Privacy policy
We appreciate your interest in our website. The protection of your privacy is very important to us and we adhere strictly to the rules of the privacy laws, in particular the Federal Data Protection Act and the Tele Media Act. The data collected on this website are for Freundeskreis B.L.O.-Ateliers e.V. in its capability as the person responsible for processing.
This data can also be passed on to the authorities.
Personal data is collected on this website only to the extent that is technically necessary. Under no circumstances will the collected data be sold or passed on to third parties for other economic reasons. It is important to us that you can always rely on the observance of the data protection by blo-freunde.de and know which personal data we collect during your visit to our Internet pages and how we process, use and transmit them. The following instructions are therefore intended to give you information. We would also like to inform you about the security measures we take to protect your personal data from tampering, loss, destruction and misuse.
Below you will find detailed information about how to use your data.
§1 Collection, processing, use and deletion of your personal data
Personal data is information about the factual or personal circumstances of a certain or identifiable natural person. This includes, for example, your name, your postal address and your e-mail address.You can visit our website without giving any information about yourself. We store access data without personal reference, such as the name of your Internet service provider. This anonymous data is only evaluated for the improvement of the website and does not allow any conclusions on your person. When storing the visitor data, we also forward the IP addresses of the visitors to our partners for evaluation purposes as described below under para. “Third parties services” in the cases mentioned therein.
We are committed to never merge any IP addresses that have been collected with other databases, e.g. to create a personal reference.
We collect, store or process your data only for our services and technical administration as well as in the case of the newsletter dispatch or the personalized mailings (cf. para. “E-mail communication” below) – as far as you have given us your consent separately – for own marketing purposes.
Your personal data will only be passed on to third parties or otherwise transmitted if this is for the purpose of contract processing or service delivery or you have agreed before. The data passed on in this way may only be used by our service providers to fulfill their task. Any other use of the information is not permitted and does not take place in any of the service providers we entrust.
We will only store the data for the duration of the statutory retention obligations. Thereafter, the data will be irrevocably deleted, unless you explicitly Further use of your data.
If you contact us, e.g. by e-mail, we collect, process and use the data you voluntarily communicated, as far as this is necessary to answer your contact request.
§2 Use of cookies
On different pages we use cookies to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions. These are small text files with an identification number that are stored locally on your computer’s hard drive and are kept ready for later retrieval.We differentiate between the following types of cookies:
2.1. Cookies required to use the site
Without the use of these cookies, it would not be possible to use the basic functions of our website. We need these to adapt the functions of our website to your needs.
2.2. Functional cookies
We use this type of cookies to analyze and improve the use of the website.
2.3. Cookies for marketing purposes (analytical cookies and targeting cookies)
These cookies allow us to collect data related to your use of our website in order to optimize your user experience on our website or to be able to show you specific information that is interesting to you. Most of the cookies we use will be deleted from your hard drive after the end of the browser session or when you close most browsers (an exception, for example, is Google Chrome, which does not automatically delete session cookies). These are so-called session cookies, which, for example, analyze how customers use our website for optimization purposes. Other cookies remain on your computer for a few days and in rare cases up to 13 months, allowing us, for example, to recognize your computer or your smartphone on your next visit and if necessary you to personally adress and greet you (so-called permanent cookies).
Other cookies may be set by the services we use by third parties. More detailed information can be found below under para. “Third parties services”.
Here you can adjust the cookie preferences for our website.
You can customize most of the cookie settings in your browser to suit your needs. For example, you can set your browser to reject or display all cookies when they are sent. This setting does not guarantee the proper functioning of our website. You can also manually delete cookies in your browser if you want to. Some of these cookies are also provided by our partners. In this case, you will also find a more detailed description in this privacy statement.
§3 Passing on of personal data
Information about your data is only given in the context of legal information requirements or due to court decisions. On the order of the competent authorities, we may, in individual cases, provide information on such data, insofar as this is necessary for prosecution, security by the police authorities of the countries, to fulfil the legal duties of the constitutional protection authorities of the Federal and state governments, the Federal Intelligence Service or the military shielding service or the Federal Criminal office in the context of its task to avert the dangers of international terrorism or to enforce intellectual property rights Is.Under no circumstances will the collected data be sold or passed on to third parties for other economic reasons.
Your data may be forwarded to service providers who are not located in the European Union, especially if they are charged with the partial processing of the data.
In some cases we use carefully selected external service providers to process your data. If data is passed on to service providers within the framework of so-called order processing, this is done on the basis of article 28 DSGVO. Our processors are carefully selected, are bound by our instructions and are regularly controlled by us. We only entrust those processors who provide sufficient guarantees that appropriate technical and organisational measures will be taken in such a way that processing is carried out in accordance with the requirements of DSGVO and that the protection of their rights Ensures.
