked at any time. If your data is required for the performance of a contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, we process your data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO. Furthermore, if your data is required for the fulfilment of a legal obligation, we process it on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c DSGVO. Furthermore, the data processing may be carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. Information on the relevant legal basis in each individual case is provided in the following paragraphs of this data protection declaration.

Data Protection Officer

If you have specific questions about the protection of your data, please contact the BMBF's data protection officer:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

"Data Protection Officer"

D-53170 Bonn

Telephone: +49 (0)228/9957-3369

Fax: +49 (0)228/9957-8-3369

Electronic mail: datenschutz@bmbf.bund.de

The following statement provides you with an overview of how the BMBF ensures the protection of your data and what kind of data is collected on what basis and for what purpose.

Your rights as a data subject

You have the following rights with regard to the personal data concerning you:

Right of access, Art. 15 DSGVO

Right to rectification, Art. 16 DSGVO

Right to erasure, Art. 17 DSGVO

Right to restriction of processing, Art. 18 DSGVO

Right to object to collection, processing and/or use, Art. 21 DSGVO

Right to data portability, Art. 20 DSGVO

Insofar as the processing of personal data is based on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) DSGVO), you may revoke this consent for the relevant purpose at any time. The lawfulness of the processing based on your consent remains unaffected until receipt of your revocation.

You can assert the aforementioned rights at bmbf[at]bmbf.bund.de or poststelle[at]bmbf-bund.de-mail.de.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority (Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information).

You can also contact the BMBF's data protection officer datenschutz[at]bmbf.bund.de with questions and complaints.

You have the right to obtain information free of charge from the project management organisation VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH about the personal data stored about you. In addition, you have the right to correct, block and delete this personal data in accordance with the statutory provisions.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the processing of your personal data by PT VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH, you can contact our company data protection officer (bDSB) as follows:

TÜV Technische Überwachung Hessen GmbH

E-mail: datenschutz[at]vdi.de

Optional note if data is processed in a non-DSGVO country:

Note on data transfer to the USA and other third countries

Among other things, we use tools from companies based in the USA or other third countries that are not secure under data protection law. If these tools are active, your personal data may be transferred to these third countries and processed there. We would like to point out that no level of data protection comparable to that in the EU can be guaranteed in these countries. For example, US companies are obliged to hand over personal data to security authorities without you as a data subject being able to take legal action against this. It can therefore not be ruled out that US authorities (e.g. intelligence services) process, evaluate and permanently store your data located on US servers for monitoring purposes. We have no influence on these processing activities.

General information about our events

If you would like to register for our event, we require personal data from you. The purpose of processing your personal data is to hold the event and, if necessary, to (subsequently) provide you with material/documents.

Your personal data will be processed and used for the event as follows:

- Your contact details for registering for the event

All data that may be required for the implementation of the event are provided by you yourself if you decide to participate in the event. The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 Para.1 lit.b DSGVO (contractual basis), or Art.6 Para.1 lit. f DSGVO with regard to the information voluntarily provided by you.

Event registration form via MailingWork

We offer you the possibility to register online for our events. Your personal data will be stored in a form provided by our service provider MailingWork (Mailingwork GmbH, Schönherrstraße 8, 09113 Chemnitz).

For registration and participation in our event, the following personal data will be processed:

If you would like to register for the 10th Symposium on European Civil Security Research in Brussels, we require the following personal data from you:

 
Salutation*
 
Title
 
First name*
 
Surname*
 
Department*
 
Institution*
 
Street
 
POSTCODE
 
Telephone
 
e-mail*
 
City
 
 
Fields marked with * are mandatory.
 

The processing of your personal data is based on Art. 6 para.1 lit.b DSGVO (contractual relationship). Your first name, surname, the name of your organisation/institution and e-mail address will be passed on to the Representation of the State of Hesse to the European Union in order to prepare the event and grant access to the venue. Your data will be deleted after six months at the latest, provided that there are no legal retention periods to the contrary.

Surveys and feedback

In the context of projects we carry out, we may conduct surveys to collect information about your opinions, experiences, attitudes, etc., and to be able to carry out studies. You will receive these invitations as a grantee, as a subscriber to our newsletters, or as a (former) event participant, among other things. When you participate in a survey, we may collect personal data from you, such as your name, email address or other contact details, in order to invite you to participate in the survey and to evaluate your responses. We use this personal data only for this purpose and do not share it with third parties.

To conduct the surveys, we use the services of LimeSurvey, a service of LimeSurvey GmbH Umfragedienste & Beratung, Papenreye 63, 22453 Hamburg, as well as Mailingwork, a service of MailingWork GmbH, head office: Birkenweg 7, 09569 Oederan.

If your participation in the survey is voluntary, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) DSGVO. You can revoke your consent at any time by contacting us at the above contact information. Please note that the processing of your personal data is necessary for the implementation of the survey and that your revocation may result in your participation in the survey being terminated. If your participation in the survey is compulsory, the processing is based on Art.6(1)(e) DSGVO if it is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority. If the survey is necessary for the performance or as part of a (pre-)contractual service, on the other hand, Art.6 para.1 lit. b) DSGVO applies..

The legislator has enacted a variety of retention periods and obligations. After expiry of these periods, the corresponding data is routinely deleted. If data is not affected by this, it will be deleted or anonymised if the purposes stated in the context of this data protection declaration cease to apply.

Newsletter data

If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require an e-mail address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the specified e-mail address and that you agree to receive the newsletter. No further data is collected or only on a voluntary basis. We use newsletter service providers, which are described below, to process the newsletters. The data that is entered in the input mask during registration is collected. In order to be able to address you personally, we ask you to state your title and name. In addition to this data, we also store the date of registration. This logging serves solely as evidence in the event that a third party misuses your e-mail address and orders the newsletter under your e-mail address without your knowledge. We also record your click & read behaviour of our newsletters in order to be able to adapt the service to your needs.

We use the MailingWork service of Mailingwork GmbH, Schönherrstraße 8, 09113 Chemnitz, Germany, to send the newsletter. For this purpose, your e-mail address, as well as other data voluntarily provided by you, is processed on Mailingwork's servers on our behalf. We have concluded corresponding order processing contracts.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time. At the same time, your consent to the sending of the newsletter via Mailingwork and the statistical analyses will expire. Each newsletter contains a link to unsubscribe.

Status: 15.08.2023