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Data Pri­vacy

Pri­vacy Policy

Per­sonal data (usu­ally re­ferred to just as "data" be­low) will only be pro­cessed by us to the ex­tent ne­ces­sary and for the pur­pose of provid­ing a func­tional and user-friendly web­site, in­clud­ing its con­tents, and the ser­vices offered there.

Per Art. 4 No. 1 of Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2016/​679, i.e. the Gen­eral Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion (here­in­after re­ferred to as the "GDPR"), "pro­cessing" refers to any op­er­a­tion or set of op­er­a­tions such as col­lec­tion, re­cord­ing, or­gan­iz­a­tion, struc­tur­ing, stor­age, ad­apt­a­tion, al­ter­a­tion, re­trieval, con­sulta­tion, use, dis­clos­ure by trans­mis­sion, dis­sem­in­a­tion, or oth­er­wise mak­ing avail­able, align­ment, or com­bin­a­tion, re­stric­tion, eras­ure, or de­struc­tion per­formed on per­sonal data, whether by auto­mated means or not.

The fol­low­ing pri­vacy policy is in­ten­ded to in­form you in par­tic­u­lar about the type, scope, pur­pose, dur­a­tion, and legal basis for the pro­cessing of such data either un­der our own con­trol or in con­junc­tion with oth­ers. We also in­form you be­low about the third-party com­pon­ents we use to op­tim­ize our web­site and im­prove the user ex­per­i­ence which may res­ult in said third parties also pro­cessing data they col­lect and con­trol.

Our pri­vacy policy is struc­tured as fol­lows:

I. In­form­a­tion about us as con­trol­lers of your data
II. The rights of users and data sub­jects
III. In­form­a­tion about the data pro­cessing

I. In­form­a­tion about us as con­trol­lers of your data

The party re­spons­ible for this web­site (the "con­trol­ler") for pur­poses of data pro­tec­tion law is:

Light­house Foun­da­ti­on
Found­a­tion for the Seas and Oceans
Jens Ambs­dorf, exe­cu­ti­ve di­rec­tor
Jörg Grabo, pu­blic re­la­ti­on
An­drea Eckl, of­fice ma­na­ger
Of­fice Kiel
Ka­nal­stra­ße 67a
D-24 159 Kiel
Ger­ma­ny
Tel.: 0049 (0)431 668 468 0
Fax: 0049 (0)431 668 468 11
Email: mail(at)light­house-foun­da­ti­on.org

II. The rights of users and data sub­jects

With re­gard to the data pro­cessing to be de­scribed in more de­tail be­low, users and data sub­jects have the right

  • to confirmation of whether data concerning them is being processed, information about the data being processed, further information about the nature of the data processing, and copies of the data (cf. also Art. 15 GDPR);
  • to correct or complete incorrect or incomplete data (cf. also Art. 16 GDPR);
  • to the immediate deletion of data concerning them (cf. also Art. 17 DSGVO), or, alternatively, if further processing is necessary as stipulated in Art. 17 Para. 3 GDPR, to restrict said processing per Art. 18 GDPR;
  • to receive copies of the data concerning them and/or provided by them and to have the same transmitted to other providers/controllers (cf. also Art. 20 GDPR);
  • to file complaints with the supervisory authority if they believe that data concerning them is being processed by the controller in breach of data protection provisions (see also Art. 77 GDPR).

In ad­di­tion, the con­trol­ler is ob­liged to in­form all re­cip­i­ents to whom it dis­closes data of any such cor­rec­tions, de­le­tions, or re­stric­tions placed on pro­cessing the same per Art. 16, 17 Para. 1, 18 GDPR. However, this ob­lig­a­tion does not ap­ply if such no­ti­fic­a­tion is im­possible or in­volves a dis­pro­por­tion­ate ef­fort. Nev­er­the­less, users have a right to in­form­a­tion about these re­cip­i­ents.

Likewise, under Art. 21 GDPR, users and data subjects have the right to object to the controller's future processing of their data pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. In particular, an objection to data processing for the purpose of direct advertising is permissible.

III. In­form­a­tion about the data pro­cessing

Your data pro­cessed when us­ing our web­site will be de­leted or blocked as soon as the pur­pose for its stor­age ceases to ap­ply, provided the de­le­tion of the same is not in breach of any stat­utory stor­age ob­lig­a­tions or un­less oth­er­wise stip­u­lated be­low.

Server data

For tech­nical reas­ons, the fol­low­ing data sent by your in­ter­net browser to us or to our server pro­vider will be col­lec­ted, es­pe­cially to en­sure a se­cure and stable web­site: These server log files re­cord the type and ver­sion of your browser, op­er­at­ing sys­tem, the web­site from which you came (re­fer­rer URL), the webpages on our site vis­ited, the date and time of your visit, as well as the IP ad­dress from which you vis­ited our site.