§4 Right to information, rectification, deletion, blocking and revocation; Right to be forgotten; Data protection officer and supervisory authority
According to the Federal Data Protection Act and the DSGVO (basic regulation) you have the right to free information and revocation of your stored data and, if applicable, a right to correct, block or delete this data.If you have questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data, for information, rectification, cancellation, blocking or deletion of data as well as for the possible revocation of consent issued at any time, please contact us:
info@blo-freunde.de
According to article 77 DSGVO, you have the right to complain to the supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data is not lawful. The address of the supervisory authority responsible for our company is:
The Berlin commissioner for data protection and freedom of information,
Friedrichstraße 219, 10696 Berlin
§5 Third parties services
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service from Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files which are stored on users’ computers and which allow an analysis of the use of the website by them. The information generated by the cookie about the use of this website by the users is usually transferred to the nearest server of Google and stored there. Accordingly, the data is transmitted to a server in Europe or the USA based on the location of the user.IP anonymization has been activated on this website so that the IP address of the users of Google will be shortened in advance within Member States of the European Union or in other contracting States of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the United States and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate the use of the website by the users, to compile reports on the website activities and for further related to the use of the website and the Internet use To provide services to the website operator.The form described above by your browser in the context of Google Analytics Transmitted IP address is not merged with other data from Google.
You can also prevent Google from capturing the data generated by the cookie and on your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of such data by using the information available at the following link Download and install the browser plugin: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. Furthermore you are able to use this link to for deactivation without having to install the Google Analytics Opt-out plugin.
You can find the Google privacy statement here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can find more information about data protection in Google Analytics here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.
5.2. Google web fonts
This page uses web fonts provided by Google to provide a uniform representation of fonts. When you call a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display text and fonts correctly. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
For more information about Google web fonts, see https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
5.3. Google reCAPTCHA
We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).
reCAPTCHA is used to check whether data entry is done on our websites (e.g. in a contact form) by a person or by an automated program. reCAPTCHA analyzes the behaviour of the website visitor on the basis of various characteristics. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the site visitor enters the site. For analysis reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, time of website visitor on the website or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to Google.
The reCAPTCHA analysis runs completely in the background. Site visitors are not advised that an analysis is taking place.
The data are processed on the basis of article 6 (1) lit. F DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting his web offerings from abusive automated reconnaissance and spam.
For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, please see the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.
5.4. Social plugins
On our website and our blog we use social plugins. When these plugins are enabled, your browser will connect to the servers of the respective social network directly as soon as you call up a website of our internet presence. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from the social network to your browser and integrated into the website. Of course, the plugins can be deactivated again with a click.
The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by social networks, as well as your rights and settings for the protection of your privacy, can be read in the privacy policy of the respective networks or web pages. You can find the links below.
If you do not want social networks to collect data about you through our website, you must log out of these networks before you visit our internet site.
On our website we use the following plugins:
YOUTUBE
We use plugins on the YouTube website, which is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“YouTube”).
You can find the link to the YouTube privacy policy here: Privacy Notice from Youtube.
5.5. Google maps
This website uses Google maps API to visually represent geographic information. When using Google maps, Google will also collect, process and use data about the use of the card functions by visitors. For more information about Google’s data processing, please refer to the Google privacy policy. You can also change your personal data protection settings in the Privacy Center.
§6 E-mail communication
Newsletter and personalized advertising
Our e-mail communication will inform you regularly by e-mail about interesting news of our company, if you have given a corresponding consent. You can disagree with this consent at any time for the future (for more information, see “logout”).
Service provider
The sending of e-mails and newsletters for existing customer communication is carried out by means of MailChimp, a newsletter send plattform of the US provider Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE #5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.
The e-mail addresses of our newsletter recipients, as well as their other data described in the context of these notices, are stored on the servers of MailChimp in the USA. MailChimp uses this information to send and evaluate the newsletters on our behalf. Furthermore, MailChimp may, according to his own information, use this data to optimize or improve its own services, e.g. for the technical optimization of the dispatch and the presentation of the newsletters or for economic purposes, in order to determine from which countries the receiver.
MailChimp does not use the data of our newsletter recipients, however, to write it ourselves or to pass it on to third parties. We rely on the reliability and it as well as the data security of MailChimp.
MailChimp is certified under the US EU-privacy-agreement “privacy shield” and is committed to adhere to the EU data protection regulations. You can view the privacy policy of MailChimp here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.
Registration
You have the possibility to subscribe to our e-mail communication by leaving your e-mail address on our homepage and agreeing to the receipt of the newsletter with the confirmation of the checkbox as described in the Declaration of consent. After having given the consent you have to confirm your registration via the link contained in our confirmation email.
Unsubscribe
You may revoke your consent to use your email address for our email communication at any time. Here you can use the following options:
1) You click the unsubscribe link, which is at the end of each of our promotional emails.
2) You are revoked by an informal email to info@blo-freunde.de.
§7 Event registration
We will occasionally send participants information about our upcoming events; participants can choose to unsubscribe from these emails at any time. If networking is one of the goals of the event for which the participant has registered, the participant’s name, institution, and email will be published in a list of participants and distributed to other participants and speakers at the same event. Participants can choose to opt out from sharing their information; however, for organisational reasons we ask that such requests be submitted in writing to info@blo-freunde.de well in advance of the start of the event.
§8 Storage and accessibility of the contract text
§9 Security of my data
We take technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data managed by us against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. Our data processing and security measures are continuously improved according to the technological development. Our employees are, of course, committed to data secrecy. To ensure that your personal data is not transmitted unencrypted, we encrypt your orders using Secure Socket Layer (SSL).