Data Protection
Thank you for your interest in our website. The protection of your personal data is important to us. We comply with the legal regulations on data protection and data security.
In particular, we are subject to the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), the Federal Data Protection Act in the version applicable since May 25, 2018 (BDSG) and the Digital Services Act (DDG) as well as the Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG).
Accordingly, we are entitled in particular to collect and use personal data insofar as this is necessary to enable you to use our website at www.friedensmediation-deutschland.de, including all services and functions contained therein.
Below you will find information about what personal data we collect when you use our website and the services and functions it contains, and how we use this data and for what purposes.
I. Name and address of the responsible party
The responsible party within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation and other national data protection laws of the member states as well as other data protection regulations is the:
Zentrum für Internationale Friedenseinsätze (ZIF) gGmbH
Ludwigkirchplatz 3-4
10719 Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 52 00 56 5 0
Fax: +49 30 52 00 56 590
Email: zif@zif-berlin.org
Website: www.zif-berlin.org
II. Name and address of the data protection officer
The data protection officer of the responsible party is:
Johannes Schwiegk
Datenzeit GmbH
Friedrich-Engels-Allee 200
D-42285 Wuppertal
Tel.: +49-202-94794940
E-Mail: datenschutz@datenzeit.de
Website: https://www.datenzeit.de/
III. General information on data processing
1. Scope of the processing of personal data
We only process our users’ personal data insofar as this is necessary to provide a functional website and our content and services. The processing of our users’ personal data only takes place regularly with the user’s consent. An exception applies in cases where prior consent cannot be obtained for factual reasons and the processing of the data is permitted by law.
2. Legal basis for the processing of personal data
Insofar as we obtain the consent of the data subject for the processing of personal data, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a EU General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) serves as the legal basis.
When processing personal data that is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO serves as the legal basis. This also applies to processing operations that are necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures.
Insofar as the processing of personal data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation to which our company is subject, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c DSGVO serves as the legal basis.
In the event that vital interests of the data subject or another natural person require the processing of personal data, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. d DSGVO serves as the legal basis.
If the processing is necessary to safeguard a legitimate interest of our company or a third party and if the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject do not outweigh the first-mentioned interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO serves as the legal basis for the processing.
3. Data erasure and storage duration
The personal data of the data subject will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage no longer applies. Data may also be stored if this has been provided for by the European or national legislator in EU regulations, laws or other provisions to which the controller is subject. The data will also be blocked or erased if a storage period prescribed by the aforementioned standards expires, unless there is a need for further storage of the data for the conclusion or fulfillment of a contract.
IV. Provision of the website and creation of log files
1. Description and scope of data processing
Each time our website is accessed, our system automatically collects data and information from the computer system of the accessing computer.
The following data is collected:
– IP address
– Date and time of the request
– Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
– Content of the request (specific page)
– Access status/HTTP status code
– Amount of data transferred in each case
– Website from which the request originates
– Browser
– Operating system and its interface
– Language and version of the browser software
We cannot assign this data to specific persons. We do not merge this data with other data sources.
The legal basis for the temporary storage of the data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
2. Purpose of data processing
Temporary storage of the IP address by the system is necessary to enable delivery of the website to the user’s computer. For this purpose, the user’s IP address must remain stored for the duration of the session. The data is also stored to ensure the functionality of the website. In addition, we use the data to optimize the website and to ensure the security of our information technology systems. The data is not analyzed for marketing purposes in this context.
These purposes also constitute our legitimate interest in data processing in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
3. Duration of storage
The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. In the case of the collection of data for the provision of the website, this is the case when the respective session has ended. In addition, the data is deleted after seven days at the latest. Storage beyond this is possible. In this case, the IP addresses of the users are deleted or anonymized so that it is no longer possible to identify the accessing client.
4. Possibility of objection and removal
The collection of data for the provision of the website and the storage of data in log files is absolutely necessary for the operation of the website. Consequently, the user has no option to object.
V. Use of cookies
1. Description and scope of data processing
In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use this website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard disk and assigned to the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to us. Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer. They are used to make the website more user-friendly and effective overall. This website currently only uses technically necessary cookies, which is why we do not use a consent management tool or cookie banner.
2. Legal basis for data processing
The legal basis for the processing of personal data using cookies is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a, c and f DSGVO.
3. Purpose of data processing
The purpose of using technically necessary cookies is to simplify the use of websites for users. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. In addition, we must use cookies in order to comply with our legal obligations and accountability obligations under the DSGVO. For these, it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after a page change. The user data collected by technically necessary cookies is not used to create user profiles. Analysis cookies are used for the purpose of improving the quality of our website and its content. They are only set with the user’s consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO). Through the analysis cookies, we learn how the website is used and can thus constantly optimize our offer. These purposes also constitute our legitimate interest in the processing of personal data in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO.
4. Duration of storage, objection and removal options
Cookies are stored on the user’s computer and transmitted by it to our website. As a user, you therefore have full control over the use of cookies. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically.
VI. E-mail contact
1. Description and scope of data processing
Our website offers the option of contacting us via the e-mail addresses provided. In this case, the user’s personal data transmitted with the e-mail will be stored, which will not be passed on to third parties in this context and will be used exclusively for processing the conversation.
2. Legal basis for data processing
The legal basis for the processing of the data is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO.
If the e-mail contact is aimed at the conclusion of a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO.
3. Purpose of data processing
The processing of personal data serves us solely to process the contact and this also constitutes the necessary legitimate interest in the processing of the data.
4. Duration of storage
The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. For personal data sent by email, this is the case when the respective conversation with the user has ended. The conversation is ended when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified.
5. Possibility of objection and removal
The user has the option to revoke their consent to the processing of personal data at any time. If the user contacts us by email, they can object to the storage of their personal data at any time. In such a case, the conversation cannot be continued.
All personal data stored in the course of contacting us will be deleted in this case.
VII. Rights of the person concerned
If your personal data is processed, you are a data subject within the meaning of the DSGVO and you have the following rights toward the responsible party:
1. Right to information
You can request confirmation from the responsible party as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed by us.
If such processing is taking place, you can request the following information from the responsible party:
(1) the purposes for which the personal data are processed
(2) the categories of personal data that are processed
(3) the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data concerning you have been or will be disclosed
(4) the envisaged period for which the personal data concerning you will be stored, or, if specific information on this is not possible, the criteria used to determine that period
(5) the existence of a right to rectification or erasure of personal data concerning you, a right to restriction of processing by the responsible party or a right to object to such processing
(6) the existence of a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
(7) all available information about the origin of the data if the personal data are not collected from the data subject
(8) the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Art. 22 (1) and (4) DSGVO and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.
You have the right to request information as to whether the personal data concerning you is transferred to a third country or to an international organization. In this context, you may request to be informed of the appropriate safeguards pursuant to Art. 46 DSGVO in connection with the transfer.
2. Right to rectification
You have a right to rectification and/or completion towards the responsible party if the processed personal data concerning you is incorrect or incomplete. The responsible party must make the correction without delay.
3. Right to restriction of processing
You may request the restriction of the processing of your personal data under the following conditions:
(1) if you contest the accuracy of the personal data concerning you for a period enabling the responsible party to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
(2) the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of the personal data and request the restriction of their use instead
(3) the responsible party no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but you need it for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, or
(4) if you have objected to processing pursuant to Art. 21 (1) DSGVO and it is not yet certain whether the legitimate reasons of the responsible party outweigh your reasons.
If the processing of personal data concerning you has been restricted, this data – apart from its storage – may only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or of a Member State.
If the restriction of processing has been restricted in accordance with the above conditions, you will be informed by the controller before the restriction is lifted.
4. Right to deletion
a) Obligation to erase
You have the right to obtain from the responsible party the erasure of personal data concerning you without undue delay and the responsible party is obliged to erase such data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies:
(1) The personal data concerning you are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
(2) You revoke your consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a or Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a DSGVO and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
(3) You object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 (1) DSGVO and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or you object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 (2) DSGVO.
(4) The personal data concerning you has been processed unlawfully.
(5) The deletion of personal data concerning you is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the Member States to which the controller is subject.
(6) The personal data concerning you have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Art. 8 (1) DSGVO.
b) Information to third parties
If the responsible party has made the personal data concerning you public and is obliged to delete it pursuant to Art. 17 para. 1 DSGVO, it shall take appropriate measures, including technical measures, taking into account the available technology and the implementation costs, to inform data controllers who process the personal data that you, as the data subject, have requested them to delete all links to this personal data or copies or replications of this personal data.
a) Exceptions
The right to deletion does not exist if the processing is necessary
(1) for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;
(2) for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing by Union or Member State law to which the responsible party is subject or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the responsible party
(3) for reasons of public interest in the area of public health pursuant to Art. 9 para. 2 lit. h and i and Art. 9 para. 3 DSGVO;
(4) for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes in accordance with Art. 89 para. 1 DSGVO, insofar as the right referred to in section a) is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing, or
(5) for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
5. Right to information
If you have asserted the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing against the responsible party, the latter is obliged to notify all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you have been disclosed of this rectification or erasure of the data or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort.
You have the right towards the responsible party to be informed about these recipients.
6. Right to data portability
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to the responsible party, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transmit this data to another responsible party without hindrance from the responsible party to whom the personal data was provided, provided that
(1) the processing is based on consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO or Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a DSGVO or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO and
(2) the processing is carried out by automated means.
In exercising this right, you also have the right to have the personal data concerning you transmitted directly from one responsible party to another, insofar as this is technically feasible. The freedoms and rights of other persons must not be affected by this.
The right to data portability does not apply to the processing of personal data necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the responsible party.
7. Right of objection
You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you which is based on point (e) or (f) of Article 6(1) DSGVO, including profiling based on those provisions.
The responsible party shall no longer process the personal data concerning you unless it can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
If the personal data concerning you are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such advertising; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with such direct marketing.
If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data concerning you will no longer be processed for these purposes.
You have the option, in connection with the use of information society services – notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC – to exercise your right to object by means of automated procedures that use technical specifications.
8. Right to revoke the declaration of consent under data protection law
You have the right to withdraw your declaration of consent under data protection law at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
9. Automated decision-making in individual cases including profiling
You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. This does not apply if the decision
(1) is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between you and the responsible party
(2) is authorized by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests; or
(3) with your express consent.
However, these decisions may not be based on special categories of personal data pursuant to Art. 9 (1) DSGVO, unless Art. 9 (2) lit. a or g DSGVO applies and appropriate measures have been taken to protect the rights and freedoms as well as your legitimate interests.
With regard to the cases referred to in (1) and (3), the data responsible shall implement suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the responsible, to express your point of view and to contest the decision.
10. Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the DSGVO.
The supervisory authority with which the complaint has been lodged shall inform the complainant on the progress and the outcome of the complaint including the possibility of a judicial remedy pursuant to Art. 78 DSGVO.
VIII. Changes to this privacy policy
The further development of the Internet and our website may also affect the handling of personal data. We therefore reserve the right to amend this privacy policy in the future within the framework of the applicable data protection laws and, if necessary, to adapt it to changes in data processing. The current version of the privacy policy is always available under the heading “Privacy policy”.