Privacy policy

Privacy policy for visiting our website http://www.mauermuseum.de/

1) Information on the retrieval of personal data and contact info of the responsible party

1.1 We are happy that you are visiting our site and thank you for your interest. Below we will inform you of how your personal data are treated while you use our website. Personal data are all data connected to you as an individual, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, user behaviour.

1.2 The responsible party for data processing on this website as per Art. 4 para. 7 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Arbeitsgemeinschaft 13. August e.V., represented by the chairwoman, executive chair and director Mrs. Alexandra Hildebrandt, Friedrichstraße 43-45, 10969 Berlin, Germany, Tel.: +49 (0)30 2537250, Fax: +49 (0)30 2512075, e-mail: info(at)mauermuseum.de. The party responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who, solely or together with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data.

2) Data retrieval while visiting our website
For purely informational usage of our website, namely when you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only retrieve the data that your browser provides to our server (“server logfiles”). When you visit our website we receive the following data, which are technically required in order to display the website for you:

  • Our page that you visited
  • Date and time of access
  • Amount of data sent in bytes
  • Volume of data sent in bytes
  • Source/reference from which you reached the page
  • Browser used
  • Operating system used
  • IP address (if possible: in anonymised format)

The processing occurs as per Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR on the basis of our justified interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. There is no forwarding or other usage of the data. However, we reserve the right to retroactively examine the server logfiles in the event of specific indications of illegal usage.

3) Cookies
We use cookies on various pages in order to make visiting our website more attractive and to facilitate the usage of specific functions. These are small text files that are installed on your end device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after your browser session, namely after closing your browser (session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and allow us or our partner companies (third-party provider cookies) to recognise your browser during your next visit (persistent cookies). If cookies are installed, they individually retrieve and process certain user information such as browser and location data and IP address values. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a certain period of time, which may vary by cookie.
If individual cookies that we have implemented process personal data as well, this processing occurs as per Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR to ensure our justified interests in the best possible functionality of the website, as well as a customer-friendly and effective configuration of the visit.
We sometimes work with advertising partners, who help us make our internet presence more interesting for you. For this purpose and in this event, cookies from partner companies are stored on your hard drive during your visit (third-party cookies). When we work with the aforementioned advertising partners, you will be individually and separately informed of the usage of such cookies and the extent of the respectively retrieved information in the following paragraphs.
Please note that you can adjust your browser settings such that you are informed of the installation of cookies and can individually decide on the acceptance thereof, or for certain instances, or may generally block them. Every browser differs in the manner in which it manages cookie settings. This is described in every browser’s Help menu, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find these for the respective browser through the following links:

Please note that the deactivation of cookies may result in limited functionality of our website.

4) Contact
Personal data are retrieved for purposes of getting in contact with us (e.g. via the contact form or e-mail). The data that are retrieved during usage of the contact form are apparent from the contact form itself. These data are solely stored and used to respond to your enquiry or for making contact, and for the associated technical administration. The legal basis for the processing of the data is our justified interest in responding to your enquiry as per Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. If you contact us with the intent to form a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted after final processing of your enquiry. This is the case if, due to the circumstances, the respective matter has been resolved and no legal rights of retention apply.

5) Online marketing
Usage of Google AdWords conversion tracking

This website uses the online advertising programme “Google AdWords”, and for this it also uses conversion tracking from Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). We use the service of Google AdWords to make external websites aware of our attractive services through advertisements (so-called Google AdWords). In relation to the data from the marketing campaigns we can determine how successful the individual marketing measures are. We thus pursue the interest of displaying advertisements that are interesting to you, of making our website more interesting for you, and achieving a fair calculation of marketing expenses.

The cookies for conversion tracking are installed when a user clicks on an AdWords advertisement set by Google. Cookies are small text files that are installed on your computer system. These cookies generally lose their validity after 30 days and do not serve purposes of personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google may detect that the user has clicked on the advertisement and was directed to this page. Every Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can thus not be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information retrieved with the conversion cookie serves to compile conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. The customers learn the total number of users who have clicked on their advertisement and were directed to a page equipped with a conversion tracking tag. Yet they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users. If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you may block this usage by deactivating the Google conversion tracking cookie in your internet browser’s user settings. You are then not included in the conversion tracking statistics. We utilise Google AdWords due to our justified interest in targeted advertising as per Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified for the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield”, which ensures adherence to the level of data protection applicable in the EU.

The following link will provide you with further information on Google’s data protection terms: http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

You can permanently deactivate cookies for advertisements by preventing them in your browser settings or downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin?hl=en

Please note that certain functions of this website may not be usable, or usage thereof may be limited, if you have deactivated the usage of cookies.

