We would like to welcome you to the website of Stiftung Mercator (hereinafter referred to as ‘we’) and thank you for your interest. The protection of your personal data when you are using this website is very important to us. In our data privacy statement, we would like to inform you about when we collect which data and how we use it.

Data Privacy Statement of Stiftung Mercator (last updated on 1 May 2020)

1. Foreword

Regardless of whether you are a project partner, a partner company, an applicant or a visitor to our website, we take the protection of your personal data very seriously. But what does this mean in concrete terms?

In the following, we give you an insight into the personal data we collect from you and the ways in which we process it. You will furthermore gain an overview of your rights according to the applicable data protection laws. We will also tell you who you can contact if you have any further questions.

Who are we?

As the responsible organization pursuant to Article 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we,

Stiftung Mercator

Huyssenallee 40

45128 Essen

address for correspondence:

Postfach 10 33 26

45033 Essen

Tel. +49 201 245 22-0

Fax +49 201 245 22-44

@

take all measures required under applicable data protection law to ensure the protection of your personal data.

If you have any questions on data processing in our company or how to exercise your rights, you can also contact our data protection officer free of charge:

Data Protection Officer

2B Advice GmbH

Didem Onur

Joseph Schumpeter Allee 25

53227 Bonn

Tel: +49 228 926 165 120

@

2. Scope of application of the data privacy statement

Legislators define the processing of personal data as activities such as the collection, recording, organization, filing, storage, adaptation or alteration, readout, retrieval, use, disclosure (by transmission, dissemination or some other form of provision), collation or linking, restriction, deletion or destruction of personal data.

3 What personal data do we process?

Personal data are only collected on this website to the extent that is technically necessary. Personal data are all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, email addresses, user behaviour. We have taken extensive technical and operational precautions to protect your data from accidental or deliberate manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. Our security procedures are regularly reviewed and adapted to technological progress.

Under no circumstances will we sell your personal data to third parties!

3.1 Sensitive data

Sensitive data, i.e. special categories of personal data such as information on health, political opinions, religious or trade-union affiliation, are not collected in this way.

3.2 Personal data of minors

Our activities are generally not aimed at minors. Should it come to our attention that the personal data of minors have been processed without the consent of their parents or guardians, these data will be deleted immediately.

3.3 Use of cookies and plug-ins

Facebook plug-ins 

Our website uses a social plug-in of the social network ‘facebook.com’, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (‘Facebook’). The plug-in can be recognized by the Facebook logo (white ‘f’ next to the text ‘Like’).

By clicking on a button next to the Facebook logo, you can connect to the Facebook servers to view pictures and videos from Stiftung Mercator’s Facebook stream. After activation by you, the content of the plug-in is transmitted directly by Facebook to your browser, which integrates it into the website. We have no influence over the amount of data that Facebook collects with the help of this plug-in and are therefore informing you according to the knowledge available to us: when you activate the plug-in, Facebook is informed that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. Once you are logged in to Facebook, Facebook can assign the visit to your Facebook account. When you interact with the plug-in, i.e. by pressing the Like button, the corresponding information is transmitted directly from your browser to Facebook and stored there. If you are not a member of Facebook, it is still possible that Facebook will find out and store your IP address. For information on the purpose and scope of Facebook’s collection of data, on how Facebook further processes and uses data, and on your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to the Facebook privacy policy. If you are a Facebook member and do not want Facebook to collect data about you via our website and link it to your membership data stored on Facebook, you must log out of Facebook before activating the plug-in on our site. It is also possible to block Facebook social plug-ins with add-ons for your browser, for example using the ‘Facebook Blocker’.

YouTube plug-ins 

Some pages on our website include third-party content, such as videos from YouTube. This always presupposes that the providers of this content (hereinafter referred to as ‘third-party providers’) know the user’s IP address because, without the IP address, they could not send the content to the respective user’s browser. The IP address is therefore needed in order to display this content. We make every effort to use only content whose respective providers use the IP address only to deliver the content. However, we have no influence over whether the third-party providers store the IP address, e,g, for statistical purposes. Should we become aware of this, we will immediately inform the users.

