Privacy Policy

This Data Pro­tec­tion Pol­i­cy refers to the nature, scope and pur­pose of per­son­al data pro­cess­ing (here­inafter referred to as “data”) relat­ing to our web­sites, fea­tures and con­tent there­of, as well as the exter­nal pres­ence such as our social media pro­files (col­lec­tive­ly referred to as “online offer”). With regard to the ter­mi­nol­o­gy used, e.g. “pro­cess­ing” and “con­troller”, we refer to the def­i­n­i­tions stim­u­lat­ed in Arti­cle 4 of the Gen­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion (GDPR). 

The par­ty respon­si­ble for this web­site (the “con­troller”) for pur­pos­es of data pro­tec­tion law is:

Zukun­ftss­tiftung Land­wirtschaft
(Foun­da­tion on Future Farm­ing)
Benedikt Haer­lin
Berlin office
Phone: +49 30 2848 23 20
Fax: +49 30 275 903 12
Email: berlin@zs‑l.de

The con­troller’s exter­nal data pro­tec­tion offi­cer is:

Ste­fan Strüwe
Recht­san­walt (Syn­dikus­recht­san­walt)
CURACON GmbH
Am Mit­tel­hafen 14
48155 Mün­ster
Phone: 0251 / 92208 – 209
Email:  

Col­lec­tion of access data and log files
We, or our host­ing provider, col­lects on the basis of our legit­i­mate inter­ests with­in the mean­ing of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO Data on every access to the serv­er on which this ser­vice is locat­ed (so-called serv­er log files). The access data includes name of the retrieved web page, file, date and time of retrieval, amount of data trans­ferred, mes­sage about suc­cess­ful retrieval, brows­er type and ver­sion, the user’s oper­at­ing sys­tem, refer­rer URL (the pre­vi­ous­ly vis­it­ed page), IP address and the request­ing provider.

Log­file infor­ma­tion is stored for secu­ri­ty rea­sons (eg to inves­ti­gate abu­sive or fraud­u­lent activ­i­ties) for a max­i­mum of 7 days and then delet­ed. Data whose fur­ther reten­tion is required for evi­den­tial pur­pos­es shall be exempt­ed from the can­cel­la­tion until final clar­i­fi­ca­tion of the inci­dent. 

Con­tact form, email or phone con­tact

Should you send us ques­tions via the con­tact form, email, tele­phone or social media, we will col­lect the data you pro­vide, to answer your ques­tion and any fol­low-up ques­tions as per Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR. The data may be stored in a Cus­tomer-Rela­tion-Man­age­ment Sys­tem (“CRM Sys­tem”) or sim­i­lar sys­tems.

We delete the requests, if they are no longer required. We check the neces­si­ty every two years. Fur­ther­more, the legal archiv­ing oblig­a­tions apply. 

Cook­ies

We use cook­ies on our web­site. Cook­ies are small files that your brows­er auto­mat­i­cal­ly cre­ates and that are stored on your device (lap­top, tablet, smart­phone, etc.) when you vis­it our site. Cook­ies do no dam­age to your end device, do not con­tain virus­es, Tro­jans or oth­er mal­ware.

Infor­ma­tion is stored in the cook­ie that results in each case in con­nec­tion with the specif­i­cal­ly used ter­mi­nal device. How­ev­er, this does not mean that you can be direct­ly iden­ti­fied.

The use of cook­ies serves to make the use of our web­site more pleas­ant for the user. For exam­ple, we use so-called ses­sion cook­ies to recog­nise that you have already vis­it­ed indi­vid­ual pages of our web­site. These are delet­ed auto­mat­i­cal­ly after leav­ing our site.

We also use cook­ies to sta­tis­ti­cal­ly record the use of our web­site and eval­u­ate it for you for the pur­pose of opti­mis­ing our offer (see num­ber 5. below). These cook­ies enable us to auto­mat­i­cal­ly recog­nise when you return to our web­site that you have already vis­it­ed. These cook­ies are auto­mat­i­cal­ly delet­ed after a defined peri­od of time.

The data processed by cook­ies is required for the afore­men­tioned pur­pos­es in order to pro­tect our legit­i­mate inter­ests and those of third par­ties pur­suant to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

Most browsers auto­mat­i­cal­ly accept cook­ies. How­ev­er, you can con­fig­ure your brows­er so that no cook­ies are stored on your com­put­er or so that a mes­sage always appears before a new cook­ie is cre­at­ed. How­ev­er, the com­plete deac­ti­va­tion of cook­ies can lead to your being unable to use all func­tions of our web­site. 

