Privacy Policy
The protection of information relating to you, such as your name, your telephone number and your e-mail or IP address (so-called “personal data”) is important to us. Therefore, we operate this website and services offered by us on it in accordance with the applicable data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG).
You will find below an explanation of how we handle your personal data in this context.
We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
We use SSL or TLS encryption for this website for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or requests that you send to us as the website operator. You can recognize a corresponding 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. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
1. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
Telegraphenamt Berlin GmbH
Monbijoustraße 11
D – 10117 Berlin
+49 30 9940590
contact@telegraphenamt.com
Managing Directors: Dr. Thomas Wolfram (chairman) // Gunnar Gust
HRB 232059 B
Local Court Berlin (Charlottenburg)
2. WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
A. When you use our website
The provision of this website (including the functions) requires the processing of personal data, such as the IP address for the retrieval of the content displayed on this website.
(1) Legal basis
The processing of your personal data to provide this website is based on our legitimate interest. In order to provide this website, it is technically necessary for us to process certain personal data (e.g. the IP address).
(2) Weighing of interests
As part of the necessary balancing of interests, we have weighed up your confidentiality interest and our interests in providing this website. Your interest in confidentiality takes a back seat. Otherwise, we would not be able to provide you with this website.
(3) Recipient categories
We use service providers to provide our website. For this purpose, we transmit personal data to these service providers. These service providers are legally or contractually obligated by us to exercise the same care in processing personal data as we do ourselves.
B. When you order our newsletter
You can register for our newsletter by giving the appropriate consent. For this purpose, we collect those personal data that you enter in each case in the corresponding registration form.
(1) Legal basis
Your consent is the legal basis for our processing of your personal data. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
(2) Purpose of processing
Your personal data is processed for the purpose of sending newsletters.
(3) Recipient categories
We use service providers for the dispatch of our newsletters. We transmit personal data to these service providers for this purpose. These service providers are legally or contractually obligated by us to exercise the same care in processing personal data as we do ourselves. Our service providers also carry out corresponding commissioned data processing in the USA (see section “6. Data transfer to the USA” below).
C. Online application
You can apply to us online via our website. For this purpose, we process those personal data that you provide to us as part of your application.
(1) Legal basis
Your personal data is processed for the purpose of initiating the corresponding employment contract.
(2) Purpose of processing
Your personal data is processed for the purpose of selecting applicants for an employment relationship.
D. Our event management
We send out invitations for various events (e.g. birthdays). For this purpose, we handle the personal data that you provide to us in each case or which is provided to us by third parties about you, insofar as it is provided to us by such third parties.
(1) Legal basis
If we send invitations on our own behalf, the processing is based on our legitimate interest or on a corresponding consent.
As part of the necessary balancing of interests, we have weighed up your confidentiality interest and our interests in event management. Your interest in confidentiality takes a back seat. Otherwise, we would not be able to send you any invitations.
If we send invitations on behalf of third parties, we are processors in each case.
(2) Recipient categories
We use service providers for event management. We transmit personal data to these service providers for this purpose. These service providers are legally or contractually obligated by us to exercise the same care in processing personal data as we do ourselves.
E. If you follow us on Facebook, Instagram and on other social media platforms of third party service providers.
You have the option to follow us on Facebook, Instagram and on other social media platforms of third party service providers (e.g. LinkedIn). For this purpose, we handle the personal data that you provide to us in each case or which is provided to us by the respective platform operator about you, insofar as it is provided to us by such service providers. You can control the privacy settings yourself within the framework of a social media platform.
(1) Legal basis
The processing of your personal data within the scope of our social media offerings is based on our legitimate interest. For the provision of our social media offerings, it is technically necessary for us to process certain personal data (e.g., the IP address; personal data that you have provided to the respective platform operator or to us).
(2) Weighing of interests
As part of the necessary balancing of interests, we have weighed up your interest in confidentiality and our interests in providing our social media offerings in each case. Your interest in confidentiality takes a back seat. Otherwise, we would not be able to offer you our social media services. In addition, you must reasonably expect that personal data will be processed when using Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms.
