Goethe-Institut Sénégal, place OMVS Immeuble Thiargane, 6ème étage, B.P. 25862 Dakar, Sénégal ("Goethe-Institut" or "we"), as the operator of the website www.goethe.de (the "Website"), is the controller of the personal data of the users ("you") of the Website as defined in the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the German data protection laws, in particular the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the German Telecommunications and Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG).
The Goethe-Institut takes the protection of your data very seriously. With this data protection declaration, we would like to transparently inform you about which personal data (“your data”) we collect, process and use when you visit our online presence or use the Goethe-Institut's web services.
You can visit our Website and use some of our online services without providing any personal information. Whenever you access a web page, the web server automatically stores access data in server log files, which are automatically communicated by your browser, such as the name of the requested file, the last website visited, the date and time of access, the browser used, the amount of data transferred, the IP address, the requesting provider, etc. In the context of data processing on our behalf, a third-party provider renders the services relating to hosting and displaying the Website for us. This service provider has its registered place of business in a country within the European Union or the European Economic Area.
All access details are stored for a period of 7 days. This data is analysed exclusively in order to ensure a fault-free operation of the Website and for a fault analysis.
We collect personal data if you provide us with this information when contacting us (e.g. via a contact form or email). Specifically which data is collected and which information is mandatory and which is voluntary can be seen in the respective input forms. We collect and process the data you provide in these cases in order to respond to your request.
The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 (1) lit b GDPR.
We maintain a YouTube channel. YouTube is a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA.
We would like to point out that there is a possibility that user data may be processed outside the European Union. YouTube has sole access to this user data.
YouTube's privacy policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
We secure our website and other systems through technical and organizational measures against loss, destruction, access, modification or distribution of your data by unauthorized persons, such as through SSL encryption
As a data subject, you have the following rights:
If you have any questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, if you want to obtain access to or request the rectification, restriction of processing or erasure of data, or if you want to revoke any consents granted, object to a specific use of data or assert your right to data portability, please contact us:
Goethe-Institut Senegal
Immeuble Thiargane (6. Etage), Place OMVS, Rond-point de l'École Normale Mermoz
B.P. 25862 - C.P. 12524 Dakar, Senegal
Tel. +221 33 869 88 80
Insofar as we process personal data as explained above in order to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests, you can object to this processing with effect for the future. If the processing is for direct marketing purposes, you may exercise this right at any time as described above. If the processing is for other purposes, you have the right to object only if there are grounds for this arising from your particular situation.
After exercising your right of objection, we will not process your personal data further for these purposes, unless we can provide evidence of compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
This does not apply if the processing is for direct marketing purposes. In this case, we will not process your personal data further for this purpose.