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Data Protection Declaration

Introduction

Rheinische Post Mediengruppe GmbH (‘RPM’), Zülpicher Straße 10, 40549 Düsseldorf, email address: info@rheinische-post.de takes the protection of your personal data very seriously as a service provider and data controller. In the following, you can learn about the collection, processing and use of your data as well as the rights to which you are entitled.

You can contact our data protection team at any time if you have any questions regarding data protection or would like to exercise your rights under the GDPR. The team can be contacted by post or email using the following contact details:

Rheinische Post Mediengruppe GmbH
Data Protection Team
Zülpicher Straße 10
40549 Düsseldorf

Email: datenschutz@rheinische-post.de

 

A. General part

Section 1 General Information

  1. Personal data refers to individual information relating to your personal or factual circumstances, i.e. data that discloses your identity or that can be used to determine your identity. This may include your real name, address, telephone number or date of birth. Personal data also includes personally identifiable information, i.e. data that does not refer to you directly but can nevertheless be used to identify you, such as your IP address.
     
  2. Personally identifiable information includes data that is generated in connection with your visit to https://www.rheinischepostmediengruppe.de/ by your client (browser) and is stored in log files on the servers operated by RPM and the technical service providers.
     
  3. We process strictly necessary information within the meaning of Section 25 (2) No. 2 of the Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG) in order to operate our website. This information consists of server log files which store the name of the website accessed, the file, IP address, date and time, browser type and the requesting provider.
     
  4. For security reasons (e.g. to investigate acts of abuse or fraud), server log files are stored for a maximum of seven days and then deleted. Data that still needs to be stored for evidence purposes is excluded from deletion until the final clarification of the respective incident.
  5. Your visits to the RPM website will also result in the automated processing of your personal data in anonymised form. This includes usage data such as the start and end of your visit, the pages you have accessed and the length of time you have spent on the portal. This data is not processed to determine your identity.

Section 2 Contact

When you contact us (using the contact form or by email), your details are processed in order to handle your enquiry and process it in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Section 2: Google Fonts

In relation to the operation of our website, we process data within the meaning of Section 25 (2) No. 2 TDDDG in order to correctly display content in a graphically appealing manner across all browsers with the help of Google Webfonts. Google Webfonts are transferred to your browser's cache to avoid the page loading multiple times. If the browser does not support Google Webfonts or prevents access, content is displayed in a standard font. Google Fonts is a service provided by Google Inc. (’Google’). For more information on Google Webfonts, see https://developers.google.com/fonts/ For general information on privacy at Google, please visit policies.google.com/privacy.

Section 3: Use of cookies

Cookies are small data files sent to your computer together with the data you have requested from the Internet. This data is stored there and kept ready for subsequent retrieval. RPM uses the following types of cookies for https://www.rheinischepostmediengruppe.de/:

  1. Session cookies: These cookies are only stored on your computer for the duration of an Internet session. They are deleted once the session ends, i.e. once you leave the website or when the browser window is closed.
     
  2. Persistent cookies: In order to authenticate the identity of our users, we use persistent cookies, which are used to recognise visitors and are stored on your computer for future sessions. These cookies are valid for up to 120 months.

In general, you can opt to delete cookies in your browser settings and determine how your browser should treat cookies. Please keep in mind that if you refuse all cookies, this may impact the functionality of services.

Section 4: Plugins, embedded functions and content

Our website contains functional and content elements obtained from the servers of their respective providers (hereinafter referred to as ‘third-party providers’). These include, for example, graphics, videos or maps (hereinafter jointly referred to as ‘content’).

In order for us to embed this content, the third-party providers of this content process the user’s IP address, as otherwise they are unable to send the content to the user’s browser. Your IP address is therefore required to display this content or function. We try to only use content whereby the providers solely use IP addresses to deliver the content. Third parties may also use pixel tags (invisible graphics, also referred to as web beacons) for statistical or marketing purposes. Pixel tags allow information such as visitor traffic on the pages of this website to be analysed. The pseudonymous information may also be stored in cookies on the user's device and contain, among other things, technical information on the browser and the operating system, referring websites, the time of visit and further information on the use of our website, as well as be connected to corresponding information from other sources.

 

Section 5: Rights of users

  1. You have the right, upon request, to receive information free of charge about the personal data we have stored about you.
     
  2. In addition, you have the right to rectify inaccurate data, restrict processing and object to the processing and deletion of your personal data, and to assert your rights to data portability in accordance with Article 20 GDPR and, in the event that you have reason to believe data may have been unlawfully processed, to file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
     
  3. You can also revoke your consent with future effect.

Our data protection officer can be contacted using the following contact options:

Rheinische Post Mediengruppe GmbH
Data Protection Officer
Zülpicher Straße 10
40549 Düsseldorf

Email: datenschutzbeauftragter@rheinische-post.de


B. Final provisions

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations.