Privacy Policy

Below, we would like to explain to you what data we collect about you personally and what we do with these data. We will also provide you with information about your data protection rights and explain who you can contact with questions about the protection of your data.

Who we are

The body responsible for processing your data:

NRW.Global Business GmbH
Trade & Investment Agency
of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)
Völklinger Strasse 4
40219 Düsseldorf, Germany

Tel: +49 211 13000-0

nrw@nrwglobalbusiness.com 

CEO:
Felix Neugart

Concerning questions about this Data Protection Notice, processing of your data, your rights or other data protection topics, our data protection officer (DPO) would be pleased to help you.

Contact details for the Data Protection Officer:

NRW.Global Business GmbH
Trade & Investment Agency
of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)
The Data Protection Officer
Völklinger Strasse 4
40219 Düsseldorf, Germany

datenschutz@nrwglobalbusiness.com

Scope of application

This privacy policy applies to the nrwinvest.com and nrwglobalbusiness.com websites. It is intended for visitors to our website. Our web pages contain additional links that lead to the websites of other operators. This privacy policy does not apply to them. The respective operator is responsible for insertions of advertising banners, textual advertising or publicity films before or during embedded videos.

Do I have to provide my data?

When you visit our website, user data are automatically saved. Some of the data collected is necessary for the use of a website. In addition, we also process your data to safeguard our legitimate interests after consideration of all the relevant interests. This enables us to continuously improve the services we offer you. On the following pages, you will find out the background to our interests and whether or how you can object to the use of your data or disable the use yourself.

In order to take advantage of one of our offers or to send an enquiry, you are requested to submit your personal data. You can decide yourself whether to make use of these offers and submit your data for this purpose. We of course only process your data for the purpose for which you have provided your data to us. We also offer you services for which we only process your data if you have given your consent to this. Consent is always given voluntarily. Consent that has been given on one occasion can be withdrawn at any time.

Please note that, if you provide details about other people, you must have obtained their prior authorisation and have informed them about the purposes for passing the information on – as they are presented in this privacy policy.

We would be grateful if you could also pass on this information to the people you are including for the use of our services, such as family members or authorised representatives.

What data are processed?

I. Your visit to our website

Various data about you personally are saved and used during your visit to our website.

1. Data processed and purposes of processing:

• Service provision: the specified data must be collected to enable our website to be visited and used.
• Data security: each time our Internet offering is accessed, this is stored in a log file. We only collect and use these data for the purposes of data security.
• Optimisation of the Internet offering, including profiling: we are constantly improving our web pages to offer you an optimum experience. For this purpose we process the specified data about your visit. We will not match visitor data with your name or other personal information that you gave to us.

Data	Service provision	Data security	Optimisation of the Internet offering, including profiling
IP number	x	x	x
Name of the file accessed		x
Quantity of data transferred		x
Website accessed	x		x
Referrer URL (the previously visited website)		x	x
Search terms which have brought the Internet user to our website			x
User agent that your browser sends (only for mobile version or automatic voice command)	x	x	x
Session cookie		x	x
Date and time of visit		x
Date and time of the last user activity (for session timeout)			x
Operating system			x
Browser type, Browser version, Browser resolution (inner window size), Browser language, Screen format,Screen resolution, including colour depth	x		x
URL of the page viewed/downloads			x
Cookies on/off	x		x
JavaScript on/off	x		x
Installed plugins			x
Mouse movement within the browser window			x
Cookie for differentiating first visits and subsequent visits			x

2. Information about automated individual decisions

No automated individual decisions are made.

3. Legal basis/bases for using your data

1. We process the personal data specified under Service provision to fulfil the quasi-contractual relationship with you so that you can access and use our service, in other words our website (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR).
2. Furthermore, we process your data to safeguard our legitimate interests (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR):
   1. It is in our interest to be able to ensure data security. To this end, the data concerning every visit are saved in a log file and analysed.
   2. It is in our legitimate interest to optimise our Internet offering. To this end, service providers are used to carry out processing on our behalf, cookies are enabled, and the data provided about your visit to our website are processed.

You have the right, on the basis of reasons related to your particular situation, to object to the processing of your data for safeguarding our legitimate interests. For more on this please read 7. Cookies and web tracking.

4. Deletion deadlines (or storage time)

• Closing the browser results in automatic deletion of the session cookies.
• Technically, we need your IP number in order to supply the tracking pixel. It is not used for statistical purposes and is then immediately anonymised by our service provider, etracker GmbH. (see 6. Data recipients).
• The data used for the optimisation of our Internet offering, including profiling, are deleted on a regular basis.
• We use cookies to enable us to distinguish a return visit from your first visit to our website. You can delete the cookie manually, otherwise it will be automatically deleted after 28 days following your last visit to our website and then enabled again using a new ID on your next visit.

5. Source of the data

There is no third party data collection.

6. Cookies and web tracking

Cookies are used. You can delete these cookies at any time by changing your browser settings or preventing their acceptance.

If you do not want us to record your visits, then please click on the following link:

• Objection to optimisation of the www.nrwinvest.com Internet offering: http://www.etracker.de/privacy?et=V23Jbb

An opt-out cookie is enabled by clicking on the objection link. Please do not delete this cookie because it shows us your objection. If you use different browsers or PCs to visit our website, please click on the link in each browser.