If you are logged into the respective third-party providers with your own account, it is possible that the providers will assign information on your user behaviour to your personal account on these platforms. You can prevent this by logging out of your account before using the plug-ins. For information on the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by YouTube, as well as on your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to the YouTube privacy policy. Stiftung Mercator operates its own channel on YouTube. We have developed a separate Netiquette for this purpose.

Twitter plug-ins 

Our website also uses plug-ins of the microblogging service ‘twitter.com’, which is operated by Twitter, Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA (‘Twitter’). The plug-ins are marked with a Twitter logo.

If you call up internet pages on our website that show such a plug-in, a connection is set up to the Twitter servers and the plug-in is displayed on the website by sending a message to your browser. This will tell the Twitter server which of our internet pages you have visited. If you are logged in to Twitter as a member, Twitter assigns this information to your personal Twitter user account. When the plug-in functions are used (e.g. by posting a comment), this information is also assigned to your Twitter account, which you can only prevent by logging out before using the plug-in. For more information on the collection and use of data by Twitter, on your rights in this context, and on ways to protect your privacy, please refer to Twitter’s privacy policy.

Matomo plug-ins (formerly Piwik)

Our website also uses Matomo. This is what is known as a web-analysis service. Matomo uses so-called ‘cookies’, text files that are stored on your computer and enable us to analyse the use of the website. For this purpose, the user information generated by the cookie (including your shortened IP address) is transferred to our server and stored for user analysis. This enables us to further optimize our website. Your IP address is immediately anonymized during this process, so that you as a user remain anonymous to us. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will not be disclosed to third parties. You can prevent the use of cookies by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly. However, this might mean that you will not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

By using this website, you agree to Matomo processing the data collected about you in the manner and for the purpose described above.

4. Why do we process your personal data – and on what legal basis?

4.1 To implement the application procedure

We process the data you send us in your application to check whether your professional qualifications are suitable for the advertised position. We use your information only for the application procedure and transfer it to your personnel file when a contract is concluded. Should no agreement be reached, your information will be deleted or destroyed. We will not use your application documents for any other purpose than for the application process.

4.2 Legitimate interest in data processing

We have a legitimate interest in detecting and preventing abuses of our service; similarly, we have a legitimate interest in improving our service and adapting it to your requirements.

We also use your personal data in the following cases, among others:

  • We analyse your data to protect you from fraudulent activities. This can happen, for example, if you have been the victim of identity theft, or if unauthorized persons have gained access to your user account in some other way;
  • To be able to guarantee IT security;
  • To be able to record and prove facts in the event of any legal disputes.

4.3 Based on your consent

If you have consented to your personal data being processed for one or more specific purpose, we are permitted to process your data. With regard to the future, you can revoke this consent at any time without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic rates (costs of your internet connection). However, withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out up to the date of revocation.

4.4 Based on legal requirements or in the public interest

As a company, we are subject to a wide variety of legal requirements (e.g. laid down by tax legislation). We process your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations.

5. Where we transfer data to and why

5.1 Use of data within Stiftung Mercator

Within Stiftung Mercator, access to your personal data is only granted to those units that need to have access in order to fulfil our contractual or legal obligations or to protect our legitimate interests.

5.2 Use of data outside Stiftung Mercator

We respect the protection of your personal data and only pass on information about you if required by law, if you have given your consent, or to fulfil contractual obligations. For example, we may be subject to a legal obligation to pass on your personal data to the following recipients:

  • public bodies or supervisory authorities, e.g. tax authorities, customs authorities,
  • judicial and law enforcement authorities, e.g. police, courts, public prosecutors,
  • lawyers or notaries, e.g. in legal disputes,
  • chartered accountants.

To enable us to fulfil our contractual obligations, we cooperate with other companies. These include:

  • banks and financial services companies for handling all financial matters.

Own service companies

In order be able to run our business efficiently, we use the services of external service providers that may receive personal data from you to fulfil the purposes described above, including IT service providers and providers of printing and telecommunications services. We select these service providers very carefully and monitor them regularly, particularly their careful handling and safeguarding of the data stored by them. We oblige all service providers to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the legal requirements.

