Privacy Policy

1. Data Controller

The data controller for your personal data is:

• Entity: "Industry 4.0 for Human Empowerment" Foundation
• Address: Bahnhofstrasse 8, 30159 Hanover, Germany
• Contact email: info@europeaninitiative40.com

2. Data We Collect

We may collect the following types of personal data:

2.1 Data you provide directly

• Full name
• Email address
• Company or organization
• Professional role
• Information included in contact forms

2.2 Data collected automatically

• IP address (anonymized)
• Browser and device type
• Pages visited and time spent
• Cookie data (see our Cookie Policy)

3. Purpose of Processing

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

• Responding to your inquiries and information requests
• Managing certification applications
• Sending communications related to our services (with your consent)
• Improving our website and services
• Complying with legal obligations

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your data based on:

• Consent: When you provide your data through forms
• Legitimate interest: To improve our services and ensure security
• Legal obligation: When necessary to comply with applicable law

Site usage analytics

This site runs first-party analytics: pages visited, time on page, scroll depth, clicks and form interaction, together with your IP address and the approximate location derived from it. The IP address is personal data. There are no third-party analytics and no advertising cookies. A notice lets you accept or reject it; if you reject, your browsing is not recorded. Browsing records are kept for a maximum of 30 days on this website's server and up to 12 months in the controller's centralised analytics system, where they may be consolidated with records from other services operated by the same controller. Full detail in the Cookie Policy.

Link between your browsing and your contact details

If you have given us your email address through a form on this site, we may link that address to the browsing activity described above, in order to handle your enquiry with context and to tailor our response to what actually interests you. This linking takes place within the controller's relationship-management system, is not used for behavioural advertising and is not disclosed to third parties for commercial purposes. You may object at any time by writing to info@europeaninitiative40.com.

5. Data Retention

We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, and in any case, for the legally established periods.

6. Data Recipients

Your personal data will not be shared with third parties, except:

• Service providers necessary for website operation
• Public authorities when legally required

We will never sell your personal data to third parties.

7. International Transfers

Your data may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area only when adequate safeguards exist under GDPR, such as standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.

8. Your Rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to:

• Access: Know what personal data we process about you
• Rectification: Correct inaccurate or incomplete data
• Erasure: Request deletion of your data ("right to be forgotten")
• Restriction: Request that we limit the processing of your data
• Portability: Receive your data in a structured, commonly used format
• Object: Object to the processing of your data
• Withdraw consent: At any time, without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing

To exercise these rights, contact us at info@europeaninitiative40.com.

9. Right to Complain

If you believe that the processing of your data does not comply with current regulations, you may file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. In Germany, this is the Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (BfDI).

10. Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

11. Changes

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy. Any changes will be published on this page with the corresponding update date.

12. Contact

For any questions related to this Privacy Policy or the processing of your personal data:

• Email: info@europeaninitiative40.com
• Address: Bahnhofstrasse 8, 30159 Hanover, Germany