(Registrations made using temporary or fake accounts will be deleted)
Welcome to the services of the Buddha Foundation
At this point you will find the General Terms of Use of our pages. These are updated regularly and apply in their current version as soon as you use our services, even without express consent.
If you wish to use services that require registration, you must also agree to special terms of use, which you will then be informed of.
Our services also collect, analyze and use profile and usage data – we explain how we protect your rights here in our privacy policy.
What you should know about copyrights and intellectual property
All contents of our services are – if they have not been posted by third parties – copyrighted and trademarked intellectual property of the Buddha Foundation.
Content posted by third parties is also not freely usable, but protected as intellectual property for the respective users or rights holders.
You may use our content (not that of third parties) posted in the service for private and educational purposes, within the framework of our Creative Commons license “Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)”. Even for permitted private and school use, copyright notices or other references to third-party rights and/or property may not be removed. For all other uses, our prior consent is required.
When we assume liability and warranty
There is no right to use our services. Maintenance work, technical failures or errors can cause them to be unavailable. In addition, despite all efforts, it cannot be ruled out one hundred percent that damage may result from the use of the services, for example if third parties attempt to misuse them to spread viruses or similar despite all security measures. For damages arising from the use of the services, we therefore assume no liability – including for our legal representatives, employees and agents – except in the case of intentional or grossly negligent acts (in the case of injury to life, limb or health, we do not categorically exclude liability even for simple negligence).
We expressly do not guarantee the correctness, completeness, reliability, suitability and topicality as well as usefulness of the contents. These serve exclusively for general information. References, recommendations and information are non-binding. Any use of the contents offered is at the user’s own risk.
As a matter of principle, we are not liable for third-party content that can be accessed via the service – for example, content of third-party websites that are referred to via links or that have been published on our website by users. It is neither possible nor intended to constantly check such external content; however, we naturally distance ourselves from all content that is relevant under criminal or liability law or that offends common decency. We will remove them from our services immediately after being notified of them at the latest.
How we handle your registration
When you register for our digital services, we store personal data in a user account, such as your name, address, e-mail address, chosen user name and password. This allows us to register you and provide you with the services you register for in the first place. You can use a pseudonym as your user name so that other readers do not find out your name.
Your right of use after registration is only valid for you personally. It is not transferable. You must provide true, accurate and complete information and keep it up to date. You are responsible for choosing a suitable secure password and keeping it secret – please do everything possible and necessary to prevent misuse of your personal access to our services. If this does occur, please inform us immediately so that we can block your user account or solve the problem in another way.
Use of the forums and communication possibilities
If you have registered and logged in to our site, you can participate in various debate formats by making contributions. In the following, we would like to explain to you which line we follow in moderation and what the legal framework is. These terms of use will be updated from time to time. In the event of significant changes, we will notify you by e-mail and/or obtain your consent the next time you register. If you do not agree then, you can no longer participate with contributions or register if necessary.
Please also note our general terms of use. They explain, among other things, that you must keep your data up to date and that we may release your data in the event of certain criminal or civil law claims, for example in the event of insults or suspected criminal offences. In your profile, you may enter a pseudonym as your user name so that other readers do not find out your name.
How we handle your contributions
You can submit your own thoughts, arguments, opinions and other content as contributions to our digital services at any time – but you have no right to have them published. In our role as facilitator, we may discard or remove individual content and entire discussion threads at any time without further justification if we deem this to be necessary in terms of content or legal considerations. After all, we want an open, friendly and respectful climate for discussion. Therefore, please make sure
– that a fair and objective tone prevails in arguments, even if differences of opinion are expressed,
– that contributions are closely related to the respective topics of discussion,
– that the same arguments are not always piled up, but that further thoughts on the topic arise,
– that applicable legal regulations and terms of use are observed – if in doubt, help us by pointing out violations,
– that identities of users are never disclosed,
– that no commercially driven contributions are published, especially no advertising for products or services.
