Privacy policy

The German Animal Welfare Federation takes the protection of personal data very seriously. For this reason, we would like to inform the users of our website about what data is stored and how this data is used.

The applicable data protection regulations, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Federal Data Protection Act, oblige us to handle the data of the users of our website properly and for the intended purpose. We would like to inform you below about which data we collect and how the data is processed or used in detail.

This part of the data protection information for customers, interested parties and other natural persons is valid from May 25, 2018.

When you visit our website, our web servers temporarily store every access in a log file. The following data is recorded and stored until it is automatically deleted:

• IP address of the requesting computer
• Date and time of access
• Name and URL of the file accessed
• Amount of data transferred
• Notification of whether the retrieval was successful
• Identification data of the browser and operating system used
• Website from which the access was made
• Name of your Internet access provider.

This data is processed for the purpose of enabling the use of the website (connection establishment), system security, technical administration of the network infrastructure and optimization of the website. The IP address is only evaluated in the event of attacks on the network infrastructure of the German Animal Welfare Association or for other data security reasons.

Any use of your personal data by us will be for the purposes stated or permitted by law and to the extent necessary to achieve these purposes. Personal data is individual information about the personal or factual circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes name, address, telephone or fax number, e-mail address, but also information on personal interests or your donation behavior, if this information can be directly or indirectly attributed to you personally.

We store and process your personal data in particular for the following purposes:

1. to carry out the collection of donations or memberships commissioned by you
2. to maintain the ongoing support relationship
3. for the purpose of responding to your inquiries
4. to subscribe to the newsletter
5. for the purpose of providing our internal area for animal welfare associations and state animal welfare associations
6. to manage the seminars and events you have attended

Personal data will only be transferred to state institutions and authorities within the framework of legal regulations or if the transfer is necessary for legal or criminal prosecution in the event of attacks on our network infrastructure. Any service providers used in the course of processing will only receive the data required to fulfill their tasks. Data will only be transferred to other bodies (third parties) to the extent permitted by law. Beyond this, your data will not be passed on to third parties.

If you have given us your consent, we will send you information from the German Animal Welfare Association on the subject of animal welfare by e-mail as part of our newsletter, which you can unsubscribe from at any time.

We use the so-called double opt-in procedure. A confirmation e-mail will first be sent to the e-mail address you have provided, asking you to confirm your registration. The registration only becomes effective when you click on the activation link contained in the confirmation e-mail. We use your data transmitted to us exclusively for sending the newsletter, which may contain information or offers. Your name will be stored so that we can address you personally as the recipient of the newsletter. As part of the newsletter registration process, we also store the time of your registration and confirmation in order to be able to prove that our newsletter recipients have properly registered.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of your data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time by clicking on the link provided in every newsletter e-mail.

This website uses Inxmail to send newsletters. The provider is Inxmail GmbH, Wetzinger Straße 17, 79106 Freiburg (hereinafter referred to as Inxmail).

Inxmail is a service with which, among other things, the sending of newsletters can be organized and analyzed. The data you enter for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter is processed on Inxmail's servers.

Data analysis by Inxmail

With the help of Inxmail, we are able to analyze our newsletter campaigns. For example, we can see whether a newsletter message has been opened and which links have been clicked on. In this way, we can determine, among other things, which links were clicked on particularly often.

We can also see whether certain previously defined actions were carried out after opening/clicking (conversion rate). For example, we can see whether you have made a purchase after clicking on the newsletter.

Inxmail also allows us to divide newsletter recipients into different categories ("clustering"). The newsletter recipients can be subdivided according to age, gender or place of residence, for example. In this way, the newsletters can be better adapted to the respective target groups. If you do not wish to be analyzed by Inxmail, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter. We provide a link for this purpose in every newsletter message.

You can find Inxmail's privacy policy at: https: //www.inxmail.de/datenschutz.

Anonymized tracking

We use Inxmail's anonymized tracking, which only allows us to identify you personally if you have expressly consented to this in advance.

Legal basis

Data processing is based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time for the future.

