Pri­vacy Policy

1. An over­view of data pro­tec­tion

Gen­er­al in­form­a­tion

The fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion will provide you with an easy to nav­ig­ate over­view of what will hap­pen with your per­son­al data when you vis­it this web­site. The term “per­son­al data” com­prises all data that can be used to per­son­ally identi­fy you. For de­tailed in­form­a­tion about the sub­ject mat­ter of data pro­tec­tion, please con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion De­clar­a­tion, which we have in­cluded be­neath this copy.

Data re­cord­ing on this web­site

Who is the re­spons­ible party for the re­cord­ing of data on this web­site (i.e., the “con­trol­ler”)?

The data on this web­site is pro­cessed by the op­er­at­or of the web­site, whose con­tact in­form­a­tion is avail­able un­der sec­tion “In­form­a­tion about the re­spons­ible party (re­ferred to as the “con­trol­ler” in the GDPR)” in this Pri­vacy Policy.

How do we re­cord your data?

We col­lect your data as a res­ult of your shar­ing of your data with us. This may, for in­stance be in­form­a­tion you enter in­to our con­tact form.

Oth­er data shall be re­cor­ded by our IT sys­tems auto­mat­ic­ally or after you con­sent to its re­cord­ing dur­ing your web­site vis­it. This data com­prises primar­ily tech­nic­al in­form­a­tion (e.g., web browser, op­er­at­ing sys­tem, or time the site was ac­cessed). This in­form­a­tion is re­cor­ded auto­mat­ic­ally when you ac­cess this web­site.

What are the pur­poses we use your data for?

A por­tion of the in­form­a­tion is gen­er­ated to guar­an­tee the er­ror free pro­vi­sion of the web­site. Oth­er data may be used to ana­lyze your user pat­terns.

What rights do you have as far as your in­form­a­tion is con­cerned?

You have the right to re­ceive in­form­a­tion about the source, re­cip­i­ents, and pur­poses of your archived per­son­al data at any time without ha­ving to pay a fee for such dis­clos­ures. You also have the right to de­mand that your data are rec­ti­fied or erad­ic­ated. If you have con­sen­ted to data pro­cessing, you have the op­tion to re­voke this con­sent at any time, which shall af­fect all fu­ture data pro­cessing. Moreover, you have the right to de­mand that the pro­cessing of your data be re­stric­ted un­der cer­tain cir­cum­stances. Fur­ther­more, you have the right to log a com­plaint with the com­pet­ent su­per­vising agency.

Please do not hes­it­ate to con­tact us at any time if you have ques­tions about this or any oth­er data pro­tec­tion re­lated is­sues.

Ana­lys­is tools and tools provided by third parties

There is a pos­sib­il­ity that your brows­ing pat­terns will be stat­ist­ic­ally ana­lyzed when your vis­it this web­site. Such ana­lyses are per­formed primar­ily with what we refer to as ana­lys­is pro­grams.

For de­tailed in­form­a­tion about these ana­lys­is pro­grams please con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion De­clar­a­tion be­low.

2. Host­ing

We are host­ing the con­tent of our web­site at the fol­low­ing pro­vider:

Do­main­Fact­ory

The pro­vider is the Do­main­Fact­ory GmbH, c/o We­Work, Neu­turmstraße 5, 80331 München, Ger­many (here­in­after re­ferred to as: Do­main­Fact­ory). Whenev­er you vis­it our web­site, Do­main­Fact­ory re­cords a vari­ety of log­files, in­clud­ing your IP ad­dresses.

For de­tails, please refer to the Pri­vacy Policy of Do­main­Fact­ory: https://www.df.eu/de/datenschutz/.

We use Do­main­Fact­ory on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have a le­git­im­ate in­terest in mak­ing the de­pic­tion of our web­site as de­pend­able as pos­sible. If you have been asked for your re­spect­ive con­sent, pro­cessing shall oc­cur ex­clus­ively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG, if the con­sent com­prises the archiv­ing of cook­ies or ac­cess to in­form­a­tion on the user’s device (e.g., device fin­ger print­ing) as defined in the TDDDG. Such con­sent may be re­voked at any time.

