§ 1 Collection of personal data

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(1) This data protection notice contains information on the collection of personal data when you use our website. Personal data are all data that are personally identifiable to you, e.g. name, address, email addresses, user behaviour.

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(2) The responsible party under Art. 4(7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is

Viega Holding Beteiligungs B.V.

 

Legal seat
Amsterdamsestraatweg 45G
1411 AX Naarden
The Netherlands

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Branch office and place of management:
Viega Platz 1
57439 Attendorn
Germany

 

E-Mail: info@viega-foundation.org 

(see also our legal notice).

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(3) When you contact us by email or through a contact form, we save the data you provide (your email address, name and telephone number, if given) so that we can answer your questions. We delete those data when it is no longer necessary to save them, or, if we are required by law to retain them, we restrict our processing.

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(4) If we use the services of third-party providers for certain functions of the website, or if we would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will notify you as described in detail below. The period for which your data are stored is set according to the criteria described.

 

 

§ 2 Your rights

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(1) You have the following rights in connection with your personal data:
 

• The right to be informed

• The right to rectification or deletion

• The right to restrict processing

• The right to object to processing

• The right to data portability

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(2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about how we process your personal data.

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§ 3 Collection of personal data when you visit our website

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(1) If you visit the website merely for informational purposes, i.e. if you do not register or provide us with any other information, we store only the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. For technical reasons, we require the following data to provide access to our website and to ensure stability and security (the legal basis for this is Art. 6(1) sentence 1 point f GDPR):

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• IP address

• Date and time of enquiry

• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

• Content of request (specific page)

• Access status/HTTP status code

• Data volume transferred

• Website from which the request originated

• Browser

• Operating system and its interface

• Language and version of browser software

 

 

We store these data for 30 days maximum. They are deleted automatically.

 

(2) In addition, cookies are stored on your computer when you visit our website. Cookies are small text files stored on your computer by your web browser. They transmit certain information from your computer to the website you are visiting (in this case our website). Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the website more user-friendly and effective overall.

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(3) Use of cookies:

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a) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functions of which are explained below:

• Transient cookies (see b)

• Persistent cookies (see c).

 

b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. They include in particular session cookies. These store a session ID by which multiple queries from your browser are assigned to the general session. This enables your computer to be recognized again when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.

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c) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a given time, which can be different for each cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in your browser’s security settings.

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d) You can configure your browser settings as you wish. For example, you may reject third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that if you do so, you might not be able to use all of this website’s functions.Without your express consent, the cookie manager we use will store only those cookies on your computer that are strictly necessary for the operation of the website.

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All other cookies are stored only if you explicitly activate this in the cookie manager. Once a cookie has been activated, you can deactivate it at any time.

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To see which cookies are used and how you can manage them, we recommend

www.allaboutcookies.org. 

 

Types ofCookies
 

• XSRF-TOKEN (essentiall) transient

Used for security purposes.

• hs (essential) transient

Used for security purposes.

• svSession (essential) persistent for 12 months 

 Used in connection with the user login.

• SSR-caching (essential) persistent for 1 minute

Used to show the system from which the website was rendered.

• _wixCIDX (essential) persistent for 3 months

Used for system monitoring/troubleshooting.

• _wix_browser_sess (essential) transient

Used for system monitoring/troubleshooting.

• consent-policy (essential) persistent for 12 months

Used for the cookie banner parameters.

• smSession (essential) transient

Used to identify logged-in website members.

• TS* (essential) transient

Used for security and anti-fraud purposes.

• bSession (essential) persistent for 30 minutes

Used for measuring system effectiveness.

• fedops.logger.sessionId (essential) persistent for 12 months

Used for measuring system effectiveness.

• wixLanguage (functional) persistent for 12 months

Used on multilingual websites to store the user’s language.

 

e) We also use HTML5 storage objects that are stored on your device. These objects store the required data regardless of the browser you are using. They have no automatic expiry date. You can prevent the use of HTML5 storage objects by setting your browser to private mode. We also recommend that you regularly delete your cookies and browser history manually.

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§ 4 Additional functions and services of our website

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(1) In addition to offering information on our website, we may offer other services that you can use if you are interested. This will usually require you to enter further personal data which we use to provide the relevant service and to which the above data processing principles apply.

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(2) In some cases, we use third-party service providers to process your data. They have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions, and are regularly inspected.

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(3) If our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA), we will notify you of the consequences of this in the description of the service.

 

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§ 5 Objection or revocation of consent for the processing of your data

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(1) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke it at any time. Once you have notified us of your revocation, it will affect the permissibility of the processing of your personal data.

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(2) Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balance of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary, in particular, for the performance of a contract with you. We indicate this in the description of the functions in each case. When you exercise an objection, we will ask you on what grounds you would like us to stop processing your personal data. If your objection is justified, we will examine the merits of the case and either stop or amend the data processing or inform you of compelling legitimate grounds on the basis of which we will continue the processing.

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(3) To object or to revoke your consent, please send an email to the address given in § 1(2) above.

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§ 6 Web tracking using Google Analytics

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(1) This website uses Google Analytics, a web tracking service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). We use this tool in order to analyse your user interactions on websites and in apps, to improve our offer through the statistics and reports obtained, and to make our offer more relevant for you as a user.

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(2) We track the interactions between you and our website primarily by means of cookies, device/browser data, IP addresses, and website or app activity. Google Analytics also tracks your IP addresses in order to ensure the security of the service and to provide us, as the website operator, with information on the country, region or location from which the user originates (IP location determination). For your protection, we use the IP masking function, i.e. Google truncates the IP addresses by the last octet within the EU/EEA.

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(3) Google acts as a processor and we have concluded a contract with Google for this purpose. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website, and the IP addresses (generally truncated), are generally transferred to a Google server in the US and stored there. For these cases, Google states it has imposed a standard on itself equivalent to the former EU-US Privacy Shield and has pledged to comply with applicable data protection laws when transferring data internationally. We have also agreed standard contractual clauses with Google pursuant to Art. 45 (2) GDPR, the purpose of which is to ensure compliance with an adequate level of data protection in the third country.

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(4) The legal basis for the collection and further processing of your personal data (which takes place for a maximum of 14 months) is that you have given your consent (Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 point a GDPR). You may revoke your consent at any time. Until the revocation, the permissibility of the processing is not affected. In Android or iOS apps, you can reset the advertising ID in the settings. The easiest way to revoke your consent is to use our Consent Manager or to install Google’s browser add-on, which is available here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

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(5) Further information on the scope of services provided by Google Analytics is available at https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/. For information on data processing when you use Google Analytics, see: support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en&sjid=5278958814842481378-EU. General information on data processing, which according to Google also applies to Google Analytics, can be found in Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

 

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§ 7 Profiling

 

We do not use automated decision-making, including profiling, in accordance with Art. 22(1) and (4) GDPR.

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§ 8 Voluntary provision of personal data

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The provision of the above-mentioned personal data is always voluntary. However, for technical reasons you cannot use our website without an IP address.

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§ 9 Right of amendment

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(1) We reserve the right to amend this data protection notice with future effect when we amend our website or if required to do so due to technical or statutory changes.

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(2) This is the current version of the data protection notice as of October 2023.