Privacy Policy

Data protection declaration for our social media profiles

Data protection declaration for our website and right of withdrawal

With this data protection information we inform you about the processing of your personal data on the website www.wfkl.de by us and about the rights to which you are entitled.

Insofar as there are links to other sites, we have neither influence nor control over the linked content and the data protection regulations there. We recommend checking the data protection notices on the websites in order to be able to determine whether and to what extent personal data is collected, processed, used or made accessible to third parties.

I. Name and address of the person responsible

The person responsible within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other national data protection laws of the member states as well as other data protection regulations is:

Economic development company for the city and district of Kaiserslautern mbH

Fruchthallstrasse 14

D-67655 Kaiserslautern

Phone: +49 631 37124-0

Email: wfk(at)kaiserslautern.de

II. Data Protection Officer

How to reach our data protection officer:

Data protection officer

Fruchthallstrasse 14

D-67655 Kaiserslautern

Email: wfk(at)kaiserslautern.de

Phone: +49 631 37124-0

Fax: + 49 631 37124

III. General information about data processing
1. Definitions

The data protection declaration of the Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft Stadt und Landkreis Kaiserslautern mbH is based on the terms used in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and defined there in Article 4. The full text of the GDPR, including further definitions and terms, is available on the Internet at the following link.
2. Extent of processing of personal data

In principle, we only process personal data (e.g. online identifiers) of our users to the extent that this is necessary to provide a functional website and our content and services. The processing of personal data of our users takes place regularly only with the consent of the user. An exception applies in such cases in which it is not possible to obtain prior consent for actual reasons and the processing of the data is permitted by statutory provisions.
3. The legal basis for the processing of personal data is

Art. 6 para. 1 letter a) GDPR if the consent of the data subject is to be obtained for the processing;

Art. 6 para. 1 letter b) GDPR if the processing is necessary to fulfill a contract to which the data subject is a party or to carry out pre-contractual measures;

Art. 6 para. 1 letter c) GDPR if the processing is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation to which the Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft Stadt Landkreis Kaiserslautern is subject;

Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter e) GDPR if the processing is necessary for the performance of a task that is in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority that has been transferred to the Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft Stadt und Landkreis Kaiserslautern mbH
4. Data erasure and storage duration

The personal data of the person concerned will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage no longer applies. Storage can also take place if this is provided for by the European or national legislator in EU regulations, laws or other regulations to which the person responsible is subject. The data will also be blocked or deleted if a storage period prescribed by the standards mentioned expires, unless there is a need for further storage of the data for the conclusion or fulfillment of a contract.

IV. Email Contact
1. Description and scope of data processing

It is possible to contact us via the email address provided. The user's personal data transmitted with the e-mail will be saved. In this context, the data will not be passed on to third parties. The data is used to process the conversation.
2. Legal basis for data processing

The legal basis for the processing of data transmitted in the course of sending an email is Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter e, Para. 3 Letter b DS-GVO in conjunction with Section 3 LDSG.
3. Purpose of data processing

The processing of the personal data serves solely to process the establishment of contact.
4. Duration of storage

The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required to achieve the purpose for which they were collected. This is the case when the respective conversation with the user has ended. The conversation is over when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the facts in question have been finally clarified.
5. Opposition and removal possibility

If the user contacts us by email, he can object to the storage of his personal data at any time. In such a case, the conversation cannot be continued.
The objection can be made informally, stating the name and contact details, and should be addressed to the office that requested the information, in case of doubt directly to the address of the person responsible (see above, Section I.)
All personal data stored in the course of contacting will be deleted in this case.

V. Data processing for the purpose of maintaining contacts
1. Description and scope of data processing
If you use one of our services or are in a contractual relationship with us, we collect and process your contact details to maintain contact, for this purpose we transfer your data to our customer relationship system.
2. Legal basis for data processing
The legal basis for the processing of the data collected in the course of maintaining contact is Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter e, Para. 3 Letter b DS-GVO in conjunction with Section 3 LDSG.
3. Purpose of data processing

The processing of the personal data serves solely to maintain contact.
4. Duration of storage

The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required to achieve the purpose for which they were collected. This is the case if the respective contact relationship. The contact relationship ends when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the facts in question have been finally clarified. This is particularly the case if a local company or business will not have a location in the city or district of Kaiserslautern in the future.
5. Opposition and removal possibility

VI. Plugins and Tools
The translation function (Google Translater) implemented on our website. Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA is the provider of this service. Google Inc. Stores the URL of the site visited and your IP address. Cookies may be set in your browser or read the existing cookies.

Information on data collection and its processing by Google can be found at:

http://www.google.com/intl/de_de/policies/privacy/

VII. Information about cookies
Name Vendor Purpose Expiration Date
googtrans Google saves the language selection of the respective user at the end of the session

VIII. Rights of the data subject

Your rights to information, correction, deletion, blocking, transferability and objection regarding the personal data collected are expressly pointed out. The legal basis for this is Articles 15 to 22 of the General Data Protection Regulation. These rights can be restricted according to Article 23 GDPR.
a) The right to information (Article 15 GDPR)

You can request confirmation from the Kaiserslautern City and District Economic Development Corporation as to whether personal data relating to you is being processed. If this is the case, then you have a right to information about this personal data and about further information, such as the processing purposes or the duration of storage.
b) Right to rectification (Article 16 GDPR)

