Privacy statement
General information
These are the data protection provisions of the
Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius GmbH & Co. KG
represented by personally liable shareholder Tempus Zeitverlag Geschäftsführungsgesellschaft mbH, which is represented by Managing Director Dr Rainer Esser
Buceriusstraße, entrance Speersort 1
20095 Hamburg, Germany
Phone: +49 40 / 32 80 0
Fax: +49 40 / 32 71 11
Email: datenschutz@zeit.de
The protection of your data is a special concern to us, of course we observe all data protection regulations valid in Germany.
In the following, we will inform you in detail which personal data (i.e. data that make a reference to your person possible, such as name, address or IP address) we collect on our website for what purpose and how long this data is stored. We also inform you in detail about the rights you have with regard to data processing and how to assert these rights.
Below you will find an overview of the data collected by us. In Section IV we inform you about your rights.
If you have any questions or comments with regard to data protection on our website, please contact us at any time. You can contact us via email to datenschutz@zeit.de.
PART I. General information
We collect various types of data on our website. On the one hand we collect personal data, i.e. data you voluntarily enter, for example when you subscribe for our newsletter or contact us or use similar services.
We only use cookies and tracking technologies which are essential and necessary for internal/general usage analyses, particularly for reach measurement and safeguarding functionality. We have an overriding legitimate interest in such use of those technologies. The legal basis for the data processing in this context is Art. 6(1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR.
Further information on data processing
You can find further information on data processing as well as the possibility of withdrawing your consent to individual tracking providers in Part III and Part VI.
The data processing operations are described in detail in parts II and III. In Part IV you can find out what rights you are entitled to in connection with the processing of your data.
Joint controllership of ZEIT Verlagsgruppe
Insofar as your data is processed subject to joint controllership within ZEIT Verlagsgruppe or third parties (“joint controllership”, Art. 26 GDPR), you are informed about this in the following descriptions of the individual data processing operations. You can also find an overview of which companies in ZEIT Verlagsgruppe are involved in which processing operations and how in Part V.
The controllers have concluded an agreement on their joint controllership in accordance with Art. 26(1) GDPR. We will be happy to provide you with further information on request on the joint controllership, particularly the functions and relationships of the joint controllers with respect to data subjects.
Data transmission into third countries
A visit to our website and the use of our services may involve the transmission of certain personal data to third countries, i.e. countries in which the GDPR is not applicable law. Such transmission is carried out in a permissible manner if the European Commission has established that in the third state an adequate level of data protection is required. If an adequacy decision has not been issued by the European Commission, personal data will only be transmitted to a third country if appropriate guarantees are in place in accordance with Art. 46 GDPR or if the conditions provided for in Art. 49 GDPR are fulfilled.
Unless otherwise stated below we use as appropriate guarantees the standard contractual clauses for the transmission of personal data to contract processors in third countries: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal content/DE/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32010D0087.
Part II. Technically or organisationally necessary data
The use of our website is generally possible without providing personal data. In a few cases, which are listed below, it is however necessary to voluntarily provide personal data, as otherwise we are not able to provide you with our services. We use the data for the purposes specified in detail below.
Ordering magazines
If you order our magazine on our website, the following data must be provided: first name, surname, address and email address. The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6(1) lit. b) GDPR.
We forward your data for the purposes of handling the order to Wolanski GmbH, Ernst-Robert-Curtius-Str. 6, 53117 Bonn-Buschdorf.
Your personal data is stored for the above-mentioned purposes until the handling of the order is completed. Afterwards your data will be deleted.
Making contact
If you contact us through the contact form on our website or per email, we also receive personal data from you. This data is stored by us in order to process the inquiry (cf. Art. 6(1) lit b) GDPR) and for a period of six months in the event of further questions arising.
We do not use this data for advertising purposes, nor do we pass it on without your consent, unless it is necessary for the fulfilment of the contract.
The data processing in connection with our customer care is subject to joint controllership with other companies in ZEIT Verlagsgruppe. You can find more detailed information on this in Part V.