We may edit contributions (while respecting your moral rights), e.g. add, shorten, correct and protect mentioned persons by making them unrecognizable. Please understand that we must sanction violations of these Terms of Use – from deleting individual contributions to excluding and blocking the user account without further justification. We may also suspend and delete user accounts if they have not been used for more than 6 months.
If you come across contributions whose content seems dubious to you, please notify us by email to [email protected].
Which rights of use you leave to us
Important about the rights of use: If you leave a contribution to a service of the Buddha Foundation without further ado – no matter whether text, picture, drawing, graphic, video or other – you grant us non-exclusive rights of use. This means that we may publish it free of charge and/or distribute it (or have it distributed); and this as often as we wish; without temporal or spatial restrictions within the framework of our digital services; in addition, we may digitize it, store it electronically or make it available to users for research purposes. It will not be passed on for advertising purposes. In principle, you will not receive any remuneration for the granting of the rights of use (§§ 32 ff. UrhG excluded).
Your obligation
Please respect the rights of use of other people and companies. According to the Telemedia Act and case law, you are responsible as a content provider for contributions of any kind that you publish with us. If third parties make claims on account of the contributions you have posted, you undertake to indemnify us against their claims and any associated legal costs and to support us in defending against such claims.
Automatic translation with Deepl of our German Privacy Policy
Who is responsible for data processing
Responsible for data processing is:
Buddha Foundation
Dr. Jochen Weber
Am Büchsenackerhang 30
69118 Heidelberg
Germany
[email protected]
https://buddhastiftung.org/die-stiftung/
Processing of your data within the scope of the core activities of our organization
If you are a member of our organization or support us, if you have a business relationship with us or if you are interested in our activities, the type, scope and purpose of the processing of your data depends on the existing membership, contractual or pre-contractual relationship between us. The data processed by us includes all data that we require for the administration or processing of the membership or business relationship existing with you or in order to process your inquiry or your support service.
The processing of your data is limited to those data that are necessary and appropriate for the aforementioned purposes. We will inform you which data this is before or in the course of data collection.
Your data will only be passed on to third parties if this is necessary for the purposes within the scope of our organization for the processing of financial accounting as well as compliance with legal obligations. Insofar as we use third-party providers to provide our services, the terms and conditions and privacy notices of the respective third-party providers apply.
Data Concerned:
Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses)
Payment data (e.g. bank details, invoices)
Contact data (e.g. e-mail address, telephone number, postal address)
Contract data (e.g. subject matter of contract, duration of contract)
Data subjects: Interested parties, members, business and contractual partners
Purpose of processing: administration members and support services, handling of contractual relations, communication as well as answering contact requests, office and organization procedures
Legal basis: contract performance and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO, legal obligation, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c DSGVO, legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
Processing of your data in the context of the education and training services we provide
If you participate in our education and training services or are interested in our services, the type, scope and purpose of the processing of your data depends on the contractual or pre-contractual relationship existing between us. In this sense, the data we process includes all those data that are or were provided for the purpose of you making use of the contractual or pre-contractual services and that are required to process your inquiry or the contract concluded between us. This also includes the performance evaluation and the evaluation of our services as well as the teaching staff. Unless otherwise stated in the further notes of this data protection declaration, the processing of your data as well as its transfer to third parties is limited to those data that are necessary and appropriate to answer your inquiries and/or to fulfill the contract concluded between you and us, to protect our rights as well as to fulfill legal obligations. We will inform you which data is required for this before or in the course of data collection. Insofar as we use third-party providers to provide our services, the data protection notices of the respective third-party providers apply.
Special categories of data
If you participate in our training and education services or submit an inquiry to us because you are interested in the training and education services we offer, so-called special categories of data may also be affected by the data processing. This includes, in particular, information about your health, as well as information that reveals your political opinions or religious or ideological beliefs (Article 9 (1) DSGVO). We process this data exclusively for training services, to protect your health, social protection or vital interests. If we need the information just mentioned for purposes other than those just mentioned, we will inform you of this in detail before we process this data and then obtain your express consent.