Storage period

The data you provide us with for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter will be stored by us or the newsletter service provider until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and deleted from the newsletter distribution list after you unsubscribe from the newsletter or after the purpose no longer applies. We reserve the right to delete or block e-mail addresses from our newsletter distribution list at our own discretion within the scope of our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Data stored by us for other purposes remains unaffected by this.

After you unsubscribe from the newsletter distribution list, your e-mail address may be stored by us or the newsletter service provider in a blacklist if this is necessary to prevent future mailings. The data from the blacklist will only be used for this purpose and will not be merged with other data. This serves both your interest and our interest in complying with the legal requirements when sending newsletters (legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). The storage in the blacklist is not limited in time. You can object to the storage if your interests outweigh our legitimate interest.

Order processing

We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) for the use of the above-mentioned service. This is a contract prescribed by data protection law, which ensures that it processes the personal data of our website visitors only in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

Cookies are small text files that are stored on the Internet user's PC. They are used to control the Internet connection during your visit to our website. At the same time, these cookies provide us with information that enables us to optimize our websites to the needs of our visitors. Some cookies are only stored by your browser for the duration of your visit to the website (session cookies), while others are stored for longer periods (persistent cookies).

The session cookie, which is set each time you access a page, is only present during your online session and becomes inactive as soon as you close your browser software. It is only required for technical communication between the browser and the web server.

You can also view our websites without cookies, although functionality may be limited. You can also prevent cookies from being saved by making the appropriate settings in your browser. If you do not accept cookies, this may restrict the functionality of our services.

If personal data may be transferred to the USA as part of the services described below, we would like to point out that the USA has a level of data protection which, in the opinion of the ECJ, does not currently fully meet the level of data protection in the EU. There is currently no adequacy decision by the European Commission or suitable guarantees. In particular, there is a risk or it cannot be ruled out that government authorities may also gain access to this data within the framework of the laws applicable there - with only limited legal protection options.

For data protection reasons, we have deliberately decided against using direct plugins from social networks on our websites. Instead, we use the solution of the c't project "Shariff": With the help of Shariff, you can determine yourself whether and when data is transmitted to the operators of the respective social networks. Therefore, when you visit our websites, no data is automatically transmitted to social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or WhatsApp (only available on mobile devices). Only when you actively click on the respective button yourself does your internet browser establish a connection to the servers of the respective social network and transmit data on your use to the respective operator of the social network.

We have no influence on the type and scope of the data that is then collected by the social networks. The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the respective social networks as well as your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in the data protection information of the respective social networks, for Facebook at www.facebook.com/about/privacy andwww.facebook.com/help. Further information on the use of data by "Twitter" or WhatsApp can be found at www.twitter.com/privacy at https://www.whatsapp.com/legal.

If you do not want the respective social network to receive data about your use or your surfing behavior, etc., please do not click on the integrated social media buttons.

If you have given us your voluntary consent, which can be revoked at any time, we use Google Analytics on this website, a web analysis service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google") with the involvement of the US parent company Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, in order to analyze and regularly improve the use of this website and to be able to use the statistics obtained to make our offer more interesting for you as a user.

In exceptional cases, personal data is also transferred to the USA and stored there. In principle, the USA has a level of data protection which, in the opinion of the ECJ, does not fully match the level of data protection in the EU. There is no adequacy decision by the European Commission or suitable guarantees. In particular, there is a risk or it cannot be ruled out that state authorities may also gain access to this data within the framework of the laws applicable there - with only limited legal protection options. There is a data protection agreement with Google that includes the EU Standard Contractual Clauses with Google LLC. Further information from Google at:

https://privacy.google.com/businesses/compliance/#!#gdpr

The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR.

You can revoke your consent given to us at any time with effect for the future by preventing the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

In addition, you can revoke the consent you have given us at any time with effect for the future via our cookie manager.

It is also possible to prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including the shortened IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http: //tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

The personal or pseudonymous data will be deleted or anonymized after 14 months.

Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

By activating IP anonymization on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. You can find the locations of Google's data centers at: https: //www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/index.html

Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data unless you have allowed this in your Google account.

