We take the protection of your personal data very seriously and design our website in such a way that only the personal data necessary for the intended purpose is collected, processed, and used. Under no circumstances will personal data be rented or sold to third parties for advertising purposes. No personal data will be used for advertising or marketing purposes without the explicit consent of the visitor.
Access to personal data is granted only to those who require it to fulfill their tasks within the responsible body and who are informed of the legal provisions on data protection and are committed to complying with them in accordance with the applicable legal provisions (Article 5 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)). The collection, processing, use, and transmission of the collected personal data is carried out, in accordance with Art. 6(1) GDPR, only to the extent necessary for the fulfillment of a contractual relationship between us and the visitor as the data subject.
Changes to the Purpose of Data Processing and Use
Due to technical progress and organizational changes in the processing methods used, it may be necessary to adjust this data protection declaration in accordance with the new technical framework. We therefore ask you to check the current data protection declaration on this website from time to time. If you do not agree with the changes made over time, you can request the deletion of your data in writing, in accordance with Article 17 of the Data Protection Regulation, provided that there are no other legal storage obligations, such as commercial or tax retention periods.
Collection of Anonymous Data
In principle, you can visit the website of the responsible body without telling us who you are. We only know the name of your internet service provider, the website from which you visit us, and the pages of our website that you view. This information is evaluated for statistical purposes. As an individual user, you remain anonymous.
Collection and Processing of Personal Data
Personal data is only collected if you provide it to us voluntarily, for example, when placing an order. The responsible body complies with the requirements of Articles 5 and 6 of the GDPR. As part of the personalized services offered by the responsible body, your registration data will be processed, subject to your consent, for the purpose of sending our order confirmation or designing the electronic services offered according to demand. You have the option to object to the storage of your personal data at any time. To do so, please send an email to info@botswana-blog.org with the subject “Deletion of data.” Your personal data will be processed and used in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR.
Export and Processing of Data in Non-EEA Countries
Your personal data will not be exported to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). However, if you are logged into Facebook or have a Twitter or Instagram account, personal data may be exported to the USA. For further explanations and options to prevent this data export, please read the sections “Use of Facebook Social Plugins,” “Use of Twitter,” or “Use of Instagram Social Plugins” in this privacy policy.
If you are logged into Google or have a YouTube account, personal data may be exported to the USA. For further explanations and options to prevent this data export, please refer to the section “Use of YouTube Plugins.”
However, the transfer of personal data to Google as part of the use of analysis programs by the responsible body does not take place, as your IP address is only transmitted anonymously. Please read the section “Use of Analysis Programs” in this privacy policy.
Service providers commissioned by the responsible body have their registered office and operate their IT infrastructure exclusively within the EEA. This also applies to any use of cloud-based services. Contracts are in place with service providers that comply with the GDPR requirements for data protection and security. We remain responsible for processing, even if external service providers are used.
Use and Disclosure of Personal Data
The personal data collected within the framework of the responsible body’s website will be used without your consent only for the purpose of contract processing and handling your inquiries. Furthermore, your data will only be used for advertising and market research purposes by the responsible body if you have given your prior consent. Apart from this, no data will be passed on to other third parties. Of course, you can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
External Links
For your information, you will find links on our pages that refer to the pages of third parties. Unless it is clearly recognizable, we would like to point out that these are external links. The responsible body has no influence on the content and design of these pages of other providers. The guarantees of this data protection declaration therefore do not apply to external providers.
Use of Cookies
The responsible body uses “cookies” to individually design and optimize the online experience and the time spent online by the customer. A cookie is a text file that is either temporarily stored in the computer’s main memory (“session cookie”) or stored on the hard drive (“permanent” cookie). Cookies contain information about your previous access to the respective server or information about which offers have been called up so far. Cookies are not used to run programs or load viruses onto your computer. The main purpose of cookies is rather to provide a customer-specific offer and to make the use of the service as comfortable as possible.
The responsible body uses session cookies and permanent cookies.
Session Cookies
The responsible body mainly uses “session cookies,” which are not stored on the customer’s hard drive and are deleted when the browser is closed. Session cookies are used for connection authentication and load distribution (load balancing of the system).
Permanent Cookies
In addition, the responsible body uses “permanent cookies” to store the personal usage settings that a customer makes when using the services of the responsible body, in order to be able to personalize and improve the service. Permanent cookies ensure that the customer finds their personal settings again when they revisit the responsible body’s website. In addition, service providers commissioned by the responsible body to analyze user behavior use permanent cookies in order to be able to recognize returning users. These services store the data transmitted by the cookie exclusively in an anonymous form. No assignment to the customer’s IP address is maintained.