If it is necessary for the performance of the contract concluded between us, for training services, for the protection of your health, social protection or vital interests, we may also transfer your data to third parties, such as authorities or tax advisors.
Data concerned:
Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses)
Payment data (e.g. bank details, invoices)
Contact data (e.g. e-mail address, telephone number, postal address)
Contract data (e.g. subject matter of contract, duration of contract)
Special categories of personal data:
Data revealing religious beliefs.
Data subjects: Pupils, trainees, students, interested parties, business and contractual partners.
Purpose of processing: processing of contractual services, communication as well as answering contact requests, office and organization procedures
Legal basis: contract performance and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO, legal obligation, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c DSGVO, legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
Your rights under the DSGVO
According to the DSGVO, you are entitled to the rights listed below, which you can exercise at any time by contacting the data controller named in section 1. of this privacy statement:
Right to information: you have the right to request information from us about whether and what data we process from you.
Right to rectification: you have the right to request the rectification of incorrect or completion of incomplete data.
Right to erasure: You have the right to request the erasure of your data.
Right to restriction: in certain cases, you have the right to request that we only process your data in a restricted manner.
Right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer your data to you or another responsible party in a structured, common and machine-readable format.
Right to complain: You have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. The supervisory authority of your usual place of residence, your workplace or our company headquarters is responsible.
Right of withdrawal
You have the right to revoke your consent to data processing at any time.
Right of objection
You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your data, which we base on our legitimate interest according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. If you make use of your right to object, we ask you to explain the reasons. We will then no longer process your personal data unless we can prove to you that compelling reasons worthy of protection for the data processing outweigh your interests and rights.
Irrespective of the above, you have the right at any time to object to the processing of your personal data for purposes of advertising and data analysis.
Please address your objection to the contact address of the data controller given above.
When do we delete your data?
We delete your data when we no longer need it or when you instruct us to do so. This means that – unless otherwise stated in the individual data protection notices of this data protection declaration – we delete your data,
when the purpose of the data processing has ceased to exist and therefore the respective legal basis stated in the individual data protection notices no longer exists, e.g.
after termination of the contractual or membership relationship existing between us (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO) or
after our legitimate interest in the further processing or storage of your data ceases to exist (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO),
if you exercise your right of withdrawal and no other legal basis for processing within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. b-f DSGVO applies,
if you make use of your right to object and there are no compelling reasons worthy of protection against the deletion.
You yourself have the option to delete your participant profile data and the account at any time via the delete function in the participant profile.
However, if we still need to retain (certain parts of) your data for other purposes, for example because tax retention periods (generally 6 years for business correspondence or 10 years for accounting records) or the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims arising from contractual relationships (up to four years) make this necessary, or if the data is needed to protect the rights of another natural person or legal entity, we will delete (that part of) your data only after these periods have expired. However, until the expiration of these periods, we limit the processing of this data to these purposes (fulfillment of retention obligations).
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files, consisting of a series of numbers and letters, which are filed and stored on the terminal device you use. Cookies are primarily used to exchange information between the end device you are using and our website. This includes, among other things, the language settings on a website, the login status or where a video was watched.
Two types of cookies are used when you visit our websites:
Temporary cookies (session cookies): These store a so-called session ID, which can be used to assign various requests from your browser to the joint session. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.
Permanent cookies: Permanent cookies remain stored even after you close your browser. This allows our website to recognize your computer when you return to our website. For example, information on language settings or log-in information is stored in these cookies. In addition, these cookies can be used to document and store your surfing behavior. This data can be used for statistical, marketing and personalization purposes.
In addition to the above classification, cookies can also be differentiated with regard to their purpose:
Necessary cookies: these are cookies that are absolutely necessary for the operation of our website, to store logins or shopping carts for the duration of your session, or cookies that are set for security reasons.
