Data protection
In the following, we provide information on the collection of personal data via the website of the Freiburg Innovation Alliance Foundation (formerly the BioMed Freiburg Technology Foundation).
www.innovationsallianz-freiburg.de
The protection of your personal data is extremely important to us. We therefore collect, process and use your personal data only in compliance with the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the German Telemedia Act (TMG). Personal data is only collected on this website to the extent technically necessary. Under no circumstances will the data collected be passed on to third parties without the express consent of the person concerned.
For external links to third-party content, we assume no liability despite careful content control, as we have not initiated the transmission of this information, have not selected the addressee of the transmitted information and have not selected or changed the transmitted information. The following applies to all these links: We expressly declare that we have no influence whatsoever on the design and content of the linked pages and cannot control how the providers handle the information. This declaration applies to all links displayed on our homepage and to all content of the pages to which the banners, buttons and links visible on our website lead.
§ 1 - Definitions and contact details
1. Personal data is all data that relates or can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behaviour.
2. the body responsible for data processing is the Freiburg Innovation Alliance Foundation, represented by the Executive Board Hanna Böhme (Chairperson), Dr Michael Richter (Deputy Chairperson) and Thomas Wiesler.
You can contact the data controller at:
Neuer Messplatz 3
79108 Freiburg
Tel.: +49 (0)761 3881-1200
Fax: +49 (0)761 3881-1299
Mail: michael.richter@fwtm.de
Internet: www.innovationsallianz-freiburg.de
3. the data protection officer of the Freiburg Innovation Alliance Foundation is our certified data protection officer and lawyer Marc E. Evers. You can contact our data protection officer at
DataSEKure Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Burgunder Str. 20, 79104 Freiburg
Phone: 0761/387690
Fax: 0761/38769-99
Email: datenschutz@datasekure.de
§ 2 - Purpose and legal basis of data processing
1. collection of personal data when visiting the website
When using the website for information purposes only, i.e. when you visit our website, we do not process any personal data, with the exception of the data that your browser transmits to enable you to visit the website. This means that we only store access data in so-called server log files, which are stored until they are automatically deleted. These are:
- IP address
- date and time of the request
- time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- content of the request (specific page)
- access status/http status code
- amount of data transferred
- website from which the request comes
- browser
- operating system and its interface
- language and version of the browser software.
The aforementioned data is processed by us for the following purposes
- Ensuring a smooth connection to the website
- Ensuring convenient use of the website
- Analysing system security and stability and
- For further administrative purposes
The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the data collection purposes listed above. Under no circumstances do we use the data collected for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person.
We also use cookies and analysis services when you visit our website. You will find more detailed explanations on this under § 6 and 7 of this privacy policy.
2 Use of data when registering for the email newsletter
If you register for our newsletter, we will use the data required for this or separately provided by you to regularly send you our e-mail newsletter based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR.
To subscribe to the newsletter offered on our website, you can register using our form. We use the so-called double opt-in procedure. A confirmation email will first be sent to the email address you have provided, asking you to confirm your registration. The registration only becomes effective when you click on the activation link contained in the confirmation e-mail. We use the data transmitted to us exclusively for sending the newsletter, which may contain information or offers. No other data is collected. This data is only used for sending the newsletter and is not passed on to third parties.
We use rapidmail to send our newsletter. Your data will therefore be transmitted to rapidmail GmbH. In doing so, rapidmail GmbH is prohibited from using your data for purposes other than sending the newsletter. Rapidmail GmbH is not permitted to pass on or sell your data. rapidmail is a German, certified newsletter software provider that has been carefully selected in accordance with the requirements of the GDPR and the BDSG.
You can revoke your consent to the storage of data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time, e.g. via the unsubscribe link in the newsletter.
You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time and can either send a message to the contact option described below or via a link provided for this purpose in the newsletter. After cancellation, we will delete your e-mail address unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration.
