Data Privacy

1. data protection at a glance

General notes

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit one of our websites or use our apps. Personal data is any data by which you can be personally identified. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please refer to our privacy policy listed below this text.

Data collection on our websites

Who is responsible for data collection on our websites?

Data processing on our websites is carried out by the website operator. You can find his contact details in the imprint of this website.

How do we collect your data?

On the one hand, your data is collected by you providing it to us. This may be, for example, data that you enter in a contact form.

Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the websites. This is mainly technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or time of page view). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?

Some of the data is collected in order to ensure the error-free provision of the websites. Other data may be used to analyze your user behavior.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data free of charge at any time. You also have a right to request the correction, blocking or deletion of this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions on the subject of data protection, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

Third-party analytics and tools

When you visit our websites, your surfing behavior can be statistically evaluated. This is done mainly with cookies and with so-called analysis programs. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous; the surfing behavior cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. For details, please refer to our privacy policy under the heading “Third-party modules and analysis tools”.

You can object to this analysis. We will inform you about the objection options in this privacy policy.

2 General notes and mandatory information

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

When you use our websites, various personal data is collected. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how this is done and for what purpose.

We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. communication by e-mail) can have security gaps. Complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

The following regulations apply to all of the operator’s websites, although some technologies that collect data are only used on parts of them.

Note on the responsible entity

The responsible body for data processing is:

Initiative for Safer Roads GmbH
Matthias-Grünewald-Str. 1-3
53175 Bonn

Phone: +49 (0) 228 – 76 38 69 00
E-mail: kontakt@sichere-strasssen.org

The controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).

Revocation of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke an already given consent at any time. For this purpose, an informal message by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority

In the event of violations of data protection law, the data subject shall have a right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection issues is the state data protection commissioner of the federal state in which our company is based. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to data portability

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done insofar as it is technically feasible.

Objection to advertising e-mails

The use of contact data published within the scope of the imprint obligation for the transmission of not expressly requested advertising and information materials is hereby contradicted. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e-mails.

3. data collection on our websites

Cookies

The internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted after the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. When cookies are disabled, the functionality of this website may be limited.

Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions that you have requested (e.g. shopping cart function) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO stored. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies to analyze your surfing behavior) are stored, these are treated separately in this privacy policy.

Web forms

If you contact us via web forms, your details from the form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the contact, for processing, for exchange with you on project work and in the event of follow-up questions. The data are not linked to information from a survey. We do not share this data without your consent.

The processing of the data entered in the form is based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). You can revoke this consent at any time. For this purpose, an informal message by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing operations carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data you enter in the form will remain with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to store it, or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after the exchange has been completed). Mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.

Legal basis

The storage of comments/uploads is based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). You can revoke any consent you have given at any time. For this purpose, an informal message by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.

Hazard point reporting, comment and upload function on our websites

For the comment and upload function on our pages, in addition to your comment/upload, details of when the comment/upload was created, your e-mail address and, if you are not posting anonymously, the user name you have chosen will also be saved. You will receive a confirmation e-mail to check whether you are the owner of the e-mail address provided. By entering your e-mail address, you will receive e-mail notifications of changes and additions to the respective danger zone. You can unsubscribe from this function at any time via a link in the info mails.

Storage of the IP address

Our comment and upload function stores the IP addresses of users who write comments or have made uploads. As we do not check comments on our site before they are activated, we need this data in order to be able to take action against the author in the event of legal violations such as insults or propaganda.

Subscribing to danger zones

As a user of the site, you can subscribe to danger spots. You will receive a confirmation e-mail to check whether you are the owner of the e-mail address provided. You can unsubscribe from this function at any time via a link in the info mails. In this case, the data entered when subscribing to Gefahrenstellen will be deleted; however, if you have transmitted this data to us for other purposes and elsewhere (e.g. newsletter subscription), it will remain with us.

In addition to processing your data to provide the Gefahrenstellen subscription, we also use your data with your consent to communicate with you about road safety or the latest news from Gefahrenstellen.de. Your data will not be passed on to third parties.

Storage duration of comments/uploads

The comments/uploads and the associated data (e.g. IP address) are stored and remain on our website until the commented content has been completely deleted or the comments/uploads have to be deleted for legal reasons (e.g. offensive comments, inappropriate images).

