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Data protection at a glance

General information

The following information provides a brief overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any information that can be used to identify you personally. Detailed information on data protection can be found in our privacy policy below.

Data collection on our website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data on this website is processed by the website operator. The operator’s contact details can be found in this website’s legal notice.

How do we collect your data?

Some data is collected when you provide it to us. This may, for example, include information you enter in a contact form.

Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is primarily technical data, such as your web browser, operating system or the time you access a page. This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?

Some data is collected to ensure that the website functions correctly. Other data may be used to analyse how you use the website.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right to obtain information at any time, free of charge, about the origin, recipients and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the rectification, blocking or deletion of this data. You may contact us at the address given in the legal notice at any time regarding these rights or any other questions about data protection. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

General information and mandatory disclosures

Data protection

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with applicable data protection legislation and this privacy policy.

Various types of personal data are collected when you use this website. Personal data is information that can be used to identify you personally. This privacy policy explains which data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

Please note that transmitting data over the internet, for example when communicating by email, may involve security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Information about the controller

The controller responsible for processing data on this website is:

Dr. med Arnd Herz

Herz HD Stiftung gGmbH
1929 Oakview Drive
Oakland, CA 94602

Telephone in Germany: +49 6221 6510799

Email: arndherz@herzhdstiftung.de

The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing personal data, such as names, email addresses or similar information.

Withdrawing your consent to data processing

Many data processing activities are only possible with your express consent. You may withdraw consent you have already given at any time. An informal email to us is sufficient. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before you withdrew your consent.

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority

In the event of a breach of data protection law, the data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The supervisory authority responsible for data protection matters is the state data protection commissioner of the German federal state in which our company has its registered office. A list of data protection commissioners and their contact details is available at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to data portability

You have the right to receive data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in performance of a contract, or to have it provided to a third party, in a commonly used, machine-readable format. If you request direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be carried out where technically feasible.

SSL or TLS encryption

This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or enquiries that you send to us as the website operator. You can recognise an encrypted connection when the browser’s address changes from “http://” to “https://” and a padlock symbol appears in your browser’s address bar.

When SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Access, blocking and deletion

Within the scope of applicable legislation, you have the right at any time to obtain information free of charge about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of processing it. You may also have the right to have this data rectified, blocked or deleted. You may contact us at the address given in the legal notice at any time regarding these rights or other questions about personal data.

Objection to promotional emails

We hereby object to the use of contact details published as part of our statutory legal notice to send advertising and information materials that have not been expressly requested. The operators of this website expressly reserve the right to take legal action if unsolicited advertising, such as spam emails, is sent.

Data collection on our website

Hosting and delivery through Vercel

We host this website with Vercel Inc. Website requests are processed through Vercel’s international delivery network. This involves technical data such as IP address, browser information, requested URL and time of access, used to deliver and secure the website. Processing may also take place outside the EU/EEA. Further information is available in the Vercel privacy notice and the data processing addendum.

We use CCM19 (Papoo Software & Media GmbH, Germany) to obtain and record your privacy choices. Loading the service transmits technical connection data, including your IP address, to CCM19. Your choice is stored in your browser’s local storage. CCM19 records the consent decision and the associated consent identifier. This allows us to respect and document your choices.

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time using Privacy settings. Web3Forms remains disabled until you consent to the contact form service. Withdrawing consent prevents future form submissions; it does not undo messages already sent. More information: CCM19 privacy policy.

Contact form and Web3Forms

We use Web3Forms (Web3Creative, India) to deliver contact enquiries by email. After your consent in the privacy settings and when you submit the form, your name, email address, topic and message are transmitted to the service over HTTPS. Technical data, including your IP address, may be processed for delivery and spam prevention. According to the provider, processing may take place outside the EU/EEA; submission data is retained for up to three years, unless deleted earlier or a shorter plan limit applies. Details: Web3Forms privacy policy and data processing agreement.

Cookies

Some of our web pages use cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. They are small text files stored on your device and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are session cookies. They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognise your browser the next time you visit.

You can configure your browser to notify you when cookies are set, allow cookies only in individual cases, reject cookies in certain cases or generally, and automatically delete cookies when you close the browser. Disabling cookies may restrict the functionality of this website.

Cookies that are necessary to carry out electronic communications or provide certain functions you have requested, such as a shopping cart, are stored on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies to ensure the technically correct and optimised provision of its services. Where other cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your browsing behaviour, are stored, they are addressed separately in this privacy policy.

Server log files

The website provider automatically collects and stores information in server log files that your browser automatically transmits to us. This information includes:

This data is not combined with data from other sources.

The legal basis for this processing is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, which permits processing for the performance of a contract or to take steps prior to entering into a contract.