(3) Recipient categories
We use service providers to provide our social media offerings (e.g. Facebook, Instagram). The data you transmit to us as part of our social media offerings is also automatically transmitted to the respective social media platform operators. In the process, personal data may also be transmitted to the USA (see section “6. Data transmission to the USA” below).
F. What we process from you due to the integration of social media platforms
On our site, we use social media services (e.g. Facebook, Instagram). With each individual call of our web pages in which a social media plugin is integrated, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the social media service. You have the option of calling up a social media plugin on our website. If you are logged in to the corresponding social media service during this time, this social media service collects information about which specific page you visit and assigns this information to your personal account. If you make corresponding comments, this information will be transmitted to your personal member account and stored there. In addition, the information that you have visited our websites is passed on to social media services. This happens regardless of whether you click the button and submit comments or not, for example.
(1) Legal basis
The processing of your personal data in the context of our integration of social media services on our website is based on our legitimate interest.
(2) Weighing of interests
As part of the necessary balancing of interests, we have weighed up your interest in confidentiality and our interests in the integration of our social media offerings. Your interest in confidentiality takes a back seat. Otherwise, we would not be able to offer you our social media services. In addition, you must reasonably expect that personal data will be processed when using Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms. You can prevent this by logging out of your member account on Instagram before visiting our website.
(3) Recipient categories
We use service providers to provide our social media offerings (e.g. Facebook, Instagram). The data you transmit to us as part of our social media offerings is also automatically transmitted to the respective social media platform operators. In the process, personal data may also be transmitted to the USA (see section “6. Data transmission to the USA” below).
G. If you make a reservation via our website
When you book a room, we collect personal data that includes the following:
● The hotel selected by you
● The dates selected by you
The number of rooms included in the reservation
The number of people included in the booking (adults and children)
● The rate/special offer you have selected
Any additional packages you have selected
Your full name
Your address, including city and country
● Your email address, and
● Your credit card details.
Optional information
● Arrival information
● Room type, bed type, and/or other preferences
● Telephone/mobile phone
We use your personal information to process your booking and to enter into and fulfill the contract with you. This includes verifying your identity, taking payment guarantee and/or payment information, and sending marketing messages or communications related to your stay.
We take the protection of your personal information very seriously and have therefore kept the number of required fields to a minimum.
H. If you allow the use of cookies and analysis tools in your browser
We use cookies and analysis tools to provide our website.
So-called “cookies” are used on our websites. Cookies are data records that are stored by a web server on the end device (e.g. computer, smartphone, tablet) of the user. Cookies can be read by us and in certain cases by third parties.
Through the stored information (e.g. Internet browser and operating system used; domain name of the website from which you came; average dwell time, pages viewed), the respective website or platform operator recognizes, for example, that you have already accessed and visited this website or this platform with the browser of your end device.
When you access our websites, information is automatically collected in anonymous form. This allows us to provide the user with more effective and generally better use of our websites over time by improving the content/content and making it easier to use. The statistical data obtained helps us to improve the performance and attractiveness of our web pages. We use this information so that we can provide you with services and deliver information that is more specifically tailored to your needs.
Cookies remain on your terminal device until the respective cookie is no longer required, unless you delete cookies manually. Switching off the cookie function in your browser does not restrict the use of our websites and the services offered in principle.
(1) Legal basis for the use of session cookies
The legal basis for the use of session cookies is in each case our legitimate interest. Within the framework of the necessary balancing of interests, we have in each case weighed up your interest in confidentiality and our interest in providing this website (incl. its functions). In each case, your interest in confidentiality takes a back seat. Otherwise, we would not be able to provide you with this website.
Use of Google Tag Manager
We use the Google Tag Manager, a service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”) on our websites.
We can manage cookies through the Google Tag Manager and control their playout. We can thereby implement, for example, your consent, a revocation of consent or an opt-out. The Google Tag Manager does not set its own cookies and does not process any data stored in cookies.
(2) Use of tracking cookies for analysis and advertising purposes.
This website works together with external performance advertising networks to display and optimize its own advertisements. As part of the tracking services, cookies are stored for the documentation of transactions on end devices of users who visit or use websites or other online offers. These cookies are used solely for the purpose of correctly assigning the success of an advertising medium and the corresponding billing within the advertising network. Personal data is not processed in this context. Only the information about when a particular advertising medium was clicked on by an end device is placed in a cookie. The external partners used are listed below with a link to their data protection information.
