Privacy Policy

Welcome to our website and thank you for your interest in the Initiative natürliche Kreislaufwirtschaft e.V. (INAK).

The following notes and explanations on data protection and privacy policy explain what information we collect during your visit to our website or as a result of your contact and within our online offering, including external online presences such as our social media profiles, and which parts of this information may be used and in what way. With regard to the terms used, such as “processing”, we refer to the definitions in Article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Responsible
Initiative natürliche Kreislaufwirtschaft e.V. (INAK)
Marienstraße 20, 10117 Berlin
Germany
hallo@inak.bio
www.inak.bio

Chairman: Peter Brunk
Managing Director: Katrin Schwede-Pritchard

Purpose of Data Collection:

When accessing our website, access data is automatically logged. All other data is collected through your input.

We collect, process, and use your data only if you give your consent or if a legal regulation permits processing or use. Only data necessary for the implementation and utilization of our services, or data you voluntarily provide to us, will be collected, processed, and used. With your consent, we use your input to respond to your inquiries or messages. If you have also given us your consent for use in connection with other offers, such as event registrations or for marketing purposes, we will also use your data for these purposes.

For the organization and execution of events, we process the data you voluntarily provide and may pass this on to external service providers for registration and payment processing. If data is passed on to external service providers, this will be separately indicated during registration for the respective event, and your consent will be requested.

We use your access data exclusively for the optimization and protection of our website. Your data will only be passed on to third parties in special exceptions, such as for criminal prosecution in case of misuse or attacks on our IT systems.

Scope of Data Collection:

(A) Access Data when Visiting and Using our Website:

– IP address (your IP address is processed exclusively in anonymized form),
– Timestamp of access (date and time),
– Requested resource (page title and URL),
– Origin of your page request,
– Local time of the user,
– Location, including country, region, city, and approximate coordinates;
– Files clicked and downloaded,
– Load speed of the requested pages and files,
– Clicked links to pages outside our domain,
– Browser used, as well as browser language.

(B) Personal Data Based on Your Input in Forms:

– Company/Organization,
– Salutation,
– Title,
– Name,
– First Name,
– Position,
– Street,
– House Number,
– Postal Code,
– City,
– Phone Number,
– Fax Number,
– Email Address,
– Website

Personal Data:
Personal data such as name, address, telephone number, or email address is not collected by us unless you provide this information voluntarily, e.g., in the context of a membership information request, membership application, business request, registration for an event organized by European Bioplastics, or registration for a newsletter. We use the data you voluntarily provide only for the purpose for which you have provided it or for which a legal provision permits processing.

Duration of Processing:

We only process your data as long as it is necessary to fulfill our contract, applicable legal regulations, or to maintain our relationship with you.

Business documents and data are stored for a maximum of 10 years in accordance with the provisions of the Commercial Code and the Fiscal Code.

You have the right to:

– Information,
– Correction,
– Deletion,
– Restriction of processing,
– Objection, and
– Data portability.

If you wish to have your data deleted despite prior consent and voluntary input, we will comply with this request immediately, provided that no legal retention obligations oppose the deletion.

As long as you do not object, we will use your data to maintain and deepen our trustworthy business relationship to mutual advantage.

You can obtain further information or file a complaint with your competent data protection supervisory authority (depending on your place of residence) at any time. A list of supervisory authorities can be found here: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html

Links to Other Websites

If you call up an external website from our site (external link), the external provider may receive the information from your browser as to which of our websites you came from. The external provider is responsible for this data. We, like any other provider of websites, are not in a position to influence this process.

Further Information

If you have any further questions, e.g., about data we have stored about you, please feel free to contact us. In this context, we will, of course, also fulfill your standardized right to information.

Initiative natürliche Kreislaufwirtschaft e.V. (INAK)
Managing Director Katrin Schwede-Pritchard
Marienstrasse 19-20
10117 Berlin
Germany
Tel.: +49 30 28482-360
Email: hallo@inak.bio