In the case of service companies based outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we take specific security measures (e.g. by using special contractual clauses) to ensure that the data are treated with the same level of care as in the EEA. We regularly check all our service companies for compliance with our specifications.

6. Deletion deadlines

In accordance with the applicable data protection regulations, we do not store your personal data for longer than we need them for the respective processing purposes. If the data are no longer required to fulfil contractual or legal obligations, they are regularly deleted by us unless their temporary storage is still necessary. The following reasons can justify continued storage:

  • Retention obligations under commercial or tax law must be observed: the time periods prescribed for retention, primarily according to the regulations of the German Commercial Code and the German Fiscal Code, are up to 10 years.
  • To obtain evidence in the event of legal disputes within the framework of the legal statute of limitations: limitation periods can be up to 30 years in civil law, whereby the regular limitation period ends after three years.

7. Your rights

You have certain rights relating to the processing of your personal data. More detailed information can be found in the corresponding provisions in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (Chapter III, Articles 15 to 21 of the GDPR).

7.1 Right of access and rectification

You have the right to receive information from us about which of your personal data we process. If this information is not (or no longer) correct, you can demand that we correct the data and, if the information is incomplete, you can demand that it be supplemented. If we have passed on your data to third parties, we will inform the respective third parties in the corresponding legal situation.

7.2 Right of deletion

Under the following circumstances, you can demand the immediate deletion of your personal data:

  • if your personal data are no longer needed for the purposes for which they were collected;
  • if you have revoked your consent and there is no other legal basis for data processing;
  • if you object to processing and there are no overriding legitimate reasons for data processing;
  • if your data are being processed unlawfully;
  • if your personal data have to be deleted to comply with legal obligations.

Please note that before deleting your data, we must check to make sure that there is no legitimate reason to process your personal data.

7.3 Right to restrict processing (‘right to block’)

You can demand that we restrict the processing of your personal data for one of the following reasons:

  • if you dispute the accuracy of the data, until we have had an opportunity to satisfy ourselves as to the accuracy of the data;
  • if the data are being processed unlawfully, but instead of deletion of the data you only request that the use of the personal data be restricted;
  • if, although we no longer need the personal data for processing purposes, you still need them to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
  • if you have lodged an objection to processing and it is not yet clear whether your legitimate interests outweigh ours.

7.4 Right of objection

7.4.1 Right of objection in individual cases

If the processing is being carried out in the public interest or on the basis of a legitimate interest in data processing, you have the right to object to processing for reasons arising from your particular situation. If you lodge an objection, we will not continue processing your personal data unless we can prove compelling, legitimate reasons for processing your data which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or because your personal data serve to assert, exercise or defend legal claims. The objection does not preclude the lawfulness of processing carried out prior to the objection.

The objection is not subject to any condition as to form and should be addressed to @

7.5 Right to data transferability

On request, you have the right to receive, in a transferable and machine-readable format, personal data that you have given us for processing.

7.6 Right of complaint to the supervisory authority (Article 77 of the GDPR)

We always try to process your inquiries and claims as quickly as possible to protect your rights accordingly. However, depending on the frequency of inquiries, it may take up to 30 days before we can give you any further information about your request. Should it take longer, we will inform you promptly of the reasons for the delay and discuss the further procedure with you.

In some cases we are either not allowed or not able to give you any information. Whenever legally permissible, we will inform you of the reason for refusing to provide information.

If you are nevertheless not satisfied with our answers and reactions, or if you believe that we are violating applicable data protection laws, you are free to lodge a complaint both with our data protection officer and with the relevant supervisory authority. The regulatory agency responsible for us is:

Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen (State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information North Rhine-Westphalia)

Helga Block

Postfach 20 04 44
40102 Düsseldorf

or:

Kavalleriestrasse 2-4
40213 Düsseldorf

Phone: +49 211/384 24-0
Fax: +49 211/384 24-10
Email: @
Web: https://www.ldi.nrw.de

 

8. Data privacy statement relating to our social media presence

8.1) Responsibilities and assertion of user rights

If you visit one of our social media channels (e.g. Facebook), we (Stiftung Mercator GmbH), together with the operators of the social media platforms (see “Individual social networks” below for information about those persons with co-responsibility for the respective social media platform), are responsible for the data processing entailed by your visit. You can assert your rights (to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data transmissibility and complaints) both vis-à-vis ourselves and vis-à-vis the operators of the social media portal in question (e.g. vis-à-vis Facebook).

