Privacy Policy 

(April 2026)

 

General 

In this Privacy Policy, we, Matterialista ("Matterialista"), inform you about the processing of personal data when using our website.

 

Personal data is information that relates to an identified or identifiable person. This includes all information that allows conclusions to be drawn about your identity, such as your name, telephone number, address, or email address. Statistical data that we collect, for example, when you visit our website and that cannot be linked to you personally, does not fall under the term "personal data."

 

Responsible Party and Privacy Related Requests

Matterialista, Warschauer Str. 60, 10243 Berlin, Email: hello@matterialista.com

 

Processing of Data on our Website

Each time you use our website, we collect the access data that your browser automatically transmits to enable you to visit the website. The access data includes in particular:

 

• IP address of the requesting device,

• date and time of the request,

• address of the website accessed and the requesting website,

• details of the browser and operating system used,

• online identifiers (e.g. device identifiers, session IDs).

 

The data processing of this access data is necessary to enable you to visit the website and to ensure the long-term functionality and security of our systems.

 

Hosting

This website is hosted by Wix. Wix collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

 

• Information about your browser, network and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

• Web pages you view while on this website

• Phone number

• Your IP address

 

Wix needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Wix analyzes the data in an anonymized form.

 

Please view Wix’s privacy policy.

 

Contact

You have various options for getting in touch with us. These include the contact form, registering for events or sending us an email. In this context, we process data exclusively for the purpose of communicating with you. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. The data collected by us when using the contact form will be automatically deleted after your request has been fully processed, unless we still need your request to fulfill contractual or legal obligations (see section “Storage period”).

 

Newsletter

If you register for our email newsletter, the data you provide will be processed for the creation and dispatch of the newsletter until you withdraw your consent. The legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 a) GDPR. We share your contact information with Wix, our email marketing provider, so they can send newsletters on our behalf. You can withdraw your consent at any time by unsubscribing from the newsletter. You will find a corresponding link at the end of each newsletter. We will delete your data when you unsubscribe from the newsletter. 

 

Workshops

If you register for a workshop, the data you provide will be processed for the creation and dispatch of workshop focused emails and related activities in order to be able to perform the workshop. The legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 a) GDPR. We share your contact information with Wix, our email marketing provider, so they can send emails on our behalf.

 

Creation of image, video, and audio recordings at events

Video, image, and audio recordings are regularly created at Matterialista events for external promotional purposes.

 

The legal basis for processing your personal data is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR in conjunction with Sections 85 and 23 of the German Copyright and Copyright Act) in taking and publishing photos of this event for public relations and image building purposes. Your rights will be appropriately considered when taking and publishing the photos. Therefore, we limit ourselves to taking photos of larger groups of people and refrain from taking portrait photos of individual event participants without prior agreement. The photos are reviewed before publication. Images that could be defamatory will not be published.

 

Only in individual cases do we obtain express prior consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, insofar as this is required by data protection law.

 

If you do not agree to the taking of a photo in an individual case, a brief note to the photographer is sufficient. After publication, you can object to the further publication of photos in which you appear at any time. To do so, reach out to the contact shared at the beginning of this Privacy Policy. The photos will then be immediately removed and deleted from the relevant platform(s).

 

The specific purpose and location of publication will be announced at the respective event. Images will generally not be passed on to third parties. However, we reserve the right to make them available online using an appropriate processor. We would also like to point out that when providing information online, it cannot be ruled out that the images will be stored and used for other purposes by third parties. Should you become aware of such third-party use, we will be happy to support you with the information we have in any legal proceedings.

 

Third Party Providers and Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies for Analytical Purposes

 

Wix

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

 

• Information about your browser, network, and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

• Your IP address

 

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

 

• Clicks

• Internal links

• Pages visited

• Scrolling

• Searches

• Timestamps

 

We share this information with Wix, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

 

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app.

 

• These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Wix, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. 

• These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data. 

 

The following cookies are used as a result of our website being hosted by Wix:

 

XSRF-TOKEN

• Purpose: Fraud detection for requests

• Duration: Session

• Type: Essential

hs

• Purpose: Security cookie for Hive (legacy)

• Duration: Session

• Type: Essential

svSession

• Purpose: Security, stability, and core site functionality

• Duration: 12 months

• Type: Essential

SSR-caching

• Purpose: Improves rendering performance

• Duration: 24 hours

• Type: Essential

TS*

• Purpose: Attack detection

• Duration: Session

• Type: Essential

bSession

• Purpose: Measures system effectiveness

• Duration: 24 hours

• Type: Essential

fedops.logger.sessionId

• Purpose: Tracks session errors and resilience issues

• Duration: 12 months

• Type: Essential

_wixAB3|*

• Purpose: Supports site experiments (A/B testing)

