Data protection information for the WECONOMY startup initiative
Thank you for your interest in our start-up competition "WECONOMY." As the data protection officers, we want you to feel comfortable in your interaction with us and our staff regarding the protection of your personal data. We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Compliance with German and European data protection regulations is a matter of course for us. As a result, the protection of your personal data has top priority for us. With the following information, we would like to inform you about how we handle your personal data in detail:
1. name and contact details of the person responsible
The responsible party for the processing of your personal data within the scope of this contact is the
Wissensfabrik - Unternehmen für Deutschland e.V.
Ruthenstrasse 23
67063 Ludwigshafen, Germany
E-mail: info@wissensfabrik.de
Phone: +49 (0)621 377034-0
Fax: +49 (0)621 377034-99
2. contact details of the data protection officer
The designated data protection officer is
DataCo GmbH
Dachauer Str. 65
80335 Munich
Phone: +49 (0) 89 7400 458 40
E-mail: datenschutz@dataguard.de
3. processing of your personal data
a. Your personal data processed by us
In the context of applying for our startup* competition "WECONOMY", we process the following personal data about you:
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Company / name of your startup
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Number of founders/co-founders
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Description of the startup
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Specification of the USP
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Hyperlink to the website
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Contact details of the contact person
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First name
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Last name
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E-mail address
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Phone number
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Address
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LinkedIn profile
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Pitchdeck (mandatory)
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Other (necessary) files for the application (optional)
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Video (optional)
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Voluntary information/statements about the startup
b. Purposes of data processing
In the context of the application, initiation up to the admission to our startup competition "WECONOMY", your personal data will be processed for the following purposes:
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To process your inquiry as an interested party. For this purpose, we use your contact data to be able to answer your inquiry.
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To prepare and carry out pre-contractual measures.
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To make a selection of winners.
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To include your contact details in our customer database (CRM) if you are a winner of the competition.
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To inform you about competition-related procedures, events, deadlines and other dates necessary for the smooth running of our competition.
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To provide you with the best possible support as an applicant in the context of the start-up competition. This includes, in particular, communication with you by e-mail, mobile phone and landline number.
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For the purpose of sending newsletters, insofar as you have registered for our newsletter.
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For the fulfillment of post-contractual measures.
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For the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.
c. Legal basis for data processing
Legal basis for the processing of data in the context of the application, initiation up to the admission to our founder*innenwettbewerb "WECONOMY" represent Art. 6 para. 1 S.1 lit. a and f DSGVO.
Processing of your personal data on the basis of consent
Insofar as we obtain your consent for the processing of your personal data, the processing of your personal data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a DS-GVO in conjunction with. Art. 5, 7 DS-GVO.
Processing on the basis of legitimate interest
The legal basis for processing activities in connection with the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims is also our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) S.1 lit. f DSGVO.
4. recipients or categories of recipients of the personal data
In the course of processing your personal data, we may disclose the personal data concerning you to the following recipients. We only transfer your personal data to external recipients if you have consented or if this is permitted by law. External recipients of your personal data are in particular:
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Order processors
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Authorities e.g. tax offices, courts, trade supervisory office
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Billing partners
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Logistics companies
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Parcel service providers
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Postal service
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Tax consultants
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Our WECONOMY partners UnternehmerTUM GmbH and Handelsblatt GmbH
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Jury members of the startup competition, in detail available on weconomy.de
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Part of the data (company, description of the startup, USP, first name, last name, e-mail address, website, LinkedIn profile) may also be passed on to sponsors, which can be viewed on weconomy.de.
In addition, your personal data may be transferred to the following service providers located in a country outside the EU/EEA:
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Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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Transfer of personal data to the jury members for the selection of the winners* by Google Drive.
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Typeform S.L., Carrer Bac de Roda, 163, 08018 Barcelona
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Input of personal data when registering for our Founders' Contest through the Typeform application.
In the case of processors and service providers outside the EU/EEA, your above-mentioned personal data will only be processed insofar as this is the subject of our order processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 DS-GVO with these recipients.
5. transfer of personal data to a third country.
Generally, personal data collected and generated during the provision of relevant products and services is stored on our servers in the European Union. However, because the providers of our software solutions, among others, offer their products and/or services on a global basis based on available resources and servers, your personal data may be transferred to or accessed from other jurisdictions outside the European Union and the European Economic Area. In particular, personal data will be transferred to the third country USA within the meaning of Article 15 (2) DS-GVO. In order to ensure the continuation of the necessary level of protection in the event of data transfer to a third country, contractual measures are agreed for this purpose. The software provider has its registered office in the United States of America, which has not been recognized as providing an adequate level of data protection. In order to ensure appropriate guarantees for the protection of the transfer and processing of personal data outside the EU, the transfer of data to and processing of data by our service providers is carried out on the basis of appropriate guarantees pursuant to Art. 46 ff DSGVO, in particular by concluding so-called standard data protection clauses pursuant to Art. 46 para. 2 lit. c DSGVO.
6. duration of storage of personal data.
We do not store your personal data for longer than is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. This means that data in our systems is destroyed or deleted as soon as it is no longer needed. Reasonable measures are taken by us to ensure that your personal data is only processed under the following conditions:
For the duration that the data is used to provide a service to you.
As required by applicable law, contract or in light of our legal obligations
Only for as long as necessary for the purpose for which the data was collected, or longer if required by contract, applicable law, using appropriate safeguards.
A requirement may exist in particular if the data is still needed to fulfill contractual services, to check and grant or defend against warranty and, if applicable, guarantee claims. If the data is no longer required for the fulfillment of contractual or legal obligations, it is regularly deleted, unless its - temporary - retention is still necessary, in particular for the fulfillment of legal retention periods of up to ten years (including from the German Commercial Code, the German Fiscal Code and the German Money Laundering Act). In the case of statutory retention obligations, deletion will only be considered after the expiry of the respective retention obligation.
7. data subject rights
According to the General Data Protection Regulation, you are entitled to the following rights:
If your personal data is processed, you have the right to receive information from the controller about the data stored about you (Art. 15 DSGVO).
If incorrect personal data is processed, you have the right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR).
If the legal requirements are met, you may request the erasure or restriction of processing (Art. 17 and 18 DSGVO).
If you have consented to the data processing or if there is a contract for data processing and the data processing is carried out with the help of automated procedures, you may have the right to data portability (Art. 20 DSGVO).
If the personal data concerning you is processed for the purpose of 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, insofar as it is related to such direct marketing. If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data concerning you will no longer be processed for these purposes.
If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data concerning you will no longer be processed for these purposes.
Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Art. 77 DSGVO). The supervisory authority responsible for us is the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of Rhineland-Palatinate. You can reach this at:
The State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Prof. Dr. Dieter Kugelmann
Hintere Bleiche 34
55116 Mainz
Phone: +49 (0) 6131 8920-0
Fax: +49 (0) 6131 8920-299
Website: https://www.datenschutz.rlp.de/
E-mail: post office(at)datenschutz.rlp.de
If the legal requirements are met, you may object at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation to the processing of personal data relating to you which is carried out on the basis of art. 6 para. 1 lit. e or f DSGVO (art. 21 DSGVO).
8. right of revocation in case of consent
If you have consented to processing by the controller by making an appropriate declaration, you may revoke your consent at any time for the future. The legality of the data processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation is not affected by it.
9. obligation to provide the data
You are obliged to provide your data. This obligation arises from the application for the founder* competition "WECONOMY."
If you do not provide the required data
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you will not be able to complete the application
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Consequently, the responsible person will not be able to consider your application.