Privacy Notice

The ZEIT publishing group includes the following companies: Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius GmbH & Co. KG, ZEIT Online GmbH, ZEIT Digital GmbH, ZEIT Sprachen GmbH, ZEIT Akademie GmbH, Studio ZX GmbH, ZEIT Weltkunst Verlag GmbH, academics GmbH, Good Jobs GmbH, and e-fellows.net GmbH & Co. KG.

For example, we offer journalistic content, travel, products, seminars, events, and special offers for subscribers.

Websites have different functions and ways to interact. Sometimes you can view content or use an online form to contact us. On other pages, you can register. Depending on the website, the scope of data processing varies.

When you visit a website, technical usage data (so-called log data) is processed temporarily. This data is transmitted by your browser and includes, among other things, your computer’s IP address, the client request (file name and URL), the HTTP response code, and the website from which you came to our website.

The data processing described is permitted to protect legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). We depend on achieving the greatest possible reach for our companies and content. Operating a website is essential for this. The processing happens automatically and cannot be prevented. It is technically necessary in order to access a website.

The log data is deleted or anonymized as soon as it is no longer needed.

When you access the website, a so-called consent banner appears with information about data processing on your end device. There you will find details about the services we use and the cookies that are set. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your end device when you visit a website. Cookies are used to store information related to a website locally on your computer for a certain period of time and to transmit it back to a server upon request. This can serve different purposes.

Some of the data processing that takes place is legally permitted for providing the website (§ 25(2) TDDDG). This includes setting cookies that are strictly necessary for certain actions to work. Some processing only takes place if you have given your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, § 25(1) TDDDG). In the consent banner, you can agree to or refuse specific types of processing. You are not required to consent to the data processing options offered. However, you cannot prevent the technically necessary processing, as the website’s functionality could otherwise not be ensured.

Detailed information about the services used, the purposes of processing, the storage period, and other conditions can be found in the consent banner and in the following paragraphs.

We offer various options for contacting us (e.g., online contact form, email address). We process the data you provide in order to respond to your inquiry.

Data processing in a (pre-)contractual context is permitted by law (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR). Providing your personal data is necessary in order to communicate with us.

After the communication has been completed, we store your data for a period of 6 months. If you register with us or if another form of continued contact occurs, your data will continue to be stored and will only be deleted once the applicable statutory retention periods have expired.

You have the option to register using your email address and gain access to extended functions and content of the website. In this process, a user account linked to the email address is created, to which the actions you carry out on the website can be assigned.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data is the user relationship created by the registration (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). Providing your data is necessary for the registration, as otherwise no user account can be created for you.

Your data will be stored for the duration of the user relationship and any statutory retention obligations.

We regularly organise events and seminars on various topics. Registration is usually done online and, depending on the event, requires the provision of different data.

If you would like to register for one of our events, you can usually do so online. Depending on the event, different data is requested and passed on to our partners and sponsors (e.g. to create participant lists or name badges, or to enable the transmission of documents). If members of the constitutional bodies of the Federal Republic of Germany (e.g. politicians) are guests at an event or give a presentation, we are obliged to pass data on to the Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt) and other authorities. This allows potential sources of danger to be identified and, if necessary, appropriate risk-prevention measures to be taken. For some event formats, a list of participants is published in the printed programme at the conference.

The data processing that takes place in the course of running the event is permitted to enable your participation and to safeguard legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR). Our partners and sponsors are your subject-matter contacts and need the participants’ data for handling the event. The information marked with an asterisk is required for the organisation of our events and entitles you to attend. Any additional information is voluntary.

We store the data relating to your participation at least for the duration of the applicable statutory retention obligations. As a rule, this is 8 years.

Video and photo recordings are regularly made at our events. We, as well as our partners and sponsors, use them to document the event and present it to the public. The recordings may be published in print or digital form (e.g. on websites or social networks).

The processing of video and photo recordings is permitted to safeguard legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). We organise events that attract public attention, featuring personalities from business, politics and culture. There is an increased public interest in receiving information about the content of the event, the people attending, and the general conditions. As a rule, both group and individual recordings are made. As a participant, you can leave the recording area at any time.

Video and photo recordings are generally stored without any time limit. If they are published on the internet, they may also remain accessible there for an unlimited period.

