Privacy Policy
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1 Controller for data processing
The controller according to Art. 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is ArtistConnect. August-Bebel-Str. 88, 14482 Potsdam. Email: [email protected]
2 Contact details of the Data Protection Officer
You can reach our Data Protection Officer via email or at our postal address with the additional note "Data Protection Officer".
3 Your rights
You have the following rights towards us regarding your personal data:
3.1 General rights
You have the right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, objection to processing, and data portability. To the extent that processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent with future effect at any time.
3.2 Rights related to data processing based on legitimate interest
You have the right under Art. 21 (1) GDPR to object at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to the processing of your personal data based on Art. 6 (1) e GDPR (data processing in the public interest) or Art. 6 (1) f GDPR (data processing for the purposes of legitimate interests). This also applies to profiling based on these provisions. If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
3.3 Rights related to direct marketing
If we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes, you have the right under Art. 21 (2) GDPR to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for such marketing, including profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes.
3.4 Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority regarding the processing of your personal data by us.
4 Information for minors
Registration for the 59pm newsletter is for teenagers aged 14 and older. Anyone who registers must be aware of the consequences of the collection, processing, and storage of their personal data and understand the significance of data processing and storage. Children or teenagers who are uncertain about this should involve their parents and ask if they agree to the registration for the 59pm newsletter. Anyone younger than 14 or who does not fully understand the significance of the collection, processing, and storage of their personal data should not register.
5 Collection of personal data when visiting our website
When you use our website purely for informational purposes, meaning you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you want to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you and to ensure stability and security. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) f GDPR:
– IP address, date and time of the request, time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), content of the request (specific page), access status/HTTP status code, the amount of data transferred, the website from which the request comes, browser, operating system, and its interface, language, and version of the browser software.
6 Contacting us via email or contact form
When you contact us via email or contact form, the data you provide (your email address, and if applicable, your name and telephone number) will be stored by us in order to respond to your questions. If we ask for input via our contact form that is not required for contacting you, we always mark it as optional. This information helps us to clarify your inquiry and to process your request more efficiently. Providing this information is expressly voluntary and is given with your consent under Art. 6 (1) a GDPR. If this information relates to communication channels (such as an email address or telephone number), you also consent to us contacting you via this communication channel in order to respond to your inquiry. You can, of course, withdraw this consent at any time for the future. We delete the data arising in this context once storage is no longer necessary, or we restrict processing if there are statutory retention obligations.
7 Newsletter
With your consent under Art. 6 (1) a GDPR, you can subscribe to our newsletter, which informs you about our current offers. To sign up for our newsletter, we use the so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that after your registration, we will send you an email to the specified email address in which we ask you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter. If you do not confirm your registration within 48 hours, your information will be locked and automatically deleted after one month. In addition, we store your used IP addresses and the times of registration and confirmation. The purpose of the procedure is to prove your registration and, if necessary, to clarify any possible misuse of your personal data. We would like to point out that we evaluate your user behavior when sending the newsletter. Using tracking pixels, we capture standard information on the opening and click rates of newsletter issues. We use this data to analyze and adjust our newsletters accordingly for improvements. Such tracking is not possible if you have deactivated the automatic display of images in your email program. In this case, the newsletter will not be fully displayed, and you may not be able to use all features. If you display images manually or click links in the newsletter, tracking will take place. You can revoke your consent to the sending of the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can declare your revocation by clicking on the link provided in every newsletter email or by contacting our Data Protection Officer mentioned above. The only required information for sending the newsletter is your email address. The provision of further, separately marked data is voluntary and is used to address you personally. After your confirmation, we store your email address for the purpose of sending the newsletter. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) a GDPR. Please note that we send the newsletter to email addresses for which we have received a consent declaration, even if the email address cannot be clearly assigned to a specific person (e.g. info@ addresses or addresses used by families). If one of the users of this email address revokes their consent to the newsletter, we will no longer send newsletters to that address.