Please note that although we share responsibility with the social media portal operators we do not have complete influence over the data processing activities of the social media portals. Our scope for action is determined primarily by the corporate policy of the providers in question.

8.2) Data processing within the framework of our social media presences, general information

We maintain publicly accessible profiles on social networks. A large number of data processing activities is set in motion when you visit these profiles. We provide you with an overview below of which of your personal data is collected, used and stored by us when you visit our profiles.

The individual social networks used by us can be found further below.

Social networks like Facebook, Twitter etc. can create a user profile in which your preferences and interests are recorded. This allows advertising that reflects your particular interests to be shown to you within and outside the respective social media presence. If you have an account with the respective social network, this interest-based advertising can be displayed on all devices on which you are or have been logged in.

Please also note that we are unable to track all the processing activities that take place on the social media portals. Depending on the provider, it is therefore possible that other processing activities will be conducted by the operators of the social media portals. Details of these can be found in the conditions of use and data privacy regulations of the respective social media portals.

Legal basis

Our social media appearances are intended to maintain as comprehensive an online presence as possible. This is a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 paragraph 1 point f of the GDPR.

Duration of storage

The data collected directly by us via the social media presence will be deleted from our systems as soon as you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to its storage or the purpose of the data storage is no longer applicable.

We have no influence over the duration of storage of your data that is stored by the operators of the social networks for their own purposes. Details of this can be obtained directly from the operators of the social networks (e.g. in their data privacy statement, see below).

Cookies

We have no influence whatsoever over the cookies that are used on the social networks and refer you to the cookie policy of the respective social networks.

8.3) Data processing with the framework of the individual social networks

Facebook

We have a profile on Facebook. This service is provided by Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

We have concluded a joint controller agreement (Controller Addendum) with Facebook. This agreement defines the data processing activities for which we and/or Facebook are responsible when you visit our Facebook page. You can view this agreement by clicking on the following link: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum.

Because personal data are transmitted to the USA, further protective mechanisms are necessary to ensure the data protection level of the GDPR. To guarantee this, we have agreed with the provider on standard data protection clauses pursuant to Article 46 paragraph 2 point c) of the GDPR. These oblige the recipients of the data in the USA to process the data in line with the protection level in Europe.

Details can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum and https://de-de.facebook.com/help/566994660333381.

Processing of personal data by Facebook:

We would like to point out that you use this Facebook page and its functions at your own risk. This applies in particular to the use of the interactive functions (e.g. commenting, sharing, liking).

When you visit our Facebook page, Facebook records among other things your IP address and other information available on your PC in the form of cookies. This information is used in order to provide us, as the operator of the Facebook pages, with statistical information about use of the Facebook page. Facebook makes more detailed information about this available in the following link:

http://de-de.facebook.com/help/pages/insights

The data recorded about you in this context is processed by Facebook Ltd., which may involve it being transmitted to countries outside the European Union. In its privacy policy, Facebook provides a general description of which information Facebook receives and how it is used. You will also find information there about ways of contacting Facebook and about setting options for displayed advertising. The privacy policy can be accessed via the following link:

http://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy

Facebook’s full data use policy can be found here:

https://de-de.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy

How Facebook uses the data from Facebook page visits for its own purposes, the extent to which activities on the Facebook page are attributed to individual users, how long Facebook stores this data and whether data stemming from a Facebook page visit is passed on to third parties is not specified conclusively and clearly by Facebook and is not known to us.

When you access a Facebook page, the IP address assigned to your end device is transmitted to Facebook. According to information from Facebook, this IP address is anonymized (in the case of “German” IP addresses) and deleted after 90 days. In addition, Facebook stores information about the end devices of its users (e.g. within the framework of the function “log-in notification”); it is possible that this allows Facebook to assign IP addresses to individual users.