Für die Veranstaltung haben wir einen geschlossenen Bereich auf der Webseite eingerichtet (Veranstaltungs-App). Sie können sich dort registrieren und weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung einsehen. Die von Ihnen angegebenen Kontaktdaten und weiteren Informationen (z.B. LinkedIn-Profil) können in der Veranstaltungs-App von anderen registrierten Personen eingesehen werden. Auf diese Weise wollen wir die gegenseitige Vernetzung und Kontaktaufnahme unterstützen.

Die Veröffentlichung von Kontaktdaten in einem nur für berechtigte Personen einsehbaren Bereich ist zur Ermöglichung Ihrer Teilnahme und zur Wahrung von berechtigten Interessen zulässig (Art. 6 Abs. 1 b), f) DSGVO). Bei der Veranstaltung geht es gerade darum, sich mit anderen zu vernetzen. Die Zugänglichmachung der Daten in der Veranstaltungs-App ist dazu gut geeignet und besser als das Tragen von Namensschildern.

Die Daten in der Veranstaltungs-App werden nach der Veranstaltung gelöscht.

Wir nutzen verschiedene Kommunikationskanäle, um mit Ihnen in Verbindung zu treten, Mitteilungen entgegenzunehmen oder Ihnen interessante Angebote und Informationen zukommen zu lassen. Werbliche Ansprache ist wichtig für unser Unternehmen, um wirtschaftlich erfolgreich zu sein. Sie können der Nutzung Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten zu werblichen Zwecken jederzeit widersprechen und / oder sich von unseren E-Mail-Newslettern über den Abmelde-Link am Ende jedes Newsletters austragen.

We offer various newsletters that you can subscribe to by providing your email address. You will then receive information about various offers (from us or from third parties).

Using your email address to send our newsletters depends on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). Providing your data is voluntary and has no effect on any contractual relationship you may have with us. If subscribing to a newsletter is a requirement for participating in a prize draw or receiving editorial content (e.g. in the form of an eBook), failure to provide the data means that you cannot participate or will not receive the content.

Your email address will be stored in our newsletter database for as long as your consent remains in place. As soon as you withdraw your consent, it will be deleted from the relevant database.

We use the email address you provide when you log in, register, place an order, or make a booking to send you advertising for our own similar offers.

The use of email addresses to send our own similar offers is expressly permitted by law and does not depend on consent (Section 7(3) UWG). However, providing your personal data in this context is voluntary, and you can object at any time (either by contacting us or via the link at the end of each advertising email).

If you object to the use for advertising purposes, your data will be deleted or blocked for advertising. Deletion is usually not possible because we must continue to store the data collected during a login, registration, order, or booking in order to comply with statutory retention obligations.

We process personal data in various systems and, depending on the processing activity, transfer it to other companies, public authorities or individuals. The location of the processing depends on our registered office as well as the locations of our service providers.

We use various processors, such as software providers, data centre operators, call centres and IT service providers. We have carefully selected these companies and concluded a data processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR. If, in addition to the companies listed in the Privacy Center, other processors are involved in the processing of data, they are listed below.

Some activities involve the disclosure of personal data to third parties. These may include providers of website tools, cooperation partners, shipping service providers or suppliers. These companies independently determine the purposes of further processing and must ensure compliance with data protection law. If, in addition to the companies already mentioned elsewhere, other third parties are involved in the processing of data, they are listed below.

As a rule, data processing takes place in the European Union and/or the European Economic Area. However, we also use applications and tools where a transfer of data to third countries cannot be ruled out. In such cases, we ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to guarantee an adequate level of data protection in these third countries. As a rule, the Standard Contractual Clauses provided by the European Commission have been agreed with the providers, or the provider is certified under the Data Privacy Framework.

Under the GDPR, data subjects generally have a number of rights. You can exercise these at any time. However, we are not always obliged to grant a right. For example, a request for erasure may be refused due to statutory retention obligations. Where processing is carried out under joint controllership, you may exercise your rights against any of the companies involved.

You have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and data portability (Art. 20 GDPR).

We have checked whether we are allowed to process your personal data. This applies in particular to all processing carried out for the purposes of legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). If you believe that a specific processing activity is not permissible, you can let us know. If, in your individual case, we come to the conclusion that we are indeed not permitted to process your data, we will stop doing so. If your objection relates to advertising messages, we will of course implement it immediately.

