Data protection

1. An overview of data protection

1.1 General

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

1.2 Data collection on our website

Who is respon­sible for the data collec­tion on this website?
The data collected on this website are processed by the website operator. The operator’s contact details can be found in the website’s required legal notice.

How do we collect your data?
Some data are collected when you provide it to us. This could, for example, be data you enter on a contact form.

Other data are collected automa­ti­cally by our IT systems when you visit the website. These data are primarily technical data such as the browser and operating system you are using or when you accessed the page. These data are 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 proper functio­ning of the website. Other data can be used to analyze how visitors use the site.

What rights do you have regarding your data?
You always have the right to request infor­ma­tion about your stored data, its origin, its recipi­ents, and the purpose of its collec­tion at no charge. You also have the right to request that it be corrected, blocked, or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in the legal notice if you have further questions about the issue of privacy and data protec­tion. You may also, of course, file a complaint with the competent regula­tory authorities.

1.3 Analytics and third-party tools

When visiting our website, statis­tical analyses may be made of your surfing behavior. This happens primarily using cookies and analytics. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous, i.e. we will not be able to identify you from this data. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed infor­ma­tion can be found in the following privacy policy.

You can object to this analysis. We will inform you below about how to exercise your options in this regard.

2. General information and mandatory information

2.1 Data protection

The operators of this website take the protec­tion of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confi­den­tial and in accordance with the statutory data protec­tion regula­tions and this privacy policy.

If you use this website, various pieces of personal data will be collected. Personal infor­ma­tion is any data with which you could be perso­nally identi­fied. This privacy policy explains what infor­ma­tion we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

Please note that data trans­mitted via the internet (e.g. via email commu­ni­ca­tion) may be subject to security breaches. Complete protec­tion of your data from third-party access is not possible.

2.2 Notice concerning the party responsible for this website

The party respon­sible for proces­sing data on this website is:

Kunst­stif­tung Volks­wagen
Kunst­mu­seum Wolfsburg
Holler­platz 1
38440 Wolfsburg
Tel.: +49 (0) 5361–2669‑0
Email: datenschutzbeauftragter@kunstmuseum.de

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

2.3 Revocation of your consent to the processing of your data

Many data proces­sing opera­tions are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. An informal email making this request is suffi­cient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

2.4 Right to file complaints with regulatory authorities

If there has been a breach of data protec­tion legis­la­tion, the person affected may file a complaint with the competent regula­tory autho­ri­ties. The competent regula­tory authority for matters related to data protec­tion legis­la­tion is the data protec­tion officer of the German state in which our company is headquar­tered. A list of data protec­tion officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/de/infothek/anschriften_links/anschriften_links-node.html.

2.5 Right to data portability

You have the right to have data which we process based on your consent or in fulfill­ment of a contract automa­ti­cally delivered to yourself or to a third party in a standard, machine-readable format. If you require the direct transfer of data to another respon­sible party, this will only be done to the extent techni­cally feasible.

2.5 SSL or TLS encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryp­tion for security reasons and for the protec­tion of the trans­mis­sion of confi­den­tial content, such as the inquiries you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connec­tion in your browser’s address line when it changes from “http://” to “https://” and the lock icon is displayed in your browser’s address bar.

If SSL or TLS encryp­tion is activated, the data you transfer to us cannot be read by third parties.

2.6 Information, blocking, deletion

As permitted by law, you have the right to be provided at any time with infor­ma­tion free of charge about any of your personal data that is stored as well as its origin, the recipient and the purpose for which it has been processed. You also have the right to have this data corrected, blocked or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in our legal notice if you have further questions on the topic of personal data.

2.7 Opposition to promotional emails

We hereby expressly prohibit the use of contact data published in the context of website legal notice requi­re­ments with regard to sending promo­tional and infor­ma­tional materials not expressly requested. The website operator reserves the right to take specific legal action if unsoli­cited adver­ti­sing material, such as email spam, is received.

3. Data protection officer

3.1 Statutory data protection officer

We have appointed a data protec­tion officer for our company.

