Privacy Policy

The Kunsthalle HGN takes data pro­tec­tion se­ri­ous­ly and at­taches great im­por­tance to the pro­tec­tion of your per­son­al­i­ty rights. We un­der­take to com­ply with the legal data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions, and use tech­ni­cal and or­ga­ni­za­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures to pro­tect your per­son­al data (name, ad­dress, tele­phone number, e-mail ad­dress, etc.) against un­au­tho­rized access, im­prop­er use, de­struc­tion and loss. We make every ef­fort to im­prove our se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures on an on­go­ing basis in ac­cor­dance with tech­ni­cal de­vel­op­ments.

1. Legal basis

The sub­ject of data pri­va­cy is per­son­al data. Ac­cord­ing to Section 3 (1) of the 1 LDSG (State Data Pro­tec­tion Act), this refers to per­son­al or ma­te­ri­al de­tails of an iden­ti­fied or iden­ti­fi­able nat­u­ral per­son. This in­cludes, for ex­am­ple, de­tails such as name, post­al ad­dress, e-mail ad­dress, tele­phone number or IP ad­dress.

2. Processing of personal data

We use your per­son­al data only for the pur­pose for which it was col­lect­ed (e. g. an­swer­ing en­qui­ries, guided tour res­er­va­tions, work­shops and other ac­tiv­i­ties, send­ing in­for­ma­tion ma­te­ri­al, send­ing the news­let­ter, par­tic­i­pa­tion in con­tests). This data is de­leted as soon as the trans­ac­tion is com­pleted. The data en­tered in on­line forms for the news­let­ter and the press mail­ing list is stored until can­cel­la­tion. Your data will not be passed on to third par­ties with­out your ex­press con­sent. All of the per­sons work­ing for us are obliged to ob­serve data se­cre­cy pur­su­ant to § 6 LDSG. In ad­di­tion, the Kunsthalle HGN holds reg­u­lar sem­i­nars on data pro­tec­tion.

3. Logging of accesses

Every time a user accesses the Kunsthalle HGN web­site, and every time a file is accessed, data on the trans­ac­tion is stored tem­po­rar­i­ly and pro­cessed in a log file. The data is stored for in­ter­nal, system-specific and sta­tis­ti­cal pur­poses to im­prove our in­for­ma­tion offer. The logged data is eval­u­ated in­ter­nally at ir­reg­u­lar in­ter­vals by em­ploy­ees of the Kunsthalle HGN, e. g. accesses dur­ing the course of an ex­hi­bi­tion. The eval­u­ation is not user-specific, i. e. the Kunsthalle HGN does not com­pile any per­son­al user pro­files, not even with pseu­do­nyms (e. g. IP ad­dresses). The data is also not merged with other data sources and there­fore does not allow any con­clu­sions to be drawn about spe­cif­ic in­di­vid­u­als.

The fol­lowing data is logged:

  • IP address
  • name of the file accessed
  • date and time of access
  • data vol­ume trans­ferred
  • access sta­tus (file trans­ferred, file not found, com­mand not ex­e­cuted, etc.)
  • re­ferrer (the re­ferrer is the In­ter­net ad­dress of the web­site from which the user accessed the Kunsthalle HGN web­site by click­ing on a link, e. g. search en­gines or other sites)
4. Use of cookies

For data col­lec­tion and stor­age, we use so-called cookies. Cookies are small data pack­ages that your brows­er stores for us in your com­put­er. There are two types of cookies. Tem­po­rary cookies are de­leted au­to­mat­ically when you close your brows­er (session cookies). Per­ma­nent cookies on the other hand, have a max­i­mum life­time of up to one month. This type of cookie makes it pos­si­ble for you to be rec­og­nized when you call up the web­site again after leaving it. This is used, for ex­am­ple, by the “stay logged in” func­tion. You can re­fuse to ac­cept cookies in your brows­er settings.

5. Analytics

This web­site uses Google Analytics, a web an­a­lyt­ics ser­vice pro­vided by Google, Inc. (Google). Google Analytics uses so-called cookies, text files that are stored on your com­put­er and which allow an anal­y­sis of the use of the web­site by you. The in­for­ma­tion gen­er­ated by the cookie about your use of this web­site is gen­er­al­ly trans­ferred to a Google serv­er in the USA and stored there. How­ev­er, in the case of the ac­ti­va­tion of the IP anon­y­misa­tion on this web­site, your IP ad­dress will be pre­vi­ously abridged by Google within Member States of the European Union or in other Contracting States of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in ex­cep­tion­al cases is the full IP ad­dress trans­ferred to a Google serv­er in the US and short­ened there. On be­half of the op­er­a­tor of this web­site, Google will use this in­for­ma­tion to eval­u­ate your use of the web­site, to com­pile re­ports on web­site ac­tiv­i­ty, and to pro­vide other ser­vices related to web­site us­age and In­ter­net us­age against the web­site op­er­a­tor. The IP ad­dress pro­vided by your brows­er as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You can pre­vent cookies from being saved by setting your brows­er soft­ware ac­cord­ingly; How­ev­er, we would point out that in this case you may not be able to fully uti­lize all the func­tions of this web­site. In ad­di­tion, you can pre­vent Google from col­lect­ing and pro­cessing Google’s data (in­clud­ing your IP ad­dress) related to your use of the web­site (in­clud­ing your IP ad­dress), as well as the pro­cessing of this data by Google, by down­load­ing the brows­er plug-in avail­able under the fol­low­ing link and in­stall: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

