Privacy Policy

AI Marketplace is a project of a total of 20 partners from research and industry under the umbrella of the Leading-Edge Cluster it’s OWL and with the Heinz Nixdorf Institute as project leader. With sponsorship from the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), we are working on an ecosystem for artificial intelligence in product creation.

Within the scope of the use of this website, personal data of you will be processed by us as the person responsible for data processing and stored for the period of time required to fulfil the defined purposes and legal obligations. In the following, we will inform you about what data is involved, how it is processed and what rights you are entitled to in this regard. According to Art. 4 No. 1 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), personal data is all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

1. Scope of application
This data protection information applies to the project website at www.ki marktplatz.com

2. Name and contact details of the person in charge for the processing and the company data protection officer
Responsible person in the sense of Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR:

it’s OWL Clustermanagement GmbH
Street: Zukunftsmeile 2
Post code, town/city: 33102 Paderborn
Telephone: +49 5251 2973723
E-mail: info@its-owl.de

Data protection officer’s contact details
Controller: bITs GmbH
Viktor Pidde (data protection adviser/data protection officer)
Detmolder Straße 204
33100 Paderborn
Telephone: +49 5251 688948-0
Fax: +49 5251 688948-4
E-mail: datenschutz@its-owl.de

3. Processing of personal data and purposes of processing
During the visit on the website, you can access our website without discloseing your identity. The browser used on your device only sends information automatically to the server of our website (e.g. browser type and version, date and time of access) to enable a connection to the website. This also includes the IP address of your requesting device. This is temporarily stored in a so-called log file and as soon as the above-mentioned data is no longer required to display the website, it is deleted. The IP address is processed for technical and administrative purposes of establishing and maintaining the connection, in order to ensure the security and functionality of our website and to be able to track any illegal attacks on it if necessary. The legal basis for the processing of the IP address is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is based on the mentioned security concern and the need for a trouble-free provision of our website. We cannot draw any direct conclusions about your identity from the processing of the IP address and other information in the log file.

4. Transfer of personal data to third parties
We only pass on personal data concerning you to third parties if: – you have given your explicit permission to do so in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a GDPR; – this is necessary in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b GDPR for the fulfilment of a contract with you, – in the event that there is a legal obligation to pass on data in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. c GDPR. The data passed on may be used by the third party exclusively for the purposes mentioned. A transfer of personal data to a third country (outside the EU) or an international organisation is excluded.

5. YouTube
We use videos on our website on the basis of a consent to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR components (videos) of the company YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave., 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA ( in the following: “YouTube”), a company of Google Inc, Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ( in the following: “Google”). For this purpose, we use the “enhanced privacy mode” option provided by YouTube. When you visit a page that has embedded video, a connection to the YouTube servers is established and the content is displayed on the website by notifying your browser. According to YouTube, in “enhanced privacy mode” your data – in particular which of our websites you have visited and device-specific information including the IP address – is only transmitted to the YouTube server in the USA when you view the video. By clicking on the video, you consent to this transmission. If you are logged in to YouTube at the same time, this information is associated with your YouTube account. You can prevent this by logging out of your member account before visiting our website. Google adheres to the US Privacy Shield Privacy Policy and is registered with the US Department of Commerce’s US Privacy Shield Program. For more information about YouTube privacy, please see the Google Privacy Policy.

6. Social plug-ins
We use so-called social media buttons and social media feeds on our website. If you activate such a button, a connection is established between our website and the social network. In addition to the content in question, the operator of the social network receives further information, some of which is personal. This includes, for example, the fact that you are currently visiting our site. We use the following social media plugins and feeds:

Twitter
Some information is transmitted to the parent company Twitter Inc. based in the USA. This company observes the data protection regulations of the “US-Privacy Shield” and is registered with the “US-Privacy Shield” program of the US Department of Commerce. For more information on data protection at Twitter, please refer to the Twitter privacy policy.

7. rights of data subjects

You have the right:

– pursuant to Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR to revoke your consent to us at any time. As a result, we may no longer continue the data processing based on this consent for the future;

– in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR to request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you may request information on the purposes of the processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right of rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or opposition, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of your data, if not collected by us, as well as the existence of automated decision making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on the details thereof;

– in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to demand the correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us without delay; – in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, to demand the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfil a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;

– pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR, to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful, but you refuse to delete it and we no longer require the data, but you require it for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims or you have lodged an objection to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR;

– in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request that it be transferred to another responsible party and – in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR, to complain to a supervisory authority. As a rule, you may contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our registered office for this purpose.

Information on your right of objection under 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 which is carried out on the basis of Article 6 paragraph 1 letter e) GDPR (data processing in the public interest) and Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f) GDPR (data processing based on a balancing of interests); this also applies to profiling of Article 4 No. 4 GDPR based on this provision. If you lodge an objection, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can prove compelling reasons for processing that are worthy of protection and outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or unless the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims. If you object to the processing of data for the purpose of direct marketing, we will immediately stop the processing. In this case it is not necessary to specify a special situation. This also applies to profiling, insofar as it is associated with such direct mail. If you wish to exercise your right of objection, simply send an e-mail to datenschutzkoordination@zv.fraunhofer.de.

8. Data security
We use appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

9. Topicality and change of this data protection information
This data protection information is currently valid and has the status 11/2020. Due to the further development of our website and offers on it or due to changed legal or official requirements it may become necessary to change this data protection information. The current data protection information can be called up and printed out at any time on the website www.ki-marktplatz.com.