Privacy policy

Responsible in terms of the data protection laws:

Weltethos Foundation (Global Ethic Foundation)

Eisenbahnstr. 1

72072 Tübingen

Phone: +49 7071 40053-0

fax: +49 7071

Secretary General: Dr. Stephan Schlensog

Tax number: 86167/46154

Company headquarters: Tübingen

Sales tax identification number according to § 27 a sales tax law: DE220641002

The responsible body within the meaning of the data protection laws, in particular the EU Data Protection Basic Regulation (DSGVO), is

Weltethos Foundation (Global Ethic Foundation)

Eisenbahnstr. 1

72072 Tübingen

Phone: +49 7071 40053-0

fax: +49 7071

Secretary General: Dr. Stephan Schlensog

Tax number: 86167/46154

Company headquarters: Tübingen

Sales tax identification number according to § 27 a sales tax law: DE220641002

YOUR RIGHTS OF ACCESS

You can exercise the following rights at any time by contacting our data protection officer:

Information about your data stored with us and how it is processed,

Correcting incorrect personal data,

Deletion of your data stored with us,

Restriction of data processing, provided that we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations,

Objection to the processing of your data by us and

Data transferability, if you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us.

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

You can contact the supervisory authority responsible for you at any time with a complaint. Your competent supervisory authority will depend on the state of your residence, your work or the alleged violation. A list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with their addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

PURPOSES OF DATA PROCESSING BY THE CONTROLLER AND THIRD PARTIES

We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those mentioned. We will only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

you have given your express consent,

the processing is necessary for the execution of a contract with you,

the processing is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation,

the processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in not disclosing your data.

DELETING OR BLOCKING OF DATA

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. We therefore only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here or as required by the various storage periods stipulated by law. After the respective purpose has ceased to exist or these periods have expired, the corresponding data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.

RECORDING OF GENERAL INFORMATION DURING VISIT OF OUR WEBSITE

When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected using a cookie. 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 and similar information. This is exclusively information which does not allow any conclusions about your person.

This information is technically necessary in order to correctly deliver the contents of websites requested by you and is mandatory when using the Internet. It is processed in particular for the following purposes:

Ensuring that the website can be connected without problems,

Ensuring a smooth use of our website,

Evaluation of system security and stability and

for further administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest from the aforementioned purposes for data collection. We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Recipients of the data are only the responsible body and, if applicable, processors.

Anonymous information of this kind is statistically evaluated by us, if necessary, in order to optimize our Internet presence and the technology behind it.

SSL ENCRYPTION

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

NEWSLETTER

On the basis of your expressly given consent, we will send you the newsletter of the foundation or the institute as well as comparable information on a regular basis by e-mail to your specified e-mail address.

To receive our newsletters, it is sufficient to provide your e-mail address. If you register to receive our newsletter, the data you provide will be used exclusively for this purpose. Subscribers can also be informed by e-mail about circumstances relevant to the service or registration (for example changes to the newsletter offer or technical conditions).

For an effective registration we need a valid e-mail address. In order to verify that a registration is actually made by the owner of an e-mail address, we use the “double opt-in” procedure. For this purpose we log the ordering of the newsletter, the sending of a confirmation mail and the receipt of the hereby requested answer. Further data is not collected. The data will be used exclusively for sending our newsletters. We use the US service provider MailChimp to send our newsletters. The Rocket Science Group, LLC , which operates MailChimp, is certified according to the Privacy Shield. In this respect, the requirements for a data protection compliant handling of data are met.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time. There is a corresponding link in every newsletter. You can also unsubscribe at any time directly on this website or inform us of your wish via the contact option at the end of this data protection notice.

Cookies” are sometimes used on our websites. Behind this standard technology are small text files that are stored on the device you are using and which, among other things, make it possible to make your visit to a website more comfortable or safer. Cookies can also be used to tailor the offer on a website better to the interests of the visitors or to improve it in general on the basis of statistical evaluations.

You can decide for yourself whether or not the browser you use allows cookies. Please note that the functionality of websites may be limited or even suspended if cookies are not allowed.