6)Web analysis services
Google (Universal) Analytics

  • Google Analytics
    This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, or text files that are stored on your computer and which allow for an analysis of your usage of the website. The information that the cookies create about your usage of this website (including truncated IP address) is generally sent to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
    This website solely uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”, which ensures anonymization of the IP address through truncation and rules out direct personal identification. Through this extension, your IP address is first truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or other signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to a Google server in the USA before being truncated there. In these exceptional cases this processing occurs as per Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR on the basis of our justified interest in the statistical analysis of user behaviour for optimisation and marketing purposes.
    As commissioned by us, Google will use this information to evaluate your usage of the website in order to compile reports on website activities and to render other services associated with website usage and internet usage. Google does not consolidate the IP address transmitted by your browser for Google Analytics with other data.
    You can prevent the storage of cookies with a corresponding setting in your browser software; however, please note that in this event you may not be able to make complete use of all functions of this website. Furthermore, you may prevent the documentation of the data created by the cookie and concerning your usage of the website (incl. your IP address) for Google, as well as the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link:

    http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
    Alternatively to the browser plug-in, or within browsers on mobile devices, please click on the following link to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent future documentation by Google Analytics within this website (this opt-out cookie functions only in this browser and only for this domain, to delete your cookies in this browser you must click this link again): deactivate Google Analytics
    Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified for the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield”, which ensures adherence to the level of data protection applicable in the EU. You can find more information on the treatment of user data by Google Analytics in Google’s privacy policy: 
    https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
  • Google Universal Analytics
    This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, or text files that are stored on your computer and which allow for an analysis of your usage of the website. The information that the cookies create about your usage of this website (including truncated IP address) is generally sent to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
    This website solely uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”, which ensures anonymization of the IP address through truncation and rules out direct personal identification. Through this extension, your IP address is first truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or other signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to a Google server in the USA before being truncated there. In these exceptional cases this processing occurs as per Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR on the basis of our justified interest in the statistical analysis of user behaviour for optimisation and marketing purposes.
    As commissioned by us, Google will use this information to evaluate your usage of the website in order to compile reports on website activities and to render other services associated with website usage and internet usage. Google does not consolidate the IP address transmitted by your browser for Google Analytics with other data.
    You can prevent the storage of cookies with a corresponding setting in your browser software; however, please note that in this event you may not be able to make complete use of all functions of this website. Furthermore, you may prevent the documentation of the data created by the cookie and concerning your usage of the website (incl. your IP address) for Google, as well as the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link
    : https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

7) Tools, etc.
7.1 Google Maps

On our website we use Google Maps (API) from Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Maps is a web service for displaying interactive (country) maps to visually display geographic information. Usage of this service shows your location and makes it easier to find directions.

When visiting such sub-pages in which the Google Maps map has been integrated, information about your usage of our website (e.g. your IP address) is transmitted to Google servers in the USA and saved there. This occurs regardless of whether Google creates a user account which you are logged into, or if you have no user account. If you are logged in to Google, your data are directly allocated to your account. If you do not wish for allocation to your Google profile, you must log out before clicking the button. Google saves your data (even for users who are not logged in) as usage profiles and evaluates them. Such an evaluation occurs as per Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR in particular, on the basis of Google’s justified interest in the integration of personalised advertising, market research and/or a need-based configuration of its website. You have a right to object to the creation of these user profiles which you may assert to Google.

Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified for the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield”, which ensures adherence to the level of data protection applicable in the EU.

If you do not agree to the future transmission of your data to Google for purposes of the usage of Google Maps, it is also possible to completely deactivate the web service of Google Maps by deactivating the application JavaScript in your browser. Google Maps, and thus the map display on this webpage, can then not be used.

Google’s terms of use can be found at http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/terms/regional.html and the additional terms of use for Google Maps can be found at http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Extensive information on data protection in relation to the usage of Google Maps can be found on Google’s webpage (“Google Privacy Policy”): http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

7.2 Google Web Fonts
In order to facilitate the consistent display of fonts, this website uses Web Fonts from Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). When visiting a website your browser loads the necessary Web Fonts in your browser cache in order to correctly display text and fonts.

For this purpose the browser you use must form a connection with Google’s servers. This allows Google to know that our website was visited through your IP address. The usage of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a consistent and attractive display of our webpages. This constitutes justified interest as per Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. If your browser does not support Web Fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.

Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified for the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield”, which ensures adherence to the level of data protection applicable in the EU.

Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

8) Rights of affected parties
8.1

Data protection law grants you extensive “rights of affected parties” (disclosure and intervention rights) over the responsible party with regard to the processing of your personal data. Below you will find more information:

