Privacy Policy

We are very pleased about your interest in our company. Data protection is of particular importance to the management of the practice for intercultural psychotherapy. The use of the internet pages of the practice for intercultural psychotherapy is generally possible without any indication of personal data. However, if a data subject wishes to use special services of our company via our website, the processing of personal data may become necessary. If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no legal basis for such processing, we generally obtain the consent of the data subject.
The processing of personal data, for example, the name, address, email address, or telephone number of a data subject, is always carried out in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and in accordance with the applicable national data protection regulations for the practice for intercultural psychotherapy. With this privacy policy, our company aims to inform the public about the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use, and process. Furthermore, this privacy policy informs data subjects about their rights.
The practice for intercultural psychotherapy has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures as the data controller to ensure a level of protection for personal data processed through this website that is as complete as possible. Nevertheless, internet-based data transmissions can generally have security gaps, so an absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transmit personal data to us via alternative means, such as by telephone.

1. Definitions

The privacy policy of the practice for intercultural psychotherapy is based on the terminology used by the European legislator when adopting the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our privacy policy should be easy to read and understand for the public as well as for our customers and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to explain the terminology used in advance.
In this privacy policy, we use, among others, the following terms:

a) Personal data

Personal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter referred to as “data subject”). An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by means of an assignment to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more specific characteristics that are an expression of the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person.

b) Data subject

Data subject is any identified or identifiable natural person whose personal data is processed by the data controller.

c) Processing

Processing is any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collecting, recording, organizing, structuring, storing, adapting or altering, retrieving, consulting, using, disclosing by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, aligning or combining, restricting, deleting, or destroying.

d) Restriction of processing

Restriction of processing is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future.

e) Profiling

Profiling is any type of automated processing of personal data that consists of using personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyze or predict aspects concerning performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements of that natural person.

f) Pseudonymization

Pseudonymization is the processing of personal data in such a way that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organizational measures that ensure that the personal data is not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.

g) Controller or data controller

Controller or data controller is the natural or legal person, authority, agency, or other body which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data. If the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union law or the law of the member states, the controller or the specific criteria for their designation may be provided for by Union law or the law of the member states.

h) Processor

Processor is a natural or legal person, authority, agency, or other body that processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

i) Recipient

Recipient is a natural or legal person, authority, agency, or other body to whom personal data is disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, authorities that may receive personal data in the context of a specific investigation in accordance with Union law or the law of the member states are not considered recipients.

j) Third party

Third party is a natural or legal person, authority, agency, or other body other than the data subject, the controller, the processor, and the persons who are authorized to process the personal data under the direct authority of the controller or the processor.

k) Consent

Consent is any freely given specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes, by which they signify agreement to the processing of personal data relating to them.

2. Name and address of the data controller

The controller in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, other applicable data protection laws in the member states of the European Union, and other provisions of a data protection nature is:
Practice for Intercultural Psychotherapy
Lychener Str. 10
10437 Berlin
Germany
Tel.: +491736341252
E-Mail: praxis@interkulturelle-psychotherapie.net
Website: www.interkulturelle-psychotherapie.net

3. Cookies

The internet pages of the practice for intercultural psychotherapy use cookies. Cookies are text files that are placed and stored on a computer system via an internet browser.
Numerous internet pages and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier for the cookie. It consists of a string of characters that enables internet pages and servers to assign the specific internet browser in which the cookie is stored. This allows the visited internet pages and servers to distinguish the individual browser of the data subject from other internet browsers that contain other cookies. A specific internet browser can be recognized and identified again via the unique cookie ID.
By using cookies, the practice for intercultural psychotherapy can provide users with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the setting of cookies.
A cookie allows the information and offers on our website to be optimized in the sense of the user. Cookies allow us, as already mentioned, to recognize the users of our website. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to use our website. The user of a website that uses cookies does not have to enter their access data every time they visit the website, because this is taken over by the website and the cookie stored on the user’s computer system. Another example is the cookie of a shopping cart in an online shop. The online shop remembers the items a customer has placed in the virtual shopping cart via a cookie.
The data subject may prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding setting of the used internet browser and thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies can be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all common internet browsers. If the data subject disables the setting of cookies in the used internet browser, not all functions of our website may be fully usable.

