Data Privacy

Information pursuant to Art. 13 and Art. 14 General Data Protection Regulation

The Falk Foundation e.V. (hereinafter "we") is controller of the personal data of our customers, applicants for an open position in our company and other persons in contact with us (hereinafter "you").

In accordance with Art. 13 and Art. 14 of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) ("GDPR"), we are obliged to inform you as follows when collecting your personal data:

This data protection information is intended for you because we process personal data about you, and the protection of your data and your information is very important to us.

Contact data of the controller

Falk Foundation e.V.
Leinenweberstr. 5
79108 Freiburg
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)761 1514 400
Email: info@falkfoundation.org

Contact data of the controller’s data protection officer

Falk Foundation e.V.
Der Datenschutzbeauftragte
Leinenweberstr. 5
79108 Freiburg
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)761 1514 400
Email: dataprotection@falkfoundation.org

Further below, you will find specific information on the processing of your personal data in the following circumstances along with information on the processed data categories:

  • If you use the websites of the Falk Foundation e. V.
  • If you are applying for a job
  • If you order literature from us
  • If you are a participant of a training course for medical doctors
  • If you are a Falk Gastro-Kolleg user
  • If you receive the Falk Gastro Review Journal
  • If you are a participant of a congress
  • If you are a subscriber to our newsletter
  • If you receive post from us as part of our print mailing service
  • If you are one of our business partners
  • If you participate in an online query

First, we will give you general information on the data processing at Falk Foundation e.V. which apply to all cases of data processing by our company.

Information on Joint Controllership pursuant to Art. 26, para. 2, 2. sentence of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

What is the reason for the joint controllership?

Falk Foundation e.V. ("Falk Foundation") and Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH ("Dr. Falk Pharma") use jointly a contact database for their business activities. This may also affect the processing of your personal data. The parties have defined the steps of data processing in the individual process stages. Within the process stages described below, Dr. Falk Pharma and Falk Foundation are jointly responsible for the protection of your personal data (Art. 26 GDPR).

Further information

General information pursuant to Art. 13 and Art. 14 GDPR

Transfer of data to entities outside the European Union

In certain cases, the processing of your data takes place in countries outside of the European Union ("EU") or we have to transfer the data to recipients outside of the EU (e.g., foreign authorities, affiliated companies and distribution partners to comply with local reporting obligations).

In some cases we also use service providers from countries outside the European Union or the European Economic Area ("third countries"). We select these service providers carefully and check them regularly. In such cases, data will only be transmitted if the other conditions for such transmission under the GDPR are fulfilled (e.g. signing of EU standard contractual clauses with the service provider(s) under Art. 46 (2) c) GDPR).

If you are travelling to a third country during one of our events and your contract also includes our travel booking, we will organise the trip for you. For example, we may transfer your personal data to a hotel in a third country for the purpose of organising your trip. In such cases, transmission shall take place in accordance with the conditions laid down in Art. 49 GDPR.

Duration of data storage

We store your personal data as long as this is necessary for the original purpose of the data processing (e.g., performance of a contract) and, in addition, as long as we are legally obliged to do so. For example, we are required by law to keep records under the Pharmaceutical Laws or for tax purposes (§ 147 Abgabenordnung) and for accounting purposes (§ 257 Handelsgesetzbuch). The retention periods are six to ten years. Insofar as we are legally obliged to store the data, it is stored in a limited form for your protection. If the data is no longer required for the fulfilment of contractual or legal obligations, the data will be deleted in accordance with our deletion concept.

Your rights

You have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), right to be forgotten (Art. 17 GDPR), right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and the right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR).

In addition, you have the right to object under Art. 21 GDPR in the context of processing based on Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data is contrary to the GDPR. This right shall be without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy.

Provision of personal data

In contractual relationships we collect your personal data only for the purposes described above, i.e. insofar as this is necessary, for example, for the proper execution of the contract. You are not obliged to provide personal data. However, if you do not provide any personal data, the contract cannot be fulfilled.

If you give us your consent, we use your personal data solely for the purpose covered by the consent; this purpose is described in detail in the consent text. Consent is voluntary, which means you can give it or not.

