last updated: 13 September 2024
privacy policy
regarding the website: www.hub-international.org
IN SHORT
easy town projects have a no tracking and minimum data collection policy.
Whatever data is needed to process your communications, or your orders, will be solely used for those purposes, and your data will be deleted when our transactions are completed.
GENERAL POINTS
Responsibility for your private data
easy town books, Ellen Paschiller is responsible for the safety of your private data and for ensuring that this privacy policy as well as any actions regarding your private data comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).
easy town books, Ellen Paschiller
Meininger Straße 7, 10823 Berlin, Germany
ellenpaschiller@easy-town.org
Contact
If you have any questions or concerns about the safety of your personal data or about this privacy policy, you can send your questions or concerns via the contact form below, directly to privacy@easy-town.org, or via post to:
easy town books, Ellen Paschiller
Meininger Straße 7, 10823 Berlin, Germany
Using a contact form
When you send an email via a contact form, only your email address is required to answer your message.
Your message(s) sent via a contact form will be stored on this website’s server for a maximum of 7 days. This measure ensures that no message(s) get lost in a spam folder.
Your message will be transmitted via TLS.
Your email address will only be used to answer your message. After the correspondence is concluded, your email(s) and your data will be deleted within a week.
Concluded means that all the issues you presented in your message(s) have been addressed.
Email addresses will not be stored for future use or shared with third parties, unless there are legal reasons to do so.
Downloading a free pdf
All free downloads, such as the Fine Art Prints catalogue or 42 towns and counting, can be downloaded without transmitting any data.
The statistics programmes WP Statistics and Statify only register that someone visited a download page but not whether a file has been downloaded.
Supporting the easy town projects
It is up to you how much personal data you want to share when supporting the easy town projects.
When you do share personal data, you can indicate whether your data should be deleted within seven days after the reception of your data, or whether it should be kept for further cooperation.
Whenever financial transactions are involved, a copy of those transactions will be kept for tax purposes.
In no event will your personal data be shared with third parties unless legal actions are required.
Customer Feedback
Customer feedback is anonymised to protect the customer’s privacy.
You could argue that that makes the feedback less convincing, but if I wanted to fake feedbacks, ratings or comments, I could invent names too.
If you send a feedback or a rating your message or part of your message might be used on this website or another easy town website.
If your message is not in English, a translation might be used.
Your email and/or any other personal data will be deleted unless legal actions are required.
It’s not happening yet, but at some point a witness routine will be included. That means two other people will see the original statement/message/feedback/rating before it gets online and before the original is deleted. This is purely for credibility reasons.
Cookies, tracking, profiling, analysing, Google, social media
This website doesn’t use third-party cookies. It doesn’t track, profile or analyse any data. This website doesn’t use any Google tools, ad providers or social media links.
If you buy an e-book, cookies will temporarily store the information about which e-book you chose.
The purpose of this cookie is to remember which article(s) you chose so that these article(s) can be displayed in your checkout table and in your invoice.
There is no tracking or analysing involved.
Saying all this, if you are logged into your Google, Facebook or a similar account, while visiting this website, those companies will collect data about your activities on this website, unless you have changed your privacy settings in your account in a way that doesn’t allow for tracking.
Embedded content from other websites
This website doesn’t use any embedded content from other websites unless it is from another easy town website.
Statistics
This website works with the statistics programme Statify .
Statify doesn’t collect any personal data and only counts visits. It deletes all data older than fourteen days automatically.
Statify collects the following anonymised data:
- hits per page / post
- top referrers
This means, your visits to this website are anonymous unless you send an email.
Why use a statistics programme? It’s interesting to see which pages and posts get the most attention.
Hosting
This website is hosted by the Strato AG. Strato saves your IP-address in a log file when you visit this website.
Your IP-address will be kept for a maximum of seven days. This measure helps Strato to recognise and block attacks on the server.
In addition Strato keeps a statistic about the website. IPs are anonymised.
Sharing your data
There are only two cases in which data will be shared:
a) If legal actions are required in one or more of the following cases:
- copyright violations
- legal disputes
- fraud
- harassment
- offence
- and any other case which might require legal actions,
b) and if the tax authorities require to see the invoices.
Other than that, there will be no sharing of data.
For how long is your data retained?
Messages and forms will be deleted as soon as our correspondence or your purchase is completed. Usually within seven days.
Two copies of your invoice will be saved on an external hard drive for ten years in accordance with the German Tax Law.
Your rights
No data is collected or saved unless you send an e-mail.
How is your data protected?
This website uses TLS to ensure the safe transmission of your data. The use of https:// instead of http:// and the lock-symbol indicate that TLS is active.
All invoices are stored on an external and password-protected hard drive.
As the easy town projects grow, this will probably be reorganised over the next years to ensure the lasting safety of your data.