Thank you for your interest in our company and our website. The protection of your data and your privacy is very important to the German Institute for Cell and Tissue Replacement gGmbH (hereinafter: “DIZG” or “we”). Therefore, compliance with the applicable data protection regulations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and other legal regulations is a matter of course for us.
In order to be able to offer you our services, we need to process your personal data. The following data protection information provides an overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website, contact us and/or purchase our transplants or services. Personal data is all data with which you can be personally identified. What data this is, how we handle it and what rights you have are explained below:
The controller within the meaning of Art. 4 (7) GDPR for the processing of personal data is
DIZG Deutsches Institut für Zell- und Gewebeersatz
Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft mbH
Innovationspark Wuhlheide
Köpenicker Straße 325, Haus 42
D-12555 Berlin
Telefon: +49(0)30-65 76 30 50
E-Mail: dizg@dizg.de
If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data or your rights in relation to data protection, please contact:
DIZG Deutsches Institut für Zell- und Gewebeersatz
Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft mbH
– Datenschutzbeauftragter –
Köpenickerstr. 325
12555 Berlin
Telefon: +49(0)30-65 76 30 50
E-Mail: dsb@dizg.de
When you visit our website, the browser used on your device automatically sends information to the server of our website. This information is temporarily stored in a log file. The following information is collected without any action on your part and stored until it is automatically deleted:
The aforementioned data is processed by us for the following purposes:
Data processing is carried out to protect our legitimate interests. The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the purposes for data collection listed above. Under no circumstances do we use the data collected for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person.
We also use cookies and analysis services when you visit our website. You can find more detailed explanations on this in section III. 2. of this privacy policy.
In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website.
Information is stored in the cookie that results in each case in connection with the specific end device used. However, this does not mean that we obtain direct knowledge of your identity.
A distinction is made between the following cookie types and functions:
We only use optional cookies and comparable technologies for marketing and analysis purposes if you have given your consent for data processing in accordance with Section 25 (1) TTDSG in conjunction with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR and for the transfer of data to third countries in accordance with Art. 49 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR via our cookie banner.
Our website uses a so-called “Consent Management” from Usercentrics GmbH to record and manage consents and any revocations. If you give your consent to the use of cookies, a cookie will be set to record your consent. We set this technically necessary cookie on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR in order to document your consent. If you delete your cookies, we will ask you for your consent again when you visit our website at a later date.
You can revoke your consent at any time or change the selection of cookies by clicking on the black dot at the bottom left of the screen.
Please note that you can also set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general.
You can find out how to delete cookies in the most common browsers and change the cookie settings here:
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=de&hlrm=en
Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/sfri11471/12.0/mac/10.14
Opera: https://help.opera.com/de/latest/web-preferences/#cookies.
Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.
We use various services of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland on our website for users from the European Economic Area and Switzerland; for all other users, the service provider is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter: “Google”).
You can find more information on the individual specific Google services that we use on this website in the further privacy policy.
By integrating Google services, Google may collect and process information (including personal data). It cannot be ruled out that Google may also transmit the information to a server in a third country.
There is currently no adequacy decision pursuant to Art. 45 GDPR.
However, the transfer can be based on standard contractual clauses. Google has undertaken to comply with the standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC (Standard Contractual Clauses – SCC).
You can find more information on the standard contractual clauses at https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/standard-contractuals-clauses-scc_de and at https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks?hl=de.
We ourselves cannot influence which data Google actually collects and processes. You can find information on the types of cookies used by Google at https://policies.google.com/technologies/types.
If you access a Google service on our website while you are logged into your Google profile, Google can also link this event to your Google profile. If you do not wish to be associated with your Google profile, you must log out of Google before accessing our contact page.
You can also change your cookie settings (e.g. delete cookies, block cookies, etc.). Further information on this can be found in section III. 2. of this privacy policy.
You can find more information in Google’s privacy policy, which you can access here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
You can find information on Google’s privacy settings at: https://privacy.google.com/take-control.html.
Our website uses Google Analytics with your consent, which you can revoke at any time. Google Analytics uses cookies, which are stored on your computer and enable your use of the website to be analyzed.
The following types of data are processed by Google:
The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, by activating IP anonymization on our website, your IP address will be shortened and thus anonymized by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.
Furthermore, we have concluded an order processing contract with Google for the use of Google Analytics (Art. 28 GDPR). Google processes the data on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity for us and to provide us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.
The legal basis for the processing of personal data described here is your consent, which you may have given for data processing in accordance with § 25 para. 1 TTDSG in conjunction with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR and for data transmission in accordance with Art. 49 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR in the cookie banner. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future or adjust your selection under data protection settings.
You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your shortened IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser add-on available at the following: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
If you prevent the storage of cookies, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of our website to their full extent.
Further information on data protection in connection with Google Analytics can be found in Google’s privacy policy and in the Google Analytics privacy policy.
Further information on Google services can be found in section III. 3. of this privacy policy.
Our website uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. The Google fonts are installed locally. There is no connection to Google servers.
Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and https://fonts.google.com/about and in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Our website also uses a so-called widget of the Kununu network. Kununu is a service of NEW WORK AUSTRIA XING kununu Prescreen GmbH, Schottenring 2-6, 1010 Vienna, Austria and is operated by New Work SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.