Further details and information can be found in Google's data protection information at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de or the Google data protection declaration at www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacyand in the settings for the display of Google's advertising at https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

Insofar as legally required, we have obtained your consent to the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future via our cookie manager.
If you have given us your voluntary consent, which you can withdraw at any time, we also use Google Ads conversion tracking to measure the success of our advertising measures. After certain target achievements on our website ("conversions") - such as registration for our newsletter or a download - this target achievement is recorded by Google. Google can thus measure the number of target achievements. In addition, Google will use previously set cookies to assign which advertisements were previously clicked on and were therefore decisive for the target achievement. Google processes this data on servers in the USA, but will not associate it with personal data from your Google account.

You can prevent the recording of cookies at any time by means of a corresponding setting in the Internet browser used and thus permanently prevent the setting of cookies. Options for deactivating cookies from third-party providers can be found at www.networkadvertising.org or at Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Platform.

Insofar as legally required, we have obtained your consent to the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future via our cookie manager.

This website occasionally uses Google Maps from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"). Google Maps is a web service for displaying interactive (land) maps in order to visualize geographical information. By using this service, you will be shown our location and it will be easier for you to find us.

Information about your use of our website (such as your IP address and location data) is transmitted to Google servers and stored there as soon as you access the subpages in which the Google Maps map is integrated. This may also involve transmission to the servers of the parent company Google LLC. in the USA. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether a user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account. If you do not wish your data to be associated with your Google profile, you must log out before activating the button.

If you do not agree to the future transmission of your data to Google when using Google Maps, you also have the option of completely deactivating the Google Maps web service by switching off JavaScript in your browser. Google Maps and thus also the map display on this website can then not be used.

In addition, the use of Google Maps and the information obtained via Google Maps is subject to the Google Terms of Use and the Terms and Conditions for Google Maps.

In addition, Google offers further information at https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated andhttps://policies.google.com/privacy.

Insofar as legally required, we have obtained your consent to the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future via our cookie manager.

If you have given us your voluntary consent, which can be revoked at any time, we use Google Remarketing on our website to place ads in the Google advertising network in such a way that they are generally displayed to users who are presumed to be interested in our services and content. For these purposes, a cookie (or comparable technology) may be stored on your browser when you visit our website and when you visit certain content on other websites that are active in the Google advertising network (e.g. www.youtube.com), which records which websites you have visited and what content you are interested in (in addition, technical information on the browser and operating system, referring websites, time of visit and other information on the use of the online offer is stored). On the basis of this information, Google can record the interest in certain content and services and use it for the targeted display of advertising on other websites.

According to its own statements, Google does not merge the data collected in the context of remarketing with your personal data, which may be stored by Google. In particular, according to Google, pseudonymization is used in remarketing.

The purpose of this use is to provide you with interest-based advertising and to be able to use our advertising and fundraising measures in a more targeted manner. Further evaluation takes place over a period of up to two years. The legal basis for the storage of cookies is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR.

If you do not want advertisements tailored to your interests to be displayed, you can deactivate cookies in your browser or inform Google of this for the future via the following link: https: //adssettings.google.com/.

Where legally required, we have obtained your consent to the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future via our cookie manager.

If you have given us your voluntary consent, which you can revoke at any time, we also use conversion tracking from Microsoft (Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA) to measure the success of our advertising measures. After certain target achievements on our website ("conversions") - such as registration for our newsletter or a download - this target achievement is recorded by Microsoft. This enables Microsoft to measure the number of target achievements. In addition, Microsoft will use previously set cookies to assign which advertisements were previously clicked on and were therefore decisive for the target achievement. We only learn the total number of users who clicked on a Bing ad and were then redirected to target pages. No personal information about the identity of the user is disclosed. Microsoft processes this data on servers in the USA, but will not associate it with personal data from your Google account.

If you do not wish to participate in the tracking process, you can prevent the recording of cookies at any time by means of a corresponding setting in the Internet browser used and thus permanently prevent the setting of cookies. Further information on data protection and the cookies used by Microsoft Bing can be found on the Microsoft website(https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement). General options for deactivating cookies from third-party providers can be found at www.networkadvertising.org or at Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Platform.

