The Learning Street – Die Lernstraße takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We want you to know what data we store and how we use it.
We treat your data confidentially and store it only for internal purposes. We use the data to stay in touch with you via email, direct mail, and customized online advertising (such as Facebook), or to offer you memberships or prizes. We do not share your data with third parties.
Applicable data protection regulations, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), oblige us to handle user data properly and for the intended purpose.
Data Protection and Cookie Policy
This privacy policy describes the processing of personal data when using The Learning Street – Die Lernstraße website. It also explains the choices you have regarding your personal data and how you can contact us.
I. Who is responsible?
The controller within the meaning of the GDPR is:
The Learning Street – Die Lernstraße
Drischütgasse 1/2/14
A-1110 Vienna
Email: office@telearningsteet.org
ZVR number: 1430739285
www.thelearningstreet.org
For questions about our processing of your personal data or about data protection in general, please contact office@telearningsteet.org
II. Your rights
As a data subject whose personal data The Learning Street – Die Lernstraße collects, stores, and processes, you have the following rights under the GDPR:
Right to information (Art. 15 GDPR)
Right to rectification of inaccurate data (Art. 16 GDPR)
Right to erasure or a right to be forgotten (Art. 17 GDPR)
Right to restriction of processing of personal data (Art. 18 GDPR)
Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
You can object to the processing of personal data for the purposes of You can object to advertising, including the analysis of customer data for advertising purposes, at any time without giving reasons.
In addition, you also have a general right of objection (see Art. 21 (1) GDPR). In this case, the objection to data processing must be justified. If the data processing is based on consent, your consent can be revoked at any time with future effect.
The easiest way to exercise your data subject rights is to use the contact options listed above.
III. On the processing of personal data by The Learning Street – Die Lernstraße
Below, we would like to give you an overview of how we ensure the protection of your personal data offline and when accessing our website, as well as which types of personal data we process, for what purposes, and to what extent. Your data will be stored until you revoke your consent or in accordance with the statutory deletion periods.
We process the following categories of data from you:
– Master data
– Contact details
– Any other information you may have provided
– Classifications (e.g., membership type)
We use this data to prepare and carry out our marketing (e.g., newsletters) or workshops and events, to manage current and former members, collaborations, and sponsorships. For this purpose, we store your data in electronic tables.
The legal basis for processing your personal data is, on the one hand, our legitimate interest in fulfilling our legal, specific, or contractual obligations, and, on the other hand, your consent.
The provision of name and bank account details is required for the processing of memberships, collaborations, workshops, and orders in the shop due to tax regulations and anti-money laundering regulations. If this information is not provided, donations and sponsorships cannot be accepted, and memberships cannot be concluded.
We need your address to send you your membership or ship your order in the shop.
Description of legitimate interest:
Personal data for the purposes of recruiting memberships (private and corporate), sponsorships, and general postal advertising activities to fulfill the organization’s objectives are processed on the basis of the organization’s legitimate interest. The same applies to sending memberships and orders in the shop. This is intended to achieve the organization’s statutory objectives.
The objectives of the organization are those of the public interest pursuant to Section 4a of the Income Tax Act (EStG) and Sections 34 et seq. of the Federal Fiscal Code (BAO). Fulfilling the publicly recognized organizational objectives therefore represents legitimate interests. Fulfilling these publicly recognized organizational objectives is not possible without membership and is therefore necessary.
A) Internal Processing
Photos
We take photos at our events (online and offline) or workshops, which we use for promotional purposes on our online platforms (website, social media, and newsletter) or in press releases. We explicitly point this out for larger events. According to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR, this constitutes a legitimate interest of The Learning Street – Die Lernstraße, meaning we need photos to fulfill our association’s purpose. For smaller events, we only take photos with your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR: The data subject consents to the processing (Art. 7 GDPR). You can revoke your consent to the use of the photos in which you appear at any time.
Generally, we use the photos for:
› Use on the club website
› Marketing purposes
› Documentation purposes (of events)
› Internal purposes only
Contact inquiries/contact options
If you contact us via contact form or email, the data you provide will be used to process your inquiry. Providing this data is necessary to process and answer your inquiry – without it, we cannot answer your inquiry or can only answer it to a limited extent. The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted if your inquiry has been conclusively answered and there are no legal retention obligations that prevent deletion, e.g., in the event of a subsequent contract processing.
Competitions
We offer you the opportunity to participate in competitions via our website. If you participate in one of our competitions, the data you enter during participation will be processed without your further consent, but of course solely for the purpose of administering and processing the respective competition. As part of the competition process, we will share your data with the subcontractor or transport company commissioned with the delivery of the goods, or with a financial service provider, if the sharing is necessary for the delivery or payment of your prize. If your data is published in the event of a win, you will be informed of this in the consent form. The legal basis for sharing the data is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR.
