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Data protection

Responsible authority in the sense of the data protection laws, in particular the EU data protection basic regulation (DSGVO), is:

Bernd Zimmer
STOA169 Foundation

THEIR RIGHTS OF ACTION

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

– Information about your data stored with us and their processing,

– Correction of incorrect personal data,
– Deletion of your data stored with us,
– Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations,
– Objection against the processing of your data by us and
– Data transferability if you have consented to 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 at any time complain to the supervisory authority responsible for you. Your responsible supervisory authority depends on the federal state of your residence, your work or the presumed violation. A list of the supervisory authorities (for non-public areas) with their 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 AUTHORITY AND THIRD PARTIES

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

– you have given your express consent to this,
– the processing is necessary to process a contract with you,
– the processing is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation,
– the processing is necessary to safeguard legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in the non-disclosure of your data.

DELETION OR BLOCKING OF DATA

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. 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 provided for by law. After the respective purpose has ceased 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 VISITING 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 the like. This is only information which does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.

This information is technically necessary for the correct delivery of content requested by you from websites and is mandatory when using the Internet. In particular, they are processed for the following purposes:

– Ensuring a trouble-free connection to the website,
– Ensuring the smooth use of our website,
– Evaluation of system safety and stability as well as
– 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. Recipients of the data are only the responsible body and, if applicable, the contract processor.

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

COOKIES

Like many other websites, we also use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard drive. This automatically provides us with certain data such as IP address, browser used, operating system and your connection to the Internet.

Cookies cannot be used to start programs or transfer viruses to a computer. The information contained in cookies enables us to make navigation easier for you and to display our web pages correctly.

Under no circumstances will the data collected by us be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.

Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via the settings of your browser. Please use the help functions of your Internet browser to find out how you can change these settings. Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

SSL ENCRYPTION

In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption procedures (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

USE OF MATOMO

This website uses Matomo (formerly Piwik), an open source software for statistical evaluation of visitor access. Matomo uses cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is stored on a server in Germany.

The IP address is anonymised immediately after processing and before it is stored. You have the option of preventing the installation of cookies by changing the settings of your browser software. We would like to point out that with the appropriate setting all functions of this website may no longer be available.

You can decide whether a unique web analysis cookie may be stored in your browser in order to enable the operator of the website to collect and analyse various statistical data.

USE OF ADOBE TYPEKIT

We use Adobe Typekit for the visual design of our website. Typekit is a service provided by Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd. which gives us access to a font library. To incorporate the fonts we use, your browser must connect to an Adobe server in the United States and download the font required for our website. This will tell Adobe that your IP address has been used to access our website. For more information about Adobe Typekit, please see Adobe’s privacy policy, which can be found at www.adobe.com/privacy/typekit.html

EMBEDDED VIMEO VIDEOS

On some of our websites we embed Vimeo videos. Operator of the corresponding plugins is Vimeo, Inc., 555 West 18th Street.

New York, New York 10011 When you visit a page with the Vimeo plugin, a connection to Vimeo servers is established. This will tell Vimeo which pages you are visiting. If you are logged into your Vimeo account, Vimeo can personally assign your browsing behavior to you. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account beforehand.

If a Vimeo video is started, the provider uses cookies, which collect information about the user behavior.

If you have deactivated the storage of cookies for the Google Ad program, you will not have to reckon with such cookies when watching Vimeo videos. However, Vimeo 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 “Vimeo” can be found in the provider’s data protection declaration at: https://vimeo.com/privacy

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always corresponds to the current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services. Your renewed visit will then be subject to the new data protection declaration.

QUESTIONS TO THE DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an e-mail or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organisation directly:

Bernd Zimmer
bz@stoa169.com