Privacy Policy

Talking Shorts e.V. operates www.talkingshorts.com (“the website”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from Users of the website and Subscribers of the newsletter and any other official communication tool.

We use your Personal Information for providing and improving the website, and for communications matters. By using the website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

With your consent, Talking Shorts, run by Filminitiative Dresden e.V., will send you the communications you have agreed to receive. You can withdraw your consent at any time as described in future communications. Withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. Learn more about how Filminitiative Dresden e.V. uses your personal data below.

Data Protection Declaration
Filminitiative Dresden e.V. takes the protection of personal data very seriously. Below, we explain which data we collect, process, and use on our website, when, and for what purposes.

Unless stated otherwise below, the provision of your personal data is neither legally nor contractually obligatory nor required for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide your data. Not providing it will have no consequences. This only applies as long as the processing procedures below do not state otherwise. “Personal data” is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Data Protection Officer
The person responsible in accordance with Article 4 Paragraph 7 of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Filminitiative Dresden e.V., represented by Anne Gaschütz, with registered office at Böhmische Straße 30, 01099 Dresden, Germany (information according to § 55 Abs. 2 RStV). You can reach us at any time by post or email at info@talkingshorts.com if you have any data protection concerns.

Definitions

1. Website – an online service in the domain www.talkingshorts.com to which the Service Provider is entitled.
2. Service Provider – Filminitiative Dresden e.V., represented by Anne Gaschütz, with registered office at Böhmische Straße 30, 01099 Dresden, Germany (information according to § 55 Abs. 2 RStV).
3. Subscriber/User – a natural person, legal person, or organisational unit without legal personality, which possesses a legal capacity, that uses the Service.
4. Service – the newsletter service delivered by the Service Provider by electronic means, consisting of the Service Provider sending information to the Subscriber’s email address.
5. Regulations – the present regulations.

General Provisions

1. The regulations define the rules of:
   a. providing Subscribers and Users with Service by the Service Provider;
   b. processing of the personal data of Subscribers and Users who are natural persons by the Service Provider.
2. The Service Provider provides the Service by electronic means. The service is provided free of charge.
3. Before using the Service, the Subscriber and User is obliged to read the Regulations.
4. The Subscriber and User is obliged to comply with the provisions of the Regulations from the moment they start using the Service.
5. The regulations are available to Subscribers and Users free of charge via the Website that allows for them to be downloaded, saved and printed.

Technical Conditions For Using The Service
In order to ensure a proper and full use of the Service, Subscribers and Users should have:

1. a device with Internet access;
2. an email account;
3. software that enables access to the email account;
4. one of the following browsers: Firefox 8.0 or later, Chrome 11 or later, Internet Explorer 8 or later, or software with similar parameters.

Server Log Files
You can use our websites without submitting personal data.

Every time our website is accessed, user data is transferred to us or our web hosts/IT service providers by your internet browser and stored in server log files. This stored data includes, for example, the name of the site called up, the date and time of the request, the IP address, the amount of data transferred, and the provider making the request. The processing is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1) f) GDPR due to our legitimate interests in ensuring the smooth operation of our website as well as improving our services.

Registered Account
When you open a registered account, we will collect your personal data in the scope given there. The data processing is for the purpose of improving your user experience and giving access to some special features. The processing will be carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us without affecting the legality of the processing carried out with your consent up to the withdrawal. Your registered account will then be deleted.

Newsletter
We use your email address outside of contractual processing exclusively to send you a newsletter for our own marketing and communication purposes if you have explicitly agreed to this. The processing will be carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the legality of the processing carried out with your consent up to the withdrawal. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using the relevant link in the newsletter or by contacting us. Your email address will then be removed from the distributor.

Your data will be forwarded to a service provider for email marketing in the course of order processing. It will not be forwarded to other third parties. Your data will be transferred to a third country, which is covered by an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

Use Of Your Email Address For Mailing Of Direct Marketing & Communications
We use your email address, which we obtained in the course of account registration or workshop participation, for the electronic transmission of communications for our own content or services that are similar to those you have already participated in or read from us unless you have objected to this use. You must provide your email address in order to conclude a contract. Failure to provide it will prevent the conclusion of any contract. The processing will be carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR due to our justified interest in direct marketing. You can object to this use of your email address at any time by contacting us. You will find the contact details for exercising your right to object in our imprint. You can also use the link provided in the email. This will not involve any costs other than transmission costs at basic tariffs.