Statistical, marketing and personalization cookies: these are cookies that are used for analysis purposes or reach measurement. In particular, information on search terms entered or the frequency of page views may be stored via such “tracking” cookies. In addition, the surfing behavior of an individual user (e.g. viewing certain content, using functions, etc.) can also be stored in a user profile. Such profiles are used to display content to users that corresponds to their potential interests. Insofar as we use services through which cookies are stored on your terminal device for statistical, marketing and personalization purposes, we will inform you about this separately in the following sections of our data protection declaration or in the context of obtaining your consent.
Data concerned:
Usage data (e.g. access times, web pages clicked on)
Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address).
Data subjects: Users of our online offers
Processing purpose: Playing out our internet pages, ensuring the operation of our internet pages, improving our internet offer, communication and marketig.
Legal basis:
Legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
Unless we obtain consent from you to set the cookies, we base the processing of your data on our legitimate interest in improving the quality and user-friendliness of our Internet presence, in particular the content and functions. You have via the security settings of your browser to object to the use of cookies set by us in the context of our legitimate interest. There, you have the option of specifying whether you do not accept cookies from the outset or only accept them on request, or whether you specify that cookies are deleted each time you close your browser. If cookies are deactivated for our website, it may no longer be possible to use all functions of the website to their full extent.
Consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO
If we ask you before your visit to our website to be allowed to set certain cookies on your terminal device and you consent to this, the consent you give is the legal basis. As part of the consent, we will inform you about which cookies we set in detail. If you do not give this consent, we will only set the so-called technically necessary cookies that are required for the proper operation of our website and its display in your browser. If you have consented to the setting of cookies, you have the option to revoke your consent at any time.
Web hosting
In order to maintain our Internet pages, we use a provider on whose server our Internet pages are stored and made available for retrieval on the Internet (hosting). In doing so, the provider may process all the data transmitted via the browser you use, which is generated when you use our Internet pages. This includes, in particular, your IP address, which the provider needs in order to be able to deliver our online offer to the browser you are using, as well as all entries you make via our website. In addition, the provider used by us may also record
the date and time of access to our website
time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
access status (HTTP status)
the amount of data transferred
the Internet service provider of the accessing system
the type of browser you are using and its version
the operating system you are using
the website from which you may have accessed our website
the pages or sub-pages that you visit on our website.
collect. The aforementioned data is stored as log files on the servers of our provider. This is necessary to ensure the stability and security of the operation of our website.
Data concerned:
Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos).
Usage data (e.g. access times, web pages clicked on)
Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address).
Data subjects: Users of our Internet presence
Purpose of processing: Playing out our Internet pages, ensuring the operation of our Internet pages
Legal basis: Legitimate interest, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO
Web host(s) commissioned by us:
webgo
Service provider: webgo GmbH Wandsbeker Zollstr. 95, 22041 Hamburg, Germany
Website: https://www.webgo.de/
Privacy policy: https://www.webgo.de/datenschutz/
Contact
Insofar as you contact us via e-mail, social media, telephone, fax, mail, our contact form or otherwise and in doing so provide us with personal data such as your name, telephone number or e-mail address, or provide further information about yourself or your request, we will process this data to respond to your inquiry within the scope of the pre-contractual or contractual relationship existing between us.
Data concerned:
Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses)
Contact data (e.g. e-mail address, telephone number, postal address)
Content data (texts, photos, videos)
Contract data (e.g. subject matter of contract, duration of contract).
