Data Protection: Data processing is the responsibility of the Indo German Biodiversity Programme

Postal address: A-2/18, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi - 110029, India

Contact: biodiv.india@giz.de

Contact details of the data protection officer: datenschutzbeauftragter@giz.de

General

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a public-benefit federal enterprise for international cooperation. We work as a federal enterprise under private law. Our aim is to achieve the development-policy objective of improving the living conditions of people worldwide and conserving the natural resources on which livelihoods depend.

Website Analytics

The GIZ website draws on the services of AWStats software to analyse usage data. No other use is made of the data, and the data are not passed on to third parties. The following information is stored for each page you view and each file you download:

• Technical details of the browser used
• Anonymous IP address
• Date and time
• Page opened/name of the file downloaded
• Quantity of data transferred
• Notification of whether viewing or download was successful
• Number of hits
• Country location
• Notification whether viewing or download was successful

Temporary session cookies are used each time you view an individual page, to make navigation easier. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in your browser cache. Session cookies do not include any personal data and expire at the end of each session, or after the completion of a user survey, which is conducted as a rule every two years.

We do not use methods such as Java applets or ActiveX controls that make it possible to track your browsing behaviour.

Data is processed based on Art. 6 paragraph 1 f) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with the legitimate interest of analysing usage to improve the company’s website.

Contact Us

Any personal details collected through the form in Contact Us page will only be used for processing your queries/feedback. Indo-German Biodiversity Programme may also use the data provided through Contact Us form for internal analytical purposes. Your personal details will not be passed onto third parties. We do not share personal information with companies, organizations and individuals outside the Indo-German Biodiversity Programme.

The Contact Us section of this website includes interactive maps from Google Maps that can be activated with a double click. If you do this, information concerning your use of the website (including your IP address) may be transferred and saved to a Google server in the USA. Google will pass this information on to third parties if required to do so for legal reasons or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google.

Newsletter

Personal details collected as part of the newsletter list subscription will only be used for the purpose of mailing newsletters. If you send us an email to unsubscribe from the newsletter or any other mailing list, we will immediately oblige your request and delete your data from the database.

Cookies

Cookies are small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while the user is browsing that website. Every time the user loads the website, the browser sends the cookie back to the server to notify the website of the user's previous browsing activity. We do not use any methods to track your browsing behaviour such as Java applets or ActiveX controls.

Temporary etracker cookies: These session cookies are used for user analysis (see above). They do not contain any personal data and expire at the end of the session, or at the end of a user survey, which is generally carried out every two years.

Social Media Plug-ins

Our start and our contact section include social media plugins of Facebook, Twitter and Google, that can be activated with a double click. If you do this, information concerning your use of the website (including your IP address) may be transferred, saved and used by Facebook, Twitter or Google. The mentioned companies will pass this information on to third parties if required to do so for legal reasons or if third parties process this data on their behalf.

Recipients of personal data

• Data is not shared with third parties.
• As a general principle, data will not be transmitted to third states.

Duration of data retention

Personal data are regularly deleted when

• they are no longer needed for contractual purposes (e.g. for employment, top-ups, rental, sale or service contracts)
• when the individuals concerned have not given any separate authorisation
• when statutory data storage obligations and periods have expired.

Reference to user rights

You are entitled to:

• to object to data processing,
• enquire about your personal data and its processing
• to have this corrected if necessary, or to request restriction of processing or the erasure of the data

The data will then be erased.

If you have any questions or complaints about this website, please contact the GIZ data protection officer (see contact information provided above). You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the responsible data protection supervisory authority. The responsible authority in this case is the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI).