German Finance Dinner by Finance Network e.V.
Privacy Policy – Finance Network e.V.

Privacy Policy

1. Overview of Data Protection

General Information

The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data refers to all data with which you can be personally identified. For detailed information on data protection, please refer to our Privacy Policy set out below.

Data Collection on This Website

Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?

The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator, Finance Network e.V.. You can find the relevant contact details under “Note on the responsible entity” in this Privacy Policy.

How do we collect your data?

Your data is collected primarily when you provide it to us. This may, for example, include data you enter into a contact form or when you upload files through our application form.

Other data is collected automatically or upon your consent when you visit the website by our IT systems. This mainly consists of technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or the time of page access). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter this website.

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure the error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour.

Important for Applicants: If this website is used to initiate or enter into contracts (e.g. through our event application), the data submitted (including CVs) is processed not only for participant selection but explicitly for commercial transfer to our partners and sponsors for recruitment purposes.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right to receive information free of charge at any time about the origin, recipients, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction or erasure of this data. If you have given your consent to data processing, you can revoke this consent at any time with future effect. Under certain circumstances, you also have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

You can contact us at any time regarding any questions on the topic of data protection.

Analytics and Third-Party Tools

When visiting this website, your browsing behaviour can be statistically analysed. This primarily takes place using so-called analytics programmes.

You can find detailed information about these analytics programmes in the Privacy Policy below.

2. Hosting

We host our website content with the following provider:

Cloudflare

Our website is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA (hereinafter “Cloudflare”). When you visit our website, your browser connects to Cloudflare’s servers. Cloudflare processes the data technically required for delivering the website, in particular your IP address, the pages requested, date and time of access, browser and operating system information and the referrer URL (server log files). Cloudflare also uses this data to protect the website against attacks and misuse.

The use of Cloudflare is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in a fast, reliable and secure provision of our website. We have concluded a data processing agreement with Cloudflare (Art. 28 GDPR).

Data transfers to the USA are based on the EU Commission’s standard contractual clauses. Cloudflare, Inc. is certified under the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF). For further details, please refer to Cloudflare’s privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/ .

The fonts used on this website are hosted locally on our own server. No connection to Google Fonts or other font providers is established.

3. General Notes and Mandatory Information

Data Protection

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this Privacy Policy.

When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is data that can be used to identify you personally. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

We would like to point out that the transmission of data over the internet (e.g. when communicating by email) may have security gaps. Complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

Note on the Responsible Entity

The controller (responsible entity) for data processing on this website is:

Finance Network e.V.
Mombacher Straße 68
55122 Mainz
Germany
Email: participants@finance-network.co

The responsible entity is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, email addresses, etc.).

Storage Period

Unless a specific retention period has been stipulated within this Privacy Policy, your personal data remains with us until the purpose for processing it no longer applies. If you make a legitimate request for erasure or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be erased unless we have other legally permissible grounds for storing your personal data (e.g. retention periods under tax or commercial law); in the latter case, erasure will occur once these grounds no longer apply.

General Information on the Legal Bases for Data Processing on This Website

Insofar as you have given consent to the processing of your personal data, we process your data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and, where special categories of data (under Art. 9(1) GDPR) are processed, on the basis of Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR. In the case of explicit consent for transferring personal data to third countries, the data processing is also based on Art. 49(1)(a) GDPR. Where you have consented to the storage of cookies or the accessing of information on your device (e.g. via device fingerprinting), the data processing is additionally based on § 25(1) TDDDG. Consent may be withdrawn at any time. If your data is required for contract fulfilment or for pre-contractual measures, we process your data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Furthermore, if it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation, we process your data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. Data processing may also be based on our legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. You can find information on the relevant legal bases in each specific case throughout this Privacy Policy.

Recipients of Personal Data

As part of our business activities, we work with various external entities. Crucially, for applicants to our events, data recipients include corporate partners and sponsors.

We transfer personal data to external entities if:

Revoking Your Consent to Data Processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke consent that you have already provided at any time. The legality of the data processing carried out before your revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to Object to Data Collection in Specific Cases and to Direct Marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF DATA PROCESSING IS BASED ON ART. 6(1)(E) OR (F) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT, AT ANY TIME, TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RELEVANT LEGAL BASIS FOR ANY PROCESSING CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR THE PROCESSING SERVES TO ESTABLISH, EXERCISE OR DEFEND LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION UNDER ART. 21(1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING INSOFAR AS IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL NO LONGER BE USED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES (OBJECTION UNDER ART. 21(2) GDPR).

Right to Lodge a Complaint with a Supervisory Authority

In the event of infringements of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, their place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement. This right to lodge a complaint exists without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to have data which we process on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract delivered to yourself or a third party in a commonly used, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.

Access, Rectification, and Erasure

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to obtain information, free of charge, about your stored personal data, its origin, its recipients, and the purpose of the data processing, and, where applicable, the right to rectification or erasure of this data. You can contact us at any time concerning this or any other issues relating to personal data.

Right to Restrict Processing

You have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. You can contact us at any time regarding this. The right to restrict processing applies in the following cases:

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, such data — apart from being stored — may only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims, or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person, or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or of a Member State.

SSL/TLS Encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as any forms or enquiries you send to us as the site operator. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the padlock icon in your browser bar.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

4. Data Collection on This Website

Cookies

Our website uses so-called “cookies.” Cookies are small data packages and do not harm your end device. They are stored either temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies) on your end device. Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Permanent cookies remain on your end device until you delete them yourself or until they are automatically removed by your web browser.