Insofar as legally required, we have obtained your consent to the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future via our cookie manager.

This website uses the open source web analysis service Matomo.

With the help of Matomo, we are able to collect and analyze data about the use of our website by website visitors. This enables us to find out, among other things, when which pages were accessed and from which region. We also record various log files (e.g. IP address, referrer, browser and operating system used) and can measure whether our website visitors perform certain actions (e.g. clicks, purchases, etc.).

The use of this analysis tool is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the analysis of user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and Section 25 para. 1 TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user's terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time.

IP anonymization
We use IP anonymization for the analysis with Matomo. Your IP address is shortened before the analysis so that it can no longer be clearly assigned to you.

Cookie-free analysis
We have configured Matomo so that Matomo does not store any cookies in your browser.

Hosting
We host Matomo exclusively on our own servers so that all analysis data remains with us and is not passed on.

If you have given us your voluntary consent, which can be revoked at any time, the German Animal Welfare Federation uses the Adalyser evaluation platform, a service of OneSoon Limited, 3000Aviator Way, Manchester M22 5TG, United Kingdom, to analyze the results in the area of TV ads. This is done on the legal basis of Art. 6 para. 1 f) GDPR due to our legitimate interests in being able to improve our respective website and our advertising measures.

Adalyser uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and enable your use of the website to be analyzed. All cookies on our websites contain purely technical information, not personal data. In addition, Adalyser only transmits the IP address in anonymized form.

Insofar as legally required, we have obtained your consent to the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future via our cookie manager.

If you have given us your voluntary consent, which can be revoked at any time, this website uses the visitor action pixel from Facebook/Meta to measure conversions. The provider of this service is Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. However, according to Facebook, the data collected is also transferred to the USA and other third countries.

This allows the behavior of site visitors to be tracked after they have been redirected to the provider's website by clicking on a Facebook ad. This allows the effectiveness of Facebook ads to be evaluated for statistical and market research purposes and future advertising measures to be optimized.

The data collected is anonymous to us as the operator of this website; we cannot draw any conclusions about the identity of the users. However, the data is stored and processed by Facebook so that a connection to the respective user profile is possible and Facebook can use the data for its own advertising purposes in accordance with the Facebook Data Usage Policy(https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/). This allows Facebook to place advertisements on Facebook pages and outside of Facebook. This use of the data cannot be influenced by us as the site operator.

The use of this service is based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time.

We use the advanced matching function within the meta pixel.

Advanced matching allows us to transmit various types of data (e.g. place of residence, federal state, zip code, hashed email addresses, names, gender, date of birth or telephone number) of our customers and interested parties that we collect via our website to Meta (Facebook). This activation allows us to tailor our advertising campaigns on Facebook even more precisely to people who are interested in our offers. In addition, the extended comparison improves the allocation of website conversions and expands Custom Audiences.

Insofar as personal data is collected on our website with the help of the tool described here and forwarded to Facebook, we and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland are jointly responsible for this data processing (Art. 26 GDPR). The joint responsibility is limited exclusively to the collection of the data and its transfer to Facebook. The processing carried out by Facebook after forwarding is not part of the joint responsibility. The obligations incumbent on us jointly have been set out in an agreement on joint processing. The text of the agreement can be found at: https: //www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum. According to this agreement, we are responsible for providing the data protection information when using the Facebook tool and for the secure implementation of the tool on our website in accordance with data protection law. Facebook is responsible for the data security of Facebook products. You can assert data subject rights (e.g. requests for information) regarding the data processed by Facebook directly with Facebook. If you assert your data subject rights with us, we are obliged to forward them to Facebook.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: https: //www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum andhttps://de-de.facebook.com/help/566994660333381.

You can find further information on protecting your privacy in Facebook's privacy policy: https: //de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

You can also deactivate the remarketing function "Custom Audiences" in the settings for advertisements at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. To do this, you must be logged in to Facebook.

If you do not have a Facebook account, you can deactivate usage-based advertising from Facebook on the website of the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance: http: //www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/.

