Data privacy statement

General information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data with which you can be personally identified. You can find detailed information on data protection in our data privacy statement listed under this text.

Data collection on our website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website? The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the legal notice of this website.

How do we collect your data? Some of your data is collected when you provide it to us. This may be data that you enter in a contact form, for example. Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit the website. These are mainly technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of page access). 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 analyze your user behavior.

What rights do you have regarding your data? You have the right at any time to obtain information free of charge about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to demand the correction, blocking or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice if you have any further questions on the subject of data protection. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority.

Analysis tools and tools from third-party providers

When you visit our website, your surfing behavior can be statistically evaluated. This is mainly done with cookies and with so-called analysis programs. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous; the surfing behavior cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. You will find detailed information on this in the following data privacy statement.

You can object to this analysis. We will inform you about the objection options in this data privacy statement.

Service Reason for use Terms and conditions Activated

Cookies We use cookies to analyze visitor behavior.

2. General information and mandatory information

Data protection The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data privacy statement. When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified. This data privacy statement explains which data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens. We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Note on the responsible party Responsible party within the meaning of data protection law: Prof. Dr. Gerald Zimmermann Collinistr. 11 68161 Mannheim Telephone: 0621 43999811 E‑mail: contcat@zotu.org

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 (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).

Withdrawal of your consent to data processing
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent.
You can withdraw your consent at any time. An informal notification by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out until the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Right to lodge a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority In the event of data protection violations, the data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority. The responsible supervisory authority for data protection issues is the State Data Protection Officer of the federal state in which our company is based. A list of data protection officers and 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 that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another responsible party, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.

SSL or 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 recognize 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 framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient and the purpose of data processing and, if applicable, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice if you have any further questions on the subject of personal data.

Objection to advertising e-mails
The use of contact data published within the scope of the legal notice obligation for sending unsolicited advertising and information materials is hereby objected to. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e-mails.

3. Data protection officer Prof. Gerald Zimmermann

4. Data collection on our website

Server log files
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

• Browser type and browser version

• operating system used

• Referrer URL

• Hostname of the accessing computer

• Time of the server request

• IP address

This data will not be merged with other data sources. The basis for data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

3.Analysis Tool WP Statistics

Data protection at WP Statistics We use the WP Statistics plugin to analyze visitor traffic on our website. All data is stored exclusively on our own server – it is not passed on to third parties. In the following, we explain what information we collect with WP Statistics, why we do this and how the data is processed. If you have any questions or concerns about our data analysis, please contact us or read the WP Statistics data privacy statement.

What we do not collect:

• No cookies: No tracking cookies or similar identifiers are set in your browser.

• Anonymized IP address: Your IP address is processed anonymously (e.g. hashed) and cannot be traced back.

• No personal data: No data is stored that could personally identify you.

What we collect:

• Aggregated statistics such as page views, browser used or country of origin (based on anonymized data).

• Local data storage: All information is stored locally on our server and is not passed on to third parties.

6. Plugins and Tools

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YouTube

Our website uses plugins from the Google-operated site YouTube. The site operator is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. The YouTube server is informed which of our pages you have visited.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to directly associate your surfing behavior with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

The use of YouTube is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Further information on the handling of user data can be found in YouTube’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

Google Web Fonts

This page uses so-called web fonts, which are provided by Google, for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose, the browser you use must connect to Google’s servers. This gives Google knowledge that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.

Further information about Google Web Fonts can be found in the Google FAQs and in Google’s privacy policy.