Privacy Notice

We are very pleased about your interest in our organization.

Personal data is all information that relates to an identified or identifiable person. Even pseudonymous data that cannot be directly attributed to you, for example through a name or an email address, is personal data.

As the protection of your personal data is very important to us, we inform you in this privacy policy about the type, scope, and purpose of the personal data we process and your rights as the data subject.

At the end of the privacy policy, you will find various explanations of the terminology under the section “Definitions”.

This privacy information applies to data processing on the website www.wjbb.de, which is carried out by the following responsible party:

Wirtschaftsjunioren Berlin-Brandenburg e. V. / Junior Chamber International Berlin-Brandenburg
c/o IHK Berlin

Fasanenstr. 85
10623 Berlin

Represented by
Jonas Pfitzner | Regional President

Contact
Telephone: +49 30 315 10-340
Email: kontakt@wjbb.de

Rights of the Affected Persons

You can exercise the following rights regarding your personal data against us:

Right to information (Art. 15 GDPR)
Right to correction (Art. 16 GDPR) or deletion (Art. 17 GDPR)
Right to restrict processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
Right to object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR)

If you make a request for information, we will inform you about the data we have collected about you in accordance with data protection regulations. Our aim is always to ensure accurate and error-free data collection. If incorrect information has been collected, we will correct it immediately upon your request.

Please send us your request to: kontakt@wjbb.de

In addition to exercising your rights against us, you also have the right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority if you suspect a violation of data protection regulations (Art. 77 GDPR).

Privacy When Visiting Our Website

Type and Purpose of Processing

When you access our website, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise transmit information, information of a general nature is automatically recorded. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider, your IP address, and similar.

This information is processed in particular for the following purposes:

Ensuring a trouble-free connection setup of the website,
Ensuring smooth use of our website,
Evaluating system security and stability, and
to optimize our website.

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about you. Such information may be statistically analyzed by us in an anonymized form to optimize our website and the technology behind it.

Legal Basis and Legitimate Interest

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Recipients

Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Storage Duration

The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer needed for the purpose of the collection. This is generally the case for the data used to provide the website when the respective session has ended.

In the case of storing the data in log files, this is after no more than 14 days. Further storage is possible. In this case, the IP addresses of the users are anonymized, so that an assignment of the calling client is no longer possible.

Provision Required or Necessary

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website are not guaranteed. Furthermore, individual services and services may be unavailable or limited. Therefore, an objection is excluded.

Use of Cookies

Our website uses the cookie-consent technology of Borlabs Cookie to obtain your consent to store certain cookies in your browser and to document it in compliance with data protection regulations. The provider of this technology is Borlabs – Benjamin A. Bornschein, Georg-Wilhelm-Str. 17, 21107 Hamburg (hereinafter referred to as Borlabs).

When you enter our website, a Borlabs cookie is stored in your browser, which stores the consents you have given or the revocation of these consents. These data are not passed on to the provider of Borlabs Cookie. You can change the settings of Borlabs Cookie here:

Your user ID is:

The following consents have been given for the use of cookies:

Date	Version	Consents

Social Media

The data controller has integrated components of social media on this website. We use the services of the following third-party providers, who are responsible for the data processing that occurs via the service according to Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR. More information on data processing by these third-party providers and your rights as the affected person can be found in the linked privacy policies of the providers:

The legal basis for processing is Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR.

Facebook (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland)

https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

Instagram (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland)

https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388

Contact

When you contact us (e.g., via contact form, chat, or email), we process your details to handle your inquiry and in case there are follow-up questions.

If data processing is carried out for the purpose of carrying out pre-contractual measures that occur in response to your inquiry, or, if you are already our customer, for the execution of the contract, the legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 b GDPR.

Storage Duration

Unless specifically indicated, we store personal data only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes pursued.

In some cases, the legislator provides for the retention of personal data, such as in tax or commercial law. In these cases, the data will continue to be stored by us for these legal purposes only, will not be processed otherwise, and will be deleted after the statutory retention period expires.

Definitions

The privacy policy is based on the terms used by the European legislator for the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our privacy policy is intended to be easy to read and understand for the public as well as our customers and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to explain the terminology used in advance.

a) Personal data

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); 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, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

b) Data subject

Data subject is any identified or identifiable natural person, whose personal data is processed by the controller responsible for the processing.

c) Processing

Processing is any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

d) Restriction of processing

Restriction of processing is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future.

e) Profiling

Profiling means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements.

f) Pseudonymisation

Pseudonymisation is the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.

g) Controller or controller responsible for processing

Controller or controller responsible for the processing is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.

h) Processor

Processor is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

i) Recipient

Recipient is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing.

j) Third party

Third party is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor, and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process personal data.

k) Consent

Consent of the data subject is any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

Data transfer to third parties

Your personal data will not be transmitted to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. We only share your personal data with third parties if:

You have given your express consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. a GDPR,

the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR is necessary to assert, exercise or defend legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in not disclosing your data,

in the event that there is a legal obligation for the transfer according to Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. c GDPR, as well as

this is legally permissible and necessary according to Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. b GDPR for the processing of contractual relationships with you.

Data security

We are highly committed to the security of your data within the framework of the applicable data protection laws and technical possibilities.

Your personal data is transmitted securely by us. This applies to your orders and also to the customer login. We use the coding system SSL (Secure Socket Layer), however, please note that data transmission over the Internet (e.g., when communicating via email) may have security vulnerabilities. A complete protection of the data from access by third parties is not possible.

Currentness and amendment of this privacy policy

This privacy policy is currently valid and has the status of April 2024. Due to the further development of our website and offers or due to changed legal or regulatory requirements, it may be necessary to change this privacy policy.