Privacy Policy
We have prepared this privacy policy (version dated 10.11.2020) to explain to you, in accordance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679, what information we collect, how we use data and what choices you have as a visitor to this website.
Responsible body for data processing
Kenya Aids Orphans Aid Association, Hölderlinstrasse 97
50858 Cologne
Tel.: 49 (0)157 – 76226206
E-mail: info@kenya-aids-waisen.de
Automatic data storage
When you visit websites these days, certain information is automatically generated and stored, including on this website.
When you visit our website, as you are doing now, our web server (the computer on which this website is stored) automatically saves data such as…
- the address (URL) of the accessed website
- Browser and browser version
- the operating system used
- the address (URL) of the previously visited page (referrer URL)
- the hostname and IP address of the device from which access is made
- Date and time
- Name: _ga
- Expiry time: 2 years
- Use: Differentiating website visitors
- Example value: GA1.2.1326744211.152311213404
- A browser should support the following minimum sizes:
- A cookie should be able to contain at least 4096 bytes.
- At least 50 cookies should be able to be stored per domain.
- A total of at least 3000 cookies should be able to be stored.
- Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are necessary to ensure the basic functionality of the website. For example, these cookies are needed when a user adds a product to their shopping cart, then continues browsing other pages, and only later proceeds to checkout. These cookies prevent the shopping cart from being emptied, even if the user closes their browser window.
- Functional cookies
These cookies collect information about user behavior and whether the user receives any error messages. They also measure loading times and the website's performance across different browsers.
- Targeted cookies
These cookies improve user-friendliness. For example, they save entered locations, font sizes, or form data.
- Advertising cookies
These cookies are also called targeting cookies. They are used to deliver individually tailored advertising to the user. This can be very convenient, but also very annoying.
Typically, when you first visit a website, you will be asked which types of cookies you wish to allow. And of course, this decision is also stored in a cookie.
How can I delete cookies?
You decide how and whether you want to use cookies. Regardless of the service or website the cookies originate from, you always have the option to delete cookies, allow them only partially, or disable them entirely. For example, you can block third-party cookies but allow all others.
If you want to see which cookies have been stored in your browser, or if you want to change or delete cookie settings, you can find this information in your browser settings:
- Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome
- Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari
- Firefox: Clear cookies to remove data that websites have stored on your computer.
- Internet Explorer: Deleting and managing cookies
- Microsoft Edge: Deleting and managing cookies
If you generally don't want to allow cookies, you can configure your browser to always notify you when a cookie is about to be set. This allows you to decide whether to allow each individual cookie. The procedure varies depending on the browser. The best way to find instructions is to search on Google using the keywords "delete cookies Chrome" or "disable cookies Chrome" if you are using Chrome, or replace "Chrome" with the name of your browser, such as Edge, Firefox, or Safari.
What about my data privacy?
Since 2009, the so-called "Cookie Directive" has been in effect. This directive stipulates that storing cookies requires your consent. However, reactions to this directive vary considerably across EU countries. In Germany, the Cookie Directive was not implemented as national law. Instead, it was largely implemented through Section 15 Paragraph 3 of the Telemedia Act (TMG).
If you would like to learn more about cookies and are not afraid of technical documentation, we recommend https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265, the Request for Comments from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) called “HTTP State Management Mechanism”.
Storage of personal data
Personal data that you submit to us electronically on this website via the contact form, by filling out a sponsorship or membership application, are
- name
- E-mail address
- address
- Telephone number
- Account number
- Name of your chosen godchild
- Managing your donations
- to provide you with a donation receipt for tax purposes.
- To send regular updates on your godchild's progress
- to inform you about matters concerning the club in general
- to debit the agreed amount from your account
- To invite them to members' meetings in the event of membership.
This data is stored by us exclusively for the following purposes when you submit our form:
The data will be stored for the duration of the sponsorship or membership and deleted after 2 years following your departure from the association or the termination of the sponsorship.
