Our website serves exclusively to provide information to users. We do not use an online contact form, except for Matomo (see below) no other plugins or cookies and do not collect any personal or business data (e-mail addresses, names, addresses) online for sending newsletters or similar campaigns. The social media buttons used are merely links to start these applications.

• With reference to the definition in Art. 4 No. 1 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (hereinafter referred to as: “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR” for short), the term “personal data” means all data that can be related to you personally. This includes, for example, your name, address, email addresses and user behaviour. With regard to the other terms, we refer to the legal data protection definitions in Art. 4 GDPR.

• We only process personal data insofar as this is necessary to provide a functional website and the content and services we offer. The processing of personal data only takes place regularly if you have given us your consent within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR or if the processing is permitted by legal regulations, in particular by one of the legal bases mentioned in Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b) to lit. f) GDPR.

• Your personal data will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage no longer applies. Data may also be stored if this is provided for by national or European regulations to which we are subject. In this case, the data will be blocked or erased when the storage period prescribed by the respective regulations has expired. The latter does not apply if further storage of the data is necessary for the conclusion or fulfilment of a contract.

• The controller within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR, the other data protection laws applicable in the Member States of the European Union and other provisions of a data protection nature is

  Integrative German-Albanian Society e.V.
  legally represented by the President Anduena Stephan

  Rellinghauser Str. 22
  45128 Essen
  Deutschland

  Telefone:              +49 (0) 201 75 998 528
  Fax:                    +49 (0) 201 75 998 529
  E-Mail:                info(at)-de-al.org

• You have the following rights with regard to the personal data concerning you:

  the right of access,
  the right to rectification and erasure,
  the right to restriction of processing,
  the right to object to processing,
  the right to data portability.

  You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

• If you visit our website without registering or providing us with information in any other way (“informational use”), we only collect the personal data that your web browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to enable you to view our website and to ensure stability and security: IP address, date and time of access, language code, browser, browser properties, operating system, device type, screen size, page from which visitors have come, pages that visitors have visited and files that visitors have opened.

  In particular, the collection and temporary storage of the IP address is necessary to enable our website to be displayed on your end device. For this purpose, your IP address must be stored for the duration of your visit to our website.

  The aforementioned data is also stored in log files on our servers and in the Matomo data analysis tool we use (see below). This data is not stored together with your other personal data. The storage in log files serves to ensure the functionality and optimisation of our website and to ensure the security of our information technology systems. This data is not analysed for marketing purposes. Our legitimate interest in data processing lies in the aforementioned purposes. The legal basis for the collection and temporary storage of the aforementioned data and log files is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.

  The aforementioned data for the provision of our website will be deleted when the respective session has ended. The log files are deleted after one year at the latest. The collection of the above data during the visit to our website and the storage of this data in log files is absolutely necessary for the operation of our website. It is not possible to object to this.

With regard to the processing of your personal data, you can object to the processing if this processing is carried out on the basis of a balancing of interests. In this context, we ask you to explain the reasons arising from your particular situation as to why you object to the processing of your personal data by us. In the event that your objection is justified, we will examine the situation. We will then either no longer process your personal data, adjust the further data processing if necessary or state compelling reasons worthy of protection as to why we continue to process your personal data. The objection will affect the permissibility of the processing of your personal data after it has been raised with us. Please address your cancellation or objection to our controller using the contact details above.

Our website uses Matomo, a web analysis service provided by the third-party provider InnoCraft Ltd, 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand. By statistically analysing user behaviour, we can improve our website and make it more interesting for you as a user. This is also our legitimate interest in processing the above data. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

This service uses so-called “cookies”, which are text files that are stored on your computer and enable us to analyse the use of the website. For this purpose, the usage information generated by the cookie (including your shortened IP address) is transmitted to our server and stored for usage analysis purposes, which serves to optimise our website. Your IP address is immediately anonymised during this process so that you as a user remain anonymous to us. The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected. The data will be deleted no later than 24 months after collection.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will not be passed on to third parties. 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.

If you do not agree to the storage and analysis of this data from your visit, you can object to its storage and use at any time by clicking below. In this case, a so-called opt-out cookie will be stored in your browser, which means that Matomo will not collect any session data. Please note: If you delete your cookies, the opt-out cookie will also be deleted and may have to be reactivated by you.

(Text from: https://www.datenschutzbeauftragter-info.de/fachbeitraege/)

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