s an al­ter­na­tive to the brows­er plug-in, you can dis­able Google Analytics with this link to pre­vent the Google Analytics col­lec­tion on this site in the fu­ture. An opt-out cookie is stored on your ter­mi­nal. If you de­lete your cookies, you must click the link again.

This web­site uses Google Analytics with the ex­ten­sion “anonymizeIP ()” so that the IP ad­dresses are only short­ened fur­ther in order to rule out a di­rect per­son­al re­la­tion­ship.

6. E-Mail

When you send an e-mail to the Kunsthalle HGN, your per­son­al data is used only for the cor­re­spon­dence with you. The Kunsthalle HGN does not cur­rently use any en­cod­ing tech­niques. Please be ad­vised that the data trans­mis­sion on the In­ter­net is not en­crypted and thus not secured, and the trans­mitted data can be seen or tam­pered with by un­au­tho­rized per­sons dur­ing the trans­mis­sion pro­cess.

7. Newsletter

To make con­tact or to log into the news­let­ter, we need your e-mail ad­dress and, as ap­pli­ca­ble, other de­tails. This in­for­ma­tion will be used ex­clu­sively for in­ter­nal pur­poses and not passed on to third par­ties. This in­for­ma­tion is trans­mitted in en­coded form.

8. Links

The web­site of the Kunsthalle HGN con­tains links to other pro­viders. These links are checked in terms of con­tent be­fore being set. The Kunsthalle HGN is not, how­ev­er, re­spon­si­ble for the con­tent of these ex­ter­nal sites, as we have not ini­ti­ated the trans­fer of the in­for­ma­tion or se­lect­ed the ad­dressees of the trans­ferred in­for­ma­tion, and we have not se­lect­ed or changed the in­for­ma­tion trans­ferred. Please be ad­vised that the linked ex­ter­nal web­sites gen­er­al­ly have their own data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions over which the Kunsthalle HGN has no in­flu­ence. Any re­spon­si­bil­i­ty or li­a­bil­i­ty on the part of the Kunsthalle HGN for the pri­va­cy of these web­sites is thus ex­cluded..

9. Facebook and Instagram

The Kunsthalle HGN main­tains a fan page on Facebook and Instagram. The links to these fan pages is marked on our web­site by the logos of the so­cial net­works. If you access these fan pages, your brows­er es­tab­lishes a di­rect con­nec­tion with the Facebook and Instagram servers. Please be ad­vised that Facebook’s and Instagram’s data pro­cessing takes place out­side of the ju­ris­dic­tion of the European Union. The Kunsthalle HGN has no in­flu­ence on the scope of the data col­lect­ed by Facebook and Instagram or on the way the data is used by Facebook and Instagram. Even if you are not a mem­ber of Facebook and Instagram, there is none­the­less a chance that Facebook and Instagram can learn and store your IP ad­dress.

10. Protection of minors

Children and per­sons under 18 should not send us any per­son­al data with­out the con­sent of their par­ents or legal guard­ians. We do not re­quest any per­son­al data from children with­out the con­sent of their par­ents. We do not collect such data or pass it on to third par­ties.

11. Changes to the privacy policy

The Kunsthalle HGN re­serves the right to change its pri­va­cy pol­i­cy in ac­cor­dance with tech­ni­cal de­vel­op­ments and changed legal con­di­tions. You will find the cur­rent sta­tus of this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy at the end of the pol­i­cy.

12. Your rights

You have the right at all times to in­for­ma­tion free of charge about your stored per­son­al data. You can have the data col­lect­ed by us cor­rected or de­leted at any time. You can also re­voke at any time your con­sent granted to us to collect and use data with­out stating any rea­sons. To do this, please con­tact the ad­dress given in the site notice. Feel free to con­tact us at any time with fur­ther ques­tions on our in­struc­tions, on data pri­va­cy, and on the pro­cessing of your per­son­al data.

13. Contact

Your trust is im­por­tant to us. If you have any ques­tions re­gard­ing this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy or on data pro­tec­tion at the Kunsthalle HGN, for ex­am­ple re­gard­ing the pro­cessing of your per­son­al data, please con­tact us:

Kunsthalle HGN
Karl-Wüstefeld-Weg
37115 Duderstadt

jennifer.rojahn@hgn-artcollection.com