Privacy
This is a translation. The German version of this privacy policy is legally binding.
Below we inform you about how personal data is processed when you use our website. Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (Art. 4 No. 1 GDPR).
1. Controller
Gemeinnützige Stiftung Peter Starke
Koenigsallee 30–32
14193 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 30 825 76 85
Email: info@stiftungstarke.de
Web: www.stiftungstarke.de
Represented by Jörg Starke, Executive Chair of the Board of Trustees.
Legal form: foundation with legal capacity under German civil law. Supervisory authority: Senator für Justiz, Berlin. VAT ID under § 27a UStG: DE166646822.
2. General information
We only process personal data to the extent necessary to provide a functioning website, our content and our services. Where we use service providers, we do so on the basis of data processing agreements (Art. 28 GDPR).
Legal bases at a glance:
- Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR (consent)
- Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (contract and pre-contractual measures)
- Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR (legal obligation)
- Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest)
3. Providing the website and log files
Categories of data: IP address, date and time of the request, time zone, content and address of the request, HTTP status, amount of data transferred, referrer URL, browser and operating system, language.
Purposes: delivering the website, stability and security, error analysis (legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Retention: for security reasons, for example to investigate misuse, log files are kept for 7 to 14 days and then deleted or anonymised.
4. Cookies
We only use technically necessary cookies, for example for the session and to protect forms. The legal basis is § 25(2) No. 2 TDDDG in conjunction with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We do not use cookies for statistics or advertising.
5. Embedded content (YouTube, Vimeo, 360° tour)
Some pages may include videos from YouTube or Vimeo and a 360° tour by the provider webobook. This content is only loaded when you click “Load content”. Only then is data such as your IP address transferred to the provider. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, § 25(1) TDDDG), which you give with the click. YouTube videos are embedded via youtube-nocookie.com.
6. Contact form and email
Categories of data: name, email address, phone number, subject, message and, where applicable, metadata of the communication.
Purpose and legal basis: handling your enquiry (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR; with consent, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).
Retention: deleted once your enquiry has been dealt with; longer retention only where required by law. Recipients are exclusively staff of the foundation; data is not passed on to third parties.
7. Newsletter
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we use your email address to send you invitations and news from the foundation. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw it at any time, for example by email to info@stiftungstarke.de. Your address is stored until you unsubscribe.
8. Applications for the artist-in-residence programme
For applications we process the information and documents you send us through the application form, such as contact details, CV, images and videos of your work. The purpose is the review of your application by the foundation and the independent jury (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). Documents are deleted once they are no longer needed for the selection process, unless statutory retention obligations apply.
9. Hosting
Our website is hosted by IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany. IONOS processes log files and technical data on our behalf under a data processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR. Server location: Germany. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (operation and security). Retention of log data: see section 3.
10. Content management system
Our website uses the content management system MODX, which sets technically necessary session cookies. No further processing of personal data takes place. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
11. Fonts
We only use fonts hosted on our own server. No connection is made to external services such as Google Fonts.
12. Your rights
You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- access (Art. 15 GDPR)
- rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
- erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
- restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
- data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
- objection (Art. 21 GDPR)
- withdrawal of consent (Art. 7(3) GDPR)
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, for example the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Alt-Moabit 59–61, 10555 Berlin.
13. Data security
We take technical and organisational measures in accordance with Art. 32 GDPR, including encrypted transmission (TLS), access controls and regular backups, and review them regularly.
14. Changes
We update this privacy policy when the law or the technologies we use change. The current version is always available on this page.