Rights under the General Data Protection Regulation
According to the provisions of the GDPR, you are generally entitled to the following rights:
- Right to rectification (Article 16 GDPR)
- Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”) (Article 17 GDPR)
- Right to restriction of processing (Article 18 GDPR)
- Right to notification – obligation to notify in connection with the rectification or erasure of personal data or the restriction of processing (Article 19 GDPR)
- Right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR)
- Right to object (Article 21 GDPR)
- Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling (Article 22 GDPR)
- If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or that your data protection rights have otherwise been infringed, you can contact the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI).
Analysis of visitor behavior
In the following privacy policy, we inform you whether and how we analyze data from your visit to this website. The analysis of the collected data is generally anonymous, and we cannot infer your identity from your behavior on this website.
You can find out more about how to object to this analysis of visitor data in the following privacy policy.
TLS encryption with https
We use HTTPS to transmit data securely over the internet (data protection by design, Article 25 Paragraph 1 GDPR). By using TLS (Transport Layer Security), an encryption protocol for secure data transmission on the internet, we can ensure the protection of confidential data. You can recognize this secure data transmission by the small padlock icon in the top left corner of your browser and the use of the HTTPS protocol (instead of HTTP) as part of our web address.
Google Fonts Privacy Policy
The use of web fonts is generally discouraged, as this regularly involves the transfer of user data to US providers, and given the issue of joint controllership (ECJ rulings, including those concerning Facebook fan pages), legal protection is difficult to achieve. In any case, web fonts should not be dynamically embedded, but only statically/locally. This can usually be configured accordingly in the settings.
We use Google Fonts on our website. These are the “Google fonts” from Google Inc. For the European region, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services.
You don't need to register or provide a password to use Google Fonts. Furthermore, no cookies are stored in your browser. The files (CSS, fonts) are requested via the Google domains fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. According to Google, requests for CSS and fonts are completely separate from all other Google services. If you have a Google account, you don't need to worry about your Google account data being transmitted to Google while using Google Fonts. Google collects data on the usage of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and the fonts used, and stores this data securely. We will examine the specifics of this data storage in more detail later.
What are Google Fonts?
Google Fonts (formerly Google Web Fonts) is a directory of over 800 fonts that Google provides to its users free of charge.
Many of these fonts are released under the SIL Open Font License, while others are released under the Apache License. Both are free software licenses.
Why do we use Google Fonts on our website?
With Google Fonts, we can use fonts on our own website without having to upload them to our own server. Google Fonts is an important component for maintaining the high quality of our website. All Google fonts are automatically optimized for the web, which saves data volume and is a major advantage, especially for use with mobile devices. When you visit our site, the small file size ensures fast loading times. Furthermore, Google Fonts are secure web fonts. Different rendering systems in various browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices can lead to errors. Such errors can sometimes distort text or even entire web pages. Thanks to the fast Content Delivery Network (CDN), there are no cross-platform problems with Google Fonts. Google Fonts supports all common browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera) and works reliably on most modern mobile operating systems, including Android 2.2 and iOS 4.2 (iPhone, iPad, iPod). We use Google Fonts so that we can present our entire online service as beautifully and consistently as possible.
What data does Google store?
When you visit our website, the fonts are loaded from a Google server. This external request transmits data to Google's servers. This allows Google to recognize that you, or rather your IP address, are visiting our website. The Google Fonts API was developed to minimize the use, storage, and collection of end-user data to only what is necessary for the proper delivery of fonts. API stands for...
"Application Programming Interface" and serves, among other things, as a data transmitter in the software sector.
Google Fonts securely stores CSS and font requests with Google, thus protecting them. The collected usage statistics allow Google to determine the popularity of individual fonts. Google publishes these results on internal analytics pages, such as Google Analytics. Additionally, Google uses data from its own web crawler to identify which websites use Google Fonts. This data is published in the Google Fonts BigQuery database. Businesses and developers utilize the Google web service BigQuery to analyze and manipulate large datasets.
