Privacy policy

The website of the joint project „European Times / Europäische Zeiten“ and its subdomains (the website), which is accessible via www.european-times.eu is operated by the Forum Transregionale Studien e.V., Wallotstraße 14, 14193 Berlin (the “Forum” or “we”). In this privacy policy, we wish to inform you about any processing of personal data when you browse on or use the features and functions of our site. With this privacy policy we also fulfil our obligation to inform data subjects pursuant to the General “Data Protection Regulation” and the Federal Data Privacy Law (the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, “BDSG”).

Visitors’ personal data are collected and processed solely to the extent described in this data protection declaration.

Web Analytics

This website does not apply a web analytics service

Cookies

When you visit the Forum’s website, we will store small text files called cookies on your device.

We use cookies to make your visit on our site more enjoyable and to provide you with certain functions. The external services we use that place cookies in your browser are SoundCloud, Youtube, and Vimeo.

You can set the respective options on your device to accept or reject cookies generally or to be asked in each specific case. Browsers differ in the way they administer cookie settings. The help menu of your browser will explain how you can change your cookie settings.

Which data are collected and for what purpose?

Avoiding and solving technical problems

When you visit our site, your browser automatically sends information to the Forum’s web server. This information is saved in a log file, stored there for a period of 2 months, and then deleted. We process this information to ensure a steady and reliable connection between you and our site and to solve any technical problems. The data involved are:

  • Your IP address
  • Date and time of the visit
  • Kind and version of the browser
  • Operating system
  • URL of the websites visited earlier, if they are linked to us
  • Requested domain/resource
  • Domain name of the requesting Internet service provider
  • Report of successful data access
  • Search term if a search machine is used

The aforementioned purposes also constitute the legitimate interests we pursue with processing the data (Art. 6 par. 1 lit. f) GDPR).

Vimeo

To play videos on this website, the Forum uses services of the video streaming service Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street New York, New York 10011. You may recognize such embedded videos by the Vimeo logo on our page. When you access such a page with an embedded video, Vimeo establishes a connection between your device and its servers. Additionally, Vimeo will store cookies on your device, which are required to provide you with the functions of Vimeo’s video player. The Forum has no influence on these connections and the further processing of your data by Vimeo Inc. If and insofar as personal data is processed, the legal grounds for such processing is our legitimate interest in providing you with the functions of the Vimeo player and to include videos on our Site (Art. 6 par. 1 lit. f) GDPR).  For more information on how Vimeo processes your personal data, please refer to Vimeo’s privacy policy.

Vimeo processes personal data in the US, hence, in a third country outside of the EU. However, an adequate level of protection is ensured since Vimeo is certified under the EU-US-Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/.

Youtube

To play videos on this website, the Forum uses services of the video streaming service Youtube (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). You may recognize such embedded videos by the Youtube logo on our page. When you access such a page with an embedded video, Google establishes a connection between your device and its servers. Additionally, Google will store cookies on your device, which are required to provide you with the functions of Youtube’s video player. The Forum has no influence on these connections and the further processing of your data by Google. If and insofar as personal data is processed, the legal grounds for such processing is our legitimate interest in providing you with the functions of the Youtube player and to include videos on our site (Art. 6 par. 1 lit. f) GDPR). For more information on how Google processes your personal data, please refer to Google’s privacy policy.

Google processes personal data in the US, hence, in a third country outside of the EU. However, an adequate level of protection is ensured since Vimeo is certified under the EU-US-Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/.

SoundCloud

We present audio material on some of our website’s pages using the services provided by SoundCloud. SoundCloud is operated by SoundCloud Ltd. with headquarters at Rheinsberger Str. 76/77, 10115 Berlin, Deutschland. When you visit a page, which contains such plugins a connection is established with the SoundCloud servers. This provides the SoundCloud server with information about the pages you have visited on our website. If you are logged onto SoundCloud as a member, then SoundCloud may automatically assign this information to your personal user account. When you activate the plugin (e.g. by clicking the start button of an audio file), the corresponding information is also assigned to your user account. You can prevent the automatic assignment of this information by logging out of your SoundCloud account and deleting its respective cookies before logging onto our website. Soundcloud is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. For more information about data processing and SoundCloud’s privacy policies, go here: https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy

Data security

To ensure that your data is processed in a secure way during transmission, we use encryption in accordance with the state of the technology, including SSL (Secure Socket Layer).

We implement technical and organizational measures to secure our Site and other systems against the loss, destruction, access, alteration, or dissemination of your data by unauthorized persons.

Providing data to third parties

We do not transfer personal data to third parties in a non-compliant way.

This website and all other connected systems are hosted on the Forum’s servers. In certain cases we may use the help of external service providers (especially technical service providers).

Your personal data will only be conveyed to state institutions and authorities in legally essential cases or for criminal prosecution based on attacks on our network infrastructure. The data are not transmitted to third parties for other purposes.

Obligation to provide personal data and automated decision making pursuant to Art. 22 GDPR

There is no no statutory or contractual requirement for you to provide us with personal data. However, without any data we may not be able to provide yout with our services. We do not use automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) GDPR.

Contact data of the processor and the data protection officer

The processor pursuant to the GDPR and other, national data protection laws is

Forum Transregionale Studien e.V.
Wallotstr. 14
D-14193 Berlin

Phone: +49 (30) 89001-430

E-Mail: datenschutz(at)trafo-berlin.de
Contact: https://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/kontakt.html
Internet: https://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/

Our data protection officer is

Dr. Christian Boulanger

E-Mail: datenschutz(at)trafo-berlin.de