Privacy Policy

1. Data Protection at a Glance

General Information

The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data by which you can be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy listed below this text.

Data Collection on Our Website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the legal disclosure (Impressum) of this website.

How do we collect your data?

On the one hand, your data is collected by you communicating it to us. This can be, for example, data that you enter in a contact form. Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is primarily technical data (e.g., internet browser, operating system, or time of the page view). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure the error-free provision of the website. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right at any time to receive information free of charge about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have a right to request the correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions on the subject of data protection, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal disclosure. Furthermore, you have a right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority.

Analysis Tools and Third-Party Tools

When visiting our website, your surfing behavior can be statistically evaluated. This happens mainly with cookies and so-called analysis programs. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous; the surfing behavior cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information can be found in the following privacy policy.

2. General Notes and Mandatory Information

Data Protection

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

Notice Concerning the Responsible Party (Controller)

The responsible party for data processing on this website is:

Cradle to Cradle NGO

Landsberger Allee 99c

10407 Berlin

Phone: +49 30 4677 4780

Email: info@c2c.ngo

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g., names, email addresses, etc.).

Withdrawal of Your Consent to Data Processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can withdraw consent you have already given at any time. An informal communication by email to us is sufficient for this purpose. The legality of the data processing carried out until the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Right of Appeal to the Competent Supervisory Authority

In the event of violations of data protection law, the data subject has a right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority: Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit

Friedrichstraße 219

10969 Berlin

Email: mailbox@datenschutz-berlin.de

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done insofar as it is technically feasible.

SSL or TLS Encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

3. Data Collection on Our Website

Cookies

The internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective, and secure.

Server Log Files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

  • Browser type and version

  • Operating system used

  • Referrer URL

  • Hostname of the accessing computer

  • Time of the server request

  • IP address

Contact Form

If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provided there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

4. Social Media

(Summary of the specific platforms you listed) We integrate plugins and functions from Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and XING. When you visit our site, a direct connection between your browser and the respective social media server is established. If you are logged into your respective accounts, these providers can associate your visit to our site with your user account. We point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by these services.

5. Analysis Tools and Advertising

Google Analytics

This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. We have activated IP anonymization on this website.

Google reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” to check whether the data entry on our websites is made by a human or by an automated program.

6. Newsletter

If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require an email address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the specified email address. The processing of the data entered into the newsletter registration form is based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR).

7. Plugins and Tools

YouTube

Our website uses plugins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

Google Web Fonts (local)

To protect your privacy, we use Google Fonts locally on our web server. No connection to Google servers is established, and no data is transferred to Google.

Google Maps

This site uses the Google Maps mapping service via an API. To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address.

8. Payment Providers

PayPal

On our website, we offer payment via PayPal, among other methods. The provider of this payment service is PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg.