(Updated 5/2018)
With the following data protection declaration, you as a user of this offer from DVPT e.V. (hereinafter referred to as the “Provider”) will be informed about the collection and use of personal data when visiting and using our websites.
The legal provisions of data protection, such as the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Telemedia Act (TMG), are obided by us, and we take the protection of your data very seriously.
This data protection declaration does not apply to websites which can be reached via hyperlinks on this website.
General data collection and data processing
During each visit and use of the provider’s Internet pages, the IP address and provider of the inquiring computer, the website called up and the data called up, the date and time of the call, the amount of data transmitted, notification of successful call, identification data of the browser and operating system used by the inquiring computer as well as the previously visited website (website from which the access to the provider’s Internet offer is made) are recorded by the provider or by the web space provider as access data.
The collection and processing of the access data mentioned is only carried out for the purpose of system administration, system security, optimisation of the offer and statistical evaluations. The provider expressly reserves the right to subsequently evaluate the access data in the event of unlawful use and an unlawful attack on the provider’s Internet pages, insofar as there is sufficient suspicion based on concrete indications.
Personal data
Concept of personal data
According to § 3 Para. 1 BDSG, personal data are individual details about personal or factual circumstances of a specific or determinable natural person. This data includes, for example, name, address, e-mail address or telephone number. Usage data also count as personal data.
Collection of personal data
Personal data will only be collected by the provider to the extent permitted by law or with your consent. If you contact the provider by e-mail or using the contact form, your consent will be given. In this case, your data will be stored for the purpose of processing your request. Your data will be deleted once the processing has been completed, unless there is a legal obligation to retain it.
Newsletter
You can subscribe to our newsletter on our website. We need your e-mail address for this purpose. In addition, we must check, in accordance with the relevant legal regulations, whether you are the actual owner of the e-mail address provided and would like to receive the newsletter. We therefore collect information that makes such a check possible. The data collected in this context is used to send and receive the newsletter. It has no other purpose and will not be passed on to third parties. Apart from the information required for sending the newsletter, no other data will be collected from our side. As the sending and receiving of newsletters depends on your consent, you can revoke this consent to the collection and storage of your data at any time without giving reasons. Use the “unsubscribe link” provided in the newsletter for this purpose.
Blog and Comments
The provider stores your IP address if you leave contributions in the offered blog or in other offered way in the context of the Internet offer of the provider. You can provide further information voluntarily. The storage takes place only for the purpose of being able to assign running contributions contrary to the existing legal regulations afterwards and serves thereby only the security of the offerer.
If you subscribe to blog posts and subsequent comments, the provider will send you an e-mail confirming that you are the owner of the e-mail address entered and that you wish to subscribe to blog posts and subsequent comments. You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data at any time. Subscribed blog posts and subsequent comments can be unsubscribed by you at any time. You will be informed about the necessary steps in the confirmation e-mail.
Third-party providers – contents and services –
The provider reserves the right to integrate services and content from third parties, such as Google Maps, YouTube videos, graphics from third parties, RSS feeds, etc., onto the website. For the successful representation of these contents an inquiry of your IP address is necessary by the third offerer. The provider makes every effort to include only those offers from third parties on the website which use the IP address requested only for the successful presentation of the respective offer. However, the use of your IP address for statistical purposes beyond this cannot be excluded by the provider. In the event of positive knowledge of this, the provider will point this out separately.
Social Media Plugins
The provider uses so-called social media plug-ins of social networks on the Internet pages, which are often provided and operated outside Germany and the EU, namely in the USA and other countries.
Use of Facebook Plugins
The provider uses plugins of the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA on its Internet pages. You can recognize Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo (white “f” on a blue background) or by the “Like button” (thumb up). You can view a list of Facebook plugins here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
If you call up a website of the provider which contains such a plugin, your Internet browser establishes a direct connection with the Facebook servers; the plugin content is transmitted directly to your Internet browser and is integrated into the displayed website by it.
The provider therefore has no control over data collection and its use, which are collected by Facebook due to this connection. Due to the direct connection with the Facebook servers, Facebook receives information that you have visited the provider’s website with your IP address. While you are logged into your Facebook account, Facebook has the option of assigning the retrieval of the Internet service to your Facebook account. When you press the “Like Button” or other interactions with Facebook plugins, Facebook stores the information contained therein and assigns it to your user account as long as you are logged into your Facebook account.
If you do not wish Facebook to collect, store and assign this additional data (beyond the IP address and page of the provider) to your user account, you have the option of logging out of your Facebook account before accessing the provider’s website. Facebook’s data protection declaration, which contains further information on the collection and use of data, setting options and your rights, can be found at: http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.
Use of Twitter
The provider uses functions of the Twitter service on its website, operated by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. (hereinafter referred to as “Twitter”). You can recognize these functions by a sign with a bird in blue.
If you call up a website of the provider which contains these functions, your Internet browser establishes a direct connection with the servers of Twitter, the transmission of the Twitter functions takes place directly to your Internet browser and is integrated into the displayed website by this.
The provider therefore has no control over data collection and its use, which are collected by Twitter due to this connection.
Due to the direct connection with the Twitter servers, Twitter may receive information that you have visited the provider’s website with your IP address. While you are logged into your Twitter account, Twitter has the option of storing personal data and assigning it to your user account. It is not possible for the provider to provide precise information on the collection and use of data.
Twitter’s data protection information, which provides further information on the collection and use of data, setting options and your rights, can be found at: http://twitter.com/privacy.
Cookies
The provider uses cookies on its website to enhance the user-friendliness of the website and to collect statistical data for the ongoing improvement of this website. If you do not wish cookies to be used when visiting the provider’s website, you have the option of making the appropriate settings in your Internet browser. To do this, you will be asked to select in the settings of your Internet browser whether you wish to allow cookies to be stored only to a limited extent or not at all. However, the provider would like to point out that without cookies there may be functional restrictions on this website.
Web Analysis
According to § 15 Abs. 3 TMG, the provider is permitted to create user profiles for the use of pseudonyms for purposes of advertising, market research or for the demand-oriented design of telemedia, provided the user does not object to this. For this purpose, the provider uses the data protection-friendly software Matomo (www.matomo.org) in order to be able to statistically evaluate the access to the provided Internet offer. The Matomo software uses small text files which are stored on the computers accessing the provider’s website (cookies) and thus enable the analysis of the specific use of the provider’s website. The data collected in this way will only be stored anonymously, a personal identification is not associated with it. This also applies to your IP address, which is not used to analyse your usage behaviour, but only to create an anonymous pseudonym. In order to ensure this, anonymisation takes place immediately after the collection and before the IP address is stored. A combination with personal data of the bearer of the pseudonym does not take place. If you do not wish cookies to be used when visiting the provider’s website, you have the option of making the appropriate settings in your Internet browser. To do this, you will be asked to select in the settings of your Internet browser whether you wish to allow cookies to be stored only to a limited extent or not at all. However, the provider would like to point out that without cookies there may be functional restrictions on this website. You can object to the collection and storage of data as described above at any time with effect for the future.
Information and Correction Rights
You have the right to receive information about the personal data stored about you by the provider free of charge and on request to the following e-mail address: kontakt@dvpt.de. You also have the right to correction, blocking and deletion of your personal data, provided that this request does not conflict with any legal storage obligations.