If you are currently logged in to Facebook as a user, a cookie with your Facebook ID will be located on your end device. This enables Facebook to track that you accessed this page and how you used it. This also applies to all other Facebook pages. Facebook buttons embedded in websites allows Facebook to record your visits to these websites and assign them to your Facebook profile. On the basis of this data, you can be offered tailormade content or advertising.

You can adjust your advertising settings in your user account yourself. To do so, click on the following link and log in: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads.

Processing of data by us:

Our Facebook page offers you the chance to respond to and comment on our posts, to create your own posts and to send us private messages about personal issues. The data that is provided in this context by you and may be accessible to us (e.g. Facebook user name, images, and possibly interests and contact details) will be used by us solely for the purpose of communication based on an overriding legitimate interest (Article 6 paragraph 1 point f of the GDRP). Your data will be deleted, insofar as we are able to do so, when operation of the Facebook page is discontinued.

In addition, statistical data in different categories is accessible to us via the so-called “insights” on the Facebook page. These statistics are compiled and made available by Facebook. As operator of the page, we have no influence on their generation or depiction. We cannot deactivate this function, nor can we prevent the generation or processing of the data. Facebook makes the following data, among others, available to us with respect to our Facebook page:

Total number of page views and activities, post interactions (“likes”, comments, shared content, clicks on links, etc.), (post) reach, video views, responses, proportion of men and women, origin with respect to country and city, language.

Because Facebook is constantly evolving, the availability of the data and the way it is prepared are changing, so we refer you for further details to Facebook’s aforementioned data privacy statement. We use this data that is available in aggregated form to make our posts and activities on our Facebook page more attractive to users.

We cannot link the statistical data to the profile data of Facebook users.

Twitter

We use the Twitter microblogging service. This service is provided by the Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland.

Because personal data are transmitted to the USA, further protective mechanisms are necessary to ensure the data protection level of the GDPR. To guarantee this, we have agreed with the provider on standard data protection clauses pursuant to Article 46 paragraph 2 point c) of the GDPR. These oblige the recipients of the data in the USA to process the data in line with the protection level in Europe.

Details can be found here: https://gdpr.twitter.com/en/controller-to-controller-transfers.html.

You have the possibility to limit the processing of your data in the general settings of your Twitter account and under the menu item “Privacy and safety”.

You can adjust your Twitter privacy settings in your user account yourself. To do so, click on the following link and log in: https://twitter.com/personalization.

Processing of personal data by Twitter:

We would like to point out that you use the Twitter microblogging service on offer here and its functions at your own risk. This applies in particular to the use of the interactive functions (e.g. sharing or liking). Information about which data are processed by Twitter and used for which purposes can be found in Twitter’s privacy statement: https://twitter.com/de/privacy.

We have no influence over the type or scope of the data processed by Twitter, the type of processing or the use or transfer of this data to third parties. In this respect we also have no effective control options.

Processing of data by us:

The data you enter on Twitter, especially your user name and the content published under your account, is processed by us to the extent that we may retweet or respond to your tweets or may compose tweets ourselves that reference your account.

If you share your data when you contact us independently using the tweet or direct messaging function that is provided by Twitter, this data will be processed by us.

In addition, we receive anonymous statistics from Twitter about use of the page. The following information is provided:

  • Followers: number of people who follow us – including growth rates and trends over a defined period of time.
  • Reach: number of people who see a specific post. Number of interactions in response to a post.
  • Ad performance: how many people were reached with a post or paid ad and interacted with it.

We use these statistics, from which we cannot draw conclusions about individual users, to constantly improve our online offering on Twitter and to better reflect the interests of our users. We cannot link the statistical data to the profile data of Twitter users.

LinkedIn

We have a profile on LinkedIn. This service is provided by the LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland. LinkedIn uses advertising cookies.

