Data protection

I. Responsible party, scope of application

The controller within the meaning of the relevant data protection regulations is INFORUM Verlags- und Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (hereinafter referred to as the "Provider"). Please refer to the legal notice for details of the summonable address and authorised representatives.

The protection of personal data is a top priority for us. We would therefore like to inform you here about what data we collect and when, and how we handle your personal data. This privacy policy describes the collection and use of personal data when you visit and use the websites www.kernd.de, www.kernfragen.de, www.kerntechnik.com, www.amnt.de, www.nucmag.com, www.atw-scientific.comand other Internet domains which, when accessed, automatically redirect the user to one of the aforementioned pages (hereinafter referred to collectively as the "website"). 

The website operated by the provider makes editorial content on the topic of nuclear energy available to users free of charge. In addition, the user has the option of purchasing products from the provider's paid-for range via corresponding shop functions, registering for an event or seminar or booking an advert placement.

The provider also uses the personal data for statistical and market analysis purposes. For example, statistics on customer groups, delivery areas and market sectors are compiled and analysed in anonymised form. Details on this can be found in the respective sections of this privacy policy.
Additional data protection notices may apply to special services or promotions (e.g. special offers). We will inform you of these at the start of the usage process for the respective service or promotion.

II General information on data processing

1. scope of the processing of personal data

We only process our users' personal data to the extent necessary to provide a functional website and our content and services. The processing of our users' personal data only takes place regularly with the user's consent or on the basis of other legal provisions that permit data processing.

2. legal bases for the processing of personal data

Consent
Insofar as we obtain the consent of the data subject for the processing of personal data, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) serves as the legal basis.

Contract or pre-contractual measures
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR serves as the legal basis for the processing of personal data required for the fulfilment of a contract to which the data subject is a party. This also applies to processing operations that are necessary for the performance of pre-contractual measures.

Legal obligation
Insofar as the processing of personal data is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation to which our company is subject, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR serves as the legal basis.

Legitimate interest
If the processing is necessary to safeguard a legitimate interest of our company or a third party and if the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject do not outweigh the former interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR serves as the legal basis for the processing.

3. data erasure and storage duration

In principle, and unless otherwise stated, your personal data will only be stored until the purpose for which it was collected and stored no longer applies. In accordance with your consent, data may also be stored for longer as long as you do not revoke your consent.

Data may also be stored if this has been provided for by the European or national legislator in EU regulations, laws or other provisions to which we are subject. The data will also be blocked or deleted if a storage period prescribed by the aforementioned standards expires, unless there is a need for further storage of the data for the conclusion or fulfilment of a contract.

4. transfer to third countries

Unless otherwise stated, all data processing operations take place within the EU or EEA states.

Data processing operations carried out by third-party providers established outside the aforementioned geographical area may be carried out in part or in full in the countries of the respective branch or in accordance with the respective data protection regulations.

A transfer of personal data outside the EU or the EEA will only take place on the basis of an adequacy decision of the European Commission, including the adequacy decision on the EU-US Privacy Shield, or in accordance with standard contractual clauses of the European Commission. A list of current adequacy decisions is available on the European Commission's website.

Information about the EU-US Privacy Shield and in particular information about the participation of a particular company can be found on the website of the US Department of Commerce.

III Data use in general form for the provision of the website and creation of log files

Regardless of whether you place an order, we automatically store user-related data about the usage process when you use our website. This includes, in particular, the URL of the website accessed, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred, the http status code of the response to the access, the web browser and HTTP referrer and the IP address. We do not associate this information with you personally. We store the IP addresses in the log files for a limited period of time, insofar as this is necessary for security purposes.

We collect this data to ensure the provision of our website to you. It is also used to analyse, store and evaluate user behaviour anonymously and to continuously improve and develop the service. Further details on the systems used can be found in the sections on cookies and social media below.

We only store your IP address in the log files for a limited period of time, insofar as this is necessary for security purposes.

Our legitimate interest, which justifies data processing in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR, also lies in the aforementioned purposes.

IV. Use of data when placing an order or registering for an event

When you place a chargeable order on our website or register for an event, we collect and process the following personal data: Salutation, surname, first name, title, organisation, address, e-mail address, different delivery address if applicable. We need this data in order to process your order or registration properly.

You can provide the following additional information voluntarily: Department, date of birth. We process this data for statistical purposes, but separately from the other data relating to you. This enables us to gain statistical insights into visitors to our online shop or our events without establishing a link to you in order to constantly improve our offering and adapt it to the interests of our users. This is our legitimate interest, which justifies the collection and use in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

In addition, we automatically collect the following data, which, however, does not allow us to draw any conclusions about your civil identity: regional origin, operating system and end device, referring website, open subpages.

In order to process your order or registration, we use external service providers to whom we transfer your data if necessary. These are service providers who are responsible for the processing and delivery of your order or the organisation of events (e.g. logistics companies, printers, congress agencies). Such service providers process the data exclusively on our behalf and for the purpose of contract fulfilment. Under no circumstances will your data be used for the service providers' own purposes. Where required by law, we have concluded data processing agreements with all our service providers in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR.