Cookies can be placed by us (first-party cookies) or by third-party companies (so-called third-party cookies). Third-party cookies allow the integration of certain third-party services within websites (e.g. cookies for handling payment services).

Cookies have various functions. Many cookies are technically necessary as certain website functions would not work without them (e.g. shopping cart functions or video display). Other cookies can be used to analyse user behaviour or for advertising purposes.

Cookies that are required for electronic communication, for providing certain functions you have requested (e.g. for the shopping cart function) or for optimising the website (e.g. cookies to measure web audience) are stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, unless another legal basis is stated. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing necessary cookies for the technically error-free and optimised provision of its services. Where consent to the storage of cookies and comparable recognition technologies has been requested, processing takes place exclusively on the basis of this consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG); consent may be revoked at any time.

You can set your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies, to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Which cookies and services are used on this website can be found in this Privacy Policy.

Server Log Files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

This data is not merged with other data sources.

The collection of this data is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and the optimisation of its website — for this purpose, the server log files must be recorded.

General Contact Enquiries

If you send us general enquiries via our contact form (e.g. questions about the schedule), the information you enter in the form, including the contact details you provide, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry. We do not share this specific enquiry data without your consent.

Event Applications (Commercial Use & CV Distribution)

Important Distinction for Applicants: If you use our forms to apply for an event (e.g. the German Finance Dinner), you are entering into a contractual relationship governed by our Terms and Conditions (T&Cs).

Consent to Share and Sell Data: By submitting your application and accepting our T&Cs, you grant us express consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) to share, distribute, and sell your application data (including your CV, academic records, and contact details) to our partners, sponsors, and third-party networks for recruitment and commercial purposes.

No Further Consent Required: Therefore, regarding your application data, no separate consent is required for us to transfer your data to these third parties. The act of applying constitutes your consent to the commercial use and distribution of your data.

The data provided in the application form will be stored until you revoke your consent. Please note that revoking consent may result in the withdrawal of your application from the event selection process.

Requests by Email, Telephone, or Fax

If you contact us by email, telephone, or fax, your request including all resulting personal data (name, enquiry) will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of dealing with your enquiry. We do not share this data without your consent.

The processing of this data is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR if your enquiry is related to the performance of a contract or is necessary for pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective handling of enquiries directed to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), if requested; consent may be revoked at any time.

The data you send to us via contact enquiries remains with us until you request its erasure, revoke your consent for its storage, or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after completing your request). Mandatory statutory provisions — in particular statutory retention periods — remain unaffected.

5. Social Media

Links to LinkedIn and Instagram

Our website contains simple links to our profiles on LinkedIn (LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Dublin, Ireland) and Instagram (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Dublin, Ireland). No social media plugins are embedded and no data is transferred to these providers when you visit our website. Data is only processed by the respective provider once you click a link and visit their platform. Their privacy policies apply there: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy and https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/ .

6. Analytics

Google Analytics (only with your consent)

This website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”).

Google Analytics is only loaded after you have actively clicked “Accept” in our cookie banner. Before that, no Google Analytics script is loaded and no analytics cookies are set. If you click “Decline”, Google Analytics is not loaded.

Purpose: statistical analysis of how visitors use our website (for example pages viewed, time on page, approximate region, device and browser type), so that we can improve our content.

Data processed: shortened IP address, device and browser information, pages visited, referrer URL, date and time of access and a randomly generated identifier stored in cookies (for example “_ga” and “_ga_ZQZR8LS6W9”). Google Analytics 4 does not store full IP addresses.

Legal basis: your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG.

Your decision is stored in the local storage of your browser under the key “fn_consent” so that the banner is not shown again on every visit. This storage is strictly necessary to respect your choice (§ 25(2) No. 2 TDDDG).

Data may be transferred to Google LLC in the USA. Google LLC is certified under the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF); in addition, the EU Commission’s standard contractual clauses apply. Analytics data is deleted automatically after the retention period set in our Google Analytics account (maximum 14 months).

You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future: Change cookie settings. Alternatively, you can delete the cookies and local storage of this website in your browser settings. More information: https://policies.google.com/privacy .

7. Payments

Stripe

For paid services (for example sponsorship packages) we use the payment service provider Stripe, operated for the EEA by Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, D02 H210, Ireland (“Stripe”).

On pages with a payment button, a Stripe script is loaded and your browser connects to Stripe’s servers. When you start a payment, Stripe processes the data required for it, in particular name, email address, billing address, payment details, amount, currency and transaction ID, as well as technical data for fraud prevention (IP address, device information).

Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (performance of a contract) and Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR (statutory retention obligations). Fraud prevention is based on the legitimate interest in secure payments, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Stripe may transfer data to Stripe, Inc. in the USA. Stripe, Inc. is certified under the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF); in addition, standard contractual clauses apply. We do not receive or store your full card details, only the payment confirmation and the information required for our accounting, which we retain for the statutory periods (up to 10 years, § 147 AO, § 257 HGB). More information: https://stripe.com/privacy .

8. Own Services

OneDrive / Google Drive

We may integrate OneDrive or Google Drive on this website to provide an upload area for users. OneDrive is provided by Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland, and Google Drive is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. When you upload content, it is stored on the servers of these respective services. When you enter our website, a connection to these services may be established, indicating that you have visited our site.

The use of these services is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in providing a reliable upload area on its website. Where consent has been requested, processing is based solely on Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; consent may be revoked at any time.

Both Microsoft and Google are certified under the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF). This arrangement ensures compliance with European data protection standards for data processing in the USA. Every company certified under the DPF undertakes to comply with these data protection standards. More information is available via:

Last updated: 12 October 2026