Data Protection

1. General

The privacy of your personal data is very important to us. Therefore we would like to tell you about our use of cookies and analytics, and how we process your personal data.

"Personal data" is all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Data pertaining to legal persons is not included in the term personal data.

We only collect personal data that you have disclosed to us. Further processing, in particular disclosure to third parties, only occurs if you have given your consent to this. This includes displaying the laying farms when the laying farm number is entered in the "Was steht auf dem Ei?" search form on our website and the list of KAT members, KAT system participants, KAT sponsoring members, approved KAT certification bodies and registered rearing farms on the internal section of our website.

Data controller

The data controller responsible for the privacy notice is the Association for Controlled Alternative Animal Husbandry (KAT) (Verein für kontrollierte alternative Tierhaltungsformen e.V. (KAT), Konrad-Zuse-Platz 5, 53227 Bonn, email: info@kat.eu

2. Collection and use of your personal data

You are generally able to use our website without entering personal data.

However, we process your personal data if you send us a message using our contact form or by sending an email to us or our employees, for example to info@kat.ec or to personalised email addresses used by our employees. The information (name, farm, telephone, email address) collected in the contact form and the data that we receive in your email and content of your message are used solely for the purpose of responding to your inquiry. The lawful basis for processing your personal data contained in emails (e.g. your email address) that you send to us is defined in Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The Regulation permits processing of personal data in the legitimate interest of the data controller except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data. As the Association is an organisation that is publicly recognised, it is important to us to be contactable by email for third parties. Your emails and the data they contain do not leave our email programme. We only use the data that we receive by email and the content of the message in order to respond to your inquiry. Data is stored only until the processing has been completed. The information is then deleted.

If the processing of your personal data is required in order to fulfil a contract to which you are party (e.g. your participation in the KAT system or when using our database and entering your user data for this purpose by you) or to carry out pre-contractual measures, the data subject's personal data may be processed without consent pursuant to Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR. In this case too, we only keep your data for as long as is required to complete the contract and in respect of any guarantee obligations. Please bear in mind that our KAT participation agreements are long-term obligations that are designed to endure for many years. If personal data is processed to fulfil a contract or carry out pre-contractual measures, we will generally delete this after expiry of the usual retention period of three years following the end of the contract pursuant to Section 195 BGB. According to the provisions of Section 199 para. 1 BGB, the usual retention period generally starts at the end of the year in which the claim arose and the creditor became aware or ought to have become aware in the absence of gross negligence of the circumstances pertaining to the claim and the identity of the debtor.

If we are subject to a statutory requirement to store or retain your data (e.g. in the case of business or commercial correspondence), we may retain it for longer periods of up to ten years.

3. Server log files

The provider of this website automatically collects and saves information automatically transferred by your web browser in server log files. This information comprises:

  • Browser type and browser
  • Operating system
  • Referrer URL
  • Host name of the computer system used to access the website
  • Server request time stamp
  • IP address

This data is not merged with data from other external sources and the data is deleted after three months. It is not possible to assign this data to identifiable persons. The lawful basis for this data processing is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR as there is a legitimate interest that permits the processing of the data for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual measure.

4. Cookies

Our website uses "Cookies", which are small text files that are stored on your devices, such as your computer. Some of the cookies that we use are deleted when your browser session ends, i.e. when you close your browser window (these are called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us or our partners to recognise your web browser the next time you visit (these are called persistent cookies).

When you visit our website for the first time we will inform you of our use of cookies and also inform you that you are implicitly accepting this use by continuing to visit the website. The use of cookies is lawful on the basis of this consent pursuant to Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR.

You can also configure your browser settings to be informed about the placement of cookies and decide whether or not to accept them individually or decline the use of cookies for specific cases or in general.

4.1 Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files that are stored on your computer and allow your use of the website to be analysed. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will generally be transferred to and stored on one of Google's servers in the USA.

However, since this website has enabled IP anonymisation, within a Member State of the European Union or another country that is a signatory to the European Economic Area agreement Google will first abbreviate your IP address. Only in exceptional circumstances may your full IP address be transferred to one of Google's servers in the USA and abbreviated there. IP anonymisation has been enabled on this website. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website in order to prepare reports on website activities and to provide the website operator with additional services relating to website usage and internet usage.

The IP address transferred by your web browser as part of the Google Analytics service is not merged with other data held by Google. You may configure your browser software to decline the storage of cookies. However, if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Moreover, you can prevent Google's capture and processing of the information generated by the cookie relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing a browser plugin from the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Objection to data collection

You may object to the collection of your data by the Google Analytics service. Please do this by clicking the following link:

Disable Google Analytics

When you disable Google Analytics via this link you will prevent Google Analytics collecting your data on this website in the future. However, if you subsequently delete the cookies in your web browser this will also delete the opt-out cookie and you will have to re-enable this.

Please be aware that disabling this service may cause delays when accessing our website.

Google's data privacy policy

Additional information on how your data is used can be found in Google's data privacy policy.

4.2 Google Fonts

We use the Google Fonts web service to ensure that text is displayed consistently. Google Fonts is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Your browser saves the required fonts in your browser cache. The font files are loaded directly from this web server.

Further information on Google Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's data privacy policy.

4.3 Using the website while logged in to a Google account

If you use a Google account at the same time as using our website, this enables Google to record your visit to our website along with additional information that you generate in your Google account. According to Google Web Fonts, no connection is made with this data when signing into other Google services and using Google Web Fonts. Further information can be found here.

5. Your rights: information, rectification, erasure, restriction

We only process personal data that we receive from you. The provision of your data is not required by law, but it may be regulated in our contracts with you. Failure to provide data, even though you are contractually bound to do so, may result in your failure to meet your contractual obligations.

You have the right to request information about the personal data we have stored and the right to correct, delete, restrict the processing or object to processing, as well as the right to data portability where the appropriate data privacy requirements are met.

You also have the right to complain to the data protection regulator responsible for supervising us. The regulator is: Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kavalleriestr. 2-4, 40213 Düsseldorf, telephone: +49 211/38424-0, fax: +49 211/38424-10, email: poststelle@ldi.nrw.de, website: https://www.ldi.nrw.de.

If you have given us your consent to process your data for a specific purpose, you may withdraw this at any time. Your withdrawal of consent shall not change the lawful basis of any processing that occurred before you withdrew consent.

We welcome any questions on this Data Privacy Policy. Please use the following email address: info@kat.eu

KAT e.V.
Konrad-Zuse-Platz 5
53227 Bonn