Privacy Policy – englisch-hilfen.de

1. An overview of data protection

The following gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our website. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy found below.

Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?

The data collected on this website are processed 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?

Some data are collected when you provide it to us by yourself. This could, for example, be data you enter on the registration form for our Forum.

Other data are collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. These data are primarily technical data such as the browser and operating system you are using or when you accessed the page. These data are collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

Analysis of your data

When visiting our website, statistical analyses may be made of your surfing behavior. This happens primarily using cookies and analytics. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous, i.e. we will not be able to identify you from this data. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Details can be found in our privacy policy under the heading "Analytics and advertising."

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure the proper functioning of the website. With other data, we can statistically analyze your user behavior on the Internet (for example via so-called cookies). Such analyzes are anonymous and can not be traced back to your person. You can object to this analysis. Details can be found in our privacy policy under the heading "Analytics and advertising."

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You always have the right to request information about your stored data, its origin, its recipients, and the purpose of its collection at no charge. You can contact us at any time using the address given in the legal notice if you have further questions about the issue of privacy and data protection.

Is the transfer of your data encrypted?

Yes. This website uses encryption. This is to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing your data.

Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

External Hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (host). Personal data collected on this website are stored on the servers of the host. These may include, but are not limited to, IP addresses, contact requests, metadata and communications, contract information, contact information, names, web page access, and other data generated through a web site.

The host is used for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR) and in the interest of secure, fast, and efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

Our host will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil its performance obligations and to follow our instructions with respect to such data.

Execution of a contract data processing agreement

In order to guarantee processing in compliance with data protection regulations, we have concluded an order processing contract with our host.

Data protection

General information and mandatory information

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

If you use this website, various pieces of personal data will be collected. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what information we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

Please note that data transmitted via the internet (e.g. via email communication) may be subject to security breaches. Complete protection of your data from third-party access is not possible.

Notice concerning the party responsible for this website

The party responsible for processing data on this website is:

Jörg Pöhland
Schulstr. 28
08248 Klingenthal

Telephone: +49 175 - 3554473
email: mail@englisch-hilfen.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.).

Information on data transfer to the USA

Our website uses, in particular, tools from companies based in the USA. When these tools are active, your personal information may be transferred to the US servers of these companies. We must point out that the USA is not a safe third country within the meaning of EU data protection law. US companies are required to release personal data to security authorities without you as the data subject being able to take legal action against this. The possibility cannot therefore be excluded that US authorities (e.g. secret services) may process, evaluate and permanently store your data on US servers for monitoring purposes. We have no influence over these processing activities.

Right to object to data collection in special cases and direct mail (Article 21 GDPR)

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to object, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, at any time, to processing of personal data concerning him or her, which is based on point (e) or (f) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

We will no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

If we processs personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her for such marketing. This applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If the data subject objects to us to the processing for direct marketing purposes, we will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.

Revocation of your consent to the processing of your data

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

Right to file complaints with regulatory authorities

If there has been a breach of data protection legislation, the person affected may file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities. The competent regulatory authority for matters related to data protection legislation is the data protection officer of the German state Saxony in which our company is headquartered. Their contact details can be found at the following link:
https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html

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 or TLS encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and for the protection of the transmission of confidential content, such as the inquiries you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection in your browser's address line when it changes from "http://" to "https://" and the lock icon is displayed in your browser's address bar.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transfer to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, blocking, deletion

As permitted by law, you have the right to be provided at any time with information free of charge about any of your personal data that is stored as well as its origin, the recipient and the purpose for which it has been processed. You also have the right to have this data corrected, blocked or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in our legal notice if you have further questions on the topic of personal data.

Opposition to promotional emails

We hereby expressly prohibit the use of contact data published in the context of website legal notice requirements with regard to sending promotional and informational materials not expressly requested. The website operator reserves the right to take specific legal action if unsolicited advertising material, such as email spam, is received.

2. 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 in your device's memory until you delete them. These cookies make it possible to recognize your browser when you next visit the site.

