Privacy policy

Introduction

This Privacy Policy will inform you of the type, scope, purpose and use of personal data on the website www.trenn-hinweis.de (hereinafter: “website”) by the Trennhinweis e.V. specified in the imprint (hereinafter: “we” or “us”). We are the controller for all personal data collected on the website, unless stated otherwise by this Privacy Policy.

Personal data means information that may be used to identify a person, i.e., information relating to a person. This normally includes one’s name, email address or telephone number. In addition, purely technical data that may be used to identify a person must be considered personal data.

For the controllers’ contact details, please see our imprint imprint.

Your Rights

You have the right to obtain information free of charge about the personal data we saved about you. In addition, you have the right to rectification of inaccurate data, the right to restriction of processing of data processed too extensively and the right to erasure of personal data processed unlawfully or stored for too long (unless prevented by legal storage obligations or other reasons under Article 17(3) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Furthermore, you have the right to receive in a structured and commonly used form any data you provided to us (right to data portability) insofar as you provided this data to us with a statement of consent or for the performance of a contract.

If you are entitled to the right to object to certain processing, we will inform you of this in the description of the respective process.

To exercise your rights, simply send an email to: kontakt(at)trenn-hinweis.de.

Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. A list of German and European data protection officers is provided at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html (German).

Voluntary Disclosure of Data

Disclosure of personal data on this website is not required by law or contractually. You are not obligated to disclose personal data on this website. However, certain services of this website require your personal data to be processed.

Data Recipients

Unless specified by this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose personal data.

This website is supported and hosted by external service providers. These service providers also process the personal data specified by this Privacy Policy. This data is only processed according to our instructions and on our behalf in accordance with Article 28 of the General Data Protection Regulation.

We transfer personal data to the above-stated service providers on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation. This permission authorizes the processing of personal data in our “legitimate interest,” unless overridden by your fundamental rights, fundamental freedoms or interest in not processing this data. Our legitimate interest consists of the use of specialized service providers who can provide such services more efficiently than us. You may object to this data processing at any time on grounds related to your particular situation that speak against transmitting your personal data to a service provider. Simply send an email to: kontakt(at)trenn-hinweis.de.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by your browser when accessing our website. This allows certain website services to “recognize” you and “remember” your settings. This serves website user-friendliness and, thereby, users (e.g., by saving login data). Cookies are also used to collect statistical data on website usage which is then used for analytical and statistical purposes.

Some cookies will be automatically erased from your device when you leave our website (so-called session cookies). Other cookies will be saved for a certain period of up to 2 years (persistent cookies). In addition, we also use so-called third-party cookies managed by third parties to offer certain services.

You may influence use of cookies. Most browsers have an option to limit or disable the placing of cookies. However, please note that usage and, especially, comfort of use may be limited without cookies.

Process Overview

Personal data related to this website and its campaigns is processed through the following processes:

1. Contacting us

2. Server logfiles

3. Steps prior to entering into and performance of a contract

1. Contacting us

When contacting us (e.g., via email or contact form), the information you provide will be saved to process your inquiry and for any follow-up questions.

Legal Basis

Data on the contact form will be processed on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation. This permission authorizes the processing of personal data in the “legitimate interest” of the controller, unless overridden by your fundamental rights, fundamental freedoms or interests. Our legitimate interest consists of processing your message to us. You may object to the processing of this data at any time on grounds related to your particular situation that speak against processing this data. Simply send an email to: kontakt(at)trenn-hinweis.de.

Data Storage Period

Data Storage Period Personal data stored when contacting us will be erased when the matter for which we were contacted has been fully resolved and there is no reason to believe that the specific message will be necessary again in the future.

2. Server Logfiles

When our website is accessed, we automatically collect technical data that represents personal data, i.e.:

• The user’s IP address

• Name of the accessed website or file

• Time and date of access

• Volume of data transferred

• Successful access report

• Browser type and version

• The user’s operating system

• The user’s device, including MAC address

• Referrer URL (last visited page)

This data will not be merged with other personal data you provide when actively using our website. We collect server logfiles to administer our website and identify and prevent unauthorized access.

Legal Basis

We process personal data in logfiles on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation. This permission authorizes the processing of personal data in the controller’s “legitimate interest,” unless overridden by your fundamental rights, fundamental freedoms or interests. Our legitimate interest consists of simplifying administration and identifying and tracing hacks. You may object to this data processing at any time on grounds related to your particular situation that speak against processing this data. Simply send an email to: kontakt(at)trenn-hinweis.de.

What Are IP Addresses?

IP addresses are assigned to any device (e.g., smartphone, tablet, PC) connected to the Internet. Which IP address this is depends on your device’s Internet connection. This may be an IP address assigned to you by your Internet service provider, e.g., when you connect to the Internet at home via WLAN. Or this may be an IP address assigned by your mobile service provider or the IP address of a public or private WLAN or another Internet access provider. In its currently most common form (IPv4), an IP address consists of four octets. As a private user, you will not normally use an unchanging IP address because your provider will assign you an IP address temporarily (so-called “dynamic IP address”). A permanently assigned IP address (so-called “static IP address”) makes identification through user data easier. However, except to trace unauthorized access of our Internet offer, we do not use such data for personal identification, but merely to assess which of our pages are favored, how often they are accessed daily, etc., on an anonymized basis.

Our website supports new IPv6 addresses. If you already have an IPv6 address, please note: An IPv6 address consists of eight octets. Like for an entire IPv4 address, the first four octets are normally assigned to private users dynamically. However, the last four octets of an IPv6 address (so-called “interface identifiers”) are determined by the device you use to browse our website. Unless configured differently by your operating system, the so-called MAC address will be used for this. The MAC address is a kind of serial number assigned once to every IP-ready device. We therefore do not save the last four octets of your IPv6 address. We generally recommend activating the so-called “privacy extensions” on your device to better anonymize the last four octets of your IPv6 address. Most common operating systems have a “privacy extensions” function which, however, may not always be preconfigured.

Data Storage Period

The server logfiles containing the above-stated data will be automatically erased after 30 days. However, we reserve the right to store these server logfiles for a longer period in case of indications of unauthorized access (e.g., attempted hacks or so-called DDOS attacks).

3. Steps Prior to Entering Into and Performance of a Contract

If you conclude a contract of use with us through this website, the data you entered will be processed by us for steps prior to entering into and performance of the agreement.

If you are personally party to the agreement, the legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation. If you are merely the contact person for a party to the agreement (e.g., the contact person for a company represented by you), the legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (balancing of interests based on our legitimate interest in using the contact details of another contracting party’s contact person for contract-related communication with the other contracting party).

The data collected for this purpose will be processed for the term of the agreement and, if necessary, thereafter in accordance with legal storage periods.