This data protection information explains how GOLDKRONE Lederwaren-Handelsgesellschaft mbH (hereinafter referred to as the “Data Protection Manager”) (“we” or “us”) processes your personal data.

Data manager and contact information

GOLDKRONE Lederwaren-Handelsgesellschaft mbH is responsible for the processing of your personal data. Here you can see our contact information:

Responsible party

Responsible for the protection of your data:

GOLDKRONE Lederwaren-Handelsgesellschaft mbH

Nord-West-Ring-Straße 11

63533 Mainhausen

Germany

Description of data processing

In order to provide clear and transparent information about how we handle your personal data, we have divided our data protection information into different sections. The data protection information is relevant to you if you are a customer, supplier, cooperation partner or a related person (e.g. employee or consultant), if you use our websites and/or receive marketing, newsletters and such from us.

Purpose

Delivery of our service: Personal data entered by you or a person who has ordered a product or service from us on your behalf, has made an inquiry or requested information about our product or service, or has registered for one of our events or similar purposes.

Marketing: Personal data is used for marketing purposes, including targeting information based on your expressed interests and sending relevant marketing materials such as newsletters.

Optimization of the user experience on the website: Personal information is collected through your use of our website. We use this information to optimize the user experience on the registration website and the services we offer.

Statistics: Personal data is used to compile statistics on the use of our websites.

Categories of personal data

Below are different categories of personal data that are processed in relation to you:

General personal information:

First name, last name, email address, company, mobile phone number, are you a GOLDKRONE member?

Particularly sensitive data:

None

Sources

We collect information from the following sources:

• Directly from you
• The company or organization to which you belong (e.g. as an employee or consultant)
• Internet sources such as social media that are publicly accessible, if you provide us with information about them.

Basis for data processing

We process your personal data under the following conditions:

Clause 6.1.a

As soon as you have given us your consent

Clause 6.1.b

If it is necessary to be able to fulfill an agreement with you, or so that we can process requests or similar prior to the possible conclusion of an agreement with us

Clause 6.1.c

When processing is necessary to comply with legal requirements. In some cases, we are required by law to store data that includes your personal data. This may be the case, for example, for the documentation of transaction tracking or similar, in accordance with the Accounting Act.

Clause 6.1.f

If it is necessary to safeguard our legitimate interests. We have a legitimate interest in contacting you to communicate and cooperate on the conclusion, compliance and performance of agreements with you or the company or organization to which you belong (e.g. as an employee or consultant). Furthermore, we have a legitimate interest in storing the documentation of our cooperation for invoicing and for the settlement of any disputes, etc.

Recipients

We may share your personal data with the following:

• Lecturers and venues
• Suppliers, including IT providers, support, product suppliers and financial institutions with whom we work to run our business successfully
• Group companies
• Authorities

Storage

We store your data for up to 24 months after the end of the event.

Consequences of processing

When entering general personal data, this data may become publicly accessible through the publication of an online list of participants, and at events through the creation/issue of name badges and/or the issue of printed lists of participants.

Particularly sensitive data will not be made available online.

Mandatory information

The following information is mandatory: first name, surname, email address, company name, mobile phone number, are you a GOLDKRONE member?

Other information may also be mandatory during registration based on other decisions made. If you do not provide this information, it will not be possible to register for the event.

Your rights

You have the following rights:

• You have the right to request information, correction or deletion of your personal data
• You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data and to restrict the processing of your personal data
• In particular, you have the unrestricted right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes
• If the processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Your withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal
• You have the right to receive the personal data that you have provided yourself in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (data portability)
• You can lodge a complaint with a data protection authority at any time.

You can assert your rights by contacting the data protection manager named at the top of this page.

There may be conditions or restrictions attached to these rights. For example, you may not have the right of data portability in individual cases - this depends on the individual circumstances associated with the various operations.

Last updated: March 27, 2025