Privacy notice

The association has not currently appointed a data protection officer (Datenschutzbeauftragter). Please send questions about data protection by e-mail to inverbindungkoeln@gmail.com or by post to the association’s address.

This website is hosted by netcup GmbH, Emmy-Noether-Straße 10, 76131 Karlsruhe; the server is located in Germany. netcup processes the data that arise when the website is accessed on our behalf, as a processor (Auftragsverarbeiter) under a data processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR.

Each time a page is requested, the web server records the following information in a log file (Server-Logfile):

• date and time of the request;

• the requested address (URL);

• the status code of the response;

• the size of the response;

• the browser type (user agent).

To deliver the pages, the server necessarily processes your IP address. It is not written to the log, neither in full nor shortened.

The purpose of the log is the fault-free operation of the website and troubleshooting. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest lies in this purpose. The log files are deleted automatically after 7 days.

Right to object under Art. 21 GDPR

Where we process personal data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, you have the right to object to this processing at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation. We will then no longer process the data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. You can send your objection informally by e-mail to inverbindungkoeln@gmail.com or by post to the association’s address.

Messages to the association are sent by e-mail to inverbindungkoeln@gmail.com. The website itself does not accept any messages.

We process your e-mail address, the content of your message and any information you choose to provide in order to handle and answer your enquiry. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest lies in answering enquiries addressed to the association. Where your enquiry concerns a contract or steps prior to entering into one, the legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

For the time being, the mailbox is kept as an account with the free e-mail service Gmail. The provider of the service in the EU is Google Ireland Limited. Google processes the e-mails under its own terms of service and its privacy policy. There is no data processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR for this mailbox. We delete e-mails once they are no longer needed for handling your enquiry, unless statutory retention obligations apply.

Ordinary e-mail is not end-to-end encrypted. Please do not send us by e-mail any details that could put you at risk.

This website does not set cookies and does not store any information on your device; nor does it read any information from your device (§ 25 of the Telecommunications and Digital Services Data Protection Act, TDDDG). It does not load content from other servers, including fonts or scripts, and it uses no analytics or tracking services.

Recipients of personal data are:

• netcup GmbH as a processor for operating the website;

• Google (Google Ireland Limited) as the provider of the e-mail mailbox (Gmail).

Beyond this, we only pass on personal data where we are required to do so by law.

Google may also transfer personal data to recipients outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA). Such a transfer takes place on the basis of an adequacy decision of the European Commission or of standard contractual clauses (Art. 45 and Art. 46 GDPR). Details are given in Google’s privacy notice.

Under the GDPR, you have the right to:

• access to the data we hold about you (Art. 15 GDPR);

• rectification of inaccurate data (Art. 16 GDPR);

• erasure (Art. 17 GDPR);

• restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR);

• data portability (Art. 20 GDPR);

• object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR, see above).

To exercise these rights, please contact us by e-mail at inverbindungkoeln@gmail.com or by post at the association’s address.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. The authority responsible for the association is the data protection supervisory authority of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen):

Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen Kavalleriestr. 2-4 40213 Düsseldorf www.ldi.nrw.de

You may also contact the supervisory authority at your place of habitual residence.

You are under no statutory or contractual obligation to provide us with personal data. Without your e-mail address, however, we cannot reply to you by e-mail.

We do not use automated decision-making, including profiling, within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR.