General Information
Controller and data protection officer
Germany Trade & Invest GmbH is the operator of the website www.gtai.de and the controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You can find our contact details here.
You can reach our data protection officer via the GTAI data protection contact form or at our postal address with the addition ‘Data protection’.
We use your personal data for the following purposes
GTAI processes personal data as part of the fulfilment of its tasks as the foreign trade agency of the Federal Republic of Germany. The tasks assigned to GTAI include export promotion, investor recruitment, location marketing and the internationalisation of structurally weak regions and regions affected by structural change. The legal basis for the data processed in this context is generally Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e GDPR in conjunction with the corresponding national or European task standard or in conjunction with Section 3 BDSG.
If consent is obtained from you for the processing of personal data, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR serves as the legal basis, for example when registering on our website or sending information by email.
Personal data that is used to fulfil a contractual relationship is processed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, for example in the case of orders and their payment processing.