(version: 11.06.2018)
Regardless of whether you are a client, a project partner, a person interested in our programmes, a job applicant or a visitor to our website, we, sequa gGmbH (hereinafter referred to as “sequa” or “we”) take the protection of your personal data very seriously, but what does that actually mean?
The information below will enable you to gain an insight into which personal data we collect from you and in which form we process them. In addition, you will gain an overview of the rights which you are entitled to under the applicable data protection legislation. We also inform you whom to contact if you have any further questions.
sequa is a development organisation operating worldwide. We support the development of the private sector and its business membership organisations as well as the qualification of skilled employees and managers. Our programmes and projects are financed by public and private funding and follow the principles of the social market economy.
sequa is a non-profit company whose shareholders are Germany`s top business membership organisations (BDA, BDI, DIHK, ZDH) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
sequa`s aim is to sustainably improve the living and working conditions of as many people as possible. We know that this can only be realised in collaboration with domestic and international partners. Our most important project partners are chambers, associations, educational institutions and private companies.
As the responsible party within the meaning of the applicable data protection legislation we
sequa gGmbH
Alexanderstrasse 10
53111 Bonn
E-Mail: info@sequa.de
Tel: +49 (0) 228 909 0081 0
Fax: +49 (0) 228 98238 - 19
take all measures required under applicable data protection legislation to ensure the protection of your personal data.
For all questions relating to this Privacy Statement we kindly ask you to contact our data protection officer:
sequa gGmbH
Data Protection Officer
Alexanderstrasse 10
53111 Bonn
E-Mail dsb@sequa.de
Tel: +49 (0) 228 98238 - 38
The legislator defines the processing of personal data as activities such as the collection, recording, organisation, ordering, storage, adjustment or alteration, reading, retrieval, usage, disclosure by transfer, distribution or any other form of provision, comparison or linking, restriction, deletion or destruction of personal data. Personal data is all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
This Privacy Statement deals with the personal data of clients, project partners, interested parties, job applicants or visitors. This Privacy Statement applies to both our website www.sequa.de and our project websites, such as www.importpromotiondesk.de and www.tameb.org.
Your personal data is collected by us when you visit any of our websites or establish any contact with us as e.g. a client, project partner, interested party or job applicant. This can occur for instance if you are interested in our projects, contact us via our communication channels, or if and when you use our products or services in the course of existing business relationships.
The following types of personal data are processed by us:
and other information comparable with these data categories.
We do not collect any sensitive data, i.e. special categories of personal information such as details of religious or trade union affiliations by this method.
We do not collect any personal data of/about children or underage persons (with the exception of access data in server logfiles in which we cannot verify age).
Cookies are files stored on your computer by our website when you call up the site. These files contain information making your use of this website more efficient.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies” which will be deleted, automatically, at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. You can adjust your browser settings so that you are informed when cookies are created and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when you close your browser. If you deactivate the storage of cookies the functionality of this website may be impaired.
As an open source web analytics service, we use Matomo (formerly: Piwik) to analyse usage behaviour on our website. The usage information created by the cookie (including the shortened IP address of the user) will be transferred to our servers and stored there for usage analysis purposes. We use the usage analysis to optimise our own websites, and the way we address our clients and other advertising measures. The IP address of the user is shortened in this process before storage so that the identification of the user via the IP address is no longer possible.
The information created by the cookie about your use of this website will not be transferred to any third parties.
If you do not agree to the storage and analysis of this data from your visit, you can object to the storage and use at any time by a click of the mouse below. In this case, a so-called opt-out cookie will be stored on your browser which has the effect that Matomo does not collect any session data. Please note: if you delete all your cookies this has the result that the opt-out cookie will also be deleted and you will need to reactivate it.
Your visit to this website is currently recorded by Matomo web analytics. Please click here so that your visit is no longer recorded
For the incorporation of videos our website uses the provider YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA, represented by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Usually, your IP address will be sent to YouTube as soon as you call up a website with embedded videos, and cookies will be installed on your computer. However, we have embedded our YouTube videos using the enhanced data protection mode (in this case, YouTube still makes contact with the Google service DoubleClick, but according to Google’s privacy policy personal data will not be analysed in this process). This means that YouTube no longer stores any information on the visitors unless they watch the video. If you click on the video your IP address will be sent to YouTube and YouTube will be aware that you have watched the video. If you are logged in to YouTube this information will also be allocated to your user account (you can prevent this by logging out of YouTube before calling up the video).
We have no knowledge about any possible collection and use of your data by YouTube thereafter, nor do we have any influence on this. You can find further information on this in the privacy policy of YouTube under www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/. In addition,, whatever refers to the general handling and deactivation of cookies please refer to our general explanation in this Privacy Statement.
For the homogenous display of fonts, this website uses so-called web fonts that are provided by Google. On retrieving a website your browser downloads the necessary web fonts to your browser cache in order to correctly display texts and fonts.
For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
If your browser does not support web fonts, your computer uses a standard font. For further information, please see https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq as well as Google’s Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
We process your personal data to be able to execute our contracts. This also applies to details you provide to us in the course of pre-contractual correspondence. The actual purposes of the data processing depend upon the relevant circumstances of the specific undertaking.