It should be noted, however, that every Google Font request also automatically transmits information such as language settings, IP address, browser version, browser screen resolution, and browser name to Google servers. Whether this data is also stored is unclear and not explicitly communicated by Google.
How long and where will the data be stored?
Google stores requests for CSS assets on its servers, which are primarily located outside the EU, for one day. This allows us to use the fonts with a Google stylesheet. A stylesheet is a formatting template that allows you to easily and quickly change, for example, the design or font of a website.
The font files are stored at Google for one year. Google's goal is to improve website loading times in general. When millions of websites reference the same fonts, they are cached after the first visit and appear instantly on all subsequent visits. Google sometimes updates font files to reduce file size, increase language coverage, and improve design.
How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?
With the automatic deletion feature for location and activity data introduced in 2019, information about your location and web/app activity is stored for either 3 or 18 months, depending on your choice, and then deleted. You can also manually delete this data from your history at any time via your Google account. If you want to completely prevent location tracking, you need to pause the "Web & App Activity" section in your Google account. Click on "Data & Personalization" and then on the "Activity controls" option. Here you can turn activity tracking on or off.
In your browser, you can also disable, delete, or manage individual cookies. Depending on which browser you use, this process varies slightly. The following instructions show you how to manage cookies in your browser:
- Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome
- Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari
- Firefox: Clear cookies to remove data that websites have stored on your computer.
- Internet Explorer: Deleting and managing cookies
- Microsoft Edge: Deleting and managing cookies
If you generally do not want to allow cookies, you can configure your browser to always notify you when a cookie is about to be set. This allows you to decide whether to allow each individual cookie or not.
Google is an active participant in the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information about this at [link to Google's privacy policy].
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI.
If you would like to learn more about Google's data processing, we recommend that you consult the company's own privacy policy at [link to privacy policy]. https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.
Google Fonts Local Privacy Policy
Our website uses Google Fonts from Google Inc. For the European region, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible. We have integrated the Google fonts locally, i.e., on our web server – not on Google's servers. Therefore, there is no connection to Google servers and consequently no data transfer or storage.
What are Google Fonts?
Google Fonts, formerly known as Google Web Fonts, is an interactive directory of over 800 fonts provided free of charge by Google. Google Fonts allows users to utilize fonts without uploading them to their own servers. However, to prevent any data transfer to Google servers, we have downloaded the fonts to our own server. This ensures our compliance with data protection regulations and prevents us from sending any data to Google Fonts.
Unlike other web fonts, Google Fonts grants us unrestricted access to all its fonts. This means we can access a vast array of fonts and choose the perfect one for our website. Learn more about Google Fonts and find answers to other questions at [link to Google Fonts page]. https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq?tid=311213404.
Embedded social media elements Privacy policy
We integrate elements from social media services into our website to display images, videos and text.
By visiting pages that display these elements, data is transferred from your browser to the respective social media service and stored there. We have no access to this data.
The following links will take you to the pages of the respective social media services where it is explained how they handle your data:
- Instagram Privacy Policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
- The Google privacy policy applies to YouTube: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
- Facebook Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
- Twitter Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy
Facebook Privacy Policy
We use selected tools from Facebook on our website. Facebook is a social media network operated by Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland. These tools allow us to offer you and others interested in our products and services the best possible experience. Below, we provide an overview of the various Facebook tools, the data that is sent to Facebook, and how you can delete this data.
What are Facebook tools?
In addition to many other products, Facebook also offers the so-called "Facebook Business Tools." This is Facebook's official name. However, since the term is hardly known, we have decided to simply call them Facebook Tools. These include, among other things:
- Facebook Pixel
- social plug-ins (such as the "Like" or "Share" button)
- Facebook Login
- Account Kit
- APIs (Application Programming Interfaces)
- SDKs (Collection of Programming Tools)
- Platform integrations
- Plugins
- Codes
- Specifications
- Documentation
- Technologies and services
These tools allow Facebook to expand its services and obtain information about user activity outside of Facebook.
