Data protection information
Körber-Stiftung
Kehrwieder 12
20457 Hamburg
Germany
Phone 040 / 80 81 92 – 0
Fax 040 / 80 81 92 – 300
E-Mail info-at-koerber-stiftung.de
www.koerber-stiftung.de
Körber-Stiftung is a foundation having legal capacity under the German Civil Code.
Authorized representatives: Dr. Thomas Paulsen (Chairman of the Executive Board), Eva Nemela (Member of the Executive Board).
Competent supervisory authority:
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Authority for Justice and Consumer Protection,
Drehbahn 36, 20354 Hamburg
VAT ID No. in acc. with § 27 a Value Added Tax Act: DE 118 717 618
Responsible for content according to German law (§ 18 MStV):
Dr. Thomas Paulsen, Körber-Stiftung, Kehrwieder 12, 20457 Hamburg
Design and implementation of the platform
Disclaimer
Körber-Stiftung is responsible for the content of this website in accordance with Section 5 of the Digital Services Act (DDG). All content is provided for general information purposes only. No guarantee is given for the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of the content provided. Users use the content at their own risk.
Subject to mandatory legal provisions, Körber-Stiftung accepts no liability for damages arising from the use of this website.
This website contains links to external third-party websites. The respective provider or operator of these external sites is always responsible for their content. At the time the links were created, no illegal or criminal content was apparent.
Körber-Stiftung has no influence whatsoever on the current and future design or content of the linked pages and expressly does not endorse this content. Permanent monitoring of the content of the linked pages is not reasonable without concrete evidence of a violation of the law. Such links will be removed immediately upon notification of any violations.
All texts, images, graphics and the layout of this website are subject to the copyright of Körber-Stiftung or third parties. Any reproduction, distribution or other use is only permitted with reference to the source (Körber-Stiftung) and, where necessary, with prior consent.
Insofar as content on this website is of a journalistic or editorial nature, the special information requirements pursuant to Section 18 of the German Media State Treaty (MStV) also apply.
Data protection information
The protection of your personal data is an important concern for Körber-Stiftung. We observe the legal regulations on data protection and data security.
Below you will find information about what personal data we collect when you use our website at www.koerber-stiftung.de (“website”) and utilize the services and functions it contains, and how we use this data and for what purposes. In addition, we will inform you of the legal basis for the processing of your data and, if processing is necessary to protect our legitimate interests, of our legitimate interests. If you have any further questions about the handling of your personal data, please contact our data protection officer.
Person responsible
Körber-Stiftung, Kehrwieder 12, 20457 Hamburg, Germany, telephone 040 / 80 81 92 0, datenschutz-at-koerber-stiftung.de (“Körber-Stiftung”, “we” or “us”) is responsible for processing your data.
Contact the data protection officer responsible
You can contact our data protection officer at datenschutz-at-koerber-stiftung.de or by post at
Justus Brandt
c/o intersoft consulting services AG
Beim Strohhause 17
20097 Hamburg
www.intersoft-consulting.de
Legal basis for data processing
According to Art. 13 para. 1 lit. c) GDPR, we must also inform you about the legal bases for data processing on our website and the purposes of the respective data processing. The data processing on our website is authorized by two different legal bases in addition to the provision of consent:
If we obtain your consent for certain data processing, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR (or § 25 para. 1 TDDDG).
According to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR, data processing is lawful if it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering a contract.
Insofar as processing is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation to which we are subject, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR.
According to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR (or § 25 para. 2 no. 2 TDDDG), data processing is also lawful if it is necessary to safeguard the legitimate interests of the controller or a third party, unless the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, which require the protection of personal data prevail, in particular if the data subject is a child.
In the following, we refer to these two legal bases for the relevant data processing.
Data security
We have taken extensive technical and operational precautions to protect your data from accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorised people. Our security procedures are regularly reviewed and adapted to technological progress.