Data pro­cessing

We have con­cluded a data pro­cessing agree­ment (DPA) for the use of the above-men­tioned ser­vice. This is a con­tract man­dated by data pri­vacy laws that guar­an­tees that they pro­cess per­son­al data of our web­site vis­it­ors only based on our in­struc­tions and in com­pli­ance with the GDPR.

3. Gen­er­al in­form­a­tion and man­dat­ory in­form­a­tion

Data pro­tec­tion

The op­er­at­ors of this web­site and its pages take the pro­tec­tion of your per­son­al data very ser­i­ously. Hence, we handle your per­son­al data as con­fid­en­tial in­form­a­tion and in com­pli­ance with the stat­utory data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions and this Data Pro­tec­tion De­clar­a­tion.

Whenev­er you use this web­site, a vari­ety of per­son­al in­form­a­tion will be col­lec­ted. Per­son­al data com­prises data that can be used to per­son­ally identi­fy you. This Data Pro­tec­tion De­clar­a­tion ex­plains which data we col­lect as well as the pur­poses we use this data for. It also ex­plains how, and for which pur­pose the in­form­a­tion is col­lec­ted.

We here­with ad­vise you that the trans­mis­sion of data via the In­ter­net (i.e., through e‑mail com­mu­nic­a­tions) may be prone to se­cur­ity gaps. It is not pos­sible to com­pletely pro­tect data against third-party ac­cess.

In­form­a­tion about the re­spons­ible party (re­ferred to as the “con­trol­ler” in the GDPR)

The data pro­cessing con­trol­ler on this web­site is:

Au­thor : Tar­get­AMD

Rep­res­en­ted by Uni­versité de Genève, Prof. Gab­ri­ele Thu­mann (Coördin­at­or)

Ad­dress :
Hôpitaux Uni­versitaires de Genève
Dé­parte­ment des neur­os­ciences cli­niques, Ser­vice d’ophtalmologie
22, Rue Al­cide-Jentzer
CH-1211 Genève 14
Schwitzer­land

Phone: [Tele­fon­num­mer der ver­ant­wort­lichen Stelle]
E‑mail: [E‑­Mail-Ad­resse der ver­ant­wort­lichen Stelle]

The con­trol­ler is the nat­ur­al per­son or leg­al en­tity that single-handedly or jointly with oth­ers makes de­cisions as to the pur­poses of and re­sources for the pro­cessing of per­son­al data (e.g., names, e‑mail ad­dresses, etc.).

Stor­age dur­a­tion

Un­less a more spe­cif­ic stor­age peri­od has been spe­cified in this pri­vacy policy, your per­son­al data will re­main with us un­til the pur­pose for which it was col­lec­ted no longer ap­plies. If you as­sert a jus­ti­fied re­quest for de­le­tion or re­voke your con­sent to data pro­cessing, your data will be de­leted, un­less we have oth­er leg­ally per­miss­ible reas­ons for stor­ing your per­son­al data (e.g., tax or com­mer­cial law re­ten­tion peri­ods); in the lat­ter case, the de­le­tion will take place after these reas­ons cease to ap­ply.

Gen­er­al in­form­a­tion on the leg­al basis for the data pro­cessing on this web­site

If you have con­sen­ted to data pro­cessing, we pro­cess your per­son­al data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR or Art. 9 (2)(a) GDPR, if spe­cial cat­egor­ies of data are pro­cessed ac­cord­ing to Art. 9 (1) DSGVO. In the case of ex­pli­cit con­sent to the trans­fer of per­son­al data to third coun­tries, the data pro­cessing is also based on Art. 49 (1)(a) GDPR. If you have con­sen­ted to the stor­age of cook­ies or to the ac­cess to in­form­a­tion in your end device (e.g., via device fin­ger­print­ing), the data pro­cessing is ad­di­tion­ally based on § 25 (1) TDDDG. The con­sent can be re­voked at any time. If your data is re­quired for the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract or for the im­ple­ment­a­tion of pre-con­trac­tu­al meas­ures, we pro­cess your data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Fur­ther­more, if your data is re­quired for the ful­fill­ment of a leg­al ob­lig­a­tion, we pro­cess it on the basis of Art. 6(1)© GDPR. Fur­ther­more, the data pro­cessing may be car­ried out on the basis of our le­git­im­ate in­terest ac­cord­ing to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. In­form­a­tion on the rel­ev­ant leg­al basis in each in­di­vidu­al case is provided in the fol­low­ing para­graphs of this pri­vacy policy.

