Privacy Policy

Last updated on June 5, 2025.

This privacy policy informs you about how Ocean Enterprise Collective e.V. (in the following OEC, we, us, our) processes your personal data. Moreover, this privacy policy informs you about your rights.

1. Contact details of the controller

The controller pursuant to the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") for the processing of your personal data is:

Ocean Enterprise Collective e.V. Carmerstrasse 18 10623 Berlin Germany

E-mail: [email protected]

2. What's personal data?

Personal data is any information that can be directly or indirectly associated with you. OEC processes the following personal data.

• Log file data including IP addresses: Logfile data including IP addresses are processed when visiting our website.

• E-mail: If you contact OEC via e-mail, we process your e-mail address and any personal data you decide to provide in your message (such as your name).

You can find further information about the processing of your personal data in the chapter "Processing operations according to Article 13 GDPR".

3. Processing operations according to Article 13 GDPR

3.1 Providing our website and creating log files

We host our website with Webflow (Webflow, Inc. located at 398 11th Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA). When you visit our website, Webflow collects and uses your IP address and creates logfiles including your IP address.

Purpose: Collecting and using your IP address is necessary for providing our website because it is a technical requirement for ensuring communication between your device and our website. Logfiles including your IP address are created for security, fraud-prevention, abuse-prevention, and troubleshooting purposes.

Legal basis: The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest, pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Legitimate interests: Our legitimate interest is to provide our website to you and to enable security, a technically error-free presentation, and the optimization of the website.

Retention period: Webflow stores your personal data for 15 days.

3.2 Contact via e-mail

If you contact us via e-mail, OEC collects, uses, and stores your e-mail address, and any other information you provide us in your message, such as your name. When you send us an e-mail, our (mail) service provider supports us in processing your personal data so we can communicate with you.

Purpose: We collect, use and store this personal data to respond to your inquiries.

Legal basis: The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest, according to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Legitimate interests: Our legitimate interest is to answer your inquiries.

Retention period: We store your personal data as long as we need it to process your inquires. We store your personal data beyond this period if we are obliged to do so due to retention obligations under tax and commercial law or in the event of legal disputes. If the latter is the case, your personal data will be erased after the retention period has expired.

4. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. You can manage cookies via your browser settings, including disabling or deleting cookies. If you want to change your cookie consent, use the Cookie Settings link in the footer when available.

5. Automated decision making including profiling according to Article 13(2)(f) GDPR

Automated decision making including profiling does not take place.

6. External links

Our website contains links to websites owned by third parties. These websites are beyond our control and responsibility.

7. Your rights

7.1 Right to withdraw consent (Art. 7(3) GDPR)

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

7.2 Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR)

You have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether OEC processes personal data about you. If we are processing personal data about you, you have the right to access these personal data and to gain the information defined in Art. 15 GDPR.

7.3 Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)

You have the right to obtain without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data about you. Additionally, you have the right that incomplete personal data about you are completed.

7.4 Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)

You have the right to obtain without undue delay the erasure of personal data about you, where the defined legal grounds in Art. 17 GDPR apply.

7.5 Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)

Moreover, you have the right to obtain the restriction of processing your personal data where the defined legal grounds in Art. 18 GDPR apply.

7.6 Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)

You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. Additionally, you have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance, where the defined legal grounds in Art. 20 GDPR apply. You can make use of your right to data portability by contacting us.

7.7 Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR)

On grounds relating to your particular situation, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data where we based the processing on legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). If you object, OEC will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing, overriding your rights, freedoms, and interests, or if the processing is required to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

7.8 Right to lodge a complaint (Art. 77 GDPR)

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you consider the processing of your personal data by OEC to infringe the GDPR. You can lodge a complaint in particular

• in the Member State of your habitual residence,

• in the Member State of your place of work, and

• in the place of the alleged infringement.

8. Questions

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please send us an e-mail at [email protected].

9. Changes to the Privacy Policy

This privacy policy will be amended from time to time. You can see the date of the last alteration at the top of the privacy policy.