The company is certified in accordance with the "EU-US Data Privacy Framework" (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the USA that is intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards for data processing in the USA. Every company certified under the DPF undertakes to comply with these data protection standards. Further information on this can be obtained from the provider at the following link: https: //www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participant-detail?contact=true&id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active.

Where legally required, we have obtained your consent to the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future via our cookie manager.

The German Animal Welfare Federation uses the provider YouTube, among others, for the integration of videos. YouTube is operated by Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

When you visit one of our websites on which YouTube is integrated, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.

Furthermore, YouTube can store various cookies on your device or use comparable technologies to recognize you (e.g. device fingerprinting). In this way, YouTube can obtain information about visitors to this website. This information is used, among other things, to record video statistics, improve user-friendliness and prevent fraud attempts.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. You can also completely prevent the YouTube plugins from loading with add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the script blocker "NoScript"(http://noscript.net/)

The use of YouTube is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user's terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time.

Further information on the handling of user data can be found in YouTube's privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

The company is certified in accordance with the "EU-US Data Privacy Framework" (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the USA that is intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards for data processing in the USA. Every company certified under the DPF undertakes to comply with these data protection standards. Further information on this can be obtained from the provider at the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participant-detail?contact=true&id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

Our Facebook page www.facebook.com/tierschutzbund also gives you the opportunity to find out about our services and to contact and interact with us. Our Facebook page is provided on the basis of the agreement concluded with Facebook (Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland) on the joint processing of personal data in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR ("Page Insights Supplement regarding the controller"). Accordingly, we cannot make and implement any decisions regarding the processing of Insights data ourselves. The primary responsibility under the GDPR for the processing of Insights data and the fulfillment of all obligations under the GDPR with regard to the processing of Insights data is assumed by Facebook.

We would like to point out that when you visit the Facebook fan page, your data as a user outside the EU may be processed. The involved Facebook, Inc. has committed itself as a Privacy Shield certified US provider to comply with the data protection standards of the EU: https: //www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active (as of 02.11.2018).

Your data may be processed for market research and advertising purposes, for example by creating user profiles based on the interests resulting from your usage behavior and using them to display advertisements. Cookies are usually stored on your computer for this purpose.

Through the "Page Insights" function, we can retrieve statistical data from Facebook in various categories in connection with the use of the Facebook fan page, such as the total number of page views, "Like" information, page activities, post interactions, video views, post reach, comments, shared content, responses, proportion of men and women, origin in relation to country and city, language, and clicks on telephone numbers. We use this information to make our pages more attractive and tailored to your needs (e.g. by identifying the right time to publish content).

As part of the Facebook fan page, users' personal data is processed to protect our legitimate interests in designing our information offerings and communications with users in line with requirements and target groups (legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). If you are asked by Facebook as the provider of the platform for consent to a specific data processing, the processing is carried out on the legal basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

With regard to the exercise of data subject rights and requests for information, we would like to point out that you can assert these most effectively directly with Facebook (see www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data).

Further information on the processing and use of data as well as your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy, including the option to object (opt-out), can be found in Facebook's data protection information at www.facebook.com/about/privacy/and in the "Information on Page Insights data" at https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data

Opt-out: www.facebook.com/settingsorwww.youronlinechoices.com

If you wish to attend one of our seminars or make a donation, you will be asked for your bank details and possibly your credit card number. The terms and conditions of the payment provider apply:

When paying with PayPal, credit card via PayPal or direct debit via PayPal, your payment data will be forwarded to PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter "PayPal"), as part of the payment processing.

PayPal reserves the right to carry out a credit check for the payment methods credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal or - if offered - "purchase on account" via PayPal. PayPal uses the result of the credit check (statistical probability of non-payment) to decide which payment method can be offered. The credit report may contain so-called probability values (so-called score values). The basis for the score values (insofar as they are included in the result of the credit report) is a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure - among other things, your address data is used for this purpose. For further data protection information (also on the credit agencies), please refer directly to PayPal's privacy policy.

