Privacy statement Facebook pages visitBerlin Berlin Convention Office

1) Information on collecting personal data and contact details of the responsible person

1.1 Below we inform you about the handling of your personal data. Personal data is all data with which you can be personally identified.
Please check carefully which personal data you share with us via Facebook. As long as you are logged into your Facebook account and visit our Facebook profile, Facebook can associate this with your Facebook profile. We expressly point out that Facebook stores the data of its users (e.g. personal information, IP address, etc.) and may also use them for business purposes. For more information about Facebook’s data processing practices, please see Facebook’s Privacy Policy at https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.
We have no influence on the data collection and further processing by Facebook. Furthermore, it is not clear to us to what extent, at what location and for how long data will be stored, to what extent Facebook will comply with existing deletion obligations, which evaluations and links will be made with the data and to whom the data will be forwarded. If you would like to avoid Facebook processing any personal information you provide to us, please contact us by other means. You can find our complete contact details on legal notice on Facebook.

1.2 Data processor under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):
Berlin Tourismus & Kongress GmbH
Am Karlsbad 11
10785 Berlin
Tel.: 030/ 25 00 23 33 Fax: 030/ 25 00 24 24
Email: hallo@visitBerlin.de,
as far as we exclusively process the data you transmit to us via Facebook ourselves.

Insofar as the data you transmit to us via Facebook is also or exclusively processed by Facebook (Insights data), Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland, is also responsible for data processing as laid down in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in addition to us. Data processing in this respect is based on an agreement between jointly responsible parties pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR, which you can view here:
https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum.

Furthermore, for the use of certain Facebook products, such as the so-called "Facebook Business Tools", and for data processing carried out as a result, a supplementary agreement applies between us and Facebook Ireland Ltd. as joint responsible parties pursuant to Art. 26 DSGVO, which you can view here:
https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum

The data processor is the natural or legal person that determines alone or jointly with others the purposes, conditions and means of the processing of personal data.

2) Data protection officer

You can reach our data protection officer as follows:

AMD TÜV Arbeitsmedizinische Dienste GmbH
Herr Oliver Gröger
Alboinstraße 56
12103 Berlin

datenschutz@visitBerlin.de

You can contact the Facebook data protection officer via the online contact form provided by Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970.

3) Data processing when contacting us

We ourselves collect personal data when you contact us, e.g. via contact form or messenger. You can see which data we collect when you contact us via the contact form from the relevant contact form. These data are stored and used exclusively for the purpose of answering your request or for establishing contact and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for the processing of the data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If the purpose of your contact is to conclude a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted after final processing of your request, unless there are any legal obligations to store it. We assume that the matter will be dealt with conclusively if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the relevant facts have been conclusively clarified.

4) Data processing for statistical purposes by means of page insights

Facebook provides us with page insights for our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/business/a/page/page-insights. This is aggregated information that can help us understand how people interact with our site. Page insights may be based on personal information collected in connection with a visit or interaction by persons to or with our site and its contents. Pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this serves to safeguard our predominantly legitimate interests in an optimised presentation of our offer and effective communication with customers and interested parties within the framework of a weighing of interests.
You can object to the processing of your data for the aforementioned purposes at any time by changing your settings for advertisements in your Facebook user account at https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads.

5) Rights of data subjects

5.1 The applicable data protection law grants you comprehensive data subject rights with respect to the entity responsible for processing your personal data (rights of access and intervention) about which we inform you below:

Right to information as per Article 15 GDPR.

Right to rectification as per Article 16 GDPR.

Right to erasure as per Article 17 GDPR.

Right to restriction of processing as per Article 18 GDPR.

Right to notification as per Article 19 GDPR.

Right to data portability as per Article 20 GDPR.

Right to withdraw consents granted as per Article 7 para. 3 GDPR.

Right to lodge a complaint as per Article 77 GDPR.

5.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT
IF AS PART OF THE BALANCING OF INTERESTS WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR PREVAILING LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO SUBMIT AN OBJECTION TO SUCH PROCESSING WITH FUTURE EFFECT FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR SPECIFIC SITUATION.
IF YOU MAKE USE OF YOUR RIGHT OF OBJECTION, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED. HOWEVER, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO FURTHER PROCESSING IF WE CAN PROVE COMPELLING GROUNDS FOR PROCESSING WORTHY OF PROTECTION WHICH OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ASSERTION, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.
IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US IN ORDER TO CONDUCT DIRECT ADVERTISING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH ADVERTISING. YOU CAN EXERCISE THE OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
IF YOU MAKE USE OF YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE PROCESSING THE DATA IN QUESTION FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT ADVERTISING.

6) Duration of storage of personal data

The duration of the storage of personal data is measured on the basis of the respective legal basis, the processing purpose and - if relevant - also on the basis of the respective statutory retention period (e.g. retention periods under commercial and tax law).
When personal data is processed on the basis of express consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a of the GDPR, this data is stored until the person concerned revokes his or her consent.
If there are statutory retention periods for data that is processed within the scope of legal obligations or similar obligations on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b of the GDPR, this data will be routinely deleted after expiry of the retention periods, provided that it is no longer required for the performance of the contract or the initiation of the contract and/or there is no legitimate interest on our part in continuing to store it.
When processing personal data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f of the GDPR, this data is stored until the data subject exercises his or her right to object in accordance with Art. 21 para. 1 of the GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing is for the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims.
When processing personal data for the purpose of direct marketing on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f of the GDPR, this data will be stored until the data subject exercises his or her right to object in accordance with Art. 21 para. 2 of the GDPR.
Unless stated otherwise in the other information in this statement about specific processing situations, stored personal data will be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or processed.

Version: November 2022