For the initiation or implementation of contractual relations we need your name, your address, your telephone number or your e-mail address so that we can contact you.
If you send us an enquiry via a contact form your details from this enquiry form, including the contact details given by you on this form, are used to deal with the enquiry and stored by us in case of follow-up queries. We do transfer this data to any third parties without your consent.
Through the initiation or implementation of mobility programmes we need your name, your address, your telephone number and your e-mail address in order to be able to contact you. In the case of a positive funding decision we need additional information from you about your person (e.g. date and place of birth), your bank details and details of your schedule abroad. The data you provide to us will be stored by us for the purposes of implementing the mobility funding programme and only transferred to our partners in the mobility programme (e.g. chambers for crafts and vocational colleges) with your permission. We will not use your applicant information for any other purposes than for implementing the mobility programmes.
We use your personal data for cases including the following:
If you have agreed to the processing of your personal data for one or more specified reasons, then the processing of your personal data by us is permissible. You can withdraw this consent with effect for the future at any time without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs in line with basic tariffs (costs of your Internet connection). The withdrawal of your consent does not however affect the legality of processing carried out up until the withdrawal of consent.
As a company, we are subject to various statutory requirements (e.g. under taxation legislation). In order to comply with our statutory obligations, we process your personal data to the extent legally required and permitted and may be required to retain this data.
Within sequa only those employees who need access to your personal data to fulfil our contractual or legal duties or to protect our legitimate interests have access to your data.
We respect the protection of your personal data and only transfer information about you when this is required by any legal provisions, if you have given your consent, or for the fulfilment of our contractual obligations.
For instance in the case of the following recipients there may be a legal obligation to transfer your personal details:
In order to be able to fulfil our contractual obligations we cooperate with other companies. These include:
In order to enable us to organise our business efficiently we use the services of external service providers who may receive personal data relating to you to fulfil the described purposes, including IT service providers, printing and telecommunications services, collection and consultation firms and file deletion and archiving service providers.
Important: We look after your personal data carefully!
In order to ensure that the same legal data protection standards apply to our service providers as in our own enterprise we have concluded corresponding contracts for order processing. Among other things, these contracts provide
In the case of service providers who have their registered headquarters outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we take specific security measures (e.g. through use of specific contractual clauses) to ensure that the data is/are handled with the same level of care as within the EEA. We check all our service providers regularly for compliance with these provisions.
Very important: Under no circumstances do we sell/lease your personal data to third parties!
In the context of the business relationship between you and sequa we require from you the following categories of personal data:
Without this data, it is not possible for us to enter into or implement contracts with you.
In accordance with the applicable data protection regulations we store your personal data for no longer than we need to fulfil the purposes of the relevant processing. When data is required no longer for the fulfilment of contractual or statutory duties, we will delete such data, unless it has to be retained for a continuing retention period. Continued retention may be required for the following reasons:
Within the context of the processing of your personal data you have certain rights. For more detailed information please refer to the relevant provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Articles 15 to 21).
You have the right to receive notification from us about which of your personal data we are processing. Should this information not be correct (any longer), you have the right to demand us to rectify the relevant data, in the case of incomplete details to delete such data. If we have transferred data to any third parties we will inform the third parties concerned if so required by legal provisions.
You have the right to demand the immediate deletion of your personal data under the following circumstances:
Please note that we must check before deleting your data whether there is any legitimate reason for continuing to process your personal data.
For any of the following reasons you have the right demand us to restrict the processing of your personal data:
If the processing is in the public interest or is done as a result after balancing the mutual interests you have the right, for reasons deriving from your specific situation, to lodge an objection against the processing. Upon the successful lodging of an objection we will no longer process your personal data unless we can prove urgent grounds worthy of protection for processing your data which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or because your personal data serves the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims. The objection does not affect the legality of the processing done up to the lodging of the objection.
In case your personal data is used for advertising purposes, you have the right to lodge an objection against this form of processing, at any time. We will then no longer process your personal data for these purposes.
The objection can be made without form restrictions and should be addressed to:
sequa gGmbH
Data Protection Officer
Alexanderstrasse 10
53111 Bonn
E-mail dsb@sequa.de
Tel: +49 (0) 228 98238 – 38
Upon request, you have the right to receive such personal data you have submitted to us for processing in a transferable and machine-readable format.
We always try to process your enquiries and requests as quickly as possible in order to respect your rights appropriately, however, depending on the frequency of requests it may be that up to 30 days elapse before we are in the position to give you further information on your enquiry. Should it take longer than this we will notify you quickly about the reasons for the delay and discuss the further proceedings with you.
In some cases, we do not have the permission to or we may be prevented from giving you any information. If legally permissible, we will inform you about the rationale for refusing information.
If you are still not satisfied with our responses and reactions or you are of the opinion that we are in violation of applicable data protection legislation, then you are free to lodge a complaint with both our data protection officer and the responsible supervisory authority. The supervisory authority having jurisdiction in our case is the Data Protection Commissioner for North Rhine-Westphalia: Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westphalen (LDI NRW).
This Privacy Statement is the version from 11.06.2018. Earlier versions of the Privacy Statement are available from our data protection officer.