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

Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-loeschen-daten-von-websites-entfernen

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de

Opera: http://www.opera.com/de/help

Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?locale=de_DE&viewlocale=de_DE

The following cookies are used on our website:

PHPSESSID: This cookie serves as an identification feature for the duration of your visit to our website. It is a session cookie that expires at the end of the session.

_ga: This cookie, which is used for Google Analytics, generates statistical data on how users use our website. If you allow the use of Google Analytics, this cookie expires after 2 years.

_gat: This cookie is used by Google Analytics to limit the request rate. It expires at the end of the session

_gid: This cookie used by Google Analytics generates statistical data on how users use our website. It expires at the end of the session.

p.gif: This cookie is responsible for the optimal display of used fonts via Adobe Typkit. It expires at the end of the session.

collect: This cookie is used by Google Analytics to follow visitors to websites and show them relevant ads. It expires at the end of the session.

cb-enabled: This cookie recognizes whether the user has already accepted the use of cookies and controls the visibility of the cookie disclaimer. It expires after one year.

USE OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (following: Google). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are 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 transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on these websites, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google.

The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on activities on the website. Based on the use of the website and the Internet, further associated services are then to be provided. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.

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 deactivate Google Analytics.

In addition or as an alternative to the Browser Add-On you can disable tracking by Google Analytics on our pages by clicking this link. This will install an opt-out cookie on your device. This prevents Google Analytics from tracking this website and this browser in the future as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

USE OF SCRIPT LIBRARIES (GOOGLE WEBFONTS)

In order to display our content correctly and graphically appealing across browsers, we use script libraries and font libraries such as Google Web Fonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts/) on this website. Google Web Fonts are transferred to the cache of your browser to avoid multiple loading. If the browser does not support Google Web Fonts or prevents access, content will be displayed in a default font.

Calling up script libraries or font libraries automatically triggers a connection to the library operator. It is theoretically possible – although it is currently unclear whether and for what purposes – that the operators of such libraries collect data.

The privacy policy of the library operator Google can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

USE OF ADOBE TYPEKIT

We use Adobe Typekit to visually design our website. Typekit is a service provided by Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd. that gives us access to a font library. To integrate the fonts we use, your browser must connect to an Adobe server in the USA and download the font required for our website. This will inform Adobe that your IP address has been used to access our website. For more information about Adobe Typekit, please refer to Adobe’s privacy policy, which can be found here: www.adobe.com/privacy/typekit.html

USE OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS

USE OF SCRIPT LIBRARIES (GOOGLE WEBFONTS)

The privacy policy of the library operator Google can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

USE OF ADOBE TYPEKIT

EMBEDDED YOUTUBE VIDEOS

Occasionally we embed YouTube videos in some of our websites. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to servers of YouTube is established. This tells Youtube which pages you visit. If you are logged in to your YouTube account, Youtube can assign your surfing behavior to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your Youtube account first.

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

If you have deactivated the storage of cookies for the Google Ad program, you will not have to expect such cookies when watching YouTube videos. However, Youtube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you want to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in the browser.

Further information on data protection at “Youtube” can be found in the provider’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS

We maintain presences on social networks in order to be able to communicate with the customers, interested parties and users active there and to inform them about our services. If you visit such a presence, personal data may be transmitted to the social network provider. It is possible that, in addition to the storage of the data you specifically entered in this social medium, further information may also be processed by the social network provider.

In addition, the social network provider may process the most important data of the computer system from which you are visiting the site – for example, your IP address, the type of processor used, the browser version and plug-ins.

If you are logged in during your visit to such a website with your personal user account of the respective network, this network can assign the visit to this account.

For a detailed presentation of the respective processing and the possibilities of objection (opt-out), we refer to the following linked information of the providers.

Facebook (Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland) – Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/, Opt Out: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads and http://www.youronlinechoices.com, Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active.

Google/ YouTube (Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) – Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy, Opt Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated, Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.

Instagram (…)

Twitter (…)

CHANGE OF OUR DATA PROTECTION REGULATIONS

We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always meets the current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services. The new data protection declaration then applies to your renewed visit.

QUESTIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF DATA PROTECTION

If you have any questions regarding data protection, please send us an e-mail to datenschutz@weltethos.org.

The data protection declaration was created with the data protection declaration generator of activeMind AG.