3 Use of data for email advertising without newsletter registration and your right to object
If we receive your e-mail address in connection with the sale of a product or service and you have not objected to this, we reserve the right to regularly send you offers for similar products to those you have already purchased from our range by e-mail. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in a promotional approach to our customers in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. You can object to this use of your e-mail address at any time by sending a message to the contact option described above or via a link provided for this purpose in the advertising e-mail, without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic tariffs.
4 Use of data for postal advertising and your right to object
We also reserve the right to use your first name, surname and postal address for our own advertising purposes, e.g. to send you interesting offers and information about our products by post. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in a promotional approach to our customers in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.
§ 3 - Recipients of your data
1. your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed below.
We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:
- you have given your express consent to this in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR,
- the disclosure is necessary in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in not disclosing your data,
- in the event that the disclosure is necessary in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR, and
- this is legally permissible and necessary for the processing of contractual relationships with you in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR.
2. we may also pass on your personal data to third parties if we offer participation in promotions, competitions, contracts or similar services together with partners. You will receive more detailed information on this when you provide your personal data.
3. if our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you about the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the respective offer.
§ 4 - Duration of the storage of your data
The data stored by you will be stored for the duration of the processing of your general contact enquiry or your request for a quotation or for the processing of the contract concluded with you. If the processing or our contractual relationship has ended or you make use of your rights mentioned under § 5, your data will be treated in accordance with your exercise of rights within the meaning of § 5, if necessary deleted, unless statutory provisions provide for longer retention periods. As soon as these retention periods under tax and commercial law have expired, your data will be deleted.
§ Section 5 - Your rights
1. to information, correction, deletion, restriction or data portability
You have the right to request information from us at any time about the data we have stored about you, as well as its origin, recipients or categories of recipients to whom this data is passed on and the purpose of storage. You have the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request that it be transferred to another controller.
You have the right to correct, restrict and delete the data we have stored about you at any time, provided there are no statutory retention periods to the contrary.
2. to object to or revoke the processing of your data at any time
(1) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke this at any time. Such a revocation affects the permissibility of the processing of your personal data after you have given it to us.
(2) If we base the processing of your personal data on the balancing of interests, you can object to the processing. This is the case if, in particular, the processing is not necessary for the fulfilment of a contract with you, which is described by us in the following description of the functions. When exercising such an objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified objection, we will examine the situation and either discontinue or adapt the data processing or point out to you our compelling reasons worthy of protection on the basis of which we will continue the processing.
(3) Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes at any time.
3. to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority
If you do not agree with the handling of the data we have stored about you, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority.
Please send all requests for information, requests for information or objections to data processing by e-mail to our data protection officer and lawyer Marc E. Evers: datenschutz@datasekure.de
§ 6 - Cookies
1. we use cookies on our website. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website. Cookies do not cause any damage to your end device and do not contain any viruses, Trojans or other malware.
2. information is stored in the cookie that results in each case in connection with the specific end device used. However, this does not mean that we obtain direct knowledge of your identity.
3. the use of cookies serves on the one hand to make the use of our website more pleasant for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies to recognise that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after you leave our site.
4. in addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimise user-friendliness, which are stored on your end device for a specified period of time. If you visit our site again to use our services, it is automatically recognised that you have already visited us and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.
5 Secondly, we use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimising our offer for you (see § 7). These cookies enable us to automatically recognise that you have already visited our website when you visit it again. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period of time.
6. the data processed by cookies are necessary for the purposes mentioned to safeguard our legitimate interests and those of third parties in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.
7. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or a message always appears before a new cookie is created. However, completely deactivating cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website.
§7 - Data security
We use the widely used SSL (Secure Socket Layer) method in conjunction with the highest level of encryption supported by your browser when you visit our website. As a rule, this is 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we use 128-bit v3 technology instead. You can tell whether an individual page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.
We also use suitable technical and organisational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorised access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.
Changes to the data protection information:
Please note that this data protection information may be changed at any time in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations. The version available at the time of your visit always applies.
If you have any questions, you are also welcome to contact us at the above addresses.
Please simply send an e-mail to michael.richter@fwtm.de
(as of August 2025)