Controller The controller responsible for processing personal data on this website is: educando GmbH Alt-Niederkassel 67 40547 Düsseldorf Germany Represented by the managing director Christian Buchholz Phone: +49 211 3160516 Email: [email protected]
Data protection officer Our data protection officer is Christian Buchholz, who can be reached at the address above and at [email protected].
What this policy covers This website provides information about keynote speakers. We only process the data that is needed to operate the website. This website has no registration, no newsletter and no comment function. You can send us questions through the contact form (see the section "Contact form"). We use the Rybbit service for audience measurement (see the section "Audience measurement with Rybbit"). We currently do not use advertising tools. If that changes, we will update this policy beforehand.
Hosting The website runs on a virtual server (VPS) from the provider Hostinger. The data center is located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The recipient of the data is Hostinger International Ltd., 61 Lordou Vironos Street, 6023 Larnaca, Cyprus. You can find information on data processing by Hostinger in Hostinger's privacy policy: https://www.hostinger.com/legal/privacy-policy A data processing agreement is in place with Hostinger. It is part of Hostinger's terms of service and ensures that Hostinger processes the data only on our instructions and in accordance with the GDPR. Hostinger uses sub-processors (the list is in the agreement at https://www.hostinger.com/legal/dpa). Data may also be processed outside the EU. For transfers to countries without an adequacy decision, the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission apply. The purpose of the processing is to operate the website and to ensure its security and stability. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is a secure and reliable operation of the website.
Cloudflare The Cloudflare service (Cloudflare, Inc., USA) sits in front of our website. Your requests go through Cloudflare first. The service forwards them to our server, helps to defend against attacks and can deliver content faster. In doing so, Cloudflare processes technical data, mainly your IP address, the date and time of the request, the requested address and information about your browser. Cloudflare may use technically necessary cookies or similar technologies for this, for example to detect automated access. Cloudflare may transfer data to the USA. According to Cloudflare, the company is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, and Cloudflare's data processing agreement contains the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission as an additional safeguard. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the protection and fast delivery of our website.
Audience measurement with Rybbit On the public pages we use the Rybbit service (cloud version) for audience measurement. The provider is Tomato.gg LLC, 1276 Rothwell Dr, Troy, MI 48084, USA. Rybbit shows us which pages are visited and how visitors find the website. The following is processed: requested address and page title, referrer, parameters in the address (for example UTM parameters), session duration, entry and exit page, browser and version, operating system, screen resolution, device type, and country and region. Country and region are derived briefly from your IP address. According to the provider, the IP address is not stored. To tell visitors apart, Rybbit, by its own account, forms an identifier value (a hash) from the IP address and browser information, without cookies. When loading, the script checks whether a setting to switch off measurement is stored in your browser. Rybbit's servers are located in Germany and Finland (Hetzner). A data processing agreement is in place with the provider. As the provider is based in the USA, access from the USA cannot be ruled out. We have agreed the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission with the provider for this. The measurement data is stored for 3 years and then deleted automatically. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to analyse the use of the website and to improve our content.
Contact form If you write to us through the contact form, we process your first name, last name, email address and the text of your enquiry. All four details are needed so that we can answer your enquiry. Your enquiry is not stored on our website or in a database. It is sent by email to a mailbox of educando GmbH. We use the Brevo service for sending. The provider is Brevo GmbH, Köpenicker Str. 126, 10179 Berlin, Germany. A data processing agreement is in place with the provider. In addition, we receive a notification in our team chat (Slack) that an enquiry has arrived. This notification contains no details about you and not the text of your enquiry. To protect against misuse (spam), we limit how often a visitor can submit the form. For this, your IP address is held only briefly as an irreversible value in the server's working memory and is not stored. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, insofar as your enquiry concerns a contract or pre-contractual measures, and otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to answer enquiries. We delete your enquiry as soon as it has been dealt with and no statutory retention obligations stand in the way.
Server logs When you visit the website, the server processes, for technical reasons, data that your browser transmits: the IP address of your device, the date and time of the request, the name and address of the page or file requested, the status code, the amount of data transferred, the page from which the access was made (referrer), and the browser and operating system. We do not keep regular access logs of page views on our server. Technical error messages from the software may appear in logs, which we use solely for troubleshooting and defending against attacks and keep only as long as necessary for that. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Cookies Our website itself does not set any cookies for visitors. Rybbit does not use cookies either (see below).
Contact by email or phone If you write to us or call us, we process your details in order to handle your enquiry. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) or (f) GDPR. We delete the data as soon as the enquiry has been dealt with and no statutory retention obligations stand in the way.
Links to other websites Our articles cite sources and link to other websites. If you click a link, you leave our website. The operators of the linked pages are responsible for the data processing on those pages.
Your rights You have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18), data portability (Art. 20) and to object to processing (Art. 21). You can withdraw any consent you have given at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your rights, write to us at [email protected]. If you believe that we are not processing your data properly, you can lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. The authority responsible for us is the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia (Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen), Kavalleriestraße 2-4, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany (www.ldi.nrw.de).
Last updated: November 2026