If the processing of your personal data is based on legal requirements, there is a provision obligation based on these legal requirements. In order to comply with these legal requirements, we need the necessary information from you, which may contain personal data. If you do not provide us with the necessary information, we will not be able to establish or continue the desired business relationship with you.

If we process your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests, we may be obliged to make them available on the basis of general obligations of providing assistance. In any case, before processing your personal data, we consider whether the processing is necessary and whether your interests in non-processing predominate. In the case of processing based on Article 6 (1) f) GDPR, you have a right to object pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR.

Customer Database

We use a CRM system (Customer Relationship Management) to maintain and manage customer relationships and relationships with interested parties. In this system, we store the data that we receive from you as part of the (initiation of the) business relationship. Furthermore, we store contract data, data on purchased goods and communication data in our CRM system. The service provider of our CRM system is gorelate GmbH (Seilerstätte 15/17a, 1010 Vienna, Austria; https://www.gorelate.com/de/datenschutz/). The data storage takes place in European data centers of Microsoft. To ensure the security of your personal and company data, we have concluded all necessary order processing contracts in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR and implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures.

 

Information on the right to object pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR

You have the right to object at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you under Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR (data processing necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests). Further information on our data processing and on which legal regulation we base them in each case can be found in our specific data protection information further down in accordance with Art. 13, 14 GDPR. If you object, we will no longer process your personal data, unless we can prove compelling reasons worthy of protection for the processing, which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

The objection can be made free of charge and form and should be addressed to

Falk Foundation e.V.
Leinenweberstr. 5
79108 Freiburg
Germany

Phone +49 (0)761 1514 400
Email objection@falkfoundation.org

Specific information pursuant to Art. 13 and Art. 14 GDPR

Collection of personal data when you visit our website

When you use our website for informational purposes

If you do not register with us or otherwise provide us with information, we only process the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. This includes your IP address, date and time of the request, time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), content of the request (specific page) and the access status/HTTP status code (“server log data“). This processing is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure the stability and security of the website.

The server log data will be deleted after one week.

The legal basis for such processing of the server log data is Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in ensuring security and stability when you visit our website. In particular due to the short duration of storing your data, we take your interest into account that your data will not be processed if possible.

You also have the right to object to the processing of server log data pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR. In this case, we will delete this data as soon as you object, unless we can demonstrate that our legitimate interests outweigh your interest.

Registration on our website

Some services require you to register on our website. Personal data that we collect upon registration include, for example, your personal details, job title and your e-mail address. In addition, we require your uniform training number from the state medical associations ("EFN") for individual services. We process the personal data you provide us in the process only for the purpose of using the respective service for which you have registered. The provision of this data is voluntary. However, if you do not wish to provide this information, we will have to refuse the registration.

We store the data collected by us during registration until the purpose for data storage no longer applies. The data are deleted subsequently. However, legal retention periods remain unaffected.

The legal basis for such processing is Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR.

Cookies

We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device during a session (session cookies), until you delete them or until they are automatically deleted by your web browser (permanent cookies). Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your device. The use of our websites requires the placement of cookies that are technically necessary for operation (Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR). In addition, you can give us consent to use other cookies (e.g. for analysis and marketing purposes) (Art. 6 (1) a) GDPR).

You can find detailed information about the cookies we use, the storage periods and the respective third-party providers under the following link. There you also have the option to change your cookie settings at any time (give / withdraw consent):

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Passing on your data

We partly work together with certain service providers. These are carefully selected and regularly checked by us. Under these conditions we possibly pass on your personal data to IT service providers.

In addition, your personal data is exchanged between us and the associated Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH.

Purposes and legal basis of processing your personal data

To decide on the establishment of your employment at our company

We process the following personal data in order to be able to decide on your application with us, whereby we limit ourselves in any case to the extent necessary for us to make a decision. Under these conditions we process personal data such as:

  • Data from your cover letter.
  • Your personal details and contact address (name, address, date of birth, e-mail address), professional history (previous employments with other companies, job titles, areas of responsibility and achievements), information on schools, universities and higher education institutions, qualifications, certificates and degrees.
  • We are also subject to public law obligations in some cases. We have to transfer your personal data to the respective authorities, for example due to labour and social security law, but also for the administration of tax and insurance law regulations.
  • To reimburse travel expenses for your job interview, we process your bank details as personal data.