• Duration: 6 months

• Type: Essential

server-session-bind

• Purpose: API protection

• Duration: Session

• Type: Essential

client-session-bind

• Purpose: API protection

• Duration: Session

• Type: Essential

oAuthState

• Purpose: Session identification for authentication

• Duration: Session

• Type: Essential

wixSession

• Purpose: Security, stability, and core site functionality

• Duration: 12 months

• Type: Essential

sec-fetch-unsupported

• Purpose: Indicates browser limitations affecting security features

• Duration: Session

• Type: Essential

 

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Wix so that they can provide website services to us.

 

We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Wix, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

 

We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

 

• You’ve created a customer account

• Your customer account password has been reset or updated

• You’ve made a purchase

• Your order has shipped

• Your account has access to members only content enabled or revoked

 

It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages. We share your contact information with Wix so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

 

Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

 

• Information about your browser, network, or device

• Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

• Your IP address

 

Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to analyze and improve our website based on your user behavior. The data collected in this context may be transferred by Google to a server in the USA for evaluation and stored there. In the event that personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield. However, your IP address will be shortened before the usage statistics are analyzed, so that no conclusions can be drawn about your identity. For this purpose, Google Analytics has been extended on our website with the code "anonymizeIP" to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses.

 

Google will process the information obtained through the cookies to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity for website operators, and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage.

 

You can configure your browser to reject cookies, as shown above, or you can prevent the collection of data generated by cookies and related to your use of this website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser add-on provided by Google. As an alternative to the browser add-on, or if you are accessing our website from a mobile device, please use this opt-out link. This will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future (the opt-out only works in this browser and only for this domain). If you delete your cookies in this browser, you must click this link again. You can find more information about this in Google's privacy policy.

 

Google Plus

This website uses plug-ins ("g+1" etc.) from the social network Google Plus, operated by Google Inc. ("Google"), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The +1 button allows you, as a registered Google Plus user, to publish your interest in our web content on Google Plus. When you use the button, Google saves the information that you have given a "+1" for a specific web content, as well as information about the site you have viewed. The "+1" buttons you have given can be displayed on Google Plus and other Google services together with your user profile details (possibly also with your name and photo). You can find more information about this in Google's privacy policy.

 

Storage Period

In principle, we only store personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the contractual or legal obligations for which we collected the data. After that, we delete the data immediately, unless we still need the data until the expiration of the statutory limitation period for evidentiary purposes for civil claims or due to statutory retention periods. For evidentiary purposes, we must retain contract data for a further three years from the end of the year in which the business relationship with you ends. Any claims will expire at this point at the earliest, according to the statutory limitation period. Even after that, we must sometimes retain your data for accounting purposes. We are obligated to do so due to statutory documentation obligations that may arise from the German Commercial Code (HGB), the German Tax Code (Abgabenordnung), the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz), the German Money Laundering Act (Geldwäschegesetz), and the German Securities Trading Act (Wertpapierhandelsgesetz). The retention periods specified therein range from two to ten years.

 

Right to Information

According to Art. 15 GDPR, you have the right to request confirmation from us as to whether we process personal data concerning you. If so, you have the right to information about this personal data and to further information specified in Art. 15 GDPR.

 

Right to Rectification

According to Art. 16 GDPR, you have the right to request that we immediately rectify any inaccurate personal data concerning you. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you also have the right to request that incomplete personal data be completed – also by means of a supplementary statement.

 

Right to Erasure

You have the right to request that we immediately erase personal data concerning you. We are obliged to erase personal data immediately if the relevant requirements of Art. 17 GDPR are met. For details, please refer to Art. 17 GDPR.

 

Right to Restriction of Processing

According to Art. 18 GDPR, under certain conditions, you have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.

 

Right to Data Portability

According to Art. 20 GDPR, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, common, and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit this data to another controller without hindrance from us, provided that the processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR or Article 9 (2) (a) GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR and the processing is carried out using automated procedures.

 

Right of Objection

According to Art. 21 GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of personal data concerning you based on Article 6 (1) (e) or (f) GDPR; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. If we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purposes of such advertising; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct marketing. If you wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact us as the controller using the contact details provided above or use one of the other methods we offer to send this notification. If you have any questions, please contact us.

 

Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Supervisory Authority

Under Article 77 of the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy. This right exists in particular in the Member State of your residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement if you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you violates the GDPR.

 

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy, for example, when we modify our website or when legal or regulatory requirements change.