Privacy Policy
Thank you for your interest in the our website. The protection of your personal data during capturing, processing and usage due to your visit on the website is very important to us.
1. Personal Data
Personal data are information that can be used to learn about your identity. This includes your name, address, postal adress and telephone number. Information that cannot be related to your identity (such as number of users of a website) are not part of that. You can in general use our online offer without revealing your identity. When requesting information, ordering vouchers etc, or other, we ask for your name and other personal information. It is up to your free decision to enter this data. We safe your entries on specially protected servers in Germany. The access is only allowed to a few, authorized people. They are responsible for the technical, administrative or editorial support of the contents and servers. To the extent the user data resp. traffic data are relevant for our services they will be safed maximum up to 6 months after capturing. If the data is necessary to meet current legal, contractual or statutory retention periods (e. g. invoices), the data will be safed beyond 6 months. However, this data is locked and only available to very few, authorized people having special passwords.
Please be aware that there are inherent security risks in transmitting data, such as e-mails, via the Internet, because it is impossible to safeguard completely against unauthorized access by third parties. Nevertheless, we shall safeguard your data, subject to this limitation. In particular, personal information will be transmitted via the Internet only if it does not infringe upon third-party rights, unless the respective party has given its prior consent in view of such security risks. Accordingly, as the Web site provider, we shall not be held liable for any damages incurred as a consequence of such security risks or for any related acts of omission on our part.
We oppose the use of any available contact information by a third party for sending unsolicited advertisements. As the Web site provider, we reserve the express right to take legal action against unsolicited mailing or e-mailing of spam and other similar advertising materials.
2. Forwarding of Personal Data to Third Parties
We only use your personal information for answering your requests. We will not forward your data without your explicit agreement to third parties. As far as we are legally obliged we will transmit your data to authorized people.
3. Cookies
Internet-Cookies are small data packages that your browser safes on the hard drive of your computer. We use cookies on our website. Such cookies are necessary so that you can freely move on the website and use its features; this also includes the access to secured areas of the website. By using cookies, we can track who visited the site(s) and deduct from this how frequently certain sites are visited and which parts of the site are especially interesting. Session-Cookies safe information about your activities on our website. For technical reasons, cookies are also necessary for the shop function. Most of the browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can also deactivate the saving of cookies or set your browser in a way that it notifies you as soon as cookies are sent.
Children and persons younger than 18 years should not transmit personal data to us without the explicit agreement of the parents or legal guardian.
5. Links to Other Websites
Our online offer includes links to other website. We have no influence on whether the owners of these websites stick to the data privacy regulations.
6. Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service. It is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. 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. Google Analytics cookies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its advertising.
7. Newsletter Data
If you would like to receive the offered newsletter on our website, we need an email address from you as well as information, which allows us checking that you are the owner of the entered email address and that you agree to receiving the newsletter. Further data are not captured or only on free will. We use this data only for sending the requested information and do not transmit them to third parties. The processing of the data entered in the newsletter registration form is based on your agreement (Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a DSGVO). The given agreement for saving the data, the email address and the telephone number as well as its usage for sending out the newsletter can be canncelled by you at any time, e. g. by using the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The legitimacy fo the already done data processing is not affected by the cancellation. The data entered by you for receiving the newsletter will be safed until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will be deleted afterwards. Data that has been safed for different purposes with us (e. g. for invoiced, email adresses for the member area) are not affected by this.
For verification of a newsletter sending by mutual consent we use the so called Double-Opt-in procedure. In this procedure the potential recipient agrees to be put on a distribution list. In consequence the user gets a confirmation email, which allows him to confirm the registration ensuring legal compliance. Only upon confirmation will the address be actively put on the distribution list.
As Newsletter Software we use Newsletter2Go. Your data will thus be transmitted to the Newsletter2Go GmbH. Newsletter2Go is enjoined from selling your data and using it for different purposes than the distribution of newsletters. Newsletter2Go is a german certified provider, which has been selected based on the requirements of the data security regulation and the German data protection law.
You find further information here: https://www.newsletter2go.de/informationen-newsletter-empfaenger/
The measures of data protection are bound to constant technical renewals. We therefore ask you to inform yourself regularly about our data protection measures by reading through our data privacy statement.