You can revoke your consent to the processing of your data for participation in our competitions at any time with future effect in accordance with Art. 7 (3) GDPR. To do so, you simply need to notify us of your revocation.
B) Events
We use the provider Eventbrite to register for events. If you book an event through Eventbrite using the link provided on this page, Eventbrite will collect the data through the registration form for the respective event, which you fill out. The data collected includes, among other things, your name, organization, and email address. Depending on the event, additional information not included in this list may be required.
Legal Basis
Data processing is based on consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR).
Retention Period
All data entered to register for an event via the Eventbrite platform will be deleted by us after 6 months at the latest. We have no influence on the data processing by Eventbrite.
Technology Used for Event Registration – Eventbrite
We use the Eventbrite registration platform to register for events. Eventbrite collects your personal data (name, organization, email address, and possibly other data) when you voluntarily provide such information when registering for a The Learning Street – Die Lernstraße event, and this data is ultimately transmitted to us. Eventbrite Inc. is a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business at 155 5th Street, Floor 7, San Francisco, CA 94103, Reg. No. 4742147, USA. For users located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or Switzerland, Eventbrite Inc. acts as the controller with respect to personal data collected through the Services. Eventbrite’s representative for the purposes of European data protection legislation is Eventbrite NL BV, located at Silodam 402, 1013AW, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Eventbrite, Inc. is certified under the Privacy Shield, which means that Eventbrite has self-certified to protect personal data from the EEA, Switzerland, and and Great Britain are committed to the applicable data protection principles. You can find Eventbrite’s privacy policy here.
C) Criminal Record Extract
We process your data from the criminal record extract, as well as the extended criminal record extract “Child and Youth Welfare” as a mandatory component of (voluntary) work with children and young people for The Learning Street – Die Lernstraße (see Art. 10 GDPR), as part of your agreement with The Learning Street – Die Lernstraße (see Art. 6 GDPR in conjunction with Section 4 of the Data Protection Act). The criminal record extract will be made available for inspection and deleted within 7 days.
IV. Integration of Third-Party Services
A) Integration of Google Maps
On this website, we use Google Maps, another service provided by Google, Inc. This serves the purpose of displaying interactive maps directly on the website, enabling easy discovery of the locations we have listed on the website, and convenient use of the map function.
This application is accessed directly from Google servers, so the company receives your currently assigned IP address. By visiting the website, Google receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. Whether and to what extent or for what period the IP address is stored and used internally by Google is beyond our knowledge.
The legal basis for the integration of this service is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
If you are registered with a Google service, Google can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Google or are not logged in, it is possible that Google will save your IP address and use it to create a profile. Google saves the data collected about you as user profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research, and/or tailoring your website to meet your needs. Such evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to display needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles on Google.
We point out that data processing by Google may take place outside the EU/EEA. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield. Further information on data protection at Google can be found here.
B) Google Drive
The data stored for the processing of The Learning Street – Die Lernstraße memberships is only used to send membership applications and inform you of changes, as well as to maintain our member database. The data stored for this purpose is stored in Google Drive. You can find Google’s terms of use and privacy policy here.
V. Data protection on our social media profiles
We do not collect any personal data on our social media profiles on Facebook, YouTube, Bluesky, and Substack. However, we would like to point out that when you use social media services, you are subject to their respective privacy policies and that data may be transferred to the services.
A) Facebook
To promote our products and services, as well as to communicate with interested parties or customers, we operate a company presence on the Facebook platform.
We are jointly responsible for this social media platform with Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Facebook’s data protection officer can be reached via a contact form: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970
We have regulated joint controllership in an agreement regarding the respective obligations within the meaning of the GDPR. This agreement, from which the mutual obligations arise, can be accessed at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum
The legal basis for the resulting and below-mentioned processing of personal data is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, communication, sale, and promotion of our products and services.
The legal basis may also be the user’s consent to the platform operator in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. According to Art. 7 (3) GDPR, the user may revoke this consent at any time by notifying the platform operator.
When you access our online presence on the Facebook platform, Facebook Ireland Ltd., as the operator of the platform in the EU, processes the user’s data (e.g., personal information, IP address, etc.).
This user data is used to generate statistical information about the use of our services. Company presence on Facebook. Facebook Ireland Ltd. uses this data for market research and advertising purposes, as well as to create user profiles. Based on these profiles, Facebook Ireland Ltd. is able, for example, to advertise to users both within and outside of Facebook based on their interests. If the user is logged into their Facebook account at the time of access, Facebook Ireland Ltd. can also link the data to the respective user account.