In­form­a­tion on the data trans­fer to third-party coun­tries that are not se­cure un­der data pro­tec­tion law and the trans­fer to US compa­nies that are not DPF-cer­ti­fied

We use, among oth­er tech­no­lo­gies, tools from compa­nies loc­ated in third-party coun­tries that are not safe un­der data pro­tec­tion law, as well as US tools whose pro­viders are not cer­ti­fied un­der the EU-US Data Pri­vacy Frame­work (DPF). If these tools are en­abled, your per­son­al data may be trans­ferred to and pro­cessed in these coun­tries. We would like you to note that no level of data pro­tec­tion com­par­able to that in the EU can be guar­an­teed in third coun­tries that are in­sec­ure in terms of data pro­tec­tion law.

We would like to point out that the US, as a se­cure third-party coun­try, gen­er­ally has a level of data pro­tec­tion com­par­able to that of the EU. Data trans­fer to the US is there­fore per­mit­ted if the re­cip­i­ent is cer­ti­fied un­der the “EU-US Data Pri­vacy Frame­work” (DPF) or has ap­pro­pri­ate ad­di­tion­al as­sur­ances. In­form­a­tion on trans­fers to third-party coun­tries, in­clud­ing the data re­cip­i­ents, can be found in this Pri­vacy Policy.

Re­cip­i­ents of per­son­al data

In the scope of our busi­ness activ­it­ies, we coöper­ate with vari­ous ex­tern­al parties. In some cases, this also re­quires the trans­fer of per­son­al data to these ex­tern­al parties. We only dis­close per­son­al data to ex­tern­al parties if this is re­quired as part of the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract, if we are leg­ally ob­lig­ated to do so (e.g., dis­clos­ure of data to tax au­thor­it­ies), if we have a le­git­im­ate in­terest in the dis­clos­ure pur­su­ant to Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR, or if an­oth­er leg­al basis per­mits the dis­clos­ure of this data. When us­ing pro­cessors, we only dis­close per­son­al data of our cus­tom­ers on the basis of a val­id con­tract on data pro­cessing. In the case of joint pro­cessing, a joint pro­cessing agree­ment is con­cluded.

Re­voc­a­tion of your con­sent to the pro­cessing of data

A wide range of data pro­cessing trans­ac­tions are pos­sible only sub­ject to your ex­press con­sent. You can also re­voke at any time any con­sent you have already giv­en us. This shall be without pre­ju­dice to the law­ful­ness of any data col­lec­tion that oc­curred pri­or to your re­voc­a­tion.

Right to ob­ject to the col­lec­tion of data in spe­cial cases; right to ob­ject to dir­ect ad­vert­ising (Art. 21 GDPR)

IN THE EVENT THAT DATA ARE PROCESSED ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6(1)(E) OR (F) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO AT ANY TIME OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA BASED ON GROUNDS ARISING FROM YOUR UNIQUE SITUATION. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO ANY PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. TO DETERMINE THE LEGAL BASIS, ON WHICH ANY PROCESSING OF DATA IS BASED, PLEASE CONSULT THIS DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION. IF YOU LOG AN OBJECTION, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA, UNLESS WE ARE IN A POSITION TO PRESENT COMPELLING PROTECTION WORTHY GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING OF YOUR DATA, THAT OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR IF THE PURPOSE OF THE PROCESSING IS THE CLAIMING, EXERCISING OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL ENTITLEMENTS (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21(1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS BEING PROCESSED IN ORDER TO ENGAGE IN DIRECT ADVERTISING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSES OF SUCH ADVERTISING AT ANY TIME. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS AFFILIATED WITH SUCH DIRECT ADVERTISING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE USED FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING PURPOSES (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21(2) GDPR).