You can make appointments with us on our website. We use the "Eventfrog" tool to book appointments. The provider is Eventfrog AG, Neuhardstrasse 38, 4600 Olten, Switzerland (hereinafter "Eventfrog").

For the purpose of booking appointments, we link to the Eventfrog website. As a participant, you register with Eventfrog, whereby Eventfrog becomes the controller and Eventfrog's privacy policy applies. You can view Eventfrog's privacy policy here: https://eventfrog.ch/de/datenschutzerklaerung.html?mtm_campaign=sub-footer-dse.

If you wish to use the service of Erblotse, Heritas GmbH, Leuschnerdamm 31, 10999 Berlin, via our website, you will be redirected to www.erblotse.de via a link. So that you can use the Erblotse service free of charge, it is necessary that it is traceable that you have reached Erblotse from our website. Tracking is used for this purpose, which transmits corresponding information (e.g. an anonymous identifier or a parameter) to Erblotse when you click on the link.

The processing takes place exclusively on the basis of your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG. You can revoke your consent at any time via the cookie settings.

The data collected during tracking is used to trace the placement and to enable the free use of the Erblotse service. The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required. Erblotse will only provide us with personalized data if you explicitly select this option.

Further information on data processing when using the Erblotse service can be found in Erblotse's privacy policy https://www.erblotse.de/legal/datenschutzrichtlinien.

The German Animal Welfare Federation uses appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data managed by us against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or against access by unauthorized persons. The transmission of data is secured by SSL encryption so that unauthorized third parties cannot gain access to personal data. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

The German Animal Welfare Federation hereby expressly declares that no illegal content was recognizable on the linked pages at the time the links were created. The German Animal Welfare Federation has no influence whatsoever on the current and future design, content or authorship of the linked pages. It therefore hereby expressly distances itself from all content of all linked pages that have been changed since the link was created.

This statement applies to all links and references set within its own website. For illegal, incorrect or incomplete contents and especially for damages resulting from the use or non-use of such information, only the provider of the page to which reference is made is liable, not the person who merely refers to the respective publication via links.

As already described in detail above in Part 1, Section 9, you have, among other things, a right of access to the personal data stored about you and also a right to rectification of inaccurate data, blocking and erasure. If you would like information about your personal data or its correction or deletion, or if you have further questions about the use of your personal data provided to us, please contact us by e-mail or post at the addresses given above in Part 1, Section 1.

If you wish to contact us by e-mail, we would like to point out that the content of unencrypted e-mails can be viewed by third parties. We therefore recommend that you send confidential information in encrypted form or by post.

Due to the further development of our website or the implementation of new technologies or similar, it may become necessary to change this data protection notice. The German Animal Welfare Association reserves the right to change the data protection information at any time with effect for the future. We will publish all changes on this page. Older versions are available for you to view in an archive.

Status: May 28, 2025

We have deliberately decided not to require registration for our app. All information entered in the pet profile, for example, is used exclusively in the app. Individual details about the animal, such as weight, external characteristics or age, are automatically filtered in conjunction with the interface in order to display individual advice articles. They are not analyzed or used for other purposes.

An anonymized account is generated when the app is used. This is done using a randomly generated ID that identifies the user (UUID4). A user's data records are assigned to this ID. In the event of support or maintenance, the programmers can only view the ID and no other user data (such as name or email).

Details such as the veterinarian, the animal's medication, the favorite place or the registration number are used to describe the animal and are primarily relevant for the user. However, in the event of loss, a completed profile with this information (excluding private details such as the vet) can be shared at the user's request, so that all the information about the animal is available for a wanted poster or an inquiry to local animal shelters.

As part of our app, we request the following access authorizations for the following purposes/functionalities:

• Calendar: to enter and remove the animal's appointments in your own calendar
• Camera: to take pictures of your own animals and save them (in the backend [= technical platform that stores and filters the data] of the app and on the device itself)
• Photo gallery: to add existing pictures to the animal profile (in the backend [= technical platform that stores and filters the data] of the app and on the device itself)
• Push notifications: to be informed about current alerts or news

Users can add their pet's appointments in the app, such as appointments with the vet. These appointments are also saved in the calendar of the user's smartphone. However, these entries are not routed via the app interface, but are entered directly into the respective calendar by the device. The editors of the app have no knowledge of the entries.