Data transmission
Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties unless we are legally obliged to do so, or the transfer of data is necessary to fulfil the contractual relationship, or you have previously expressly consented to the transfer of your data.
We attach great importance to processing your data within the EU/EEA. However, we may use service providers who process data outside the EU/EEA. In these cases, we ensure that an appropriate level of data protection comparable to the standards within the EU is established at the recipient before your personal data is transferred. This can be achieved, for example, by means of EU standard contracts or binding corporate rules or special agreements to which the company may be subject.
Contact
When you contact us by email or via contact form, the data you provide (your email address, possibly your name and telephone number) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions and process your requests. The legal basis in this respect is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. If we request information via our contact form that is not required for contacting you, we have always labelled this as optional. We use this information to specify your enquiry and to improve the processing of your request. This information is provided expressly on a voluntary basis and with your consent, Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. If this involves information on communication channels (e.g. email address, telephone number), you also consent to us contacting you via this communication channel in order to respond to your enquiry. You can of course revoke this consent at any time for the future.
Your data that we have received while contacting you will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected, your request has been fully processed and no further communication with you is necessary or desired by you.
As the data controller, our company has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure that the personal data processed via this website is protected as completely as possible. Nevertheless, internet-based data transmissions can generally have security gaps. Absolute protection cannot be guaranteed; in any case, sending unencrypted e-mails is not secure. We therefore ask you not to send sensitive data by unencrypted e-mail, but to use either encrypted communication channels (e.g. our contact form) or the postal service.
Data collection
During your participation in the nomination process, we will process the data listed below, for internal use only:
- First name, last name
- Telephone number (private or mobile), if provided
- E-mail address
- Institution/ work place
- If applicable: nomination documents (proposal, CV, reviews)
Purpose of data collection
We process the data that you have sent us in connection with the nomination process of the Körber European Science Prize. Your data will only be forwarded to the people and departments responsible for the process. Your data will not be used for any other purpose or passed on to third parties.
Place of data processing
The processing of your data takes place in the Federal Republic of Germany and in a member state of the European Union (EU).
Cookies
We only use cookies that are technically necessary to provide the basic functions of a website.
Data deletion
In general, we delete or anonymize your personal data as soon as it is no longer required for the purposes for which we collected or used it in accordance with the above paragraphs. Specific information on the retention and deletion of personal data in the previous sections remains unaffected.
Unless this privacy policy contains other, deviating provisions regarding the storage of data, the data collected by us will be stored by us for as long as it is required for the aforementioned purposes for which it was collected.
Changes to this privacy policy
The further development of the internet and our website may also affect the handling of personal data. We therefore reserve the right to amend this data protection declaration in the future within the framework of the applicable data protection laws and, if necessary, to adapt it to changed data processing realities. We therefore recommend that you visit our website from time to time to take note of any updates to our privacy policy.
Your rights
We will be happy to provide you with information as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed; if this is the case, you have the right to information about this personal data and to the information listed in detail in Art. 15 GDPR. In addition, you have the right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), the right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR), the right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR) and the right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR) under the respective legal requirements.
You have the right to object to the processing under the legal requirements (Art. 21 GDPR).
To exercise your above rights, please contact us by e-mail at datenschutz-at-koerber-stiftung.de or by post at Körber-Stiftung, Kehrwieder 12, 20457 Hamburg. The exercise of your above rights is free of charge for you.
Without prejudice to these rights and the possibility of seeking any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority at any time, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes data protection regulations (Art. 77 GDPR).
The following data protection authority is responsible for Körber-Stiftung:
Der Hamburgische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit,
Ludwig-Erhard-Str 22, 7th Floor
20459 Hamburg
Tel.: 040 / 428 54 – 4040
Fax: 040 / 428 54 – 4000
E-Mail: mailbox-at-datenschutz.hamburg.de
This privacy policy has been machine translated.
Status of this privacy policy: 15 April 2026