Privacy Policy

This privacy policy provides detailed information about what happens to your personal data when you visit our website www.delac.de. Personal data is any data by which you can be personally identified. We strictly adhere to legal data protection regulations, especially the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), and place great importance 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 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. Provider: LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("LinkedIn").
To enhance the protection of your data when you visit our website, LinkedIn plugins are not fully integrated but are embedded using an HTML link ("Shariff" solution by c’t magazine). This ensures that no connection to LinkedIn servers is established when visiting a page on our site containing such plugins. A connection to LinkedIn is only established once you click on the LinkedIn button, which opens a new browser window to load the LinkedIn page.
For more information, please see LinkedIn's privacy policy:
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Newsletter

If you have expressly consented, we will send our newsletter to your email address on a regular basis. To receive the newsletter, you must provide us with your email address and confirm it. No additional data is collected unless voluntarily provided. Your data is used exclusively for the purpose of sending the newsletter.
The data provided when registering for the newsletter is processed based on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw your consent at any time. A simple notification via email or using the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter is sufficient. The lawfulness of data processing carried out before the withdrawal remains unaffected.
Data provided during newsletter registration will be deleted upon unsubscribing. If this data was transmitted to us for other purposes, it will remain stored.

Contacting Us

If you contact us (including via email), your transmitted data, including contact information, will be stored for the purpose of processing your inquiry and for potential follow-up questions. This data will not be shared without your consent.
Processing is based solely on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You may withdraw your consent at any time by sending an informal message via email. The lawfulness of data processing carried out before the withdrawal remains unaffected.
The data you provide will remain with us until you request deletion, withdraw your consent to storage, or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies. Mandatory statutory provisions – especially retention periods – remain unaffected.

Use and Disclosure of Data

We do not sell or otherwise market your personal data (e.g. name, address, or email address) shared with us via email. Your data will only be used for the purpose for which you provided it and to correspond with you.
This also includes data processing in the context of protected access to conference documents via our platform (e.g. Microsoft SharePoint). Processing is carried out for authentication purposes, documentation of downloads, and the ability to provide you with topic-related information and offers via email afterwards.
The processing is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (contract/contract initiation) and Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in access control and direct marketing to existing customers under § 7(3) UWG). You may object to the use of your data for advertising at any time.
We use services of Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd. (Microsoft 365 SharePoint) for technical provision, under a data processing agreement in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. Data is stored exclusively within the EU in compliance with the EU Data Boundary.
For payment processing, your payment data will be shared with the credit institution tasked with the payment.
Data automatically collected when visiting our website will be used solely for the aforementioned purposes. No other use or transfer of data occurs.
We assure you that we will not share your personal data with third parties unless legally required or you have given prior consent.

SSL and TLS Encryption

Our website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security and to protect the transmission of confidential content. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the browser's address bar ("https://") and the lock icon.

§1 Storage Period

Personal data submitted via our website will be stored only as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was provided. Where commercial or tax law retention obligations apply, data may be stored for up to 10 years.

§2 Data Subject Rights

As a data subject under the GDPR, you have the following rights against the controller:

2.1 Right to Withdraw Consent
You may withdraw your consent to data processing at any time with future effect (Art. 7(3) GDPR). The legality of processing performed before the withdrawal remains unaffected.

2.2 Right of Access
Under Art. 15 GDPR, you have the right to obtain information about your stored personal data, processing purposes, recipients, storage periods, and other details.

2.3 Right to Rectification
You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate or incomplete data (Art. 16 GDPR).

2.4 Right to Erasure
You have the right to request deletion of your data under the conditions of Art. 17 GDPR, unless exceptions apply (e.g. legal obligations, public interest, or exercise/defense of legal claims).

2.5 Right to Restriction of Processing
You may request restriction of processing under Art. 18 GDPR in certain cases, such as during the verification of contested data or in lieu of deletion.

2.6 Right to Notification
If you exercise your right to rectification, erasure, or restriction, we are obliged to notify all recipients of your data, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort (Art. 19 GDPR).

2.7 Right Not to Be Subject to Automated Decisions
You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling (Art. 22 GDPR), with certain exceptions.

2.8 Right to Data Portability
You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format or have it transmitted to another controller (Art. 20 GDPR), if technically feasible.

2.9 Right to Object
You may object to processing based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR for reasons arising from your particular situation (Art. 21 GDPR). In the case of direct marketing, you have an absolute right to object.

2.10 Right to Lodge a Complaint
If you believe your rights under the GDPR have been violated, you may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, regardless of other remedies (Art. 77 GDPR).
Our competent authority is:
State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information North Rhine-Westphalia
P.O. Box 20 04 44, 40102 Düsseldorf
Kavalleriestr. 2-4, 40213 Düsseldorf
Phone: +49 211 38424-0
Email: poststelle@ldi.nrw.de
Website: https://www.ldi.nrw.de

Validity and Changes to This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is effective as of 29 October 2023 and was last updated on 16 July 2025. We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time, in compliance with applicable data protection regulations.
Any changes will be announced on this page, so you are fully informed about what personal data we collect, how we process it, and under what circumstances it may be disclosed.