Data protection

1. General

1.1 What is personal data?

Personal data is information that reveals or may reveal the user’s identity. We adhere to the principle of data avoidance. The collection of personal data is avoided as far as possible.

1.2 Handling of personal data

Personal data is used exclusively for the justification, content design, implementation or processing of the contractual relationship (Art. 6 I S. 1 b GDPR). In addition, personal data will only be processed if we have received your consent to do so (Art. 6 I S. 1 a GDPR). They will generally not be disclosed to third parties. Your personal data will be processed exclusively within the EU, unless otherwise stated below.

1.3 Usage data

When visiting the website, general technical information is collected. This includes the IP address used, time, duration of the visit, browser type and, if applicable, the referring page. This usage data is registered in a log file for technical reasons and can be used and stored for the purpose of statistical evaluation of this website. This usage data is not linked to your other personal data.

1.4 Duration of storage

We store your personal data after the termination of the purpose for which the data was collected only as long as this is necessary due to the legal (in particular tax law) regulations.

2. Your rights

2.1 Information

You can request information from us as to whether we process personal data from you and, if this is the case, you have a right to information about this personal data and to the further information mentioned in Art. 15 GDPR.

2.2 Right to rectification

You have the right to rectify inaccurate personal data concerning you and can request the completion of incomplete personal data in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR.

2.3 Right to erasure

You have the right to demand that we delete personal data concerning you immediately. We are obliged to delete these immediately, especially if one of the following reasons applies:

Your personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.
You revoke your consent on which the processing of your data was based, and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
Your data has been processed unlawfully.

The right to erasure does not exist if your personal data is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defense of our legal claims.

2.4 Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to demand that we restrict the processing of your personal data if

you dispute the accuracy of the data and we are therefore verifying the accuracy,
the processing is unlawful and you refuse the deletion and instead demand the restriction of use
we no longer need the data, but you need it for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims,
you have objected to the processing of your data, and it is not yet clear whether our legitimate reasons outweigh your reasons.

2.5 Right to data portability

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format and you have the right to transfer this data to another controller without hindrance from us, provided that the processing is based on consent or a contract and the processing is carried out by us using automated procedures.

2.6 Right of revocation

If the processing of your personal data is based on consent, you have the right to revoke this consent at any time.

2.7 General and right of appeal

The exercise of your above rights is generally free of charge for you. You have the right to contact the supervisory authority responsible for us, the State Data Protection Officer, directly with complaints.

3. Data security

3.1 Data security

All data on our website is secured by technical and organizational measures against loss, destruction, access, modification and distribution.

3.2 Sessions and cookies

To operate the website, we may use cookies or server-side sessions in which data can be stored. Cookies are files that are stored on your hard drive by a website in order to automatically recognize this computer the next time you visit the website and thus be able to adapt the use of the website to you. Some of the cookies used are deleted after the end of the browser session. These are so-called session cookies. Other cookies remain on your device and enable the recognition of the browser on a later visit to our website (permanent cookies). You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually whether to accept them or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. Please note that you may not be able to use some functions of this website if cookies are deactivated. We ensure that no personal data is transferred from sessions or through cookies and that cookies are only used if this is technically necessary for the website. Thus, the weighing shows that there are no overriding interests on your part (Art. 6 I S. 1 f GDPR).

4. Services of third-party providers

4.1 Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”) and collects and stores data via this web analytics service, from which usage profiles are created using pseudonyms. The usage profiles created in this way serve to evaluate visitor behavior in order to design and improve the offer presented on this website in line with requirements. Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, small text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website usage and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. The usage profiles kept under a pseudonym will also not be merged with the personal data about the user without the user’s express and separately declared consent. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de). You can view Google’s privacy policy at http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/. Further information on terms of use and data protection can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or at http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html. We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code “anonymizeIp” in order to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). Opt-out cookies prevent the future collection of your data when visiting this website. To prevent collection by Universal Analytics across different devices, you must perform the opt-out on all systems used.

4.2 Social media links

We have our own social media pages with the third-party providers that can be reached via links from this website. By using the links, you will be taken to the respective websites of the third-party providers (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google+). As soon as you have accessed the page of the third-party provider, you are in the area of responsibility of the respective third-party provider, so that their data protection declaration or their declarations on data use also apply. We have no influence on this, but we recommend that you log out of the respective third-party provider yourself before using a corresponding link in order to avoid unnecessary data transfer, so that usage profiles may not be created by the third-party provider simply by using the link.

4.3 Google Web Fonts

We also use so-called web fonts from Google to display a uniform font on our website. These are automatically stored in your browser cache when you visit one of our pages in order to enable the desired display. If your browser does not support the web fonts used, a standard font of your computer may be used. Here, no interests of the users are affected, which outweigh this technical necessity (Art. 6 I S. 1 f GDPR). You can view Google’s privacy policy here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ You can find more information about Google Web Fonts at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq

5. Contact

To contact us regarding data protection, you are welcome to contact us using the contact options below. Controller within the meaning of the GDPR:

Bonne Nouvelle – social & political communication

Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 65 53113 Bonn info@datenschutzberater.nrw