The data thus col­lec­ted will be tem­por­ar­ily stored, but not in as­so­ci­ation with any other of your data.

The basis for this stor­age is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our le­git­im­ate in­terest lies in the im­prove­ment, sta­bil­ity, func­tion­al­ity, and se­cur­ity of our web­site.

The data will be de­leted within no more than seven days, un­less con­tin­ued stor­age is re­quired for evid­en­tiary pur­poses. In which case, all or part of the data will be ex­cluded from de­le­tion un­til the in­vest­ig­a­tion of the rel­ev­ant in­cid­ent is fi­nally re­solved.

Cookies

a) Session cookies

We use cook­ies on our web­site. Cook­ies are small text files or other stor­age tech­no­lo­gies stored on your com­puter by your browser. These cook­ies pro­cess cer­tain spe­cific in­form­a­tion about you, such as your browser, loc­a­tion data, or IP ad­dress.  

This pro­cessing makes our web­site more user-friendly, ef­fi­cient, and se­cure, al­low­ing us, for ex­ample, to dis­play our web­site in dif­fer­ent lan­guages or to of­fer a shop­ping cart func­tion.

The legal basis for such pro­cessing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR, in­so­far as these cook­ies are used to col­lect data to ini­ti­ate or pro­cess con­trac­tual re­la­tion­ships.

If the pro­cessing does not serve to ini­ti­ate or pro­cess a con­tract, our le­git­im­ate in­terest lies in im­prov­ing the func­tion­al­ity of our web­site. The legal basis is then Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

When you close your browser, these ses­sion cook­ies are de­leted.

b) Third-party cookies

If ne­ces­sary, our web­site may also use cook­ies from com­pan­ies with whom we co­oper­ate for the pur­pose of ad­vert­ising, ana­lyz­ing, or im­prov­ing the fea­tures of our web­site.

Please refer to the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion for de­tails, in par­tic­u­lar for the legal basis and pur­pose of such third-party col­lec­tion and pro­cessing of data col­lec­ted through cook­ies.

c) Disabling cookies

You can re­fuse the use of cook­ies by chan­ging the set­tings on your browser. Like­wise, you can use the browser to de­lete cook­ies that have already been stored. However, the steps and meas­ures re­quired vary, de­pend­ing on the browser you use. If you have any ques­tions, please use the help func­tion or con­sult the doc­u­ment­a­tion for your browser or con­tact its maker for sup­port. Browser set­tings can­not pre­vent so-called flash cook­ies from be­ing set. In­stead, you will need to change the set­ting of your Flash player. The steps and meas­ures re­quired for this also de­pend on the Flash player you are us­ing. If you have any ques­tions, please use the help func­tion or con­sult the doc­u­ment­a­tion for your Flash player or con­tact its maker for sup­port.

If you pre­vent or re­strict the in­stall­a­tion of cook­ies, not all of the func­tions on our site may be fully us­able.

Contact

If you con­tact us via email or the con­tact form, the data you provide will be used for the pur­pose of pro­cessing your re­quest. We must have this data in or­der to pro­cess and an­swer your in­quiry; oth­er­wise we will not be able to an­swer it in full or at all.

The legal basis for this data pro­cessing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.

Your data will be de­leted once we have fully answered your in­quiry and there is no fur­ther legal ob­lig­a­tion to store your data, such as if an or­der or con­tract res­ul­ted there­from.

Google-Maps

Our web­site uses Google Maps to dis­play our loc­a­tion and to provide dir­ec­tions. This is a ser­vice provided by Google Inc., 1600 Am­phi­theatre Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043 (here­in­after: Google).

Through cer­ti­fic­a­tion ac­cord­ing to the EU-US Pri­vacy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

Google guar­an­tees that it will fol­low the EU's data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions when pro­cessing data in the United States.

To en­able the dis­play of cer­tain fonts on our web­site, a con­nec­tion to the Google server in the USA is es­tab­lished whenever our web­site is ac­cessed.

If you ac­cess the Google Maps com­pon­ents in­teg­rated into our web­site, Google will store a cookie on your device via your browser. Your user set­tings and data are pro­cessed to dis­play our loc­a­tion and cre­ate a route de­scrip­tion. We can­not pre­vent Google from us­ing serv­ers in the USA.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our le­git­im­ate in­terest lies in op­tim­iz­ing the func­tion­al­ity of our web­site.

