Data protection GMF respects the privacy of every individual who visits our website or sends us e-mail. Therefore, we comply with applicable data privacy legislation in regards to processing personal data. This Privacy Statement describes how GMF, uses, and protects personally identifiable information.

Personal data

You may have the opportunity, via our website or other means, to provide us with personal information about you and your interests. This information may include your name, mailing address, e-mail address, policy interests, and regional interests.

If you choose to share any personal data with us via our website or via e-mail, we may store it and use that information to assist you with any questions you may have.

We may also store data that you voluntarily provide during GMF events in order to keep you informed of other events of a similar nature.

You will receive general information from us only if you opt to be informed regularly. Once your consent is indicated, you will have the possibility to contact us in case you no longer want us to use your personal information for those purposes.

Unless you specifically consent to the sharing of your personal data (cf. Infra), your information will solely be used for internal purposes.

GMF follows best practices in information technology to help secure its database.

We do not use your data for marketing purposes.

Transfer of the personal data to other GMF offices

Your personal data may be transferred for the above stated purposes to other offices of GMF, whether located within the European Union or elsewhere, including to the United-States, if you have specifically provided your consent.

Sharing of the personal data with other organizations

For network communities, such as the Marshall Memorial Fellowship (MMF) and Comparative Domestic Policies (CDP), GMF will share your information with other members of these communities.

This information will not be shared outside of these communities. To ensure that people do not receive multiple invitations to the same co-sponsored event, GMF reserves the right to share your first name, last name, and employer with partner organizations for the purpose of de-duplicating the final invitation list. We will never share your phone number, e-mail address, or any other contact information.

We will not sell your information to other companies.

"Cookies"

You may visit out website anonymously. We do not collect identification data of our visitors.

We do however use cookies (small computer files that stay on your computer and let us know when and how often you visit our site) to keep and track general information about website usage. Cookies do not identify the individual user, just the computer used.

Cookies and other similar technology can make it easier for you use the website during future visits. Cookies only record which areas of the site have been visited by the computer in question, and for how long. This information allows GMF to understand how our website is being used, which helps with planning future website growth.

Allowing us to create a cookie does not give us access to the rest of your computer and we will not use cookies to track your online activity once you leave our site. Cookies are read only by the server that placed them, and are unable to execute any code or virus.

If you don't like cookies...

You can have your browser reject the cookies. Most Internet browsers will allow you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your Browser instructions to learn more about these functions.

Updates to this Privacy Statement

At any time, GMF reserves the right to amend the general conditions stated in this privacy statement without notice and with immediate effect.

Access to information and data rectification

You have at any time the right of access, modification, correction and removal of your data collected in our database. You can request this by contacting GMF by e-mail or in writing at the address mentioned below.

Contact us

The controller of your personal data, under applicable data privacy legislation and in regard to the processing of personal information, is:

The German Marshall Fund of the United States
1744 R Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
United States
Tel: 202-745-3950
Fax: 202-265-1662
Email: dba@gmfus.org

If you have questions about our privacy practices, you may contact us at the above address or by e-mailing dba@gmfus.org.