If you purchase payable products or services from our range, we do not collect and process any payment data. To process the payment, we use external payment service providers who collect payment data directly from you. We then only receive confirmation that payment has been made.

The basis for the use of data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.

V. Use of cookies

1. a) Description and scope of data processing

In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your end device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted again at the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and enable us or our partner companies to recognise your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies).

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. You can also manually delete cookies from your end device at any time.

If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website or our app may be restricted.

Technical cookies
We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the accessing browser can be identified even after a page change. Information on (language settings, shopping basket content, log-in information, etc.) is stored.

The use of technical cookies is based on our legitimate interest in providing a functional and user-friendly service.

Technically unnecessary cookies
In addition, we use technically unnecessary cookies to monitor and evaluate user behaviour for market analysis purposes. These are cookies from third-party providers that are used when using our services. For details, please refer to the following sections.

We use technically unnecessary cookies to analyse and regularly improve the use of our website. We can use the statistics obtained to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Google Analytics
We work with "Google Analytics". This is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. The information generated by the Google Analytics cookie about your use of our website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. IP anonymisation has been activated on our websites so that the IP address of Google users within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area is shortened beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the unabridged IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and abbreviated there. Google will use this information on our behalf to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. Alternatively, you can click on the following link: Deactivate Google Analytics. An opt-out cookie will then be set to prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website.

For more information on the handling of personal data by Google, please refer to Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

 

Google AdWords Remarketing and Conversion Tracking
We use Google Adwords to advertise this website in Google search results and on third-party websites. For this purpose, when you visit our website, the so-called remarketing and conversion tracking cookie is set by Google, which automatically enables interest-based advertising by means of a pseudonymous cookie ID and based on the pages you visit, or allows us or Google to track that you have clicked on the advert and have been redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. It is therefore not possible for cookies to be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers.

This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in the optimal marketing of our website in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. After the end of the purpose and the end of the use of Google AdWords Remarketing by us, the data collected in this context will be deleted.

Any further data processing will only take place if you have consented to Google linking your web and app browsing history to your Google account and using information from your Google account to personalise ads that you see on the web. In this case, if you are logged in to Google while visiting our website, Google will use your data together with Google Analytics data to create and define target group lists for cross-device remarketing. For this purpose, Google will temporarily link your personal data with Google Analytics data in order to create target groups.

Google AdWords Remarketing is an offer from Google LLC (www.google.de). Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be here can be viewed here. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

You can delete the remarketing cookie via this link deactivate. You can also register with the Digital Advertising Alliance about the setting of cookies and make settings for this.

1. b) Duration of storage, objection and removal options
   Cookies are stored on the user's computer and transmitted by it to our website. As a user, you therefore 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 the functions of the website to their full extent.

VI Newsletter

You can register to receive our newsletter by entering your e-mail address in the form provided. You can enter your name voluntarily. We will only use this to address you personally.

You will then receive an automatic confirmation email containing a link to the address you provided. The registration process is only completed when you click on this link.

If you agree to receive our newsletter, we will use your e-mail address to send you advertising and interesting offers for our own goods and services and those of partner companies. The data will not be passed on to third parties. You can withdraw your consent to receive newsletters at any time by objecting to the receipt of newsletters.

The basis for this form of data processing is your consent.

If we have collected your e-mail address as part of the purchase or utilisation of our products or services, we may also send you e-mail newsletters for our offers that are similar to the goods or services you have already ordered from us, even without your prior consent, if you have not objected to receiving such newsletters. The basis for this is provided by Section 7 (3) UWG.

You can object to receiving all types of newsletters from us at any time without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic rates (i.e. the costs of your internet provider, for example). We will inform you of your right to object when we collect your email address and in the respective newsletter.

VII Social media plugins

We use social media plugins from various providers on our website to improve our offering and make it more attractive for you. The basis for the associated processing of personal data is therefore Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Social plugins from Facebook, Twitter using the Shariff solution.
Social buttons from social networks are used on our website.

This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in the optimal marketing of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. In order to increase the protection of your data when you visit our website, these buttons are not fully integrated into the page as plugins, but only by using an HTML link. This integration ensures that no connection is established with the servers of the provider of the respective social network when a page of our website containing such buttons is accessed.

If you click on one of the buttons, a new window will open in your browser and call up the page of the respective service provider, where you can click on the Like or Share button, for example (after entering your login data if necessary).

The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers on their pages as well as a contact option and your rights and setting options in this regard to protect your privacy can be found in the providers' data protection notices:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Twitter: https://twitter.com/privacy

Youtube Video Plugins
Third-party content is made available on our website via the YouTube service. YouTube is operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google").

For videos from YouTube that are embedded on our site, the extended data protection setting is activated. This means that no information from website visitors is collected and stored by YouTube unless they play the video. The integration of the videos serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in the optimal marketing of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR.
The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers as well as your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in Google's data protection information http://www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html.

