htk academy’s privacy policy

Introduction

Welcome to the privacy policy of htk academy.

htk academy respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. With this privacy policy, we inform you about how we protect your personal data when you visit our websites (regardless of where you access them from), what your data protection rights are and how you are protected by the law.

This Privacy Policy is provided in a layer format so that you can click through to the individual areas listed below. Please also use the glossary in Section 12, which explains the meanings of some of the terms used in this Privacy Policy.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE

DATA CONTROLLER

This website is operated on behalf of htk GmbH, a company registered in Germany under company number HRB 133909 B, with its registered office at Dessauer Str. 3-5, 10963 Berlin.

Htk GmbH is part of the Global University Systems B.V. group of companies, which consists of various legal entities, details of which can be found at https://www.globaluniversitysystems.com/.

We have appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO) who is responsible for handling questions related to this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including questions about the exercise of your legal rights, please contact the DPO using the contact details set out below.

Contact details

Our full contact details are:

  • Name of the legal entity responsible for the data: htk GmbH (hereinafter referred to as htk academy)
  • Name or title of the DPO: Data Protection Officer
  • E-mail address: dataprotection@gusgermany.de
  • Postal address: Dessauer Str. 3-5, 10963 Berlin

You have the right to lodge a complaint at any time with the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, the supervisory authority for data protection matters in Berlin (https://www.datenschutz-berlin.de/).

We always prefer that you contact us to help us handle data protection matters before you contact the Berlin supervisory authority or any other competent supervisory authority; We therefore ask you to contact us first.

Purpose of this Privacy Policy

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you how htk academy collects and processes your personal data, including any data you provide through this website when you:

  • come to our website from a social network such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn;
  • fill out a callback/request form;
  • register on our website to apply for a course or course of study, for a business/executive course or for professional development (online teaching, distance learning, on-campus instruction), whether you submit the application for yourself or for employees or other employees of your organization who are or will be our customers;
  • register to receive marketing materials; or
  • provide us with your personal data in any other way.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect any data on this website that relates to persons under the age of 16. However, if htk academy processes personal data of persons under the age of 16 in the course of its business activities, we ensure that appropriate security measures are taken and that consents from parents or guardians are obtained. For more information, see dataprotection@gusgermany.de.

It is important that you read this Privacy Policy and any other privacy statements or statements of appropriate data processing that we publish on certain occasions when we collect or process personal data from you so that you are aware of how and why we use your data.


This Privacy Policy supplements the other statements, but it does not replace them.