(a) Legal basis for the use of tracking cookies for analysis and advertising purposes
The legal basis for the use of tracking cookies for analysis and advertising purposes and for the transfer of personal data to an unsafe third country, in particular to the USA, which is necessary for processing, is your consent, which you have given us in the context of our cookie banner (see section “6. Data transfer to the USA” below). If you have not given us the corresponding consent, we will not use tracking cookies towards you. Please note that for technical reasons, any consent in this regard only relates to the respective end device.
(b) Use of Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics on our websites, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).
Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, by activating IP anonymization, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On our behalf, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the websites, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of our website. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
You can find more information in Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
(c) DoubleClick by Google
We use DoubleClick by Google on our website, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).
For DoubleClick, cookies are used to present you with advertisements that are relevant to you. In the process, a pseudonymous identification number (ID) is assigned to your browser in order to check which ads were displayed in your browser and which ads were called up. The cookies do not contain any personal information. The use of the “DoubleClick” cookies only enables Google and its partner websites to serve ads based on previous visits to our website or other websites on the Internet. The information generated by the cookies is transferred by Google to a server in the USA for evaluation and stored there. A transfer of data by Google to third parties only takes place due to legal regulations or within the framework of order data processing. Under no circumstances will Google combine your data with other data collected by Google.
You can also disable DoubleClick using the following options: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=de.
For more information about DoubleClick: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=de
(d) Typekit by Adobe
We use Typekit by Adobe, a web analytics service provided by Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited, 4-6 Riverwalk, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, Ireland (“Adobe”), on our websites.
In order to provide the Typekit service, Adobe may collect information about the fonts or typefaces that are served on our website. This information is used for billing and compliance purposes and may include personally identifiable information (e.g., IP address).
Adobe uses this information to provide the Typekit service and to diagnose delivery or download issues.
You can find more information in Adobe’s privacy policy: https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policies/typekit.html
(e) Facebook Custom Audience
We use Facebook Custom Audience on our website, a web analytics service provided by Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”).
Facebook Custom Audience uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your device, to help the website analyze how users use the site. 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.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of our website.
You can find more information about Facebook Custom Audience at:
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/341425252616329
3 How long do we store your personal data?
We delete your personal data when the respective purpose of storage ceases to apply and no statutory provision requires retention. If deletion is not possible in an individual case, processing will be restricted.
4 What are your data subject rights?
Please contact us at the above contact details to exercise your rights and to withdraw your consent.
a) You have the right to request information about all personal data we process about you at any time.
b) If your personal data is incorrect or incomplete, you have the right to have it corrected and completed.
c) You may request the deletion of your personal data at any time, unless we are legally obligated or entitled to continue processing your data.
d) If the legal requirements are met, you may request restriction of the processing of your personal data.
e) You have the right to object to the processing insofar as the data processing is carried out for the purpose of direct advertising or profiling. If the processing is carried out on the basis of a balancing of interests, you may object to the processing by stating the reasons arising from your particular situation.
f) If the data processing is carried out on the basis of your consent or within the framework of a contract, you have a right to transfer the personal data you have provided, provided that this does not affect the rights and freedoms of other persons.
g) If we process your personal data on the basis of a declaration of consent, you have the right to revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future. The processing carried out before a revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
If you want to stop the use of tracking cookies for analysis and advertising purposes, you can delete the corresponding cookies on your respective end device. Please note that for technical reasons, you must carry out such a deletion for each of your end devices with which you have visited our website and have given corresponding consent.
h) You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority at any time if you believe that data processing has been carried out in breach of applicable law.
5. In what context do we create automatic profiles?
We do not create automatic profiles.
6. data transfer to the USA
In some cases, personal data is transferred to service providers in the USA (see in each case the corresponding note within our privacy notices).
In the USA, there is no comparable level of data protection as in Europe. In particular, it is possible that government agencies may access personal data without us or you becoming aware of this. Legal prosecution may not be promising.
The legal basis for such data transfer to the USA is basically your consent (Art. 49 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a) DS-GVO), which you have given us via the corresponding cookie banner, or a respective contract performance (Art. 49 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b) DS-GVO).