Affected persons: Interested parties, customers, business and contractual partners
Purpose of processing: communication as well as answering contact requests, office and organization procedures
Legal basis: contract performance and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO, legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
Registration, login and user account
You have the option to register on our online medium in order to create a user account there. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide personal data, which can be found in the input mask. The data requested there includes, in particular, your name, your e-mail address, a user name, if applicable, and the password. This data is stored and processed by us in order to set up a user account for you and to enable (repeated) registration. The data can be changed or deleted by you at any time. The data will not be disclosed to third parties unless this serves the technical and organizational processing of the existing user contract between us. In order to protect you and us from abusive registrations, we store the IP address assigned to you at the time of registration, as well as the date and time of registration.
Data concerned:
Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses)
Contact data (e.g. e-mail address, telephone number, postal address)
Contract data (e.g. subject matter of the contract, duration of the contract)
Payment data (e.g. bank details, invoices)
Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos)
Usage data (e.g. access times, web pages clicked on)
Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)
Purpose of processing: processing of contractual services, communication as well as answering contact requests, security measures.
Legal basis: contract performance and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO, legal obligation, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c DSGVO, legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
Deletion: Please refer to the point: “When do we delete your data?”. In addition, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that we will delete the data collected during registration and the content data stored in the account as soon as you delete your account, subject to any statutory retention obligations to the contrary. We therefore ask you, if you want or need to access the content data stored in your account even after the deletion of your account, to save it in another way before deleting the account.
Your comments or ratings
You have the option of commenting on our contributions, expressing your opinion or posting content in the designated areas of our website. Since we may be held liable for infringing content of your comment (insult, defamation, incitement to hatred, prohibited depiction of violence, etc.), we store your IP address for a period of 7 days in order to be able to determine your identity.
Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO
Data concerned:
Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses)
Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos)
Usage data (e.g. access times, web pages clicked on)
Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)
Purpose of processing: performance of contractual obligations, communication and processing of requests, obtaining feedback, security measures.
Akismet
We use “Akismet” on our website. Akismet is used to filter the comments submitted by users and to identify comments that are to be classified as “spam” and to treat them accordingly. For this purpose, the comments submitted by you and the communication data are transmitted to the external servers of Automattic Inc. and analyzed.
Legal basis: contract performance and pre-contractual requests Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
Data concerned:
Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses)
Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos)
Usage data (e.g. access times, web pages clicked on)
Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)
Purpose of processing: performance of contractual obligations, communication and processing of inquiries, obtaining feedback, security measures
Deletion: Comments and the associated data are automatically deleted by Automattic Inc. from its server after four days. If a comment has been classified as spam, it will be stored beyond this period.
Service provider: Automattic Inc., 60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Website: https://automattic.com/
Privacy policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/
Payment service provider
In accordance with our legal obligations or because of our legitimate interests in efficient, secure and customer-oriented payment processing, persons who have concluded a contract or other legal relationship with us may use banks and credit institutions as well as other payment service providers for payment. The payment service providers offered by us process inventory data in this context, including name, address or bank data such as account/credit card number, passwords, TANs, verification numbers as well as information on the concluded contract and information on the recipient of the payment.
The data collected in this context is necessary to enable the payment service provider to process the payment. Only the payment service provider commissioned by us collects and processes this personal information. At no time do we receive information about your account or credit card details. We are informed by our payment service provider whether our customer’s payment has been received or not. It is possible that our payment service providers forward the data of our customers to credit information files in order to be able to check the identity as well as the creditworthiness of the payer. In this respect, we refer to the privacy policy and general terms and conditions (GTC) of our payment service providers.
The terms and conditions and privacy policy of the respective payment service provider apply. You will find this information on the website of the service provider concerned or in the transaction application. For further information and for the assertion of your rights regarding revocation and information, we refer in this respect to the provisions of the respective service provider.
Data concerned:
Inventory data (e.g. name, address),
Usage data (e.g. Internet pages visited, interest in certain topics, times of access),
Payment data (e.g. bank details, invoices, payment history),
Business transaction data (e.g. term, customer category, subject of contract),
Communication and metadata (e.g. IP address, device or computer system information).