School route routing

To use the routing function, the start and destination addresses are recorded anonymously to calculate safe routes, for traffic safety analyses and statistical evaluations to improve routing,

4. analysis tools and advertising

Matomo (formerly Piwik)

The website uses the open source web analysis service Matomo. Matomo uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. For this purpose, the information generated by the cookie about the use of this website is stored on our server. The IP address is anonymized before storage.

Matomo cookies remain on your terminal device until you delete them.

Matomo cookies are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the anonymized analysis of user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising.

The information generated by the cookie about the use of this website will not be disclosed to third parties. 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 this website.

If you do not agree with the storage and use of your data, you can deactivate the storage and use at the bottom of the page via the link “Make cookie settings”. In this case, no tracking cookies are created on your computer.

5. plugins and tools

YouTube

Some of our websites use plugins from the Google-operated YouTube site. The operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube’s servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

For more information on the handling of user data, please refer to YouTube’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Google Web Fonts

Some of the pages use so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose, the browser you use must connect to Google’s servers. This gives Google knowledge that our website was accessed via your IP address. Google Web Fonts are used in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a default font is used by your computer.

For more information on Google Web Fonts, please visit https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and see Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Google Maps

Some of these pages use the Google Maps map service via an API. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transmission.

Google Maps is used in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and to make it easy to find the places we indicate on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

You can find more information on the handling of user data in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Twitter / X Plugin

Some functions of the Twitter service are integrated on the websites. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the “Re-Tweet” function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users. Data is also transmitted to Twitter in the process. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Twitter. Further information on this can be found in Twitter’s privacy policy at: https://twitter.com/de/privacy.
The use of the Twitter plugin is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in ensuring the greatest possible visibility in social media. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is based exclusively on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO; the consent can be revoked at any time. You can change your Twitter privacy settings in your account settings at https://twitter.com/account/settings.

Google reCAPTCHA

We partly use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to check whether the data input on this website (e.g. in a contact form) is made by a human or by an automated program. For this purpose, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, time spent on the website by the website visitor or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analyses run completely in the background. Website visitors are not informed that an analysis is taking place. The data is stored and analyzed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offers from abusive automated spying and SPAM. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is based exclusively on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO; the consent can be revoked at any time.

For more information about Google reCAPTCHA, please refer to the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Terms of Use at the following links:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de and
https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=de.

6. data protection for our apps

SSL or TLS encryption

For security reasons, our apps use an SSL or SSL protocol to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as geo-coordinates or data requests that you send to our servers as the operator of the apps. TLS encryption. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the transmitted volatile data cannot be read by third parties.

Required permissions and data collection by our apps

To provide the functionalities, our apps require individual permissions, which are requested by the respective operating system. These are, in particular, access to the device’s memory, as well as the authorization to determine the current location. During communication with our server, our apps transmit data, depending on the functionality used, which is processed by the server to provide the service. These are in particular current geocoordinates of the mobile device.

This is done on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO, which permits the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Additional information for the CycleSense app

In order to achieve Vision Zero (no serious injuries or fatalities on the roads), data on near-accidents and critical situations are important indicators for road safety analyses. They serve to identify danger spots at an early stage, which can then be the focus of road safety work in good time. The CycleSense app therefore collects this data on critical driving maneuvers and incorporates it into automated road safety analyses.

What data we collect and for what purpose: Data recording only starts after the start button has been activated and only if a certain critical threshold value is exceeded. The following data is recorded:

GPS location data for the route traveled: The entire trip between activation of the start button and deactivation by the stop button is recorded. Each journey is assigned a journey ID.
Data from the gyroscope: This data is used to determine the inclination of the smartphone in the holder and thus to be able to evaluate the driving maneuvers correctly.
Data from the acceleration sensor: This is used to detect critical driving maneuvers such as sharp braking or swerving.
Smartphone information: Data on the software version and model of the mobile device used is stored for the further development of the app.
Query field and free text field: At the end of the recording, you have the option of providing information about the journey. This information will be used for the road safety analysis and will not be published.

The anonymous driving data collected is stored securely and only project partners and their authorized employees have access to this data for the purpose of road safety research and analysis. The driving data is further processed as part of the road safety analysis, enriched with additional data and analyzed accordingly.

Information, blocking, deletion and correction

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, their origin and recipient and the purpose of data processing. In addition, you have the right to correct, block or delete the stored data. At the same time, we inform that the apps we offer do not store personal data on our servers. Personal data is only stored in the local app memory. If a hazard report is submitted via the app, this is done on the website for which the data protection provisions and regulations set out here apply.

You can delete all data from the app at any time by completely uninstalling the app from your end device.

Source: eRecht24