Data Protection

The BGZ Berliner Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit mbH is taking strict care of the protection of your personal data, and is keeping it confidential and in accordance with the statutory provisions. Personal information is any information that may be used to identify your person or trace a user. For example, your name, e-mail address, or phone number.
A visit to our website may result in the storage of information about the access (date, time, page accessed). This is totally unrelated to the collection of any kind of personal data (such as name, address or e-mail address). If personal data is collected, this only occurs – to the extent possible – with the prior consent of the user of the website. Any forwarding of the data to third parties without the express consent of the user shall not take place.
If personal data is being collected, this is done according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in improving the functionality of our website. A transfer of data to third parties will not take place without the express consent of the user.
We would like to expressly point out that the transmission of data via the Internet (e.g. by e-mail) can have security vulnerabilities. It is therefore impossible to safeguard the data completely against access by third parties. We cannot assume any liability for damages arising as a result of illegal security infractions. BGZ Berliner Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit mbH assumes no liability for damages caused by such security breaches.

Contacting us

By using the contact form on this website, the BGZ collects your data for the purpose of carrying out your contact request according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. The information provided is stored for the purpose of the request. No data is transferred to third parties. Nor is any of this information matched to any information that may be collected by other components of our website. The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary for the above mentioned purpose. You have the right to revoke the use of your data at any time.

Information, correction and deletion

On the basis of the Federal Data Protection Act, you may contact the BGZ at no cost if you have questions relating to the collection, processing or use of your personal information, if you wish to request the correction, blocking or deletion of the same, or if you wish to cancel explicitly granted consent. Please note that you have the right to have incorrect data corrected or to have personal data deleted, where such claim is not barred by any legal obligation to retain this data. You also have a right of appeal to the supervisory authority. You may also contact us at info@bgz-berlin.de or by phone: 030/809941 – 0.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in the Internet browser or transferred by the Internet browser to the user’s computer system. When a user visits a website, a cookie may be stored on the operating system of the user’s computer. This cookie contains a characteristic string that allows the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is reopened.
We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. The legal basis for processing this information is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in improving the functionality of our website. When closing your Internet browser, these session cookies are being deleted.

YouTube

In order to be able to show you videos, we have integrated YouTube videos in ‘extended data protection mode’ on some pages of our website. These videos are stored on http://www.YouTube.com🡥 and can be played directly from our website. According to YouTube, the ‘extended data protection mode’ function means that the data described in more detail below is only transmitted to the YouTube server when you actually start a video. The lawfulness of the data processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to improve the quality of our website. In order for the respective video to be displayed on your Internet browser, it is necessary to establish a connection to YouTube, in the course of which YouTube will at least record and process your IP address, the date and time as well as the website you visited. A further connection to Google's DoubleClick advertising network is also established during the connection to YouTube. If you are logged in to YouTube during this process, YouTube will assign the connection information obtained to your YouTube account. Please log out of YouTube beforehand or adjust the appropriate settings in your YouTube user account to prevent this.
YouTube permanently stores cookies on your end device via your Internet browser to improve functionality and analyse user behaviour. If you do not agree to this processing, you have the option of preventing the storage of cookies via the settings in your Internet browser. Google and its subsidiary YouTube are certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield and guarantee that the data protection requirements of the EU are also complied with when processing data in the USA. Information on the EU-US Privacy Shield can be found at: https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework🡥. Google provides further information about the collection and use of data as well as your rights and protection options in this regard at the following link: https://policies.google.com/privacy🡥.

External Links

This website contains links to external websites that are not the responsibility of BGZ Berliner Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit mbH. The responsibility for the content of these pages lies expressly with the respective operators of these websites. There is no permanent monitoring of these websites. BGZ Berliner Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit mbH therefore accepts no liability or responsibility for the content of external links. In this context, we would like to point out that these websites have their own data protection guidelines. Please check the relevant data protection guidelines of the respective website operator for further information on data protection law.

External links can be recognised by hovering the mouse pointer over the link without clicking on it. The name of the website to which the link leads is then visible in the bottom left-hand corner of the browser. In addition, all external links are labelled with the ‘🡥’ symbol.