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Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union e.V. (NABU)

This privacy policy describes the processing of personal data when using the LIFE Peat Restore website (https://life-peat-restore.eu/). It also explains the choices you have about your personal information (“your rights”) and how you can contact us.

 

I. Who is responsible and how can I contact the Data Protection Representative?

The person responsible within the meaning of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is the

NABU (Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Germany) e.V.
Charitéstraße 3
10117 Berlin

Germany

Tel. +49 (0) 30-28 49 84-0
Fax +49 (0) 30-28 49 84-20 00
NABU@NABU.de

Register court: Amtsgericht Stuttgart | Register number: VR 2303
VAT identification-No.: DE 155765809

President: Jörg-Andreas Krüger, Managing Director: Susanne Baumann, Leif Miller

If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data by us or about data protection in general, please contact our data protection representative at the following e-mail address: Datenschutz@NABU.de.

The easiest way to exercise your rights of objection is to contact Widerspruch@NABU.de. If you would like to have a secure transmission, please contact us by post. For all other data protection concerns, especially confidential ones, you can contact our external data protection officer, Dr. Stefan Drewes, directly via the e-mail address DSB@NABU.de.

 

II. Your rights as person concerned

Each affected person has the following rights:

• Right of access by the data subject (Art. 15 GDPR),
• Right of rectification (Art. 16 GDPR),
• Right of erasure, or better, a „right to be forgotten“  (Art. 17 GDPR),
• Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR),
• Right for data portability (Art. 20 GDPR).

 

You can object to the processing of personal data for advertising purposes including an analysis of customer data for advertising purposes at any time without stating reasons.

In addition, the person concerned also has a general right to object (cf. Art. 21 (1) GDPR). In this case, the objection against data processing must be substantiated. If the data processing is based on consent, your consent can be revoked at any time with effect for the future.
The easiest way to exercise the rights of a person concerned is to contact Leticia.Jurema@NABU.de or Widerspruch@NABU.de. In addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority responsible for you.

 

III. Processing of personal data by NABU

Below we would like to give you an overview of how we ensure the protection of your personal data when accessing our website and which types of personal data we process for which purposes and to what extent.

 

1. Processing of data when accessing our website – Log files

When you access our website, general information is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider and the like. In addition, the IP address is transmitted and used to offer the service you have requested. This information is technically necessary for the correct delivery of content requested by you from websites and is mandatory when using the internet.
This log file data is anonymised by us immediately after the end of the usage process or stored for a period 190 days in order to recognise and analyse any attacks against our website, after which it is deleted. Legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

 

2. Processing of data when using the website – your enquiries

If you send us an inquiry by e-mail to the contact details provided, we process your data for the processing and response to your request. We store this information for verification purposes over a period of up to two years, if necessary, under certain circumstances longer. Legal basis for data processing Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

 

3. Possible recipients of your data

Your data will not be sold to third parties.

Possible recipients are our project partners named on the website, for instance in order to answer your inquires.

Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who, in our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR, act as contract processors for the operation, maintenance and, if applicable, the expansion of our website. Here an access to your data can be possible; therefore all service providers are contractually obligated to the adherence to the data security. Should this access exceptionally take place beyond the European Economic Area, appropriate data protection guarantees will be provided.

 

IV. Integration of external services

 

1. Integration of OpenStreetMap

On our website we use a map section of Umap (https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/de; Openstreetmap Foundation, 132 Maney Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands) to present to you the various locations and project areas with associated information.

Umap is an open source mapping tool that works on the basis of the French OpenStreetMap offer (https://openstreetmap.fr). Your IP address is forwarded to OpenStreetMap so that the map can be displayed. You can see how OpenStreetMap stores your data on the OpenStreetMap privacy page here https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy.

 

2. Integration of YouTube

Our website uses plug-ins from the YouTube page operated by Google (Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland). The site is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plug-in, a connection is established to YouTube’s servers. This will tell the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.

If you are logged in to your YouTube account, you can allow YouTube to directly associate your surfing behavior with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and thus on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We only record the extent to which YouTube videos integrated into our site are accessed and delete this data when we have no further use.

