Privacy
We place particular importance on protecting your privacy and personal data. We comply with the requirements of data protection law, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation. This data protection notice applies to the processing of personal data within the context of our website (incl. the functions) and further data processing.
We process personal data only to the extent necessary in step with the principle of data economy. The following data protection notice provides you with information on how we ensure this protection and which personal data is processed for which purpose.
- Who is responsible for the data processing?
Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristen-Vereinigung e.V.
Alte Bahnhofstrasse 10
D-53173 Bonn
Tel. (02 28) 36 13 76
Fax (02 28) 35 79 72
E-mail: mail@dajv.de
You will find more information in our imprint.
- What do we do with your personal data?
a. When you use our website or our contact form
In order to provide this website we must process personal data, such as your IP address. This processing is necessary for the retrieval of content displayed on this website (including its functions) and IT security measures. The functions of our website include, among others, the integration of JavaScript via TALQUE, Google Fonts, and the Icon Font.
In general, you may visit our web pages without entering any personal data or identifying yourself. Apart from this, we collect and store in the log files of our web server only the information that your browser transmits to us. This includes your operating system, browser type/version, name of your internet service provider, time of the server request, website from which you visit us (referrer URL), and web pages that you visit on our site. This data is not merged with other data sources. After statistical analysis, all data is deleted.
You also have the option of contacting us via our contact form, in which case, we collect the personal data that you enter in the contact form.
(1) Legal basis
Your personal data is processed in providing this website and communicating with you based on our overriding legitimate interest in doing so. It is technically necessary that we process certain personal data (e.g. the IP address) in order to provide this website. We must process your respective personal data in order to communicate with you.
(2) Weighing of interests
As required, we have balanced your interest in confidentiality and our interests in providing this website and contacting you. In each case, your interest in confidentiality remains subordinate, as otherwise we would be unable to provide you with this website or respond to your contact request.
(3) Recipient categories
We use service providers to provide our website. We transmit personal data to these service providers for this purpose. These service providers are contractually obligated by us to exercise the same care in handling personal data as we do.
(4) Mandatory information
The fields marked with an asterisk (*) in our online contact form(s) are mandatory fields. This personal data is required for the use of our online contact form(s). That is, if you do not provide this personal data, you will not be able to use our online contact form(s).
b. In the event that you allow the use of cookies and analytics tools in your browser
We use cookies and analytics tools in order to provide our website.
So-called “cookies” are used on our web pages. Cookies are data records that are stored by a web server on the user’s end device (e.g. computer, smartphone, and tablet).
These cookies are sent back to our website (“first party cookie”) or another website to which the cookie belongs (“third party cookie”) when our website is called up once more by the same end device.
Through the stored and returned information (e.g., internet browser and operating system used, domain name of the website from which you came, average time spent on the site, and pages viewed) the respective website recognizes that you have already accessed and visited the website with the browser of your end device. Information is automatically collected in anonymous form when you access our website(s). This enables us to provide the user with more effective and generally better use of our web pages over time by improving the content and making it easier to use.
Cookies remain on your end device until the respective cookie is no longer required, unless you delete cookies manually. Deactivating the cookie function in your browser does not restrict the use of our web pages and the services offered.
(1) Legal basis for the use of cookies
The legal basis for using cookies is generally our overriding legitimate interest as necessary to provide the website, unless a specific legal basis is specified below.
(2) Weighing of interests for the use of cookies
Within the framework of the necessary balancing of interests, we have in each case weighed your interest in confidentiality against our interest in providing this website (including its functions). In each case, your interest confidentiality is secondary, in that otherwise we could not provide the web pages with the functions that they have.
(3) Data transfer to the USA
When using various services, personal data may be transferred to the USA.
The legal basis for the respective transfer of personal data to the USA is your consent, which you have given us in the context of our cookie consent banner (cookie banner). If you have not given us the corresponding consent, you cannot use the respective service. Please note that for technical reasons, any consent in this regard only relates to the respective end device being used
A level of data protection comparable to that in Europe does not exist in the USA. In particular, it is possible that government agencies may access personal data without you or us becoming aware thereof. Any assertion of legal rights in this case will likely not be successful.
You will find a note on data transfer to the USA with respect to the particular service on our website.
c. If you use a website that has embedded Google Maps
We use the service “Google Maps” of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”) on this website. Maps of this service are displayed on one or more sub-pages. When you call up such a sub-page, a connection is established from your end device to a Google server in the USA. Your personal data is processed in order to use Google Maps.
The legal basis for the use of Google Maps is your consent, which you have given us as part of our cookie banner. When using Google Maps, personal data may be transferred to the USA.
You can find more information in Google’s privacy policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
d) If you visit one of our web pages on which a YouTube video is played
We use the provider YouTube for the integration of videos. YouTube is operated by YouTube LLC with headquarters at 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube is represented by Google.
On some of our web pages we use plugins of the provider YouTube. If you call up the web pages provided with such a plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is made and the plugin is displayed. Which of our web pages you have visited is transmitted to the YouTube server. If you are logged in as a member of YouTube, YouTube assigns this information to your personal user account. When using the plugin, such as clicking on the start button of a video, this information is also assigned to your YouTube user account. You can prevent this assignment by logging out of your YouTube user account as well as other user accounts at the companies, YouTube LLC and Google, before using our web pages and deleting the corresponding cookies of the companies.
The legal basis for the use of YouTube is your consent, which you have given us as part of our cookie banner. When using YouTube, personal data may be transferred to the USA.
For more information on data processing and privacy notices by YouTube (Google), please visit:
https://policies.google.com/privacy.
e) If you visit one of our web pages on which a Vimeo video is played
We use the provider Vimeo for the integration of videos. Vimeo is a service of Vimeo, Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.