If the user contacts us via Facebook, the personal data entered on this occasion will be used to process the request. The user’s data will be deleted by us provided that the user’s request has been conclusively answered and there are no statutory retention periods, e.g., for subsequent contract processing.
Facebook Ireland Ltd. may also set cookies to process the data.
If the user does not agree to this processing, it is possible to prevent the installation of cookies by setting the browser accordingly. Cookies that have already been stored can also be deleted at any time. The settings for this depend on the respective browser. With Flash cookies, processing cannot be prevented via the browser settings, but rather by configuring the Flash Player accordingly. If the user prevents or restricts the installation of cookies, this may result in not all Facebook functions being fully available.
Further information on the processing activities, how to prevent them, and how to delete the data processed by Facebook can be found in Facebook’s data policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
It cannot be ruled out that processing by Facebook Ireland Ltd. may also be carried out via Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025 in the USA.
Facebook Inc. has submitted to the “EU-US Privacy Shield” and thereby declares compliance with EU data protection regulations when processing data in the USA.
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active
B) Instagram
To promote our products and services, as well as to communicate with interested parties or customers, we operate a company presence on the Instagram platform.
On this social media platform, we are jointly responsible with Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Instagram’s data protection officer can be reached via a contact form: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970
We have regulated joint controllership in an agreement regarding the respective obligations within the meaning of the GDPR. This agreement, from which the mutual obligations arise, can be accessed at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum
The legal basis for the resulting processing of personal data, as reproduced below, is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, communication, sale, and promotion of our products and services.
The legal basis may also be the user’s consent to the platform operator in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. The user may revoke this consent at any time in the future by notifying the platform operator under Art. 7 (3) GDPR.
When you visit our online presence on the Instagram platform, Facebook Ireland Ltd., as the platform operator in the EU, processes the user’s data (e.g., personal information, IP address, etc.).
This user data is used to generate statistical information about the use of our company’s presence on Instagram. Facebook Ireland Ltd. uses this data for market research and advertising purposes, as well as to create user profiles. Based on these profiles, Facebook Ireland Ltd. is able, for example, to advertise to users based on their interests both within and outside of Instagram. If the user is logged into their Instagram account at the time of the visit, Facebook Ireland Ltd. can also link the data to the respective user account.
If the user contacts us via Instagram, the personal data entered on this occasion will be used to process the request. The user’s data will be deleted by us provided that the user’s request has been conclusively answered and there are no statutory retention periods, such as those required for subsequent contract processing.
Facebook Ireland Ltd. may also use cookies to process the data.
If the user does not agree to this processing,If you have not consented to the use of cookies, you have the option of preventing the installation of cookies by configuring your browser accordingly. Cookies that have already been saved can also be deleted at any time. The settings for this depend on the respective browser. Flash cookies cannot be prevented via the browser settings, but rather by configuring the Flash Player accordingly. If the user prevents or restricts the installation of cookies, this may result in not all Facebook functions being fully available.
Further information on the processing activities, how to prevent them, and how to delete the data processed by Instagram can be found in Instagram’s data policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
It cannot be ruled out that processing by Facebook Ireland Ltd. may also be carried out via Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025 in the USA.
Facebook Inc. has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield and thereby declares compliance with EU data protection regulations when processing data in the USA.
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active
C) Integration of YouTube
Our website uses plug-ins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The site is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plug-in and play a linked video, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This informs the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.
If you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to assign your browsing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
YouTube is used in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offerings and is therefore based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Views of YouTube videos are not saved.
Further information on how user data is handled can be found in YouTube’s privacy policy here.
D) LinkedIn
According to the ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) of June 5, 2018, it was decided that the operator of a LinkedIn page is jointly responsible with LinkedIn for the processing of personal data.
The following data is collected as a LinkedIn user:
Advertising (analysis tools, trackers, and personalized advertising)
Creation and evaluation of user profiles
Market research and marketing analyses
LinkedIn Inc., the American parent company of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, is EU-US Privacy Shield certified. This means that LinkedIn is committed to adhering to and implementing the data protection guidelines at the European level. This can be viewed here:
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L0UZAA0
We have no influence or insight on compliance with these guidelines. We cannot rule out the possibility of risks and the transfer of user data to third countries.
Social Media Linking via Graphic or Text Link
We also promote presences on the social networks listed below on our website. The integration is achieved via a linked graphic of the respective network. Using this linked graphic prevents a connection to the respective social network’s server from being automatically established when accessing a website that has a social media advertisement in order to display a graphic of the respective network itself. Only by clicking on the corresponding graphic is the user redirected to the respective social network’s service.