Use of your data for advertising purposes
If we receive your data for the conclusion of a contract or for a registration with our services, we reserve the right to process the data also for advertising purposes. Under the following conditions we process your data for advertising purposes for similar offers of ours and offers from partner companies and also pass your data on for the purpose of advertising by third parties.
Advertising for similar purposes
We use the personal data you store with us to advertise similar offers of ZEIT-Verlagsgruppe. If we receive your email address in connection with the conclusion of a contract in the broad sense (subscription, shop order, newsletter registration, for Z+, SIT, BOA or a similar service), we are authorised to send you offers to your email address for goods and services of our company similar to the services you have used. We have a business interest in sending advertising offers in this connection.
The processing of your email address is thus based on a legitimate interest. The legal basis is Art. 6(1) lit. f) GDPR in conjunction with Art. 7(3) of the German Unfair Competition Act (Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb).
You can object to the processing of your data for the purposes of direct advertising at any time.
If you have given consent to the sending of advertising emails, the corresponding processing is also based on Art. 6(1) lit a) GDPR. You can withdraw your given consent at any time, e.g. by sending an email to datenschutz@zeit.de.
We store your data for advertising purposes as long as we have no corresponding withdrawal/objection.
Disclosure of your data for advertising by third parties
In addition to advertising our own products, we also forward the postal contact data stored with us to a marketing service provider, who uses your data to send you interesting advertising offers from third parties. Should your address be used by the marketing service provider for the purpose of advertising third-party offers, you will be informed in the mailing that your address has been passed on by us to the marketing service provider.
We have an interest in forwarding personal data to the marketing service provider for the purpose of advertising by third parties. The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6(1) lit. f) GDPR.
You can contact us at any time and find out if we have passed on your address for advertising purposes.
If you have provided consent to the receiving advertising by third parties, the corresponding processing is also based on Art. 6(1) lit. a) GDPR.
You can withdraw your consent at any time, e.g. by sending an email to datenschutz@zeit.de. At any time, you can object to the processing of your data for direct marketing.
But as long as we have not received a corresponding objection and we have a continued interest in a corresponding processing of your data, we store your data for advertising purposes.
Storage of data in our data warehouse
We store your data in a separate database, called the Data Warehouse, for the analysis and control of our advertising measures. Here your personal data is stored and strictly separated from the order data. The latter is available in a pseudonymised form for analysis and reporting purposes. Based on the order data, we use the information to control and optimise the advertising measures. For specific questions only the data is used for creating group profiles and creating engagement and propensity scores.
The separated personal data are subject to specific protection and are only used for selecting advertising.
The data processing in the Data Warehouse is subject to joint controllership with other companies in ZEIT Verlagsgruppe. You can find more detailed information on this in Part V.
The processing of your data is based on a legitimate interest and is thus based on Art. 6(1) lit. f) GDPR.
You can object to the processing at any time, e.g. by sending an email to datenschutz@zeit.de.
Part III. Automatically collected data when using our website
In addition to data voluntarily entered, we also automatically collect data each time you visit our websites to allow a smooth use of our websites and to provide you with certain information and links of third parties directly.
In the following we describe the different programmes used, the purpose of their integration and the data categories collected.
Most of the employed programmes use so-called "cookies" for the collection of data. Cookies are small text files created automatically by your web browser and stored locally on your end device (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when visiting our website.Cookies do not cause any damage on your end device. The use of cookies allows to make the use of our offer more pleasant for you. Cookies allow us, for example, to recognise you when you revisit our website, so that you do not have to reset your personal settings.
In addition, we use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimising our services for you (e.g. Google Analytics). All cookies are deleted automatically after a specific period of time, once their purpose has been fulfilled. Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can generally prevent cookies from being saved on your hard drive by selecting "do not accept cookies" in your browser settings. You can also set your browser to ask whether you agree before setting cookies. Finally, you can also delete cookies that have been placed at any time. Information on how all this works in detail can be found in the instructions of your browser operator. Please note, however, that these settings only apply to the device and browser on which they were made.
Under the link “Cookies & tracking” embedded at the end of each of our webpages we offer you the possibility of transparently tracking which cookies we use on our website for the control of advertising content, gaining an understanding of the functioning of the individual cookies and learning how an opt-out from the respective cookies can be set up.