Kunst­stif­tung Volks­wagen
Kunst­mu­seum Wolfsburg
Holler­platz 1
D‑38440 Wolfsburg
Tel.: +49 (0) 5361–2669‑0
Email: datenschutzbeauftragter@kunstmuseum.de

4 Data collection on our website

4.1 Cookies

Some of our web pages use cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies.” They are automa­ti­cally deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain in your device’s memory until you delete them. These cookies make it possible to recognize your browser when you next visit the site.

You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alter­na­tively, your browser can be confi­gured to automa­ti­cally accept cookies under certain condi­tions or to always reject them, or to automa­ti­cally delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functio­n­a­lity of this website.

Cookies which are necessary to allow electronic commu­ni­ca­tions or to provide certain functions you wish to use (such as the shopping cart) are stored pursuant to Art. 6 paragraph 1, letter f of DSGVO. The website operator has a legiti­mate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure an optimized service provided free of technical errors. If other cookies (such as those used to analyze your surfing behavior) are also stored, they will be treated separ­ately in this privacy policy.

4.2 Server log files

The website provider automa­ti­cally collects and stores infor­ma­tion that your browser automa­ti­cally transmits to us in “server log files”. These are:

  • Browser type and browser version
  • Operating system used
  • Referrer URL
  • Host name of the accessing computer
  • Time of the server request
  • IP address

These data will not be combined with data from other sources.

The basis for data proces­sing is Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO, which allows the proces­sing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preli­mi­nary to a contract.

4.3 Contact form

Should you send us questions via the contact form, we will collect the data entered on the form, including the contact details you provide, to answer your question and any follow-up questions. We do not share this infor­ma­tion without your permission.

We will, therefore, process any data you enter onto the contact form only with your consent per Art. 6 (1)(a) DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time. An informal email making this request is suffi­cient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

We will retain the data you provide on the contact form until you request its deletion, revoke your consent for its storage, or the purpose for its storage no longer pertains (e.g. after fulfil­ling your request). Any mandatory statutory provi­sions, especially those regarding mandatory data retention periods, remain unaffected by this provision.

4.4 Registration on this website

You can register on our website in order to access additional functions offered here. The input data will only be used for the purpose of using the respec­tive site or service for which you have regis­tered. The mandatory infor­ma­tion requested during regis­tra­tion must be provided in full. Otherwise, we will reject your registration.

To inform you about important changes such as those within the scope of our site or technical changes, we will use the email address specified during registration.

We will process the data provided during regis­tra­tion only based on your consent per Art. 6 (1)(a) DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. An informal email making this request is suffi­cient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

We will continue to store the data collected during regis­tra­tion for as long as you remain regis­tered on our website. Statutory retention periods remain unaffected.

5 Analytics and advertising

5.1 Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service. It is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphi­theatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The infor­ma­tion generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually trans­mitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Google Analytics cookies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legiti­mate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its advertising.

IP anony­miz­a­tion
We have activated the IP anony­miz­a­tion feature on this website. Your IP address will be shortened by Google within the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to trans­mis­sion to the United States. Only in excep­tional cases is the full IP address sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. Google will use this infor­ma­tion on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services regarding website activity and Internet usage for the website operator. The IP address trans­mitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google.

Browser plugin
You can prevent these cookies being stored by selecting the appro­priate settings in your browser. However, we wish to point out that doing so may mean you will not be able to enjoy the full functio­n­a­lity of this website. You can also prevent the data generated by cookies about your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being passed to Google, and the proces­sing of these data by Google, by downloading and instal­ling the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Objecting to the collec­tion of data
You can prevent the collec­tion of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent your data from being collected on future visits to this site: Google Analytics deakti­vieren.

For more infor­ma­tion about how Google Analytics handles user data, see Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Outsourced data proces­sing
We have entered into an agreement with Google for the outsour­cing of our data proces­sing and fully implement the strict requi­re­ments of the German data protec­tion autho­ri­ties when using Google Analytics.

