Legal notice

Please contact us via the contact form on this website.

Limitation of liability:

Liability for content

The contents of these pages were created with great care, yet we cannot take any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or up-to-dateness of the contents. As a service provider we are responsible, according to § 7 paragraph 1 of TMG, for the content of our own on these pages under the general law. According to §§ 8 to 10 TMG we as a service provider are not obligated to monitor transmitted or stored information of other sources or to investigate circumstances that indicate illegal activity. Obligations to remove or block access to information under the general laws remain unaffected. A relevant liability is only possible from the date of disclosure of a specific infringement. Upon notification of such violations, we will remove the content immediately.

Liability for Links

Our site contains links to external websites over which we have no control. Therefore we cannot accept any responsibility for their content. The respective provider or operator is always responsible for the contents of any linked site. The linked sites were checked at the time of linking for possible violations of law. Illegal contents were not perceived at the time of linking. Without concrete evidence of a violation, a permanent control of the linked pages is unreasonable. Upon notification of violations, we will remove such links immediately.

Privacy Policy

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comment

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. After approval of your comment, the data you have submitted with the comments form is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

If you submit inquiries to us via our contact form, the information provided in the contact form as well as any contact information provided therein will be stored by us in order to handle your inquiry and in the event that we have further questions. We will not share this information without your consent.

Hence, the processing of the data entered into the contact form occurs exclusively based on your consent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR). You have the right to revoke at any time any consent you have already given us. To do so, all you are required to do is sent us an informal notification via e-mail. This shall be without prejudice to the lawfulness of any data collection that occurred prior to your revocation.

The information you have entered into the contact form shall remain with us until you ask us to eradicate the data, revoke your consent to the archiving of data or if the purpose for which the information is being archived no longer exists (e.g. after we have concluded our response to your inquiry). This shall be without prejudice to any mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods.

Registration on this website

You have the option to register on our website to become member of the European Forum for Teachers of Religious Education (EFTRE). We shall use the data you enter only for the purpose of using the respective offer or service you have registered for. The required information we request at the time of registration must be entered in full. Otherwise we shall reject the registration.

To notify you of any important changes to the scope of our portfolio or in the event of technical modifications, we shall use the e-mail address provided during the registration process.

We shall process the data entered during the registration process on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR). You have the right to revoke at any time any consent you have already given us. To do so, all you are required to do is sent us an informal notification via e-mail. This shall be without prejudice to the lawfulness of any data collection that occurred prior to your revocation.

The data recorded during the registration process shall be stored by us as long as you are registered as member of EFTRE. Subsequently, such data shall be deleted. This shall be without prejudice to mandatory statutory retention obligations.

Payment procedure

When registering on our website to become a member of EFTRE and after that once every year as long as you remain a registered member, you will also be asked to pay your membership fee via this website. We shall only store information from the payment procedure, which is directly linked to your registration as member of EFTRE. This is information about if and which amount of fees you have paid in connection with your username and passcode in order to manage and monitor membership payments. 

Your personal account information and financial data are not collected by us, but only by the service used for the payment. This is PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A.. For further information about their privacy policy, please visit https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/privacy/privacyhub .

News mailing data

If you would like to receive to the news mailings from EFTRE offered via this website, we will need from you an e-mail address as well as information that allow us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided and consent to the receipt of the news mailing. No further data shall be collected or shall be collected only on a voluntary basis. We shall use such data only for the sending of the requested information and shall not share such data with any third parties.

The processing of the information shall occur exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR). You may revoke the consent you have given to the archiving of data, the e-mail address and the use of this information for the sending of the news mailings at any time, for instance by clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link in the news mailing. This shall be without prejudice to the lawfulness of any data processing transactions that have taken place to date.

The data you archive with us for the purpose of the news mailing subscription shall be archived by us until you unsubscribe from the news mailing. Once you cancel your subscription to the news mailing, the data shall be deleted. This shall not affect data we have been archiving for other purposes.

MailChimp

This website uses the services of MailChimp to send out its news mailing to the registered members and further interested parties. The provider is the Rocket Science Group LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.

Among other things, MailChimp is a service that can be deployed to organise and analyse the sending of newsletters. Whenever you enter data for the purpose of subscribing to a newsletter (e.g. your e-mail address), the information is stored on MailChimp servers in the United States.

MailChimp is in possession of a certification that is in compliance with the “EU-US-Privacy-Shield.” The “Privacy-Shield” is a compact between the European Union (EU) and the United States of America (USA) that aims to warrant the compliance with European data protection standards in the United States.

With the assistance of the MailChimp tool, we can analyse the performance of our newsletter campaigns. If you open an e-mail that has been sent through the MailChimp tool, a file that has been integrated into the e-mail (a so-called web-beacon) connects to MailChimp’s servers in the United States. As a result, it can be determined whether a newsletter message has been opened and which links the recipient possibly clicked on. Technical information is also recorded at that time (e.g. the time of access, the IP address, type of browser and operating system). This information cannot be allocated to the respective newsletter recipient. Their sole purpose is the performance of statistical analyses of newsletter campaigns. The results of such analyses can be used to tailor future newsletters to the interests of their recipients more effectively.

If you do not want to permit an analysis by MailChimp, you must unsubscribe from the news mailing. We provide a link for you to do this in every news mailing. This shall be without prejudice to the lawfulness of any data processing transactions that have taken place prior to your revocation.

The data you archive with us for the purpose of the news mailing subscription shall be archived by us until you unsubscribe. Once you cancel your subscription to the news mailing, the data shall be deleted from our servers as well as those of MailChimp. This shall not affect data we have been archiving for other purposes.

For more details, please consult the Data Privacy Policies of MailChimp at: https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/.

Registration for events

If you register for an event we are offering via a registration form on our website, the information provided in this form as well as any contact information provided therein will be stored by us in order to handle your participation in the event and in case that we have further questions. We will not share this information without your consent.

Hence, the processing of the data entered into the contact form occurs exclusively based on your consent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR). You have the right to revoke at any time any consent you have already given us. To do so, all you are required to do is sent us an informal notification via e-mail. This shall be without prejudice to the lawfulness of any data collection that occurred prior to your revocation.

The information you have entered into the form shall remain with us until you ask us to eradicate the data, revoke your consent to the archiving of data or if the purpose for which the information is being archived no longer exists (e.g. after the event you registered for). This shall be without prejudice to any mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods.

Cookies

In some instances, our website and its pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. The purpose of cookies is to make our website more user friendly, effective and more secure. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer and stored by your browser.

For more information how cookies are used on this website, please visit https://automattic.com/cookies/. 

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Use of Twitter

On our pages we use social media plugins of Twitter. Twitter is a service of Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.

When you access our pages that contain such a Twitter plugin, a direct connection is established between your browser and Twitter servers. By this connection to Twitter, Twitter is informed that you have accessed our pages with your IP address. If you click the Twitter tweet button on our pages while logged into your Twitter account, you can link the content of our pages to your Twitter profile. This allows Twitter to associate the visit to our pages with your Twitter account. We would like to point out that we have neither influence nor knowledge of what data is transmitted to Twitter and how it is used by Twitter.

You can find more information in Twitter’s Privacy Policy at: http://twitter.com/privacy You can change your privacy settings in your account settings at: http://twitter.com/account/settings. 

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.