Privacy Policy

CODE Alumni & Friends e.V. i.G. (association in formation), c/o CODE University of Applied Sciences, Donaustraße 44, 12043 Berlin, Germany. Represented by Julian Gebhard.

Email hello@unicon.berlin, phone +49 152 21956643.

We have not appointed a data protection officer, as the thresholds of § 38 BDSG are not met.

This website sets no cookies, uses no local or session storage for tracking, and runs no analytics, advertising or social media tracking of any kind. There is therefore no consent banner, because there is nothing to consent to.

Fonts and all images are served from our own domain. No data is sent to Google Fonts, Fontshare or any other third-party content network when you open a page.

Our website is hosted by Vercel Inc., 340 S Lemon Ave #4133, Walnut, CA 91789, USA. When you access a page, your browser transmits data that is processed in log files: your IP address, the date and time of the request, the page requested, the referring URL, the browser and operating system used, and the amount of data transferred.

The purpose is the technical delivery, stability and security of the site. The legal basis is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR, our legitimate interest in operating a functioning and secure website. Log data is deleted or anonymised after a short period and is not merged with other data sources.

Vercel processes data on our behalf under a data processing agreement pursuant to Article 28 GDPR. Data may be transferred to the United States. Vercel is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and the transfer is additionally safeguarded by the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.

If you apply through the form on this site, we process the data you enter: first name, last name, email address, the role you select, your organisation where applicable, your university, and your field of study. Providing this data is voluntary, but without it we cannot process an application.

We use this data to review your application, to contact you about the short call, and to decide on admission. The legal basis is Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR, as the processing is carried out at your request prior to entering into a contract, and Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR for organising the event.

We keep application data until the end of the 2026 edition and for a short period afterwards for follow-up and documentation, unless you ask us to delete it earlier. Where statutory retention periods apply, we keep the data for that period instead and restrict its processing.

If you contact us through the partner form, we process the details you provide, such as your name, company, email address and your message, in order to answer your enquiry and prepare a possible partnership. The legal basis is Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR for pre-contractual measures and Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR for our legitimate interest in responding to enquiries.

Form submissions are stored in Airtable, operated by Formagrid Inc. (Airtable), 155 5th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. Airtable acts as a processor on our behalf under a data processing agreement pursuant to Article 28 GDPR.

Data may be transferred to the United States. The transfer is safeguarded by the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses. Please note that United States authorities may have access rights that fall short of the level of protection in the European Union, and that legal remedies against such access may be limited.

If you write to us directly, we process your email address and the contents of your message in order to answer you. The legal basis is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR, or Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR where your message relates to a contract. We delete such correspondence once it is no longer needed and no retention obligations apply.

Our footer links to our profiles on LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube. These are plain links, not embedded content. No data is transmitted to those providers until you actively click a link and leave our site. From that point the privacy policy of the respective provider applies.

Under the GDPR you have the right to obtain information about the data we hold about you (Article 15), to have inaccurate data corrected (Article 16), to have data erased (Article 17), to have processing restricted (Article 18), to receive your data in a portable format (Article 20), and to object to processing based on legitimate interests (Article 21). Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw it at any time with effect for the future.

To exercise these rights, write to hello@unicon.berlin.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The authority responsible for us is the Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, Alt-Moabit 59-61, 10555 Berlin, datenschutz-berlin.de.

We do not use automated decision-making or profiling within the meaning of Article 22 GDPR. Applications are reviewed by people, and admission is decided by people.

We update this policy when the site or the services behind it change, for example if we add a new tool. The current version always applies. Last updated: August 2026.