This privacy policy describes how we process any personal data that you may transmit to us during your visit to our website. Personal data is individual information about your personal or factual circumstances. This includes, for example, information such as name, address, telephone number or e-mail address. The terms used, e.g. “personal data” or “processing”, are defined in Art. 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The term “user” includes all categories of data subjects. They include our donors, cooperation partners, interested parties and other visitors to our online offer. the terms used, such as “user”, are to be understood in a gender-neutral way.
You can visit our website at any time without providing any information about yourself. In certain cases, however, we need your name and address as well as other information so that we can provide the requested services for you. We only collect personal data that you provide to us as part of a donation process or other use of our website (e.g. in the contact form).
Personal data is transmitted to us encrypted by means of “Secure Socket Layer (SSL)” via the Internet. We take organisational, contractual and technical security measures in accordance with the state of the art to ensure that the provisions of the data protection laws are complied with and to protect the data processed by us against accidental and intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorised persons. We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) may have security gaps. It is not possible to completely protect the data from access by third parties. We work with third-party service providers who process certain data on our behalf. This is done exclusively in accordance with applicable data protection law.  Through careful selection and regular checks, we ensure that our service providers take all organizational and technical measures necessary to protect your data.