You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Cookies which are necessary to allow electronic communications or to provide certain functions you wish to use (such as the shopping cart) are stored pursuant to Art. 6 paragraph 1, letter f of GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure an optimized service provided free of technical errors. If other cookies (such as those used to analyze your surfing behavior) are also stored, they will be treated separately in this privacy policy.

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 the server request
  • IP address

The IP addresses in the server logfiles will be deleted after 90 days.

These data will not be combined with data from other sources.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.

Registration on this website (Forum)

You can register on our website in order to access additional functions offered here. The input data will only be used for the purpose of using the respective site or service for which you have registered. The mandatory information requested during registration must be provided in full. Otherwise, we will reject your registration.

Attention: Minors under the age of 16 are only allowed to register with the consent of their parents or their legal guardian.

To inform you about important changes such as those within the scope of our site or technical changes, we will use the email address specified during registration.

We will process the data provided during registration only based on your consent per Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

We will continue to store the data collected during registration for as long as you remain registered on our website. Statutory retention periods remain unaffected.

We store the IP addresses of those users who register in our forum. Since we do not check postings in our forum before they go live, we need this information to be able to pursue action for illegal content.

Your information is collected via two ways. Firstly, by browsing “Englisch Forum - Englisch lernen und üben” will cause the phpBB software to create a number of cookies, which are small text files that are downloaded on to your computer’s web browser temporary files. The first two cookies just contain a user identifier (hereinafter “user-id”) and an anonymous session identifier (hereinafter “session-id”), automatically assigned to you by the phpBB software. A third cookie will be created once you have browsed topics within “Englisch Forum - Englisch lernen und üben” and is used to store which topics have been read, thereby improving your user experience.

We may also create cookies external to the phpBB software whilst browsing “Englisch Forum - Englisch lernen und üben”, though these are outside the scope of this document which is intended to only cover the pages created by the phpBB software. The second way in which we collect your information is by what you submit to us. This can be, and is not limited to: posting as an anonymous user (hereinafter “anonymous posts”), registering on “Englisch Forum - Englisch lernen und üben” (hereinafter “your account”) and posts submitted by you after registration and whilst logged in (hereinafter “your posts”).

Your account will at a bare minimum contain a uniquely identifiable name (hereinafter “your user name”), a personal password used for logging into your account (hereinafter “your password”) and a personal, valid email address (hereinafter “your email”). Your information for your account at “Englisch Forum - Englisch lernen und üben” is protected by data-protection laws applicable in the country that hosts us. Any information beyond your user name, your password, and your email address required by “Englisch Forum - Englisch lernen und üben” during the registration process is either mandatory or optional, at the discretion of “Englisch Forum - Englisch lernen und üben”. In all cases, you have the option of what information in your account is publicly displayed. Furthermore, within your account, you have the option to opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated emails from the phpBB software.

Your password is ciphered (a one-way hash) so that it is secure. However, it is recommended that you do not reuse the same password across a number of different websites. Your password is the means of accessing your account at “Englisch Forum - Englisch lernen und üben”, so please guard it carefully and under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with “Englisch Forum - Englisch lernen und üben”, phpBB or another 3rd party, legitimately ask you for your password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use the “I forgot my password” feature provided by the phpBB software. This process will ask you to submit your user name and your email, then the phpBB software will generate a new password to reclaim your account.

3. Analytics, advertising and tools

etracker

Our website uses the analysis service etracker. The provider of this service is the etracker GmbH, Erste Brunnenstraße 1, 20459 Hamburg, Germany. It makes it possible to generate a user profile under a pseudonym based on the data. Etracker doesn't use cookies on our website. Data collected with the etracker technologies shall not be used in the absence of a separate declaration of consent given by the data subject to personally identify users of our website and shall not be merged with personal data about the holder of the pseudonym.

The collection of this data is based per Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR.

You may object to the collection and archiving of data at any time, which shall affect all future transactions. To object to any collection and storage of data with future effect, click on the following button. This will result in the placement of an opt out cookie under the name "_et_oi_v2" by etracker. In the future, this will have the effect that visitor data from your browser will no longer be collected and archived for this domain by etracker. Please do not delete this specific cookie as long as you want to uphold your objection. For more information, please consult the Data Protection Policies of etracker at: https://www.etracker.com/en/data-privacy/.