  • Right of disclosure as per Art. 15 GDPR: in particular you have the right to disclosure of your personal data that we have processed; the purposes of processing; the categories of processed personal data; the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data were or will be disclosed; the planned storage period or criteria for the determination thereof; the existence of a right to correction, deletion or limitation of the processing; objection to the processing; file a complaint with a supervisory authority; the source of your data if we did not retrieve them from you; the existence of an automated decision-making process including profiling and any pertinent information on the logic involved as well as the scope pertaining to you and desired effects of such processing; and your right to instruction as to which guarantees apply to the forwarding of your data to third countries as per Art. 46 GDPR;
  • Right to correction as per Art. 16 GDPR: you have a right to immediate correction of incorrect data concerning you and/or completion of your incomplete data that we have stored;
  • Right to deletion as per Art. 17 GDPR: you have the right to request the deletion of your personal data pending the criteria of Art. 17 para. 1 GDPR. However, this right does not apply if the processing is required to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfil a legal obligation, for reasons of the public interest, or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
  • Right to limitation of the processing as per Art. 18 GDPR: you have the right to request the limitation of the processing of your personal data as long as the contested accuracy of your data is being examined; if you decline the deletion of your data due to impermissible data processing and instead request the limitation of said processing; if you require your data to assert, exercise or defend legal claims; after we no longer need these data to achieve our purposes; or if you have submitted an objection for special reasons, as long as it is not determined that our justified reasons take priority;
  • Right to instruction as per Art. 19 GDPR: if you have asserted to the responsible party the right to the correction, deletion or limitation of processing, the responsible party is obligated to notify all recipients of your personal data of this correction or deletion of the data or limitation of processing, unless this proves to be impossible or entails disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed of these recipients;
  • Right to transferability of data as per Art. 20 GDPR: you have the right to receive the personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format, or to request the forwarding thereof to other responsible parties if such is technically feasible;
  • Right to revocation of granted consent as per Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR: you have the right revoke one-time consent to the processing of data at any time, with effect for the future. In the event of revocation we will immediately delete the respective data, provided further processing is not based on the legal authority to process without consent. The revocation of consent will not affect the legality of the processing rendered up to the point of the revocation of consent;
  • Right to file a complaint as per Art. 77 GDPR: if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates GDPR, you – regardless of any other administrative or legal remedy – have the right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of your place of residence, place of work, or site of the alleged violation.

 

8.2RIGHT OF OBJECTION

IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR OUTWEIGHING JUSTIFIED INTEREST FOR PURPOSES OF A CONSIDERATION OF INTERESTS, YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE FOR REASONS PERTAINING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION.

IF YOU UTILISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL END THE PROCESSING OF THE RESPECTIVE DATA. HOWEVER, FURTHER PROCESSING IS POSSIBLE IF WE ARE ABLE TO VERIFY COMPULSORY REASONS WORTHY OF PROTECTION FOR THE PROCESSING, NAMELY IF THESE REASONS OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND BASIC RIGHTS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES PURPOSES OF ASSERTING, EXERCISING OR DEFENDING LEGAL CLAIMS.

IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA TO MANAGE DIRECT ADVERTISING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR PURPOSES OF SUCH ADVERTISING AT ANY TIME. YOU MAY EXERCISE THIS OBJECTION IN THE MANNER DESCRIBED ABOVE. IF YOU UTILISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL END THE PROCESSING OF THE RESPECTIVE DATA FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING PURPOSES.

9) Duration of the storage of personal data
The duration of the storage of personal data is based on the respective legal retention period (e.g. commercial or tax law retention periods). After this period has expired, the respective data will be routinely deleted provided they are no longer required to fulfil or initiate a contract and/or we have no further justified interest in continued storage.

10) Newsletter
With your consent you may subscribe to our newsletter, with which we inform you on various matters concerning the Arbeitsgemeinschaft 13. August e.V. and the Mauermuseum. We use the double opt-in process for subscribing to our newsletter. This means that after you sign up, we send an e-mail to the e-mail address provided, in which we ask you, to rule out abuse, to once again confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter. If you do not confirm your registration within 48 hours, your information will be blocked and automatically deleted after one month. Furthermore, we save your IP addresses and time of registration and confirmation. The purpose of this process is to verify your registration and be able to resolve any potential misuse of your personal data. The only mandatory information for sending the newsletter is your e-mail address and your name. After you have confirmed, we save your e-mail address and your name for purposes of sending the newsletter. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR.

You may revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe. You may declare your revocation by clicking on the link provided in every newsletter e-mail, by sending a message using the contact information provided in the Legal Notice, or by sending an e-mail to info(at)mauermuseum.de

Please note that when we send out the newsletter we evaluate your user behaviour. For this evaluation the e-mails contain so-called web beacons or tracking pixels, which are single-pixel image files that are stored on our website. For the evaluations we link the data and the web beacons with your e-mail address and an individual ID. Links included in the newsletter also contain this ID. With the data acquired in this manner we create a user profile in order to customise the newsletter to suit your personal interests. In doing so we record when you read our newsletter, which links you click on, and then deduce your personal interests from this. We link these data with actions that you have performed on our website.

You may object to this tracking at any time by clicking on the separate link included in every e-mail, or by sending us an e-mail at info(at)mauermuseum.de.

The information will be stored for as long as you have subscribed to the newsletter. After unsubscribing we save the data anonymously for purely statistical purposes. Such tracking is not possible if you have deactivated the general displaying of images in your e-mail programme. In this event the newsletter will not be entirely displayed to you and you may not be able to use all functions. If you allow for the manual displaying of images, the aforementioned tracking occurs.

11) Provision of data to non-EEA countries
We do not transfer personal data to non-EEA countries. The servers that we use are located within the European Union. In the events in which personal data are transferred to countries that do not offer the same level of protection as the European Union and you have not explicitly consented to the transfer of your data to these countries, we ensure that certain contractual obligations as per data protection law (including the execution of the standard contract clauses permitted by the European Commission) are agreed upon with every service provider, as long as we are not able to refer to other legal bases for the transmission of personal data.

Berlin, 14. December 2018