Some processing activities are based on consent you have given. You can withdraw this consent at any time with effect for the future. However, this does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out up to that point.

To exercise your data protection rights and for questions and complaints about data protection, please use only the email address datenschutz@holtzbrinck-berlin.com or our postal address.

You can contact our external Data Protection Officer by post at Herting Oberbeck Datenschutz GmbH, Hallerstr. 76, 20146 Hamburg, Germany, or by email at dsb@zeit.de.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint at any time with a data protection supervisory authority.

We maintain profiles on social networks in order to publish our content and to get in touch with users. Like you, we have created an account for this purpose and have agreed to the terms of use of the respective social network.

Responsibility for data processing differs from network to network. It may be separate controllership or joint controllership pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR and, in some cases, even processing on behalf pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR. The assessment results from the terms of use and integrated agreements of the platform providers, which we use (and must use) as the basis for our information.

The data processing that takes place when you access the social networks is specified by the providers. We can only provide information about the activities that are within our sphere of influence and that can be controlled by us.

Joint controllership

We use our Meta profile to make information publicly available, place advertisements and communicate with users. The data processing that takes place when a profile is accessed is carried out under joint controllership between us and the platform provider. For this reason, we have concluded an agreement pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR, which in particular governs the fulfilment of data subject rights.

The various Meta platforms are operated by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, D04 X2K5, Ireland. The provider is responsible for the lawfulness of the data processing via the respective social network. The company is represented by director Gareth Lambe. Meta Platforms Ireland Limited has appointed a Data Protection Officer, whom you can contact at any time.

You can exercise your data subject rights at any time against us or Meta Platforms Ireland Limited. As a rule, however, these rights can usually only be fulfilled by the latter, so we will forward such requests.

Insights data

When you access our profile, Insights data is collected and analysed. These are aggregated statistics created based on certain actions logged by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited. This mainly concerns how you interact with our profile and other content. We have no way to identify you via the Insights data or to assign it to a profile. Insights data is also collected from people who do not have an account. In that case, however, the user is asked for consent when accessing the platform – without it, no content can be viewed.

Meta Platforms Ireland Limited bases the lawfulness of processing Insights data on legitimate interests in the form of optimising advertisements (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). We use it ourselves to improve our profile and to provide content that is read by many people. To improve our reach, we need many views and a lot of traffic on our profile. The more we tailor the content to the interests of our users, the more likely we are to achieve this.

For us, the Insights data is part of the functions provided by the social network. The processing is governed by the terms of use that all profile owners must accept. When you created your own account, you therefore contractually permitted the processing. If you do not accept the terms of use, you cannot maintain a profile. In this respect, providing the Insights data is necessary for use.

The Insights data collected via our profile is processed in anonymised form. This means that the data is modified so that it can no longer, or only with a disproportionately large amount of time, cost and labour, be attributed to a specific or identifiable natural person.

Direct messages and likes

We use our account to get in touch with you and to interact with you. This is possible via direct messages, the like function or comments. In this context, the name stored in your profile is always displayed.

The lawfulness of this processing is based on legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Communicating with you is important to us in order to answer questions, address criticism and exchange information. This is the only way we can improve our services. You can use the various options for communication, but you do not have to. The content of our profile can be viewed independently of this.

Comments are stored on our profile for an unlimited period of time and can be viewed by other users until you delete the comment yourself. The same applies to using the like function. Direct messages are also stored, but are deleted at regular intervals.

Objection to the processing of Insights data

Since Insights data is also used for advertising purposes, there is generally a right to object pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR. Meta Platforms Ireland Limited provides various forms for exercising rights in its privacy policy. There you can object to the processing of data. You can also exercise this right against us, and we will then forward the request to the provider.

Please note that, if you object to the processing of Insights data, use of the platform may be limited or may no longer be possible at all.

Data disclosure and third-country transfers

Data processing takes place on servers of Meta Platforms Ireland Limited. Direct messages are seen and answered by our employees. All other actions are publicly visible.

Our profile on the social network can be accessed worldwide via the internet, meaning that access from countries without an adequate level of data protection is possible. Meta Platforms Ireland Limited has taken various measures to ensure an adequate level of data protection.

LinkedIn account and communication with users

We maintain various LinkedIn accounts in order to network with companies and individuals. There we present ourselves, share posts and interact with other LinkedIn users. In doing so, we can see the content published on your profile and use it to communicate with you. For example, we share and comment on posts, tag LinkedIn users or use the messaging function.