Mato­mo web analy­sis (for­mer­ly PIWIK)
This web­site uses the open source web analy­sis ser­vice Mato­mo (for­mer­ly “Piwik”). Mato­mo uses so-called “cook­ies”. These are text files that are stored on your com­put­er and enable an analy­sis of your use of the web­site. For this pur­pose, the infor­ma­tion gen­er­at­ed by the cook­ie about the use of this web­site is stored on our serv­er. The IP address is made anony­mous before it is saved. Our con­cern in the sense of the GDPR (legit­i­mate inter­est) is the opti­miza­tion of our online offer and our web­site. 

The infor­ma­tion gen­er­at­ed by the cook­ie about the use of this web­site will not be passed on to third par­ties.
Your IP address is nev­er merged with oth­er cus­tomer relat­ed data. The IP address­es are anonymized ensur­ing that no match to an indi­vid­ual is pos­si­ble (IP mask­ing).

If you do not agree to the stor­age and use of your data, you can deac­ti­vate the stor­age and use here. In this case, an opt-out cook­ie is stored in your brows­er which pre­vents Mato­mo from sav­ing usage data. If you delete your cook­ies, the Mato­mo Opt-Out cook­ie will also be delet­ed. The opt-out must be reac­ti­vat­ed the next time you vis­it our site.

Third par­ty con­tent and social media plug-ins

We use the fol­low­ing social media plug-ins: Face­book, Twit­ter, and Youtube. This allows you to com­mu­ni­cate with such ser­vices and like or com­ment from our web­site. Social media plug-ins enable a direct com­mu­ni­ca­tion between your device and the servers of the social media provider, allow­ing the social media provider to com­mu­ni­cate with you and col­lect infor­ma­tion about you brows­ing our web­site. This pro­cess­ing is based on Arti­cle 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR and rep­re­sents our legit­i­mate inter­est to improve your web­site expe­ri­ence and to opti­mise our ser­vices. 

YouTube
This web­site uses plu­g­ins from YouTube, which is oper­at­ed by Google. The oper­a­tor of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cher­ry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you vis­it one of our pages fea­tur­ing a YouTube plu­g­in, a con­nec­tion to the YouTube servers is estab­lished. Here the YouTube serv­er is informed about which of our pages you have vis­it­ed.
Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about han­dling user data, can be found in the data pro­tec­tion dec­la­ra­tion of YouTube under www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. 

Use of Face­book Social Plu­g­ins

On the basis of our legit­i­mate inter­ests (i.e. inter­est in the analy­sis, opti­mi­sa­tion and eco­nom­ic oper­a­tion of our online offer with­in the mean­ing of art. 6 sec. 1 lit. f. GDPR), we use social plu­g­ins (“plu­g­ins”) of the social net­work www.facebook.com, which is oper­at­ed by Face­book Ire­land Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Har­bour, Dublin 2, Ire­land (“Face­book”). The plu­g­ins can dis­play inter­ac­tion ele­ments or con­tent (e.g. videos, graph­ics or text) and are iden­ti­fied by one of the Face­book logos (white “f” on blue tile, the term “like” or a “thumbs up” sign) or are marked with the addi­tion “Face­book Social Plu­g­in”. The list and appear­ance of Face­book Social Plu­g­ins can be found here: developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

Face­book is cer­ti­fied under the Pri­va­cy Shield Agree­ment and thus guar­an­tees to com­ply with the GDPR (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active).

When users use a func­tion of this online offer that con­tains such a plu­g­in, their device estab­lish­es a direct con­nec­tion to the Face­book servers. The con­tent of the plu­g­in is trans­mit­ted by Face­book direct­ly to the user’s device and inte­grat­ed into the online offer. The processed data can be used to cre­ate user pro­files. There­fore, we have no influ­ence on the amount of data Face­book col­lects with the help of this plu­g­in and inform users accord­ing to our lev­el of knowl­edge.

By inte­grat­ing these plu­g­ins, Face­book receives infor­ma­tion that a user has opened the cor­re­spond­ing page of the online offer. If the user is logged into Face­book, Face­book can assign the vis­it to its Face­book account. When users inter­act with the plu­g­ins, such as press­ing the Like but­ton or post­ing a com­ment, the infor­ma­tion is sent direct­ly from their device to Face­book and stored there. If a user is not a mem­ber of Face­book, it is still pos­si­ble for Face­book to obtain and store their IP address. Accord­ing to Face­book, only anonymized IP address­es are stored in Ger­many.

The pur­pose and scope of the data col­lec­tion and the pro­cess­ing and use of the data by Face­book, as well as the rel­e­vant rights and set­ting options for the pro­tec­tion of the users’ pri­va­cy can be found in Facebook’s pri­va­cy notice: www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

If users are on Face­book and do not want Face­book to col­lect data about them via this online offer and link it to their mem­ber­ship data stored on Face­book, they must log out of Face­book before using our online offer and delete their cook­ies. Fur­ther set­tings and objec­tions to the use of data for adver­tis­ing pur­pos­es are pos­si­ble with­in the Face­book pro­file set­tings: www.facebook.com/settings or via the US page www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU page www.youronlinechoices.com. The set­tings are plat­form-inde­pen­dent, i.e. they are applied to all devices, such as desk­top com­put­ers or mobile devices. 