8 Online donations
If you make an online donation on our website, we collect various data necessary for concluding the contract. The legal basis is the conclusion and execution of a contract according to Art. 6 (1) b GDPR. The data will be stored for the duration of the contract and in accordance with legal obligations. To process payments, we use different payment service providers, which are always indicated and directly accept your input, thus being the recipients of your personal data collected in connection with the payment process. The legal basis for the involvement of payment service providers is contract execution under Art. 6 (1) b GDPR. Storage for payment purposes occurs for the duration of the payment process. If you make an online donation via credit card, the payment processing is handled by the provider Stripe. For this payment method, additional personal data is requested by Stripe, such as the visitor’s name and address, account data, credit card data, invoice amount, currency, etc. The account and credit card data are exclusively processed by Stripe. We do not store this data at any point. Stripe may only use this information for payment processing. The transmission of your data to Stripe is based on Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent) and Art. 6 (1) b GDPR (processing for contract fulfillment). Further information on the company's data protection policies can be found here (https://stripe.com/de/privacy). When paying via PayPal, credit card via PayPal, or direct debit via PayPal, your payment data is collected and processed by PayPal (Europe) S.a.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg ("PayPal"). PayPal reserves the right to carry out a credit check. For this purpose, your payment data may be passed on to credit agencies, based on Art. 6 (1) f GDPR, in order to determine your creditworthiness. PayPal uses the result of the credit check to decide whether to provide the respective payment method. The credit check may include probability values (so-called score values), which are calculated based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. The score values are partly based on address data, among other things. Further information on data protection, including the credit agencies used, can be found in PayPal’s privacy policy: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full. You can object to this processing of your data at any time by sending a message to PayPal. However, PayPal may still be entitled to process your personal data if this is necessary for contractual payment processing.
9 Participation in competitions
If you participate in competitions, we collect data necessary for the execution of the competition. These usually include an individual competition entry (e.g. a comment or photo), as well as your name and contact details. We may pass on your data to our competition partners to, for example, deliver your prize to you. Data processing and data transfer may vary depending on the competition and are therefore specifically described in the respective terms and conditions. Participation in the competition and the associated data collection is, of course, voluntary. The legal basis for data processing is your consent under Art. 6 (1) a GDPR. Your data will be deleted after the competition has ended.
10 Job applications
You can apply to us electronically, particularly via email. We will, of course, use your information solely for
processing your application and will not pass it on to third parties. Please note that emails sent without encryption are not protected from unauthorized access. Your personal data will be deleted immediately after the application process is completed, or after a maximum of six months, unless you have explicitly consented to longer storage of your data or a contract has been concluded. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) a, b, and f GDPR as well as § 26 BDSG.
11 Use of social plugins
This website uses social plugins from the provider
- Instagram (operator: Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025, USA).
These plugins usually collect data from you by default and transmit it to the servers of the respective provider. To protect your privacy, we have taken technical measures to ensure that your data cannot be collected by the providers of the respective plugin without your consent. When you call up a page on which the plugins are embedded, they are initially deactivated. Only by clicking on the respective symbol are the plugins activated, and you give your consent to the transmission of your data to the respective provider. The legal basis for using the plugins is Art. 6 (1) a and f GDPR. Once activated, the plugins also collect personal data such as your IP address and send it to the servers of the respective provider, where it is stored. Activated social plugins also set a cookie with a unique identifier when you access the website. This enables the providers to create profiles about your usage behavior. This happens even if you are not a member of the provider’s social network. If you are a member of the social network of the provider and are logged in during your visit to this website, your data and information about your visit to the website can be linked to your profile on the social network. We have no influence on the exact extent of the data collected by the respective provider. For more information about the extent, nature, and purpose of the data processing and about your rights and settings options to protect your privacy, please refer to the privacy notices of the respective social network provider. These are available at the following address:
Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388
12 Use of cookies
When you use our website, cookies are stored on your computer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive, assigned to the browser you are using, and through which the party that sets the cookie receives certain information. Cookies cannot execute programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the internet offer as a whole more user-friendly and effective. This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functionality of which are explained below:
12.1 Transient cookies
These cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. These include session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, which can be used to assign various requests from your browser to the common session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.
