Privacy policy for the use of the ifa website untietotie.org
The ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) attaches great importance to the protection of your data and your privacy. The ifa collects, uses and stores your personal data exclusively in accordance with the provisions of the applicable data protection laws. To ensure that you are fully informed about the collection, processing and use of personal data on our websites, please read the following information.
1. Contact information of controller (party responsible for processing personal data)
Your data is processed in the name and on behalf of the Instituts für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) Charlottenplatz 17 70173 Stuttgart Controller and Secretary General: Gitte Zschoch
You can contact our data protection officer at the address above or via e-mail at datenschutzbeauftragter(at)ifa.de
2. Data collection for internal system and statistical purposes
Your browser automatically transmits data to our web server for technical reasons when you access the ifa website. This data includes the date and time you accessed our site, the URL of the referring website, any retrieved files, the volume of data sent, the browser type and version, the operating system and your IP address. This data is stored separately from any other data you enter while using our website. It does not make or contain reference to your identity as a person. This data is logged in order to ensure system integrity, analyzed nonymously for statistical purposes and then deleted.
3. Personal data collection and processing
Personal data is also collected and processed any time you decide to provide it to us on our websites. You may provide your data to us via any of the following:
- When registering for our newsletter
- When contacting us via our contact forms
- When registering for our press mailing list
- When registering for events
Which personal data you provide to us will depend on which contact form you fill out.
The personal data you enter is collected and stored for the following internal purposes:
- To the dispatch of our newsletter
- To process your request submitted in the contact form
- For telephone enquiries (if necessary)
- To the dispatch of our press releases
- For the realisation of our events (incl. reservations)
3.1 Information regarding newsletter distribution
When registering for our newsletter, you must provide us with your e-mail address. We will only use this information to send you the newsletter. The newsletters mainly contain information about events and projects at ifa-Galerie Berlin.
We will store your email address for as long as you are signed up to our newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time by sending a message to ifa-galerie-berlin@ifa.de. By unsubscribing, you object to the use of your email address. Your e-mail address will then be deleted immediately. The registration for our newsletter is logged by our site.
Your subscription and declaration of consent are subject to a double-opt-in. This means that after completing the online form to subscribe to the newsletter, you will receive a confirmation link by e-mail, which you can confirm by clicking on it. Please note that only confirmed registrations will receive our newsletter. Unconfirmed registrations will be deleted from the system after 2 weeks.
3.2 Legal basis for the processing of your data
The lawfulness (legal basis) for the processing of your data is based on your consent (pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)) or for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual measures (pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR). We store your data as long as your consent remains valid or until the purpose of such data storage has been fulfilled. This data is then deleted unless subject to other legal obligations requiring continued storage of such data.
4. Data transmission
Any data you provide when using our forms is always transferred in encrypted form. We only pass on your personal data to third parties for the purpose of processing the transaction. It is particularly necessary that we pass on your contact data to service providers so that they can send you our newsletter. Other than this, we only pass on your personal data to third parties after first obtaining your consent unless we are under legal obligation to do so or in order to protect the rights, property and security of ifa. In cases where external service providers come into contact with personal data, we enforce mandatory legal, technical and organizational measures to guarantee compliance with data protection regulations.
5. Cookies and services
We use cookies on our website to help make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies also allow us to offer you additional functions. Cookies also enable us to gauge how often our website is accessed as well as general navigation practices. Cookies are small text files that are stored in your computer. Please note that some of these cookies are transferred from our server to your computer system, typically as “session cookies”. Session cookies are automatically deleted from your hard disk at the end of the browser session. Other cookies stay on your computer and allow us to recognize your computer the next time you visit our website (“persistent cookies”). When visiting our website, you can set your cookie preferences and allow the cookies/services to be stored and run on your system. You can change your saved settings at any time by clicking the button on the bottom left of our web pages.
6. Use of Facebook plug-ins
We have integrated so-called plug-ins of the social network facebook.com (hereinafter “Facebook”) into our website. Facebook is run by Meta Platforms, Inc.. Each time you visit a page on our website that is equipped with such a plug-in, the plug-in causes the browser you are using to load and display the visual representation of the plug-in from the Facebook server. This tells the Facebook server which specific page of our website presence you are currently visiting. If you are a member of Facebook and are logged in to Facebook while visiting our website, Facebook recognises which specific page of our website you are currently visiting through the information sent by the plug-in and assigns this to your personal user account on Facebook. If you now click on one of the plug-ins, for example by clicking the “Like” button or by posting a comment, this will be sent to your personal user account on Facebook and stored there. In addition, the information that you have visited on our website is transmitted to Facebook, regardless of whether you click on one of the plug-ins or not. To prevent the transmission and storage of data about you and your surfing behaviour by Facebook, you must log out of Facebook before you visit our website. You can find more information on the collection and use of data by Facebook, your rights in this regard and the setting options for protecting your privacy in Facebook’s data protection information.
7. Data processing by YouTube
Our website contains embedded YouTube videos. We only enable access to YouTube. YouTube is a service offered by Google Inc. Please refer to YouTube’s data privacy policy http://www.youtube.com/t/privacy for information on the purpose and scope of data collection and use by Google as well as your rights and settings options for your data protection as a YouTube customer. We have also structured the way we embed YouTube videos so that data is not transferred to YouTube until you click on “load video”. You can also decide whether YouTube videos should not be loaded until you confirm or can instead be loaded without the need for confirmation.
8. Links to other websites
Our website contains links to other websites. We have no influence over whether the operators of other websites comply with data protection regulations. As a provider, we are responsible for our own content according to general law. Our content is not to be mistaken with linked content of other providers. We assume no responsibility for third-party content, which is provided via links for use, and do not adopt their content as our own. Liability for illegal, inaccurate or incomplete content and, in particular, for damages resulting from the use or non-use of such information is the sole responsibility of the provider of the site to which links are provided.
9. Your rights to your personal data
According to the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to obtain information about your stored personal data free of charge and, if necessary, the right to correct, restrict or delete such data at any time. To the extent we are required to comply with legal storage obligations, we shall block your data from further processing so that your data can no longer be used for the purposes mentioned above. You also have the right to request that we send you in electronic form any of your personal data stored by us. You may withdraw your consent to the storage or processing of your data at any time. Should you choose to exercise this right, we will immediately delete your stored data and block processing of any data that cannot be deleted due to legal requirements. Please send us your request using the contact details below. If you feel that ifa is not processing your data in compliance with current data protection laws, you have the right to appeal to a data protection supervisory authority of your choice.
10. Data security
Your personal data is transmitted online in encrypted form. We use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption technology. Please note that online data transmission (including emails) may exhibit security gaps. It is not possible to guarantee that your data can never be accessed by third parties. We use technical and organizational security measures to secure our website and other systems, keeping your data safe from loss, destruction, access, modification or processing by unauthorized parties. We continually update these security measures in line with the latest technology.
11. Further information and contact
Please contact us should you have any further questions about data privacy. If your questions concern collection, processing or use of your personal data, if you would like more information or to request that we correct, restrict or delete your data or if you would like to revoke your consent, please contact our data protection officer or use the contact information below: ifa Gallery Berlin Linienstraße 139/140 10115 Berlin Phone: 030 284491-40 Email: ifa-galerie-berlin@ifa.de Data protection officer datenschutzbeauftragter(at)ifa.de Note: This is a translation of the legally accurate and binding German original. In case of discrepancy, the German original shall prevail.