5.2 Google reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (herein­after “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. This service is provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphi­theater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).

reCAPTCHA is used to check whether the data entered on our website (such as on a contact form) has been entered by a human or by an automated program. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various charac­te­ris­tics. This analysis starts automa­ti­cally as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various infor­ma­tion (e.g. IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website, or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analyses take place comple­tely in the background. Website visitors are not advised that such an analysis is taking place.

Data proces­sing is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legiti­mate interest in protec­ting its site from abusive automated crawling and spam.

For more infor­ma­tion about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, please visit the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ und https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.

6 Newsletter

6.1 Newsletter data

If you would like to receive our newsletter, we require a valid email address as well as infor­ma­tion that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the specified email address and that you agree to receive this newsletter. No additional data is collected or is only collected on a voluntary basis. We only use this data to send the requested infor­ma­tion and do not pass it on to third parties.

We will, therefore, process any data you enter onto the contact form only with your consent per Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO. You can revoke consent to the storage of your data and email address as well as their use for sending the newsletter at any time, e.g. through the “unsub­scribe” link in the newsletter. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

The data provided when regis­tering for the newsletter will be used to distri­bute the newsletter until you cancel your subscrip­tion when said data will be deleted. Data we have stored for other purposes (e.g. email addresses for the members area) remain unaffected.

6.2 Newsletter2Go

This website uses Newsletter2Go to send newslet­ters. The provider of this service is Newsletter2Go GmbH, Köpeni­ckerstr. 126, 10179 Berlin, Germany.

Newsletter2Go is a service which organizes and analyzes the distri­bu­tion of newslet­ters. The data you provide to subscribe to our newsletter will be stored on Newsletter2Go servers in Germany.

If you do not want your usage of the newsletter to be analyzed by Newsletter2Go, you will have to unsub­scribe from the newsletter. For this purpose, we provide a link in every newsletter we send.

Data analysis by Newsletter2Go
We use Newsletter2Go to analyze our newsletter campaigns. This allows us to determine if a newsletter message has been opened and which links you click on. We can thus find out how often various links are clicked.

For detailed infor­ma­tion on the functions of Newsletter2Go, see the following link: https://www.newsletter2go.de/features/newsletter-software/.

Legal basis
Data proces­sing is based on Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

Storage duration
The data provided when regis­tering for the newsletter will be used to distri­bute the newsletter until you cancel your subscrip­tion when said data will be deleted from our servers and those of Newsletter2Go. Data we have stored for other purposes (e.g. email addresses for the members area) remains unaffected.

For more infor­ma­tion, see the privacy policy of Newsletter2Go at: https://www.newsletter2go.de/features/datenschutz‑2/.

Comple­tion of an outsourced data proces­sing contract
We have entered into a data proces­sing agreement with Newsletter2Go, in which we require Newsletter2Go to protect the data of our customers and not to disclose said data to third parties. It can be downloaded HERE einsehen.

7 Plugins und Tools

7.1 YouTube

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

If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connec­tion to the YouTube servers is estab­lished. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This consti­tutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

Further infor­ma­tion about handling user data, can be found in the data protec­tion decla­ra­tion of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

7.2 Vimeo

Our website uses features provided by the Vimeo video portal. This service is provided by Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a Vimeo plugin, a connec­tion to the Vimeo servers is estab­lished. Here the Vimeo server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo will receive your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo when you visit our website or do not have a Vimeo account. The infor­ma­tion is trans­mitted to a Vimeo server in the US, where it is stored.

If you are logged in to your Vimeo account, Vimeo allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.

For more infor­ma­tion on how to handle user data, please refer to the Vimeo Privacy Policy at: https://vimeo.com/privacy.

7.3 Mapbox

This site uses the Mapbox map service via an API. It is operated by MapBox Inc., 740 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20005, USA.

To use Mapbox, it is necessary to save your IP address. This infor­ma­tion is generally trans­mitted to a Mapbox server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer.

The use of Mapbox is in the interest of making our website appealing and to facili­tate the location of places specified by us on the website. This consti­tutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

Further infor­ma­tion about handling user data, can be found in the data protec­tion decla­ra­tion of Mapbox at: https://www.mapbox.com/privacy/.