Data protection provisions for users of the FFCh expert finder (request form)

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. Executive Director: Prof. Dr. Wolfram Koch
Commercial director: Graduate economist Volker Kilz
Data protection officer: Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing (FH) Arnd Bohl

3. Address of the responsible body
Varrentrappstrasse 40-42
60486 Frankfurt am Main

4. Purpose of data processing
Inquiry form for chemical questions to the FFCh Division

5. Admissibility of data processing
Consent of the person concerned

6. Recipients or categories of recipients to whom the data is or will be disclosed
FFCh members registered in the Googe group, GDCh employees in the "Member Marketing / Specialist and Regional Structures" department, GDCh-IT, GDCh data protection officer, Google LLC ( Google Privacy Policy)

7. Deadlines for the deletion of data
The deletion takes place no later than three months after sending the request.

8. Data transfer to a third country or an international organization
There is no data transfer to a third country outside the European Union.

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 a correction or completion of personal data concerning them.

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 which 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
If the person concerned does not provide their personal data or if they object to their processing, use of the FFCh expert finder is excluded.