Data protection
The joint municipality of Uelsen has appointed an external data protection officer to ensure data protection.
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding data protection in the area of the joint municipality of Uelsen, please contact the official data protection officer appointed by the joint municipality of Uelsen.
Data protection officer:
ITEBO GmbH
Data protection and IT security service
Stüvestraße 26
49076 Osnabrück
DSB@itebo.de
Data protection notice
The purpose of data protection is to protect personal rights in accordance with Article 2 of the German Basic Law. When handling personal data, legally defined basic principles must be observed.
The aim of IT security is to keep electronic data, IT systems and IT infrastructures operational at all times and to protect data from unauthorized access and use.
Comprehensive information on the subject of data protection is available online from the State Commissioner for Data Protection in Lower Saxony and the Virtual Data Protection Office.
Person responsible
Mayor of the joint municipality
Itterbecker Straße 11, 49843 Uelsen
Personal data
The Samtgemeinde Uelsen takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We adhere strictly to the rules of the data protection laws. We only publish personal data on our website if this data has been released for publication by the relevant persons. This release can be revoked at any time.
We treat personal data such as your name, address or telephone number, which you are asked to enter on our website, as follows: Your data will not be passed on to third parties.
Right to information
You have the possibility at any time to obtain information about your personal data stored by the municipality of Uelsen, its origin and purpose. The joint municipality of Uelsen will be happy to comply with your request for information. Please address your written request for information to the data protection officer (see above for contact details).
Correction, deletion and objection
The Samtgemeinde Uelsen will be happy to comply with your request for correction or deletion of the data stored about you in accordance with § 17 NDSG, provided that there are no legal retention periods to the contrary. If deletion of data is not possible, the data will be blocked instead.
In addition, the data stored about you will be deleted regularly if the purpose-related storage is no longer required and the deletion does not conflict with any statutory retention periods.
Technical access data
The Samtgemeinde Uelsen automatically collects and stores information on its web server that your browser transmits to us. These are
- Browser type/version
- Operating system used
- Referrer URL (the previously visited page)
- Host name of the accessing computer (IP address)
- Time of the server request
For the joint municipality of Uelsen, this data cannot be assigned to specific persons. This data is not merged with other data sources.
Links
The website of the municipality of Uelsen contains links to other websites over whose content we have no influence. Therefore, we cannot accept any liability for these external websites. The respective provider or operator of the sites is responsible for the content of the linked sites.
In addition, the website of the joint municipality of Uelsen may have been linked from another website via hyperlink without its knowledge. We accept no responsibility for the presentation, content or any connection to the joint municipality of Uelsen from external sites.
Cookies
Some of the Internet pages use so-called cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. They do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses.
Cookies are used to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies". They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be restricted.
Google Maps
The joint municipality of Uelsen uses the services of Google Maps on its website. Data collected in this context is transmitted to Google. Information on Google's handling of this data can be found here.
Legal notice
Neither the municipality of Uelsen nor third party suppliers accept any liability for the accuracy, completeness and up-to-dateness of the information displayed.
All information is provided solely for the information of visitors to the municipal website. Otherwise, liability is limited to intent or gross negligence.
The Samtgemeinde Uelsen expressly reserves the right to change, supplement or delete parts of the pages or the entire offer without prior notice or to cease publication temporarily or permanently.
The content and structure of the website of the joint municipality of Uelsen are protected by copyright. The reproduction of information or data, in particular the use of texts, parts of texts or images requires the express prior consent of the municipality of Uelsen.
Open source software tool Matomo (formerly PIWIK)
The municipality of Uelsen uses the open source software tool Matomo (formerly PIWIK) on the website to analyze the surfing behavior of our users. The software places a cookie on the user's computer (for cookies, see above). When pages of our website are accessed, the following data is stored:
- IP address, anonymized by shortening
- Previously visited URL (referrer), if transmitted by the browser
- Device type, model and brand
- Screen resolution and color depth
- Name and version of the operating system
- Name, version and language setting of the browser
- Technologies and formats supported by the browser (e.g. cookies, Java, Flash, PDF, WindowsMedia, QuickTime, Realplayer, Director, SilverLight, Google Gears)
- Times of the page views
- Visited links to other websites
- Visited URLs on this website
- Type of HTML requests
- Time of first access
- Time of last access
- Downloaded files
- Number of visits by a user
- Search terms internal search engine
- External search engines used
- Search terms from external search engines (e.g. Google)
- The software runs exclusively on the servers of our website. Users' personal data is only stored there. The data is not passed on to third parties.
The IP addresses are not saved in full, but 2 bytes of the IP address are masked (e.g.: 192.168.xxx.xxx) so that it is no longer possible to assign the shortened IP address to the calling computer.
The data in Matomo is archived daily. Automated deletion does not take place.
Cookies are stored on the user's computer and transmitted by it to our website - as the user, you also have full control over the use of cookies. By changing the settings in your Internet browser, you can deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies, but cookies that have already been saved can also be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. It is possible that not all functions of the website can be used to their full extent as soon as cookies are deactivated for our website.
We offer users the option of opting out of the analysis process on our website. To do this, you must follow the corresponding link. In this way, another cookie is set on your system, which signals our system not to store the user's data. If the user deletes the corresponding cookie from their own system in the meantime, they must set the opt-out cookie again.
Under the following link: https://matomo.org/docs/privacy/. you will find more information on the privacy settings of the Matomo software.