Privacy Policy
KBB GmbH (KBB) unites three institutions under one roof: The Berlin International Film Festival, the Berliner Festspiele with the Gropius Bau, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
In this document we inform you about our processing of your personal data and of your rights under data protection law. The specific data we collect and how we use them depends on the service offered. If you have any questions about this, please contact the specified contact persons.
Who is responsible for the data processing, who is your contact person?
Body responsible for the data collection (“controller”):
Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin (KBB) GmbH
Schöneberger Straße 15
10963 Berlin, Germany
Tel +49 30 26 397-0 (Head Office)
Fax +49 30 26 397-397
datenschutz@kbb.eu
The KBB Data Protection Officer can be contacted at datenschutz@kbb.eu
or at our postal address with the addition “The Data Protection Officer”.
Visiting our websites
We are pleased that you are interested in our program and would like to attend our events. When using our websites for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we automatically collect only the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. This is the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 (1), clause 1 (f) GDPR):
- IP address
- Date and time of the request
- Access Status/HTTP Status Code
- Website from which the request comes
In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. These are small text files that are stored on your hard drive associated with the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the body that sets the cookie (in this case the KBB). Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet offer more user-friendly and effective overall.
Our newsletters
We are pleased that you are interested in our houses and will be happy to provide you with further information. In order to receive one of our newsletters, please register on our websites and give us your consent to the processing of your data (e-mail address or name and address – if sent by post). Legal basis for the processing of your data in accordance with Art. 6 (1) clause 1 (a) GDPR.
You can revoke your consent to the sending of the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can declare the revocation by clicking on the link provided in each newsletter e-mail.
In connection with the dispatch of our newsletters, we forward your data to our service providers Brevo and starmate solutions.
Provider: Sendinblue GmbH (Brevo), Köpenicker Straße 126, 10179 Berlin. Privacy Policy: https://www.brevo.com/de/legal/privacypolicy/
Provider: starmate solutions GmbH, Hörvelsinger Weg 29-31, 89081 Ulm. Privacy Policy: https://www.starmate.io/datenschutz
Webshops and ticket sales
We look forward to your visit. If you order tickets or merchandising items in our webshop, we store the data required for the processing of the contract: name, address and telephone number, e-mail address and payment data. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) clause 1 (b) GDPR.
We will delete the data generated in this process as soon as further storage is no longer necessary.
To handle online sales, we work together with the provider: CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA, Contrescarpe 75-A, 28195 Bremen. Privacy Policy: www.eventim.de/help/data-protection/
Invitations, open call, submissions, etc.
Our work and our events depend on you being part of it – whether you accept our invitation, work with us as a service provider, submit your film to the Berlinale, apply for the EFM, apply for the Treffen Junge Szene or participate in one of our many other formats.
In order to enable your participation, we store your data. Depending on the format, these are usually: names (including artist or alias names, if applicable), title, gender (m/f/d/k), address, telephone numbers, e-mail address, date and place of birth and nationality. Depending on the process and submission process, other data may be added: data of your accompanying persons, data that you provide to us in connection with the artistic contribution you have submitted or your application, your arrival and departure times, hotel and accommodation data, visa and passport data, portrait photos or payment data. We also record which of our events you attend during your stay in Berlin.
If necessary, we will pass on your data to service providers and partners who are contractually affiliated with us. These can include: selection juries, hotels, driving services, the Federal Foreign Office for visa matters, funding and media partnerships.
The processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) clause 1 (f) GDPR. We will delete the data generated in this process as soon as further storage is no longer necessary and we do not store it permanently for archive purposes.
Application to our job advertisements
We look forward to receiving your application to KBB. You can apply for advertised positions online on our website.
For this purpose, we use the online application tool from softgarden. Your data will be processed for the purpose of handling the application process on our behalf and in compliance with the legal requirements. If you use the application tool, you will leave our website and go to the provider's website.
As part of the application process, all personal data submitted by you will be processed: name, date of birth, contact details such as address, e-mail address, telephone number, data on education, etc.
