Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

The person responsible for the website content of the former action group “East Side Gallery – A Living Monument to Joy” within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Your data subject rights

You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided by our data protection officer or our email address mail@monument-to-joy.org:

  • Information about your data stored by us and its processing (Art. 15 DSGVO),
  • Correction of incorrect personal data (Art. 16 DSGVO),
  • Deletion of your data stored by us (Art. 17 DSGVO),
  • Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 DSGVO),
  • objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 DSGVO) and
  • Data portability, provided that you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 DSGVO).

If you have given us consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

You may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority at any time, e.g., the competent supervisory authority in the federal state of your residence or the authority responsible for us as the controller.

A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Collection of general information when you visit our website

Type and purpose of processing: When you access our website, i.e., when you do not register or otherwise submit information, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, your IP address, and the like.

In particular, they are processed for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring a smooth connection setup of the website,
  • Ensuring a smooth use of our website,
  • evaluating system security and stability, and
  • for other administrative purposes.

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Information of this kind is statistically evaluated by us, if necessary, in order to optimize our website and the technology behind it.

Legal basis: The processing is carried out under Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Recipients: Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as order processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Storage period: The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose it was collected. This is generally the case for data used to provide the website when the individual session has ended.

Cookies

Type and purpose of processing: Like many other websites, we also use so-called “cookies.” When you visit our website, cookies are small text files stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, or similar).

This provides us with specific data such as IP address, browser used, and operating system.

Cookies cannot be used to launch programs or transfer viruses to a computer. Based on the information in cookies, we can facilitate your navigation and enable the correct display of our web pages.

Under no circumstances will the data we collect be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.

Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. You can deactivate cookies at any time via your browser settings. Please use the help functions of your Internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.

Storage duration and cookies used: Insofar as you allow us to use cookies through your browser settings or consent, the following cookies may be used on our websites:

Google Analytics:
_gat (use: once)
_ga (expiration after 2 years)
_gid (end after one day).
Statistic purposes.

Borlabs cookie:
borlabs-cookie (expiration after one year).
Stores the individual cookie settings of the Borlabs cookie box.

Insofar as these cookies may (also) affect personal data, we inform you about this in the following sections.

You can delete individual cookies or the entire inventory via your browser settings. In addition, you will receive information and instructions on how to delete these cookies or block their storage in advance. Depending on the provider of your browser, you can find the information required under the following links:

Contact form

Nature and purpose of processing: The data you enter will be stored for individual communication with you. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address and your name. This serves the assignment of the request and the subsequent response to the same. The provision of further data is optional.
Legal basis: The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based on a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO).

We would like to enable you to contact us uncomplicatedly by providing the contact form. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions.

Recipients: Recipients of the data are, if applicable, order processors.
Storage period: Data will be deleted by 6 months after processing the request.

The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your request if you provide us with your name, e-mail address, and the reason for the request.

Use of Google Analytics

Nature and purpose of processing: This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (from now on: “Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies,” text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on these web pages, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.

The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the website’s use and compile reports on website activities. Based on the use of the website and the internet, other related services shall then be provided.

Legal basis: The processing of the data is based on the user’s consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO).

Recipient: The recipient of the data is Google as an order processor. For this purpose, we have concluded the corresponding order processing agreement with Google.

Storage period: The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for our recording purposes.

Third-country transfer: Google processes your data in the USA and has submitted it to the EU_US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

Provision: The provision of your personal data is voluntary, based solely on your consent. If you prevent access, this may result in functional restrictions on the website.

Revocation of consent: 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. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: Browser Add On to disable Google Analytics.

In addition, or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our pages by clicking this link.

Profiling: The Google Analytics tracking tool can be used to evaluate the behavior of visitors to the website and analyze their interests. For this purpose, we create a pseudonymous user profile.

Embedded YouTube videos

Type and purpose of processing: On some of our websites, we embed YouTube videos. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (from now on, “YouTube”). A connection to YouTube servers is established when you visit a page with the YouTube plugin. In the process, YouTube is informed which pages you are visiting. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your surfing behavior to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

If a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behavior.

For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by YouTube, please refer to the provider’s privacy policy, where you will find further information on your rights and settings options for protecting your privacy (https://policies.google.com/privacy). Google processes your data in the USA and has submitted it to the EU-US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.
Legal basis:

The legal basis for integrating YouTube and the associated data transfer to Google is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO).

Recipient: Calling up YouTube automatically triggers a connection to Google.

Storage period and revocation of consent: Anyone who has deactivated the storage of cookies for the Google ad program will not have to deal with such cookies when watching YouTube videos. However, YouTube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you would like to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in the browser.

For more information on data protection at “YouTube,” see the provider’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Third-country transfer: Google processes your data in the USA and has submitted it to the EU_US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

Provision mandatory or required: The provision of your personal data is voluntary, based solely on your consent. If you prevent access, this may result in functional restrictions on the website.

SSL encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption procedures (e.g., SSL) via HTTPS.

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy to ensure that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g., when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

Questions for the data protection officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please write us an e-mail or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization directly: