I. Person responsible, scope
The person responsible within the meaning of the relevant data protection regulations is INFORUM Verlags- und Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (hereinafter referred to as “provider”). Please refer to the imprint for details on the summonable address and powers of representation.
For us, the protection of personal data has the highest priority. We would therefore like to inform you at this point about which data we collect when and how we handle your personal data. This data protection declaration describes the collection and use of personal data when visiting and using the websites www.kernd.de, www.kernfragen.de, www.amnt.de and other Internet domains, when they are called up the user is automatically redirected to one of the sites mentioned forwarded (hereinafter collectively: „website“).
The website operated by the provider provides users with editorial content on the subject of nuclear energy free of charge. In addition, the user has the option of purchasing products from the provider’s range of products, which are subject to a fee, to register for an event or seminar or to book an advertisement via the corresponding shop functions.
The provider also uses the personal data for statistical and market analysis purposes. Statistics on customer groups, delivery areas, market areas, for example, are created and evaluated in an anonymous form. You can find details on this in the relevant sections of this data protection declaration.
Additional data protection notices may apply to special services or campaigns (e.g. special campaigns). We will inform you about this at the beginning of the usage process of the respective service or campaign.
II. General information on data processing
1. Scope of processing of personal data
In principle, we only process the personal data of our users to the extent that this is necessary to provide a functional website and our content and services. The processing of personal data of our users takes place regularly only with the consent of the user or on the basis of other legal provisions that allow data processing.
2. Legal bases for the processing of personal data
consent
Insofar as we obtain the consent of the data subject for the processing of personal data, Article 6 (1) (a) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) serves as the legal basis.
Contract or pre-contractual measures
Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR serves as the legal basis for the processing of personal data required to fulfill a contract to which the data subject is a party. This also applies to processing operations that are necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures.
Legal Obligation
Insofar as processing of personal data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation to which our company is subject, Article 6 (1) (c) GDPR serves as the legal basis.
Legitimate Interest
If the processing is necessary to safeguard a legitimate interest of our company or a third party and if the interests, fundamental rights and fundamental freedoms of the person concerned do not outweigh the first interest, Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f GDPR serves as the legal basis for the processing.
3. Data Erasure and Storage Duration
Basically and unless otherwise stated, your personal data will only be stored until the purpose of collection and storage no longer applies. According to your consent, data can also be stored longer as long as you do not revoke your consent.
Storage can also take place if this has been provided for by European or national legislators in EU regulations, laws or other regulations to which we are subject. The data will also be blocked or deleted if a storage period prescribed by the standards mentioned expires, unless there is a need for further storage of the data for the conclusion or fulfillment of a contract.
4. Transfer to third countries
Unless otherwise stated, all data processing operations take place within the EU or EEA countries.
Data processing operations that are carried out by third-party providers established outside the geographical area mentioned may be carried out in part or in full in the countries of the respective branch or in accordance with the respective data protection regulations.
A transfer of personal data outside the EU or the EEA takes place exclusively on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission, including the adequacy decision on the EU-US Privacy Shield, or in accordance with standard contractual clauses of the European Commission. A list of current adequacy decisions is available on the European Commission’s website.
Information about the EU-US Privacy Shield, and in particular information about a specific company’s participation, can be found on the website of the US Department of Commerce.
III. Data use in general form when providing the website and creating log files
Regardless of whether you place an order, we automatically save usage-related data about the usage process when you use our website. This includes in particular the URL of the accessed website, date and time of access, amount of data transferred, http status code of the response to the access, web browser and HTTP referrer and the IP address. We do not assign this information to your person. We store the IP addresses in the log files for a limited period of time, insofar as this is necessary for security purposes.
We collect this data to ensure that our website is available to you. In addition, they are used to anonymously analyse, store and evaluate user behavior and to constantly improve and further develop the service. For more details on the systems used, see the sections on cookies and social media below.
We only store your IP address in the log files for a limited period of time, insofar as this is necessary for security purposes.
Our legitimate interest, which justifies data processing in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR, also lies in the stated purposes.