Further information on the handling of user data can be found in YouTube’s data protection declaration at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy .

 

V. Our cookie policy

 

1. General information on the use of cookies

Our website uses so-called cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your terminal and stored by your browser. They serve to make our offers more user-friendly, more effective and safer. We use so-called temporary cookies, which are automatically deleted when you close your browser (“session cookies”), as well as persistent (permanent) cookies.

You have the choice whether you want to allow the setting of cookies or not. You can make changes in your browser settings. You can choose whether you want to accept all cookies, be informed when cookies are set or reject all cookies. If you choose the latter option, it is possible that you may not be able to make full use of our services, e.g. your learning progress will not necessarily be saved.

When cookies are used, a distinction must be made between the mandatory cookies and those required for further purposes (measurement of access figures, advertising purposes).

 

2. Mandatory required cookies when using the website

We use session cookies on our websites, which are absolutely necessary for the use of our websites. This includes cookies that enable us to recognize you while you are visiting the site during a single session. These session cookies contribute to the safe and user-friendly use of our services by, for example, temporarily storing the learning progress achieved.

 

3. Use of cookies with your consent

Use of cookies to record user behaviour (tracking)

The use of tracking cookies enables us to recognize users when they access our website again and to assign usage processes to an internally assigned code number (pseudonym). This enables us to record repeated visits to our website and analyse them in a coherent manner.

Specifically, the following tracking cookies are used:

Tracking by Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google 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 transmitted to a Google server in the USA where it will be shortened. Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. 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 Google from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

We use Google Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. The statistics obtained allow us to improve our services and make them more interesting for you as a user. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield. The legal basis for the storage of cookies is the consent given (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR). The further evaluation of the collected data by means of Google Analytics takes place over a period of 26 months on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

Further information can also be found at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de or https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en (general information on Google Analytics and data protection).

You can change your privacy settings here.

 

4. Respecting “Do not track”

Of course we respect “Do not track” (DNT). However, we would like to point out that the general deactivation of cookies can cause malfunctions during the use of our Internet presence and, moreover, does not reliably exclude the transmission of data to Google services. We therefore recommend that you use the “Do not track” option (DNT) of your Internet browser.

Depending on the browser, this can be either a switch in the program settings or a module (add-on or plug-in) to be installed later. If this option is activated, your browser signals to our web server that you do not want any tracking measures without your explicit consent. We will then automatically deactivate all tracking functions on the server side.

Depending on the Internet browser used, the procedure by which you can activate the “Do not track” option differs. To do this, follow the links below:

• Mozilla Firefox – Instructions for activating “Do not track” in the program options (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-turn-do-not-track-feature)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer – Instructions for activating “Do not track” in the program options (http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows7/How-to-use-Tracking-Protection-and-ActiveX-Filtering)
• Google Chrome – How to activate “Do not track” in the program options (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/protect-my-choices/hdgloanjhdcenjgiafkpbehddcnonlic?hl=en)
• Apple Safari – How to enable “Do not track” in application options (http://osxdaily.com/2012/08/21/how-to-enable-do-not-track-in-safari-6/)

 

VI. Notes on ensuring data security

We take technical and operational security precautions on our pages in order to protect the personal data stored with us against access by third parties, loss or misuse and to enable secure data transfer. In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption procedures (certified SSL) via HTTPS.

We must point out that due to the structure of the internet, unwanted data access by third parties may occur. It is therefore also your responsibility to protect your data against misuse by encryption or other means. Without appropriate protective measures, unencrypted data in particular can be read by third parties, even if this is done by e-mail.

We must point out that due to the structure of the internet, unwanted data access by third parties may occur. It is therefore also your responsibility to protect your data against misuse by encryption or other means. Without appropriate protective measures, unencrypted data in particular can be read by third parties, even if this is done by e-mail.

 

VII. Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always corresponds to the current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services. Your renewed visit will then be subject to the new data protection declaration.

 

October 2019, translated from the German version of October 2019