Privacy Declaration

We are very pleased about your interest. Data protection is of a particularly high priority for the team of the “Talk Around the Clock” website.

The use of the website under https://talk-around-the-clock.com is possible without any indication of personal data.

However, if a data subject wants to use or offer special services via our website, processing of personal data could become necessary. If processing of personal data is necessary and if there is no legal basis for such processing, we will generally obtain the consent of the data subject.

The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject, shall always be in line with the European General Data Protection Regulation and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to the “Talk around the Clock” website. By means of this data protection declaration, we inform the public about the type, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use, and process.

As the controller, the team behind the “Talk Around the Clock” website has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through this website. Nevertheless, Internet-based data transmissions can always be vulnerable to security risks, so absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. Therefore, each data subject is free to transmit personal data to us using alternative means, e.g. by telephone.

1. Definitions
The data protection declaration of the “Talk Around the Clock” website is based on the terms used by the European Data Protection Supervisor when adopting the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our data protection declaration should be easy to read and understand for the public and our customers and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to explain the terminology used in advance.

We use the following terms, among others, in this privacy statement:

1. Personal data
   Personal data is any information about an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter “data subject”). An identifiable natural person can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
2. Data subject
   A data subject is any identified or identifiable natural person whose personal data are processed by the controller. 
3. Processing
   Processing is any operation or set of operations that is performed upon personal data, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organization, filing, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction. 
4. Restriction of processing
   Restriction of processing is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their future processing.
5. Profiling
   Profiling is any type of automated processing of personal data which consists of using such personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular, to analyze or predict aspects relating to that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or change of location.
6. 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 separate and is subject to technical and organizational measures to ensure that the personal data relating to the data subject are not disclosed to any third party.
7. Controller or responsible person
   The controller or a responsible person is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data. Where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its designation may be provided for under Union or Member State law.
8. Processor
   A processor is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body that processes personal data on behalf of the controller.
9. Recipient
   Recipient means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body to whom personal data are disclosed, whether or not a third party. However, public authorities that may receive personal data in the context of a specific investigative task under Union or Member State law shall not be considered as recipients.
10. Third party
    Third-party means a natural or legal person, public 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 responsibility of the controller or the processor. 
11. Consent
    Consent is any indication of intention given voluntarily by the data subject for the specific case in an informed manner and unambiguously in the form of a statement or other unambiguous affirmative act by which the data subject indicates that he or she consents to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

2. Name and Address of the Controller
The controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation, other data protection laws applicable in the Member States of the European Union, and other provisions with a data protection character is the:

3. Cookies
The internet pages of the “Talk Around the Clock” website use cookies. Cookies are text files 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 of the cookie. It consists of a string of characters by which Internet pages and servers can be assigned to the specific Internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This enables 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 through the unique cookie ID.

Through the use of cookies, the “Talk Around the Clock” website can provide users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.

Using cookies, the information and offers on our website can be optimized for the user. Cookies enable 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. For example, the user of a website that uses cookies does not have to re-enter his or her access data each time he or she visits the website because the website handles this, and the cookie is stored on the user’s computer system. Another example is the cookie of a shopping cart in an online store. The online store remembers the items that a customer has placed in the virtual shopping cart via a cookie.

The data subject can prevent cookies by our website at any time by means of an appropriate setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. Furthermore, cookies that have already been set can be deleted anytime 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 Internet browser used, it may not be possible to utilize all functions of our website fully.

For further details, please see our Cookie Note at https://talk-around-the-clock.com/cookie-policy.  

4. Collection of general data and information
The website of “Talk Around the Clock” website collects a series of general data and information each time a data subject or automated system calls up the website. This general data and information is stored in the server log files. The following data may be collected: (1) the browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system accesses our website (the so-called referrer), (4) the sub-websites 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 “Talk Around the Clock” website does not draw any conclusions about the data subject. Rather, this information is needed (1) to deliver the contents of our website correctly, (2) to optimize the contents of our website and the advertising for these, (3) to ensure the long-term functionality of our information technology systems and the technology of our website, and (4) to provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for prosecution in the event of a cyber-attack. Therefore, the “Talk Around the Clock” website analyzes anonymously collected data and information on one hand and on the other hand, to increase the data protection and data security of our enterprise, to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from any personal data submitted by a data subject.

