Privacy Policy of DELAC GmbH with information on the processing of personal data when visiting www.delac.de. Personal data is any data with which you can be personally identified. When processing your data, we strictly adhere to legal provisions, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), and place great value on ensuring that your visit to our website is absolutely secure.

Controller

The controller responsible for the collection and processing of personal data on this website under data protection law is:

Name: DELAC GmbH

Address: Bönschstr. 5, 44227 Dortmund, Germany

Email: info@delac.de

Social Media

0.1 LinkedIn Plugin

Our website uses functions of the LinkedIn network. The provider is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("LinkedIn").

To increase the protection of your data when visiting our website, LinkedIn plugins are not integrated into the page without restriction, but merely by using an HTML link (so-called "Shariff" solution by c't). This integration ensures that when a page of our website containing such plugins is accessed, no connection to LinkedIn's servers is established yet. Only when you click the LinkedIn button does a new window of your browser open and access the LinkedIn page.

For further information, please refer to LinkedIn's privacy policy at:

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Newsletter

Provided that you have given your express consent, we will regularly send our newsletter to your email address. To receive our newsletter, you must provide us with your email address and subsequently verify it. Additional data is not collected or is voluntary. The data is used exclusively for sending the newsletter.

The data provided when subscribing to the newsletter is processed exclusively on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can withdraw your consent at any time. An informal notification by email is sufficient for the withdrawal, or you can unsubscribe via the "unsubscribe" link in the newsletter. The lawfulness of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Data entered to set up the subscription will be deleted in the event of unsubscription. If this data was transmitted to us for other purposes and elsewhere, it will remain with us.

Contacting Us

If you contact us, including by email, the transmitted data including your contact details will be stored in order to process your request or to be available for follow-up questions. This data will not be passed on without your consent.

The processing of your data takes place exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can withdraw your consent at any time. An informal notification by email is sufficient for the withdrawal. The lawfulness of the data processing operations carried out up to the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Transmitted data remains with us until you request us to delete it, withdraw your consent to storage, or there is no longer a need for data storage. Mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.

Data Use and Disclosure

The personal data you provide to us, e.g., by email (e.g., your name and address or your email address), will not be sold to third parties or otherwise marketed. Your personal data will only be processed for correspondence with you and only for the purpose for which you provided the data to us.

This also includes the processing of data within the scope of protected access to conference documents via our platform (e.g., Microsoft SharePoint). Processing is carried out for authentication, documentation of the download, and the option to subsequently send you topic-related information and offers by email.

Processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR (contract/initiation) and Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest in access security and direct marketing to existing customers pursuant to Section 7 para. 3 UWG). You can object to the use of your data for advertising at any time.

For technical provision, we use services of Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd. (Microsoft 365 SharePoint), with whom a contract for order processing pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR exists. Storage takes place exclusively within the EU within the framework of the EU Data Boundary.

To process payments, we pass your payment details on to the credit institution commissioned with the payment.

The use of data automatically collected during your visit to our website is carried out only for the aforementioned purposes. No other use of the data takes place.

We assure you that we will not otherwise pass on your personal data to third parties unless we are legally obliged to do so or you have given us your prior consent.

SSL or TLS Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, our website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the browser's address line ("https://") and the lock symbol.

§1 Retention Period

Personal data communicated to us via our website will only be stored until the purpose for which it was entrusted to us has been fulfilled. Insofar as retention periods under commercial and tax law must be observed, the storage period can be up to 10 years.

§2 Data Subject Rights

With regard to the personal data concerning you, as a data subject of the data processing, you have the following rights against the controller in accordance with legal provisions:

2.1 Right of Withdrawal

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. If the processing of your data is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw consent once given to the processing of data pursuant to Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR at any time with effect for the future. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. The storage of data for billing and accounting purposes remains unaffected by a withdrawal.

2.2 Right of Access

You have the right to request confirmation from us as to whether we process personal data concerning you, in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR. If such processing is taking place, you have the right to access your personal data processed by us, the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period or the criteria for determining the storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection to processing, complaint to a supervisory authority, the source of your data if it was not collected from you by us, the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences of such processing for you, as well as your right to be informed of the guarantees pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR when your data is transferred to third countries.

