Privacy Policy

1. An overview of data protection

General information

The following information will provide you with an easy to navigate overview of what will happen with your personal data when you visit our website. The term „personal data“ comprises all data that can be used to personally identify you. For detailed information about the subject matter of data protection, please consult our Data Protection Declaration, which we have included beneath this copy.

Data collection on our website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. The operator’s contact details can be found in the website’s required legal notice.

How do we collect your data?

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

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

What do we use your data for?

Some of the data is collected to ensure that the website is provided without errors. Other data can be used to analyse your user behaviour.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right to receive information about the source, recipients and purposes of your archived personal data at any time without having to pay a fee for such disclosures. You also have the right to demand that your data are rectified, blocked or eradicated. Please do not hesitate to contact us at any time under the address disclosed in section ‘Information Required by Law’ on this site if you have questions about this or any other data protection related issues. You also have the right to log a complaint with the competent supervising agency.

2. General information and mandatory information

Data protection

The operators of this website and its pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Hence, we handle your personal data as confidential information and in compliance with the statutory data protection regulations and this Data Protection Declaration.

When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data are data that can be used to personally identify you. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the internet (e.g. when communicating by email) can have security gaps. It is not possible to provide complete protection of data against access by third parties.

Note on the responsible body

The responsible body for data processing on this website is:

German-Guinean Society (Bissau) e.V.
Am Botanischen Garten 45
50735 Cologne
Board:
Raoul Mörchen, Chairman
Max von Velsen

Telephone: +49 221-761293
Email: info@eineschulefuerbissau.de

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (names, email addresses, etc.).

Revocation of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke consent you have already given at any time. To do so, an informal message to us by e-mail is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out up to the point of revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to data portability

You have the right to have data which we process based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract automatically delivered to yourself or to a third party in a standard, machine-readable format. If you require the direct transfer of data to another responsible party, this will only be done to the extent technically feasible.

SSL and TLS encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or requests that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognise 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.

Information, blocking, deletion

Within the scope of the applicable statutory provisions, you have the right to at any time demand information about your archived personal data, their source and recipients as well as the purpose of the processing of your data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions regarding personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint.

3. Data collection on our website

Cookies

Some of our web pages use cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called ‘session cookies.’ They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser the next time you visit.

You can adjust the settings on your browser so that you are informed when cookies are set and only allow cookies in individual cases, accept cookies in certain cases or generally exclude them and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.

Cookies that are required for the performance of the electronic communications transaction or to provide certain functions you want to use (e.g. the shopping cart function), are stored on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure the technically error free and optimised provision of the operator’s services. If other cookies (such as those used to analyse your surfing behaviour) are also stored, they will be treated separately in this data protection declaration.

Server log files

The website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us in ‘server log files’.

These are:

– 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.

This data is collected on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error free depiction and the optimization of the operator’s website. In order to achieve this, server log files must be recorded.

4. When registering for our newsletter

Provided that you have explicitly given your consent according to Art. 6, paragraph 1, sentence 1, letter a of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we use your e-mail address to regularly send you our newsletter, with which we inform our donors at regular intervals about news from the German-Guinean Society (Bissau) e.V.
We use the Brevo newsletter tool from Sendinblue GmbH to manage the sending of the newsletter. The transfer of your personal data provided to us for this purpose to Sendinblue GmbH is based on an order processing contract within the meaning of Art. 28 Abs. 3 DSGVO, whose content you can review in the Brevo data processing agreement.
If you enter your email address in the Brevo registration form embedded in our website under the category ‘News’ to receive our newsletter, you must give your consent within the meaning of Art. 6 Abs. 1 S. 1 lit. a DSGVO zu den Brevo-Nutzungsbedingungen und den Brevo-Datenschutzhinweisen erteilen, die weitergehende Informationen darüber bereithalten, welche Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten zu welchen Zwecken beim Besuch der Website von Brevo verarbeitet werden.
To subscribe to the newsletter using the Brevo registration form, you only need to provide your email address and the other mandatory information marked with an asterisk in the input mask. As part of the registration process, a confirmation email will be sent to the email address entered for the newsletter (so-called double opt-in procedure). This confirmation email is used to check whether the owner of the email address has authorised the receipt of the newsletter.

5. Payment providers

PayPal

Among other options, we offer payment via PayPal on our website. The provider of this payment service is PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter ‘PayPal’).

If you select payment via PayPal, the payment data you enter will be provided to PayPal.

The legal basis for the sharing of your data with PayPal is Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent) as well as Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR (processing for the fulfilment of a contract). You have the option to revoke your consent to data processing at any time. A revocation does not affect the effectiveness of data processing operations in the past.