5. Contact Possibility Via the Website
The “Talk Around the Clock” website contains legal requirements which enable quick electronic contact to our enterprise, as well as direct communication with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic mail (e-mail address). If a data subject contacts the controller by e-mail or by using a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject will be stored automatically. Such personal data transmitted voluntarily by a data subject to the controller will be stored for the purpose of processing or contacting the data subject. No disclosure of such personal data to third parties shall take place.

6. Routine Erasure and Blocking of Personal Data
The controller processes and stores the personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of storage or where provided for by the European Directive and Regulation or other legislators in laws or regulations to which the controller is subject. 

If the storage purpose ceases to apply or if a storage period prescribed by the European Directive and Regulation Maker or another competent legislator expires, the personal data will be routinely blocked or deleted by the legal provisions.

7. Rights of the Data Subject

1. Right to obtain confirmation
Every data subject has the right, granted by the European Directives and Regulations Body, to obtain confirmation from the controller as to whether personal data relating to him or her are being processed. If a data subject wishes to exercise this right of confirmation, he or she may, at any time, contact any controller employee. 

2. Right of disclosure
Any person concerned by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European Directive and Regulation to obtain at any time from the controller, free of charge, information about the personal data stored about him or her and a copy of that information. Furthermore, the European Directive and Regulation has granted the data subject access to the following information:

•  The purposes of the processing
•  The categories of personal data processed
•  The recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular in the case of recipients in third countries or international organizations
• If possible, the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining this duration
• The existence of a right to rectify or erase the personal data concerning them or to have the processing restricted by the controller, or a right to object to such processing the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority
• If the personal data are not collected from the data subject. Any available information on the origin of the data
• The existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, pursuant to Article 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR and, at least in these cases, meaningful information on the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing for the data subject.

Furthermore, the data subject shall have the right to obtain information as to whether personal data have 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 concerning the transfer.

If a data subject wishes to exercise this right of access, he or she may contact an employee of the controller at any time.

3. Right to rectification
Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European Directive and Regulation to obtain the immediate rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her. Furthermore, the data subject has the right, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to request the completion of incomplete personal data, including by means of a supplementary declaration.

If a data subject wishes to exercise this right of rectification, he or she may, at any time, contact a controller’s employee.

4. Right to erasure (right to be forgotten)
Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European Directive and Regulation to require the controller to erase the personal data concerning him or her without undue delay, provided that one of the following reasons applies and to the extent that the processing is no longer necessary.

5. Right to disclosure
Any person concerned by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European Directive and Regulation to obtain at any time from the controller, free of charge, information about the personal data stored about him or her and a copy of that information. Furthermore, the European Directive and Regulation has granted the data subject access to the following information:

• The personal data were collected or otherwise processed for such purposes for which they are no longer necessary.
• The personal data have been processed unlawfully.
• The erasure of personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject.
• The personal data were collected in relation to services provided by the information society pursuant to Article 8 (1) of the Data Protection Regulation.

If one of the aforementioned reasons applies, and a data subject wishes to arrange for the erasure of personal data stored by the “Talk Around the Clock” website, he or she may, at any time, contact any controller employee or volunteer. The employee or volunteer of the “Talk Around the Clock” website shall arrange for the deletion request to be complied with immediately.

If the personal data has been made public by the “Talk around the Clock” website and our enterprise as the controller is obliged to delete the personal data pursuant to Article 17 (1) of the Data Protection Regulation, the “Talk around the Clock” website shall promptly delete the data in question.

8. Right to restriction of processing
Any data subject concerned by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European Data Protection Supervisor, to obtain from the controller the restriction of processing where one of the following conditions is met: 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, the data subject objects to the erasure of the personal data and requests instead the restriction of the use of the personal data. The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but the data subject needs it for the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

The data subject has objected to the processing pursuant to Article 21 (1) of the DS-GVO, and it is not yet clear whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.

