Privacy policy 

Thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in the services of IHK FOSA. We make every effort to ensure that your data is handled with the greatest possible security. Your data will be processed in accordance with the relevant legal requirements. Where we use service providers to carry out and process transactions, they are also subject to the same strict data protection rules.

In general, you can visit our website without us requiring any personal information from you. We will only know the name of your internet service provider, the website from which you are visiting us and the pages you visit on our site.

Data for the provision of services

We only collect and process (in particular store) personal data that is necessary for the provision of a service and its processing.

Contact

When you contact us, we will store your relevant information for the purposes of processing your enquiry and for any follow-up enquiries.

Please note that any messages you send to us by email through our www.ihk-fosa.de pages will be forwarded to us in unencrypted form. Please note that these messages may be read or even tampered with by third parties during transmission over the worldwide Internet.

Collection, processing and use of website usage data

The IHK FOSA web servers temporarily store each access in a log file when our Internet pages are visited. We collect and store the following data until it is automatically deleted:

• IP address of the requesting computer
• Date and time of access
• Name and URL of the retrieved data
• Access status (file transferred, file not found, etc.)
• The web browser and operating system used
• The website from which our homepage was accessed
• The amount of data transferred

For reasons of technical security, in particular to prevent attempts to attack our web server, we store this data; furthermore, to control misuse in the event of suspicion and to clarify any suspicion of criminally relevant use. The IP address is only evaluated in the event of attacks on our network infrastructure. The usage data stored by the servers are not assigned to any natural person.

Web analysis

In order to improve the user-friendliness of the website and for statistical purposes, data is collected and stored in anonymised form by our service provider. This data is used to create a user profile under a pseudonym. For web analysis, we use Google Analytics, which is set up in compliance with data protection. The data is not used to personally identify you as a visitor to the website. IP addresses are anonymised by appropriate truncation. By analysing the user data, we obtain anonymised information about the average time spent on a website and the frequency of visits to the website. User data is not merged with data about the holder of the pseudonym.

Information about Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google, Inc. (“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 the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. IP anonymization has been activated on this website so that the IP address of Google users within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area is shortened beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US 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 activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the data generated by cookies about your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being passed to Google, and the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de). You can prevent data collection by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. This sets an opt-out cookie that prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this website.

For more information about Terms of Use and Privacy, please visit Google Privacy or Google Policies. We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code “anonymizeIp” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

Cookies in general

The IHK FOSA website uses cookies in several places to make its online services more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the temporary memory of the web browser or on the hard disk of the website visitor for the purpose of technical session control.

Among other things, we store so-called session cookies on your hard disk, which are only valid for the duration of your visit to our website. These are needed to identify and authorise you for the duration of your visit once you have successfully registered in the restricted area. At the end of your visit, these cookies are automatically deleted from your hard drive.

Visitors to websites can prevent cookies from being stored by making certain browser settings. Typically, web browsers can also be set to ask the visitor if they want to accept cookies before they are set. In addition, the visitor can delete cookies at any time. Please refer to the product descriptions/instructions of the respective browser manufacturers for information on the necessary settings. Please note that some features of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.

Deletion or blocking of data

We adhere to the principles of data minimisation and retention limits. We will only store your personal data for as long as necessary to achieve the purposes stated herein or as required by law.

Disclosure of personal data We will not disclose your data to third parties unless we are required to do so by law or you have given us your express consent to do so.

We would like to point out that the operators of sites linked to www.ihk-fosa.de may store and evaluate the data of visitors to the site.

Your rights to information, correction, restriction, deletion, data portability and objection If you have any questions about your data, you can contact us at any time. You have the right to request, free of charge, information about your personal data that we hold. You also have the right to have any inaccurate data corrected and, where appropriate, to restrict the processing and, except where the retention of data is required by law, to have the data deleted. 

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to have that data transferred to another controller where technically possible. To do so, the processing of your personal data must be based on consent or carried out by automated means. The right to data portability does not apply to the processing of personal data necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller. 

You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is based on the legal basis of the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or the legal basis of legitimate interest. This also applies to profiling on the basis of these provisions. You may make changes, exercise your rights or revoke your consent with effect for the future by notifying us accordingly.

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR. The data protection supervisory authority responsible for the IHK FOSA is:

The Bavarian State Commissioner for Data Protection

Wagmüllerstraße 18, 80538 Munich

E-mail: poststelle@datenschutz-bayern.de

‎Tel.: 089 212672-0, ‎Fax: 089 212672-50

Web: www.datenschutz-bayern.de

The supervisory authority with which the complaint has been lodged is to inform the complainant on the progress and the outcome of the complaint including the possibility of a judicial remedy pursuant to Article 78 of the GDPR.

We reserve the right to amend this data protection declaration from time to time to ensure that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services. The new data protection declaration will then apply the next time you visit our website.

Contact details – Questions about data protection

Please contact our data protection officer if you have any questions about data protection.

Contact details: 

E-mail: datenschutzbeauftragter@ihk-fosa.de

Address: IHK FOSA, FAO Data Protection Officer, Ulmenstraße 52g, 90443 Nuremberg.