Privacy Policy

Effective as of September 2024

Protecting your personal information is very important to us. We would like to inform you about our privacy policy. Your personal data will solely be used within statutory data protection regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Protection of Privacy in Telecommunications and Telemedia (TTDSG). Our employees and agents are obliged to comply with data protection regulations. Below you will find information about the nature, scope and purpose of the collection and use of your personal data and your rights.

1. General Data Protection Information

1.1. Processing of personal data

Within the context of our privacy policy, we would like to inform you about the processing of personal data. Personal data within the meaning of Art. 4 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, etc., which is processed by us.

1.2. Data Controller

The responsible party within the meaning of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is

Right.Brain Foundation e.V.
Olof-Palme-Straße 9
81829 Munich

1.3. Your Rights

The GDPR gives those who are affected by the processing of your personal data (data subjects) various rights, which we would like to explain to you below. You have the right

  • pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR to request information about your personal data processed by us;
  • pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR to demand the rectification of inaccurate or the completion of incomplete personal data stored by us;
  • pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR to demand the deletion of your personal data stored by us;
  • pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR to obtain the restriction of the processing of your personal data;
  • pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR to receive your personal data, you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request transmission to another controller;
  • pursuant to Art. 21 (i), under certain conditions, to object to the processing of your personal data based on Art. 6 (1) e) GDPR (in the public interest) or pursuant to Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR (for safeguarding a legitimate interest), or (ii) to object to the processing for direct marketing purposes;
  • pursuant to Art. 7 (3) GDPR to withdraw a consent once given to us at any time. As a result, we will not be allowed to continue the processing based on this consent for the future without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the withdrawal;
  • pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

For asserting the statutory data subject rights and for all other questions about data processing, please send an e-mail to info@rightbrain-foundation.org.

For US Residents: You authorize the Right.Brain Foundation e.V. to communicate with you in response to your submissions on the website and any other communications.

Notice to California Residents: The California Civil Code permits California residents to request that we not share your Personally Identifiable Information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident, you may contact info@rightbrain-foundation.org to request information regarding whether and how we share personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes and/or to request that such information not be shared with third parties for such purposes.

1.4. Recipients

A transfer of your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those listed below does not take place. In addition, further transfer always occurs only if there is a legal basis.

We only transfer your personal data to third parties if for example:

  • to the extent that there is a legal obligation for the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 (1) c) GDPR; or
  • the disclosure according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR is necessary in the context of our legitimate interests, for example for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims and you have no overriding legitimate interest in the non-disclosure of your data.

On this legal basis and regarding the purposes we may share your information with third parties who provide services on our behalf to assist us in our business activities. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only to the extent necessary to provide those services to us.

Right.Brain Foundation and these companies have an agreement that the information you provide to us may not be shared by the outside vendors with outside companies without Right.Brain Foundation permission, and that this information may not be used for any purpose other than to provide a service or materials. Currently we use a service provider for our website hosting.

1.5. Duration of Storage

Your personal data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and processed. After the purpose has ceased to exist, the data will be deleted if storage is necessary for the fulfillment of a legal obligation or for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims. Further information on storage periods can be found in the respective sections on individual processing operations.

2. When you visit our website

2.1. Providing our Website

In the case of merely informational use of the website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server and that is technically necessary for the presentation of our website and to ensure stability and security.

For retrieval from the website, the short-term registration of the IP number is indispensable. The IP address is the globally valid, unique identification of a computer and consists of four blocks of digits separated by dots. As a rule, private users are not assigned a constant IP address by the provider, but only a temporary IP address for one session. Nevertheless, with static IP addresses, a clear assignment of the user's data is possible in principle via this characteristic. The external web servers (see section 1.5) store IP addresses for a maximum of 14 days. Afterwards, the access data is anonymized.

The data we collect for the purposes stated above are:

  • Date and time of the request
  • Time zone difference from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Content of the request (specific page)
  • Access status/HTTP status code
  • Amount of data transferred in each case
  • Website from which the request came
  • browser
  • Operating system and its interface

The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR. Since the collection of data for the provision of the website and the storage in log files are absolutely necessary for the operation of the website and for protection against misuse, our legitimate interest in data processing prevails at this point.

3. Contact us via e-mail

When you provide your personal data to us of your own initiative, for example, when you contact us, we collect this personal data. We will, of course, use the personal data provided to us exclusively for the purpose for which you provided it when contacting us.

Any communication of this information is on a voluntary basis and in these cases is initiated by you. Insofar as this involves information on communication channels (for example, e-mail address, telephone number), we will use these channels to contact you in accordance with your request.

The purpose of processing your data is to handle and respond to your request or registration. The legitimate interest in the processing also lies in the purposes described. The basis for the processing of the data that you transmit to us in the course of contacting us is Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR, if not stated otherwise below. If you consented to promotional e-mails in the context of our form the legal basis for processing your data for that purpose is Art. 6 (1) a) GDPR. Once you have given your consent, you can withdraw it at any time with future effect.