You have the right to have your data corrected and/or completed by the Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft Stadt und Landkreis Kaiserslautern mbH if the processed personal data relating to you is incorrect or incomplete.
c) Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)

The right to deletion includes the possibility for the person concerned to have data deleted by the Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft Stadt und Landkreis Kaiserslautern mbH. However, this is only possible if the personal data concerning you is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, is being processed unlawfully, or consent to data processing has been revoked.
d) Right to restriction of processing (Article 18 GDPR)

Subject to Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to demand that the processing of your data be restricted.
e) Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)

This right includes the possibility for those affected to receive the personal data concerning them in a common, machine-readable format from the Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft Stadt und Landkreis Kaiserslautern mbH in order to have them forwarded to another person responsible if necessary. According to Article 20 Paragraph 3 Sentence 2 GDPR, this right does not exist if the data processing serves to carry out the public tasks of the Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft Stadt und Landkreis Kaiserslautern mbH.
f) Right to object (Article 21 GDPR)

You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of your personal data, which is based on Art. 6 Para. 3 Sentence 1 Letter e. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions. The Wirtschaftsförderung Stadt und Landkreis Kaiserslautern mbH will no longer process your personal data in the event of an objection, unless it can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert exercise or defense of legal claims. In connection with the use of information society services, you have the option – notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC – to exercise your right to object by means of automated procedures that use technical specifications.
g) Automated decision in individual cases (Article 22 GDPR)

You have the right 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 in the cases regulated by Article 22 Paragraph 2.
h) Right to revoke the declaration of consent under data protection law

You have the right to revoke your data protection consent declaration at any time. The revocation of consent does not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation.
i) Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR.

The responsible supervisory authority is the state commissioner for data protection in Rhineland-Palatinate,

PO Box 30 40, 55020 Mainz. Telephone: 06131/208-2449; Fax: 06131/208-2497

Email: poststelle(at)datenschutz.rlp.de.

The supervisory authority informs the complainant about the status and the results of the complaint, including the possibility of a judicial remedy under Art. 78 GDPR.

Data protection declaration for our social media profiles

This privacy policy applies to the following social media presence

Data processing through social networks

We maintain publicly available profiles in social networks. The individual social networks we use can be found below.

Social networks such as Facebook, X etc. can usually comprehensively analyze your user behavior when you visit their website or a website with integrated social media content (e.g. like buttons or advertising banners). Visiting our social media presence triggers numerous data protection-relevant processing operations. In detail:

If you are logged into your social media account and visit our social media presence, the operator of the social media portal can assign this visit to your user account. Under certain circumstances, your personal data may also be recorded if you are not logged in or do not have an account with the respective social media portal. In this case, this data is collected, for example, via cookies stored on your device or by recording your IP address.

With the help of the data collected in this way, the operators of the social media portals can create user profiles in which their preferences and interests are stored. This way, you can see interest-based advertising in and out of your social media presence. If you have an account with the respective social network, the interest-based advertising can be displayed on all devices on which you are logged in or logged in.

Please also note that we cannot retrace all processing operations on the social media portals. Depending on the provider, additional processing operations may therefore be carried out by the operators of the social media portals. Details can be found in the terms of use and privacy policy of the respective social media portals.

Legal basis
Our social media presence is intended to ensure the widest possible presence on the Internet. This is a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The analysis processes initiated by the social networks may be based on different legal bases that must be specified by the operators of the social networks (e.g. consent within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR).

Responsible and asserting rights
If you visit one of our social media sites (e.g. Facebook), we are jointly responsible with the operator of the social media platform for the data processing operations triggered during this visit. You can exercise your rights (information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability and complaint) both against. us as well as the operator of the respective social media portal (e.g. against Facebook).

Please note that despite the shared responsibility with the social media portal operators, we do not have full influence on the data processing operations of the social media portals. Our options are determined by the company policy of the respective provider.

Storage duration
The data collected directly from us via the social media presence will be deleted from our systems as soon as you ask us to delete it, you revoke your consent to the storage or the purpose for the data storage lapses. Stored cookies remain on your device until you delete them. Mandatory statutory provisions - in particular, retention periods - remain unaffected.

We have no influence on the storage period of your data, which is stored by the operators of the social networks for their own purposes. For details, please contact the operators of the social networks directly (e.g. in their privacy policy, see below).

Your rights
You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data at any time and free of charge. You also have the right to object, the right to data portability and the right to file a complaint with the responsible regulatory agency. Furthermore, you can request the correction, blocking, deletion and, under certain circumstances, the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

Individual social networks

Facebook
We have a profile on Facebook. The provider of this service is Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (hereinafter Meta). According to Meta, the data collected is also transferred to the USA and other third countries.

We have entered into a joint processing agreement (Controller Addendum) with Meta. This agreement defines which data processing operations we or Meta are responsible for when you visit our Facebook page. You can view this agreement at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum.

You can customize your advertising settings independently in your user account. Click on the following link and log in: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. You can find details here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum and https://de-de.facebook.com/help/566994660333381.

For details please refer to the privacy policy of Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

The company is certified in accordance with the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the US, which is intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards for data processing in the US. Every company certified under the DPF is obliged to comply with these data protection standards. For more information, please contact the provider under the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participant-detail?contact=true&id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active

Instagram
We have a profile on Instagram. The provider of this service is Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Data transmission to the US is based on the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) of the European Commission. Details can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum, https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/and https://de-de.facebook.com/help/566994660333381.

Details on how they handle your personal data can be found in Instagram's data protection declaration: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/.