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Privacy Policy

The protection of your data is extremely important to ARRtist Circus GmbH (hereinafter "ARRtist Circus"). With this privacy policy, we would like to provide you with all information about the storage and use of your data in a transparent manner. The current version of this privacy policy already takes into account the requirements under the new European General Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO).

1. Scope of application of the data protection declaration

This data protection declaration applies to our website www.arrtist-circus.com including all services and sub-pages.

2. Responsible party and data protection officer

The responsible party for the processing of your personal data within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 DS-GVO on this website is:
ARRtist Circus GmbH,
Stedingerweg 16,
10407 Berlin,
e-mail: kontakt@ARRtist.net 
The data protection officer of ARRtist Circus GmbH is:
Jannis Bandorski
Tel: 030 53052024
e-mail: dataprotectionofficer@ARRtist.net

Please contact our data protection officer with questions, complaints and to enforce your rights in connection with the General Data Protection Regulation, the Federal Data Protection Act and this data protection declaration via the indicated contact channels.Please direct requests for information to kontakt@ARRtist.net.

3. Data processing when visiting our website

Whenever one of our web pages is visited, the necessary access data of the user is stored on the server of ARRtist Circus in a log file ("log file"). These data are not personal. In particular, the IP addresses are anonymized. The storage of the log files serves ARRtist Circus to better analyze disruptions in the accessibility of the server and to be able to prove illegal use. ARRtist Circus would also like to provide you with personalized content. For this purpose, on the one hand the clicked articles and on the other hand the areas of interest stored in your profile are evaluated.

The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DS-GVO. Our legitimate interest lies in our efforts to provide you with a safe, comfortable and smooth use of our websites. In no case do we use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person.

4. Purpose and legal basis of data processing in the context of the (chargeable) offers of ARRtist Circus.

4.1 Type of personal data

When you use the ARRtist Circus offer on our websites, various personal data are also processed. This includes the user name or e-mail address of the user, as well as all data provided by the user in the course of registration. Together with the user name, this data forms the master data record. Mandatory fields are marked by us as a so-called asterisk field during registration. It is possible that your master data record will be supplemented with further data that is required for certain (additional) bookings, such as for access modules or tickets.
We also use cookies on our websites. All information on this can be found under section 10.

4.2 Purpose and legal basis of processing

All personal data that you provide to us via our websites will be processed by ARRtist Circus in accordance with the applicable data protection regulations for the purpose of proper processing and implementation of your subscription or booking(s) and the associated rights and obligations.

We also use your e-mail address to inform you about offers and products from our publishing world. The legal basis for this is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a) DS-GVO) and our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f) DS-GVO). The legitimate interests are primarily the promotional interest of ARRtist Circus and good customer loyalty and care.

4.3 Obligation to provide your data

All data marked with an asterisk field during your registration or booking are so-called mandatory fields. We need this data in order to fulfill the respective obligations in connection with your contract. If we do not receive this data, we may not be able to process your registration or booking accordingly.

4.4 Inquiry about vaccination status

When you purchase a ticket for the Conference, we will ask you to provide us with your vaccination status. This data processing is carried out in the context of our hygiene concept in order to guarantee all participants of the conference the greatest possible protection against infection by the COVID-19 virus. At the same time, the total number of participants required by the authorities can be increased if as many participants as possible are fully vaccinated. Therefore, your information also serves the purpose of organizing a successful conference for all participants. The data processing is based on your consent, according to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a). in conjunction with. Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a).

5. Newsletter

ARRtist Circus offers you the possibility to register for our newsletter. For this we need various data, whereby we ask for your consent before processing. The purpose of the processing is to send you the newsletter. For this purpose, the e-mail address and the IP address are stored with the respective time of booking and confirmation in order to be able to prove the booking of the newsletter in case of doubt. The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a) DS-GVO.

6. Disclosure to third parties

In the context of your participation in certain special formats, such as master classes or round tables, your personal data is passed on to the partners whose programs you attend or whose services you book or whose virtual platform you visit, in order to be able to inform you about current products and services as well as current developments by e-mail even after the event. The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b) DS-GVO. The e-mail dispatch is carried out in accordance with the privacy policy of the respective partner.If we involve external service providers in the context of data processing, we have also ensured in this respect that they are selected and controlled in compliance with the statutory provisions and are also obliged to comply with the statutory provisions under data protection law. Beyond this, your data will not be passed on unless you have expressly consented to this beforehand. This consent can be revoked at any time and without giving reasons to ARRtist Circus (at the address above).If necessary, we may be required by law to disclose your data to third parties. We will only comply with such requests within the scope of the legal obligation and after careful examination of whether such an obligation actually exists.

7 Automated decision-making and profiling

On our websites, your personal data will not be used for automated decision-making or profiling.

8. Storage period

Your data will only be stored by us for as long as you are registered with us with a user profile. If data processing takes place for an order, registration or booking process, your data will be stored in accordance with the legal storage and retention obligations and subsequently deleted. If you have given us consent for certain data processing, we will delete the data as soon as you have revoked your consent.

9. Your rights as a data subject

You have various rights on a legal basis as a so-called data subject about whom personal data is collected:

Right to information:

In accordance with Art. 15 DS-GVO, you have the right to request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you can request information about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of complaint, the origin of your data if it has not been collected by us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, and, if applicable, meaningful information about its details.