By con­nect­ing to Google in this way, Google can de­term­ine from which web­site your re­quest has been sent and to which IP ad­dress the dir­ec­tions are trans­mit­ted.

If you do not agree to this pro­cessing, you have the op­tion of pre­vent­ing the in­stall­a­tion of cook­ies by mak­ing the ap­pro­pri­ate set­tings in your browser. Fur­ther de­tails can be found in the sec­tion about cook­ies above.

In ad­di­tion, the use of Google Maps and the in­form­a­tion ob­tained via Google Maps is gov­erned by the Google Terms of Usehttps://policies.google.com/terms?gl=DE&hl=en and the Terms and Conditions for Google Mapsht­tps://​www.google.com/​intl/​de_de/​help/​term­s_maps.html.

Google also of­fers fur­ther in­form­a­tion at

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Matomo (formerly: PIWIK)

Our web­site uses Mat­omo (formerly: PI­WIK). This is open-source soft­ware with which we can ana­lyze the use of our site. Data such as your IP ad­dress, the pages you visit, the web­site from which you came (re­fer­rer URL), the dur­a­tion of your visit, and the fre­quency of your vis­its is pro­cessed.

Mat­omo stores a cookie on your device via your browser in or­der to col­lect this data. This cookie is valid for one week.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our le­git­im­ate in­terest lies in the ana­lysis and op­tim­iz­a­tion of our web­site.

We use Mat­omo with the "Auto­mat­ic­ally An­onym­ize Vis­itor IPs" func­tion. This an­onym­iz­a­tion func­tion trun­cates your IP ad­dress by two bytes so that it is im­possible to as­sign it to you or to the in­ter­net con­nec­tion you are us­ing.

If you do not agree to this pro­cessing, you have the op­tion of pre­vent­ing the in­stall­a­tion of cook­ies by mak­ing the ap­pro­pri­ate set­tings in your browser. Fur­ther de­tails can be found in the sec­tion about cook­ies above.

In ad­di­tion, you have the op­tion of ter­min­at­ing the ana­lysis of your us­age be­ha­vior by opt­ing out. By con­firm­ing the link

 

a cookie is stored on your device via your browser to pre­vent any fur­ther ana­lysis. Please note, however, that you must click the above link again if you de­lete the cook­ies stored on your end device.

YouTube

We use You­Tube on our web­site. This is a video portal op­er­ated by You­Tube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, here­in­after re­ferred to as "You­Tube".

You­Tube is a sub­si­di­ary of Google LLC, 1600 Am­phi­theatre Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043 USA, here­in­after re­ferred to as "Google".

Through cer­ti­fic­a­tion ac­cord­ing to the EU-US Pri­vacy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

Google and its sub­si­di­ary You­Tube guar­an­tee that they will fol­low the EU's data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions when pro­cessing data in the United States.

We use You­Tube in its ad­vanced pri­vacy mode to show you videos. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our le­git­im­ate in­terest lies in im­prov­ing the qual­ity of our web­site. Ac­cord­ing to You­Tube, the ad­vanced pri­vacy mode means that the data spe­cified be­low will only be trans­mit­ted to the You­Tube server if you ac­tu­ally start a video.

Without this mode, a con­nec­tion to the You­Tube server in the USA will be es­tab­lished as soon as you ac­cess any of our webpages on which a You­Tube video is em­bed­ded.

This con­nec­tion is re­quired in or­der to be able to dis­play the re­spect­ive video on our web­site within your browser. You­Tube will re­cord and pro­cess at a min­imum your IP ad­dress, the date and time the video was dis­played, as well as the web­site you vis­ited. In ad­di­tion, a con­nec­tion to the Double­Click ad­vert­ising net­work of Google is es­tab­lished.

If you are logged in to You­Tube when you ac­cess our site, You­Tube will as­sign the con­nec­tion in­form­a­tion to your You­Tube ac­count. To pre­vent this, you must either log out of You­Tube be­fore vis­it­ing our site or make the ap­pro­pri­ate set­tings in your You­Tube ac­count.

For the pur­pose of func­tion­al­ity and ana­lysis of us­age be­ha­vior, You­Tube per­man­ently stores cook­ies on your device via your browser. If you do not agree to this pro­cessing, you have the op­tion of pre­vent­ing the in­stall­a­tion of cook­ies by mak­ing the ap­pro­pri­ate set­tings in your browser. Fur­ther de­tails can be found in the sec­tion about cook­ies above.

Fur­ther in­form­a­tion about the col­lec­tion and use of data as well as your rights and pro­tec­tion op­tions in Google's pri­vacy policy found at

https://policies.google.com/privacy

 

Model Data Protection Statement for Anwaltskanzlei Weiß & Partner