The legal basis for this processing is § 26 (1) sentence 1 Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (“BDSG”).

Special categories of your personal data, such as religious affiliation and health data, will only be processed by us if this is necessary to exercise rights or to fulfil legal obligations under labour law, social security law and social protection law and there is no reason to assume that your legitimate interest in non-processing prevails. The legal basis for this is § 26 (3) BDSG in conjunction with Art. 9 (2) b) GDPR.

Data transfer within associated companies

Data is exchanged within our associated companies for internal organisational and administrative purposes. This data exchange is necessary for us, for example, if we use the same human resources department and also manage other administrative processes centrally.

The legal basis for such processing is Article 6 (1) f) GDPR.

Passing on your personal data

In particular, we work together with the following service providers who may be recipients of your personal data:

  • IT service providers
  • Insurances
  • Certified public accountants
  • Tax advisers
  • Audit companies

The service providers are carefully selected and regularly checked by us.

Some of your personal data will also be passed on to public authorities, for example the Federal Employment Agency.

In addition, your personal data is exchanged between us and the associated Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH.

Categories of data

When you order literature from our web shop, we process data categories such as personal details (surname, first name, title), address, e-mail address.

Purposes and legal basis of processing your personal data

  • For the fulfilment of contractual obligations, Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR
    We offer you the opportunity to obtain special literature on selected topics via our web shop. In this context, your personal data will only be processed in order to process your order, in particular in order to provide you with the desired literature.
  • On the basis of our legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR
    We have a legitimate interest in keeping our company competitive in the pharmaceutical market and in ensuring that the company operates efficiently and stabile. We process some of your personal data on the basis of the legitimate interests listed below:
    • To assert and defend legal claims.
    • Data is exchanged within associated companies for internal organisational and administrative purposes. This data exchange is necessary for us, for example, if we use the same human resources department and also manage other administrative processes centrally.
    • For the prevention and investigation of criminal offences.
    • To guarantee our network and information security (IT security).

Passing on your personal data

We partly work together with certain service providers. These are carefully selected and regularly checked by us. Under these conditions we possibly pass on your personal data to the following categories of recipients:

  • International Sales
  • IT service providers

In addition, your personal data is exchanged between us and the associated Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH.

Categories of data

If you attend one of the events organised by Falk Foundation e.V. as a participant or as a speaker, moderator or a comparable active participant, we process data categories such as personal details (surname, first name), address, e-mail address, your uniform medical association training number, bank account details as well as your profession and field of activity.

Purposes and legal basis of processing your personal data

  • For the fulfilment of contractual obligations, Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR
    We process your personal data for the execution of our contracts with you. If you are a participant of one of our events, we will only process your personal data if this is necessary for your participation, for example to assign it to a specific presentation or to print name tags.
    If you participate in a training event as a speaker, moderator or a comparable active participant, we will process your personal data to the extent necessary for preparation, organisation and participation. This includes, for example, the processing of your personal data as part of the organisation of your arrival and departure and your accommodation. In addition, we process your personal data in particular for the creation of name tags, participant lists, certificates and for the assignment to a specific presentation or for other necessary preparations for your contribution as a speaker.
  • On the basis of our legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR
    We have a legitimate interest in keeping our company competitive in the pharmaceutical market and in ensuring that the company operates efficiently and stabile. A processing of personal data is partly based on the following legitimate interests:
    • To assert and defend legal claims.
    • Data is exchanged within associated companies for internal organisational and administrative purposes. This data exchange is necessary for us, for example, if we use the same human resources department and also manage other administrative processes centrally.
    • For the prevention and investigation of criminal offences.
    • To guarantee our network and information security (IT security).

Passing on your personal data

We work together with certain service providers. These are carefully selected and regularly checked by us. Under these conditions we possibly pass on your personal data to the following categories of recipients:

  • Technical companies
  • Booth builder
  • Transfer services
  • Scientific organisations
  • Event participants
  • Graphic designers
  • Printing services providers
  • Press agencies
  • IT service providers
  • Medical associations

In some cases, your personal data is passed on to the state medical associations on the basis of medical law regulations.

