1. Data Protection at a Glance

General Information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data by which you can be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy listed below this text.

Data Collection on Our Website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the operator. You can find the operator’s contact details in the legal notice of this website.

How do we collect your data?
Some data is collected when you provide it to us. This may, for example, be data that you enter into a contact form.

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

What do we use your data for?
Technical logs are evaluated only in the event of an error. They do not contain personal data. Only if you provide us with personal data yourself via our contact form is it possible to associate the technical data with your personal data. By using our contact form, you expressly consent to this process.

What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right at any time to receive information free of charge about the origin, recipients and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking or deletion of this data. For this purpose, and for further questions on the subject of data protection, you may contact us at any time at the address stated in the legal notice. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

Analysis Tools

We do not use any tools such as Google Analytics or Matomo that record your movements on our website and evaluate them statistically.

2. General Information and Mandatory Information

Data Protection

We 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 this website, various technical data is collected. We only receive personal data if you provide us with data by which you can be personally identified via our contact form or by sending us an email.

Please note that data transmission on the internet can generally have security weaknesses (e.g. communication by email). This is independent of this website. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Information on the Responsible Body

The body responsible for data processing on this website is:

German Orthodox Monastery of the Holy Trinity
Buchhagen
37619 Bodenwerder
Contact person: Father Abbot Johannes von Buchhagen
Telephone: 05533-999369

Withdrawal of Your Consent to Data Processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke consent already given at any time. An informal notification by email is sufficient for this purpose. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority

In the event of violations of data protection law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection issues is the State Commissioner for Data Protection of Lower Saxony.

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 responsible body, this will only be done insofar as it is technically feasible.

Information, Blocking, Deletion

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of the data processing and, if applicable, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data. For this purpose, and for further questions on the subject of personal data, you may contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice.

3. Data Collection on Our Website

Cookies

Websites commonly use so-called cookies to improve the quality of their services or to identify or track you as a site visitor.

We use neither cookies nor any of the dozens of other possibilities for technical tracking of visitors. Our website functions without cookies and without any loss of quality.

Server Logs

The program that delivers the contents of this site to your browser, the so-called web server, logs various technical data about its condition and ongoing activities. Data that your browser transmits to the web server includes:

This data is not merged with other data sources, such as data from a contact form submission.

4. External Content and Extensions

Web Fonts

This site does NOT use so-called web fonts for the uniform display of fonts. We host our fonts ourselves and do not require your browser to load them from third parties.

Maps

To make it easier for you to find the monastery, we have embedded a map from the independent service ☞openstreetmap on the menu page How to Find Us. This means that as soon as you call up this subpage, your browser will retrieve this map section from that service. You can find that service’s data protection information ☞here.

In addition, you will also find a link to the commercial service Google Maps. You must consciously click this link in order to get there. Our website otherwise maintains no automatic connections whatsoever to the Google group. You can find Google’s privacy policy ☞here.

Links to Third-Party Websites

On the subpage Links you will find a number of links to websites that are also operated by the monastery, but also to numerous third-party sites that lie outside the monastery’s sphere of responsibility. We check at irregular intervals whether these sites still exist and whether their contents may still be of interest to visitors to our website. But again: we assume no responsibility whatsoever for what third parties do on their sites. You must consciously click one of these web links in order to get there. You are then subject to the privacy policy of the operator of the respective destination site.