Right to log a com­plaint with the com­pet­ent su­per­vis­ory agency

In the event of vi­ol­a­tions of the GDPR, data sub­jects are en­titled to log a com­plaint with a su­per­vis­ory agency, in par­tic­u­lar in the mem­ber state where they usu­ally main­tain their dom­i­cile, place of work or at the place where the al­leged vi­ol­a­tion oc­curred. The right to log a com­plaint is in ef­fect re­gard­less of any oth­er ad­min­is­trat­ive or court pro­ceed­ings avail­able as leg­al re­courses.

Right to data port­ab­il­ity

You have the right to have data that we pro­cess auto­mat­ic­ally on the basis of your con­sent or in ful­fill­ment of a con­tract handed over to you or to a third party in a com­mon, ma­chine-read­able format. If you should de­mand the dir­ect trans­fer of the data to an­oth­er con­trol­ler, this will be done only if it is tech­nic­ally feas­ible.

In­form­a­tion about, rec­ti­fic­a­tion and erad­ic­a­tion of data

With­in the scope of the ap­plic­able stat­utory pro­vi­sions, you have the right to de­mand in­form­a­tion about your archived per­son­al data, their source and re­cip­i­ents as well as the pur­pose of the pro­cessing of your data at any time. You may also have a right to have your data rec­ti­fied or erad­ic­ated. If you have ques­tions about this sub­ject mat­ter or any oth­er ques­tions about per­son­al data, please do not hes­it­ate to con­tact us at any time.

Right to de­mand pro­cessing re­stric­tions

You have the right to de­mand the im­pos­i­tion of re­stric­tions as far as the pro­cessing of your per­son­al data is con­cerned. To do so, you may con­tact us at any time. The right to de­mand re­stric­tion of pro­cessing ap­plies in the fol­low­ing cases:

• In the event that you should dis­pute the cor­rect­ness of your data archived by us, we will usu­ally need some time to veri­fy this claim. Dur­ing the time that this in­vest­ig­a­tion is on­go­ing, you have the right to de­mand that we re­strict the pro­cessing of your per­son­al data.
• If the pro­cessing of your per­son­al data was/is con­duc­ted in an un­law­ful man­ner, you have the op­tion to de­mand the re­stric­tion of the pro­cessing of your data in­stead of de­mand­ing the erad­ic­a­tion of this data.
• If we do not need your per­son­al data any longer and you need it to ex­er­cise, de­fend or claim leg­al en­ti­tle­ments, you have the right to de­mand the re­stric­tion of the pro­cessing of your per­son­al data in­stead of its erad­ic­a­tion.
• If you have raised an ob­jec­tion pur­su­ant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, your rights and our rights will have to be weighed against each oth­er. As long as it has not been de­term­ined whose in­terests pre­vail, you have the right to de­mand a re­stric­tion of the pro­cessing of your per­son­al data.

If you have re­stric­ted the pro­cessing of your per­son­al data, these data – with the ex­cep­tion of their archiv­ing – may be pro­cessed only sub­ject to your con­sent or to claim, ex­er­cise or de­fend leg­al en­ti­tle­ments or to pro­tect the rights of oth­er nat­ur­al per­sons or leg­al en­tit­ies or for im­port­ant pub­lic in­terest reas­ons cited by the European Uni­on or a mem­ber state of the EU.

SSL and/or TLS en­cryp­tion

For se­cur­ity reas­ons and to pro­tect the trans­mis­sion of con­fid­en­tial con­tent, such as pur­chase or­ders or in­quir­ies you sub­mit to us as the web­site op­er­at­or, this web­site uses either an SSL or a TLS en­cryp­tion pro­gram. You can re­cog­nize an en­cryp­ted con­nec­tion by check­ing wheth­er the ad­dress line of the browser switches from “http://” to “https://” and also by the ap­pear­ance of the lock icon in the browser line.

If the SSL or TLS en­cryp­tion is ac­tiv­ated, data you trans­mit to us can­not be read by third parties.

