For questions regarding data protection within Economix, please contact:

Economix Research & Consulting
Dr. Nicola Düll
Agnesstr. 66
80797 München
E-Mail: info@economix.org

Below, we first present brief general information on data protection, which is then supplemented further down with the complete data protection text.

General Information on Data Protection

Economix Research & Consulting is a partnership that conducts policy consulting and scientific analyses for public clients. In the context of our work, which may include empirical analyses of microdata as well as data collection, it is important to us as an organization to comply with the principles of data protection in accordance with data protection legislation as well as the guidelines of empirical economic research and the collection of individual microdata.

  • Personal and company data are generally treated confidentially. They must be protected throughout the entire process (collection, processing, analysis, and storage) from being viewed by third parties. Only employees working on the projects may access the data, exclusively for the assigned project objectives.
  • Statistical evaluations and presentations do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the person, company, or institution of the respondent. Feature combinations must always be selected in such a way that a sufficiently large group is identified. Individual data are only passed on in anonymized form, i.e., without identifying the surveyed person, company, or institution. Survey data and address/name data are always stored separately.
  • The collection of personal/company-related data is carried out exclusively on a project-specific basis. Only data that are necessary for the implementation and objectives of the project are collected.
  • No information is provided to third parties about participation in surveys, entry in a dataset, or the content of the dataset that would allow conclusions to be drawn about the person, company, or institution of the respondent.

Data Protection Information for the Website

Economix does not use cookies.

When accessing this website, the user's internet browser automatically transmits the following log data to the web server for technical reasons:

  • Date and time of access
  • URL of the referring website (Referrer URL)
  • Retrieved file
  • Amount of data transferred
  • Browser type and version
  • Operating system and version
  • IP address of the accessing computer.

These log data are stored in a log file to ensure data security. The stored data are used for the purpose of tracking unauthorized access attempts and access to the web server. Any use of the log data beyond this is carried out exclusively for statistical purposes in anonymized form.

The user has the right to request free information about the personal data stored by Economix Research & Consulting about them. Furthermore, the user has the right to correct inaccurate personal data about them as well as to block and delete their personal data. Information regarding the server's log data can only be provided and requests for blocking and deletion can only be processed by us if the user provides us with the IP address they used when accessing the website.

Complete Data Protection Notice

Name and Address of the Data Controller

The data controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation and other national data protection laws of the member states as well as other data protection regulations is:

Economix Research & Consulting
Dr. Nicola Düll
Agnesstr. 66
80797 München
E-Mail: info@economix.org

General Information on Data Processing

Scope of Processing of Personal Data

We process personal data of our users in principle only to the extent necessary to provide a functional website as well as our content and services. The processing of personal data of our users regularly takes place only with the user's consent. An exception applies in cases where prior obtaining of consent is not possible for factual reasons and the processing of the data is permitted by statutory regulations.

Legal Basis for the Processing of Personal Data

Insofar as we obtain the consent of the data subject for processing operations of personal data, Article 6(1)(a) EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) serves as the legal basis.

For the processing of personal data necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party, Article 6(1)(b) GDPR serves as the legal basis. This also applies to processing operations that are necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures.

Insofar as processing of personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which our company is subject, Article 6(1)(c) GDPR serves as the legal basis.

In the event that vital interests of the data subject or another natural person require the processing of personal data, Article 6(1)(d) GDPR serves as the legal basis.

If processing is necessary to protect a legitimate interest of our company or a third party and the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject do not outweigh the former interest, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing.

Data Deletion and Storage Duration

The personal data of the data subject will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage ceases to apply. Storage may also take place if this has been provided for by the European or national legislator in EU regulations, laws or other provisions to which the controller is subject. Blocking or deletion of data also takes place when a storage period prescribed by the aforementioned standards expires, unless there is a need for further storage of the data for conclusion or fulfillment of a contract.

Provision of the Website and Creation of Log Files

Description and Scope of Data Processing

Each time our website is accessed, our system automatically collects data and information from the computer system of the accessing computer. The following data are collected:

  • Date and time of access
  • URL of the referring website (Referrer URL)
  • Retrieved file
  • Amount of data transferred
  • Browser type and version
  • Operating system and version
  • IP address of the accessing computer.

