Privacy Notice

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1. General information
The operator of this website takes the protection of your personal data very seriously and treats your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection declaration.
In the following, we would like to inform you about what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is data by which you can be personally identified: e.g. name, address, e-mail address, and user behavior. Your data is collected by the operator of the website, whose contact details can be found in the imprint of this website. This data is stored in order to answer your request, to guarantee a trouble-free operation of the website or to analyze your user behavior. We delete the stored data immediately if the storage is no longer necessary or we restrict their use accordingly, if there are legal obligations to retain data.

2. Responsible party pursuant to Art. 4 (7) EU General Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO):
Stiftung Corona-Ausschuss
c/o Lawyer Viviane Fischer
Waldenserstr. 22, D-10551 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 30 922 59 670
kontakt@corona-ausschuss.de

3. How does the data collection take place?
Data is collected on the one hand by your contact via e-mail or the contact form and on the other hand automatically by our IT systems when you visit our website. This mainly involves data of a technical nature, such as your internet browser type, browser version, operating system, the date, time and type of your page request, the referrer URL, the host name of your computer, the amount of data transferred and the IP address. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO. This allows the processing of data for the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures. When you call up this website, your IP address is recorded by WordPress and stored in log files. WordPress stores the IP addresses for the detection and defense of attacks. Basically, every website uses session cookies. Session cookies temporarily store the Internet call and are deleted when the browser is closed. This type of cookie does not store any information about the user.

4. What rights do you have with regard to your data?
Visitors to this website have the right to free information about the origin, recipient and purpose of their personal data. Furthermore, you have the right to have your data corrected, blocked and deleted, and to have your data transferred to you or a third party in a machine-readable format. Furthermore, you may object to the processing of your data or restrict its processing at any time. To do so, please contact:
Stiftung Corona-Ausschuss
c/o Lawyer Viviane Fischer
Waldenserstr. 22, D-10551 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 30 922 59 670
kontakt@corona-ausschuss.de

5. Warnings
I am grateful for any advice on how to improve the protection of personal data or the declaration on the protection of personal data. The contents of our pages were created with the utmost care. However, we cannot guarantee the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the content. As a service provider, we are responsible for our own content on these pages in accordance with § 7 paragraph 1 TMG (Germany) under the general laws. According to §§ 8 to 10 TMG, we are not obligated to monitor transmitted or stored information or to investigate circumstances that indicate illegal activity. Obligations to remove or block the use of information under the general laws remain unaffected. However, liability in this regard is only possible from the point in time at which a concrete infringement of the law becomes known. If we become aware of any such infringements, we will remove this content immediately.

No warning without prior contact!
If I violate legal provisions, I ask for appropriate notification without cost note.
It is guaranteed that rightly objected defects will be corrected immediately and without delay, so that from your side the intervention of a legal counsel is dispensable.
Should, however, contrary to this provision, legal representation be commissioned or pursued without prior contact, the costs thereby incurred will be rejected by me in full. If necessary, I also reserve the right of counterclaim due to the violation of the aforementioned provisions.we refer here to: § 8 Abs. 4 UWG (Germany) sowie in all disputes to § 226 BGB (Germany)! In addition, on suspicion of abuse of the competition law warning, an immediate notification to the IHK and a publication of the facts with the suspicion and names of those involved.

6. YouTube
Our website uses plugins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers. This represents a legitimate
interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

For more information on the handling of user data, please refer to YouTube’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

If you do not want Google to directly assign the data collected via our website to your profile in the respective service, you must log out of the corresponding service before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the loading of the plugins with add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the script blocker “NoScript” (http://noscript.net/).

7. Google Web Font
This site uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google’s servers. This enables Google to know that our website has been accessed via your IP address. Google Web Fonts are used in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.

For more information on Google Web Fonts, please visit https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and see Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

8. Data security
This website offers the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) procedure in connection with a 256 bit encryption. If the 256 bit encryption is not supported by your browser, it offers a 128 bit. The closed padlock symbol in the address bar of your browser indicates whether an individual page of this website is encrypted.The constant adaptation of our website to technical innovations or legal requirements may lead to changes in this privacy policy. This privacy policy is currently valid as of April 2020.