8. Social Media, Plug-Ins & Tools
In our internet presence we use Plugins of the online network portal »Facebook«. Owner of this network is Facebook Inc.; 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. These plugins include a button named “Like” and a white »f« on blue background around the logo of Facebook Inc. You can also detect such plugins through the hint »Social Plugin of Facebook«, that can be found on the website. If you go to our website, a direct connection to the servers of Facebook Inc. will be established through your browser, while the specific content of the Facebook Plugins will be provided on their serves and finally directly included in our website through your browser. If you are a Facebook member and logged in during the visit on our websiteder this visit can already be connected to your Facebook user account. In case you use the »Like« Button this information will also directly be transmitted to Facebook and safed there. You can avoid the connection of the visit on our website and your Facebook account by logging out of Facebook first. Even though you are not a Facebook member, your IP address might be transmitted to and safed at Facebook Inc. when visiting our website. Further information regarding the scope and purpose of the capture and usage of personal data through Facebook as well as hints on settings for Facebook accounts for the privacy protection can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
8.2 LinkedIn Plugin
Our website uses functions of the network LInkedIn. Operator is the LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Each time you visit one of our sites that includes functions of LinkedIn, a connection to the servers of LinkedIn is established. LinkedIn will be informed that you have visited our website with your IP address. If you click the “recommend button” of LinkedIn and you are logged in at your LinkedIn account, it is possible for LinkedIn to assign your visit on our website to you and your user account. We point out that we – offering the sites – don’t have knowledge of the content of the transmitted data and their use through LinkedIn. You find further information about that in the data privacy statement of LinkedIn under: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
8.3 XING Plugin
Our website uses functions of the network XING. Operator is the XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. Each visit on one of our sites that includes functions of XING will establish a connection to the XING servers. According to our knowledge personal data is not saved in this process. Especially IP addresses and user behavior is not analyzed. Further information about the privacy policy and the XING share button is available in the data privacy statement of XING under: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection.
9 Plugins & Tools
9.1 Google Web Fonts
This site uses for uniform presentation of fonts so called Web Fonts that are provided by Google. Upon visiting on of the sites your browser will load the necessary Web Fonts in your browser cache in order to show texts and fonts in a correct way. Therefore the browser you use has to establish a connection to the servers of Google. Thus Google gets to know that your IP address was used to visit our website. The purpose of using Google Web Fonts is a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This is a legitimate interest according to Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO. If your browser does not support Web Fonts a standard font of your computer is used. Further information about Google Web Fonts is available under https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the data privacy statement of Google: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
9.2 Google reCAPTCHA
We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (in the following “reCAPTCHA”) on our website. Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). reCAPTCHA is supposed to check, whether the data entrance on our website (e. g. in a contact form) is done by a human being or an automated program. Therefore reCAPTCHA analyzes the usage of the website visitor according to certain criteria. The analysis starts automatically as soon as the visitor enters the website. For the analysis reCAPTCHA analyzes different information (e. g. IP address, duration of the visit, or mouse movements done by the user). The analyzed data is forwarded to Google. The reCAPTCHA-analysis run in completely in the background. Website users are not informed that an analysis takes place. The data processing is based on Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website owner has a justified interest to protect their web offers from abusive, automated leakage and SPAM. Further information about Google reCAPTCHA as well as the data protection statement of Google can be found here: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.
9.3 YouTube
Our website uses Plugins of the Google hosted website YouTube. Operater of the sites it YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of your sites with a YouTube-Plugin, a connection to the servers of YouTube will be establishes. In this case the YouTube server is informed about which site you visited. If you are logged in with your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to connect your surfing behavior direcly with your personal profile. You can avoid this by logging out of your YouTube account. The usage of YouTube is based on the interest in an appropriate representation of our online offer. This is a justified interest in the sense of Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO. Further information about the usage of user data can be found in the privat data statement of YouTube: Google Policy.
(Source: Strömer Lawyers)
10. Contact Responsible for data protection
Next Culture Organizations GbR
Patrizia Patz & Nicola Nagel, Keckweg 17, 82288 Kottgeisering, Germany, post@nextculture-organizations.org
Privacy Policy
Thank you for your interest in the our website. The protection of your personal data during capturing, processing and usage due to your visit on the website is very important to us.
1. Personal Data
Personal data are information that can be used to learn about your identity. This includes your name, address, postal adress and telephone number. Information that cannot be related to your identity (such as number of users of a website) are not part of that. You can in general use our online offer without revealing your identity. When requesting information, ordering vouchers etc, or other, we ask for your name and other personal information. It is up to your free decision to enter this data. We safe your entries on specially protected servers in Germany. The access is only allowed to a few, authorized people. They are responsible for the technical, administrative or editorial support of the contents and servers. To the extent the user data resp. traffic data are relevant for our services they will be safed maximum up to 6 months after capturing. If the data is necessary to meet current legal, contractual or statutory retention periods (e. g. invoices), the data will be safed beyond 6 months. However, this data is locked and only available to very few, authorized people having special passwords.
Please be aware that there are inherent security risks in transmitting data, such as e-mails, via the Internet, because it is impossible to safeguard completely against unauthorized access by third parties. Nevertheless, we shall safeguard your data, subject to this limitation. In particular, personal information will be transmitted via the Internet only if it does not infringe upon third-party rights, unless the respective party has given its prior consent in view of such security risks. Accordingly, as the Web site provider, we shall not be held liable for any damages incurred as a consequence of such security risks or for any related acts of omission on our part.
We oppose the use of any available contact information by a third party for sending unsolicited advertisements. As the Web site provider, we reserve the express right to take legal action against unsolicited mailing or e-mailing of spam and other similar advertising materials.
2. Forwarding of Personal Data to Third Parties
We only use your personal information for answering your requests. We will not forward your data without your explicit agreement to third parties. As far as we are legally obliged we will transmit your data to authorized people.
3. Cookies
Internet-Cookies are small data packages that your browser safes on the hard drive of your computer. We use cookies on our website. Such cookies are necessary so that you can freely move on the website and use its features; this also includes the access to secured areas of the website. By using cookies, we can track who visited the site(s) and deduct from this how frequently certain sites are visited and which parts of the site are especially interesting. Session-Cookies safe information about your activities on our website. For technical reasons, cookies are also necessary for the shop function. Most of the browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can also deactivate the saving of cookies or set your browser in a way that it notifies you as soon as cookies are sent.
Children and persons younger than 18 years should not transmit personal data to us without the explicit agreement of the parents or legal guardian.
5. Links to Other Websites
Our online offer includes links to other website. We have no influence on whether the owners of these websites stick to the data privacy regulations.
6. Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service. It is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. 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. Google Analytics cookies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its advertising.
7. Newsletter Data
If you would like to receive the offered newsletter on our website, we need an email address from you as well as information, which allows us checking that you are the owner of the entered email address and that you agree to receiving the newsletter. Further data are not captured or only on free will. We use this data only for sending the requested information and do not transmit them to third parties. The processing of the data entered in the newsletter registration form is based on your agreement (Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a DSGVO). The given agreement for saving the data, the email address and the telephone number as well as its usage for sending out the newsletter can be canncelled by you at any time, e. g. by using the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The legitimacy fo the already done data processing is not affected by the cancellation. The data entered by you for receiving the newsletter will be safed until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will be deleted afterwards. Data that has been safed for different purposes with us (e. g. for invoiced, email adresses for the member area) are not affected by this.
For verification of a newsletter sending by mutual consent we use the so called Double-Opt-in procedure. In this procedure the potential recipient agrees to be put on a distribution list. In consequence the user gets a confirmation email, which allows him to confirm the registration ensuring legal compliance. Only upon confirmation will the address be actively put on the distribution list.
As Newsletter Software we use Newsletter2Go. Your data will thus be transmitted to the Newsletter2Go GmbH. Newsletter2Go is enjoined from selling your data and using it for different purposes than the distribution of newsletters. Newsletter2Go is a german certified provider, which has been selected based on the requirements of the data security regulation and the German data protection law.
You find further information here: https://www.newsletter2go.de/informationen-newsletter-empfaenger/
The measures of data protection are bound to constant technical renewals. We therefore ask you to inform yourself regularly about our data protection measures by reading through our data privacy statement.
