General Information
This Privacy Policy informs you, among other things, about the processing of personal data when using our website. Personal data will only be processed in accordance with the relevant legal provisions and in accordance with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation.
Controller under the terms of the General Data Protection Regulation is Edukatico GmbH, Agnes-Bernauer-Straße. 151, 80687 Munich, Germany, Email: info@edukatico.org, Tel .: +49 - (0) 89 3303 6567. You can reach our data protection officer at Edukatico GmbH, c / o Data Protection Officer, Agnes-Bernauer-Straße. 151, 80687 Munich, Germany, via email to info@edukatico.org with subject: Data Protection Officer, Tel .: +49 - (0) 89 3303 6567.
The purpose of processing personal data is the operation and smooth and convenient use of our website and online services and offers, their marketing and ongoing improvements, including statistical analysis and analysis of the extent and nature of use. The processing is lawful in accordance with Article 6 of the General Data Protection Regulation, and our legitimate interest under Article 6 (1) (f) of the Data Protection Regulation is, in particular, to ensure the operation, marketing and optimization of our website and online offers.
Any personal data will be provided by you through use of our website and offers or after consent when registering on our site. Personal data will only be stored for as long as necessary to fulfill the processing purpose. You have the right to request access and/or rights to rectification, to erasure, to restriction of processing, to object to processing, and / or data portability with regard to your personal data. Consent can be revoked at any time. In addition, there is a right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority.
We use the SSL coding technology to improve the safe use of our website. Information about the security status is displayed in current versions of popular Internet browsers. We point out, however, that data transfer via the internet (including email) is subject to security risks and, therefore, complete protection against third-party access to transferred data cannot be ensured.
Cookies, Log Files
Our website makes use of so-called cookies in order to recognize repeat use of our website by the same user/internet connection subscriber. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser downloads and stores on your computer. In many cases these are so-called "session cookies" that are deleted once you leave our website. To some extent, however, these cookies also pass along information used to automatically recognize you. Recognition occurs through an IP address saved to the cookies. You may in many cases prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our website. For technical reasons, also data such as the following, which your internet browser transmits to us or to our web space provider (so called server log files), is collected: - type and version of the browser you use – computer type - operating system - websites that linked you to our site (referrer URL) - websites that you visit - date and time of your visit - your Internet Protocol (IP) address.
Registration, Contact Forms, Newsletter
We offer you the opportunity to register on our website. The information provided during registration and when using our registered user sections, either by entering information or as provided through your Internet-browser, is collected and stored solely for the operation of our website. By registering, you agree that you may receive communication via email from us or within the user area within the purpose of the registration functions. If you enter information such as a user name, learning goals, or a learning group name within the WeLearning function on our website, you agree that this information (excluding the email address) may be communicated to other users of the WeLearning function. You may cancel your registration at any time. On our website we offer you the opportunity to contact us, either by email and/or by using a contact form and to contact other users within the WeLearning function via direct messaging. In such an event, information provided by the user is stored for the purpose of facilitating communications with the user. No data is transferred to third parties. On our website we may offer you the opportunity to post comments or to interact with other users within the WeLearning function via text or videoconferencing. For this purpose, the IP address of the user/internet connection subscriber is stored. This information is stored for our security in the event the author through his/her activities infringes against third party rights and/or unlawful content is entered. No data is transferred to third parties. The content provided and communicated in learning groups or video conferences is the sole responsibility of the users participating in such communication; Edukatico GmbH does not have any responsibility or liability in this respect.
We also offer you the opportunity to upload profile pictures on our website. Images uploaded by you are saved by us and may be displayed to other users. A transfer to other third parties does not take place, if you have not expressly consented thereto. You have the right to change or delete the images you have uploaded at any time. The processing of the images takes place exclusively on servers that are within the scope of the GDPR. The processing of the images is justified due to your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR. You fully indemnify us against any and all claims that third parties may assert against us for infringement of their rights by any content or images posted by you through our services or for any other use of our services. You will bear our costs of any legal defense, including all legal and other costs. This does not apply if the infringement is not your fault. You agree to promptly, truthfully and completely provide any information to us necessary for the examination of the claims and any defense in the event of a third party claim.