The data are also stored in the log files of our system. These data are not stored together with other personal data of the user.

Legal Basis for Data Processing

The legal basis for the temporary storage of data and log files is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Purpose of Data Processing

The temporary storage of the IP address by the system is necessary to enable delivery of the website to the user's computer. For this purpose, the user's IP address must remain stored for the duration of the session.

Storage in log files is carried out to ensure the functionality of the website. In addition, the data serve us to optimize the website and to ensure the security of our information technology systems. An evaluation of the data for marketing purposes does not take place in this context.

These purposes also constitute our legitimate interest in data processing pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Duration of Storage

The data are deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for achieving the purpose of their collection. In the case of collecting data for providing the website, this is the case when the respective session has ended.

In the case of storing data in log files, this is the case after seven days at the latest. Storage beyond this is possible. In this case, the IP addresses of the users are deleted or anonymized so that assignment of the accessing client is no longer possible.

Possibility of Objection and Removal

The collection of data for providing the website and the storage of data in log files is absolutely necessary for the operation of the website. Consequently, there is no possibility of objection on the part of the user.

Use of Cookies

Description and Scope of Data Processing

Our website does not use cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in or by the internet browser on the user's computer system. When a user accesses a website, a cookie may be stored on the user's operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string that enables unique identification of the browser when the website is accessed again.

Email Contact

Description and Scope of Data Processing

When contacting us via the provided email, the user's personal data transmitted with the email will be stored.

In this context, the data are not disclosed to third parties. The data are used exclusively for processing the conversation.

Legal Basis for Data Processing

The legal basis for processing the data in the presence of the user's consent is Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.

The legal basis for processing data transmitted in the course of sending an email is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. If the email contact aims at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR.

Purpose of Data Processing

The processing of personal data from the input form serves us solely for processing the contact. In the case of contact via email, this also constitutes the necessary legitimate interest in processing the data. The other personal data processed during the sending process serve to prevent misuse of the contact form and to ensure the security of our information technology systems.

Duration of Storage

The data are deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for achieving the purpose of their collection. For the personal data from the contact form's input mask and those sent by email, this is the case when the respective conversation with the user has ended. The conversation has ended when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively resolved.

The personal data additionally collected during the sending process will be deleted after a period of seven days at the latest.

Possibility of Objection and Removal

The user has the possibility at any time to revoke their consent to the processing of personal data. If the user contacts us by email, they may object to the storage of their personal data at any time. In such a case, the conversation cannot be continued.

All personal data stored in the course of contacting us will be deleted in this case.

Rights of the Data Subject

The following list includes all rights of data subjects under the GDPR. Rights that are not relevant for your own website do not need to be mentioned. In this respect, the list can be shortened.

If personal data are processed about you, you are a data subject within the meaning of the GDPR and you have the following rights vis-à-vis the controller:

Right of Access

You may request confirmation from the controller as to whether personal data concerning you are being processed by us.

If such processing exists, you may request information from the controller about the following:

  1. the purposes for which the personal data are processed;
  2. the categories of personal data being processed;
  3. the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data concerning you have been or will be disclosed;
  4. the planned duration of storage of the personal data concerning you or, if specific information on this is not possible, criteria for determining the storage duration;
  5. the existence of a right to rectification or erasure of personal data concerning you, a right to restriction of processing by the controller, or a right to object to such processing;
  6. the existence of a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
  7. all available information about the origin of the data if the personal data are not collected from the data subject;
  8. the existence of automated decision-making including profiling pursuant to Article 22(1) and (4) GDPR and – at least in these cases – meaningful information about the logic involved as well as the scope and intended effects of such processing for the data subject.

You have the right to request information as to whether the personal data concerning you are transferred to a third country or to an international organization. In this context, you may request to be informed about the appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 GDPR in connection with the transfer.

This right of access may be restricted insofar as it is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of research or statistical purposes and the restriction is necessary for the fulfillment of the research or statistical purposes.