Purpose of processing: Effective, secure and customer-oriented payment offers (service) as well as processing of payments according to contractual agreement
Legal basis: contract performance and fulfillment of pre-contractual requests, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO, legitimate interests, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
Revocation options: You can revoke your consent to the use of personal data at any time vis-à-vis the respective payment service provider. Despite revocation, the payment service provider may still be entitled to process, use and transmit the personal data that is absolutely necessary for the contractual processing of payments. With regard to the storage and timely deletion of personal data, we refer to the respective data protection provisions of the payment service provider.
We use the following payment service providers:
PayPal
Service provider: PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, 2449 Luxembourg.
Website: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/home
Privacy policy: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full#
Newsletter
We send out a newsletter at regular intervals to inform our customers and business partners and interested parties about our offers and related news. You have the option of registering for our newsletter on our website and agreeing to receive the newsletter as part of the registration process. If you register for our newsletter, it is mandatory to provide your e-mail address. We store the e-mail address in order to be able to send you the newsletter. As soon as a registration for our newsletter is made, you will receive a confirmation e-mail to the e-mail address provided during registration in the so-called double opt-in procedure. This e-mail contains a link. When you click on this link, you confirm that you would like to receive the newsletter. In this way, we ensure that your e-mail address has not been misused by a third party during registration. For the same reason, we store the date and time of registration as well as the IP address assigned to you during registration. We do not pass on the aforementioned data to third parties.
Data concerned:
Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos).
Usage data (e.g. access times, web pages clicked on)
Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address).
Data subjects: Users of our Internet presence
Purpose of processing: Playing out our Internet pages, ensuring the operation of our Internet pages
Legal basis: consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO, legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
Deletion: The deletion of the e-mail address takes place either if you have not clicked on the confirmation link 1 month after sending the confirmation e-mail in the double opt-in process or immediately after you have unsubscribed from our newsletter.
Revocation: You can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. We offer the following options through which you can declare the revocation:
Click on the link provided for this purpose in the newsletter
by e-mail to: [email protected]
SendinBlue
Service provider: SendinBlue SAS, 55, rue d’Amsterdam, 75008 Paris, France.
Website: https://de.sendinblue.com/
Privacy policy: https://www.sendinblue.com/legal/privacypolicy/
Web analysis and statistics
In order to record and statistically evaluate the flow of visitors to our website, we use web analysis services. Such services collect, among other things, data about the website from which you have accessed our website (so-called referrers), which pages of our website you have accessed, how long you have visited our pages and which interactions you have carried out there. In addition, data on the browser you use, computer system and type of device are collected. In addition, demographic information such as age or gender can be collected as pseudonymous values via such a service. If you have consented to the collection of your location data, this may also be processed, depending on the provider.
In order to collect and store this data, the web analysis service we use usually sets a cookie on the terminal device you use, which also collects the IP address assigned to you. However, this is shortened via a so-called IP masking procedure, so that the IP address can no longer be assigned to your visit to our website. In addition, no clear data such as names or e-mail addresses are stored. Neither we nor the service we use know the identity of visitors to our website.
We would like to point out that, depending on the country of domicile of the service provider mentioned below, the data collected via the service may be transmitted and processed outside the area of the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR may not be complied with and that the enforcement of your rights may not be possible or may be difficult.
Data concerned:
Usage data (e.g. access times, web pages clicked on).
Communication data (for example, information about the device used, IP address).
Data subjects: Users of our online offers
Purpose of processing: Measuring reach, monitoring the success of campaigns, remarketing, and interest- and behavior-based marketing.
