Data protection information

Leaflet on the award of scholarships

The EU GDPR, which comes into force on May 25, 2018, provides, among other things, in Article 13 that the person responsible for the collection of personal data must provide certain information to the person concerned.

1. Name of the responsible body

German Chemical Society eV

2. Managing Director: Prof. Dr. Wolfram Koch

Operationally responsible: Graduate economist Volker Kilz
Data protection officer: Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing (FH) Arnd Bohl

3. Address of the responsible body

Varrentrappenstrasse 40-42
60486 Frankfurt am Main

4. Purpose of data processing

Allocation of scholarships to diploma and doctoral students, post-doctoral students and students during their bachelor and master theses.
Active participation (lecture or poster) at the conference is a prerequisite for funding for travel grants. Applications can be submitted up to the deadline for registering lectures and posters for the respective event.

5. Admissibility of data processing

Contract / contract-like relationship (affected person applies for a grant)

6. Recipients or categories of recipients to whom the data is or will be disclosed

internal: management, member marketing (specialist groups), specialist group chairman, scholarship clerk, IT, accounting
external: selection committee

7. Deadlines for the deletion of data

4 weeks after the award decision for applicants who will not be considered.
4 weeks after the last scholarship payment

8. Data transfer to a third country or an international organization

If we process data in a third country (i.e. outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)) that occurs in the context of the use of third-party services or disclosure or transmission of data to third parties, this will only take place if it happens to fulfill our (pre) contractual obligations, on the basis of your consent, on the basis of a legal obligation or on the basis of our legitimate interests.

Rights of the persons affected

In order to do justice to the transparency and modalities regulated in Art. 12 of the EU-GDPR, the person responsible informs about the rights of the data subjects below.

a) Right to information (Art. 15)

The person concerned has the right to request confirmation from the person responsible as to whether personal data relating to them are being processed. The controller provides a copy of the personal data that is the subject of the processing. For all further copies that the person concerned requests, the person responsible can demand an appropriate fee based on the administrative costs.

b) Correction (Art. 16)

The data subject has the right to request that personal data relating to him or her be corrected or completed.

c) Deletion (Art. 17) - "Right to be forgotten"

See point 7: Deadlines for the deletion of data

d) Right of objection (Art. 21)

If the person concerned objects to the processing of personal data concerning them, the person responsible may no longer process this data, unless he / she can prove compelling reasons worthy of protection for the processing that the interests, rights and freedoms of the person concerned Person or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

e) Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

Personally affected persons have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

f) Consequences of failure to provide personal data

Failure to provide or object to the processing of personal data of the person concerned will result in exclusion from the award of a scholarship.

Contact Person

Arnd Bohl
Data protection officer
Email: datenschutz@gdch.de

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