Execution of a contract data processing agreement

We have entered into a contract data processing agreement with etracker and implement the strict provisions of the German data protection agencies when it comes to the use of etracker to their fullest extent.

Web Push Notifications

If you enable web push notifications in your browser, a service of that particular browser will be used to provide this feature. For sending push messages, only anonymous or pseudonymous data is transmitted. You can object to the receipt of notifications at any time through the settings of your browser. For information about opting out of web push notifications for each browser, see Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari & Opera.

Google reCAPTCHA

We use „Google reCAPTCHA“ (hereinafter referred to as „reCAPTCHA“) on this website. The provider is Google Ireland Limited („Google“), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to determine whether data entered on this website (e.g. information entered into a contact form) is being provided by a human user or by an automated program. To determine this, reCAPTCHA analyses the behaviour of the website visitors based on a variety of parameters. This analysis is triggered automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the site. For this analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates a variety of data (e.g. IP address, time the website visitor spent on the site or cursor movements initiated by the user). The data tracked during such analyses are forwarded to Google.

reCAPTCHA analyses run entirely in the background. Website visitors are not alerted that an analysis is underway.

The data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. It is in the website operators legitimate interest, to protect the operator’s web content against misuse by automated industrial espionage systems and against SPAM.

For more information about Google reCAPTCHA please refer to the Google Data Privacy Declaration and Terms Of Use under the following links: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en.

Usage-based online advertising with third-party providers

In order to be able to provide advertising that is relevant and tailored to your interests, an attempt is made to derive conclusions about current interests based on website visits and surfing behavior.

With this type of service, this website may use user data to communicate advertising in the form of banners and other marketing methods, possibly based on the user's interests. For the purpose of re-targeting (retargeting, remarketing) of website visitors, as well as for the purpose of measuring success, cookies from third parties (so-called third-party cookies) are used and, if necessary, user profiles are created under a pseudonym. These can be evaluated for advertising and monitoring purposes. A direct conclusion on a person is not possible.

Advertising cookies are used for the following purposes, for example:

  • Storage of your website visits to determine your interests
  • Check if you have clicked on an advertisement
  • Monitor the number of visitors who click on an advertisement
  • Use third-party services to display advertising tailored to your needs, interests or preferences
  • Determine which advertising, advertising materials are efficient
  • Displaying advertisements for products that you have previously clicked on or searched for
  • Measurement of the number of advertisements shown so that the same advertisements are not always shown
  • Display other interesting advertisements based on your use of our website
  • Evaluate which ads you clicked on before buying products
  • Number of orders placed due to advertising and their monetary value

For further information, please refer to the data protection declarations of the respective services. In addition to any exclusion (e.g. opt-out) option offered by the listed services, the user may opt-out of the use of cookies by third party services. Adjustments of the consent can be configured in the Consent Management Tool:

Click here to revoke your choice

The Consent Management Tool is provided by Traffective GmbH. Traffective participates in the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework and works according to its specifications and guidelines. Traffective transmits consent signals via its management platform with the identification number 21.

Please note that some of the services rely on legitimate interests and need your opt-out within the management tool.

Some of the services listed in the Consent Management Tool transmit data to the USA. As far as this is the case, the transmission is exclusively based on your consent according to art. 49 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You give your consent by selecting the appropriate option in the Consent Management Tool, which is displayed when you call up our site.

For data transfers to the USA there is no EU adequacy decision, nor does the provider process the data according to standard data protection clauses approved by the EU Commission. This means that data transferred to these providers is not protected according to the standard of the GDPR. The provider is subject to the law of the USA and may therefore be obliged to hand over data to secret services if the relevant legal requirements are met. Risks for the persons concerned exist in particular due to the more difficult enforcement of the law, the lack of control when processing or passing on the data and the above-mentioned access by government agencies. In addition, language barriers can hinder law enforcement.

 

November 2020