Privacy policy
1. General
Panafrican Festival Berlin takes the protection of your personal data seriously. It strictly adheres to the rules of the data protection laws of the Federal Republic of Germany (BDSG), the Telemedia Act (TMG), and the European Data Protection Basic Regulation (EU-GDPR). Insofar as reference is made to the GDPR in this data protection declaration, it is made clear that this only applies from May 25, 2018. Before that, the legal basis is the BDSG.
This data protection declaration only applies to our website. If you are redirected to other sites via links on our site, please inform yourself there about the respective handling of your data.
2. Responsible body
The responsible body for the processing of your personal data is:
Mimosa Management
Weigandufer 14
12045 Berlin
The legal representative is: Mick Richard Nahimana.
Contact details of the internal data protection officer: panafestberlin@gmail.com
3. Purpose of processing personal data
3.1. Data processing to provide the contractual services
We process your data in order to process the contractual relationships between you and us and to send you invitations, advertisements, and information.
For all forms on our website, we only collect the personal data that is necessary for the processing of the contractual relationship or for your information query. This information is marked with an asterisk.
The collection of data that is not necessary, but in which we are interested, is only optional. In this case, you decide on a voluntary basis whether and which data you want to give us.
The basis for data processing is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. b GDPR, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or pre-contractual measures.
3.2 Data processing to communicate with you
In addition to the contract data, we process your communication data (address, telephone number, e-mail address) in order to be able to contact you. Personal data that you provide to us by e-mail or via the contact form on our website, Panafrican Festival Berlin website URL, will only be processed for correspondence with you or only for the purpose for which you gave us the have provided.
The basis for data processing is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. b GDPR, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or pre-contractual measures.
3.3 Newsletter
With your consent, you can subscribe to our newsletter by email to panafestberlin@gmail.com or via our website, through which information about Panafestberlin and its network is shared. If you would like to receive this newsletter, we need an Email address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the email address provided and that you agree to receive the newsletter.
Mandatory information for sending the newsletter is the name and e-mail address. You can revoke your consent to the sending of the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can send the revocation by sending a message to the contact details given under Section 2 (e.g., e-mail, by letter).
The data is processed based on your consent in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time. The legality of the data processing operations that have already taken place remains unaffected by the revocation.
3.5 Registration for events and workshops via our website
For some events and workshops from PanafricaN Festival Berlin, it is possible to register directly via a registration form on our website by entering your full name and e-mail address.
The data is processed based on your consent in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time. The legality of the data processing operations that have already taken place remains unaffected by the revocation.
3.6 Data processing to fulfill legal obligations
In addition, we process your data to fulfill legal obligations (e.g., supervisory requirements, commercial and tax law storage and documentation obligations).
The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR, which allows processing to fulfill a legal obligation.
3.7 Social Media Plugins: Facebook and Instagram
This website uses plugins from the social network "Facebook" (http://facebook.com) and the social network "Instagram" (http://instagram.com).
The plugins used on this website are marked with the corresponding logo.
When you visit our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook and Instagram servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from Facebook and Instagram to your browser and integrated into the website by it. Through this integration, Facebook and Instagram receive the information that you have accessed our website with your IP address. If you are logged in to the respective social network, it is possible for them to assign your visit to our website to your respective account.
The purpose and scope of the collection, processing, and use of the data by Facebook or Instagram, as well as your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy when using the respective social network, can be found in the data protection guidelines of the respective social network.
We, as the website operator, do not receive any information about the content of the data transmitted to the respective social network.
If you do not want the mentioned social networks to collect or use data about your visit to our website, you must log out of the respective social network before visiting our website or switch off the use of JavaScript in your browser or the execution of scripts for the domains http://facebook.com, http://youtube.com, and http://instagram.com.
4. Categories of recipients of personal data
Your personal data will only be passed on to third parties or otherwise transmitted if this is necessary for contract processing or billing (e.g., disclosure of name and address to sponsors) or if you have given your prior consent or if there is a legal basis for disclosure.
If it is necessary for the purpose of contract processing, data will be passed on to partner companies that have been commissioned to support contract processing.
Our partners undertake to comply with and observe the data protection regulations. Our partners are not permitted to use the data for anything other than contract processing.
In the case of cooperations in which we only act as an intermediary, your personal data will only be passed on to the cooperation partner if this is necessary for the purpose of concluding and processing the contract for the cooperation partner. Both the cooperation partner and we are obliged to observe the data protection regulations within the scope of the cooperation. This obligation remains in effect even after the termination of the respective contract.
5. Duration of data retention
In principle, we delete your data as soon as it is no longer required for the purposes mentioned above, unless temporary storage is still necessary. We store your data based on legal requirements and storage obligations resulting from the German Commercial Code and the Tax Code, among other regulations. The storage periods are then up to ten full years. In addition, we keep your data for the time in which claims can be asserted against our company (statutory limitation period of three or up to thirty years).
6. Rights of data subjects/information
Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient, and the purpose of the data processing and, if necessary, a right to correction, blocking, or deletion of this data at any time. You can contact us at any time using the contact details given in Section 1 if you have any further questions on the subject of personal data.
You may also have a right to restrict the processing of your data and a right to the data you have provided being issued in a structured, common, and machine-readable format.
If you have given us consent to process personal data for specific purposes, you can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
If we process your data to protect legitimate interests, you can object to this processing for reasons that arise from your particular situation.