12.2 Persistent cookies
These cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may differ depending on the cookie. You can delete the cookies at any time in your browser's security settings.
12.3 Flash cookies
The Flash cookies used are not collected by your browser, but by your Flash plugin. We also use HTML5 storage objects, which are stored on your end device. These objects store the required data independently of the browser you are using and do not have an automatic expiration date. If you do not want the processing of Flash cookies, you must install an appropriate add-on, such as "Better Privacy" for Mozilla Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/) or the Adobe-Flash-Killer-Cookie for Google Chrome. You can prevent the use of HTML5 storage objects by using private mode in your browser. We also recommend manually deleting your cookies and browser history on a regular basis.
12.4 Prevention of cookies
You can configure your browser settings according to your preferences and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all the features of this website in that case.
12.5 Legal bases and storage duration
The legal bases for potential processing of personal data and their storage duration vary and are presented in the following sections.
13 Website analysis
For the purposes of analyzing and optimizing our websites, we use various services, which are presented below. For example, we can analyze how many users visit our site, what information is most in demand, or how users find the offer. We collect data on, among other things, from which website a person arrived at a website (so-called referrer), which subpages of the website were accessed, or how often and for how long a subpage was viewed. This helps us make our offers more user-friendly and improve them. The data collected is not used to identify individual users personally. Anonymous or at most pseudonymous data is collected. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) f GDPR.
13.1 Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). The usage includes the operational mode Universal Analytics. This allows data, sessions, and interactions across multiple devices to be assigned to a pseudonymous user ID and thus the activities of a user across devices can be analyzed. Google Analytics uses cookies that allow an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is generally transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the USA. In the event that IP anonymization is activated on this website, Google will shorten your IP address within member states of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other data from Google. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The purposes of processing also constitute our legitimate interest in data processing. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is § 15 (3) TMG or Art. 6 (1) f GDPR. The data sent by us and linked to cookies, user IDs (e.g. User-ID), or advertising IDs will be automatically deleted after 14 months. Data that has reached the end of its retention period will be automatically deleted once a month. For more information on terms of use and data protection, please visit https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or https://policies.google.com/?hl=de. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. Opt-out cookies prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website. To prevent collection by Universal Analytics across different devices, you must perform the opt-out on all systems used.
14 Advertising
We use cookies for marketing purposes to target our users with interest-based advertising. We also use cookies to limit the likelihood of an ad being played and to measure the effectiveness of our advertising efforts. This information may also be shared with third parties, such as ad networks. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) a and f GDPR. The legitimate interest for the data processing is direct marketing. You have the right to object to the processing of your data for advertising purposes at any time. Below, we provide you with opt-out options for the respective services. Alternatively, you can prevent the setting of cookies in your browser settings.
14.1 Remarketing/Retargeting
We work with several advertising partners, including Google and Facebook, to deploy retargeting technology. This technology stores cookies from these partner companies (so-called third-party cookies) on your hard drive when you visit our site. These cookies are either permanent or temporary cookies that automatically delete after a specified period. The service providers analyze your browsing behavior and can subsequently display personalized recommendations as personalized banners on other websites. In no case can these data be used to personally identify the visitor to this website. The collected data is used solely to improve the offering. It is not used for any other purpose or shared with third parties. The data collected by this offering does not contain any personal data. You can disable the use of cookies by Google by configuring your browser settings or by visiting www.google.de/privacy/ads and clicking on the "opt-out" button. Further options for disabling cookies by third-party providers can be found at www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp or through the Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Platform. Please note that this will only block ads from the respective service provider. You can object to personalized advertising overall by disabling cookies in your browser. This website also uses Facebook Inc.'s ("Facebook") "Custom Audiences" remarketing function. This allows users of the website to be shown interest-based advertisements ("Facebook Ads") when visiting the social network Facebook or other websites that use the same process. We pursue the interest of showing you advertisements that are of interest to you in order to make our website more interesting for you. Due to the marketing tools used, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection to the Facebook server. We have no influence on the extent and further use of the data collected