If one of the aforementioned conditions is met, and a data subject wishes to request the restriction of personal data stored by the “Talk Around the Clock” website, he or she may, at any time, contact any controller employee or volunteer. The employee or volunteer of the “Talk Around the Clock” website will arrange the restriction of the processing.

9. Right to object
Any person concerned by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European Directives and Regulations, to object at any time, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning him or her which is carried out based on Article 6(1)(e) or (f) of the GDPR.

The “Talk Around the Clock” website shall 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 for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

If the “Talk Around the Clock” website processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data for such marketing. This also applies to profiling insofar as it relates to such direct marketing.
If the data subject objects to the “Talk Around the Clock” website for processing for direct marketing purposes, the “Talk Around the Clock” website will no longer process the personal data for these purposes. In addition, the data subject has the right, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to object to the processing of personal data concerning him or her which has been collected for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes.

To exercise the right to object, the data subject may directly contact any employee or volunteer of the “Talk Around the Clock” website or another employee or volunteer. Furthermore, the data subject is free to exercise his or her right to object by means of automated procedures using technical specifications in connection with the use of information society services, notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC.

10. Automated decisions on a case-by-case basis, including profiling 
Every data subject concerned by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European Directive and Regulation, not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her, unless the decision (1) is necessary for entering into, or the 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 that law contains suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or (3) is made with the data subject’s explicit consent.

If the decision (1) is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and the data controller, or (2) it is made with the data subject’s explicit consent, the “Talk Around the Clock” website to take reasonable steps to safeguard the rights and freedoms of the data subject, and to protect the data subject’s legitimate interests, which include at least the right to obtain the intervention of a data subject on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and contest the decision.
If the data subject wishes to exercise the rights concerning automated decisions, he or she may, at any time, contact any controller employee or volunteer.

11. Right to withdraw consent under data protection law
Any data subject concerned by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European Directives and Regulations, to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data at any time.If the data subject wishes to exercise the right to withdraw consent, he or she may, at any time, contact any controller employee or volunteer.

12. Legitimate Interests in Processing Pursued by the Controller or a Third Party
If the processing of personal data is based on Article 6, I lit. f DS-GVO, our legitimate interest is the performance of our business activities to benefit the well-being of all our employee or volunteer and our shareholders.

13. Duration for which the personal data is stored
The criterion for the duration of the storage of personal data is the respective statutory retention period. After the expiry of the period, the corresponding data will be routinely deleted, provided that they are no longer required for the performance of the contract or the initiation of the contract.

14. Legal or contractual provisions
for the provision of personal data; necessity for the conclusion of the contract; Obligation of the data subject to provide the 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 regulations (e.g. information on the contractual partner). Sometimes, to conclude a contract, it may be necessary for a data subject to provide us with personal data that we must subsequently process. For example, the data subject must provide us with personal data if our company concludes a contract with him or her. Failure to provide the personal data would mean that the contract with the data subject could not be concluded. Before providing personal data by the data subject, the data subject must contact one of our employee or volunteer. Our employee or volunteer will explain to the data subject on a case-by-case basis whether the provision of the personal data is required by law or contract or is necessary for the conclusion of the contract, whether there is an obligation to provide the personal data, and what the consequences of not providing the personal data would be.

15. Existence of Automated Decision-Making
As a responsible company, we do not use automated decision-making or profiling.

16. Third-Party Widgets, Plug-ins, and Functionality
We use offerings by carefully selected third parties as follows:

• PayPal Donations: The “Donate” button leads you to the website of PayPal, where you can make your donation.
  – See PayPal’s Statement on Cookies and Tracking Technologies.
  – See PayPal’s Privacy Statement.
• CookieYes: We use CookieYes to provide a GDPR-compliant cookie banner with options to select/de-select cookie types and to later re-visit the cookie settings to make changes.
  – See CookieYes’s Cookie Policy.
  – See CookieYes’s Privacy Policy.
• GoDaddy Operating Company, LLC: Several pages use functions provided by GoDaddy’s CoBöocks service, such as forms and expandable text blocks.
  – See GoDaddy’s Trust Center on Privacy.
• WPForms, LLC: The Speaker Application uses a webform widget provided by WPForms.
  – See WPForm’s Privacy statement.

17. Quick Contact to the Event Team
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