Cookies
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are saved in a user’s internet browser or by the user’s internet browser on their computer system. When a user calls up a website, a cookie may be saved on the user’s operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic character string that allows the browser to be clearly identified when the website is called up again.

We use these cookies to make our offering more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Cookies also allow our systems to recognise your browser after a page change and to offer you services. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. These services require the browser to be recognised again after a page change.

Processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR due to our largely justified interest in ensuring the optimal functionality of the website as well as a user-friendly and effective design of our range of services.

Cookies will be stored on your computer. You, therefore, have full control over the use of cookies. By choosing the corresponding technical settings in your internet browser, you can be notified before the setting of cookies, and you can decide whether to accept this setting in each individual case as well as prevent the storage of cookies and transmission of the data they contain. Cookies that have already been saved may be deleted at any time. We would, however, like to point out that this may prevent you from making full use of all the functions of this website.

Using these links, you can find out how to manage cookies (or deactivate them, among other things) in major browsers:  Chrome Browser, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari.

Analysis
The data processing described subsequently in this section, especially the setting of cookies, will be carried out on the basis of art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR due to our largely justified interest:

1. in the needs-based and target-oriented design of our website, for example, with tools for analysis and statistics;
2. in addressing the website visitors in a targeted manner using interest-based advertisement, e.g. using conversion tracking;
3. in direct customer communication, for example, using live chat tools.

You have the right to veto this processing of your personal data according to Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR, for reasons relating to your personal situation.

Use of Google Analytics
Our website uses the web analysis service Google Analytics by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”).

Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is the data controller responsible for your data if you have your habitual residence in the European Economic Area or Switzerland. Google Ireland Limited is, therefore, the company affiliated with Google, which is responsible for processing your data and for compliance with applicable data protection laws.

The processing of data serves to analyse this website and its visitors. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services to the website operator relating to website and internet use. The IP address communicated by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not associated with any other data held by Google.

Google Analytics uses cookies, which make it possible to analyse your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie regarding your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

IP anonymisation is activated on this website. Google uses this to shorten your IP address beforehand within Member States of the European Union or in other signatories to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

Your data may be transmitted to the USA. Following the US-EU Data Protection Agreement, Google has become “Privacy Shield“ certified and is therefore obliged to observe European data protection laws. You can prevent the collection of the data (including your IP address) generated by the cookies and related to your use of the website by Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at this link. You can set an opt-out cookie to prevent collection by Google Analytics across devices. Opt-out cookies prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website. You need to opt-out on all systems and devices in use for this to work comprehensively.

You can find more detailed information on the terms and conditions of use and data protection here and here.

Use Of The Remarketing Or “Similar Target Groups” Function by Google
Our website uses the remarketing or “similar target groups” function by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”).

Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is the data controller responsible for your data if you have your habitual residence in the European Economic Area or Switzerland. Google Ireland Limited is, therefore, the company affiliated with Google, which is responsible for processing your data and for compliance with applicable data protection laws.

This function serves to analyse visitor behaviour and visitor interests. Google uses cookies to analyse website use, forming the basis for producing interest-related adverts. Cookies allow for the recording of website visits as well as anonymised data on the use of the website. The personal data of website visitors is not saved. If you then visit another website in the Google display network, you will then be shown adverts that are more likely to take previous areas of product and information interest into account.

Your data may also be transmitted to the USA. Following the US-EU Data Protection Agreement, Google has become “Privacy Shield“ certified and is therefore obliged to observe European data protection laws. For this purpose, you can permanently deactivate the use of cookies by downloading and installing the plug-in.

Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of cookies by third parties by calling up the Network Advertising Initiative Deactivation Page and following the opt-out instructions. Here you can find more detailed information on Google remarketing as well as the associated data protection declaration.

Advertising

Use Of Google Ads Conversion Tracking
Our website uses the online marketing programme “Google Ads”, including conversion tracking. Google conversion tracking is a service operated by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”).

Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is the data controller responsible for your data if you have your habitual residence in the European Economic Area or Switzerland. Google Ireland Limited is, therefore, the company affiliated with Google, which is responsible for processing your data and for compliance with applicable data protection laws.

If you click on adverts placed by Google, a cookie is placed on your computer for conversion tracking. These cookies have limited validity, do not contain any personal data, and thus cannot be used for personal identification. If you visit certain pages on our website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can recognise that you have clicked on the advert and were forwarded to this page. Every Google Ads customer receives a separate cookie. Therefore, it is not possible to track cookies relating to the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected using the conversion cookie serves the purpose of producing conversion statistics. This allows us to find out the total number of users who have clicked on our adverts and were forwarded to a page equipped with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information which could be used to personally identify users.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by choosing the corresponding technical settings in your internet browser. We would, however, like to point out that this may prevent you from making full use of all the functions of this website. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. You can also deactivate personalised advertising in Google’s advertising settings. You can find an introduction to this here. You can also deactivate the use of cookies by third parties by calling up the Network Advertising Initiative Deactivation Page and following the opt-out instructions. Here you can find more detailed information on Google remarketing as well as the associated data protection declaration.

Use Of Facebook Remarketing
Our website uses the remarketing function “Custom Audiences” by Facebook Inc. (1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA; “Facebook”). This function serves to address the visitor to the website with interest-related advertising on the social network Facebook. We have implemented Facebook’s remarketing tag on our website for this purpose. This tag sets up a direct connection to Facebook’s servers when you visit our website. This informs the Facebook server which of our web pages you have visited. Facebook assigns this information to your personal Facebook user account. When you visit the social network Facebook you will then be shown personalised, interest-related Facebook ads. Your data may also be transmitted to the USA. Following the US-EU Data Protection Agreement, Facebook has become “Privacy Shield“ certified and is therefore obliged to observe European data protection laws. You can deactivate the remarketing function “Custom Audiences” here. You can find more detailed information on Facebook’s collection and use of data, your associated rights, and options for protecting your privacy in Facebook’s privacy policy.

YouTube
Our website uses the function for the embedding of YouTube videos provided by Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; “YouTube”). YouTube is an affiliated company of Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”).

This feature shows YouTube videos in an iFrame on the website. The option “advanced privacy mode” is enabled here. This prevents YouTube from storing information on visitors to the website. It is only if you watch a video that information is transmitted to and stored by YouTube.

Your data may also be transmitted to the USA. Following the US-EU Data Protection Agreement, Google has become “Privacy Shield“ certified and is therefore obliged to observe European data protection laws.

Further information on the data collected and used by YouTube and Google, your rights and privacy can be found in YouTube’s privacy policy.

Rights Of Persons Affected And Storage Duration
Duration of storage
After contractual processing has been completed, the data is initially stored for the duration of the warranty period, then in accordance with the retention periods prescribed by law, especially tax and commercial law, and then deleted after the period has elapsed, unless you have agreed to further processing and use.

Rights of the affected person
If the legal requirements are fulfilled, you have the following rights according to art. 15 to 20 GDPR: Right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability. You also have a right of objection against processing based on Art. 6 (1) GDPR, and to processing for the purposes of direct marketing, according to Art. 21 (1) GDPR.

Contact us at any time. You can contact our data protection officers directly at info@talkingshorts.com.

Right to Complain to the Regulatory Authority
You have the right to complain to the regulatory authority according to art. 77 GDPR if you believe that your data is not being processed legally.

Right to Object
If the data processing outlined here is based on our legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6(1)f) GDPR, you have the right for reasons arising from your particular situation to object at any time to the processing of your data with future effect.

If the objection is successful, we will no longer process the personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that outweigh your interests or rights and freedoms or the processing is intended for the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

If personal data is being processed for the purposes of direct advertising, you can object to this at any time by notifying us. If the objection is successful, we will no longer process the personal data for the purposes of direct advertising.

Final Provisions
Any inquiries, opinions, and requests regarding the Service, as well as statements submitted to the Service Provider in electronic form, should be sent by the Subscriber to the following email address: info@talkingshorts.com.