We have concluded a joint controller agreement (Controller Addendum) with LinkedIn. This agreement defines the data processing activities for which we and/or LinkedIn are responsible when you visit our LinkedIn page. You can view this agreement by clicking on the following link:

https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum

Because personal data are transmitted to the USA, further protective mechanisms are necessary to ensure the data protection level of the GDPR. To guarantee this, we have agreed with the provider on standard data protection clauses pursuant to Article 46 paragraph 2 point c) of the GDPR. These oblige the recipients of the data in the USA to process the data in line with the protection level in Europe.

Details can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/dpa and https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/eu-sccs.

Processing of personal data by LinkedIn:

We would like to point out that you use this LinkedIn page and its functions at your own risk. This applies in particular to the use of the interactive functions (for example when you post a comment, click a Like button, share a post, send us a message, visit the page or engage in any other interaction on our LinkedIn page).

We have no influence over the type or scope of the data processed by LinkedIn, the type of processing or the use or transfer of this data to third parties. In this respect we also have no effective control options. You have the possibility to limit the processing of your data in the general settings of your LinkedIn account. On mobile devices (smartphones, tablet computers) you can additionally use the settings there to limit the access LinkedIn has to contact and calendar data, photos, location data etc. This will depend on the operating system you use, however.

Further information about these points can be found in LinkedIn‘s privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?_l=de_DE

Information about the personalization and privacy setting options can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/66?lang=de

If you wish to disable LinkedIn advertising cookies, please use the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.

Processing of data by us:

We process your data when you communicate with us via LinkedIn.

Through the analysis of visits to and interactions on our LinkedIn page, we additionally receive statistics. The visitor statistics that are compiled are transmitted to us solely in anonymized form.  We use these statistics, from which we cannot draw conclusions about individual users, to constantly improve our online offering on LinkedIn and to better reflect the interests of our users. We cannot link the statistical data to the profile data of LinkedIn users.

YouTube channel

We have a profile on YouTube. This service is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Because personal data are transmitted to the USA, further protective mechanisms are necessary to ensure the data protection level of the GDPR. To guarantee this, Google applies the standard data protection clauses pursuant to Article 46 paragraph 2 point c) of the GDPR:

https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks?hl=de

Processing of personal data by YouTube:

We would like to point out that you use the YouTube channel on offer here and its functions at your own risk. This applies in particular to the use of the “Discussion” function. Information about which data are processed by Google and used for which purposes can be found in Google’s privacy statement: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de#infocollect.

We have no influence over the type or scope of the data processed by Google, the type of processing or the use or transfer of this data to third parties. In this respect we also have no effective control options.

You have the possibility to limit the processing of your data in the general settings of your Google account. In addition to these tools, Google also offers specific privacy settings for YouTube. More information can be found in Google’s product privacy guide: https://policies.google.com/technologies/product-privacy?hl=de&gl=de.

Processing of data by us:

We process personal data when you contact us via our YouTube channel, for example by commenting on a video. If you contact us via our YouTube channel, the content of your message and the other personal data that is transmitted at the same time will be processed by us.  However, the data you enter on YouTube, especially your user name and the content published under your account, is processed by us to the extent that we may respond to your comments and your publications under “Discussions”.

In addition, we receive anonymous statistics from YouTube about use of the channel. The following information is provided:

  • Number of total video views and average video views per person, and trend data (figures rising/falling by how much)
  • Number of subscribers and trend data
  • Number of visitors to the channel
  • Viewer interactions (likes, comments, shared content)
  • Time users have spent on the channel with videos or until they subscribe
  • The reach of the video
  • The average percentage proportion of the videos that a user watches

We use these statistics, from which we cannot draw conclusions about individual users, to constantly improve our online offering on YouTube and to better reflect the interests of our users. We cannot link the statistical data to the profile data of YouTube users.

 Version 9

This privacy policy statement is dated 19. January 2022 We reserve the right to change our security and data protection measures if this is made necessary by technical developments. In these cases we will also adapt our data protection information accordingly. Therefore, please note the latest version of our privacy policy notice. Should individual provisions of this privacy policy statement be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining conditions shall remain unaffected. This and the entire legal relationship between the users of this website and Stiftung Mercator shall be governed exclusively by German law to the exclusion of international conflict-of-laws regulations. The place of jurisdiction is Essen.