Privacy Policy of the EKHN

 

 

 

Privacy Policy

Centre for Pastoral Care and Counselling (ZSB) of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau 

The Centre for Pastoral Care and Counselling (ZSB) of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. The data are handled confidentially and in accordance with the requirements of the church data protection laws and this Privacy Policy. The security of your personal data is of utmost importance to us.

 

Provider

Centre for Pastoral Care and Counselling (ZSB) of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau
Herdweg 122b
D-64287 Darmstadt
Telephone: +49 (0) 6151 35936 0
E-mail: zsb@ekhn.de

The website of the Centre for Pastoral Care and Counselling (ZSB) of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau can generally be used without providing personal data. Any personal data (e.g. name, address or e-mail address) collected on our website are provided on a voluntary basis as far as possible. These data are not shared with third parties without your express consent. The following Privacy Policy provides you with an overview of how this protection is to be ensured and what type of data are collected from you and for what purpose.

The Centre for Pastoral Care and Counselling (ZSB) of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau advises that online data transmission (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. It is not possible to protect the data completely against third party access.

 

Data processing on this website

Server log files

The website of the Centre for Pastoral Care and Counselling (ZSB) of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau can generally be used without providing personal data. In order to collect access statistics to the website, the following data are automatically collected and stored in server log files, which are transmitted by the browser. These are:

• IP address
• Operating system
• Browser type / version / language
• Name of your internet service provider
• Time of the server request
• Webpage from which you visit us (referrer URL)
• Webpages that you visit with us.

 These data cannot be assigned to specific persons. These data are not combined with other data sources.

Handling data for services

We may require your personal data to enable us to provide certain services. This applies when sending information material or ordered goods and also when responding to individual enquiries.

We only store the data required for the provision of the service (e.g. the address or the e-mail address). If we perform any of the actions or services described below and we collect and store your personal data for this purpose, you will be asked for your express consent at the relevant point on our website:

• Personalisation of our website 
• Other services and offers for whose data collection your express consent is required.

Contact form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact details you have provided there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up enquiries. We do not pass on these data without your consent.

Use of cookies and analysis tool

Some of the internet pages of the Centre for Pastoral Care and Counselling (ZSB) of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are used to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies". They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser on your next visit.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, prevent the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.

Instagram

Our website uses so-called social plugins ("plugins") from Instagram, which is operated by Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA ("Instagram"). The plugins are marked with an Instagram logo, for example in the form of an "Instagram camera". You can find an overview of the Instagram plugins and their appearance here.

When you access a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Instagram. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Instagram directly to your browser and integrated into the page. This integration provides Instagram with the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have an Instagram profile or are not currently logged in to Instagram. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted from your browser directly to an Instagram server in the USA and stored there. If you are logged in to Instagram, Instagram can directly assign your visit to our website to your Instagram account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the "Instagram" button, this information is also transmitted directly to an Instagram server and stored there.

The information will also be published on your Instagram account and shown to your contacts there. Please refer to Instagram's privacy policy for information on the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by Instagram, as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy.

If you do not want Instagram to directly assign the data collected via our website to your Instagram account, you must log out of Instagram before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the loading of Instagram plugins with add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the script blocker "NoScript" (http://noscript.net/).

 

Recommend individual content on social platforms

Some sub-pages of the website of the Centre for Pastoral Care and Counselling (ZSB) of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau contain a recommendation function for social networks such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Behind this recommendation function, we have integrated the privacy-friendly two-tier Heise solution.

If you call up a page of our website, no connection is established with the servers of the network concerned. Certain data are only forwarded to the external web server of the social network after a click on the recommendation function. This includes, for instance, the internet address you are currently visiting as well as an identifier that is linked to your person if you are a user of such a social platform. This enables social platforms to create surfing profiles of their users.

If you are not a member of Facebook, there is still a possibility that Facebook will learn and store your IP address. If you are logged into the social network when you activate the recommendation function, your visit to our website will be directly assigned to your user account on the social platform. However, before you can use the recommendation function, you will be informed by us again of the consequences and must confirm that you agree to the forwarding of the data specified. The exact purpose and scope of the data collection by the social networks and the further use of your data as well as possible setting options with regard to your user account are also available in the privacy policy of the respective networks.

