Privacy Policy
We are very pleased about your interest in the Axel Springer Academy of Journalism & Technology. With this Privacy Policy, we inform you about the nature, scope and purpose of the personal data we process and your rights as a data subject.
I. GENERAL
1. CONTROLLER
Unless otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, the controller for data processing pursuant to Art. 4 (7) GDPR is Axel Springer Deutschland GmbH, Axel-Springer-Str. 65, 10888 Berlin, telephone: +49 30 2591 0, e-mail: information@axelspringer.de (hereinafter also referred to as 'we' or 'us').
2. CONTACT DETAILS
For questions and suggestions regarding data protection and to exercise your rights as a data subject, please contact our Data Protection Officer at any time:
Axel Springer Deutschland GmbH
Data Protection
Axel-Springer-Str. 65
10888 Berlin
Where data processing is carried out with a joint controller pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR, both controllers act as a joint point of contact.
3. ACCESSING THE WEBSITE
When you use our services, strictly necessary cookies are automatically set by us and the following information is collected and processed in order to enable the use of the functions provided and to ensure the security and stability of our services:
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Information about the accessing device and the software used
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Date and time of access
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Websites from which you access our website or which you visit via our website
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IP address
The processing of your IP address is strictly necessary to enable delivery of our services to your terminal device. The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR and § 25 (2) TDDDG respectively. Our servers also store your IP address for up to 14 days for the purpose and in the interest of ensuring the security of our services. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
4. PLACE OF PROCESSING
We also process personal data in countries outside the European Economic Area ('EEA'), including the USA. To ensure an adequate level of data protection, when structuring contractual relationships with the services used in third countries, we use the EU Commission's standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 (2) (c) GDPR, unless an adequacy decision by the European Commission exists for the respective third country:
Standard Contractual Clauses .
5. RETENTION PERIOD
We process personal data only for as long as necessary for the respective purpose stated in this Privacy Policy. The personal data will subsequently be deleted, unless statutory retention obligations prevent deletion.
II. YOUR RIGHTS AS A DATA SUBJECT
1. ACCESS, RECTIFICATION, ERASURE, RESTRICTION AND THE RIGHT TO ERASURE
You may at any time request from us, free of charge, information as to whether personal data relating to you is being processed by us and specifically which data is stored about you, and request a copy of the stored data. You may also have inaccurate data corrected and completed.
You may also request the erasure and restriction of the processing of your personal data to the extent that the purposes for which they were collected are no longer required, or where the processing is based on your consent and you have withdrawn your consent. Please note that statutory retention obligations may apply and that we may therefore not be permitted to erase your data in every case; we also reserve the right to store the data until the expiry of statutory limitation periods. In such cases, your data will be marked with a view to restricting its future processing.
2. DATA PORTABILITY
Where applicable, you also have the right to receive the personal data concerning you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, or to have it transmitted to another controller, provided that the processing is based on consent or a contract and is carried out by automated means. This does not apply, however, where the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller. You also have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, insofar as this is technically feasible and provided that the rights and freedoms of other persons are not adversely affected.
3. WITHDRAWAL / OBJECTION
You have the right to withdraw any consent you have given at any time by notifying us at the contact details set out above.
You may object to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing at any time by notifying us at datenschutz@axelspringer.de or Axel-Springer-Str. 65, 10888 Berlin, without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs at the basic rates.
You also have the right, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out on the basis of a legitimate or public interest. In the event of an objection, we will no longer process the personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
4. RIGHT TO LODGE A COMPLAINT
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority and to seek judicial remedies. The supervisory authority with which the complaint has been lodged shall inform the complainant of the progress and outcome of the complaint, including the possibility of a judicial remedy.
5. EXISTENCE OF AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING
We do not engage in automated decision-making or profiling within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR.
III. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Cookies are small files stored by the browser on your device in a designated directory. They can be used, among other things, to determine whether you have previously visited a website. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier of the cookie. It consists of a string of characters by which websites and servers can be assigned to the specific internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This enables visited websites and servers to distinguish the individual browser from other internet browsers that contain different cookies. A specific internet browser can be recognised and identified via the unique cookie ID. Cookies cannot identify you as a person without additional information.
In order to provide our services, ensure website security, prevent fraud, fix errors and technically deliver content on the website, the use of certain cookies and similar technologies is necessary (special category: strictly necessary). The use of these cookies is required so that we can provide the service you have requested. Furthermore, the settings made by you or the consents and objections given by you are stored in cookies on your terminal device.