Our website offers you the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter. To receive our newsletter, we require a valid email address. We will review the email address you provide for the purpose of determining whether you are in fact the owner of the email address provided or whether the actual owner of said address is authorized to receive the newsletter. When subscribing to our newsletter, we will store your IP address as well as the date and time you subscribed. This serves to protect us in the event a third party improperly and without your knowledge makes use of your email address to subscribe to our newsletter. The data thereby collected is used solely for the purpose of receiving our newsletter. You may cancel your subscription to the newsletter at any time, for example through a link within the newsletter. We use MailChimp to send our newsletter to our subscribers. MailChimp is a service provided by The Rocket Science Group, LLC, 512 Means Street, Suite 404, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA. The data stored when you registered for the newsletter (email address, name, IP address, and time and date of registration) will be sent to a server operated by The Rocket Science Group in the United States and stored there in accordance with its Safe Harbour Agreement. Further information about the data protection offered by MailChimp can be found at: http://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/ Our newsletter includes so-called web bugs that allow us to recognise if and when an email has been opened and which links in the email have been clicked by its recipient. This data may be stored by us so that we can best align our newsletter to the wishes and interests of our subscribers. Accordingly, the data thus collected may be used to send personalised newsletters.
Web / Analytics Services
The web and analytics services we use have also committed to work in accordance with applicable legal regulations and in accordance with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation.
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google“. Google Analytics employs so-called “cookies“, text files that are stored to your computer in order to facilitate an analysis of your use of the site. The information generated by these cookies, such as time, place and frequency of your visits to our site, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google’s location in the US and stored there. Google will use this information to evaluate your usage of our site, to compile reports on website activity for us, and to provide other services related to website- and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if this is required by law or to the extent this data is processed by third parties on Google´s behalf. You may prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our website. Google also offers a disabling option for the most common browsers, thus providing you with greater control over the data which is collected and processed by Google. If you enable this option, no information regarding your website visit is transmitted to Google Analytics. However, the activation does not prevent the transmission of information to us or to any other web analytics services we may use. For more information about the disabling option provided by Google, and how to enable this option, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en You can find additional information on data protection in Google Analytics here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en. Additional privacy information is provided by Google at the following link: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Our website employs the “+1“-buttom from Google+ belonging to Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google“. Each time our website receives an access request equipped with a “+1“ component, the component prompts your browser to download an image of this component from Google. Through this process, Google is informed which page of our website is being visited. As specified by Google, your visit undergoes additional analysis in the event you are not logged into your Google account. If you access our site while logged into Google and press the “+1" button, Google can collect information about your Google account, websites you recommend as well as your IP address, along with other browser-related information. This allows your “+1“ recommendation to be stored and publicized. Your Google “+1“ recommendation can then appear as a reference in other Google services, such as search results, your Google account or other places, such as on websites and ads in the internet, together with your account name and, if applicable, a picture you provided to Google. Furthermore, Google can link your visit to our site with data stored by Google. Google also records this information for the purpose of further improving Google services. If you wish to minimize the collection of information by Google as previously described, you must log out of your Google account before visiting our website. You can access Google‘s data protection policies relating to the “+1“ button together with all relevant information on the collection, transfer and use of data by Google, your rights in this regard as well as your profile settings options at the following link: https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy
We use the Google advertising tool "Google Adwords" to promote our website. As part of this, we use the "Conversion Tracking" analysis tool from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, "Google", on our website. If you have reached our website via a Google ad, a cookie will be stored on your computer. Cookies are small text files that your Internet browser stores and saves on your computer. If you visit certain pages on our website and the cookie has not expired yet, we and Google may recognize that you, as a user, have clicked on one of our Google-placed ads and have been redirected to our site. The information obtained through the "Conversion Cookies" is used by Google to create visitor statistics for our website. You can prevent the installation of "conversion cookies" by adjusting your browser accordingly, for example by a browser setting that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies or specifically blocks only the cookies from the domain "googleadservices.com" Google's respective data privacy comments can be found at the following link: https://services.google.com/sitestats/en.html
Our website employs components provided by facebook.com. Facebook is a service of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. Each time our website receives an access request equipped with a Facebook component, the component prompts your browser to download an image of this Facebook component. Through this process, Facebook is informed precisely which page of our website is being visited. When you access our site while logged into Facebook, Facebook uses information gathered by this component to identify the precise page you are viewing and associates this information to your personal account on Facebook. Whenever you click on the “Like“ button, for example, or enter a comment, this information is transmitted to your personal account on Facebook and stored there. In addition, Facebook is informed of your visit to our website. This occurs regardless of whether you click on a component or not. If you wish to prevent the transfer to and storage of data by Facebook about you and your interaction with our website, you must first log out of Facebook before visiting our website. The data protection policies of Facebook provide additional information, in particular about the collection and use of data by Facebook, your rights in this regard as well as the options available to you for protecting your privacy: https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/ In addition, tools are freely available on the market that can be used to block Facebook social plug-ins with add-ons from being added to all commonly used browsers: http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/ You can find an overview of Facebook plugins at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
Our website employs components provided by Twitter. Twitter is a service of Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. Each time our website receives an access request equipped with a Twitter component, the component prompts your browser to download an image of this component from Twitter. Through this process, Twitter is informed precisely which page of our website is being visited. We have no control over the data that Twitter collects in the process, or over the extent of the data that Twitter collects. Additional information may be obtained from the Twitter data privacy policy, at: http://twitter.com/privacy. You may change your data privacy settings in your account settings, at http://twitter.com/account/settings.