4. Re­cord­ing of data on this web­site

Cook­ies

Our web­sites and pages use what the in­dustry refers to as “cook­ies.” Cook­ies are small data pack­ages that do not cause any dam­age to your device. They are either stored tem­por­ar­ily for the dur­a­tion of a ses­sion (ses­sion cook­ies) or they are per­man­ently archived on your device (perma­nent cook­ies). Ses­sion cook­ies are auto­mat­ic­ally de­leted once you ter­min­ate your vis­it. Perma­nent cook­ies re­main archived on your device un­til you act­ively de­lete them, or they are auto­mat­ic­ally erad­ic­ated by your web browser.

Cook­ies can be is­sued by us (first-party cook­ies) or by third-party compa­nies (so-called third-party cook­ies). Third-party cook­ies en­able the in­teg­ra­tion of cer­tain ser­vices of third-party compa­nies in­to web­sites (e.g., cook­ies for hand­ling pay­ment ser­vices).

Cook­ies have a vari­ety of func­tions. Many cook­ies are tech­nic­ally es­sen­tial since cer­tain web­site func­tions would not work in the ab­sence of these cook­ies (e.g., the shop­ping cart func­tion or the dis­play of videos). Oth­er cook­ies may be used to ana­lyze user be­ha­vi­or or for pro­mo­tion­al pur­poses.

Cook­ies, which are re­quired for the per­form­ance of elec­tron­ic com­mu­nic­a­tion trans­ac­tions, for the pro­vi­sion of cer­tain func­tions you want to use (e.g., for the shop­ping cart func­tion) or those that are ne­ces­sary for the op­tim­iz­a­tion (re­quired cook­ies) of the web­site (e.g., cook­ies that provide meas­ur­able in­sights in­to the web audi­ence), shall be stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, un­less a dif­fer­ent leg­al basis is cited. The op­er­at­or of the web­site has a le­git­im­ate in­terest in the stor­age of re­quired cook­ies to en­sure the tech­nic­ally er­ror-free and op­tim­ized pro­vi­sion of the operator’s ser­vices. If your con­sent to the stor­age of the cook­ies and sim­il­ar re­cog­ni­tion tech­no­lo­gies has been re­ques­ted, the pro­cessing oc­curs ex­clus­ively on the basis of the con­sent ob­tained (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG); this con­sent may be re­voked at any time.

You have the op­tion to set up your browser in such a man­ner that you will be no­ti­fied any time cook­ies are placed and to per­mit the ac­cept­ance of cook­ies only in spe­cif­ic cases. You may also ex­clude the ac­cept­ance of cook­ies in cer­tain cases or in gen­er­al or ac­tiv­ate the de­lete-func­tion for the auto­mat­ic erad­ic­a­tion of cook­ies when the browser closes. If cook­ies are de­ac­tiv­ated, the func­tions of this web­site may be lim­ited.

Which cook­ies and ser­vices are used on this web­site can be found in this pri­vacy policy.

Con­sent with Bor­labs Cook­ie

Our web­site uses the Bor­labs con­sent tech­no­logy to ob­tain your con­sent to the stor­age of cer­tain cook­ies in your browser or for the use of cer­tain tech­no­lo­gies and for their data pri­vacy pro­tec­tion com­pli­ant doc­u­ment­a­tion. The pro­vider of this tech­no­logy is Bor­labs GmbH, Rüben­kamp 32, 22305 Ham­burg, Ger­many (here­in­after re­ferred to as Bor­labs).

Whenev­er you vis­it our web­site, a Bor­labs cook­ie will be stored in your browser, which archives any de­clar­a­tions or re­voc­a­tions of con­sent you have entered. These data are not shared with the pro­vider of the Bor­labs tech­no­logy.

The re­cor­ded data shall re­main archived un­til you ask us to erad­ic­ate them, de­lete the Bor­labs cook­ie on your own or the pur­pose of stor­ing the data no longer ex­ists. This shall be without pre­ju­dice to any re­ten­tion ob­lig­a­tions man­dated by law. To re­view the de­tails of Bor­labs’ data pro­cessing policies, please vis­it https://de.borlabs.io/kb/welche-daten-speichert-borlabs-cookie/

We use the Bor­labs cook­ie con­sent tech­no­logy to ob­tain the de­clar­a­tions of con­sent man­dated by law for the use of cook­ies. The leg­al basis for the use of such cook­ies is Art. 6(1)© GDPR.

