Privacy Policy (for information about "Zoom" please scroll to the bottom of the page)

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1. Privacy at a glance

General information

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The following notes give a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit my website. Personal data is all data with which you can be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in my data protection declaration listed under this text.

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Data collection on my website

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Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

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The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the imprint of this website.

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How do I collect your data?

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On the one hand, your data is collected when you communicate it to me. This can, for example, be data that you enter in a contact form.

Other data is automatically recorded by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is primarily technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of the page call). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter my website.

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What do I use your data for?

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Part of the data is collected to ensure that the website is provided without errors. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior.

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What rights do you have regarding your data?

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You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data free of charge at any time. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking or deletion of this data. You can contact me at any time at the address given in the imprint if you have any further questions on the subject of data protection. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

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Analysis tools and third-party tools

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When you visit my website, your surfing behavior can be statistically evaluated. This is mainly done with cookies and so-called analysis programs. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous; surfing behavior cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. You will find detailed information on this in the following data protection declaration.

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You can object to this analysis. We will inform you about the possibilities of objection in this data protection declaration.

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2. General information and mandatory information

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privacy

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The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection declaration.

If you use this website, various personal data will be collected. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified. This data protection declaration explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

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I would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. A complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

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Note on the responsible body

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The responsible body for data processing on this website is:

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Prof. Dr. Sonja Broning

Elevated railway trail 170

22395  Hamburg

Telephone: 01520 - 703 41 44
Email: info@sonjabroening.de

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The responsible body is the natural or legal person who alone or together with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).

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Revocation of your consent to data processing

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Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke consent that you have already given at any time. An informal message by e-mail to me is sufficient. The legality of the data processing that took place up until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

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Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority

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In the event of violations of data protection law, the person concerned has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection issues is the state data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html .

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Right to data portability

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You have the right to have data that I process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another person responsible, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.

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SSL or TLS encryption

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For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries that you send to us as the site operator, this site uses an SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

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Information, blocking, deletion

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Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient and the purpose of the data processing and, if necessary, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data at any time. You can contact me at any time at the address given in the imprint if you have any further questions on the subject of personal data.

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Objection to advertising mails

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We hereby object to the use of contact data published as part of the imprint obligation to send unsolicited advertising and information material. The site operators expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited advertising being sent, such as spam e-mails.

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3. Data Protection Officer

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I am responsible for data protection on this website.

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4. Data collection on my website

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cookies

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Some of the websites use so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

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Most of the cookies used are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. These cookies enable my website to recognize your browser on your next visit. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be restricted. Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions you want (e.g. shopping cart function) are stored on the basis of Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies for analyzing your surfing behavior) are stored, these are treated separately in this data protection declaration.

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Server log files

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The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

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• Browser type and browser version

• operating system used

• Referrer URL

• Host name of the accessing computer

• Time of server request

• IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. f GDPR, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or pre-contractual measures.

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contact form

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If you send me inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provided there, will be stored by me for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. I will not pass on this data without your consent.

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The processing of the data entered in the contact form is therefore exclusively based on your consent (Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time. An informal message by e-mail to me is sufficient. The legality of the data processing operations that took place up until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

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The data you enter in the contact form will remain with me until you ask me to delete them, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.

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5. Analysis Tools and Advertising

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Google Analytics

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This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies". These are text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. 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.

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Google Analytics cookies are stored on the basis of Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising.

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IP anonymization

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I have activated the IP anonymization function on this website. As a result, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before it is transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent 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, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related 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 Google data.

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browser plug-in

You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; we would like to point out to you however that in this case you will if applicable not be able to use all functions of this website in full. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de .

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Objection against data collection

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You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent your data from being collected on future visits to this website: Disable Google Analytics.

You can find more information on how Google Analytics handles user data in Google's data protection declaration: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de .

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Order data processing

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We have concluded an order data processing contract with Google and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.

Demographic characteristics in Google Analytics

This website uses the "demographic characteristics" function of Google Analytics. This allows reports to be created that contain statements about the age, gender and interests of the site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google and visitor data from third-party providers. This data cannot be assigned to a specific person. You can deactivate this function at any time via the ad settings in your Google account or generally prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics as described in the point "Objection to data collection".

Google Analytics Remarketing

Our websites use the functions of Google Analytics Remarketing in connection with the cross-device functions of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

This function makes it possible to link the advertising target groups created with Google Analytics Remarketing to the cross-device functions of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. In this way, interest-related, personalized advertising messages that have been adapted to you depending on your previous usage and surfing behavior on one end device (e.g. mobile phone) can also be displayed on another of your end devices (e.g. tablet or PC).

If you have given your consent, Google will link your web and app browser history to your Google account for this purpose. In this way, the same personalized advertising messages can be placed on every device on which you log in with your Google account.

In support of this feature, Google Analytics collects Google-authenticated user IDs, which are temporarily linked to our Google Analytics data to define and create target groups for cross-device advertising.

You can permanently object to cross-device remarketing/targeting by deactivating personalized advertising in your Google account; follow this link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/ .

The summary of the recorded data in your Google account is based solely on your consent, which you can give or revoke with Google (Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR). In the case of data collection processes that are not merged in your Google account (e.g. because you do not have a Google account or have objected to the merger), the collection of data is based on Article 6 Paragraph 1 lit. f GDPR. The legitimate interest results from the fact that the website operator has an interest in the anonymous analysis of website visitors for advertising purposes.

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Further information and the data protection regulations can be found in Google's data protection declaration at: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/ .

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Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking

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This website uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising program from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States ("Google").

