VDI Wissensforum GmbH will pass on personal data to third parties only in the event that the user has expressly granted his consent thereto, or the valid statutory provisions include a pertinent permission or obligation.
On this website, anonymized data will be collected and stored via the technology provided by etracker GmbH (www.etracker.de) for marketing and optimization purposes. This data will be used to generate user profiles under a pseudonym. To this end, cookies may be used which will, however, collect and store data only in anonymized form. The data will not be used to identify the user of this website personally, and will not be linked to data pertaining to the bearer of the pseudonym. The collection and storage of the data may be objected to at any time with future effect.
Privacy policy for the use of Facebook plug-ins (“Like” button)
Plug-ins of the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA, have been integrated into our website. You can recognize the Facebook plug-ins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button on our website. You can find an overview of the Facebook plug-ins here: http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.
When you visit our website, a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server will be created via the plug-in. In this manner, Facebook receives information that you have visited our website with your IP address. If you click on the Facebook “Like” button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the contents of our website to your Facebook profile. As such Facebook can allocate the visit to our website to your user account. We would like to point out that we, as provider of the website, do not receive any information with respect to the content of the data transmitted as well as the use thereof by Facebook. You can find further information in the privacy policy of Facebook under: http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php
If you do not wish Facebook to allocate the visit to our website to your Facebook user account, please log off from your Facebook user account.
Public procedure register
§ 4g of the German Federal Data Protection Act [BDSG - Bundesdatenschutzgesetz] stipulates that the Data Protection Officer is to make the following information in accordance with § 4e generally available in suitable form:
Information on the responsible party (§ 4e sentence 1 nos. 1-3 BDSG – German Federal Data Protection Act)
1. Name of the responsible party: VDI Wissensforum GmbH
2. Management: Dipl.-Volkswirt Timo Taubitz
Appointed Head of Data Processing: Ruth Bienemann
3. Address of the responsible party:
VDI-Platz 1
40468 Duesseldorf
Information on automated processing procedures (§ 4e sentence 1 nos. 4-8 BDSG – German Federal Data Protection Act)
1. Purposes of the collection, processing and use of data: As derived from the Shareholders‘ Agreement of the company, the principal objective is the planning and execution of events, relationships with customers and interested parties. Secondary objectives are the administration and supervision of personnel and suppliers.
The collection, processing and use of data are carried out for the performance of the above-mentioned objectives.
2. Description of the affected groups of persons and the pertinent data or data categories:
customer data, consultant data, employee data as well as the data of suppliers to the extent that such data is necessary for the performance of the objectives named in 4.
3. Recipients or categories of recipients to whom the data may be communicated:
public bodies in the event of overriding statutory provisions, external contractors pursuant to § 11 of the Federal German Data Protection Act [BDSG], as well as external bodies, including VDI e.V., VDI holding companies, regional VDI branch offices and internal VDI departments for the performance of the objectives named in 4.
4. Statutory time-limits for the deletion of data:
The legislator has enacted manifold obligations and time-limits with respect to the retention of records. After the lapse of these time-limits, the pertinent data will be routinely deleted. To the extent that data is not affected hereby, such data will be deleted when the purposes named in 4. cease to apply.
5. Planned transmission of data to third countries:
The transmission of data to third countries is not planned.