DSGV – 2024 | Privacy policy

Privacy policy

Who is responsible for this website?

The data controller as defined by the General Data Protection Regulation is:

Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband e.V.
Charlottenstrasse 47
10117 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49-30-20225-0
Fax: +49-30-20225-250
Email: info@dsgv.de
Website: www.dsgv.de

If you have any questions about this privacy notice or about how our Association, the Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband, protects your data, you can contact our data protection officer at any time:

Datenschutzbeauftragter
Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband e.V.
Charlottenstrasse 47
10117 Berlin
Germany
Email: datenschutz@dsgv.de

SSL encryption (HTTPS protocol)

We use SSL encryption to make sure that the data you send us are protected as effectively as possible. You can tell whether a connection is protected in this way because the page link in the address bar of your browser will contain the prefix “https://”. Unencrypted pages are tagged “http://”. Thanks to SSL encryption, none of the data that you send to this website – for example, when you send a request or log in – can be read by third parties.

Data processing during your visit to our website

1. Data required to display the website and to ensure its stability and security
Every time our website is accessed, our system automatically captures data and information about the computing system used by the requesting device. The data and information are saved in log files on the server. The following data are captured:

IP address of the device you are using
name of the file accessed
date and time of the request
volume of data transmitted
request status (successful / unsuccessful)
browser type and release and operating system in use
referrer URL (i.e. the last web page you visited)

We cannot link these data to a specific individual, and they do not enable us to draw any conclusions about the user’s identity. This information is not stored along with other personal data about the user.

2. Purpose of data processing and legal basis
The system needs to save your IP address temporarily so that the website can be delivered to your device. For this to happen, your IP address must be stored for the duration of the session.

Other than this, data are stored to ensure website functionality. These data also help us to optimise the website and maintain the security of our IT systems. If any unlawful use were to be made of our website, these data would serve to establish any legal infringements.

The data described here are used in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract or in order to perform a contract within the meaning of Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. These data can, furthermore, be used to protect the legitimate interests of the Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband pursuant to the weighing of interests defined in Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Our interest lies in making this website available to visitors.

3. Duration of storage
The data are deleted as soon as they are no longer required to achieve the purpose for which they were collected. In the case of data captured in order to make the website available to you, this means when your current session ends.

Data saved in log files will be deleted within 14 days at the latest. It is possible to store them for longer, but if this happens the user’s IP address must be deleted or modified to prevent the identification of the requesting client.

Use of cookies and third-party service providers

No cookies are used on our websites. Third-party service providers’ servers are also not integrated.

Rights of data subjects

Notice of your right to object under Article 21 GDPR

1. Objection on particular grounds
You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your personal situation, to the processing of data concerning you based on Article 6(1)(e) GDPR (public interest) and Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (weighing of interests); this also applies to any profiling as defined in Article 4 no. 4 GDPR that is derived from these provisions.

If you object, we will no longer process your data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or unless processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

2. Objection to processing for direct marketing
In isolated cases, we process your data for direct marketing purposes. You have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing, including any profiling related to such direct marketing.

If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, your savings bank will no longer process your personal data for such purposes.

You can submit your objection informally, preferably to:

Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband e.V.
Charlottenstrasse 47
10117 Berlin
Germany

Email: info@dsgv.de

Wherever the processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you have the right under Article 7(3) GDPR to withdraw the consent you gave under data protection law at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Moreover, as a data subject within the meaning of GDPR, you can assert the following rights vis-à-vis the controller:

1. Right of access
Article 15 GDPR grants you the right to obtain information from us about the personal data concerning you that we process. In particular, you can request information about the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned, the categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the envisaged period for which the data will be stored, the existence of a right to rectify or erase data or to restrict or object to their processing, the existence of a right to lodge a complaint, the source of your data insofar as they were not collected from you, and the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, and, at least in these cases, meaningful information about the logic involved.

2. Right to rectification
You have the right to obtain from the controller the rectification of inaccurate personal data and/or the completion of incomplete personal data. The controller must rectify the information without undue delay.

3. Right to restriction of processing
Article 18 GDPR grants you the right to instruct the controller to restrict the processing of your personal data if you contest the accuracy of the data, if the processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure of the data, if we no longer need the data but you require them for the establishment, exercise of defence of legal claims, or if, pending verification, you have objected to processing pursuant to Article 21 GDPR.

4. Right to erasure
Article 17 GDPR grants you the right to obtain from us the erasure of personal data about you that we have stored as long as processing is not necessary for the exercise of the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, or for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

5. Right to data portability
Article 20 GDPR grants you the right to ask us to send you your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to transmit the personal data that you have stored with us to another controller.

6. Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
You have the right, in accordance with Article 77 GDPR, to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. As a rule you are free to contact the supervisory authority at your habitual residence or place of employment or where our company is domiciled. The competent supervisory authority in Berlin is the Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information:

Die Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit
Alt-Moabit 59-61
10555 Berlin
Germany

Contact details of the data protection officer

We have appointed a data protection officer. Their contact details can be found here: