Privacy policy

Privacy policy

With this privacy policy, we would like to inform you about the nature, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data (hereinafter also referred to as ‘data’). Personal data is any data that has a personal connection to you, e.g. your name, address, email address or your user behaviour. The privacy policy applies to all data processing operations carried out by us, both within the scope of our core activities and for the online media we provide.

Who is responsible for data processing at our organisation?

The entity responsible for data processing is:

Berkemeyer Beratung
Jürgen Berkemeyer
Lannerstr. 9
44534 Lünen
Germany
Telephone: +49 2306 9794 387
Fax: +49 2306 9794 904
Email address: datenschutz@berkemeyer.de
https://www.berkemeyer.de/en/impressum_en/

Processing of your data in connection with the education and training services we provide

If you participate in our education and training services or are interested in our services, the type, scope and purpose of the processing of your data is based on the contractual or pre-contractual relationship between us. In this sense, the data we process includes all data that is or was provided by you for the purpose of using the contractual or pre-contractual services and that is required to process your enquiry or the contract concluded between us. This also includes the performance assessment and evaluation of our services and teaching staff. Unless otherwise stated in the further information in this privacy policy, the processing of your data and its transfer to third parties is limited to the data that is necessary and appropriate for responding to your enquiries and/or fulfilling the contract concluded between you and us, for safeguarding our rights and for fulfilling legal obligations. We will inform you of the data required for this purpose before or during the data collection process. If we use third-party providers to provide our services, the data protection information of the respective third-party providers applies.

Categories of data
If you participate in our training and educational services or submit an enquiry to us because you are interested in the training and educational services we offer, we will process your personal data.

Data affected:

  • Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses)
  • Payment data (e.g. bank details, invoices)
  • Contact details (e.g. email address, telephone number, postal address)
  • Contract data (e.g. subject matter of the contract, contract term)

Affected persons:
School pupils, trainees, students, interested parties, business and contractual partners

Processing purpose:
Processing contractual services, communication and responding to contact enquiries, office and organisational procedures

Legal basis:

  • Contractual performance and pre-contractual enquiries, Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR
  • Legal obligation, Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR
  • Legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR

Your rights under the GDPR

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights, which you can exercise at any time by contacting the controller named in section 1 of this privacy policy:

  • Right to information: You have the right to request information from us about whether and which data we process about you.
  • Right to rectification: You have the right to request the rectification of inaccurate data or the completion of incomplete data.
  • Right to erasure: You have the right to request the erasure of your data.
  • Right to restriction: In certain cases, you have the right to request that we only process your data in a restricted manner.
  • Right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer your data to you or another controller in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
  • Right to lodge a complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The supervisory authority responsible is that of your usual place of residence, your place of work or our company headquarters.

Right of withdrawal

You have the right to revoke your consent to data processing at any time.

Right of objection

You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your data, which we base on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. If you exercise your right to object, we ask you to explain the reasons for your objection. We will then no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate to you that compelling legitimate grounds for the data processing override your interests and rights.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes.

Please send your objection to the contact address of the responsible party listed above.

When do we delete your data?

We delete your data when we no longer need it or when you instruct us to do so. This means that – unless otherwise stated in the individual data protection notices in this privacy policy – we will delete your data,

  • if the purpose of the data processing has ceased to exist and thus the respective legal basis stated in the individual data protection notices no longer exists, e.g.
  • after termination of the contractual or membership relationship between us (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR) or
  • after our legitimate interest in the further processing or storage of your data ceases to apply (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR),
  • if you exercise your right of cancellation and there is no other legal basis for the processing within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b-f GDPR,
  • if you exercise your right to object and there are no compelling legitimate grounds for erasure.

However, if we still need to retain (certain parts of) your data for other purposes, for example because tax retention periods (usually 6 years for business correspondence or 10 years for accounting documents) or the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims arising from contractual relationships (up to four years) make this necessary or the data is needed to protect the rights of another natural or legal person, we will only delete (that part of) your data after these periods have expired. Until the expiry of these periods, however, we restrict the processing of this data to these purposes (fulfilment of retention obligations).

Cloud services

We use cloud services in particular

  • for storing and editing documents,
  • for sending documents by e-mail or exchanging files of any kind,
  • for our calendar appointment management,
  • for the preparation and execution of presentations and spreadsheets,
  • for the publication of files of any kind,
  • for internal and external communication via chats, audio and video conferences.

The software applications that we use for these purposes are made available to us by the provider(s) named below on their servers. We access these servers via the Internet. If you transmit your data to us in the context of communication with us or in other processes explained by us in this privacy policy, we process this data in the cloud service we use. This means that your data is stored on the servers of the third-party cloud service provider. The third-party providers process usage and metadata to secure their servers and optimise their services. In particular, we process and store your contact, customer and contract data.