IV. Use of data when placing an order or registering for an event
If you place a paid order on our website or register for an event, we collect and process the following personal data: Salutation, surname, first name, title, organization, address, e-mail address, possibly different delivery address. We need this data in order to be able to process your order or registration properly.
You can provide the following additional information voluntarily: department, date of birth. We process this data for statistical purposes, but separately from the other data relating to you. This enables us to gain statistical insights into the visitors of our online shop or our events, without establishing a connection to you, in order to constantly improve our offer and adapt it to the interests of our users. This is our legitimate interest, which justifies the collection and use in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
In addition, we automatically collect the following data, which, however, do not allow us to draw any conclusions about your civil identity: regional origin, operating system and end device, referring website, opened subpages.
To process the order or registration, we use external service providers to whom we transmit your data if necessary. These are service providers who are responsible for processing and delivering your order or organizing the events (e.g. logistics companies, printers, congress agency). Such service providers process the data exclusively on our behalf and for the purpose of fulfilling the contract. Under no circumstances will your data be used for the service provider’s own purposes. Insofar as this is required by law, we have concluded contracts for order processing with all of our service providers in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR.
If you purchase products or services from our range that are subject to payment, we do not collect or process any payment data. To carry out the payment, we use external payment service providers who collect payment data directly from you. We then only receive confirmation that the payment has been made.
The basis for the use of data is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter b) GDPR.
V. Use of cookies
a) Description and scope of data processing
In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your end device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e. after closing your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and enable us or our partner companies to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies).
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually whether to accept them or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. You can also manually delete cookies from your end device at any time.
If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website or our app may be restricted.
Technical cookies
We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the calling browser can be identified even after a page change. Information about (language settings, shopping cart contents, log-in information, etc.) is saved.
The basis for the use of technical cookies is our legitimate interest in providing a functional and user-friendly service.
Technically unnecessary cookies
In addition, we use technically unnecessary cookies to monitor and evaluate user behavior for market analysis purposes. These are third-party cookies that are used when you use our services. Please refer to the following sections for details.
We use cookies that are not technically necessary to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. We can use the statistics obtained to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. The legal basis is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Google Analytics
We work with „Google Analytics“. This is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. The information generated by the Google Analytics cookie about your use of our website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. IP anonymization has been activated on our websites, so that the IP address of users is 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 unabridged IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide us with other services related to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by making a corresponding setting in your browser software; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by installing the browser plug-in available under the following link : http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. Alternatively, you can click on the following link: Disable Google Analytics. An opt-out cookie is then set, which prevents future collection of your data when you visit this website.
For more information on how Google handles personal data, please see Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.
Google AdWords remarketing and conversion tracking
We use Google Adwords to advertise this website in Google search results and on third-party websites. For this purpose, when you visit our website, the so-called remarketing and conversion tracking cookies are set by Google, which automatically enable interest-based advertising using a pseudonymous cookie ID and based on the pages you visit, or allow us or Google to track that you are on clicked the ad and were redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. As a result, there is no way that cookies can be tracked through AdWords advertisers‘ websites.
This serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in optimal marketing of our website in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. After the end of our use of Google AdWords Remarketing, the data collected in this context will be deleted.
Any further data processing will only take place if you have given your consent to Google that your web and app browser history will be linked to your Google account by Google and that information from your Google account will be used to personalize ads that you see on the web see. In this case, if you are logged in to Google while visiting our website, Google will use your data together with Google Analytics data to create and define target group lists for cross-device remarketing. To do this, Google will temporarily link your personal data to Google Analytics data in order to form target groups.
Google AdWords Remarketing is an offer from Google LLC (www.google.de). Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.
You can disable the remarketing cookie via this link. You can also find out more about the setting of cookies from the Digital Advertising Alliance and make settings for this.
b) Duration of storage, possibility of objection and removal
Cookies are stored on the user’s computer and transmitted to our site. Therefore, as a user, you also have full control over the use of cookies. By changing the settings in your Internet browser, you can deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are deactivated for our website, it may no longer be possible to use all the functions of the website to their full extent.
VI. Newsletter
You can register to receive our newsletter by entering your e-mail address in the mask provided. You can give your name voluntarily. We only use this to address you personally.