In the following we describe in detail the data automatically collected by us/the services we use.
Logfiles
When you visit our website, the browser used on your terminal device automatically sends information to the server of our website. This information is stored temporarily in a so-called log file.
The following information is collected automatically (IP address, date and time of access, name and URL of the file accessed, website from which the access is made (referrer URL), browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer as well as the name of your access provider).
The above data are processed by us for administrative purposes in order to ensure a smooth connection and comfortable use of our website and to ensure that our system is secure and stable. Data processing is based on our existing legitimate interest in data processing for the above-mentioned purposes and is thus based on Art. 6(1) s. 1 lit. f) GDPR.
Part IV. Your rights
Your rights at ZEIT.
You have the right to obtain information about the personal data stored by us at any time. You also have the right to data portability, rectification or erasure as well as to restriction of the processing of your data. You can also object to the processing of your data at any time. In more detail:
Processing when you exercise your rights under Art. 15 to 22 GDPR
If you exercise your rights in accordance with Art. 15 to 22 GDPR, we will process the transmitted personal data for the purpose of the implementation of those rights by us and to enable us to provide proof to that effect. We will only process data stored for the purpose of the provision of information and preparation thereof for that purpose, as well as for the purposes of data protection control, and will otherwise limit the processing in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR. These data processing operations are based on the legal basis of Art. 6(1) lit. c) GDPR in conjunction with Art. 15 to 22 GDPR and Art. 34 par. 2 of the German Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz – BDSG).
The processing of applications under Art. 15 to 22 GDPR is carried out for ZEIT Verlagsgruppe by Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius GmbH & Co. KG, Buceriusstraße, Eingang Speersort 1, 20095 Hamburg. The transmission is based on the legal basis of Art. 6(1) lit. f) GDPR and serves the purpose of our interest in efficiently organising processing operations in the corporate group.
Insofar as data processing is carried out subject to joint controllership, you can assert your data subject rights with respect to Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius GmbH & Co. KG or any other controller.
Right of access by the data subject
In accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, you have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you are being processed. In this case, you also have a right of access and information regarding the purpose of the processing, the category of personal data being processed, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data has been or will be disclosed, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period, the existence of a right to rectify or delete the data about you or to limit the processing or to object to such processing, the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority and, if the personal data has not been collected from you, to all available information on the origin of the data.
Right to rectification
According to Art. 16 GDPR, you also have the right to immediately request the rectification or completion of incorrect personal data about you.
Right to erasure
In accordance with the conditions of Art. 17 GDPR, you have the right to request the erasure of your personal data stored by us, provided that the processing is not necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for the fulfilment of a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Right to restriction
In accordance with the conditions of Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your data.
Right to data portability
In accordance with the conditions of Art. 20 GDPR you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you in a structured, commonly and machine-readable format, as well as the right, provided that the requirements of Art. 20 GDPR are met, to have the right to transmit those data to another controller. You have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible.
Right to object
In accordance with Art. 21 GDPR you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data if your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests as defined in Art. 6(1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR, provided that there are reasons arising from your particular situation. You can object to the processing of your data for the purposes of direct advertising at any time, without specifying a specific situation.
You can withdraw your granted consent on the website at any time by accessing the privacy settings in section VI.
If you wish to make use of your right of revocation or objection, simply send an email to datenschutz@zeit.de.
Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
You can contact us through following contact details:
Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius GmbH & Co. KG
Buceriusstraße, entrance Speersort 1
20095 Hamburg, Germany
Phone: +49 40 / 32 80 0
Fax: +49 40 / 32 71 11
Email: datenschutz@zeit.de
You can reach our data protection officer at dsb@zeit.de
If you believe that the processing of your data violates the data protection law or your data protection claims have otherwise been violated in any way, you can complain to the responsible supervisory authority.
PART V. Joint responsibility
Joint controllership
Insofar as your data is processed subject to joint controllership within ZEIT Verlagsgruppe or third parties (“joint controllership”, Art. 26 GDPR), you are informed about this in the following descriptions of the individual data processing operations. You can also find an overview below of which companies in ZEIT Verlagsgruppe are involved in which processing operations and how.