Legal basis: If we have asked you for your consent before using the respective service, this is the legal basis, Art. 6 (1) lit. a DSGVO. In addition, we use the respective service on the basis of our legitimate interest in analyzing the flow of visitors to our website in order to be able to continuously improve the functions, offers and user experience, Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
We use the following web analysis services:
Google Analytics
Service provider: Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Headquarters within the EU: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Website: https://marketingplatform.google.com/intl/de/about/analytics/
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
Opt-out option: If you do not want your data to be used by Google Analytics, you can set a so-called opt-out plugin, which will prevent data from being collected from you on our website in the future. You can obtain this plugin here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Our online presence on social networks
We operate online presences within the social networks listed below. If you visit one of these presences, the data listed in more detail below will be collected and processed by the respective provider. As a rule, this data is collected for advertising and market research purposes and usage profiles are created with it. In the usage profiles, data can be stored regardless of the device you use. This is particularly the case if you are a member of the respective platform and logged in to it. The usage profiles can be used by the providers to play interest-based advertising to you. You have a right of revocation against the creation of user profiles. To exercise this right, you must contact the respective provider.
If you have an account with one of the providers listed below and are logged in there when you visit our website, the respective provider may collect data about your usage behavior on our website. To prevent such linking of your data, you can log out of the provider’s service before visiting our site.
For what purpose and to what extent data is collected by the provider, you can see the respective, in the following communicated, privacy statements of the providers.
We would like to point out that, depending on the country of domicile of the provider named below, the data collected via its platform may be transmitted and processed outside the area of the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR may not be complied with and that the enforcement of your rights may not be possible or may be difficult.
Data concerned:
Inventory data and contact data (e.g. name, address, telephone number, e-mail address).
Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos)
Usage data (e.g. access times, web pages clicked on)
Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address).
Purpose of processing: communication and marketing, tracking and analysis of user behavior.
Legal basis: consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO, legitimate interests Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
Objection options: For the respective objection options (opt-out), we refer to the information of the providers linked below.
We maintain online presences on the following social networks:
Service provider: Facebook Inc, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.
Headquarters in the EU: Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland
Website: https://www.facebook.com/
Privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Privacy policy for Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data
Service provider: Twitter Inc, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Website: https://twitter.com/?lang=de
Privacy policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy
Online meetings, video conferencing and screen sharing
We use third-party offerings to facilitate online meetings, conference calls via video and/or audio circuit, and online seminars among employees and with prospects or customers. When you communicate with us through such a service, the data collected in that communication process is processed by both us and the third-party provider. The data that may be generated in such a communication process includes, in particular, your login and contact information, posts in the chat window, your video and audio posts, and shared screen content. The data processed by the third-party provider we use primarily includes user data as well as metadata (e.g., IP address, computer system information). As a rule, the third-party providers process this data in order to check and ensure the security of the service. In addition, findings from the data processing are to be used to optimize the third-party provider’s offer and to carry out corresponding marketing measures. Please refer to the data protection information of the third-party provider in this regard.
We would like to point out that, depending on the country of domicile of the service provider mentioned below, the data collected via the service may be transmitted and processed outside the area of the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR may not be complied with and that the enforcement of your rights may not be possible or may be difficult.
Data concerned:
Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses).
Contact data (e.g. e-mail address, telephone number)
Shared content (e.g. photos, videos, texts, audio recordings)
User data (e.g. times of access, web pages visited, interest in content)
Meta and communication data (e.g. IP address, computer system information).
Data subjects: Interested parties, customers, communication partners
Purpose of processing: processing of contact requests, internal and external communication with employees as well as interested parties and customers, fulfillment of our contractual services, service offer
Legal basis: consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO, contract performance and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO, legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
Services used by us:
Zoom
Services offered: video conferencing, voice conferencing, chats.
Service provider: Zoom Video Communications, Inc, 55 Almaden Boulevard, 6th Floor, San Jose, CA 95113, USA.
Website: https://zoom.us/de-de/meetings.html
Privacy policy: https://zoom.us/de-de/privacy.html
Content services
We use certain services in order to be able to display certain content or graphics (videos, images, music, fonts, maps) via our website. In doing so, the services we use process the IP address assigned to you at the time of your visit to our Internet pages, as this is the only way the respective content can be displayed in the browser you are using. In addition, the providers of these services may place further cookies on your terminal device, which are used to collect information about your usage behavior, your interests, the device and browser you are using, as well as the time and duration of your session. The providers regularly use this data for analysis, statistical and marketing purposes. In addition, this information may also be combined with information from other sources. This applies in particular if you yourself maintain an account with the service provider and are logged in there at the time of the session.