The data processing carried out directly by us is for the purposes of our legitimate business interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). We rely on the widest possible reach and therefore on professional networks such as LinkedIn. Making contact is facilitated by ongoing interaction with users and the information available in profiles. Communication with us and interaction with our profile is voluntary.

If you would like to learn more about data processing when using LinkedIn, please read the provider’s LinkedIn Privacy Policy (LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland).

Page Insights

When you visit our LinkedIn profile, follow the page or engage with it, LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company processes personal data in order to provide us with statistics and insights in anonymised form. This gives us insights into the types of actions people take on our page (so-called Page Insights). For this purpose, the social network processes in particular data that you have made available in your profile (e.g. job function, country, industry, seniority, company size and employment status). In addition, information is processed about how you interact with our LinkedIn company page. The processing serves our legitimate interest in analysing the types of actions taken on our LinkedIn company page and improving our company page based on these insights (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

With Page Insights, LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company does not provide us with any of your personal data. We only have access to aggregated and anonymised Page Insights. Nor is it possible for us to draw conclusions about individual members via Page Insights. The processing described is carried out by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company and us as joint controllers. For this reason, there is a joint controllership agreement pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR with the provider, which stipulates the following:

LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company is responsible for enabling you to exercise your rights under the GDPR. You can contact the company online or reach it via the contact details provided in the privacy policy. You can contact the Data Protection Officer via an online form. You can also contact us regarding the exercise of your rights in connection with the processing of personal data as part of Page Insights. In such a case, we will forward your request to the social network.

LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company and we have agreed that the Irish Data Protection Commission is the lead supervisory authority for monitoring the processing of data via Page Insights. You always have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission (see www.dataprotection.ie) or with any other supervisory authority.

Recipients of data

We use LinkedIn only as a platform and comply with the provider’s terms of use. We ourselves have no influence on which data is processed when our profile is accessed or who can see your profile. In this respect, like you, we are only a user.

However, we have employees who take care of our LinkedIn profiles. Incoming messages are viewed and processed by them. Depending on how you interact with our content, your profile and your publications may be seen by other users. When using LinkedIn, data is transferred to third countries outside the European Union and the European Economic Area. According to the provider, this is legitimised by Standard Contractual Clauses.

Storage period

If you leave a comment, it will be stored on our profile for an unlimited period of time (until you delete it). The same applies to using the like function. Direct messages to us are also stored, but are deleted at regular intervals.

Verantwortlichkeit

Der Kurznachrichtendienst Bluesky wird angeboten und betrieben von der Bluesky, PBC d.b.a. Bluesky, 548 Market St #81652 San Francisco, CA 94104-5401, USA. Die datenschutzrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit liegt allein dort.

Nutzung von Bluesky

Wir verwenden BlueSky und die darüber bereitgestellten Funktionen zum Teilen von Informationen und zur Kommunikation mit anderen Nutzern. Dabei halten wir uns an die Nutzungsbedingungen, denen wir bei der Anlage unseres Profils zugestimmt haben.

Wir haben keinen Einfluss auf die stattfindende Datenverarbeitung. Informationen dazu finden Sie in der Datenschutzerklärung von BlueSky. Sie nutzen den Kurznachrichtendienst in eigener Verantwortung und müssen selbst entscheiden, ob Sie mit der Datenverarbeitung durch die Bluesky, PBC d.b.a. Bluesky einverstanden sind. Dies gilt insbesondere für die Nutzung der interaktiven Funktionen sowie die Datenverarbeitung in Ländern außerhalb der EU und des EWR.

Der Anbieter stellt weitere Informationen in seinen FAQ bereit.

Verantwortlichkeit

Das berufliche soziale Netzwerk XING wird angeboten von der New Work SE, Am Strandkai 1, 20457 Hamburg. Die datenschutzrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit liegt allein dort, sofern keine Zusatzdienste wie der onlyfy Bewerbungsmanagers genutzt werden. Wir unterhalten nur ein Unternehmensprofil bei XING und nehmen keine solchen Zusatzdienste in Anspruch. Der Vertrag über gemeinsame Verantwortlichkeit und die damit zusammenhängenden Informationen gelten daher nicht.

Nutzung von XING

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