This data protection information applies to data processing by the responsible company:

The company’s Data Protection Officer can be contacted at the above address or at datenschutz@ifad.de .

When accessing our website https://masim.ifad.de, information is automatically sent to the server of our website by the browser that is running on your end device. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called logfile. The following information is collected without any action on your part and is stored until its automatic deletion:

• IP address of the accessing computer
• Date and time of access
• Name and URL of the accessed file
• Website from which the access was referred (Referrer URL)
• The browser used and if necessary the operating system your computer as well as the name of your access provider

For enquiries of all kinds we give you the possibility of contacting us through a contact form provided on our website. For this purpose, provision of a valid e-mail address is necessary so that we know from whom the enquiry comes and in order to be able to answer it. Further information can be provided on a voluntary basis (e.g. first name, name, e-mail address, post code, place of residence, telephone number, street, comments, question, saving a search).

The personal data of the data subject will be deleted or locked as soon as the purpose of storage ceases to apply. Further storage can take place when this is provided for by European Union or Member State laws, statutes or other regulations to which the responsible entity is subject. The locking or deletion of the data also takes place on expiry of a retention period under the above-mentioned rules, unless there is a requirement for the further storage of the data for the conclusion or performance of a contact.

Insofar as we obtain the consent of the data subject for the processing of personal data, Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter (a) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (German: DSGVO) serves as the legal basis for the processing of personal data.

For the processing of personal data that is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter (b) GDPR serves as the legal basis. This also applies to processing that is necessary for the implementation of steps prior to entering into a contract.

Insofar as the processing of personal data is required for compliance with a legal obligation to which our company is subject, Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter (c) GDPR serves as the legal basis.

In the event that the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person make the processing of personal data necessary, Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter (d) GDPR serves as the legal basis.

If the processing is necessary for the protection of a legitimate interest by our company or a third party and the interests and fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject do not override the first-named interest, Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter (f) GDPR serves as the legal basis for the processing.

No transmission of your personal data to third parties takes place other than for the purposes listed below.

In cookies, text information is collected during an online session and stored in a special file in ASCII format on the user’s hard disk. On our website we only use session cookies.

We do not use any analysis tools on our website.

We do not use any social media plug-ins (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) on our website.

You have the right:

• According to Art. 15 GDPR, to obtain information about your personal data that is stored by us. In particular you can obtain information about the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned, the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data has been or will be disclosed, the envisaged storage period, the existence of a right to rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject or to object to such processing, the right to lodge a complaint, the source of your data insofar as it was not collected by us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making including profiling, and where relevant meaningful information about the processes involved;
• According to Art. 16 GDPR, to obtain without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data or the completion of incomplete personal data that is stored by us;
• According to Art. 17 GDPR, to obtain the erasure of your personal data that is stored by us, insofar as the processing is not required for the exercise of the right to free expression of opinion and Information, for the fulfilment of a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
• According to Art. 18 GDPR, to obtain the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as the correctness of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful and you oppose its erasure, and we no longer require the data but you require it for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or you have lodged an objection against its processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
• According to Art. 20 GDPR, to receive or to transfer to another responsible controller your personal data that you have made available to us in a structured, commonly-used and machine-readable format;
• According to Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR, to withdraw your previously expressed consent to us at any time. This has the consequence that in the future we can no longer continue the data processing to which this consent referred, and
• According to Art. 77 GDPR, to lodge a complaint to a supervisory authority. For this purpose, as a rule you can approach the data protection authority responsible for your usual place of work or residence, or our company office.

Insofar as your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests according to Art. 6 Para. 1 Sentence 1 Letter (f) GDPR, you have the right in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR to lodge an objection against the processing of your personal data, when grounds for this can be shown to arise out of your special situation or if your objection is directed against direct advertising. In the latter case you have a general right of objection, which will be implemented by us without showing a special situation.

Within the website visit we use the widely-used SSL procedure (Secure Socket Layer) in connection with the highest respective encryption level that your browser supports. As a rule this is 256-Bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-Bit encryption, we fall back on 128-Bit v3 technology. You can recognise if an individual page of our internet presentation has been transmitted in encrypted form by means of the closed key or lock symbol in the lower status line of your browser.

Should you have a complaint about the manner in which we process your data, you have the possibility of lodging a complaint with the data protection authority. Our relevant authority is:

This Data Protection Statement currently valid and is dated May 2018. It may be necessary to amend this Data Protection Statement on account of the further development of our website and offerings or for reasons of changing statutory or official requirements.

IfaD Institut für angewandte Datenanalyse GmbH (hereinafter called IfaD) does not guarantee the actuality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided on its website. IfaD cannot be held liable for any material or immaterial damage caused by using or not using information of any kind provided on these pages or by using faulty or incomplete data, as long as IfaD did not purposely or carelessly provide this data. All offers are subject to change and non-binding. IfaD explicitly reserves the right to alter, complete or delete parts of the pages or the whole presentation without separate announcement and to cease publication temporarily or definitely.

In the case of direct or indirect links or reference to websites ('hyperlinks') of different institutions or individuals not included in the responsibilities of IfaD, IfaD cannot be held liable for any possible unlawful content unless it had knowledge of the unlawful content of the site and it was technically possible and reasonable for it to prevent the use of the unlawful content. IfaD states explicitly that at the time of establishing any links to the external websites, no illegal content was present on the linked web pages. IfaD has no influence on present and future content of linked pages. It strictly disassociates itself from all content of all linked pages that have been changed after being linked on our website. This declaration applies to all links and references established on the IfaD website as well as to external content or links inserted in guest books, discussion forums, link directories, mailing lists and any other form of database made available by IfaD to which external write access is enabled. For illegal, erroneous or incomplete content, especially for any kind of damage caused by the use or non-use of such content, only the person or persons responsible for the referenced page can be held liable, not the individuals that solely linked the page as a reference.

IfaD strives to comply with all applicable copyright laws when using graphics, images, texts as well as audio and video files in all publications, to use its own graphics, images, texts and audio and video files or to use license-free graphics, images, texts and audio and video files. All trademarks and logos of third parties mentioned or used within these web pages are subject to the copyright laws applicable to the owners of the respective trademarks and logos. Solely the appearance on our website does not imply that those trademarks are not protected by third parties under copyright law. The copyright of published data or objects of any kind developed by IfaD solely belongs to IfaD. It is illegal to use or reproduce any of these graphics, images, texts and audio and video files in any other electronic or printed publication without the prior written approval of IfaD.

This disclaimer is to be regarded as part of the internet publication of IfaD https://masim.ifad.de. Insofar as parts or individual formulations of this text do not/no longer comply with the law – or do not comply with the law in full – this shall not affect the content or validity of the remaining sections of the document.