We would like to inform users about news in the app, such as new guide information, even if they are not currently using our app. To do this, we use push messages that briefly state what news the app has to offer. Clicking on the message takes the user to the app.

Users can deactivate the push notifications at any time in the app settings or in the device settings.

In order for a photo to be added to the animal's profile in the app, the app requires access to both the smartphone's camera function and the photo gallery. The photos that users add are also stored in the app's backend (technical platform that stores and filters the data), to which only admins have access.

The "animal shelter search" in the app is supported by Google Maps in order to provide users with a functionality within our app that searches for and displays animal shelters in the area (legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR). The addresses of the animal shelters are stored in the backend (= technical platform that stores and filters the data) and are made available to the app via the interface.

Google Maps is a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"), which receives the user's IP address to display the map.

Information about your use of our app page (such as your IP address and location data) is transmitted to Google servers and stored there as soon as you call up the "Animal shelter search", in which the map from Google Maps is integrated. This may also involve transmission to the servers of the parent company Google LLC. in the USA. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether a user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account. If you do not wish your data to be associated with your Google profile, you must log out before activating the button. If you do not agree to the future transmission of your data to Google in connection with the use of Google Maps, please do not use the "Animal shelter search" and do not access the app page/function.

Through certification in accordance with the EU-US Privacy Shield, Google guarantees that the data protection requirements of the EU are also complied with when processing data in the USA.

In addition, the use of Google Maps and the information obtained via Google Maps is governed by the Google Terms of Use and the Terms and Conditions for Google Maps. In addition, Google offers further information at https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated andhttps://policies.google.com/privacy.

Insofar as legally required, we have obtained your consent to the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.

If you have given us your voluntary consent, which can be revoked at any time, we use Google AdWords Conversion Tracking to measure the success of our advertising measures. AdWords is a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"), which we use. This is done on the legal basis of Art. 6 para. 1 f) GDPR due to our legitimate interests in improving our app and our advertising measures.

After downloading the app, this target achievement ("conversion") is recorded by Google. Google can thus measure the number of target achievements. In addition, Google will use previously set cookies to assign which advertisements were previously clicked on and were therefore decisive for the target achievement. Google processes this data on servers in the USA, but will not associate it with personal data from your Google account.

You can prevent the recording of cookies at any time by means of a corresponding setting in the Internet browser used and thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. Options for deactivating cookies from third-party providers can be found at www.networkadvertising.org or at Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Platform.

Insofar as legally required, we have obtained your consent to the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.

In order to back up created profiles and to be able to use them again, e.g. when changing cell phones, it is possible to create an account. To do this, the user can create a backup under "Settings" > "Manage" > "Create backup". All they have to do is enter the user's e-mail address and a password of at least eight characters, which is stored in encrypted form on our servers. In the event of a cell phone change or loss, the animal data can be restored. The data can only be viewed by the user themselves and, if necessary, by programmers with database access in the event of support or maintenance. Database access is encrypted and can only be decrypted by authorized admins or programmers in the event of support or maintenance. The database server responsible for the app is not accessible via the Internet, but only from the data center (network). The database user has a password of at least 100 characters.

As already described in detail in Part 1, Section 9 above, the user has, among other things, a right of access to the personal data stored about him/her and also a right to rectification of incorrect data, blocking and erasure. If the user would like information about their personal data or its correction or deletion or has further questions about the use of their personal data provided to us, they can contact us by e-mail or post at the addresses given in the legal notice above in Part 1, Section 1.

If you contact us by e-mail, we would like to point out that the content of unencrypted e-mails can be viewed by third parties. We therefore recommend sending confidential information in encrypted form or by post.

Due to the further development of our app or the implementation of new technologies or similar, it may become necessary to change this data protection notice. The German Animal Welfare Association reserves the right to change the data protection information at any time with effect for the future. We will publish all changes here. Older versions are available for you to view in an archive.

Status: September 08, 2021