Why do we use Facebook tools on our website?
We only want to show our services and products to people who are genuinely interested. Facebook ads allow us to reach precisely these people. However, to show users relevant ads, Facebook needs information about their needs and desires. Therefore, we provide the company with information about user behavior (and contact details) on our website. This allows Facebook to gather better user data and show interested people relevant ads for our products and services. These tools thus enable tailored advertising campaigns on Facebook.
Facebook refers to data about your behavior on our website as "event data." This data is also used for measurement and analytics services. Facebook can then create "campaign reports" on our behalf about the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. Furthermore, these analyses give us a better understanding of how you use our services, website, or products. We use some of these tools to optimize your user experience on our website. For example, you can use social plugins to share content from our site directly on Facebook.
What data is stored by Facebook tools?
Using certain Facebook tools may result in personal data (customer data) being sent to Facebook. Depending on the tools used, customer data such as name, address, telephone number, and IP address may be transmitted.
Facebook uses this information to match the data it already holds about you (if you are a Facebook member). Before customer data is transmitted to Facebook, it undergoes a process called "hashing." This means that any data set, regardless of size, is transformed into a string of characters. This also serves to encrypt the data.
In addition to contact information, "event data" is also transmitted. "Event data" refers to information we receive about you on our website, such as which subpages you visit or which products you purchase. Facebook does not share this information with third parties (such as advertisers) unless it has explicit permission or is legally obligated to do so. "Event data" can also be linked to contact information. This allows Facebook to offer more personalized advertising. After the aforementioned matching process, Facebook deletes the contact data.
To optimize ad delivery, Facebook uses event data only when it has been combined with other data (collected by Facebook through other means). Facebook also uses this event data for security, protection, development, and research purposes. Much of this data is transferred to Facebook via cookies. Cookies are small text files used to store data and information in browsers. Depending on the tools used and whether you are a Facebook member, a varying number of cookies will be placed in your browser. We provide more detailed information about individual Facebook cookies in the descriptions of the various Facebook tools. You can also find general information about the use of Facebook cookies at https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies.
How long and where will the data be stored?
Generally, Facebook stores data until it is no longer needed for its own services and Facebook products. Facebook has servers distributed around the world where your data is stored. However, customer data is deleted within 48 hours after it has been matched with the company's own user data.
How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?
In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to access, rectification, portability and erasure of your data.
Your data will only be completely deleted if you delete your Facebook account entirely. Here's how to delete your Facebook account:
- Click on Settings on the right side of Facebook.
- Then click on “Your Facebook Information” in the left column.
- Now click “Deactivation and Deletion”.
- Now select "Delete account" and then click "Next and delete account".
- Now enter your password, click "Next" and then "Delete account".
- Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome
- Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari
- Firefox: Clear cookies to remove data that websites have stored on your computer.
- Internet Explorer: Deleting and managing cookies
- Microsoft Edge: Deleting and managing cookies
- “Save” button
- “Like” button, share, send and quote
- Page plug-in
- Comments
- Messenger plug-in
- Embedded posts and video players
- Group plug-in
- Name: dpr
- Value: not specified
- Purpose: This cookie is used to make the social plugins on our website work.
- Expiry date: after the end of the session
- Name: fr
- Value: 0jieyh4311213404c2GnlufEJ9..Bde09j…1.0.Bde09j
- Purpose: The cookie is also necessary for the plug-ins to function properly.
- Expiry date: after 3 months
The data that Facebook receives through our site is stored, among other things, via cookies (e.g., in the case of social plugins). You can disable, delete, or manage individual or all cookies in your browser. Depending on which browser you use, this works differently. The following instructions show you how to manage cookies in your browser:
If you generally do not want to allow cookies, you can configure your browser to always notify you when a cookie is about to be set. This allows you to decide whether to allow each individual cookie or not.
Facebook is an active participant in the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information about this at [link to Facebook's privacy policy].