You will then receive an automatic confirmation e-mail containing a link to the address provided. The registration process is only complete when you access this link.
If you consent to receiving our newsletter, we will use your email address to send advertising and offers that are of interest to you about our own goods and services and those of partner companies. The data will not be passed on to third parties. You can withdraw your consent to receive newsletters at any time by objecting to receiving newsletters.
The basis for this form of data processing is your consent.
If we have collected your e-mail address as part of the purchase or use of our products or services, we can also send you e-mail newsletters for our offers without your prior consent, which correspond to the goods you have already ordered from us or Services are similar if you have not opted out of receiving such newsletters. The basis for this is Section 7 (3) UWG.
You can object to receiving all types of newsletters from us at any time without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic tariffs (i.e. the costs of your Internet provider, for example). We will inform you about the right to object when the email address is collected and in the respective newsletter.
VII. Social Media Plugins
We use social media plugins from various providers on our website in order to improve our offer and make it more attractive for you. The basis for the associated processing of personal data is therefore Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Social plugins from Facebook, Twitter using the Shariff solution.
Social buttons from social networks are used on our website.
This serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in optimal marketing of our offer in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. In order to increase the protection of your data when you visit our website, these buttons are not unrestrictedly plug-ins, but only integrated into the page using an HTML link. This integration ensures that when you call up a page on our website that contains such buttons, no connection is established with the servers of the provider of the respective social network.
If you click on one of the buttons, a new window will open in your browser and call up the page of the respective service provider, on which you can (possibly after entering your login data) press the Like or Share button, for example.
The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers on their pages as well as a contact option and your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in the data protection information of the providers:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Twitter: https://twitter.com/privacy
Youtube Video Plugin
Third-party content is made available on our website via the YouTube service. YouTube is operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA („Google“).
The extended data protection setting is activated for videos from YouTube that are embedded on our site. This means that no information is collected and stored from website visitors on YouTube unless they play the video. The integration of the videos serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in optimal marketing of our offer in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.
The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in Google’s data protection information at http://www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy //+1button.html.
VIII. Rights of the data subject
If personal data is processed by you, you are the data subject within the meaning of the GDPR and you have the following rights vis-à-vis the person responsible:
1. Right to information
You can request confirmation from the person responsible as to whether personal data relating to you is being processed by us.
If such processing is present, you can request information from the person responsible for the following information:
(1) the purposes for which the personal data are processed;
(2) the categories of personal data being processed;
(3) the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your personal data has been or will be disclosed;
(4) the planned duration of the storage of the personal data concerning you or, if specific information on this is not possible, criteria for determining the storage duration;
(5) the existence of a right to rectification or erasure of personal data concerning you, a right to restriction of processing by the person responsible or a right to object to this processing;
(6) the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority;
(7) all available information about the origin of the data if the personal data are not collected from the data subject;
(8) the existence of automated decision-making including profiling in accordance with Art. 22 (1) and (4) GDPR and – at least in these cases – meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing for the data subject.
You have the right to request information as to whether your personal data is being transmitted to a third country or to an international organization. In this context, you can request to be informed of the appropriate guarantees pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR in connection with the transmission.
2. Right to Rectification
You have a right to correction and/or completion to the person responsible if the processed personal data concerning you is incorrect or incomplete. The person responsible must make the correction immediately.
3. Right to restriction of processing
Under the following conditions, you can request the restriction of the processing of your personal data:
(1) if you dispute the accuracy of the personal data concerning you, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
(2) the processing is unlawful and you refuse to delete the personal data and instead request that the use of the personal data be restricted;
(3) the person responsible no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of processing, but you need them to assert, exercise or defend legal claims, or
(4) if you have lodged an objection to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 (1) GDPR and it has not yet been determined whether the legitimate reasons of the person responsible outweigh your reasons.
If the processing of the personal data concerning you has been restricted, this data – apart from its storage – may only be used with your consent or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or to protect the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or a Member State are processed.
If the restriction of processing has been restricted according to the above conditions, you will be informed by the person responsible before the restriction is lifted.