In all other respects, we only use further cookies and similar technologies on this website subject to your consent or on the basis of our legitimate interests. These are used by us and our partners to store and process data on your terminal device, including for the purposes of analysing website usage, improving performance and displaying content from social networks and third-party providers. Without granting consent to the setting of cookies, not all functions of our website may be fully available.
In our interest and for the purpose of measuring the reach of our services, we use general, non-personal reach measurement. This is used to analyse website usage and measure performance in order to report on how content was delivered to users and how users interacted with it. For this purpose, however, it is necessary to process your IP address when you access our website for the duration of the browser session. To this end, we have concluded a data processing agreement (Art. 28 GDPR) with Wix.com Ltd., Yunitsman 5 St, Tel Aviv, Israel. We remain the controller. The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. You have the right to withdraw your consent or to object to the data processing on the basis of legitimate interests at any time.
IV. JOURNALISM SCHOOL
1. APPLICATION
When you apply to our journalism school, you will be redirected to our application portal. We use the services of SmartRecruiters GmbH, Wilhelmstraße 118, 10963 Berlin (hereinafter 'SmartRecruiters') to provide our services, with whom we have concluded a data processing agreement (Art. 28 GDPR). We remain the controller pursuant to Art. 4 (7) GDPR for the processing of personal data carried out via this service, unless otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy. We process the personal data transmitted by you for the purpose of conducting the application process. The legal basis for this is Art. 88 (1) GDPR in conjunction with § 26 (1), (8) sentence 2 of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG).
2. REGISTRATION
We also offer you the possibility to register with our journalism school. If you make use of this option, we will process the personal data you provide during registration for the purpose of informing you by e-mail about the next application opening. The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR.
V. NEWSLETTER AND CONTACT
If you have subscribed to one of our mailings or newsletters, we process your e-mail address in order to send you the newsletter you have subscribed to. The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future or unsubscribe from the newsletter you have ordered, for example by clicking the unsubscribe link provided in each newsletter.
When you contact us, for example via our contact forms or by e-mail, the data you provide (e.g. your e-mail address, and where applicable your name and telephone number, etc.) will be processed by us in order to handle your enquiry and, if necessary, to contact you. The data arising in this context will be deleted when it is no longer required for the aforementioned purpose, provided that no statutory retention obligations prevent deletion. The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
VI. SOCIAL MEDIA
1. SOCIAL PLUGINS
No social media plugins that directly load data from the servers of the respective social media providers are integrated on this website. The integrated 'plugins' are merely simple links to the respective third-party sites, which we illustrate with corresponding graphics. Accordingly, no personal data is transmitted to the operator of the social media service via the well-known plugins. The third-party providers listed below are each responsible for data processing pursuant to Art. 4 (7) GDPR.
Instagram (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland), https://www.instagram.com/legal/privacy/
LinkedIn (LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland), https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?
X Corp. (X Corp., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA), https://twitter.com/de/privacy
YouTube (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland), https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7671399?p=privacy_guidelines&hl=de&visit_id=0-636644030056539000-341535836&rd=1
2. FACEBOOK FAN PAGE
We operate Facebook Fan Pages for which we are jointly responsible with Meta Platforms Ireland Limited. In joint controllership with Facebook, we analyse how you use our Fan Page (Page Insights). The information required under the GDPR concerning data processing in the context of Page Insights is available from Meta; currently in particular in Meta's data policy at https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data.
Facebook also makes available to you the relevant content of the agreement concluded between Facebook and us on processing under joint controllership pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR; currently available at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum .
You may exercise your right to lodge a complaint with any supervisory authority with jurisdiction over you and seek judicial remedies there.
Under the GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your data. You can find out more about this and other data subject rights in Facebook's data policy linked above.
For Page Insights on our Facebook Fan Pages, Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland acts as the joint point of contact and processes all requests to exercise data subject rights.
Within the scope of Page Insights, we ourselves only receive anonymised statistics — we have no access to personal data processed by Facebook. The processing of anonymised data by us is carried out on the basis of statutory provisions that permit us to process personal data because we have an overriding legitimate interest in gaining a better understanding of the interests of visitors to our Fan Page (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).
Facebook offers various community functions on the Fan Pages with which you can interact with other users, for example by posting, leaving comments or liking or sharing posts. We draw your attention to the fact that these areas are publicly accessible and that any personal information you post there or provide when registering can be viewed by others. We cannot control how other users of the Fan Pages use this information. In particular, we cannot prevent unwanted messages from being sent to you.
If desired, we will of course send you this Privacy Policy free of charge by post. Please contact us at Axel Springer Deutschland GmbH, Data Protection, Axel-Springer-Straße 65, 10888 Berlin.
As of 30th of March 2026