Privacy Policy

Subject of data privacy

Data privacy addresses issues concerning personal data. According to Article 4 no. 1 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), these are data referring to an identified or identifiable individual, in other words all data which could be used to identify you. This applies to data such as your name, private address, email address, and telephone number but also to usage data such as your IP address.

As a matter of course, “Exoplanet Diversity” observes the legal requirements of data privacy and other applicable regulations.

We are committed to ensuring that you can trust us concerning your personal data. For this reason, transfers of personal or sensitive data are encrypted. In addition, our websites are protected by technical measures against damage or unauthorized access.

General data privacy

1. In order to protect your transmitted data as best as possible, we use SSL encryption for any data transmission. You can recognize such encrypted connections by the prefix “https://” in the page link in the address line or by the green/closed lock symbol of your browser. Unencrypted pages are marked by “http://” or an open or red lock symbol. All data that you transmit to this website – for example when making inquiries or logging in – cannot be read by third parties thanks to SSL encryption.
2. Cookies are often used for data collection and storage. Cookies are small data packets consisting of text that are stored by your web browser when you call up a website. Cookies are used by us to enable you to make optimal use of the websites. They are never used to track personal user actions or for behavioral analysis. They are only used where they are technically necessary or more useful than other techniques (in the sense of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f EU-DSGVO). We use temporary and permanent cookies. Temporary cookies (also known as session cookies) are automatically deleted when you close your web browser. Permanent cookies, on the other hand, have a set lifetime. You can set your web browser to delete cookies that have already been placed.

Overview of our essential cookies

Scope of data collection and storage

The active communication of your personal data is not required for the use of our websites – in order for us to answer individual inquiries, however, we require personal data in individual cases, the processing of which is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. a EU-DSGVO. If you contact us, we will generally only collect and store your personal data to the extent necessary for the provision of the service.

You can revoke your consent at any time and without giving reasons and request the deletion of your data. You can request the latter by sending an e-mail.

Collection and storage of usage data

Contact

The data you send us via contact form or other forms of contact, including your contact details, will be stored so that we can process your request or ask follow-up questions. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your consent.

The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based exclusively on your consent (Article 6 paragraph 1 lit. a EU-GDPR). A revocation of your already given consent is possible at any time. For the revocation, an informal notification by e-mail is sufficient. The legality of the data processing operations carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Data transmitted via the contact form will remain with us until there is no longer any need to store the data, you request us to delete it or revoke your consent to storage. Mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.

VideoTaxi

To share some video content, our website uses plugins from the VideoTaxi platform, a service provided by TV1 GmbH, Beta-Straße 9a, 85774 Unterföhring.

Only technical session-based cookies are used by VideoTaxi and no IP addresses are stored (see Cookies below).

About the stream views, VideoTaxi stores:

• Number of viewers at a specific time based on anonymous access IDs (max. simultaneous viewers)
• Number of accesses by different anonymous access IDs (total number of accesses)

Users and viewers are not counted and allocated by IP address.

Video.Taxi uses the following purely technical cookies that are necessary for operation. They are set when the Video.Taxi player is called up by the viewer/end user

1. the cookies AWSALB and AWSALBCORS are technical session cookies for the “Application Load Balancer”. They are used to improve output/data processing. They are only used to identify the user: all requests from this user are sent to the same CDN server. This is a common way of identifying requests.
2. the CDNSEUSTICKY cookie corresponds to the AWSALB cookie and is also used for load balancing.

Cookies with the prefix cookie_consent_* store information about the type of cookies allowed when accessing service.video.cab.

Specific details about how user data are handled are available on VideoTaxi’s privacy page:

https://support.video.taxi/hc/de/sections/4410533409303-Datenschutz

Storage location and data usage for a specific purpose

The collection, processing and storing of the automatically collected data happens by our webhost, the netcup GmbH, on our behalf. Apart from this, your personal data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent, unless this is necessary for the provision of the service or the execution of the contract. The transfer to state institutions and authorities requesting information will also only take place within the framework of the legal obligations to provide information or if we are obliged to provide information by a court decision.

Right to information

You can obtain information about the data we have stored about you free of charge at any time without having to give a reason. For this purpose, please contact us at the address given in the imprint. We will be happy to answer any further questions you may have about our privacy policy.

In addition, you have the right to correct, delete, restrict and transfer your data.

Right of complaint

If you recognize any indications that we are not handling your data in a data protection-compliant manner, you can contact the supervisory authority at any time.

Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Alt–Moabit 59–61
10555 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 13889-0
Fax: +49 30 2155050
Email: mailbox(at)datenschutz-berlin.de

Final information

Please note that data privacy regulations and handling of data privacy are subject to change requiring you to regularly inform yourself about changes of data privacy laws and company policies.

This data privacy statement only applies for content of the domain outreach.spp1992-exoplanetdiversity.de and does not include the linked websites of secondary or external web servers. For links to third-party applications and systems, the privacy policy of the respective site applies.

Responsible persons of the outreach page “Exoplanet Diversity”

Please refer to our imprint for general responsibilities.