The legal basis for the processing of your data is the application procedure as a pre-contractual or contractual relationship (Art. 6 (1 )clause 1 (b) GDPR). If your application for a job offer with us has not been successful, we will delete your data six months after notification of the rejection. However, if you wish and agree, we will continue to store your documents in our application talent pool of softgarden e-recruiting GmbH for future job offers. You can revoke this consent to be included in the pool at any time.
For our application processes for job advertisements, we work together with the provider: softgarden e-recruiting GmbH, Tauentzienstraße 14, 10789 Berlin. Privacy Policy: softgarden.com/en/privacy-website/
Presence in social networks
In order to inform you as a user about KBB's services and information offers, KBB is active on social media. KBB's social media channels complement the KBB's own websites and, if you prefer these platforms, offer you an alternative way of communicating. The legal basis for the processing of data after interaction with the content of KBB's social media profiles by users is Art. 6 (1) clause 1 (f) GDPR.
If you are logged into your social media account and visit our social media presence, the operator of the social media portal can assign this visit to your user account. However, your personal data may also be collected if you are not logged in or do not have an account with the respective social media portal. In this case, this data collection is carried out, for example, via cookies that are stored on your device or by recording your IP address.
Your user behavior can usually be comprehensively analyzed and used for market research and advertising purposes when you visit their website. We would like to point out that your data may be processed outside the area of the European Union. This may result in risks for you, for example, because it could make it more difficult to enforce your rights. Details can be found in the terms of use and privacy policy of the respective social media portals.
Bluesky
Provider: Bluesky Social PBLLC, Seattle, Washington, United States.
Privacy Policy: https://bsky.social/about/support/privacy-policy
Provider: Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, D04 X2K5, Ireland Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Anbieter: Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, D04 X2K5, Irland
https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy
Provider: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland. Privacy Policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
TikTok
Provider: TikTok Technology Limited, 10 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, D02 T380, Ireland. Privacy Policy: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy?lang=de.
X
Anbieter: Twitter International Unlimited Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street Dublin 2, D02 AX07 Ireland. Datenschutzerklärung: twitter.com/privacy
Provider: Xing, New Work SE, Am Strandkai 1, 20457 Hamburg. Privacy Policy: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung
Creation of usage profiles
We want to constantly improve and analyze our websites. Data (page view, dwell time, location of the call, information about your device) is collected and stored for optimization purposes. This data can be used to create usage profiles under a pseudonym. To this end, we work with the technologies of etracker and Matomo.
Provider: etracker GmbH, Erste Brunnenstraße 1, 20459 Hamburg. Privacy Policy: www.etracker.com/datenschutzerklaerung/.
It is possible to prevent the use of etracker by following the instructions in the links of the corresponding page and thus activating the opt-out plug-in:
https://www.berlinale.de/de/optout.html https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/service/etracker-einstellungen,
https://www.hkw.de/etracker-settings, https://mediathek.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/allgemein/etracker-einstellungen, www.kbb.eu/datenschutz/etracker
Provider: Matomo is an open source web analytics platform, https://matomo.org
It is possible to prevent the use of Matomo by clicking on the "Cookie settings" link at the bottom of the page of the Theatertreffen blog. In the dialog box, you can then uncheck the "Statistics" checkbox: https://theatertreffen-blog.de, https://theatertreffen-blog.de/archiv/
Your rights
You have the following rights vis-à-vis us in relation to your personal data. To assert your rights, we ask you to contact us via datenschutz@kbb.eu .
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Right
You have the right to request confirmation from us as to whether data concerning your person is being processed, as well as to access this data and to obtain further information with a copy of the data in accordance with the legal requirements.
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Right to rectification
If your personal data is incorrect or incomplete, you can request that it be corrected or supplemented immediately.
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Right to erasure and restriction of processing
You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data if it is no longer necessary, has been unlawfully processed or you have withdrawn your consent. However, there are exceptions, for example in the case of legal retention obligations. In accordance with the legal requirements, you can demand a restriction of the processing of your data.
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Right to data portability
You have the right to request that we transfer personal data that you have provided to us to another controller, or that we transfer that data to you.
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Right to object
You have the right to revoke any consent you have given at any time.
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Right of appeal
You have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority if you believe that we are in breach of data protection law when processing your personal data. The supervisory authority responsible for our company is:
The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Graurheindorfer Str. 153, 53117 Bonn.
Version: September 2025