8. Social Media, Plug-Ins & Tools
In our internet presence we use Plugins of the online network portal »Facebook«. Owner of this network is Facebook Inc.; 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. These plugins include a button named “Like” and a white »f« on blue background around the logo of Facebook Inc. You can also detect such plugins through the hint »Social Plugin of Facebook«, that can be found on the website. If you go to our website, a direct connection to the servers of Facebook Inc. will be established through your browser, while the specific content of the Facebook Plugins will be provided on their serves and finally directly included in our website through your browser. If you are a Facebook member and logged in during the visit on our websiteder this visit can already be connected to your Facebook user account. In case you use the »Like« Button this information will also directly be transmitted to Facebook and safed there. You can avoid the connection of the visit on our website and your Facebook account by logging out of Facebook first. Even though you are not a Facebook member, your IP address might be transmitted to and safed at Facebook Inc. when visiting our website. Further information regarding the scope and purpose of the capture and usage of personal data through Facebook as well as hints on settings for Facebook accounts for the privacy protection can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
8.2 LinkedIn Plugin
Our website uses functions of the network LInkedIn. Operator is the LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Each time you visit one of our sites that includes functions of LinkedIn, a connection to the servers of LinkedIn is established. LinkedIn will be informed that you have visited our website with your IP address. If you click the “recommend button” of LinkedIn and you are logged in at your LinkedIn account, it is possible for LinkedIn to assign your visit on our website to you and your user account. We point out that we – offering the sites – don’t have knowledge of the content of the transmitted data and their use through LinkedIn. You find further information about that in the data privacy statement of LinkedIn under: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
8.3 XING Plugin
Our website uses functions of the network XING. Operator is the XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. Each visit on one of our sites that includes functions of XING will establish a connection to the XING servers. According to our knowledge personal data is not saved in this process. Especially IP addresses and user behavior is not analyzed. Further information about the privacy policy and the XING share button is available in the data privacy statement of XING under: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection.
9 Plugins & Tools
9.1 Google Web Fonts
This site uses for uniform presentation of fonts so called Web Fonts that are provided by Google. Upon visiting on of the sites your browser will load the necessary Web Fonts in your browser cache in order to show texts and fonts in a correct way. Therefore the browser you use has to establish a connection to the servers of Google. Thus Google gets to know that your IP address was used to visit our website. The purpose of using Google Web Fonts is a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This is a legitimate interest according to Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO. If your browser does not support Web Fonts a standard font of your computer is used. Further information about Google Web Fonts is available under https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the data privacy statement of Google: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
9.2 Google reCAPTCHA
We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (in the following “reCAPTCHA”) on our website. Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). reCAPTCHA is supposed to check, whether the data entrance on our website (e. g. in a contact form) is done by a human being or an automated program. Therefore reCAPTCHA analyzes the usage of the website visitor according to certain criteria. The analysis starts automatically as soon as the visitor enters the website. For the analysis reCAPTCHA analyzes different information (e. g. IP address, duration of the visit, or mouse movements done by the user). The analyzed data is forwarded to Google. The reCAPTCHA-analysis run in completely in the background. Website users are not informed that an analysis takes place. The data processing is based on Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website owner has a justified interest to protect their web offers from abusive, automated leakage and SPAM. Further information about Google reCAPTCHA as well as the data protection statement of Google can be found here: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.
9.3 YouTube
Our website uses Plugins of the Google hosted website YouTube. Operater of the sites it YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of your sites with a YouTube-Plugin, a connection to the servers of YouTube will be establishes. In this case the YouTube server is informed about which site you visited. If you are logged in with your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to connect your surfing behavior direcly with your personal profile. You can avoid this by logging out of your YouTube account. The usage of YouTube is based on the interest in an appropriate representation of our online offer. This is a justified interest in the sense of Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO. Further information about the usage of user data can be found in the privat data statement of YouTube: Google Policy.
(Source: Strömer Lawyers)
10. Contact Responsible for data protection
Next Culture Organizations GbR
Patrizia Patz & Nicola Nagel, Keckweg 17, 82288 Kottgeisering, Germany, post@nextculture-organizations.org