Our website employs components provided by the network XING.com. These components are a service of XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. Each time our website receives an access request equipped with a XING component, the component prompts your browser to download an image of this component from XING. Additional information may be found in the data privacy provisions relating to the XING Share-Button, at: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection
Our website employs components provided by the network LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a service of LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Each time our website receives an access request equipped with a LinkedIn component, the component prompts your browser to download an image of this component from LinkedIn. Through this process, LinkedIn is informed which page of our website is being accessed. By clicking the LinkedIn “recommend button“ while logged into your LinkedIn account, you can link content from our website to your LinkedIn profile. This allows LinkedIn to associate your visit to our site with your LinkedIn account. We have no control over the data that LinkedIn collects thereby, nor over the extent of the data that LinkedIn collects. Nor do we have any knowledge of the content of data transferred to LinkedIn. Details on data collection by LinkedIn as well as your rights in this regard and your browser setting options may be obtained from the LinkedIn data privacy policy, which may be accessed at: http://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
On our website we use components (videos) of YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave., 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, a company belonging to Google Inc., Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. When you display a page that has an embedded video, a connection will be made to the YouTube server and the content will appear on the website via a communication to your browser. According to the information provided by YouTube, data is transferred to the YouTube server, in particular which of our websites you have visited. If you are logged onto YouTube at the same time, this information will be matched to your YouTube member account. You can prevent this from happening by logging out of your member account before visiting our website. Further information about data protection by YouTube is provided by Google under the following link: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/
Our website employs components provided by Slideshare.com, a service of LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W. Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA. Personal information may be transferred to Slidewhare, Google Analytics and ComScore and stored in the US. In addition, a cookie is placed on your browser. We have no control over data collected by Slideshare.com or their processing operations. Nor are we familiar with the full extent of the data collected, the purposes for which is collected or any storage periods which may be specified by Slideshare.com. Additional information is available at http://www.slideshare.net/privacy.
Our website employs the bookmark service addthis.com. AddThis is a service of Oracle America, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065, USA. Each time our website receives an access request equipped with an AddThis component, the component prompts your browser to download an image of this component from AddThis. Through this process, AddThis is informed which page of our website is being accessed. In addition, addthis.com also records your IP address, browser type, browser language, the website previously accessed as well as the date and time you visited the site. This data allows AddThis and its partner companies to direct targeted personalized ads at website users based on their particular interests. The display of advertising material occurs based on a browser cookie put in place by addthis.com, which analyzes user interaction with the website. You can permanently prevent addthis.com from placing a cookie on your browser by downloading and installing the opt-out cookie available at the following link: http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our website. You can find the data privacy policies for AddThis at the following internet address, along with information about the collection and use of data by AddThis: http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy
We use Hotjar components on our site. Hotjar Limited is a company with company number C 65490 and located in Level 2, St Julian's Business Center, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julian's STJ 1000, Malta. The following information is collected in relation to a user's terminal and browser: IP address of the terminal (collected and stored anonymously); Screen resolution of the terminal; Terminal device type (individual terminal identification features), operating system and browser type; Geographical location (country only); Preferred language when displaying the Hotjar-based web page; Mouse events (movements, position and clicks), keystrokes. In a sample-like manner, Hotjar servers automatically record information collected from Hotjar-based websites. This data includes: domain referencing; Pages visited; Geographical location (country only); Preferred language when displaying the web page; Date and time when the pages of the website were accessed. Cookies are used to collect non-personal data, including standard Internet protocol data and behavioral information. Hotjar is committed to ensuring that your privacy is respected at all times in connection with your visit to the customer's website. For more information about Hotjar's privacy, please visit https://www.hotjar.com/privacy. You may refuse to collect your personal information by visiting the Hotjar Opt-out page (https://www.hotjar.com/opt-out) and by clicking "Disable Hotjar".
We use components of the provider Jitsi on our website. Jitsi refers to an open source videoconferencing project operated by Atlassian Ltd / Atlassian Inc, located at level 6 341 George Street Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia. Data may be transmitted to Jitsi or Atlassian and stored on their servers. A cookie may be set in your browser. We have no influence on the data collected by Jitsi / Atlassian and its data processing operations. For more information, see https://www.atlassian.com/legal/privacy-policy.
(Based on the Sample Data Privacy Policy Statement provided by the Law Offices of Weiß & Partner, and expanded and amended by further applicable regulations.)