Right to rectification:

In accordance with Art. 16 DS-GVO, you can immediately request the correction of incorrect or the completion of your personal data stored by us.

Right to deletion:

In accordance with Art. 17 DS-GVO, you have the right to request the erasure of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation, the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for reasons of public interest or for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.

Right to restriction of processing:

Pursuant to Art. 18 DS-GVO, you may request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful, but you object to its erasure and we no longer require the data, but you need it for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims or you have objected to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 DS-GVO.

Right to data portability

You may also, in accordance with Art. 20 DS-GVO, receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or request that it be transferred to another controller.

Right of revocation

Pursuant to Art. 7 (3) DS-GVO, you may revoke a consent you have given us at any time. This has the consequence that we may no longer continue the data processing based on this consent for the future.

Right to complain to a supervisory authority

In accordance with Art. 77 DS-GVO, you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our company headquarters in Hamburg for this purpose.

10. Use of cookies and social plugins

Cookies are used on our website during your visit. Cookies are small text files in a designated file directory of the end device. This file is used to identify the Internet browser of the user's terminal device for the duration of the session, even beyond the boundaries of the website, to enable comfortable work with ARRtist Circus. Cookies serve, among other things, as an authentication feature.ARRtist Circus is constantly trying to improve the usability of its platforms. Also for this purpose we use cookies to recognize the preferences of the visitors and to optimize the website accordingly. The use of cookies is now common practice. However, if you do not wish such use, you have the option of making the appropriate settings in your Internet browser. We would like to point out that if cookies are not permitted, services cannot be offered in full.If the user ends the session by closing the browser, the cookie remains stored on his computer.When visiting our websites via a mobile device, an equivalent to the cookies described above may be used (so-called tokens).

10.1 Google technologies

Various technologies of Google Inc,. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google") are used on our website. Further information on Google's terms and conditions as well as Google's privacy policy can be found at http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.

10.1.1 Google Analytics

The Platform uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google. 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 our website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. In the event that IP anonymization is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google 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 behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from 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. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link. The current link is http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

10.1.2 Google Conversion Tracking

Our website uses Google Conversion Tracking, an analysis service provided by Google as part of ARRtist Circus's use of Google AdWords. Google AdWords sets a cookie on your computer ("conversion cookie") if you have reached our website via a Google ad. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If you visit certain pages of ours and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that someone has clicked on the ad and thus been redirected to our site. Each AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked through the websites of AdWords customers. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. The AdWords customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users. If you do not wish to participate in the tracking process, you can also refuse the setting of a cookie required for this - for example, via a browser setting that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies. You can also disable cookies for conversion tracking by setting your browser to block cookies from the domain "googleadservices.com".

10.1.3 Google Remarketing

Our website uses Google's remarketing technology. Through this technology, users who have already visited the website and are interested in the offer are approached again through targeted advertising for ARRtist Circus offers on the pages of the Google Partner Network. The advertising is displayed through the use of cookies. With the help of the cookies, user behavior when visiting the websites can be analyzed and subsequently used for targeted product recommendations and interest-based advertising. If you do not wish to receive interest-based advertising, you can disable Google's use of cookies for these purposes by visiting the DoubleClick deactivation page (https://www.google.de/settings/ads/onweb#display_optout). Alternatively, users can disable the use of third-party cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page (http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp).

10.2 Use of Facebook plugins

Our website uses plugins from the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Meta Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"). If you call up a website provided with such a plugin, a connection to the Facebook servers is established and the plugin is displayed on the website by notifying your browser. This transmits to the Facebook server, among other things, which page of our website you have visited. If you are logged in as a member of Facebook, Facebook assigns this information to your personal Facebook user account. When using the plugin functions (e.g. clicking the "Like" button, submitting a comment), this information is also assigned to your Facebook account, which you can only prevent by logging out before using the plugin. For more information about the collection and use of data by Facebook, about your rights in this respect andoptions for protecting your privacy can be found in the privacy policy of Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/

Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, US11.3

10.3 Integration of further social plugins

Social plugins ("plugins") from selected platforms (e.g. YouTube videos, Twitter, Vimeo; Pinterest, Instagram) are integrated on our website. These plugins are usually identified by a logo of the platform operator and/or by a written addition such as "Like", "Recommend" or "Tweet".

Usually, the plug-ins integrated on the pages already transmit data to the operators of the platforms when the website is loaded - i.e. completely without your intervention. In addition to the URL of the visited page, an identifier may be transmitted, which can be directly linked to a person, at least in the case of users who are registered on the platform.We would like to point out that we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by the respective platform operators.For details on the purpose and scope of the data collection as well as the further processing and use of the data by the platforms, but also on your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to the privacy policy of the operator of the respective platform:

Twitter, Inc.,  https://twitter.com/privacy
Youtube, LLC, https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/
Vimeo, LLC. http://vimeo.com/privacy
Pinterest, Inc., https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy
Instagram, LLC, http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/#
SendinBlue, https://www.sendinblue.com/legal-notice/

11. External links

Our websites also contain links to websites of other providers. We have no influence on the content and design of these websites, in particular on subsequent changes to their content. We also expressly point out that our data protection declaration does not apply to these pages.

12. Change and retrievability of this privacy policy

From time to time it may become necessary to adapt this data protection declaration due to legal regulations or organizational reasons. Therefore, if you are interested, please check occasionally whether there is a current version. 

This version is valid as of March 2023.
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