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Thank you for your interest in our website. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below we inform you in detail about the handling of your data.
The data controller is the
Secretariat for the Four Autochthonous National Minorities and Ethnic Groups
, represented by its director, Roman Kühn
, Englische Straße 30,
, 10587 Berlin,
. Phone: +49 (0) 30-18681 17940
Email: info@minderheitensekretariat.de
In our data protection declaration, we explain to you in which processes we collect and store your data and for what purpose this happens. If we do not answer your questions completely, please contact our responsible person (contact details under 1.).
a. Purpose and legal basis of data processing. We process your data for the purpose of ensuring that you can use our website without any problems, for processing your inquiries and for handling the contracts concluded with you. The legal basis for data processing is Article 6 para. 1 of the General Data Protection Regulation.
b. Deletion or Blocking of Data When the Purpose No Longer Applies
As a general rule, we adhere to the principles of data minimization and limited storage. We store your personal data only for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes described for the individual measures. Once the purpose no longer applies, we will delete your data. If the law requires us to retain the data for a longer period, we will delete it after the statutory retention period has expired.
c. Rights to Access, Correction, Restriction, Deletion, and Objection
You have the right to access your personal data stored by us at any time. If the data we have stored is incorrect, you have the right to have it corrected.
You may request the deletion of your personal data at any time, provided that we no longer need the data to fulfill a contract with you. Furthermore, statutory retention requirements may prevent the erasure of your data. In this case, however, you have the right to have your data blocked.
To exercise the rights described above, please contact our data controller (contact information under 1.).
d. Right to File a Complaint
You have the right to file a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.
e. Encryption
To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art SSL encryption via HTTPS.
f. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We will always update our Privacy Policy to comply with current legal requirements. The need for such updates may also arise as a result of expanding our range of services. If you visit our website again, the new Privacy Policy will apply.
a. Collection of Traffic Data
You can visit our site without actively providing any personal information. We collect the access data that your web browser transmits to us. This includes:
• Browser type/version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL (the previously visited page)
• Hostname of the accessing computer (IP address)
• Time of the server request
• Duration of visit and subpages visited.
This data is collected exclusively for technical reasons and stored for the duration of your visit to our website. They do not allow us to draw any conclusions about your person. However, your provider could identify your Internet connection based on the IP address stored with us.
b. Data Deletion
We store your data only for the duration of your visit to our website. We automatically delete it as soon as your browser closes our website.
c. Statistical Analysis
For statistical analysis, we process your traffic data using analytics tools, which we explain in more detail below.
We use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard drive. Through this, we automatically receive certain data such as IP address, browser used, operating system about your computer and your connection to the Internet.
Cookies cannot be used to run programs or transmit viruses to a computer. The information contained in cookies allows us to make navigation easier for you and ensure that our web pages display correctly.
Under no circumstances will the data we collect be disclosed to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.
Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. You can disable the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings. Please use the help functions of your Internet browser to learn how to change these settings. Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.
If you contact us by e-mail, we collect and store the information you provide for the purpose of processing the request and any follow-up questions. We automatically delete your data twelve months after the last contact.
When you sign up for our newsletter, we collect and store the information you provide during registration. As a registered newsletter subscriber, you will receive our newsletter as well as any related information (e.g., regarding changes to our newsletter offerings or the technical requirements for receiving it). Signing up for our newsletter uses the “double opt-in” process. This means that after you sign up, we’ll send you an email with a confirmation link. Your registration isn’t complete until you’ve clicked that link.
You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for the newsletter dispatch at any time. In each newsletter there is a link with the revocation option. However, you can also communicate the revocation at any time by any means of communication (contact details above under 1.)
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. (“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 our 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 truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On our behalf, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other data from Google. 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 disable Google Analytics.
In addition to or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our website by clicking this link. Doing so will install an opt-out cookie on your device. This will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data for this website and for this browser in the future.
Please note: You must not delete the opt-out cookie as long as you do not want to be tracked by Google Analytics. If you have deleted all cookies in your browser, you will need to set the opt-out cookie again.
Our website uses services of the video provider YouTube. The operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you use the button provided on our website to call up the videos we have stored on YouTube, a connection is established to the YouTube servers in the USA. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited. It can be assumed that this data is evaluated to create a profile.
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.
In addition, it can be assumed that YouTube deposits a cookie during your first visit to the YouTube website or, if you have visited the YouTube website before, has already deposited it, which enables YouTube to record and evaluate your use of our website independently of a call to YouTube via the button deposited on our website.
For more information on the handling of user data, please see YouTube’s privacy policy.
We use “plugins” from facebook (Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA). Via plugins, personal data is transmitted to facebook and used. We prevent the unknowing and unwanted collection and transmission of data through a 2-click solution. This means that the plugin will not be activated until you click on it. With this you open the collection and transmission of data to facebook. We do not collect any personal data via the plugin.
Please note: The type and extent of data use opened via the plugin is determined solely by facebook. We have no influence on what data an activated plugin collects and how facebook uses it. For information about this, please refer to facebook’s privacy policy.
It can be assumed that at least your IP address and device-related information will be collected and used. It is also technically possible to install cookies on your computer. If you are logged into facebook via the same computer while using our website, facebook can identify you as a visitor to our website.
