Privacy Policy

With this Privacy Policy, we would like to inform you about the nature, scope, and purpose of the processing of personal data (hereinafter also referred to simply as "data"). Personal data is any data that has a personal reference to you, e.g. your name, address, email address, or your user behavior. This Privacy Policy applies to all data processing operations carried out by us, both in the context of our core activities and for the online media we maintain.

Who is responsible for data processing at our organization

The party responsible for data processing is:

Provinzlärm e. V.Gerald EckertReeperbahn 20a24340 EckernfördeGermanypost@provinzlaerm.comhttps://www.provinzlaerm.com/impressum

Processing of your data in the context of our organization's core activities

If you are a member or supporter of our organization, have a business relationship with us, or are interested in our activities, the nature, scope, and purpose of the processing of your data is governed by the membership, contractual, or pre-contractual relationship that exists between us. The data we process includes all data that we need to administer or process the membership or business relationship with you, or to handle your inquiry or support contribution.

The processing of your data is limited to the data necessary and appropriate for the aforementioned purposes. We will inform you of what data this is before or at the time of data collection.

Your data will only be passed on to third parties if this is necessary for the purpose of organizing our organization, processing financial accounting, and complying with legal obligations. Where we use third-party providers to perform our services, the terms and conditions and privacy notices of the respective third-party providers apply.

Data concerned:

• Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses)
• Payment data (e.g. bank details, invoices)
• Contact data (e.g. email address, telephone number, postal address)
• Contract data (e.g. subject matter of contract, duration of contract)

Data subjects: Interested parties, members, business and contractual partners

Purpose of processing: Administration of members and support services, processing of contractual relationships, communication and responding to contact inquiries, office and organizational procedures

Legal basis: Performance of contract and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR; legal obligation, Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR; legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR

Your rights under the GDPR

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights, which you may exercise at any time against the controller identified in Section 1 of this Privacy Policy:

• Right of access: You have the right to request information from us about whether and what data we process about you.
• Right to rectification: You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate or the completion of incomplete data.
• Right to erasure: You have the right to request the deletion of your data.
• Right to restriction: In certain cases, you have the right to request that we only process your data to a limited extent.
• Right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transmit your data to you or to another controller in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
• Right to lodge a complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority is that of your habitual place of residence, your place of work, or our registered office.

Right to withdraw consent

‍You have the right to withdraw your consent to data processing at any time.

Right to object

‍You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your data that we base on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If you exercise your right to object, we ask you to provide the reasons for your objection. We will then no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate to you that there are compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests and rights.

Regardless of the above, you have the right at any time to object to the processing of your personal data for the purposes of advertising and data analysis.

Please address your objection to the contact address of the controller provided above.

When do we delete your data?

We delete your data when we no longer need it or when you instruct us to do so. This means that — unless otherwise stated in the individual privacy notices in this Privacy Policy — we delete your data:

• when the purpose of the data processing no longer applies and the relevant legal basis cited in the individual privacy notices no longer exists, e.g.:
  • after termination of the contractual or membership relationship between us (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), or
  • after our legitimate interest in further processing or storing your data has ceased (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR),
• when you exercise your right to withdraw consent and no other legal basis for processing under Art. 6(1)(b)–(f) GDPR applies,
• when you exercise your right to object and there are no compelling legitimate grounds that override the deletion.

Where we must, however, retain (certain parts of) your data for other purposes — such as statutory retention periods (generally 6 years for business correspondence and 10 years for accounting records), or the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims from contractual relationships (up to four years), or where the data is needed to protect the rights of another natural or legal person — we will only delete (that part of) your data after these periods have expired. Until then, we limit the processing of this data to these purposes (fulfillment of retention obligations).

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files consisting of a series of numbers and letters that are stored on the device you are using. Cookies are primarily used to exchange information between the device you are using and our website. This includes, for example, language settings on a website, login status, or the point at which a video was watched.