In addition, your personal data is exchanged between us and the associated Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH.

Categories of data

As part of our "Falk Gastro-Kolleg" training module, we will send you our training magazine "Falk Gastro-Kolleg" four times a year free of charge and offer you the opportunity to participate in certified online training courses. For this purpose we process data categories such as personal details (surname, first name, title) and your address. If you use the online training courses, we will also process data categories relating to your professional group (field of activity and your uniform training number of the state medical association) as well as your e-mail address.

Purposes and legal basis of processing your personal data

  • For the fulfilment of contractual obligations, Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR
    We process your personal data which we need for the execution of our contracts with you. As part of our "Falk Gastro-Kolleg" training module, we offer you the opportunity to complete online training courses on selected learning units free of charge. Here you can collect points within the framework of continuing medical education (“CME points”). Your personal data will be processed in this context in order to be able to offer you the training module. This also includes a survey of your professional field of activity in order to transfer your collected CME points to the state medical association. Registration for our "Falk Gastro-Kolleg" module takes place via the DocCheck AG network (so-called "single sign-on"), to which only authorised medical personnel have access. Since we are only allowed to provide our training module to doctors and medical staff, we use the single sign-on service of DocCheck AG to carry out this test in advance. We will also process your personal data if you order our training magazine "Falk Gastro-Kolleg" (free of charge).
  • On the basis of our legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR
    We have a legitimate interest in ensuring that our association, which aims to promote science and pass on new findings and research results in the fields of gastroenterology and hepatology, continues to operate at a high scientific level. Four times a year we send out our training magazine "Falk Gastro-Kolleg" free of charge to selected medical staff who are already connected to the Falk Foundation e. V. due to other of our services. We use the journal to introduce our services (literature service etc.) of the Falk Foundation e. V. and thus to advertise our offer. In addition, we may process your personal data on the basis of the following legitimate interests:
    • To assert and defend legal claims.
    • Data is exchanged within associated companies for internal organisational and administrative purposes. This data exchange is necessary for us, for example, if we use the same human resources department and also manage other administrative processes centrally.
    • For the prevention and investigation of criminal offences.
    • To guarantee our network and information security (IT security).

Passing on your personal data

We work together with certain service providers. These are carefully selected and regularly checked by us. Under these conditions, recipients of personal data may be:

  • Printing services providers
  • Letter shops
  • IT service providers

In some cases, your personal data is passed on to the state medical associations.

In addition, your personal data is exchanged between us and the associated Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH.

Categories of data

When we send you our "Falk Gastro Review Journal", we process data categories such as personal details (name, first name, title), address and your customer number.

Purposes and legal basis of processing your personal data

  • On the basis of our legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR
    We have a legitimate interest in ensuring that our association, which aims to promote science and pass on new findings and research results in the fields of gastroenterology and hepatology, continues to operate at a high scientific level. Four times a year we send out our magazine "Falk Gastro Review Journal" free of charge to selected medical professionals who are already connected with the Falk Foundation e. V. due to other of our services. We use the journal to inform you about relevant scientific topics from the medical sector and to introduce you our services (literature service, etc.) of the Falk Foundation e.V. In addition, we may process your personal data on the basis of the following legitimate interests:
    • To assert and defend legal claims.
    • Data is exchanged within associated companies for internal organisational and administrative purposes. This data exchange is necessary for us, for example, if we use the same human resources department and also manage other administrative processes centrally.
    • For the prevention and investigation of criminal offences.
    • To guarantee our network and information security (IT security).

Passing on your personal data

We work together with certain service providers. These are carefully selected and regularly checked by us. Under these conditions, recipients of personal data may be:

  • Printing services providers
  • Letter shops
  • IT service providers

In addition, your personal data is exchanged between us and the associated Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH.

Our data sources

We process personal data that you provide us in the context of our business relationship. This may be, for example, personal data that we have received from you in connection with registrations for events. If necessary for the provision of our services, we also collect your personal data from publicly accessible sources and process them (e.g. yellow pages, Internet, print media, scientific organisations).

