Competendo - Tools for Facilitators:Privacy policy

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

The owners don’t like tracking tools, but sometimes they look after how many visitors requested the website, what kind of articles are more requested than others, from where the users accessed our website. Single users are not interesting for us. This interest do we interprete as the in the European Privacy Regulation mentioned “legitimate interest” – concrete Art. 6 – EU-GDPR – Lawfulness of Processing.

We are using the web-fonts of Google Fonts. By every request of our website the Google Fonts page is automatically requested and Google Fonts collects IP addresses of their users. This seems not to be connected with other Google services.

Our hosting service provider Hetzner Online GmbH is offering logfiles (which are standard in webhosting services). Logfile data are automatically saved any time when somebody is accessing a page. They collect when a user is accessing a html or image file as anonymized IP addresses of visitors. In the logfile, for instance, instead of the factual IP address of a visitor like 123.123.123.123 an address like 123.123.123.XXX will be saved. XXX is an accidential value between 1 and 254. This makes a connection between IP and a person impossible. We save the logfile data:

   Mailserverlog: 7 days
   Apachelog: XXX
   Backups: 14 days in encrypted form

Based on these data we might receive statistic information through the analytical programs AWStats und Report Magic, doing logfile analysis. As well these are anonomyzed and a connection to a certain person is impossible. The following data are analized:

   browser type and version,
   operating system,
   date and time of server request,
   amount of visits,
   duration of visits,
   in advance visited websites (if user is sending this information),
   users’ IP addresses are anonymized befor saving them.

Some of the in the following mentioned aspects might be not relevant to you as we don’t use tracking or other analytical tools. But you never know if not thanks to plugins or content from other parties strange things happen. We herewith explain that we try to use only such plugins conform with data security standards. Embedded content from other websites

Contributes on this website might include embedded content (in example videos or pictures). Embedded content is behaving as if the visitor would have visited the other website. These websites might collect data, use cookies, embed third party tracking services and register your activity via the embedded content, if you have an account and are logged in to such a website.

You might protect yourself with a browser plugin against such tracking, in example by installing the phantastic Ghostery. With whom we share your data

We don’t share personal data received through the website with third parties (in example via contact form received messages) Except if you would especially asks us for doing so or allows us to share these informations (in example in an email request for contacting you with DARE people). 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. Log in, registrations and how long we retain your data

One might use the website without registration and log in.

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

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

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.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. Comments

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.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. Contact forms

If you leave us a message via a contact form, our server is sending the included information not encrypted. If you would like to send us information in a more confidential way, than we propose you to try this with en email address and email program of your choice. 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. 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. Our contact information

In case of questions and concerns, please contact us:

secretariate of the DARE network Email: pirker@adb.de Telephone: +49-30-400401-17 Fax: +49-30-400401-22

Who we are

Our website address is: https://competendo.net.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

The owners don’t like tracking tools, but sometimes they look after how many visitors requested the website, what kind of articles are more requested than others, from where the users accessed our website. Single users are not interesting for us. This interest do we interprete as the in the European Privacy Regulation mentioned “legitimate interest” – concrete Art. 6 – EU-GDPR – Lawfulness of Processing.

We are using the web-fonts of Google Fonts. By every request of our website the Google Fonts page is automatically requested and Google Fonts collects IP addresses of their users. This seems not to be connected with other Google services.

Our provider Strato AG is providing us logfiles (which are standard in any webhosting). Log data is automatically saved by Strato AG when a visitor is accessing one of the site's HTML or image files. On the basis of this logfile we receive a statistical report in the format Apache Combined Log Format. It includes the following information:

• Anonymoized client-IP: In order to identify from where oor server is accesses, we store IP addresses. Strato AG is stopring them max 7 days. After this time they are going to be anonymized. From privacy reasons, we are only able to access them in an anonymized way.
• Timestamp: Which day and time of access.
• Request line: The path of the goal URL without domain. If a user is clicking on a picture, the URL stored will be for isntance „competendo.net/image.jpg“.
• Status code: Surely you know a 404 error page. 404 is a status code (the code for "page does not exist") The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority was publishing also many other status codes which are helpful for problem analysis. 200 for instance means "OK", the page was loaded without any problems.
• Size of the response body: If a user is entering our website they are temporarily downloading data, for instance the texts and images they are seeing in their browser. The logfile informs us, how big they were.
• Referer of the client, showing from where somebody came to competendo.net.
• User agent, sent by the client: Information about the browser, browser version, operating sytem of the visitor.
• Remote user: Usually this field is empty. Strato AG is storing information only, if somebody logged in our page based on http-basicauth basiert. However, nowadays most websites are using another approach for authetnification working with javascript (and in this case no remote user information is stored).

Some of the in the following mentioned aspects might be not relevant to you as we don’t use tracking or other analytical tools. But you never know if not thanks to plugins or content from other parties strange things happen. We herewith explain that we try to use only such plugins conform with data security standards. 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 might collect data, use cookies, embed third party tracking services and register your activity via the embedded content, if you have an account and are logged in to such a website.

You might protect yourself with a browser plugin against such tracking, in example by installing the phantastic Ghostery.

With whom we share your data

We don’t share personal data received through the website with third parties (in example via contact form received messages) Except if you would especially asks us for doing so or allows us to share these informations (in example in an email request for contacting you with DARE network or Competendo).

Contact forms

If you leave us a message via a contact form, our server is sending the included information not encrypted. If you would like to send us information in a more confidential way, than we propose you to try this with en email address and email program of your choice. Embedded content from other websites

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.

Login

Competendo might be used without registration or login.

If you have an account we are going to set a temporary cookie. This cookie is not containing personal data and will be deleted when you close your browser. If you login, we will install cookies for storing your login information and view options. Login cookies are outdating, only if you chose the „remain logged in“ option it will be stored for longer. By logging out, the cookie is going to be deleted. If you are editing or publishing an article another cookie is stored, containing no personal data and only referring to the contribution ID (also outdaring after a certain time).

We save the information of users registering on our website, which was shared by them with our website in their user profiles. All users might see, change or delete this information (except the user name). Also admnistrators might see and change this information.

Which rights in your data do you have

If you are a registered user or write commentaries, you might request your personal data including all data shared by you with us. Furthermore, you might advise us to delete all of your personal data. These are not including data which we need to store due to legal and administrative obligations or due to security reasons.

Provider

The provider of this website is also mentioned in the imprint. If you should have any question regarding your data, aiming to delte it or to make us aware of anything, please contact us.

Provider: DARE Network | Nils-Eyk Zimmermann | officedare-network.eu