The legal basis for the use of Vimeo is your consent, which you have given us as part of our cookie banner. When using Vimeo, personal data may be transferred to the USA.
For more information on data processing and privacy notices by Vimeo, please visit:
https://vimeo.com/privacy#introduction.
f) If you visit one of our web pages on which we have integrated Twitter
We use Twitter buttons on our website. Twitter is a microblogging service of the American company Twitter, Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.
If you call up one of our web pages that contains a Twitter button, your browser establishes a direct connection with Twitter’s servers and the button is loaded from there. Twitter thus receives the information that the corresponding web page has been called up, and Twitter may process usage data. This also is the case if you are not logged into Twitter when you visit our website. If you click on a Twitter button on our website and then tweet content via the Twitter window that opens, this information is transmitted to Twitter. This content is then published in your Twitter user profile.
The legal basis for the use of Twitter is your consent, which you have given us as part of our cookie banner. Personal data may be transferred to the USA when using Twitter
For more information about the processing of your personal data by Twitter and about your rights in this regard, please refer to Twitter’s privacy policy:
https://twitter.com/de/privacy.
g. If you want to become a member of the DAJV
You can join our association via our website or other communication means (e.g., by e-mail, fax, letter). We collect the personal data that you enter in the registration form or otherwise provide to us for this purpose.
We process your personal data in order to initiate, implement, and carry out the corresponding contract for membership.
We use service providers as part of our provision of services. For this purpose, we transmit personal data to these service providers. These service providers are contractually obligated by us to exercise the same care in handling personal data as we do.
The fields marked with an asterisk (*) in the respective form are mandatory fields. This personal data is required for membership. If you do not provide this personal data, we cannot conclude the respective contractual relationship.
In addition, we process information that you provide voluntarily based on our respective overriding legitimate interest. As part of the balancing of interests required on our part, we have in each case compared your interest in confidentiality against our interest in the corresponding processing. In each case your interest in confidentiality is secondary, as you have provided the respective information voluntarily.
h. If you attend one of our events
You can register for events via our website or via other communication means (e.g., by e-mail, fax, letter). For this purpose, we collect the personal data that you enter in the registration form or otherwise provide to us.
We process your personal data to initiate, execute and conclude the corresponding participation contract.
The fields marked with an asterisk (*) in the respective form are mandatory fields. This personal data is required to conclude a contract. If you do not provide this personal data, then we cannot conclude the respective contractual relationship.
In addition to this, we process information that you provide voluntarily based on our respective overriding legitimate interest. As part of the required balancing of interests, in each case we have compared your interest in confidentiality against our interest in the corresponding processing. Your interest in confidentiality remains secondary in each case, as you have provided the respective information voluntarily.
i. If you order something from us
You can order our publications via our website or via other communication means (e.g., by e-mail, fax, letter). To do this we collect the personal data that you provide to us in each case.
We process your personal data to initiate, execute and settle the corresponding purchase contract.
The fields marked with an asterisk (*) in the respective form are mandatory fields. This personal data must be given for the purchase contract to be concluded. If you do not provide this personal data, we cannot enter into the respective contractual relationship.
j. If you register for the internal members area
DAJV members may log into the internal area on our website. We process your login data for this purpose. A member receives its initial login data from our office.
We process your personal data in order to initiate, execute and settle the corresponding user contract.
k. If you apply for a position with us
You can apply for a job with us. We process the personal data that you provide to us as part of your application for this purpose.
We process your personal data to initiate, implement and execute the corresponding purchase contract.
- Will personal data be transferred to the USA?
We may transfer personal data to the USA in order to carry out events and as part of association activities, as necessary in each case. The legal basis for this with respect to events is the participation contract. The legal basis as part of our club’s existence is your membership contract or our overriding legitimate interest.
As part of the balancing of interests we must perform, we have in each case compared your interest in confidentiality against our respective interest in data transfer to the USA. Your legitimate interest in confidentiality however is secondary in each case. Otherwise, we would not be able to provide you with our service.
- How long do we store your personal data?
We delete your personal data when the respective purpose of storage ceases to exist and no statutory provision requires that we retain it.
- What are your data subject rights?
Please contact us if you wish to exercise your rights as an individual affected hereby and/or withdraw any consent you may have given.
a) You have the right to request information about all personal data we process about you at any time.
b) If your personal data is incorrect or incomplete, you have the right to have it corrected and completed.
c) You may request the deletion of your personal data at any time, unless we are legally obliged or entitled to continue processing your data.
d) If the necessary legal requirements are met, you may request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.
e) You may object to the data processing insofar as it is carried out for the purpose of direct marketing or profiling. If the processing is performed based on a balancing of interests, you may object to the processing by stating the reasons arising from your particular situation.
f) If the data processing is carried out based on your consent or as part of a contract, you have a right to have the data you have provided transferred, provided that this does not affect the rights and freedoms of other persons.
g) If we process your data based on a declaration of consent, you may revoke this consent at any time with future effect. The processing performed before a revocation is unaffected by that revocation.
h) You may also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority at any time if you believe that data processing was performed in violation of applicable law.
The following data protection supervisory authority is responsible with respect to our association:
State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit)
North Rhine-Westphalia
Kavalleriestr. 2-4
40213 Düsseldorf
Tel. (0211) 38 42 40
Fax (0211) 38 42 410
E-mail: poststelle@ldi.nrw.de
We will notify all recipients to whom we have disclosed personal data of any correction or deletion of your personal data or any restriction of the relevant processing, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate expenditure. We will also inform you of the recipients applicable to you if you so request.
- In what context do we create automatic profiles?
We do not create automatic profiles.
- Data security
We take appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect the personal data we process against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or unauthorized access.
- Cookie settings