Privacy Policy

Protecting your personal data when you visit our website and use our services is important to us. Your data will be protected within the limits of the law. In the following, we would like to inform you about when we collect which data and how we use them.

Collection and Processing of Personal Data

Data protection refers to the protection of personal information. This includes information regarding your identity such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address or phone number. Such personal data are collected and stored only if you have given us your consent to do so – for example, if you have subscribed to our newsletter (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)).

Use, Disclosure and Deletion of Personal Data

Impact Database uses your personal data exclusively for the purposes of administering the website and of communicating with you. Personal data are processed by Impact Database employees, global contract partners, and by service providers we have commissioned, preferably within the EU. Your personal data will not be passed on to other third parties or used otherwise without your express consent. Exceptions can apply, for example if a legal requirement makes it necessary to provide information to authorities for the purposes of either public safety or criminal prosecution.

If data are processed in countries outside of the EU, Impact Database uses EU standard contracts, including suitable technical and organizational measures, to ensure that your personal data are processed at the same level as European data protection. If you wish to see the specific security precautions for the transfer of your data to other countries, please contact us via the communication channels listed below.

In some countries outside the EU, for example Canada and Switzerland, the EU has determined that the level of data protection is comparable to that in Europe. The comparable level of data protection means that data transfer into these countries does not require any special permission or agreement.

Your personal data will be erased if you withdraw your consent (GDPR Article 17) via data-privacy@bmw-foundation.org or +49 30 3396 3500. We keep your personal data only as long as needed for the specified purpose. If we process your data for a number of purposes, they will be automatically deleted or stored in a way that cannot be used to identify an individual once the last specified purpose has been fulfilled.

Subscribers to the newsletter can unsubscribe from the newsletter any time via the unsubscribe link at the end of the newsletter and thus revoke their consent to the storage of their e-mail address and name.

If you want to obtain information about our storage of your personal data (GDPR Article 15) or wish to correct your data (GDPR Article 16), please contact us via the communication channels listed below.

Protection of Personal Data

We deploy various security measures in line with the current state of the art to protect and maintain the security, integrity, and availability of your data. These measures include:

• strict criteria for authorization to access your data (restriction to a limited number of people) and exclusively for the specified purpose; 
• transfer of acquired data exclusively in encrypted form; 
• storage of confidential data exclusively in encrypted form; 
• firewall safeguarding of IT systems to provide protection against unauthorized access, for example by hackers; 
• permanent monitoring of access to IT systems to detect and prevent the misuse of personal data. 

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a small text file which is copied onto your hard disk by a website. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain any viruses. The cookies from our webpages do not collect any personal information about you.

You can disable the use of cookies any time via your browser settings. If you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

We are using the following cookies on our website:

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This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie will be generally transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. IP anonymization is activated on this website. This means that Google will truncate your IP address within the Member States of the European Union or in other contracting parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. Google will use this information for the purpose of compiling reports on website activity and providing the website provider with other services relating to website activity and internet use.

Furthermore, you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website by downloading and installing this browser add-on.