PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy Policy

We thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in our association. The protection of your personal data and privacy is of particular concern to our association “Vision Yamalé e. V. Aufbau- und Rückkehrprojekte in Afrika”. Generally, you can use our website without giving any personal data. However, if you want to make use of special services on our website, processing of personal data might become necessary. If this becomes the case and there is no legal basis for this processing, we will obtain consent from the data subjects.

We process personal data (e. g. name, postal address, email, telephone number) gathered during your visit on our website in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR and the country-specific Data Protection Regulations. Our Privacy Policy will give you an overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our website. Furthermore, you will learn about your vested rights.

We as party responsible for data processing have implemented numerous technical and organisational measures to ensure at most the uninterrupted protection of processed personal data on this website. Still, web-based data transfers might display security gaps, therefore, a complete protection cannot be guaranteed. For that reason, you are free to use alternatives for the transmission of personal details, e. g. telephone.

1. Definitions

Our Privacy Policy rests upon the terminology used by the European legislator for the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our Privacy Policy aims to be easily readable and understandable for the general public as well as our members and associates. In order to ensure this, we will define the terminology used in our Privacy Policy in advance.

In our Privacy Policy, we use the following terms:

a) Personal data

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

b) Data subject

Data subject means any identified or identifiable natural person, whose personal data are being processed by the controller.

c) Processing

Processing means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

d) Restriction of processing

Restriction of processing means the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future.

e) Profiling

Profiling means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements.

f) Pseudonymisation

Pseudonymisation means the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.

g) Controller

Controller means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.

h) Processor

Processor means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

i) Recipient

Recipient means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing;

j) Third party

Third party means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process personal data;

k) Consent

Consent of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

2. Name and address of the controller

The party responsible pursuant to the GDPR, further data protection acts of EU Member States and other regulations regarding Data Protection law, is:

Vision Yamalé e.V. Aufbau- und Rückkehrprojekte in Afrika

Bernauer Straße 1

83209 Prien

Germany

Tel: 01712393678

Email: info@vision-yamale.de

Website: www.vision-yamale.de

3. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, efficient and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

A great number of web pages and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is an unambiguous label for a cookie. It consists of a character string through which web pages and servers can be allocated to the concrete web browser in which the cookie was saved. This enables the visited web pages and servers to distinguish the browser of the data subject from other browsers that contain cookies. A specific browser can be recognised and identified through the unambiguous cookie ID.

Through the use of cookies, we can provide user-friendly services, which would not be possible without the configuration of cookies.

By using cookies, we can optimise the information and offers on our website in favour of the users. As mentioned above, cookies enable the recognition of our website users. The purpose of this recognition is to simplify the use of our website. For example, the users of a website with cookies do not have to enter their access data anew, because the website and the cookie stored on the users’ computer system remember them. Another example is the cookie of a shopping basket at an online shop. Thanks to the cookie, the online shop remembers the article that the customer has placed in the virtual shopping basket.

You can configure your browser to inform you when a cookie is about to be set, so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject this cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies only under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when your browser is closed. However, disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

4. Collection of general data and information

Every time our website is opened by the data subject or an automated system, it collects general data and information. These general data and information are stored in the server logfiles. Our website collects (1) the browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing systems gets to our website (so-called referrer), (4) the sub-sites, which access our website via an accessing system, (5) date and time of access, (6) IP address, (7) ISP of the accessing system and (8) other similar data and information that avert attacks on our information technology system.

We draw no conclusions about the data subject based on the use of the general data and information. We rather need this information to (1) display our website contents correctly, (2) optimise our contents, (3) ensure the permanent functioning of our information technology system and (4) provide prosecuting authorities with information in case of a cyber-attack. Our association evaluates these anonymously collected data and information with the objective to increase data protection and security. The anonymous data from the server logfiles are stored separately from all personal data entered by data subjects.

5. Contact request / contact option

If you contact us via contact form or email, your provided data will be used to process your request. Your data are necessary for processing and answering your request – without the provision we are unable to answer your request in its entirety.

Article(6) I lit. b GDPR serves as legal basis for this processing.

We will erase your data if your request has been answered and there is no duty to preserve records as it may be the case for a subsequent processing of contracts.

6. Subscription to our Newsletter

You can subscribe to our newsletter on our website. The personal data transmitted to the controller are those entered into our newsletter input mask.

Through our newsletter, we inform you regularly about our activities. You can only receive our newsletter if (1) you have a valid email address and (2) you have registered for the newsletter. You will receive a confirmation email that allows us to verify that you are the rightful owner of the specified email address and that you agree to receive the newsletter.

We also store the IP address assigned by the ISP of the computer system used by the data subject as well as date and time of the subscription. This data collection is necessary in order to reconstruct possible malpractice of a data subject’s email address and therefore serves as legal protection of the controller.