4. Collection of general data and information

The website of the practice for intercultural psychotherapy collects a series of general data and information with each access to the website by a data subject or an automated system. This general data and information are stored in the server log files. The following can be collected: (1) the types and versions of the browsers used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrer), (4) the subpages that are accessed via an accessing system on our website, (5) the date and time of access to the website, (6) an internet protocol address (IP address), (7) the internet service provider of the accessing system, and (8) other similar data and information that serve to avert danger in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.
When using these general data and information, the practice for intercultural psychotherapy does not draw conclusions about the data subject. This information is rather needed to (1) deliver the contents of our website correctly, (2) optimize the contents of our website and the advertising for these, (3) ensure the long-term functionality of our information technology systems and the technology of our website, and (4) provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for prosecution in the event of a cyber-attack. These anonymously collected data and information are evaluated by the practice for intercultural psychotherapy on the one hand statistically and further with the aim of increasing data protection and data security in our company, in order to ultimately ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.

5. Contact options via the website

The website of the practice for intercultural psychotherapy contains due to legal regulations information that enables a quick electronic contact to our company as well as a direct communication with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic post (email address). If a data subject contacts the data controller by email or via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject will be automatically stored. Such personal data transmitted voluntarily by a data subject to the data controller will be stored for the purpose of processing or contacting the data subject. There is no disclosure of this personal data to third parties.

6. Routine deletion and blocking of personal data

The data controller processes and stores personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the storage purpose or if this is provided for by the European legislator or another legislator in laws or regulations to which the data controller is subject.
If the storage purpose is no longer applicable or if a storage period prescribed by the European legislator or another competent legislator expires, the personal data will be routinely and in accordance with the legal provisions blocked or deleted.

7. Rights of the data subject

a) Right to confirmation

Every data subject has the right granted by the European legislator to request from the data controller confirmation as to whether personal data relating to them is being processed. If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to confirmation, they may contact any employee of the data controller at any time.

b) Right to information

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the data controller at any time free information about the personal data stored concerning them and a copy of this information. Furthermore, the European legislator has granted the affected person the right to be informed about the following information:
The purposes of processing the categories of personal data that are processed the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been disclosed or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organizations if possible, the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored, or, if that is not possible, the criteria for determining that duration the existence of a right to rectification or deletion of personal data concerning them or to restriction of processing by the controller or a right to object to this processing the existence of a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if the personal data is not collected from the data subject: all available information about the source of the data the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, pursuant to Article 22(1) and (4) GDPR and – at least in these cases – meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and the intended consequences of such processing for the data subject. Furthermore, the data subject has the right to be informed whether personal data has been transferred to a third country or to an international organization. If this is the case, the data subject also has the right to obtain information about the appropriate safeguards relating to the transfer.
If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to information, they may contact any employee of the data controller at any time.

c) Right to rectification

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European legislator to request the immediate rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning them. Furthermore, the data subject has the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data – also by means of a supplementary statement – taking into account the purposes of the processing.
If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to rectification, they may contact any employee of the data controller at any time.

d) Right to deletion (right to be forgotten)

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European legislator to request from the controller that personal data concerning them be deleted immediately, provided that one of the following reasons applies and as long as the processing is not necessary:
The personal data has been collected for such purposes or processed in any other way that is no longer necessary. The data subject withdraws their consent on which the processing is based according to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR, and there is no other legal basis for the processing. The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) GDPR. The personal data has been processed unlawfully. The deletion of personal data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the member states to which the controller is subject. The personal data has been collected in relation to services of the information society pursuant to Article 8(1) GDPR. If one of the above reasons applies and a data subject wishes to request the deletion of personal data stored at the practice for intercultural psychotherapy, they may contact any employee of the data controller at any time. The employee of the practice for intercultural psychotherapy will ensure that the deletion request is complied with immediately.
If the personal data has been made public by the practice for intercultural psychotherapy and our company is obliged to delete the personal data as the controller pursuant to Article 17(1) GDPR, the practice for intercultural psychotherapy will take into account the available technology and the implementation costs to take reasonable measures, including technical measures, to inform other data controllers that process the published personal data that the data subject has requested deletion of all links to such personal data or of copies or replications of such personal data, provided that the processing is not necessary. The employee of the practice for intercultural psychotherapy will take the necessary steps on a case-by-case basis.

e) Right to restriction of processing

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller restriction of processing if one of the following applies:
The accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data. The processing is unlawful, and the data subject opposes the deletion of personal data and requests instead the restriction of its use. The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of processing, but the data subject needs it for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims. The data subject has objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR and it has not yet been determined whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject. If one of the above conditions is met and a data subject wishes to request the restriction of personal data stored at the practice for intercultural psychotherapy, they may contact any employee of the data controller at any time. The employee of the practice for intercultural psychotherapy will initiate the restriction of processing.