Categories of data

If you attend one of the congresses organised by the Falk Foundation e. V. or submit a poster abstract, we process data categories such as personal details (surname, first name), address, e-mail address, date of birth, your uniform training number of the state medical association, bank account details and your field of professional activity.

Photographs will be taken during the event. These are usually impressions of the event as well as group pictures or pictures of the poster exhibition.

Purposes and legal basis of processing your personal data

  • For the fulfilment of contractual obligations, Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR
    We process your personal data for the execution of our contracts with you.
    If you are a participant of an event, we will only process your personal data if this is necessary for your participation, preparation, organisation and follow-up. Data is processed, for example, for registration, hotel bookings, the creation of name tags, participant lists, certificates and for the creation of a user account and the uploading of personal data for the submission of a poster abstract during the event.
    If you are a speaker, moderator, scientific organiser or a comparable participant, the processing of your personal data also includes, for example, the organisation of your travel and hotel bookings. Your personal data will also be processed as part of the production of abstracts and press articles, etc. In addition, your personal data will be forwarded to hotels if your reservation is processed directly through us.
  • On the basis of our legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR
    We have a legitimate interest in ensuring that our association, which aims to promote science and pass on new findings and research results in the fields of gastroenterology and hepatology, continues to operate at a high scientific level. In some cases, we process your personal data on the basis of the legitimate interests listed below:
    • To assert and defend legal claims.
    • Data is exchanged within associated companies for internal organisational and administrative purposes. This data exchange is necessary for us, for example, if we use the same human resources department and also manage other administrative processes centrally.
    • For the prevention and investigation of criminal offences.
    • To guarantee our network and information security (IT security).

Passing on your personal data

We work together with certain service providers. These are carefully selected and regularly checked by us. Under these conditions, recipients of personal data may be:

  • Technical companies
  • Booth builders
  • Transfer services
  • IT service providers who, for example, work on our behalf to provide the "event mobile app".
  • Scientific organisations
  • Event participants
  • Graphic designers
  • Printing services providers
  • Press agencies

If our event contract with you also includes the organisation of your trip or the hotel booking for the event, we will pass on your personal data to the following categories of recipients as far as necessary:

  • Hotels
  • Railway
  • Airlines
  • Taxi companies
  • Travel agencies
  • Visa agencies

In some cases, your personal data is passed on to the state medical associations.

In addition, your personal data is exchanged between us and the associated Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH.

Categories of data

If you subscribe to our Falk Gastro-Info Newsletter, we process data categories such as personal details (surname, first name, title), address, e-mail address, customer number as well as information about your profession such as field and function.

Purposes and legal basis of processing your personal data

  • On the basis of your consent, Art. 6 (1) a) GDPR
    If you give us your consent to the processing of your personal data for specific purposes, this consent is the legal basis for processing your personal data, Art. 6 (1) a) GDPR. If you register for the Falk Gastro-Info Newsletter, for example, we process your personal data exclusively in order to provide you with the newsletter service, i.e. to send it to you by e-mail.
  • On the basis of our legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR
    We have a legitimate interest in ensuring that our association, which aims to promote science and pass on new findings and research results in the fields of gastroenterology and hepatology, continues to operate at a high scientific level. In some cases, we process your personal data on the basis of the legitimate interests listed below:
    • To assert and defend legal claims.
    • Data is exchanged within associated companies for internal organisational and administrative purposes. This data exchange is necessary for us, for example, if we use the same human resources department and also manage other administrative processes centrally.
    • For the prevention and investigation of criminal offences.
    • To guarantee our network and information security (IT security).
  • Due to legal requirements, Art. 6 (1) c) GDPR
    Due to advertising law regulations we are only allowed to send the newsletter to certain medical personnel. Therefore, we ask you for your professional position before sending it out.

Passing on your personal data
We work together with certain service providers. These are carefully selected and regularly checked by us. Under these conditions, recipients of personal data may be:

  • Web agency
  • IT service providers

In addition, your personal data is exchanged between us and the associated Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH.