When you visit our website, two types of cookies are used:

• Temporary cookies (session cookies): These store a so-called session ID, which allows various requests from your browser to be assigned to a common session. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.
• Permanent cookies: Permanent cookies remain stored even after the browser is closed. This allows our website to recognize your device when you return to our website. Information such as language settings or login information is stored in these cookies. In addition, your browsing behavior can be documented and stored using these cookies. This data can be used for statistical, marketing, and personalization purposes.

In addition to the above classification, cookies can also be distinguished in terms of their purpose:

• Necessary cookies: These are cookies that are absolutely necessary for the operation of our website, for example to store logins or shopping carts for the duration of your session, or cookies that are set for security reasons.
• Statistics, marketing, and personalization cookies: These are cookies used for analysis purposes or reach measurement. Such "tracking" cookies can store information about search terms entered or the frequency of page views. In addition, the browsing behavior of an individual user (e.g. viewing certain content, using certain functions, etc.) can be stored in a user profile. Such profiles are used to display content to users that matches their potential interests. Where we use services that store cookies for statistical, marketing, and personalization purposes on your device, we will inform you separately in the following sections of this Privacy Policy or when obtaining your consent.

Data concerned:

• Usage data (e.g. access times, pages visited)
• Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)

Data subjects: Users of our online services

Purpose of processing: Delivery of our website, ensuring the operation of our website, improving our online offering, communication and marketing

Legal basis: Legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Where we do not obtain your consent to set cookies, we base the processing of your data on our legitimate interest in improving the quality and usability of our website, in particular its content and functions. You may object to the use of cookies set on the basis of our legitimate interest via the security settings of your browser. There you can specify whether you wish to accept no cookies at all, or only accept cookies on request, or have cookies deleted every time you close your browser. If cookies for our website are disabled, it is possible that not all functions of the website can be used to their full extent.

Web Hosting

We use a provider to host our website, on whose servers our website is stored and made available for retrieval on the internet. In this context, the provider may process all data transmitted by the browser you are using that arises from your use of our website. This includes in particular your IP address, which the provider needs in order to deliver our online offering to the browser you are using, as well as all inputs you make via our website. In addition, our provider may collect:

• the date and time of access to our website
• time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• access status (HTTP status)
• the amount of data transferred
• the internet service provider of the accessing system
• the browser type and version you are using
• the operating system you are using
• the website from which you may have reached our website
• the pages or sub-pages you visit on our website

The aforementioned data is stored as log files on our provider's servers. This is necessary to ensure the stability and security of our website's operation.

Data concerned:

• Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos)
• Usage data (e.g. access times, pages visited)
• Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)

Data subjects: Users of our online presence

Purpose of processing: Delivery of our website, ensuring the operation of our website

Legal basis: Legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR

Web hosting provider:

Webflow, Inc.Service provider: Webflow, Inc.Website: https://webflow.com/208 Utah, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94103, USAPrivacy Policy: https://webflow.com/legal/eu-privacy-policy

Content Delivery Network

We use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to deliver our website. A CDN is a network of regionally distributed servers connected via the internet. The CDN provides scalable storage and delivery capacities. This optimizes the loading times of our website and ensures optimal data throughput even during high traffic peaks. User requests to our website are routed through the CDN's servers. Statistics are generated from these data streams. This serves to detect potential threats to our website from malicious software at an early stage and to continuously improve our offering and make our website more user-friendly.

Please note that, depending on the country of domicile of the service provider listed below, the data collected via the service may be transferred to and processed outside the European Union. In such cases, there is a risk that the level of data protection prescribed by the GDPR may not be maintained and that the enforcement of your rights may be impossible or more difficult.

Data concerned:

• Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos)
• Usage data (e.g. access times, pages visited)
• Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)

Purpose of processing: Technical optimization of the online presence, analysis of errors and user behavior

Legal basis: Legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR

CDN providers used:

Amazon CloudFrontService provider: Amazon Web Services, Inc., 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle WA 98109, USAWebsite: https://aws.amazon.com/Privacy Policy: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/

FastlyService provider: Fastly Inc., 475 Brannan St. #300, San Francisco, CA 94107, USAWebsite: https://www.fastly.comPrivacy Policy: https://www.fastly.com/privacy

Contact

If you contact us by email, social media, telephone, fax, post, or any other means, and provide us with personal data such as your name, telephone number, or email address, or provide further information about yourself or your request, we will process this data in order to respond to your inquiry within the framework of the pre-contractual or contractual relationship that exists between us.

