Privacy policy
We provide the following information regarding the handling of personal data of users of the website 'museumsagentur.de':
1. Data controller
The entity responsible for data collection, data processing, and data usage is the
Agentur für Internationale Museumskooperation gGmbH
Kantstraße 127
10625 Berlin
office@museumsagentur.de
You can find additional details about the data controller on the Imprint page.
2. Processed data, purposes, and legal basis of data processing
2.1. General use of the website
When you visit our website, we process certain data to enable you to use the website. The data processed in the context of using the website regularly includes your IP ad-dress, which is necessary to deliver the online content to your device. The legal basis for this use is our legitimate interest in pursuing the aforementioned purposes (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR). No personal data is stored permanently for the aforementioned purposes.
2.2 Collection of access data, log files
Data regarding accesses to our web server is stored in so-called ‘log files’. These log files can be analysed to ensure the secure and stable operation of the server, e.g. to detect and prevent abusive access. The log files contain the following information: address and name of the web pages and files accessed, date and time of access, data volumes trans-ferred, notification of successful retrieval, browser type and version, the user’s operating system, and referrer URL (the previously visited web page). The legal basis for the use is our legitimate interest in pursuing the purposes mentioned (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR). The data is stored in the log files for 30 days and then deleted.
2.3. Contacting us
If you contact us by email or web form, the data you provide will be processed to the extent necessary to respond to your enquiry and any follow-up action. The following cat-egories of data may be affected: master data (e.g. name, address), contact details (e.g. email address, telephone number), content data (e.g. the text of the message). We re-spond to enquiries in the context of contractual or pre-contractual relationships in order to fulfil our (pre-)contractual obligations (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR) and otherwise on the basis of our legitimate interest in responding to the enquiries. Your emails and data from your enquiries will be stored for as long as it is necessary to process your enquiry and then for an additional period of 3 years if you contact the website operator again with reference to your original enquiry.
3. Recipient of the data
Only the data controller named above has access to all the above data. The data will not be transferred to third countries.
4. Rights of data subjects
The General Data Protection Regulation guarantees certain rights that you can exercise against us, provided that the respective legal requirements are met.
Art. 15 GDPR – Right of access by the data subject
You have the right to obtain confirmation from us as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed and, when that is the case, what personal data is be-ing processed and the details of the data processing.
Art. 16 GDPR – Right to rectification
You have the right to obtain from us without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you also have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of a supplementary statement.
Art. 17 GDPR – Right to erasure
You have the right to demand that we erase personal data concerning you immediately.
Art. 18 GDPR – Right to restriction of processing
You have the right to demand that we demand restrict data processing.
Art. 20 GDPR – Right to data portability
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provid-ed to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transmit those data to another controller or have the data transmitted di-rectly to another controller where technically feasible.
Art. 21 GDPR – Right to object
You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you which is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of the official authority vested in the con-troller.
If you object, your personal data will no longer be processed unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims.
Art. 77 GDPR in conjunction with Section 19 BDSG – Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
You have the right to lodge a complaint at any time with a supervisory authority, in par-ticular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of the al-leged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes applicable law.
Revocation of consent
If you have given us your consent, you have the right to revoke your consent at any time. In this event, all data processing that we have carried out up to your revocation remains lawful.
5. Miscellaneous
You have no contractual or legal obligation to provide personal data.
No automated decision-making processes are used that have any legal effect on you or adversely affect you.