When you access a page of our website that contains such a widget (yellow button with the inscription: “Our profile on kununu”), your browser establishes a direct connection with the Kununu servers. The content of the widget is transmitted by Kununu directly to your browser, which integrates it into the website. By integrating the widgets, Kununu receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a Kununu account or are not currently logged in to Kununu. This information (geographic location, usage data, browser information, information about the operating system, IP address, referrer URL) is transmitted directly from your browser to a Kununu server in Europe and stored there. If you are logged in to Kununu, Kununu can assign your visit to our website directly to your Kununu account. If you interact with the widget, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a Kununu server and stored there. The information is also published on Kununu and displayed to your Kununu contacts.
Kununu may use this information for the purposes of advertising, market research and the needs-based design of the Kununu pages. For this purpose, Kununu creates usage, interest and relationship profiles, e.g. to evaluate your use of our website with regard to the advertisements displayed to you on Kununu, to inform other Kununu users about your activities on our website and to provide other services associated with the use of Kununu.
The legal basis is your consent, which you may have given for data processing in accordance with § 25 para. 1 TTDSG in conjunction with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR and for data transmission in accordance with Art. 49 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR in the cookie banner. Without your consent, there will be no connection to the Kununu servers. You can revoke your consent or change your selection at any time under Privacy settings.
If you do not want Kununu to assign the data collected via our website to your Kununu account, you can refuse consent or log out of Kununu before visiting our website. The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Kununu as well as your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in Kununu’s data protection information at: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung
We reserve the right to store your first and last name, business address, title, academic degree, and professional, industry, or business designation, which we have received from you or from publicly available sources within the scope of the contractual relationship, in summarized lists in order to send you information about our products by postal mail.
We may also work with external partners from whom we receive your contact details. We will inform you in the respective letter whether and, if so, with which partner we are working.
The legal basis for the processing of your data is the protection of our legitimate interests in advertising to our customers, which prevail in the context of a balancing of interests, in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
You have the right to object to the further use of your personal data for advertising purposes at any time. If you wish to exercise your right of objection, simply send an email to dizg@dizg.de.
When you contact us (e.g. by post, e-mail, telephone, etc.), we store and process the data that you have provided to us (e.g. name, contact information, content of the inquiry). Which data is collected in the case of a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your request or for contacting you and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for the processing of this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted after final processing of your request. This is the case if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and provided that there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary.
On our website, we also offer you the opportunity to apply for vacancies and to send us your application by e-mail.
If you send us your application, we will process the personal data that you provide to us as part of your application.
This data may include in particular
The purpose of processing the personal data resulting from the application documents sent by you is to be able to identify a suitable applicant.
The legal basis for the processing of your e-mail address is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to offer you the opportunity to contact us at any time and to be able to answer your inquiries. The legal basis for the processing of personal data resulting from the application is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b), Art. 88 para. 1 GDPR, § 26 para. 1 BDSG.
The application email and the documents sent will be stored until a decision has been made for or against the applicant and will then be deleted.
If an employment relationship is established between you and us, we may continue to process the personal data already received from you for the purposes of the employment relationship in accordance with Art. 88 GDPR in conjunction with Section 26 BDSG-new, insofar as this is necessary for the performance or termination of the employment relationship or for the exercise or fulfillment of the rights and obligations of the representation of employees’ interests arising from a law or a collective agreement, a works or service agreement (collective agreement).
Insofar as we base the processing of your data on our legitimate interest, you have the right to object; please see Section IX. of this Privacy Policy.
The provision of personal data is required for the submission of an application. Failure to do so will mean that we will not be able to process and consider your application.
We process your personal data for the initiation and fulfillment of contracts, including the management of related order inquiries and order assignments, both online and offline. These processing operations may include the following categories of data:
The provision of personal data is required for the submission of an application. Failure to do so will mean that we will not be able to process and consider your application.
Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:
You have the right
If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR, provided that there are reasons for this arising from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right to object, which will be implemented by us without specifying a particular situation.
If you wish to exercise your right of revocation or objection, simply send an e-mail to dizg@dizg.de.
The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and – if relevant – additionally by the respective statutory retention period (e.g. retention periods under commercial and tax law).
When processing personal data on the basis of express consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, this data is stored until the data subject withdraws their consent.
If there are statutory retention periods for data that is processed within the scope of legal or similar obligations on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, this data will be routinely deleted after the retention periods have expired, provided that it is no longer required for contract fulfillment or contract initiation and/or we no longer have a legitimate interest in further storage.
When processing personal data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data is stored until the data subject exercises their right to object in accordance with Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that outweigh the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
When processing personal data for the purpose of direct marketing on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data is stored until the data subject exercises their right to object in accordance with Art. 21 para. 2 GDPR.
Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this declaration on specific processing situations, stored personal data will be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.
We use the widespread SSL (Secure Socket Layer) method in conjunction with the highest level of encryption supported by your browser when you visit our website. As a rule, this is 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we use 128-bit v3 technology instead. You can tell whether an individual page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.
We also use suitable technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.
Due to the further development of our website and offers on it or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to change this data protection declaration. You can access and print out the current privacy policy at any time on the website at https://www.dizg.de/de/38-datenschutzerklaerung.html von Ihnen abgerufen und ausgedruckt werden.
Since its foundation, around 868,000 transplants have been manufactured infection-free.
Since its foundation, around 868,000 transplants have been manufactured infection-free.