Privacy

The responsible body in terms of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

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LIBERECO – Partnership for Human Rights e.V.
Brunnenstraße 9
10119 Berlin

Your rights

You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided for our data protection officer:

Information about your data stored by us and its processing,
Correction of incorrect personal data,
Deletion of your data stored by us,
Restriction of data processing, provided that we are not yet permitted to delete your data due to legal obligations,
Objection to the processing of your data by us and
data portability, provided that you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us.

If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

You can lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for you at any time. Your competent supervisory authority depends on the federal state of your residence, your place of work or the alleged infringement. A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Purposes of data processing by the responsible body and third parties

We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those stated. We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

you have given your express consent,
the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you,
the processing is necessary for the fulfilment of a legal obligation,

the processing is necessary for the protection of legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest in the non-disclosure of your data.

Deletion or blocking of data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data minimisation. We therefore only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here or as provided for by the various storage periods stipulated by law. After the respective purpose has ceased to exist or these periods have expired, the corresponding data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.

Collection of general information when you visit our website

When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected by means of a cookie. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider and similar information. This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.

This information is technically necessary in order to correctly deliver the content you have requested from websites and is mandatory when using the Internet. It is processed in particular for the following purposes:

Ensuring a smooth connection to the website
Ensuring the smooth use of our website
Evaluating system security and stability
For other administrative purposes

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest in the aforementioned purposes of data collection. We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. The recipients of the data are only the responsible body and, if applicable, contract processors.

Anonymous information of this kind may be statistically evaluated by us in order to optimise our website and the technology behind it.

Based on your express consent, we will regularly send you our newsletter or similar information by email to the email address you have provided.

Your email address is sufficient to receive the newsletter. When you register to receive our newsletter, the data you provide will be used exclusively for this purpose. Subscribers may also be informed by email about circumstances relevant to the service or registration (e.g. changes to the newsletter offer or technical information).

We require a valid email address for effective registration. To verify that a registration has actually been made by the owner of an email address, we use the ‘double opt-in’ procedure. For this purpose, we log the order of the newsletter, the sending of a confirmation email and the receipt of the response requested therein. No further data is collected. The data will be used exclusively for sending the newsletter and will not be passed on to third parties.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time. Each newsletter contains a link for this purpose. You can also unsubscribe directly on this website at any time or inform us of your wish to do so using the contact details provided at the end of this privacy policy.

Contact

If you contact us by email or via the contact form with questions of any kind, you give us your voluntary consent for the purpose of contacting you. This requires you to provide a valid email address. This is used to assign the enquiry and subsequently respond to it. Providing additional data is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing your enquiry and for any follow-up questions. Once your enquiry has been dealt with, your personal data will be automatically deleted.

Twingle

This website uses the donation form provided by twingle GmbH, Prinzenallee 74, 13357 Berlin. twingle GmbH provides the technical platform for the donation process for this donation form. The data you enter when making a donation (e.g. address, bank details, etc.) will only be stored by twingle on servers in Germany for the purpose of processing the donation. We have concluded a contract with twingle for order data processing and fully implement the strict requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation and the German data protection authorities when using twingle’s donation form. The transfer of your data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent) and Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR (processing for the performance of a contract). If you have given your consent to data processing, you can revoke your consent at any time. A revocation does not affect the validity of data processing operations that took place in the past.

Use of Matomo

We use the web analytics software Matomo, a service provided by InnoCraft Ltd., 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand (‘Matomo’), to collect and store data based on our legitimate interest in the statistical analysis of user behaviour for optimisation purposes in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Pseudonymised usage profiles may be created and evaluated from this data for the same purpose. Cookies may be used for this purpose. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the cache of the website visitor’s Internet browser. Among other things, cookies enable the internet browser to be recognised. The data collected using Matomo technology (including your pseudonymised IP address) is processed on servers belonging to LIBERECO and twingle. The information generated by the cookie in the pseudonymous user profile is not used to personally identify visitors to this website and is not merged with personal data about the bearer of the pseudonym. If you do not agree to the storage and evaluation of this data from your visit, you can object to the storage and use of this data at any time by clicking on the link below. In this case, a so-called opt-out cookie will be stored in your browser, which means that Matomo will not collect any session data. Please note that completely deleting your cookies will also delete the opt-out cookie and you may need to reactivate it.

Collection, processing and use of personal data for donations

When you make a donation, we collect and use your personal data only to the extent necessary to fulfil and process your donation and, if necessary, to process your enquiries. The provision of data is necessary for the processing of the donation. Failure to provide this data will result in your donation not being received. Processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR and is necessary for the processing of the donation. Your data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent. The only exceptions to this are our service partners whom we need to process the donation or service providers whom we use within the scope of order processing. In addition to the recipients named in the respective clauses of this privacy policy, these include, for example, recipients in the following categories: payment service providers, service providers for sending donation receipts. In all cases, we strictly comply with the legal requirements. The scope of data transfer is limited to a minimum. You have the option of revoking your consent to data processing at any time. A revocation does not affect the validity of data processing operations that took place in the past.

Use of script libraries (Google Web Fonts)

In order to display our content correctly and in a graphically appealing manner across browsers, we use script libraries and font libraries such as Google Web Fonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts/) on this website. Google Web Fonts are transferred to your browser’s cache to avoid multiple loading. If your browser does not support Google Web Fonts or prevents access, content will be displayed in a standard font.

Calling up script libraries or font libraries automatically triggers a connection to the library operator. In theory, it is possible – although currently unclear whether and for what purposes – that operators of such libraries collect data.

The privacy policy of the library operator Google can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Embedded YouTube videos

We embed YouTube videos on some of our web pages. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube servers is established. This tells YouTube which pages you are visiting. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can associate your surfing behaviour with you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

When a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behaviour.

If you have disabled the storage of cookies for the Google Ad programme, you will not have to expect such cookies when watching YouTube videos. However, YouTube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you wish to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in your browser.

Further information on data protection at YouTube can be found in the provider’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy to ensure that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

Questions for the data protection officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email: info@libereco.org

The privacy policy was created in part with the privacy policy generator of activeMind AG.