If we make files of any kind publicly available via our internet presence using the cloud service we use, the respective third-party provider of the cloud service may store cookies on your computer system if you access these files. The service provider may process the data collected in this way in order to analyse your usage behaviour or browser settings.

We would like to point out that, depending on the country of domicile of the service provider named below, the data named in more detail below may be transferred to and processed on servers outside the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR will not be complied with and that the enforcement of your rights will be difficult or impossible. If the service provider we use offers data processing exclusively within the EU, we intend to process your data exclusively there, unless this has already been implemented.

Data concerned

  • Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses),
  • Contact data (e.g. email addresses, telephone and mobile phone numbers)
  • Content data (e.g. photos, videos, texts),
  • Usage data (e.g. times of access, websites visited, interest in content),
  • Metadata (e.g. IP address, computer system information)

Affected persons: Interested parties, communication partners, customers, employees (e.g. applicants, current and former employees)

Purpose of processing: Organisation of office and administrative tasks

Legal basis: Consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, fulfilment of contract and pre-contractual enquiries, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR

Cloud service providers used:

Apple iCloud

Service provider: Apple Inc., Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014, USA
Internet site: https://www.apple.com/
Privacy policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

Telekom Magentacloud

Service provider: Telekom Deutschland GmbH, Landgrabenweg 151, 53227 Bonn
Internet site: https://cloud.telekom-dienste.de/
Privacy policy: https://www.telekom.de/datenschutz-ganz-einfach

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files consisting of a series of numbers and letters that are stored on the device you are using. Cookies are primarily used to exchange information between the device you are using and our website. This includes, for example, the language settings on a website, the login status or the point at which a video was watched.

Two types of cookies are used when you visit our website:

  • Temporary cookies (session cookies): These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the joint session. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.

  • Permanent cookies: Permanent cookies remain stored even after the browser is closed. This allows our website to recognise your computer when you return to our website. Information on language settings or log-in information, for example, is stored in these cookies. These cookies can also be used to document and store your surfing behaviour. This data can be used for statistical, marketing and personalisation purposes.

In addition to the above categorisation, cookies can also be differentiated according to their purpose:

  • Necessary cookies: These are cookies that are absolutely necessary for the operation of our website in order to save logins or shopping baskets for the duration of your session or cookies that are set for security reasons.
  • Statistics, marketing and personalisation cookies: These are cookies that are used for analysis purposes or to measure reach. Such ‘tracking’ cookies can be used in particular to store information on search terms entered or the frequency of page views. In addition, the surfing behaviour of an individual user (e.g. viewing certain content, use of functions, etc.) can also be stored in a user profile. Such profiles are used to display content to users that corresponds to their potential interests. If we use services that store cookies on your end device for statistical, marketing and personalisation purposes, we will inform you about this separately in the following sections of our privacy policy or when obtaining your consent.

Data concerned:

  • Usage data (e.g. access times, websites clicked on)
  • Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address).

Data subjects: Users of our online services

Purpose of processing: Displaying our website, ensuring the operation of our website, improving our website, communication and marketing

Legal basis:
Legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR
If we do not obtain your consent to the setting of cookies, we base the processing of your data on our legitimate interest in improving the quality and user-friendliness of our website, in particular the content and functions. You can use the security settings of your browser to object to the use of cookies set by us within the scope of our legitimate interest. There you can specify whether you do not accept cookies from the outset or only accept them on request, or whether you want cookies to be deleted every time you close your browser. 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.

Webhosting

To maintain our website, we use a provider on whose server our website is stored and made available for retrieval on the Internet (hosting). The provider may process all data transmitted via the browser you use that is generated when you use our website. This includes in particular your IP address, which the provider requires in order to be able to deliver our online offer to the browser you are using, as well as all entries you make via our website. In addition, the provider we use can

  • the date and time of access to our website
  • time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • access status (HTTP status)
  • the amount of data transferred
  • the Internet service provider of the accessing system
  • the browser type and version you are using
  • the operating system you are using
  • the website from which you may have accessed our website
  • the pages or sub-pages you visit on our website.

collect. The aforementioned data is stored as log files on the servers of our provider. This is necessary to ensure the stability and security of the operation of our website.

Data concerned:

  • Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos)
  • Usage data (e.g. access times, websites clicked on)
  • Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)

Data subjects: Users of our website

Purpose of processing: Displaying our website, ensuring the operation of our website

Legal basis: Legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR

Web host(s) commissioned by us:

1blu Webhosting

Service provider: 1blu AG, Riedemannweg 60, 13627 Berlin

Website: https://www.1blu.de/
Privacy policy: https://www.1blu.de/datenschutz/

Contacting us

If you contact us via e-mail, social media, telephone, fax, post, our contact form or in any other way and provide us with personal data such as your name, telephone number or e-mail address or provide further information about yourself or your request, we will process this data to answer your enquiry within the framework of the pre-contractual or contractual relationship existing between us.

