The responsible party within the meaning of the data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), is:
DIL Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. 
Prof.-von-Klitzing Str. 7 
D – 49610 Quakenbrück

You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided by our data protection officer:

• Information about your data stored by us and its processing (Art. 15 DSGVO),
• Correction of inaccurate personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),
• Deletion of your data stored with us (Art. 17 DSGVO),
• Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 DSGVO),
• object to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 DSGVO) and
• Data portability, provided you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 DSGVO).

If you have given us consent, you can revoke this at any time with effect for the future. You can contact a supervisory authority at any time with a complaint, e.g. the competent supervisory authority in the federal state of your residence or the authority responsible for us as the responsible body. A list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with address can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Anschriften/Laender/Laender-node.html.

Nature and purpose of the processing:

When you access our website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise submit information, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider, your IP address and the like.

In particular, they are processed for the following purposes:
• Ensuring a problem-free connection of the website,
• Ensuring a smooth use of our website,
• Evaluation of system security and stability, and
• to optimise our website.

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Information of this kind is evaluated anonymously by us statistically, if necessary, in order to optimise our website and the technology behind it.

Legal basis and legitimate interest:
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Receiver:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as order processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Storage period:
The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected. This is generally the case for data used to provide the website when the respective session has ended.

Provision prescribed or required:
The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services and services may not be available or may be restricted. For this reason, an objection is excluded.

Like many other websites, we also use so-called „cookies“. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone or similar) when you visit our website. You can delete individual cookies or the entire cookie inventory. In addition, you will receive information and instructions on how to delete these cookies or block their storage in advance. Depending on the provider of your browser, you will find the necessary information under the following links:

• Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-loeschen-daten-von-websites-entfernen
• Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
• Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de
• Opera: http://www.opera.com/de/help
• Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?locale=de_DE&viewlocale=de_DE

Storage duration and cookies used:
If you allow us to use cookies through your browser settings or consent, the following cookies may be used on our websites:

Technically necessary cookies

Nature and purpose of the processing: We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the calling browser can be identified even after a page change. The purpose of using technically necessary cookies is to simplify the use of websites for users. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these, it is necessary that the browser is recognised even after a page change.

We need cookies for the following applications:

Legal basis and legitimate interest:
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO on the basis of our legitimate interest in a user-friendly design of our website.

Receiver:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as order processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Provision prescribed or required:
The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without this data, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services and services may not be available or may be limited.

Opposition
Please read the information about your right to object according to Art. 21 DSGVO below.

Technically unnecessary cookies

Furthermore, we use cookies to better tailor the offer on our website to the interests of our visitors or to generally improve it on the basis of statistical evaluations. To find out which providers use cookies, please see the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used.

Legal basis:
The legal basis for this processing is in each case your consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO.

Receiver:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as order processors for the operation and maintenance of our website. For more recipients, please see the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analytics technologies used.

Third country transfer:
For information on this, please refer to the listings of the individual display, tracking, remarketing and web analytics providers.

Provision prescribed or required:
Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Web browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings (see Revocation of consent). Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

Withdrawal of consent:
You can revoke your consent at any time via our Cookie Consent Tool.

Profiling:
To what extent we analyse the behaviour of website visitors with pseudonymised user profiles, please refer to the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used.

Nature and purpose of the processing:
The data you enter will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address and your name. This is used for the assignment of the enquiry and the subsequent response to it. The provision of further data is optional.

Legal basis:
The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based on a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO). By providing the contact form, we would like to enable you to contact us easily. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing your enquiry and for possible follow-up questions. If you contact us to request a quote, the data entered in the contact form will be processed to carry out pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO).

Receiver:
Recipients of the data are, if applicable, order processors.

Storage period:
Data will be deleted no later than 6 months after the request has been processed. If a contractual relationship arises, we are subject to the statutory retention periods according to the German Commercial Code (HGB) and delete your data after these periods have expired.

Provision prescribed or required:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your request if you provide us with your name, e-mail address and the reason for the request.

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Information about your right to object according to Art. 21 DSGVO

Right to object on a case-by-case basis. You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data relating to you which is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) DSGVO (data processing on the basis of a balance of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 DSGVO. If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

Recipient of an opposition
info@master-foodscience.com

We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always complies with the current legal requirements or in order to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services. The new data protection statement will then apply to your next visit.

If you have any questions about data protection, please write us an email or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organisation directly: info@master-foodscience.com

The privacy policy was created with the help of activeMind AG, the experts for external data protection officers (version #2020-09-30).