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As part of Google AdWords, we use so-called conversion tracking. If you click on an ad placed by Google, a cookie will be set for conversion tracking. Cookies are small text files that the Internet browser stores on the user's computer. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used to personally identify users. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page.

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Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. The cookies cannot be tracked through AdWords advertisers' websites. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers find out the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information with which users can be personally identified. If you do not wish to participate in the tracking, you can object to this use by easily deactivating the Google conversion tracking cookie in your Internet browser under user settings. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.

"Conversion cookies" are stored on the basis of Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising.

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You can find more information about Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking in Google's data protection regulations: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/ .

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be restricted.

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6. Plugins and Tools

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YouTube

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My website uses plugins from the Google-operated YouTube site. The site operator is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers will be established. The YouTube server is informed 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 attractive presentation of our online offers. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

Further information on handling user data can be found in YouTube's data protection declaration at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy .

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vimeo

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My website uses plugins from the video portal Vimeo. The provider is Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.

If you visit one of our pages equipped with a Vimeo plugin, a connection to the Vimeo servers will be established. The Vimeo server is informed which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo obtains your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged into Vimeo or do not have a Vimeo account. The information collected by Vimeo is transmitted to the Vimeo server in the USA.

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

For more information on how to handle user data, see Vimeo's privacy policy at: https://vimeo.com/privacy .

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Google Web Fonts

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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 your browser cache in order to display text and fonts correctly.

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For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to the Google servers. This gives Google knowledge that our website was accessed via your IP address. Google Web Fonts are used in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offering. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

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

You can find more information about Google Web Fonts at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ .

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Google Maps

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This site uses the Google Maps map service via an API. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

In order to use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer.

Google Maps is used in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offers and to make it easier to find the places we have indicated on the website. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

You can find more information on handling user data in Google's data protection declaration: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/ .

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zoom

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I use  the "Zoom" tool to conduct telephone conferences, online meetings, video conferences and/or online seminars (hereinafter: "online meetings"). "Zoom" is a service of Zoom Video Communications, Inc., which is based in the United States.

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Special Notes on Zoom:

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If you call up the "Zoom" website, the provider of "Zoom" is responsible for data processing. However, calling up the website is only necessary to use "Zoom" in order to download the software for using "Zoom".  You can also use "Zoom" if you enter the respective meeting ID and, if necessary, other access data for the meeting directly in the "Zoom" app.  If you do not want to or cannot use the "Zoom" app, the basic functions can also be used via a browser version, which you can also find on the "Zoom" website.

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Which data are processed?

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When using "Zoom", various types of data are processed. The scope of the data also depends on what information you provide before or when you participate in an "online meeting".  The following personal data are subject to processing:

• User information:  First Name, Last Name, Phone (optional), Profile Picture (optional), Department (optional) 

• Meeting metadata:  Topic, description (optional), participant IP addresses, device/hardware information

• For recordings (optional):  MP4 file of all video, audio and presentation recordings, M4A file of all audio recordings, text file of online meeting chat.

• When dialing in by phone:  Specification of the incoming and outgoing phone number, country name, start and end time. If necessary, further connection data such as the IP address of the device can be saved.​

• Text, audio and video data:  You may have the option to use the chat, question, or survey features in an "online meeting." In this respect, the text you enter will be processed in order to display it in the "online meeting" and, if necessary, to log it. In order to enable the display of video and the playback of audio, the data from the microphone of your end device and from any video camera on the end device will be processed accordingly for the duration of the meeting. You can switch off or mute the camera or microphone yourself at any time via the "Zoom" applications.

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In order to take part in an "online meeting" or to enter the "meeting room", you must at least provide information about your name (can be made anonymous).

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scope of processing

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I use  "Zoom" to conduct "online meetings". As a rule, the meetings are not recorded.  If necessary for purposes of logging results of an online meeting, will  I log the chat content. However, this will usually not be the case.  

In the case of online seminars, I can  also process the questions asked by participants for the purpose of recording and following up on online seminars.  If you are registered with "Zoom" as a user, reports on "online meetings" (meeting metadata, telephone dial-in data, questions and answers in online seminars, survey function) can be stored with "Zoom" for up to one month.

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Legal bases of data processing

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Article 6 paragraph 1 lit. f) GDPR is the legal basis for data processing. In these cases, I am interested in the effective implementation of "online meetings".  Otherwise, the legal basis for data processing when conducting "online meetings" is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, insofar as the meetings are held within the framework of contractual relationships.  If there is no contractual relationship, the legal basis is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f) GDPR. Here, too, we are interested in the effective implementation of "online meetings".

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Recipients / disclosure of data

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Personal data processed in connection with participation in "online meetings" are generally not passed on to third parties unless they are intended to be passed on. Please note that content from "online meetings" as well as from face-to-face meetings is often used to communicate information with customers, interested parties or third parties and is therefore intended to be passed on.  Other recipients: The provider of "Zoom" necessarily receives knowledge of the above data, insofar as this is provided for in the context of our order processing contract with "Zoom".

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Data processing outside the European Union

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"Zoom" is a service provided by a provider based in the United States. Processing of personal data can therefore also take place in a third country. I have the option offered by Zoom to choose the data on European servers  used. I have  concluded an order processing contract with the provider of "Zoom", which meets the requirements of Art. 28 DSGVO.   An appropriate level of data protection is guaranteed on the one hand by the "Privacy Shield" certification of Zoom Video Communications, Inc., on the other hand by the conclusion of the so-called EU standard contractual clauses.

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Contact me at any time if you have any questions about the protection of your data to have. You can also use the contact form below.

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