We will delete your data that we have received in the context of contacting you as soon as they are no longer needed to achieve the purpose for which they were collected, i.e. your request has been fully processed and no further communication with you is required or requested.

4. Directive on privacy and electronic communications

Due to the Directive on privacy and electronic communications of the European Union and its principles on consent to the storage of information on terminal equipments, it should be noted that consent within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, which is mentioned as the legal basis in the context of the processings listed in this privacy policy, also means consent within the meaning of the other national laws implementing the Directive on privacy and electronic communications. If no consent is required for the processing of the information, for example because access to information already stored in the end user's terminal equipment is essential for the controller to provide you with a digital service such as a website, the legal basis that implements the provisions of the Directive on privacy and electronic communications at national level is also applicable (e.g. § 25 of the Act on the Regulation of Data Protection and the Protection of Privacy in Telecommunications and Digital Services in Germany or § 165 of the Telecommunications Act in Austria).

5. Changes to the privacy policy

We reserve the right to change or amend this Privacy Policy at any time in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

For inquiries, please contact info@rightbrain-foundation.org

6. Additional Policies for US Residents

6.1. Governing Law

If you are a resident of the United States, any dispute between you and Right.Brain Foundation e.V. arising out of or relating to this Privacy Policy, the website or its content shall be governed by, and will be construed in accordance with, the laws of the States of New York, without regard to choice of law principles. You irrevocably agree that the courts located in or for the State of Illinois, Cook County, are the sole and exclusive forum and venue for any dispute, as the most convenient and appropriate to address any disputes, and you agree to submit to the jurisdiction and venue of such courts.

6.2. Use and Transfer of Non-Personally Identifiable Information

Non-Personally Identifiable Information refers to data stored anonymously in a protocol file, collected by cookies or similar technology, as well as information collected by Google Analytics, AdWords and Right.Brain Foundation e.V.display networks, and any other information that does not personally identify the individual to whom the information relates, such as information that is aggregated by Right.Brain Foundation e.v. or a third party, or information that is not linked to personally identifiable information of an individual.

In addition to the uses discussed above, the Right.Brain Foundation e.V. may use and share non-Personally Identifiable Information in a variety of ways so long as Right.Brain Foundation e.V. uses such information in its de-identified form. These uses may include, without limitation, uses for website administration; analysis of website trends and how the site is used; improving navigation of the site; analysis of the performance of the website and diagnosis of problems; improving the services we offer; analysis and developing advertisements and advertising campaigns; analysis of website user demographics, interests and preferences.

Right.Brain Foundation e.V. also may use your non-Personally Identifiable Information to present you with targeted content and advertisements (including on third party websites and apps) based on your past visits to the website and your non-Personally Identifiable Information collected over time by us and third parties, optimize and determine the effectiveness of content and advertisements, analyse your interactions with content and advertisements, and how those interactions relate to your visits to the website. Some of our third party partners may participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioural Advertising and allow consumers the ability to opt-out of targeted advertising based on web activity tracking. For more information regarding the foregoing, please click here or visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. Please note that even if our third party partners participate in this program and you opt-out of targeted advertising based on web activity tracking, you still may receive standard advertisements from us and targeted advertisements from third parties. You may need to re-click the link and follow the instructions provided therein if you delete cookies or similar technology or use a different computer, device or browser.

6.3. Children

Right.Brain Foundation e.V. will not knowingly collect, use or disclose any information submitted by children under the age of majority in the jurisdiction where they reside. Parents are encouraged to educate their children about their use of the internet, and particularly about security issues regarding the disclosure of personally identifiable information to websites.

6.4. Links

You may have the opportunity to follow links on the website to other sites that may be of interest to you. Neither the Right.Brain Foundation e.V. nor its affiliates are responsible for the privacy practices of any other sites or the content provided thereon. Therefore, the privacy policies with respect to other sites may differ from those applicable to the website. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of each other site.

6.5. No Medical Advice

The Right.Brain Foundation e.V. is not a healthcare institution or medical facility and neither the Right.Brain Foundation e.V. nor the website provides any medical advice.

6.6. Changes to this Privacy Policy

Any revisions to this Privacy Policy will be effective immediately upon posting. Any material changes in the manner that we use personally identifiable information will apply only to information collected thereafter, unless we provide notice or have other communications with you, e.g. with a pop-up cookie notification banner. Each time you access, use, or browse the website, provide information to Right.Brain Foundation e.V. online, or click on Right.Brain Foundation e.V. digital advertisements on third party websites or applications, you signify your acceptance of the then-current Privacy Policy. If you do not accept this Privacy Policy, you are not authorized to access, use or browse the website, to provide information to Right.Brain Foundation e.V., or to click on Right.Brain Foundation e.V. digital advertisements on third party websites or applications.