Categories of data

As part of our print mailing service, we process data categories such as your personal details (surname, first name, title), address of your clinic or practice, customer number as well as information about your profession, specialist area and function.

Sources of collected data (Art. 14 GDPR)

We obtain your personal data listed under "Categories of data" from the following sources - unless a data source is expressly designated as "publicly accessible", it is not publicly accessible:

  • A data source can be a previous business contact with you in which context we received your personal data.
  • In addition, your own internet presence (e.g. your practice website) can serve as a possible publicly accessible data source.
  • Finally, we cooperate with the commercial database provider IQVIA Commercial GmbH & Co. OHG, Unterschweinstiege 2-14, 60549 Frankfurt, which has a broad spectrum of potential data records for various advertising purposes.

Purposes and legal basis of processing your personal data

  • On the basis of our legitimate interest, Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR
    We have a legitimate interest in keeping our company competitive in the pharmaceutical market and in ensuring that the company operates efficiently and stabile. Hence, we inform you about current topics and services of our company by means of postal mailings. We base this on our legitimate interest in advertising our company offer. Our mailings include information on the topics:
    • Scientific information material (such as brochures, journals, etc.)
    • Information on congresses, training courses (both as an announcement in the form of programmes and as follow-up reports or event overviews)
    • Offers and order forms for requesting samples, literature and discounts
    • Information on certified further training (online modules)
    • Overviews of the services offered by Falk Foundation e. V. and Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH as well as the possibility to register for the Falk Gastro Info Newsletter.
    • Product information
    • Information on indications
  • Further legitimate interests arise for us:
    • To assert and defend legal claims.
    • Data is exchanged within associated companies for internal organisational and administrative purposes. This data exchange is necessary for us, for example, if we use the same human resources department and also manage other administrative processes centrally.
    • For the prevention and investigation of criminal offences.
    • To guarantee our network and information security (IT security).

Passing on your personal data

We work together with certain service providers. These are carefully selected and regularly checked by us. Under these conditions we possibly pass on your personal data to the following categories of recipients:

  • IT service provider
  • Letter shops

Purposes of the processing of your data

In this section of the data protection information, we explain the data processing and procedures we use to process personal data of our customers, suppliers, service providers and other business partners and the personal data of their employees and representatives (collectively, the "Business Partners").

This data protection information is addressed to you

  • If you as a natural person (e.g. as a consultant or entrepreneur) are a Business Partner of Falk Foundation e.V.;
  • If you are an employee or representative of a Business Partner, who has a relationship with us on behalf of that Business Partner (e.g., if you work on our projects or represent the Business Partner);
  • If you are an employee or representative of any person, company, corporation or other organization with whom we are in contractual negotiations or otherwise in the process of establishing a business relationship.

In addition, we refer to our other data protection information on this website in connection with the special services of our company and activities described there.

Personal data is processed for the following purposes:

  • Establishing, carrying out, expanding and initiating business relationships (e.g. fulfilment of contractual obligations, implementation of a business cooperation, invitations to events, documentation and expansion of the business relationship, storage for liaising for future business opportunities, invoicing, payment as well as tax and legal purposes);
  • Data exchange with affiliated companies. This data exchange is necessary, for example, when administrative processes are performed centrally by one affiliate;
  • To fulfil statutory or regulatory obligations in Germany and other countries (e.g., notification, disclosure and reporting obligations);
  • Data processing to prevent and investigate criminal offences, to guarantee our network and information security (IT security) and to assert and defend legal claims.

Data categories

We collect and process the following categories of personal data about you that is collected from you or by authorized third parties (e.g. your supervisors, publicly available sources) in connection with our business relationship. This data may include:

  • General data and contact information (e.g. first and last name, academic title, gender, address, telephone number, address, e-mail address, fax number, professional position);
  • Communication and customer relations data (e.g. information on business documents and internet websites, date and time of personal meetings or discussions);
  • Payment details (e.g. bank account details, credit card details);
  • Authentication data for IT systems (e.g. login-data or name, passwords).