The personal data collected as part of a newsletter subscription are used for the dispatch of our newsletter only. Furthermore, subscribers can be informed via email if this is required for the newsletter operation service or for a registration. These collected personal data must not be transferred to third parties. Data subjects have the right to cancel the subscription at any time. The consent to store personal data in relation to the newsletter can be cancelled at any time. You find a link in every newsletter for the purpose of cancellation. Furthermore, you can unsubscribe from our newsletter directly on our website or through our controller.

  1. Newsletter tracking

Our newsletter contains so-called tracking pixels. Tracking pixels are miniature graphics that are embedded in emails sent in HTML format in order to enable logfile recording and logfile analysis. By means of the tracking pixels, we can see if and when an email was opened by the data subject and which links in the email were viewed.

The personal data collected by means of the tracking pixels are stored and evaluated by the controller in order to optimise the newsletter dispatch and to adapt the contents of future newsletters to the interests of the data subjects. These collected personal data must not be transferred to third parties. Data subjects have the right to cancel their consent given via the opt-in procedure at any time. After cancellation, the personal data are erased by the controller. If the data subject unsubscribes from the newsletter, it counts as cancellation.

7. Routine erasure and blocking of personal data

The controller processes and stores personal data of the data subject only for the time necessary to attain the storage purposes. If the storage purposes are cancelled or the retention period is expired, the personal data shall be routinely erased or blocked.

8. Rights of the data subject

a) Right to confirmtion

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed.

If data subjects want to exercise their right to confirmation, they can contact the controller at any time.

b) Right of access by the data subject

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller free information about personal data concerning him or her, as well as a copy of this information, and, where that is the case, access to the personal data and the following information:

    • the purposes of the processing;
    • the categories of personal data concerned;
    • the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations;
    • where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;
    • the existence of the right to request from the controller rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject or to object to such processing;
    • the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
    • where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source;
    • the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) 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.

Where personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organisation, the data subject shall have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 relating to the transfer.

If data subjects want to exercise their right of access, they can contact the controller at any time.

c) Right to rectification

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, the data subject shall have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.

If data subjects want to exercise their right to rectification, they can contact the controller at any time.

d) Right to erasure (Right to be forgotten)

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies:

    • the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed;
    • the data subject withdraws consent on which the processing is based according to point (a) of Article 6(1), or point (a) of Article 9(2), and where there is no other legal ground for the processing;
    • the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2);
    • the personal data have been unlawfully processed;
    • the personal data have to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject;
    • the personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Article 8(1).

If one of the above grounds applies and the data subject requests the erasure of personal data stored by Vision Yamalé e. V., he or she can contact the board or the controller at any time. Upon request, the board will arrange the erasure immediately.

Where the controller has made the personal data public and is obliged pursuant to paragraph 1 to erase the personal data, the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform controllers which are processing the personal data that the data subject has requested the erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data.

e) Right to restriction of processing

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller restriction of processing where one of the following applies:

    • the accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
    • the processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests the restriction of their use instead;
    • the controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but they are required by the data subject for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
    • the data subject has objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.

If one of the above grounds applies and the data subject requests the restriction of personal data stored by Vision Yamalé e. V., he or she can contact the board or the controller at any time. Upon request, the board will arrange the restriction immediately.

f) Right of data portability

The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where the processing is based on consent pursuant to point (a) of Article 6(1) or point (a) of Article 9(2) or on a contract pursuant to point (b) of Article 6(1); and the processing is carried out by automated means.

In exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to paragraph 1, the data subject shall have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible. The right referred to in paragraph 1 shall not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

If data subjects want to exercise their right of data portability, they can contact the board of Vision Yamalé e. V. at any time.

g) Right to object

The data subject shall have the right to object, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her which is based on point (e) or (f) of Article 6(1), including profiling based on those provisions. The controller shall no longer process the personal data unless the controller demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

We will no longer process personal data in case of objection, unless we can prove mandatory legitimate grounds for processing that prevail over the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject; or the processing serves the enforcement, exercise or protection of rights.

Where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. Where the data subject objects to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data shall no longer be processed for such purposes.

Where personal data are processed for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1), the data subject, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, shall have the right to object to processing of personal data concerning him or her, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.

To exercise his or her right to object, the data subject can contact the board of Vision Yamalé directly. In the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, the data subject may exercise his or her right to object by automated means using technical specifications.

h) Automated individual decision-making, including profiling

The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her. Paragraph 1 shall not apply if the decision (1) is necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller; (2) is authorised by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests; or (3) is based on the data subject’s explicit consent.

In the cases referred to in points (a) and (c) of paragraph 2, the data controller shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and to contest the decision.

If data subjects want to exercise their right to automated individual decision-making, they can contact the controller at any time.

i) Right to revoke

The data subject shall have the right to revoke their consent of processing personal data at any time.

If data subjects want to exercise their right to revoke, they can contact the controller at any time.