Rejecting Cookies
The visitor has the option to refuse the installation of cookies at any time. This is usually done by selecting the appropriate option in the browser settings or through additional programs. Further information can be found in the help function of the browser used by the customer. If the customer decides to deactivate cookies, this may reduce the scope of the service and have a negative effect on the use of the services of the responsible body.
Use of Analysis Programs
The responsible body carries out or has analyses of the behavior of its customers carried out as part of the use of its service. For this purpose, anonymized or pseudonymized usage profiles are created. The user profiles are created solely for the purpose of continuously improving the service of the responsible body.
As part of web analysis, the responsible body also uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”), which uses Google Analytics with the extension “anonymizeIp()”. IP addresses are therefore only processed in abbreviated form in order to exclude any possibility of direct personal reference. The collection and storage of data that takes place in this context can be objected to at any time with effect for the future. Please contact Google directly for this purpose.
Google asks its users, such as the responsible body, to use the following information in their privacy policies. The responsible body fulfills this request by reproducing the following text: “Google Analytics uses ‘cookies,’ which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.”
Use of Facebook Social Plugins
On its website, the responsible body uses social plugins (“plugins”) of the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are marked with a Facebook logo. If the customer calls up a website of the responsible body that contains such a plugin, the customer’s browser establishes a direct connection with the Facebook servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Facebook directly to the customer’s browser and integrated into the website by the latter.
Through the integration of the plugin, Facebook receives the information that the customer has accessed the corresponding page of the website of the responsible body. If the customer is logged into Facebook, Facebook can assign the visit to the customer’s Facebook account. If the customer interacts with the plugins, for example by clicking the “Like” button or submitting a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted directly from the customer’s browser to Facebook and stored there. The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook, as well as the customer’s rights in this regard and setting options for protecting the customer’s privacy, can be found in Facebook’s data protection information.
If the customer does not want Facebook to collect data about them in the manner described above, they must log out of Facebook before visiting the website of the responsible body.
Use of Twitter
The responsible body uses the functions of the Twitter service on its website. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc, Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the “Re-Tweet” function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users. Data is also transferred to Twitter.
We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Twitter. For more information, please refer to Twitter’s privacy policy at: www.twitter.com/privacy
You can change your privacy settings on Twitter in the account settings at www.twitter.com/account/settings.
Use of Instagram Social Plugins
The responsible body uses social plugins (“plugins”) of Instagram on its website, which is operated by Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Instagram”). The plugins are marked with an Instagram logo, for example in the form of an “Instagram camera.” An overview of the Instagram plugins and their appearance can be found here: http://blog.instagram.com/post/36222022872/introducing-instagram-badges
When you visit a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Instagram’s servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Instagram directly to your browser and integrated into the page. This integration informs Instagram that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have an Instagram profile or are not currently logged into Instagram. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted by your browser directly to an Instagram server in the USA and stored there.
If you are logged into Instagram, Instagram can immediately associate your visit to our website with your Instagram account. When you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the “Instagram” button, this information is also transmitted directly to an Instagram server and stored there. The information is also published on your Instagram account and displayed to your contacts.
For information on the purpose and scope of data collection, further processing and use of data by Instagram, and your rights and privacy settings, please refer to Instagram’s privacy policy: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388/
If you do not want Instagram to directly associate the information collected through our website with your Instagram account, you must log out of Instagram before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the loading of Instagram plugins with add-ons for your browser, for example with the script blocker “NoScript” (http://noscript.net/).
Use of YouTube Plugins
The responsible body uses the provider YouTube for the integration of videos. YouTube is operated by YouTube LLC, headquartered at 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube is represented by Google Inc., headquartered at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
The responsible body uses plugins from the provider YouTube on its website. When you visit our website, which is equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our internet pages you have visited. If you are logged in as a member of YouTube, YouTube assigns this information to your personal user accounts. When using the plugin, such as clicking the start button of a video, this information is also assigned to your user account.
You can prevent this assignment by logging out of your YouTube account and other accounts of YouTube LLC and Google Inc. before using our website and deleting the corresponding cookies from these companies.
Further information on data processing and notes on data protection by YouTube (Google) can be found at www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
Contact
If you send us inquiries via the contact form or by email, the data you provide in the inquiry form or email, including your contact details, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.
Questions About Data Protection
If you have any questions regarding data protection, please write us an email or contact our data protection officer directly:
E-mail : info@botswana-blog.org