Con­tact form

If you sub­mit in­quir­ies to us via our con­tact form, the in­form­a­tion provided in the con­tact form as well as any con­tact in­form­a­tion provided therein will be stored by us in or­der to handle your in­quiry and in the event that we have fur­ther ques­tions. We will not share this in­form­a­tion without your con­sent.

The pro­cessing of these data is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, if your re­quest is re­lated to the ex­e­cu­tion of a con­tract or if it is ne­ces­sary to carry out pre-con­trac­tu­al meas­ures. In all oth­er cases the pro­cessing is based on our le­git­im­ate in­terest in the ef­fect­ive pro­cessing of the re­quests ad­dressed to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your agree­ment (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) if this has been re­ques­ted; the con­sent can be re­voked at any time.

The in­form­a­tion you have entered in­to the con­tact form shall re­main with us un­til you ask us to erad­ic­ate the data, re­voke your con­sent to the archiv­ing of data or if the pur­pose for which the in­form­a­tion is be­ing archived no longer ex­ists (e.g., after we have con­cluded our re­sponse to your in­quiry). This shall be without pre­ju­dice to any man­dat­ory leg­al pro­vi­sions, in par­tic­u­lar re­ten­tion peri­ods.

5. News­let­ter

News­let­ter data

If you would like to sub­scribe to the news­let­ter offered on this web­site, we will need from you an e‑mail ad­dress as well as in­form­a­tion that al­low us to veri­fy that you are the own­er of the e‑mail ad­dress provided and con­sent to the re­ceipt of the news­let­ter. No fur­ther data shall be col­lec­ted or shall be col­lec­ted only on a vol­un­tary basis. We shall use such data only for the send­ing of the re­ques­ted in­form­a­tion and shall not share such data with any third parties.

The pro­cessing of the in­form­a­tion entered in­to the news­let­ter sub­scrip­tion form shall oc­cur ex­clus­ively on the basis of your con­sent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You may re­voke the con­sent you have giv­en to the archiv­ing of data, the e‑mail ad­dress, and the use of this in­form­a­tion for the send­ing of the news­let­ter at any time, for in­stance by click­ing on the “Un­sub­scribe” link in the news­let­ter. This shall be without pre­ju­dice to the law­ful­ness of any data pro­cessing trans­ac­tions that have taken place to date.

The data de­pos­ited with us for the pur­pose of sub­scrib­ing to the news­let­ter will be stored by us un­til you un­sub­scribe from the news­let­ter or the news­let­ter ser­vice pro­vider and de­leted from the news­let­ter dis­tri­bu­tion list after you un­sub­scribe from the news­let­ter or after the pur­pose has ceased to ap­ply. We re­serve the right to de­lete or block e‑mail ad­dresses from our news­let­ter dis­tri­bu­tion list at our own dis­cre­tion with­in the scope of our le­git­im­ate in­terest in ac­cord­ance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Data stored for oth­er pur­poses with us re­main un­af­fected.

After you un­sub­scribe from the news­let­ter dis­tri­bu­tion list, your e‑mail ad­dress may be stored by us or the news­let­ter ser­vice pro­vider in a black­list, if such ac­tion is ne­ces­sary to pre­vent fu­ture mail­ings. The data from the black­list is used only for this pur­pose and not merged with oth­er data. This serves both your in­terest and our in­terest in com­ply­ing with the leg­al re­quire­ments when send­ing news­let­ters (le­git­im­ate in­terest with­in the mean­ing of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). The stor­age in the black­list is in­def­in­ite. You may ob­ject to the stor­age if your in­terests out­weigh our le­git­im­ate in­terest.