Data concerned:

• Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses)
• Contact data (e.g. email address, telephone number, postal address)
• Content data (texts, photos, videos)
• Contract data (e.g. subject matter of contract, duration of contract)

Data subjects: Interested parties, customers, business and contractual partners

Purpose of processing: Communication and responding to contact inquiries, office and organizational procedures

Legal basis: Performance of contract and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR; legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR

Newsletter

We periodically send a newsletter to inform our customers, business partners, and interested parties about our offerings and related news. You have the option to subscribe to our newsletter on our website and, as part of the registration process, to consent to receiving the newsletter. When you subscribe to our newsletter, providing your email address is mandatory. We store your email address in order to send you the newsletter. Providing additional information such as salutation or name is voluntary and is used to address you personally. Once you have registered for our newsletter, you will receive a confirmation email at the address provided during registration as part of a double opt-in process. This email contains a link. By clicking this link, you confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter. This ensures that your email address was not misused by a third party during registration. For the same reason, we store the date and time of registration and the IP address assigned to you at the time of registration. We do not pass on the aforementioned data to third parties.

Analysis of user behaviorIf you have consented to this, we analyze your user behavior when sending the newsletter. For this purpose, our newsletter contains tracking pixels and tracking links. These allow us to determine whether and when you have opened the newsletter and whether and which links you have clicked on.

Purpose: We analyze the newsletter as described above in order to measure the statistical success or failure of our newsletter.

Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR

Prevention: You can withdraw your consent to receive the newsletter at any time using the options listed above.

Deletion: We delete your data after you have withdrawn your consent.

Data concerned:

• Content data (e.g. posts, photos, videos)
• Usage data (e.g. access times, pages visited)
• Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address)

Data subjects: Users of our online presence

Purpose of processing: Delivery of our website, ensuring the operation of our website

Legal basis: Consent, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR

Deletion: Your email address will be deleted either if you have not clicked the confirmation link within 1 month of the confirmation email being sent in the double opt-in process, or immediately after you have unsubscribed from our newsletter.

Withdrawal: You can withdraw your consent to receive the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. We offer the following options for declaring your withdrawal:

• Click on the link provided for this purpose in the newsletter
• By email to: post@provinzlaerm.com
• Via the contact details provided in the imprint of our website

BrevoService provider: Brevo GmbH, Köpenicker Straße 126, 10179 Berlin, GermanyBrevo GmbH is a subsidiary of Sendinblue SAS, 17 rue de Salneuve, 75017 Paris, France.Website: https://www.brevo.com/Privacy Policy: https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/

Social Media

We maintain a channel on the video platform YouTube (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). When you visit our YouTube channel, YouTube/Google processes personal data. For more information, please refer to YouTube's Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Advertising by Email, Post, or Telephone

For our advertising communications by email, post, or telephone, we process personal data. You may object to receiving our advertising communications at any time or withdraw any previously given consent to receive our advertising communications at any time. In order to be able to demonstrate, in case of doubt, that your consent existed even after your objection or withdrawal, we may store your data for up to 4 years after your objection/withdrawal. We will not use your data for any other purposes after your objection/withdrawal. If you wish us to delete your data earlier, we will do so after you have confirmed to us that you originally gave us your consent.

Data concerned:

• Contact data (e.g. email, telephone number, postal address)
• Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses)

Data subjects: Communication partners

Purpose of processing: Direct advertising (marketing) by email, post, or telephone

Legal basis: Consent, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR

Security Measures

We also implement technical and organizational security measures in accordance with the state of the art in order to comply with data protection laws and to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction, or unauthorized access by third parties.

Currency and Amendment of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is currently valid and dated July 2026. Due to changes in legal or regulatory requirements, it may become necessary to update this Privacy Policy.

Note: This is a non-binding English translation. The legally binding version is available in German: Datenschutzerklärung

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