Twit­ter

With­in our online offer, func­tions and con­tents of the Twit­ter ser­vice offered by Twit­ter Inc, 1355 Mar­ket Street, Suite 900, San Fran­cis­co, CA 94103, USA, can be inte­grat­ed. This may include con­tent such as images, videos or texts and but­tons with which users can express their appre­ci­a­tion of the con­tent, sub­scribe to the authors of the con­tent or our con­tri­bu­tions. If the users are mem­bers of Twit­ter, Twit­ter can assign the above con­tent and func­tions to the users’ pro­files. Twit­ter is cer­ti­fied under the Pri­va­cy Shield Agree­ment and thus guar­an­tees to com­ply with the GDPR (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active). Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy: twitter.com/de/privacy, Opt-Out: twitter.com/personalization. 

The rights of users and data sub­jects
With regard to the data pro­cess­ing to be described in more detail below, users and data sub­jects have the right

• under Art. 15 GDPR to ask for infor­ma­tion about your per­son­al data processed by us. You may specif­i­cal­ly ask for infor­ma­tion as to the pur­pose of such pro­cess­ing, the cat­e­gories of per­son­al data con­cerned, the cat­e­gories of recip­i­ents to whom your data has been or is being dis­closed and the length of time that it is intend­ed to be kept, as to the exis­tence of a right to amend, delete or lim­it such pro­cess­ing or raise an objec­tion, the exis­tence of a right of appeal, the ori­gin of your data if it has not been obtained from us and as to the exis­tence of auto­mat­ed deci­sion-mak­ing, includ­ing pro­fil­ing, and details of any sig­nif­i­cant infor­ma­tion; 
• under Art. 16 GDPR to require the rec­ti­fi­ca­tion with­out undue delay of inac­cu­rate per­son­al data record­ed by us or the sup­ple­men­ta­tion of per­son­al data record­ed by us;
• under Art. 17 GDPR to require the era­sure of per­son­al data record­ed by us unless its pro­cess­ing should be nec­es­sary in the exer­cise of the right of free­dom of expres­sion and infor­ma­tion, to ful­fil a legal require­ment, for rea­sons of pub­lic inter­est or in order to assert, estab­lish or defend legal claims;
• under Art. 18 GDPR. to require a restric­tion to be put on the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data where the accu­ra­cy of data is dis­put­ed by you, pro­cess­ing is unlaw­ful but you refuse its era­sure and we no longer need the data but you need it in order to assert, estab­lish or defend legal claims or where you have filed an objec­tion to pro­cess­ing under Art. 21 GDPR;
• under Art. 20 GDPR to receive your per­son­al data that you have pro­vid­ed to us in a struc­tured, con­ven­tion­al and machine-read­able for­mat or to require it to be trans­mit­ted to anoth­er data pro­tec­tion con­troller;
• under Art. 7(3) GDPR to with­draw your con­sent at any time. This means that in future we will no longer be allowed to con­tin­ue data pro­cess­ing to which your con­sent relates, and
• under Art. 77 GDPR to lodge a com­plaint with a super­vi­so­ry author­i­ty. You may gen­er­al­ly address this to the super­vi­so­ry author­i­ty at your habit­u­al place of res­i­dence, your place of work or our place of busi­ness

Right to object

Where your per­son­al data is processed for the pur­pose of legit­i­mate inter­ests under Art. 6(1) sen­tence 1(f) GDPR you have the right under Art. 21 GDPR to object to the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data on grounds relat­ing to your par­tic­u­lar sit­u­a­tion or where the objec­tion is lev­elled at direct mar­ket­ing. In the lat­ter case you have a gen­er­al right to object which will be imple­ment­ed by us with­out a par­tic­u­lar sit­u­a­tion hav­ing to be spec­i­fied.
If you should wish to exer­cise your right to object or ask for rec­ti­fi­ca­tion kind­ly send an email to berlin[at]zs‑l(dot)de. 

Data secu­ri­ty

When you vis­it our web­site, we use the com­mon SSL pro­ce­dure (Secure Sock­et Lay­er) in com­bi­na­tion with the high­est pos­si­ble encryp­tion lev­el that is sup­port­ed by your brows­er. This usu­al­ly is a 256-bit encryp­tion. If your brows­er does not sup­port the 256-bit encryp­tion, we will use the 128-bit v3 tech­nol­o­gy instead. You can see by the closed key or lock icon in the low­er sta­tus bar of your brows­er whether an indi­vid­ual page of our Inter­net pre­sen­ta­tion is encrypt­ed dur­ing trans­fer.