Passing on your personal data

Each passing on of your data is subject to a special assessment. We may share your information with the following categories of recipients:

  • Service providers of Falk Foundation e.V. They are carefully selected and regularly checked by us. They include IT service providers, database operators, payment service providers and commissioned data processors;
  • Lettershops and printers;
  • Specialist consultants (e.g. accountants, lawyers, tax consultants, auditors);
  • Authorities;
  • Contractual partners of Falk Foundation e.V. such as distribution and licensing partners, as far as the transfer is necessary for the fulfilment of legal or contractual obligations;
  • Affiliated companies of Falk Foundation e.V.

Your data will only be passed on to such persons and only to the extent necessary to fulfil the underlying purpose. With regard to other aspects of passing on your personal data, we also refer to the explanations in the above "General Information" in this data protection information.

Legal basis for data processing

The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR, if the processing of your personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract or for conducting pre-contractual measures.

As legal basis for the processing, we rely on Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR if the processing is based on legitimate interests (e.g. data processing with associated companies for administrative purposes, data submission to authorities during inspections and inquiries, data processing to ensure IT security or assertion of legal claims).

We may also use Art. 6 (1) c) GDPR as a legal basis if the data processing is necessary for the fulfilment of legal obligations (e.g. fulfilment of notification, disclosure and reporting obligations).

We refer to Art. 6 (1) a) GDPR as the legal basis if the data subject concerned has given us his/her consent to the intended processing of his/her personal data.

If we do not receive information about a person directly from that person, we assume that the Business Partner for whom that person is employed will provide such employee with the necessary data protection information in accordance with Art. 13 GDPR. This includes the specific processing of your personal data based on your capacity as an employee of the respective company or organisation.

Duration of data storage and your rights

With regard to the duration of the storage of your personal data and your rights, we refer to the above explanations in the general part of this data protection information.

Purpose and legal basis of the processing of your data

Falk Foundation e.V. regularly conducts online queries (survey, quiz, evaluation, etc.) for example in the context of events or seminars. The purpose of the query and its conduction will be explained to you when you are asked to participate in a query.

Participation in queries may be voluntary or mandatory (e.g., required to obtain a certificate). Unless otherwise described in the query, it is anonymous. All mandatory fields in queries are marked with an *. If you would like to participate anonymously in the query, please do not enter any personal data (e.g., name, e-mail address) in free text fields. In some queries there is the possibility to voluntarily enter personal data (e.g., name, e-mail address, telephone number), so that we can contact you afterwards or to get more detailed results. If you provide us with your personal data, it will be processed exclusively for the purposes of the query.

By sending the query, you give us your consent for the processing of the data you provided (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). This applies to voluntary queries. In the case of mandatory queries, the legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b.

Data categories

  • Anonymous participation: no personal data
  • Voluntary or mandatory provision of personal data, in particular:
    • E-mail address
    • Telephone numbe
    • Name, first name (alternatively: specification of a pseudonym)

To ensure a secure participation in the survey, data transmission is exclusively encrypted. In the process, so-called log data is collected, to prevent, for instance, misuse of the query forms. The log data includes, for example, your IP address. The log data collected is not evaluated or merged with other query data, so that anonymity can be guaranteed.

Passing on your personal data

We work together with certain service providers. These are carefully selected and regularly monitored by us. Under these conditions, recipients of personal data may be:

  • Streaming platform providers
  • Providers of online conferences
  • IT service providers

In some cases, your personal data is passed on to the state medical associations.

In addition, an exchange of your personal data takes place between us and the associated Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH.

In particular, the Microsoft services Microsoft Forms and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Voice of Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399 USA (hereinafter "Microsoft") are used to perform queries. Microsoft stores the data collected as part of the query on servers in Europe. The data transfer is exclusively encrypted. To ensure the confidentiality of your data, we have concluded standard contractual clauses with Microsoft. All further information on data processing by Microsoft can be found at https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement.

Storage period

We store the results of the query until it is completed, and the internal evaluation is finished. After that, any personal data that may have been collected as part of the query will be set to inactive and made available for deletion.

Your rights

Regarding your rights, we politely refer to the relevant explanations in the preceding general section "Your rights" in the upper part of this page.