2.3 Right to Rectification

You have the right to demand the immediate rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you and/or the completion of your incomplete data at any time pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR.

2.4 Right to Erasure

You have the right to demand the erasure of your personal data pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR, provided that one of the following reasons applies:

a)

Your personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed;

b)

You withdraw your consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a or Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a GDPR, and there is no other legal basis for the processing;

c)

You object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or you object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 para. 2 GDPR;

d)

The personal data has been unlawfully processed;

e)

The erasure of personal data is required to comply with a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the Member State to which we are subject;

f)

The personal data was collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Art. 8 para. 1 GDPR;

However, this right does not apply to the extent that processing is necessary:

a)

for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;

b)

for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing by Union or Member State law to which we are subject, or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us;

c)

for reasons of public interest in the area of public health pursuant to Art. 9 para. 2 lit. h and i as well as Art. 9 para. 3 GDPR;

d)

for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes in accordance with Art. 89 para. 1 GDPR, in so far as the right of the data subject is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

If we have made your personal data public and are obliged to erase it according to the above, we shall, taking into account available technology and the cost of implementation, take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform controllers processing the personal data that you as the data subject have requested the erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data.

2.5 Right to Restriction of Processing

You have the right to request the restriction of processing (blocking) of your personal data pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR. For this purpose, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:

a) If you contest the accuracy of your personal data stored with us, we usually need time to verify this. For the duration of the verification, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

b) If the processing of your personal data was/is unlawful, you can request the restriction of data processing instead of erasure.

c) If we no longer need your personal data, but you require it to exercise, defend or establish legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of erasure.

d) If you have raised an objection pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, a balance must be struck between your interests and ours. As long as it is not yet clear whose interests prevail, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, this data – apart from its storage – may only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or a Member State.

2.6 Right to Notification

If you have asserted the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing against us, we are obliged to communicate this rectification or erasure of data or restriction of processing to all recipients to whom your personal data has been disclosed, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. Pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR, you have the right to be informed about these recipients upon request.

2.7 Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling

You have the right, pursuant to Art. 22 GDPR, not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing – including profiling – which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

This does not apply if the decision

a) is necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between you and us,

b) is authorized by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or

c) is based on your explicit consent.

However, the decisions referred to in (a) to (c) must not be based on special categories of personal data referred to in Art. 9 para. 1 GDPR, unless Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a or lit. g applies and suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests are in place.

In the cases referred to in (a) and (c), we take reasonable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, which include at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express your point of view and to contest the decision.

2.8 Right to Data Portability

If the processing is based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR or Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR and is carried out by automated means, you have the right, pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to transmit those data to another controller or to demand the transmission to another controller, as far as technically feasible.

2.9 Right to Object

Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balance of interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of your personal data; this also applies to profiling based on this provision. The respective legal basis on which processing is based can be found in this privacy policy. If you object, we will no longer process your affected 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 (objection pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR).

If your personal data is processed to engage in direct marketing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such marketing; this also applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If you object, your personal data will subsequently no longer be used for direct marketing purposes (objection pursuant to Art. 21 para. 2 GDPR).

In the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, you may exercise your right to object by automated means using technical specifications.

2.10 Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR

In the event of infringements of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement. The right to lodge a complaint is without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy.

The supervisory authority competent for us is:

State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information North Rhine-Westphalia

P.O. Box 20 04 44, 40102 Düsseldorf

Kavalleriestraße 2-4, 40213 Düsseldorf

Phone: 02 11/384 24-0

Email: poststelle@ldi.nrw.de

Internet: https://www.ldi.nrw.de

Validity and Change of this Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is valid from October 29, 2023. We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time in compliance with applicable data protection regulations. This may be necessary, for example, to comply with new legal provisions or to take into account changes to our website or new services on our website. The version available at the time of your visit applies.

Should this privacy policy be changed, we intend to announce changes to our privacy policy on this page so that you are fully informed about what personal data we collect, how we process it, and under what circumstances it may be disclosed.

Validity and Change of this Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is valid from October 29, 2023, last updated on July 16, 2025. We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time in compliance with applicable data protection regulations.