6. Plug-ins and Tools

Google Fonts (loc­al em­bed­ding)

This web­site uses so-called Google Fonts provided by Google to en­sure the uni­form use of fonts on this site. These Google fonts are loc­ally in­stalled so that a con­nec­tion to Google’s serv­ers will not be es­tab­lished in con­junc­tion with this ap­plic­a­tion.

For more in­form­a­tion on Google Fonts, please fol­low this link: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and con­sult Google’s Data Pri­vacy De­clar­a­tion un­der: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Google Maps

This web­site uses the map­ping ser­vice Google Maps. The pro­vider is Google Ire­land Lim­ited (“Google”), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ire­land. With the means of this ser­vice, we can in­teg­rate map ma­ter­i­al on our web­site.

To en­able the use of the Google Maps fea­tures, your IP ad­dress must be stored. As a rule, this in­form­a­tion is trans­ferred to one of Google’s serv­ers in the United States, where it is archived. The op­er­at­or of this web­site has no con­trol over the data trans­fer. In case Google Maps has been ac­tiv­ated, Google has the op­tion to use Google Fonts for the pur­pose of the uni­form de­pic­tion of fonts. When you ac­cess Google Maps, your browser will load the re­quired web fonts in­to your browser cache, to cor­rectly dis­play text and fonts.

We use Google Maps to present our on­line con­tent in an ap­peal­ing man­ner and to make the loc­a­tions dis­closed on our web­site easy to find. This con­sti­tutes a le­git­im­ate in­terest as defined in Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If ap­pro­pri­ate con­sent has been ob­tained, the pro­cessing is car­ried out ex­clus­ively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, in­so­far the con­sent in­cludes the stor­age of cook­ies or the ac­cess to in­form­a­tion in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­print­ing) with­in the mean­ing of the TDDDG. This con­sent can be re­voked at any time.

Data trans­mis­sion to the US is based on the Stand­ard Con­trac­tu­al Clauses (SCC) of the European Com­mis­sion. De­tails can be found here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/ and https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/sccs/.

For more in­form­a­tion on the hand­ling of user data, please re­view Google’s Data Pri­vacy De­clar­a­tion un­der: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

The com­pany is cer­ti­fied in ac­cord­ance with the “EU-US Data Pri­vacy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment between the European Uni­on and the US, which is in­ten­ded to en­sure com­pli­ance with European data pro­tec­tion stand­ards for data pro­cessing in the US. Every com­pany cer­ti­fied un­der the DPF is ob­liged to com­ply with these data pro­tec­tion stand­ards. For more in­form­a­tion, please con­tact the pro­vider un­der the fol­low­ing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participant-detail?contact=true&id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

Word­fence

We have in­cluded Word­fence on this web­site. The pro­vider is De­fi­ant Inc, De­fi­ant, Inc, 800 5th Ave Ste 4100, Seattle, WA 98104, USA (here­in­after “Word­fence”).

Word­fence is de­signed to pro­tect our web­site from un­wanted ac­cess or ma­li­cious cy­ber­at­tacks. To ac­com­plish this, our web­site es­tab­lishes a perma­nent con­nec­tion with Wordfence’s serv­ers, which check and block their data­bases against ac­cess to our web­site.

The use of Word­fence is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The web­site op­er­at­or has a le­git­im­ate in­terest in the most ef­fect­ive pro­tec­tion of his web­site against cy­ber­at­tacks. If ap­pro­pri­ate con­sent has been ob­tained, the pro­cessing is car­ried out ex­clus­ively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, in­so­far the con­sent in­cludes the stor­age of cook­ies or the ac­cess to in­form­a­tion in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­print­ing) with­in the mean­ing of the TDDDG. This con­sent can be re­voked at any time.

Data trans­mis­sion to the USA is based on the stand­ard con­trac­tu­al clauses of the EU Com­mis­sion. De­tails can be found here: https://www.wordfence.com/help/general-data-protection-regulation/.

Data pro­cessing

We have con­cluded a data pro­cessing agree­ment (DPA) for the use of the above-men­tioned ser­vice. This is a con­tract man­dated by data pri­vacy laws that guar­an­tees that they pro­cess per­son­al data of our web­site vis­it­ors only based on our in­struc­tions and in com­pli­ance with the GDPR.