Privacy

PRIVACY POLICY
GENERAL INFORMATION
The website www.vokdams.de ("Website") is an offer of VOK DAMS Events GmbH (hereinafter "we"/"us"). In the following we inform you about the handling of your personal data. If you use our website and the service of our website, personal data are processed. Because the protection of your privacy is important to us, we would like you to have the opportunity to obtain comprehensive information about which of your personal data is processed by us and in which manner. You can access this data protection declaration at any time under the heading "Data privacy protection" on our website. A note in advance: we comply with the legal provisions of the Basic Data Protection Ordinance (DSGVO), the Federal Data Protection Act New (BDSG-new) as well as other data protection regulations.

NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE
The responsible body is
VOK DAMS Events GmbH
Katernberger Straße 54
42115 Wuppertal
+49 202 38907-0
info@vokdams.de
legally represented by the managing directors Colja M. Dams, Christian Obladen

CONTACT DETAILS OF THE DATA PROTECTION OFFICER
If you have any questions or if you wish to exercise your rights as a person concerned, please contact our data protection officer
Mr. Per Kristian Stöcker
at datenschutz@vokdams.de
or
c/o KREMER-RECHTSANWÄLTE
Disch-Haus
Brückenstraße 21
50667 Köln
Phone: +49 221 271 418 74

Cookies
We use so-called cookies on our website, which serve to recognize you as a user and to facilitate your use of our site. Cookies are small text files that your Internet browser installs on your end device. These are mostly so-called session cookies which are deleted after the end of your session. Other cookies remain installed on your device until you remove them. These installed Cookies allow us to identify your web browser on your next visit. You can also customize your web browser to notify you when cookies are installed. Within the settings you can choose whether cookies should only be permitted in isolated cases, are only to be installed in particular cases, are generally not accepted or are automatically deleted after closing your web browser. However, if you choose to disable cookies, this may limit your use of the website. We also use cookies on our website to make them more user-friendly for you. Some elements of our website require that the accessing browser can be identified even after a page change. We use technically necessary cookies to optimize the use of the website for you. Otherwise we cannot offer you some of the functions of our website, as it is necessary for them to recognize your web browser after a page change. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data using cookies is our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f DSGVO. Cookies are stored on the user's computer and transmitted to our website. Therefore, you as a user also have full control over the use of cookies. You can deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies by changing the settings in your Internet browser. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are deactivated for our website, it may no longer be possible to use all of the website's functions in full.

YOUR RIGHTS AS A CONCERNED PARTY
If your personal data are processed by us, you are affected within the meaning of the DSGVO, so that you have the following rights in relation to us:

RIGHT TO OBTAIN INFORMATION
You have the right to request information about your personal data processed by us at any time. This also includes information about the origin, recipients or categories of recipients to whom we transfer your data and the purposes for which we process your personal data.

RIGHT TO CORRECT
You have the right to request us to correct and/or complete your personal data immediately should your personal data be incorrect or incomplete.

RIGHT TO CANCELLATION OR RESTRICTION OF THE PROCESSING OF DATA
You can ask us to delete your personal data immediately. We are obliged to carry out the deletion without delay. Other provisions shall only apply if we are obliged to further process your personal data on the basis of contractual and/or legal regulations. This is the case, for example, if we are prohibited from deleting data under tax law. In such an event we limit the processing and delete the personal data in question immediately after expiry of the retention period.

RIGHT OF DATA TRANSFERABILITY
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, current and machine-readable format, if this is technically possible. Furthermore, you have the right to transfer this data to another party responsible without us impeding it, if you so wish.

AUTOMATED DECISION PROCESS
You have the right not to be subject to any decision based exclusively on automated processing - including profiling - that has legal effect towards you or significantly affects you in a similar manner.

RIGHT OF APPEAL TO A SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY
You are entitled to complain to the competent supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data is contrary to the DSGVO. The competent supervisory authority is:

State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information North Rhine-Westphalia

Postfach 20 04 44
40102 Düsseldorf

Tel.: 0211/38424-0
Fax: 0211/38424-10
E-Mail: poststelle@ldi.nrw.de