Omniscale OpenStreetMap

This website uses the OpenStreetMap product by Omniscale for map data. OpenStreetMap is provided by Omniscale GmbH & Co KG, Ehnernstr. 157 in 26121 Oldenburg. By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing and use of the data Omniscale automatically collects. The terms of use of OpenStreetMap are available here.

 

Google Maps

This website uses the Google Maps product by Google Inc for route planning. Google Maps is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing and use of the data automatically collected by Google Inc., its agents and third parties. The terms of use of Google Maps are available here. 

 

TLS (SSL) encryption

This site uses TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as enquiries that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the browser address bar changing from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser bar. If TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

 

Links to websites of other providers

Our online offer contains links to websites of other providers. We have no influence on whether these providers comply with data protection regulations.

 

Your rights to information, erasure, blocking

As a user, you have the right to request information about what data we have stored about you and for what purpose these data are stored. Furthermore, you can correct incorrect data or request the erasure of data whose storage is inadmissible or no longer required. You have the rights to data portability, restriction of processing and objection. You also have the right to complain to the supervisory authority about the data processing taking place. The competent supervisory authority is the Data Protection Officer of the EKD - see below for address.

You can obtain information about the data we have stored about you free of charge at any time without having to give a reason. You can have your data collected by us blocked, corrected or deleted at any time. You can also revoke the consent given to us for the collection and use of data at any time without giving reasons. To do so, please contact the data protection officer at the address shown on this page. We are always available to answer any further questions you may have about our Privacy Policy and the processing of your personal data.

You can contact the local data protection officer responsible for us with questions or complaints regarding data protection:

Local Data Protection Officer

Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau
Church administration
Eckhard Andree
Paulusplatz 1
D-64285 Darmstadt
Telephone: +49 (0) 6151-405-303
E-mail: datenschutz@ekhn.de

 

Data Protection Officer of the Protestant Church in Germany

You can also contact the independent data protection supervisory authority with complaints. This role is carried out by the Data Protection Officer of the Protestant Church in Germany. For the area of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN), the Dortmund branch office is responsible for the data protection region Central-West:

Dortmund Branch Office for the Data Protection Region Central-West
Friedhof 4
D-44135 Dortmund
Telephone: +49 (0) 231 533827-0
Fax: +49 (0) 231 533827-20
E-mail: mitte-west@datenschutz.ekd.de

E-mails / Forms

The reception of e-mail communication may be disrupted and/or not reach the recipient in time for technical or operational reasons. This means that sending e-mails to us does not have the effect of preserving time limits and cannot set time limits in a legally binding manner. We recommend that you send time-critical or urgent messages additionally by post, courier or fax.

If you want to be sure that your e-mail has been received correctly, please request a written confirmation of receipt from the recipient. We take all reasonably expected precautions to prevent the risk of transmission of computer viruses. However, we are not liable for any damage caused by computer viruses.

Please check for computer viruses yourself before reading e-mails, especially before opening e-mail attachments. Communication by e-mail is insecure, as there is always the possibility of third parties gaining access and manipulating the data. We recommend that you do not send confidential data unencrypted by e-mail.

 

Changes

We reserve the right to change the Privacy Policy in order to adapt it to changed legal situations or in the event of changes to the service and data processing. However, this only applies with regard to declarations on data processing. Insofar as user consents are required or components of the Privacy Policy contain provisions governing the contractual relationship with the users, the changes will only be made with the consent of the users.

Users are requested to regularly inform themselves about the content of the Privacy Policy.

 

Matomo (formerly PIWIK)

This website uses the open source web analytics service Matomo. Matomo uses so-called "cookies". These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable analysis of your use of the website. For this purpose, the information generated by the cookie about the use of this website is stored on our server. The IP address is anonymised before storage.

The information generated by the cookie about the use of this website is not passed on to third parties. You can avoid storage of the cookies by adjusting your browser software accordingly; we do however point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this Website to their full extent.

If you do not agree to the storage and use of your data, you can deactivate the storage and use here. In this case an opt-out cookie is stored in your browser, which prevents Matomo from storing the usage data. If you delete your cookies, the Matomo opt-out cookie will also be deleted. The opt-out must be reactivated when you visit our site again.

 

Last updated: 11 June 2021