VIII Rights of the data subject

If your personal data is processed, you are a data subject within the meaning of the GDPR and you have the following rights vis-à-vis the controller:

1. right to information

You can request confirmation from the controller as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed by us.

If such processing has taken place, you can request the following information from the controller:

(1) the purposes for which the personal data are processed;
(2) the categories of personal data that are processed;
(3) the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data concerning you have been or will be disclosed;
(4) the planned duration of the storage of the personal data concerning you or, if specific information on this is not possible, criteria for determining the storage period;
(5) the existence of a right to rectification or erasure of personal data concerning you, a right to restriction of processing by the controller or a right to object to such processing;
(6) the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority;
(7) all available information on the origin of the data if the personal data are not collected from the data subject;
(8) the existence of automated decision-making including profiling in accordance with Art. 22 (1) and (4) GDPR and - at least in these cases - meaningful information on the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing for the data subject.

You have the right to request information as to whether the personal data concerning you is transferred to a third country or to an international organisation. In this context, you may request to be informed of the appropriate safeguards pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR in connection with the transfer.

2. right to rectification

You have a right to rectification and/or completion vis-à-vis the controller if the processed personal data concerning you is incorrect or incomplete. The controller must make the correction without delay.

3. right to restriction of processing

Under the following conditions, you may request the restriction of the processing of your personal data:

(1) if you contest the accuracy of the personal data concerning you for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
(2) the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of the personal data and request the restriction of their use instead;
(3) the controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but they are required by you for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, or
(4) if you have objected to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 (1) GDPR and it has not yet been established whether the legitimate reasons of the controller override your reasons.

If the processing of personal data concerning you has been restricted, this data - apart from its storage - may only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or of a Member State.

If the restriction of processing has been restricted in accordance with the above conditions, you will be informed by the controller before the restriction is lifted.

4. right to cancellation

1. a) Cancellation obligation
   You have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning you without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies:

(1) The personal data concerning you are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.

(2) You revoke your consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a or Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a GDPR and there is no other legal basis for the processing.

(3) You object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 (1) GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or you object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 (2) GDPR.

(4) The personal data concerning you has been processed unlawfully.

(5) The deletion of personal data concerning you is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the Member States to which the controller is subject.

(6) The personal data concerning you were collected in relation to information society services offered in accordance with Art. 8 para. 1 GDPR.

1. b) Information to third parties
   If the controller has made the personal data concerning you public and is obliged to erase it pursuant to Art. 17 (1) GDPR, it shall take appropriate measures, including technical measures, taking into account the available technology and the implementation costs, to inform data controllers who process the personal data that you as the data subject have requested the erasure of all links to this personal data or of copies or replications of this personal data.
2. c) Exceptions
   The right to erasure does not exist if the processing is necessary

(1) to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information;
(2) for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;
(3) for reasons of public interest in the area of public health in accordance with Art. 9 para. 2 lit. h and i and Art. 9 para. 3 GDPR;
(4) for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes in accordance with Art. 89 para. 1 GDPR, insofar as the right referred to in section a) is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing, or
(5) for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.

5. right to information

If you have asserted the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing against the controller, the controller is obliged to notify all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you have been disclosed of this rectification or erasure of the data or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort.

You have the right to be informed about these recipients by the controller.

6. right to data portability

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to the controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transmit this data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data has been provided, where

(1) the processing is based on consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR or Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR and

(2) the processing is carried out by automated means.

In exercising this right, you also have the right to have the personal data concerning you transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible. The freedoms and rights of other persons must not be affected by this.

The right to data portability does not apply to the processing of personal data necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

7. right of objection

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you which is based on point (e) or (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR, including profiling based on those provisions.

The controller will no longer process the personal data concerning you unless the controller demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

If the personal data concerning you are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time, without giving reasons, to the processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing.

If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data concerning you will no longer be processed for these purposes.

8. right to revoke the declaration of consent under data protection law

You have the right to revoke your declaration of consent under data protection law at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

9. right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR.

The supervisory authority with which the complaint has been lodged shall inform the complainant of the status and outcome of the complaint, including the possibility of a judicial remedy pursuant to Art. 78 GDPR.

IX. Changes to this privacy policy

Due to the dynamic development of the Internet, new technologies and possibilities are constantly evolving. To ensure that you can also benefit from these possibilities and technologies, we reserve the right to amend this data protection declaration for the future when introducing new, additional or changing or expanding existing services or service elements.

Insofar as the change to the privacy policy only affects the use of data in general form and/or the use of data for orders and not also the use of data in the context of a user account, the new privacy policy shall apply from the date of its update on the website.

A change to the privacy policy that relates to the use of the data already collected and stored in your user account will only be made if this is reasonable for you. If and insofar as changes to the privacy policy relate to the use of the data already collected and stored in your user account, we will notify you in good time by e-mail, on our website or in another form. You have the right to object to the validity of the new privacy policy within six weeks of receiving the notification. If you object, you will no longer be able to use the services available via the website. If you do not object within the aforementioned period, you will be deemed to have accepted the amended privacy policy. We will inform you of your right of objection and the significance of the objection period in the notification.