We would like to point out that, depending on the country of domicile of the service provider named below, the data named in more detail below may be transferred to and processed on servers outside the area of the European Union. In this case, there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR will not be complied with and that the enforcement of your rights may not be possible or may be difficult.
Data concerned:
Usage data (e.g. access times, web pages clicked on).
Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address).
Data subjects: Users of our Internet presence
Purpose of processing: displaying our Internet pages, offering content, ensuring the operation of our Internet pages
Legal basis: consent via cookie consent banner, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO, legitimate interests, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
We use the following content services:
Google Maps
We use Google Maps on our website. In doing so, Google collects and processes the IP address of the visitor. When you visit a website on which Google Maps is integrated, your IP address and your location data (the latter usually not without your consent) are transmitted to Google, regardless of whether Google Maps is actually used or you are logged into your Google account. Your IP address is assigned to your Google account if you are logged in there when you visit our website.
Service provider: Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Headquarters in the EU: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Website: https://www.google.de/maps
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Opt-out option: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Google Web Fonts
Google Web Fonts enable us to integrate fonts (web fonts) into the design of our website and to display them correctly when our web pages are displayed in your browser. The integration of these web fonts is done by a server call at Google. From there, the fonts are compressed and passed on to your browser, where they are unpacked. This server is usually located in the USA. If you visit one of our pages on which we embed Google Fonts, it is transmitted to Google which of our Internet pages you have visited.
Service provider: Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Headquarters in the EU: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Website: https://fonts.google.com/
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
YouTube
We use YouTube components on this website to embed videos on our Internet pages so that they can be played via your Internet browser when you visit our Internet pages. During your visit to our website, both YouTube and Google are informed about which page or subpage you have called up by transmitting your IP address to Google’s external servers in the USA. This information transfer takes place regardless of whether the videos displayed are actually viewed or clicked on or whether you are logged into your YouTube or Google account. This information is collected and assigned to your Google account, provided you are logged in there when you call up our Internet pages.
Service provider: YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
Website: https://www.youtube.com/
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Opt-out option: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Google reCAPTCHA
We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on this website. Provider is Google Ireland, subsidiary of Google USA, represented with office in Berlin Berlin, Tucholskystraße 2, 10117 Berlin, Phone: +49 30 303986300, Privacy policy and terms of use of Google and its services: https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.
About Google reCaptcha: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/about/
reCAPTCHA checks before data is entered on a website (for example, in a contact form or in a comment field), whether a human or, for example, a bot, an automated program to enter and query data. This is then done by determining whether the visit to a website is by human or machine visitors. This is done by analyzing various information (e.g. the duration of the website visit on the website, the IP address or mouse movements). This analysis runs automatically in the background without the visitor being specifically notified. The data collected during the analysis by reCAPTCHA is forwarded to Google for this analysis.
The analysis and storage of the data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. In order to protect its website and the content of its users, the website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offerings from automated misuse and from SPAM. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the data is processed exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO whereby the consent can be revoked at any time.
Security measures
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of your personal data and other confidential content, we use encryption on our domain. You can recognize this in the browser line by the string “https://” and the lock symbol.
We also take technical and organizational security measures in accordance with the state of the art to comply with the provisions of data protection laws and to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or against unauthorized access by third parties.
Actuality and change of this privacy policy
This privacy policy is currently valid and has the status of August 2021. Due to changes in legal or regulatory requirements, it may become necessary to adapt this privacy policy. This data protection declaration was created with the help of the data protection generator of SOS Recht. SOS Recht is a service of Mueller.legal Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft, based in Berlin.