Source: http://www.deutsche-flagge.de/en/data-protection
Timestamp: 2019-04-23 11:55:32+00:00

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The German Flag State Administration takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. The following data protection statement informs you which data we collect on our websites and with our online services and how we process them.
Personal data means details that have reference to you personally, e.g. a first or surname (GDPR, Art.4 No.1).
We treat your data confidentially and in the framework of the data protection provisions. The legal bases for data protection can be found in the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (Federal Data Protection Act, BDSG) and the Telemediengesetz (German Telemedia Act, TMG).
On our website, we offer you as part of our service some forms from external sources (Stiftung "Schifffahrtsstandort Deutschland", Knappschaft-Bahn-See, Bundesnetzagentur, BG Verkehr, Standesamt I Berlin, TMAS and the shipping registers Bremen and Hamburg) to which data protection statements we refer you here.
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This information is solely used for statistical purposes and is evaluated to optimize and secure what we present online and erased subsequently to it. This data processing is based on GDPR, Art. 6 Par. 1 f.
To continually improve the information offered and the online services, the web analysis service Matomo is used to generate usage statistics and their analysis. The service collects anonymous data, including anonymised IP addresses, information about the internet service provider, operation systems, browser and plug-ins, device information, screen resolution and language settings, location data as well as referrer links for the BG Verkehr. It also gets recorded which pages were visited, including for how long, downloads, search words, visit duration, number of visits and visitors, contents referred to and whether our website had been visited before.
A backtracking of individual users does not take place. After a lapse of one year the data is automatically and irrevocably erased from Matomo. This data processing is based on GDPR, Art. 6 Par. 1 f.
If you do not wish the BG Verkehr to receive this information in the future, you can object to the data collection and storage.
Please note that the erasure of the deactivating cookie in your browser revokes your declared objection again.
Most browsers have the setting option to save cookies or not. Please note that the deactivation of cookies might disenable some of the functions of the website.
Please refer to Google's data protection information for details on data processing by Google.
For the protection of data abuse and spam for some of our online forms, we use the service of Google reCAPTCHA, based on GDPR, Art. 6 Par. 1 f. For this the IP address and other data, if applicable, required for the service are transmitted to Google. Google's data protection provisions apply.
If you contact us via the contact form or the published e-mail addresses on our website and online services, your request and the provided contact data are saved to process your request and in case of follow-up questions. Legal basis for the data processing is your consent in accordance with GDPR, Art. 6 Par 1a.
If you register for our newsletter, your e-mail address will be saved for the duration of your subscription. To ensure that it is actually the person in possession of the e-mail address subscribing for the newsletter, a confirmation e-mail asking for your confirmation of the registration will be sent to you after your initial newsletter registration using the double-opt-in procedure. Legal basis for this is your consent in accordance with GDPR, Art. 6 Par 1a. The data is solely used for sending the newsletter and will not be passed on to third parties.
You can revoke your given consent to store and use your data for sending the newsletter at any time. Every newsletter includes a link to cancel the subscription. Additionally, a cancelation is also possible on our website.
We only store your personal data for as long as it is necessary for the purposes mentioned herein and the legal storage periods provide. Afterwards, the data is routinely and in accordance with the legal provisions barred and erased.
To protect the data, you have entrusted to us, from manipulation, loss, destruction or unauthorized access, the BG Verkehr uses technical and organizational measures for its IT security. For the secure transmission of your data, state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS are used. Your details are stored on protected servers in Germany. Only very few authorized people, attending to technical, commercial and editorial support of the server, have access to them.
Please note that external contents to which we set links have different data protection provisions to us and we do not have any influence on them.
You have the right to access to the personal data stored by us free of charge. You also have the right to rectification, barring and – except for legally required data retention obligations – erasure of your personal data. If the data processing has been done with your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note, however, that the withdrawal is only possible for the future and does not apply retroactively for processing which has already been done.

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