PRIVACY POLICY

Our business is built upon trust. Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung considers our client’s trust in the protection of corporate and personal data (data privacy) to be of great value. In Addition to that, Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung abides to all essential data protection acts and is willing to continuously improve data protection.
For the purpose of this online privacy statement, websites are all pages which were operated by Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung . With regard to this, Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung acts as service provider in terms of the German Teleservice Act (TMG) and is controller as provided for in the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG).

COLLECTION, PROCESSING AND USE OF PERSONAL DATA

Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung collects, processes and uses personal data only as far as this is allowed or provided by the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) or other legal provisions or if the data subject has given consent.

COLLECTION AND USE OF DATA FOR THE PROVISION AND USE OF EARLY BRAND WEBSITE; ACCOUNT SETTINGS

Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung collects and uses personal data for the provision of websites only in case this is allowed by TMG or other legal provisions or if the user has given his or her consent. Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung may use the collected personal data made available for the provision of websites for other purposes only if this is allowed by TMG or other legal provisions or if the user has given consent.

USE OF COOKIES, JAVASCRIPT AND WEB BEACONS

Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung makes use of Cookies, JavaScript and web beacons in order to improve representation and navigation of Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung website. Cookies are text files that were sent to the browser by the web server. Such a file contains the URL visited, the date of visit as well as an expiration date that determines the period of the activity of the cookie. Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung uses cookies to determine preferred areas on Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung websites. Moreover, users were enabled to save personal settings so that they will be available the next time the web server is accessed. In order to determine preferred Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung website areas an aggregated statistic is conducted. You may choose whether to accept cookies or not. Also, you may configure your browser in a way that you were notified in case cookies were used. Also, you may exercise your legal right to object by rejecting cookies in the browser’s configuration. If you do not wish to accept cookies you probably do not make use of the website’s functions to full extent. Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung applies JavaScript and web beacons in order to analyze website visits. JavaScript collects various information on the visitor’s computer. For example: IP address, time of access, browser type and existence of cookies that were set before the visit. The data are delivered to Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung via web beacons. You may deactivate calls to JavaScript on your browser. Furthermore, you may deactivate web beacons by rejecting or deactivating cookies connected with it.

WEBSITES USING GOOGLE ANALYTICS

Our website www.wolfgang-ritter-stiftung.de uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies (see above). The information generated by cookies about your use of the website were transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the USA. In case of an IP anonymization, Google will shorten your IP address within Member States of the European Union or other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and truncated by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of this, website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. According to Google your IP-address transmitted by your browser will not be combined with other data stored by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. Please note that in case of a cookie rejection you may not be able to use our website’s functionalities to the full extent. Moreover, you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data generated by cookies including your IP address by installing browser plug-in available under tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF APPS

The use of applications that are made available by Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung for smart phones and tablet computers (apps) is analyzed via device-ID. This analysis is carried out anonymously. Therefore, Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung is not able to draw any conclusions regarding the device user.

SPECIFIC WOLFGANG-RITTER-STIFTUNG -WEBSITES, PRIVACY NOTICES AND CONSENTS

In addition to the privacy notices given above, specific privacy information, e.g. newsletters or studies, are applicable with regard to the use of specific Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung websites. If a separate legitimacy for collection of personal data is needed, users shall give their agreements.

DATA PROTECTION OFFICER OF WOLFGANG-RITTER-STIFTUNG

For general questions or suggestions with regard to data protection please contact Wolfgang-Ritter-Stiftung data protection officer via datenschutz@earlybrands.de.