f) Right to data portability

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European legislator to receive the personal data concerning them, which they have provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. They also have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to whom the personal data has been provided, provided that the processing is based on consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR or on a contract in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) GDPR and the processing is carried out by automated means, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.
Furthermore, the data subject has the right, in exercising their right to data portability in accordance with Article 20(1) GDPR, to obtain that the personal data be transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible and provided that this does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
To assert the right to data portability, the data subject may contact any employee of the practice for intercultural psychotherapy at any time.

g) Right to object

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European legislator to object at any time, on grounds relating to their particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning them, which is based on Article 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.
The practice for intercultural psychotherapy will no longer process the personal data in the event of an objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override the interests, rights, and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
If the practice for intercultural psychotherapy processes personal data for the purpose of direct marketing, the data subject has the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning them for the purpose of such marketing. This also applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If the data subject objects to the practice for intercultural psychotherapy to the processing for the purposes of direct marketing, the practice for intercultural psychotherapy will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.
In addition, the data subject has the right to object, on grounds relating to their particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning them carried out by the practice for intercultural psychotherapy for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89(1) GDPR, unless such processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest.
To exercise the right to object, the data subject may contact any employee of the practice for intercultural psychotherapy or another employee directly. The data subject is also free to exercise their right to object in connection with the use of services of the information society, notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, by automated means using technical specifications.

h) Automated individual decision-making, including profiling

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European legislator not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing – including profiling – that produces legal effects concerning them or similarly significantly affects them, unless the decision (1) is necessary for entering into or performance of a contract between the data subject and the controller, or (2) is permitted by Union or member state law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or (3) is based on the data subject’s explicit consent.
If the decision (1) is necessary for entering into or performance of a contract between the data subject and the controller, or (2) is based on the data subject’s explicit consent, the practice for intercultural psychotherapy will implement suitable measures to safeguard the rights and freedoms and legitimate interests of the data subject, which at least include the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express their point of view, and to contest the decision.
If the data subject wishes to assert rights in relation to automated decisions, they may contact any employee of the data controller at any time.

i) Right to withdraw consent to data processing

Every person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European legislator to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data at any time.
If the data subject wishes to exercise their right to withdraw consent, they may contact any employee of the data controller at any time.

8. Legal basis for processing

Article 6(1)(a) GDPR serves our company as the legal basis for processing operations in which we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose. If the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, as is the case, for example, with processing operations that are necessary for the delivery of goods or the provision of another service or consideration, the processing is based on Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. The same applies to processing operations that are necessary for the carrying out of pre-contractual measures, for example, in cases of inquiries regarding our products or services. If our company is subject to a legal obligation, which requires the processing of personal data, for example, to fulfill tax obligations, the processing is based on Article 6(1)(c) GDPR. In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be necessary to protect vital interests of the data subject or another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were to be injured in our company and, as a result, their name, age, health insurance data, or other vital information would have to be disclosed to a doctor, a hospital, or other third parties. In this case, the processing would be based on Article 6(1)(d) GDPR. Ultimately, processing operations could be based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. This legal basis applies to processing operations that are not covered by any of the aforementioned legal bases if the processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by our company or a third party, provided that the interests, fundamental rights, and fundamental freedoms of the data subject do not override those interests. Such processing operations are particularly permitted because they were specifically mentioned by the European legislator. In this respect, he took the view that a legitimate interest could be assumed if the data subject is a customer of the controller (Recital 47 Sentence 2 GDPR).

9. Legitimate interests in processing pursued by the controller or a third party

If the processing of personal data is based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, our legitimate interest is to conduct our business activities for the benefit of the well-being of all our employees and our shareholders.

10. Duration for which personal data will be stored

The criterion for the duration of storage of personal data is the respective statutory retention period. After the retention period has expired, the corresponding data will be routinely deleted, as long as they are no longer necessary for the fulfillment of the contract or the initiation of a contract.

11. Legal or contractual provisions on the provision of personal data; necessity for the conclusion of the contract; obligation of the data subject to provide personal data; possible consequences of non-provision

We inform you that the provision of personal data is partly required by law (e.g., tax regulations) or may also result from contractual agreements (e.g., information about the contracting party). Sometimes it may be necessary for the conclusion of a contract that a data subject provides us with personal data, which must then be processed by us. The data subject is, for example, obliged to provide us with personal data when our company concludes a contract with them. A failure to provide personal data would result in the contract with the data subject not being concluded. Before providing personal data by the data subject, the data subject must contact one of our employees. Our employee will clarify on a case-by-case basis whether the provision of personal data is required by law or contractually or necessary for the conclusion of the contract, whether there is an obligation to provide the personal data, and what the consequences of non-provision of the personal data would be.

12. Existence of automated decision-making

As a responsible company, we do not use automated decision-making or profiling.
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