4. Right to erasure
a) Obligation to delete
You can request the person responsible to delete the personal data concerning you immediately, and the person responsible is obliged to delete this data immediately if one of the following reasons applies:
(1) The personal data concerning you are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
(2) You revoke your consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter a or Article 9 Paragraph 2 Letter a GDPR and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
(3) You object to the processing in accordance with Article 21 (1) GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate reasons for the processing, or you object to the processing in accordance with Article 21 (2) GDPR.
(4) The personal data concerning you was processed unlawfully.
(5) The deletion of personal data concerning you is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the Member States to which the person responsible is subject.
(6) The personal data concerning you was collected in relation to information society services offered pursuant to Article 8 (1) GDPR.
b) Information to third parties
If the person responsible has made the personal data relating to you public and is obliged to delete it in accordance with Art. 17 (1) GDPR, he shall take appropriate measures, including technical measures, to protect the person responsible for data processing, taking into account the available technology and the implementation costs , who process the personal data, that you, as the data subject, have requested them to delete all links to this personal data or copies or replications of this personal data.
c) Exceptions
The right to erasure does not exist if processing is necessary
(1) to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information;
(2) to fulfill a legal obligation that requires processing under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject, or to perform a task that is in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller became;
(3) for reasons of public interest in the field of public health in accordance with Article 9 (2) lit. h and i and Article 9 (3) GDPR;
(4) for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes pursuant to Art. 89 Para
(5) to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
5. Right to Information
If you have asserted the right to correction, deletion or restriction of processing against the person responsible, he is obliged to inform all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you have been disclosed of this correction or deletion of the data or restriction of processing, unless this proves to be impossible or involves a disproportionate effort.
You have the right to be informed about these recipients by the person responsible.
6. Right to data portability
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to the person responsible in a structured, common and machine-readable format. In addition, you have the right to transmit this data to another person responsible without hindrance by the person responsible for providing the personal data, provided that
(1) the processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) GDPR and
(2) the processing is carried out using automated procedures.
In exercising this right, you also have the right to have the personal data concerning you transmitted directly from one person responsible to another person responsible, insofar as this is technically feasible. The freedoms and rights of other people must not be impaired by this.
The right to data portability does not apply to processing of personal data that is required to perform a task that is in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority that has been assigned to the controller.
7. Right to Object
You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of your personal data, which is based on Article 6 Paragraph 1 lit. e or f GDPR; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions.
The person responsible no longer processes the personal data relating to you unless he can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
If the personal data concerning you are processed in order to operate direct advertising, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of such advertising without giving reasons; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with such direct advertising.
If you object to the processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data relating to you will no longer be processed for these purposes.
8. Right to revoke the declaration of consent under data protection law
You have the right to revoke your declaration of consent under data protection law at any time. The revocation of the consent does not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent up to the point of revocation.
9. Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of your place of residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement, if you believe that the processing of your personal data is contrary to violates the GDPR.
The supervisory authority to which the complaint was lodged will inform the complainant about the status and the results of the complaint, including the possibility of a judicial remedy under Art. 78 GDPR.
IX. Changes to this Privacy Policy
Due to the dynamic development of the Internet, new technologies and opportunities are constantly being developed. So that we can also let you enjoy these opportunities and technologies, we reserve the right to change this data protection declaration for the future when introducing new or additional services or when changing or expanding existing services or service elements.
Insofar as the change in the data protection declaration only affects the use of data in general and/or the use of data for orders and not also the use of data in the context of a user account, the new data protection declaration applies from the date of its update on the website.
A change in the data protection declaration, which refers to the use of the data already collected and stored in your user account, will only take place if this is reasonable for you. If and to the extent that changes to the data protection declaration relate to the use of data already collected and stored in your user account, we will notify you in good time by e-mail, on our website or in another form. You have the right to object to the validity of the new data protection declaration within six weeks of receiving notification. If you object, you will no longer be able to use the services available through the website. If no objection is raised within the specified period, the amended data protection declaration is deemed to have been accepted by you. In the notification, we will inform you of your right to object and the importance of the objection period.