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC. We hope we have provided you with the most important information about the use and processing of data by Facebook tools. If you would like to learn more about how Facebook uses your data, we recommend that you read the data policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.
Facebook Social Plugins Privacy Policy
Our website uses social plugins from Facebook Inc. You can recognize these buttons by the classic Facebook logo, such as the "Like" button (the hand with a raised thumb), or by a clear "Facebook Plugin" label. A social plugin is a small part of Facebook that is integrated into our site. Each plugin has its own function. The most frequently used functions are the familiar "Like" and "Share" buttons.
The following social plugins are offered by Facebook:
You can find more information on how to use the individual plugins at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins. We use social plugins both to offer you a better user experience on our site and because Facebook can use them to optimize our advertising.
If you have a Facebook account or have previously visited facebook.com, Facebook has already placed at least one cookie in your browser. In this case, your browser sends information to Facebook via this cookie as soon as you visit our site or interact with social plugins (e.g., the "Like" button).
The information collected will be deleted or anonymized within 90 days. According to Facebook, this data includes your IP address, the website you visited, the date, the time, and other information relating to your browser.
To prevent Facebook from collecting and linking a lot of data during your visit to our website, you must log out of Facebook during your visit to the website.
If you are not logged into Facebook or do not have a Facebook account, your browser will send less information to Facebook because you have fewer Facebook cookies. However, data such as your IP address or which website you visit may still be transmitted to Facebook. We would like to explicitly point out that we do not have precise knowledge of the exact content of this data. However, we are trying to inform you about data processing to the best of our current knowledge. You can also find information on how Facebook uses data in the company's data policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update Read more.
The following cookies will be set in your browser at a minimum when you visit a website with social plugins from Facebook:
Note: These cookies were set after a test, even if you are not a Facebook member.
If you are logged into Facebook, you can adjust your ad settings at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen You can change it yourself. If you are not a Facebook user, you can go to http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/grundeintritt Manage your usage-based online advertising. Here you have the option to deactivate or activate providers.
If you would like to learn more about Facebook's data privacy practices, we recommend that you consult the company's own data policy at https://://www.facebook.com/policy.php.
- Advertising cookies
- Targeted cookies
- Functional cookies
in files (web server log files).
Web server log files are typically stored for two weeks and then automatically deleted. We do not share this data, but we cannot rule out the possibility that it may be accessed in the event of unlawful activity.
Cookies
Our website uses HTTP cookies to store user-specific data.
Below we explain what cookies are and why they are used, so that you can better understand the following privacy policy.
What exactly are cookies?
Whenever you browse the internet, you use a browser. Well-known browsers include Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Edge. Most websites store small text files in your browser. These files are called cookies.
One thing is undeniable: cookies are truly useful tools. Almost all websites use cookies. More precisely, they are HTTP cookies, as there are other types of cookies for different applications. HTTP cookies are small files that our website stores on your computer. These cookie files are automatically placed in the cookie folder, essentially the "brain" of your browser. A cookie consists of a name and a value. When defining a cookie, one or more attributes must also be specified.
Cookies store certain user data, such as your language preferences or personal website settings. When you revisit our site, your browser sends this user-related information back to us. Thanks to cookies, our website recognizes you and provides your usual default settings. In some browsers, each cookie has its own file, while in others, such as Firefox, all cookies are stored in a single file.
There are both first-party and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are created directly by our website, while third-party cookies are created by partner websites (e.g., Google Analytics). Each cookie is unique.
It's difficult to evaluate them, as each cookie stores different data. The expiration time of a cookie also varies from a few minutes to a few years. Cookies are not software programs and do not contain viruses, Trojans, or other malware.
"Malware." Cookies cannot access information on your PC. Here's an example of what cookie data might look like:
What types of cookies are there?
The specific cookies we use depend on the services used and are explained in the following sections of the privacy policy. Here, we would like to briefly discuss the different types of HTTP cookies.
There are four types of cookies:
