privacy policy

Responsibility for your private data

easy town books, Ellen Paschiller is responsible for the safety of your private data and for ensuring that this privacy policy as well as any actions regarding your private data comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).

easy town books, Ellen Paschiller
Meininger Straße 7, 10823 Berlin, Germany
ellenpaschiller@easy-town.org

Contact

If you have any questions or concerns about the safety of your personal data or about this privacy policy, you can send your questions or concerns via the contact form below, directly to privacy@easy-town.org, or via post to:

easy town books, Ellen Paschiller
Meininger Straße 7, 10823 Berlin, Germany

Using a contact form

When you send an email via a contact form, only your email address is required to answer your message.

Your message(s) sent via a contact form will be stored on this website’s server for a maximum of 72h. This measure ensures that no message(s) get lost in a spam folder.

Your message will be transmitted via TLS.

Your email address will only be used to answer your message. After the correspondence is concluded, your email(s) and your data will be deleted within a week.

Concluded means that all the issues you presented in your message(s) have been addressed.

Email addresses will not be stored for future use or shared with third parties, unless there are legal reasons to do so.

Downloading a free pdf

All free downloads, such as the Fine Art Prints catalogue or 42 towns and counting, can be downloaded without transmitting any data.

The statistics programmes WP Statistics and Statify only register that someone visited a download page but not whether a file has been downloaded. IP addresses are anonymised. Only the date, town, country, browser, referrer and number of hits are identified.

Supporting the easy town projects

It is up to you how much personal data you want to share when supporting the easy town projects.

When you do share personal data, you can indicate whether your data should be deleted within seven days after the reception of your data, or whether it should be kept for further cooperation.

Whenever financial transactions are involved, a copy of those transactions will be kept for tax purposes.

In no event will your personal data be shared with third parties unless legal actions are required.

Comments

You can send comment or suggestions via email.

Either will be anonymised on receipt, and your email and/or any other personal data will be deleted unless legal actions are required.

This website doesn’t use third-party cookies. It doesn’t track, profile or analyse any data. This website doesn’t use any Google tools, ad providers or social media links.

Saying all this, if you are logged into your Google, Facebook or a similar account, while visiting this website, those companies will collect data about your activities on this website, unless you have changed your privacy settings in your account in a way that doesn’t allow for tracking.

Embedded content from other websites

This website doesn’t use any embedded content from other websites unless it is from another easy town website.

Statistics

When you use this website, some anonymised data will be collected by the two statistics programmes which run on this website: Statify and WPStatistics.

Statify doesn’t collect any personal data and only counts visits. It also deletes all data older than fourteen days automatically.

Statify collects the following anonymised data:

hits per page / post
top referrers

WPStatistics collects the following anonymised data:

online users
hits
visitors
pages / posts visited
search engine referrals / search words
agent / browser / platform / version
referring sites
country / city
date
anonymised IP

This means, your visits to this website are anonymous unless you send an email.

Why use a statistics programme? Or two. Apart from monitoring and documenting the strange behaviour of some IP addresses (which usually belong to a pack of IPs used by one of the big tech giants, it’s also interesting and helpful to see which pages and posts get the most attention, and which countries have joined the readers of this website.

Data collected by WPStatistics is saved on this website and usually not older than a year. However some data is kept beyond a year to document above mentioned behaviour.

Hosting

This website is hosted by the Strato AG. Strato saves your IP-address in a log file when you visit this website.

Your IP-address will be kept for a maximum of seven days. This measure helps Strato to recognise and block attacks on the server.

In addition Strato keeps a statistic about the website. IPs are anonymised.

Data will only be shared if legal actions are required in one or more of the following cases:

copyright violations
legal disputes
fraud
harassment
offence
and any other case which might require legal actions,

Other than that, there will be no sharing of data.

For how long is your data retained?

Messages and forms will be deleted as soon as our correspondence is completed. Usually within seven days.

Your rights

You can end any correspondence any time. Since there is no additional data saved about you, you already have copies of all the data that is stored until you end the correspondence.

But i you wish to view, correct, object, limit, or transfer any of this data, please send your request to privacy@easy-town.org.

How is your data protected?

This website uses TLS to ensure the safe transmission of your data. The use of https:// instead of http:// and the lock-symbol indicate that TLS is active.

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