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.
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
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
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.
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 Consent that has been given on one occasion can be withdrawn at any time.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.
Various data about you personally are saved and used during your visit to our website.
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
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)
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:
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.
1. Data processed and purposes of processing
The NRW knowledge base is a unique state-wide information and presentation database for the business location of North Rhine-Westphalia which you can access via our website and which you can log into. Via this database, North Rhine-Westphalia's partners, such as the state government, state initiatives and municipal and regional economic development agencies, have access to current economic and location data. We ask you to enter the data listed below to create an account:
2. Information about automated individual decisions
No automated individual decisions are made.
3. Legal bases for using your data
4. Deletion deadlines (or storage time)
5. Source of the data
There is no third party data collection.
Below, we would like to explain the purposes for which your data are processed if you have a request or use our services.
Data | Dealing with enquiries, | Newsletter | Map Service | Use of social plugins | Showing videos |
Form of address | x | x |
|
| |
First name, surname | x | x |
|
| |
E-mail address | x | x |
|
| |
Subject | x |
|
|
| |
Title (optional information) | x |
|
|
| |
Message | x |
|
|
| |
Country (optional information) | x |
|
|
| |
IP address |
|
| x | x | x |
Time of access |
|
| x | x | x |
Operating system used |
|
| x | x | x |
Screen format, resolution |
|
| x | x | x |
Browser type, version, plugins installed |
|
| x | x | x |
Referrer URL (the previously visited website) |
|
| x | x | x |
JavaScript on/off |
|
| x | x | x |
URL of the page viewed / downloads |
|
| x | x | x |
Town/City, Adress, Postcode | x |
2. Information about automated individual decisions
No automated individual decisions are made.
3. Legal bases for using your data
4. Deletion deadlines (or storage time)
5. Source of the data
There is no third party data collection.
In addition, the above-mentioned data are used for the following purposes in the context of a balance of interests (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). The interests are described below
The following list shows which organisations ("data recipients") receive your data in which cases. In order to see which specific data this involves, you can read through the relevant sections of this policy. Your data are sometimes passed on due to statutory reporting requirements. In other cases, we use selected agents and service providers who operate on our behalf as processors (in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR) and may be given access to your data to the extent required in each case. Processors are subject to numerous contractual obligations and must in particular only process your personal data acting on our instructions and exclusively for the fulfilment of orders received from us.
Data recipients in non-EU countries
The EU Commission specifies which non-EU countries have an appropriate level of data protection. The EU Commission recognises companies in the USA which participate in the EU-US Privacy Shield as data recipients with an appropriate level of data protection. This agreement between the USA and the EU ensures that data protection regulations comply with the level of data protection required in the European Union when data are processed by US companies subject to the EU-US Privacy Shield. According to their own statements, Google LLC, YouTube LLC, Twitter Inc. and LinkedIn Inc. are contracted into the EU-US Privacy Shield.
Information about the appropriate or reasonable guarantees for the level of data protection with Google LLC, Twitter Inc., LinkedIn Inc. and YouTube LLC as data recipients and how to obtain a copy of these guarantees or where they are available, can for instance be requested from:
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
Our IT service providers have affiliates or subcontractors outside the EU who can access your data. The transfer uses the EU standard contract according to Commission Decision 2010/87/EU, the model of which can be found on the websites of the European Commissioner for Justice and in the Official Journal of the EU.
To exercise these rights, you can in particular contact us via
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
If you do not want data about your visit to our website to be recorded for the purpose of optimising our Internet offering, you can check here : "6. Cookies and tracking" in section "I. Your visit to our website" to see how recording can be disabled.
You also have the right to make a complaint to a data protection supervisory authority.