Data concerned:

  • Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses)
  • Contact data (e.g. email address, telephone number, postal address)
  • Content data (texts, photos, videos)
  • Contract data (e.g. subject matter of contract, duration of contract)

Persons affected: Interested parties, customers, business and contractual partners

Purpose of processing: Communication and responding to contact enquiries, office and organisational procedures

Legal basis: Contract fulfilment and pre-contractual enquiries, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR

Our online presence on social networks

We operate online presences within the social networks listed below. If you visit one of these presences, the data listed below will be collected and processed by the respective provider. As a rule, this data is collected for advertising and market research purposes and user profiles are created. Data can be stored in the user profiles regardless of the device you use. This is particularly the case if you are a member of the respective platform and are logged in to it. The user profiles can be used by the providers to display interest-based advertising to you. You have a right of cancellation against the creation of user profiles. To exercise this right, you must contact the respective provider.

If you have an account with one of the providers listed below and are logged in there when you visit our website, the respective provider may collect data about your usage behaviour on our website. To prevent your data from being linked in this way, you can log out of the provider’s service before visiting our site.

You can find out for what purpose and to what extent data is collected by the provider in the respective data protection declarations of the providers provided below.

We would like to point out that, depending on the country of domicile of the provider named below, the data collected via its platform may be transferred and processed outside the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR will not be complied with and that the enforcement of your rights will be difficult or impossible.

Data concerned:

  • Inventory and contact data (e.g. name, address, telephone number, email address)
  • Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos)
  • Usage data (e.g. access times, websites clicked on)
  • Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address).

Purpose of processing: Communication and marketing, tracking and analysis of user behaviour

Legal basis: Consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, legitimate interests Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR

Possibilities of objection: For the respective objection options (opt-out), please refer to the following linked information from the providers.

Wir unterhalten Onlinepräsenzen auf folgenden sozialen Netzwerken:

Facebook

Service provider: Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Registered office in the EU: Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Irland 
Website: https://www.facebook.com/
Privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Privacy policy for Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data

Instagram

Service provider: Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park CA 94025, USA
Parent company: Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Registered office in the EU: Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland
Website: https://www.instagram.com/
Privacy policy: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy

LinkedIn

Service provider: LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W Maude, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA
Registered office in Germany: LinkedIn, Hofstatt 4th Floor, Sendlinger Str. 12, 80331 München
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/?trk=nav_logo
Privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=uno-reg-guest-home-privacy-policy

Online meetings, video conferences and screen sharing  

We use third-party services to enable online meetings, video and/or audio conference calls and online seminars between employees and with interested parties or customers. If you communicate with us via such a service, the data collected in this communication process will be processed both by us and by the third-party provider. The data that may arise in such a communication process includes, in particular, your login and contact details, contributions in the chat window, your video and audio contributions and shared screen content. The data processed by the third-party providers we use primarily includes user data and metadata (e.g. IP address, computer system information). As a rule, the third-party providers process this data in order to check and guarantee the security of the service. In addition, findings from data processing are used to optimise the third-party provider’s offering and to carry out corresponding marketing measures. Please refer to the data protection information of the third-party provider in this regard.

We would like to point out that, depending on the country of domicile of the service provider named below, the data collected via the service may be transferred and processed outside the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR will not be complied with and that the enforcement of your rights will be difficult or impossible.

Data concerned:

  • Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses)
  • Contact details (e.g. email address, telephone number)
  • Shared content (e.g. photos, videos, texts, audio recordings)
  • User data (e.g. times of access, websites visited, interest in content)
  • Meta and communication data (e.g. IP address, computer system information)

Affected persons: Interested parties, customers, communication partners

Purpose of processing: Processing of contact requests, internal and external communication with employees as well as interested parties and customers, fulfilment of our contractual services, service offer

Legal basis: Consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, fulfilment of contract and pre-contractual enquiries, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR

Von uns verwendete Dienste:

Microsoft Teams

Services offered: Video conferencing, chats, voice conferencing
Service provider: Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA
Website: https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software
Privacy policy: https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement

Zoom

Services offered: Video conferencing, voice conferencing, chats
Service provider: Zoom Video Communications, Inc., 55 Almaden Boulevard, 6th Floor, San Jose, CA 95113, USA
Website: https://zoom.us/de-de/meetings.html
Privacy policy: https://zoom.us/de-de/privacy.html

Security measures

We also take state-of-the-art technical and organisational security measures to comply with the provisions of data protection laws and to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorised access by third parties.

Up-to-dateness and amendment of this privacy policy

This privacy policy is currently valid and was last updated in July 2025. Due to changes in legal or official requirements, it may be necessary to amend this privacy policy.

This privacy policy was created with the help of the SOS Recht privacy policy generator. SOS Recht is an offer of Mueller.legal Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft based in Berlin.

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