9. Legal basis of processing

Article(6) I lit. a GDPR serves as legal basis for processing operations where we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose. If processing of personal data is required to fulfil a contract in which the data subject is the contracting party, as it is the case with processing operations necessary for delivering goods or providing other services, the processing rests upon Article(6) I lit. b GDPR. The same holds true for processing operations required for implementing pre-contractual measures in case of inquiries about our services. If our association is subject to legal obligations through which processing of personal data is required as e. g. to fulfil fiscal duties, the processing rests upon Article(6) I lit. c GDPR. In rare cases, processing of personal data might be required to protect vital interests of the data subject or other natural persons. This may be the case if a person in our association got hurt and his or her name, age, health insurance data and other vital information would need to be transmitted to a doctor, hospital or other third parties. In this case, processing would rest upon Article(6) I lit. d GDPR.

Processing operations may rest upon Article(6) I lit. f GDPR. Processing operations that are not covered by any of the formerly mentioned legal bases rest upon this legal basis if processing is required to preserve legitimate interests of our association or other third parties, as long as interests, civil rights and fundamental freedoms of the data subject do not prevail.

10. Legitimate interests in processing pursued by the controller or a third party

If processing of personal data rest upon Article(6) I lit. f GDPR, our legitimate interest is the performance of our activities to the benefit of all our members.

11. Time period for storage of personal data

The respective retention period decides the duration of storage of personal data. After expiration, the relevant data are routinely erased, insofar as they are not required for the fulfilment or initiation of a contract.

12. Legal or contractual regulations for the provision of personal data; Necessity for contract conclusion; Obligation of the data subject to provide personal data; Possible consequences of failure of provision

We hereby want to let you know that the provision of personal data is partly required by law (e. g. tax regulations) or results from contractual regulations (e. g. data on contracting party).
To conclude a contract, the data subject may be required to provide personal data, which subsequently have to be processed by us. The data subject is required to provide personal data if we conclude a contract with him or her. Failure to provide the personal data will result in failure to conclude the contract.
Before providing personal data, the data subject has to contact our board. Our board clarifies whether the provision of personal data is required by law or contractual regulations, whether there is an obligation to provide personal data, whether personal data are needed for the contract conclusion and which consequences would result out of a failure to provide personal data.

13. YouTube

Our website uses plugins from YouTube to integrate and display video contents. The plugin provider and operator of the YouTube platform is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube’s servers is established. Thus, the YouTube server will be informed about which of our pages you have visited.
If you are logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube will additionally be able to directly associate your browsing behaviour with your YouTube user profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
We use YouTube to make our website more appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Further information about the processing of user data can be found in YouTube’s Privacy Policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

14. PayPal

Our website enables payment via PayPal. The provider is PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449, Luxembourg.
If you pay via PayPal, your entered payment details will be transmitted to PayPal.
The transmission of your details to PayPal ensues in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. You can cancel your previously given consent at any time. Processing of data in the past remain effective in case of cancellation.

15. Google Maps

Our website uses Google Maps to display interactive maps. Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA. Through the use of Google Maps, information about the use of this website are being transferred to Google in the US, including your IP address and the card start address entered via the route planner function. If you access one of our web pages that contain Google Maps, your browser will connect directly to the Google servers. The map content is transferred from Google into your browser, which integrates it into the web page. Therefore, we have no influence on the amount of data collected by Google in this way. According to our best knowledge, Google collects at least the following data:

  • Date and time of visit of the particular website
  • Internet address or URL of the visited website
  • IP address, card start address (as part of route planning)

We have no influence on the further processing and use of data through Google and assume no responsibility.
If you do not want Google to collect, process and use your data, you can deactivate JavaScript in your browser. However, after doing so, you will not be able to use our maps.
Further information about the processing of user data by Google as well as your rights and setting options can be found in Google’s Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de).
By using our website you agree to the processing of your data collected by Google Maps route planner in the above described way and for the above mentioned purpose.

16. Google reCAPTCHA

Our website uses Google reCAPTCHA to control and prevent interactions on our website through automated hits e. g. via so-called bots. This is a service by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland.

This service enables Google to determine which website sent a request and from which IP address the so-called reCAPTCHA entry box is being used. Apart from your IP address, other information may be collected that are required for the provision and warranty of this service.

Article(6) I lit. f GDPR serves as legal basis. Our interest lies with the protection of our website and the defence against undesirable automated hits e. g. in the form of spam mails.

Further general information about the processing of user data by Google can be found in Google’s Privacy Policy.
https://policies.google.com/privacy

17. Automated decision-making

As responsible association we refrain from automated decision-making or profiling.

This Privacy Policy has been created by the privacy policy generator of the DGD Deutsche Gesellschaft für Datenschutz GmbH who works as external privacy officer in Munich, in cooperation with privacy lawyer Christian Solmecke.