Privacy Policy

Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz attaches great importance to protection of your personal data. To this end, it has taken technical and organisational measures to ensure observation and compliance with  data protection regulations.

Legal Basis

When you visit the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz websites (e.g., www.kunstsammlungen-chemnitz.de), Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz provides a telemedia service for you within the meaning of the German Telemedia Act (Telemediengesetz, TMG). The website is thus part of the public relations work of Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. The public relations work is part of the museum operations, which are carried out as a voluntary task in the public interest in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 e) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Personal data is only processed (collected, stored and used) if and as long as it is necessary for the services offered on the website. The data will be subsequently deleted immediately. Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz and its partners commissioned with technical processing treat all data confidentially.

Controller

The controller as defined in the GDPR and other national data protection laws of the member states as well as other data protection provisions is:

Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Theaterplatz 1
09111 Chemnitz, Germany
represented by:
Dr. Florence Thurmes, General director

The data protection officer of the controller is:

Data protection officer of the City of Chemnitz
09106 Chemnitz, Germany
E-mail: datenschutz@stadt-chemnitz.de

Automatic Data Recording and Cookies

When accessing the portal, the following data is stored for security control purposes:

• IP address (anonymised)
• Date and time of the page view
• Client software (normally browser type, version numbers
• Transmitted input values (e.g., search terms)
• Access status of the web server (e.g., file transferred, file not found etc.)

The website is hosted externally. The company receives the above-mentioned data as a commissioned processor. Data protection-compliant handling is ensured by means of a contract for commissioned processing in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. Recorded data is deleted following a security check within one month at the latest.

Cookies

This website uses cookies. These are small text files stored on your end device. Your browser accesses these files. The use of cookies increases the user-friendliness and security of this website.

We use analytical cookies to optimise the website experience for our users. These analytical cookies allow us to gain insight into the use of our website. We ask for your permission to set analytical cookies. You grant this permission by confirming the marketing cookie checkbox in the cookie banner.

You can find more information on cookies used in the Cookie Policy.

Entry of Personal Data

The use of the online shop, the contact form and the newsletter function requires the entry of personal data (name, e-mail address) in order to be able to provide the requested services. The use of this data is based on your consent, which you give by ticking the box on the contact form.

Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz is controller of the data, which will not be disclosed to third parties. All personal data, even that which goes beyond the mandatory information, is recorded and stored exclusively for the respective purpose and is not disclosed  to third parties.

You should note that if data is transmitted via Internet without being encrypted, there is a possibility that third parties may take note of or falsify it. For this reason, the encryption method Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is available for interactive offers.

The legislator has enacted a variety of storage obligations and periods. The respective data is routinely deleted if it is no longer required for performance of the task after these periods have expired.

Encrypted Data Transmission

This website uses SSL encryption in order to protect your transmitted data in the best possible way. Third parties cannot read any data you transmit to this website thanks to SSL encryption.

If you wish to send e-mails with confidential information to the City of Chemnitz, please note that no encryption can be offered at present and that transmission would not be secure.

Your Rights

Declarations of consent to the processing of personal data can be withdrawn at any time for the future. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing that has taken place on the basis of the consent until withdrawal. Withdrawal is to be addressed to kunstsammlungen@stadt-chemnitz.de or by post to Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Theaterplatz 1, 09111 Chemnitz, Germany.

You have the following rights vis-à-vis Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, provided the legal requirements pursuant to the GDPR are fulfilled.

• Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR)
• Right to rectification of erroneous data (Art. 16 GDPR)
• Right to erasure or to be forgotten (Art. 17 GDPR)
• Right to restrict processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
• Right to lodge a complaint to the data protection supervisory authority against the processing of your personal data (Art. 77 GDPR)

Further Information

Your trust is important to us. Therefore, we would like to answer your questions regarding processing of your personal data at any time. If you have any questions which this data privacy policy could not answer or if you wish to receive more detailed information on any point, please contact datenschutz@stadt-chemnitz.de at any time.

YouTube

YouTube video messages may be embedded in the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz websites. Please note that Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz  has no influence on whether operators of other websites comply with applicable data protection provisions.

The data privacy policies of the above-mentioned operators can be found at: www.youtube.com.