Data Protection
The Training Center for Functional and Environmental Medicine welcomes you to our website and appreciates your interest in our company. We take the protection of your personal data seriously and want you to feel secure while visiting our website.
Collection and Processing of Personal Data
In general, you can visit the Training Center for Functional and Environmental Medicine sites without providing any personal information.
Your inquiries will be directed to the appropriate office within the company for a response. If a different organizational unit is better suited to assist, your inquiry and all provided data will be forwarded there for a response.
Every access to our web services and every request for a file stored on the web service is logged. This logging is used for internal, system-related, and statistical purposes. The logged information includes the name of the retrieved file, date and time of access, amount of data transferred, notification of successful retrieval, web browser type, the requesting domain, and anonymized IP addresses.
Cookies
Like many other websites, we use “cookies.” Cookies are small text files transferred from a website server to your hard drive. This automatically provides us with certain data, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, and internet connection.
Cookies cannot be used to launch programs or deliver viruses to a computer. Based on the information in cookies, we can simplify navigation and ensure our websites display correctly.
Under no circumstances will the data we collect be shared with third parties, nor will a link to your personal data be established without your consent.
Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are typically set to accept cookies by default. You can deactivate the use of cookies at any time through your browser settings. Please use your browser’s help feature to learn how to change these settings. Note that some features of our website may not function properly if cookies are disabled.
Notes on Tracking Tools
1 – About Matomo
Matomo is an open-source web analytics platform. Website owners use web analytics platforms to measure, collect, analyze, and report visitor data to understand and optimize their websites. To see how Matomo works, you can access a demo version at: https://demo.matomo.cloud.
2 – Purpose of Processing
Matomo is used to analyze visitor behavior and identify potential issues, such as broken pages, search engine indexing problems, or which content is most popular. Once the data is processed (e.g., number of visitors reaching a 404 page, single-page views, etc.), Matomo generates reports for website owners to take action, such as updating page layouts or publishing new content.
Matomo processes the following personal data:
- Anonymized IP address
- User ID
- Custom Dimensions
- Custom Variables
- Order ID
- User location
As well as:
- Date and time
- Title of the page being viewed
- URL of the page being viewed
- URL of the previous page viewed
- Screen resolution
- Time in local time zone
- Files clicked and downloaded
- Clicks on links to external domains
- Page generation time
- Country, region, city
- Main browser language
- Browser User Agent
3 – Legitimate Interests
The processing of personal data with Matomo is based on legitimate interests.
Processing your personal data helps us identify what works and what doesn’t on our website. For example, it helps us determine if our communication is engaging and how we can better organize the website structure. Our team benefits from processing this data to take direct action on the site. By processing your personal data, you benefit from a website that is constantly improving.
Without this data, we would be unable to provide the service we currently offer. Your data will only be used to improve the user experience on our website and help you find the information you need.
4 – Recipients of Personal Data
Personal data received through Matomo is sent to:
- Our company.
5 – Details of Transfers to Third Countries and Safeguards
Matomo data is hosted in Germany.
6 – Retention Period or Criteria Used to Determine the Retention Period
We retain personal data captured within Matomo for a period of 180 days.
7 – Data Subject Rights
Since Matomo processes personal data based on legitimate interests, you may exercise the following rights:
- Right of access: You can request access to your personal data at any time.
- Right to erasure: You can request that we delete all personal data we process about you at any time.
- Right to object: You can opt out of the tracking of your personal data below.
Since Matomo processes personal data based on explicit consent, you may exercise the following rights:
- Right of access: You can request access to your personal data at any time.
- Right to erasure: You can request that we delete all personal data we process about you at any time.
- Right to portability: You can request a copy of all personal data we process about you in Matomo at any time.
- Right to withdraw consent: You can withdraw your consent at any time by clicking the following button.
8 – Right to Withdraw Consent at Any Time
You can withdraw your consent here at any time: https://analytics.formfabrik.rocks/index.php?module=CoreAdminHome&action=optOut&language=en&fontFamily=sans-serif
9 – Right to Lodge a Complaint with a Supervisory Authority
If you believe that the way we process your personal data with Matomo analytics infringes upon the law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
10 – Statutory or Contractual Requirements for Providing Personal Data; Consequences of Failure to Provide Data
If you do not want us to process any personal data with Matomo, you can opt out at any time. There will be no consequences regarding your use of our website.
11 – Automated Decision-Making, Including Profiling
Matomo does not perform any profiling.
Notes on Social Media
YouTube
Our website uses plugins from the Google-powered YouTube site. The provider of this website is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit any of our pages enabled with a YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube’s servers is established.
Additionally, this website incorporates videos from YouTube. Using this feature also requires a connection to YouTube’s servers in the United States, which sends certain information to YouTube. For YouTube videos embedded on our website, the advanced data protection mode offered by YouTube is activated. This means YouTube only stores information about a visitor if they choose to play an embedded video. In this case, YouTube may also store cookies on the visitor’s device. The Training Center for Functional and Environmental Medicine has no influence over the collection and storage of information by YouTube and is not aware of the specific data collected. You should carefully review YouTube’s privacy policy before using its features.
For more information on how user data is handled, please refer to the YouTube Privacy Policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy
Use and Disclosure of Personal Data and Purpose Limitation
All personal data collected by the Training Center for Functional and Environmental Medicine will be processed and used in accordance with applicable data protection regulations, solely for the purpose of contract execution and to safeguard our own legitimate business interests regarding the order processing of our customers, suppliers, and interested parties.
Comparing this data with other data—specifically references to individuals or transfers to third parties—is excluded.
Deletion or Blocking of Data
We adhere to the principles of data minimization and data economy. Therefore, we only store your personal data for as long as necessary to achieve the purposes mentioned here or as required by various statutory retention periods. Once the purpose no longer applies or these periods expire, the corresponding data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with statutory provisions.
Your Rights to Information, Correction, Restriction, Deletion, and Objection
You have the right to receive information about your personal data stored on our web server at any time. Furthermore, you have the right to correct, block, or—except for mandatory data storage required for business transactions—delete your personal data. Please contact our Data Protection Officer. Contact details can be found at the bottom of this page.
To ensure a data block can be respected at all times, the data must be stored in a restricted file for control purposes. You may also request the deletion of your data, provided there is no legal obligation to archive it. If such an obligation exists, we will block your data upon request.
You can make changes or revoke your consent by notifying us, with effect for the future.
Security
The Training Center for Functional and Environmental Medicine uses technical and organizational security measures to protect your data from accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction, or unauthorized access. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.
Our web services are protected and audited at regular intervals in accordance with applicable data protection regulations and the Telemedia Act (TMG).
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy periodically to ensure it complies with current legal requirements or to reflect changes to our services, such as the introduction of new services. Your subsequent visits will be subject to the updated privacy policy.
Data Protection Officer
In accordance with the GDPR and other data protection laws, the Training Center for Functional and Environmental Medicine is the responsible authority. Contact details are as follows:
Training Center for Functional and Environmental Medicine
Subject: Data Protection