Privacy policy
This is an English translation for your convenience. Only the German version is legally binding: Datenschutzerklärung.
In brief
This website sets no cookies, loads no content from third parties (no fonts from external servers, no maps, no social media embeds and no embedded videos from other platforms) and uses no tracking. That is why there is no cookie banner here, and when you simply read these pages, there is nothing you would have to consent to.
The website is hosted by our hosting provider IONOS, which processes data only on our behalf. Server logs are created there when you visit a page, and that is also where anything you write in our contact form arrives. Exactly how this works is explained below.
Controller
Gründungswerft e. V.
c/o Universität Greifswald
Friedrich-Loeffler-Straße 70
17489 Greifswald
represented by the board
Phone: +49 176 61168780
E-mail: sophia.hammer@iff-mv.de
niklas.obenlueneschloss@iff-mv.de
Gründungswerft operates this website for the joint project International Female Founders MV, which it carries out together with Bildungswerk der Wirtschaft gGmbH. When you write to us, the Gründungswerft project team replies to you.
Hosting and server logs
The website is hosted by IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Straße 57, 56410 Montabaur. IONOS processes the data as our processor under Art. 28 GDPR, which means only on our instructions and not for its own purposes.
When you open a page, your browser transmits technically necessary data, which IONOS stores in log files:
- your IP address in truncated form
- date and time of access
- address accessed and amount of data transferred
- browser type and operating system
- the page you visited before, if your browser sends it
The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interest lies in technically error-free operation and in defending against attacks. The data is not combined with other sources and, according to IONOS, is deleted after eight weeks.
Contact form
You can write us a message on the contact page. This is voluntary, and you can just as well call us or send us an e-mail.
What is processed
Only what you enter yourself: your message and, depending on what you provide, your name, your e-mail address, your phone number, your preferred language for the reply and the type of your request. Only the message and one way of replying to you are required.
We expressly do not ask about residence status, nationality, age, gender or address. Please do not write such details in the message field unprompted either, because we do not need them for a first contact.
Where it goes
The message is received on our web space at IONOS and sent from there by e-mail to the mailboxes of our project team. No external form service is involved.
Legal basis
If your message concerns taking part in the programme, the legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, because we are then discussing steps prior to a possible participation. For all other enquiries, it is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, and our legitimate interest lies in answering your enquiry.
How long
If your enquiry does not lead to participation, we delete it six months after the last contact. If you take part in the programme, we keep your documents for as long as the rules of the funding from the European Social Fund Plus require, and we inform you about this separately when you register.
You can ask us at any time to delete your message. Send us a short note and we will do so, as long as no retention obligation prevents it.
Protection against automatically sent messages
To stop the form from being flooded by machines, the server counts for one hour how many messages came from one connection. It does not store the IP address itself but a check value calculated from it with a secret key that changes daily. After one hour, this value is no longer needed and is deleted on the next run, and the server deletes old keys as well. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, and the legitimate interest lies in keeping the form working. We deliberately do not use a service such as reCAPTCHA, because that would mean transferring data to a third party.
Page view statistics
There is currently no audience measurement.
Fonts
All fonts are loaded from our own server. There is no connection to Google Fonts or any other external service, and your IP address is not passed on to anyone in the process.
Contacting us by e-mail or phone
If you write to us or call us, we process the details you give us in order to answer your enquiry. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where it concerns taking part in the programme, otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The same storage period applies as for the contact form.
We offer WhatsApp as a way to contact us because many of the people we want to reach use it anyway. If you open the WhatsApp link or write to us there, WhatsApp Ireland Limited, a company of the Meta group, processes your data under its own responsibility, including your phone number and the fact that you were in contact with us and when. The content of your messages is end-to-end encrypted, but this connection data is not, and it may also be transferred to the USA. What WhatsApp does with your data is set out in WhatsApp's privacy policy.
We treat your message to us like an e-mail, with the same legal basis and the same storage period.
You do not have to use this channel. You can reach us just as well by phone, by e-mail or through the contact form on this website.
When we pass on data
Your details stay within the project team. We only pass them on in three cases: if you consent, for example because we are referring you to an advice centre and you would like us to make the contact; if your enquiry concerns our joint project partner, Bildungswerk der Wirtschaft gGmbH, and is to be answered by them; or if a law obliges us to do so. We do not pass anything on to immigration offices (Ausländerbehörden) of our own accord.
For participants, the reporting obligations of the funding from the European Social Fund Plus also apply. We provide separate information about this when you register.
External links
The support finder links to offers from other organisations. As soon as you follow such a link, the privacy policy of the website concerned applies. We do not transfer any data to these providers, and the link is only opened when you click on it.
Your rights
You have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18) and data portability (Art. 20). To exercise these rights, contact the controller named above. A short message is enough.
Your right to object
Where we process data on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR), you can object to this processing at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation (Art. 21(1) GDPR). We will then no longer process this data, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. A short message to us is enough.
Complaints to a supervisory authority
You can also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, for example the Landesbeauftragter für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Schloss Schwerin, Lennéstraße 1, 19053 Schwerin,info@datenschutz-mv.de.
No automated decision-making
There is no profiling and no automated decision-making.
Last updated
October 2026