After the user is redirected, information about the user is collected by the respective network. It cannot be ruled out that the data collected in this way will be processed in the USA.
This initially includes data such as IP address, date, time, and page visited. If the user is logged into their user account on the respective network during this time, the network operator may be able to assign the collected information from the specific user visit to the user’s personal account. If the user interacts via a “Share” button on the respective network, this information may be stored in the user’s personal user account and possibly published. If the user wishes to prevent the collected information from being directly assigned to their user account, they must log out before clicking on the graphic. It is also possible to configure the respective user account accordingly.
The following social networks are integrated into our site via links:
Facebook Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland, a subsidiary of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
EU-US Privacy Shield Certification (“EU-US Privacy Shield”)
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active
VI. Our Cookie Policy
General Information on the Use of Cookies
Our website uses so-called cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device and saved by your browser. They are used to make our services more user-friendly, effective, and secure. We use both so-called temporary cookies, which are automatically deleted when you close your browser (“session cookies”), and persistent (permanent) cookies.
You have the choice whether to allow cookies. You can make changes in your browser settings. You generally have the choice of whether you want to accept all cookies, be informed when cookies are set, or reject all cookies. If you choose the latter option, you may not be able to fully use our services.
When using cookies, a distinction must be made between strictly necessary cookies and those for additional purposes (measuring access numbers, advertising purposes).
Strictly necessary cookies when using the website
We use session cookies on our websites that are absolutely necessary for using our websites. These include cookies that enable us to recognize you while you visit the site within a single session. These session cookies contribute to the secure use of our services by, for example, enabling the secure processing of the shopping cart function and the payment process.
Use of cookies with your consent
Below you will find an overview of the cookies we use with your consent, which you gave when you first used the website. You will also find an opt-out option in each explanation of the use of cookies. These include cookies used to record the usage behavior of our website as well as cookies used for advertising purposes.
A) Use of cookies to record usage behavior (tracking)
The use of tracking cookies enables us to recognize users when they re-access our website and thus assign usage events to an internally assigned identifier (pseudonym). This allows us to record repeated accesses to our website and analyze them coherently. Specifically, the following tracking cookies are used:
Tracking by Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies,” which are text files placed on your computer, to enable an analysis of your use of the website. 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. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to 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. 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 cookies from being saved by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that if you do this, 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 relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the following browser plug-in.
We use Google Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. Using the statistics obtained, we can improve our offering and make it more interesting for you as a user. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield. The legal basis for storing cookies is the consent granted (Art. 6 (1) (s) 1 GDPR). (a) GDPR). The further analysis of the collected data using Google Analytics is carried out over a period of two years on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Further information on this can also be found here or here (general information on Google Analytics and data protection).
B) Use of cookies for advertising purposes
We use cookies for marketing purposes, for example to tailor advertising to the interests of website visitors. They are also used to limit the frequency of display and measure the effectiveness of an ad. This records which websites and articles were clicked on. This allows us to collect information about usage habits in order to target interest-based advertising. This information is shared with third parties. In these cases, the cookies are regularly set directly by the advertising partner. Specifically, the following cookies are set:
Respect for “Do not track”
We naturally respect “Do not track” (DNT). Depending on your browser, DNT is either a switch in the program settings or a module (add-on or plug-in) that you install later. If this option is enabled, your browser signals to our web server that you do not want any tracking measures without your explicit consent. We then automatically deactivate all tracking functions on the server side.
This also means that our websites are delivered without any code for Google Analytics. This ensures the best possible data protection without you having to take any further measures with regard to our website.
The procedure for activating the “Do not track” option varies depending on the internet browser you use. Follow the links below:
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Google Chrome
Apple Safari
Processing of data when accessing our website – Log files
When you access our website, general information is automatically collected. This information (“server log files”) includes the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, the date and time of access, and similar information. The IP address is also transmitted and used to provide the service you have requested. This information is technically necessary to correctly deliver the website content you request and is mandatory when using the Internet.
GDPR Notice on Ensuring Data Security
We take technical and operational security precautions on our websites to protect the personal data stored by us from access by third parties, loss, or misuse, and to enable secure data transfer.
We must point out that due to the structure of the Internet, unwanted data access by third parties may occur. It is therefore your responsibility to protect your data against misuse through encryption or other means. Without appropriate protective measures, unencrypted data transmitted, even via email, can be read by third parties.
Our privacy policy is regularly reviewed. If you have any further questions regarding data protection on the The Learning Street – Die Lernstraße website, please contact us!
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