Right to Rectification

You have a right to rectification and/or completion vis-à-vis the controller if the processed personal data concerning you are inaccurate or incomplete. The controller must carry out the rectification without delay. Your right to rectification may be restricted insofar as it is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of research or statistical purposes and the restriction is necessary for the fulfillment of the research or statistical purposes.

Right to Restriction of Processing

You may request restriction of the processing of personal data concerning you under the following conditions:

  1. if you contest the accuracy of the personal data concerning you for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
  2. the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of the personal data and request the restriction of their use instead;
  3. the controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of processing, but you require them for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, or
  4. if you have objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR and it has not yet been determined whether the controller's legitimate grounds override your grounds.

Where processing of personal data concerning you has been restricted, such data may, apart from storage, only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise, or defense 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 Union or of a Member State.

If the restriction of processing has been restricted according to the above conditions, you will be informed by the controller before the restriction is lifted.

Your right to restriction of processing may be restricted insofar as it is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of research or statistical purposes and the restriction is necessary for the fulfillment of the research or statistical purposes.

Right to Erasure

Obligation to Erase

You may request that the controller erase personal data concerning you without delay, and the controller is obliged to erase such data without delay if one of the following grounds applies:

  1. The personal data concerning you are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
  2. You withdraw your consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR, and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
  3. You object to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or you object to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) GDPR.
  4. The personal data concerning you have been unlawfully processed.
  5. The erasure of the personal data concerning you is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the Member States to which the controller is subject.
  6. The personal data concerning you have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services pursuant to Article 8(1) GDPR.

Information to Third Parties

If the controller has made the personal data concerning you public and is obliged pursuant to Article 17(1) GDPR to erase them, the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform controllers processing the personal data that you as the data subject have requested the erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data.

Exceptions

The right to erasure does not exist insofar as processing is necessary

  1. for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;
  2. for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject, or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;
  3. for reasons of public interest in the area of public health pursuant to Article 9(2)(h) and (i) as well as Article 9(3) GDPR;
  4. for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) GDPR insofar as the right referred to in section a) is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing, or
  5. for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

Right to Notification

If you have asserted the right to rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing vis-à-vis the controller, the controller is obliged to communicate this rectification or erasure of data or restriction of processing to all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you have been disclosed, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. You have the right vis-à-vis the controller to be informed about these recipients.

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to the controller, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. In addition, you have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where

  1. the processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) GDPR and
  2. the processing is carried out by automated means. In exercising this right, you furthermore have the right to have the personal data concerning you transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible. The freedoms and rights of other persons must not be adversely affected thereby. The right to data portability does not apply to processing of personal data necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

Right to Object

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Article 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR; this also applies to profiling based on those provisions. The controller shall no longer process the personal data concerning you unless the controller demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights, and freedoms or the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims. Where personal data concerning you are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing; this also applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data concerning you shall no longer be processed for such purposes. You have the possibility, in connection with the use of information society services – notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC – to exercise your right to object by automated means using technical specifications. You also have the right, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to object to processing of personal data concerning you for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) GDPR. Your right to object may be restricted insofar as it is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of research or statistical purposes and the restriction is necessary for the fulfillment of the research or statistical purposes.

Right to Withdraw Data Protection Consent

You have the right to withdraw your data protection consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Automated Individual Decision-Making Including Profiling

You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing – including profiling – which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. This does not apply if the decision


  1. is necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between you and the controller,
  2. is authorized by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or
  3. is based on your explicit consent. However, these decisions may not be based on special categories of personal data pursuant to Article 9(1) GDPR, unless Article 9(2)(a) or (g) GDPR applies and suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests have been taken.

With regard to the cases referred to in (1) and (3), the controller shall implement suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express their point of view, and to contest the decision.

Right to Lodge a Complaint with a Supervisory Authority

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning you infringes the GDPR. The supervisory authority with which the complaint has been lodged shall inform the complainant on the progress and the outcome of the complaint including the possibility of a judicial remedy pursuant to Article 78 GDPR. The responsible data protection authority is

Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht (BayLDA)
Promenade 27
91522 Ansbach