General data protection information -----------

At IMA, your data is mainly anonymized and processed and stored to a limited extent.
The legal basis for the processing of your data is a special provision in a specialist law or Art. 4 Para. 1 of the Bavarian Data Protection Act (BayDSG), which states that the processing of personal data by a public body is permissible without prejudice to other provisions, if it is required for a task incumbent on it.

With this general notice, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that you generally have the following rights:

• to be informed about the purposes of data processing and its legal basis
  
• to be informed of the legal basis (see Art. 6 GDPR) on which the responsible party bases the data processing
  
• that the legitimate interest in data processing (see Art. 6 GDPR) is named
  
• to have the recipient or the category of recipients named when your data is passed on
  
• to be informed, when your data is transferred to third countries.
  
  

You may also have a right of

• inquiry (Art. 15 DSGVO)
  
• rectification (Art. 16 DSGVO)
  
• deletion (Art. 17 DSGVO)
  
• restriction of processing (Art. 18 DSGVO)
  
• data portability (Art. 20 DSGVO)
  
• objection to further processing (Art. 21 DSGVO)
  
  

We are at your disposal for further information or questions on your part.

Privacy policy for the use of our website -----------

1. An overview of data protection




General
The following gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our website. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy found below.



Data collection on our website
The party responsible for collecting data on this website is:



Internationale Meistersinger Akademie


c/o Prof. Dr. Edith Wiens
Georg-Stuster-Str. 10
82152 Krailling



Tel: +49 151 61560597
E-Mail: ima@meistersingerakademie.com
Internet: www.meistersingerakademie.com



How do we collect your data?
Your data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This data is primarily technical data such as the browser and operating system you are using when you accessed the page. This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.



What do we use your data for?
Part of the data is collected to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Other data can be used to analyze how visitors use the site.



What rights do you have regarding your data?
You always have the right to request information about your stored data, its origin, its recipients, and the purpose of its collection at no charge. You also have the right to request that it be corrected, blocked, or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in the legal notice if you have further questions about the issue of privacy and data protection. You may also, of course, file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities.



2. Hosting und Content Delivery Networks (CDN)




External hosting
This website is hosted by an external service provider (hoster). The personal data recorded on this website are stored on the host's servers. This includes mainly IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website access and other data generated via a website.
The host is used for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit.b GDPR) and in the interest of a safe, fast and efficient provision of our online offer by a professional provider (Art. 6 Para . 1 lit.f GDPR).
Our host will only process your data insofar as this is necessary to fulfill his performance obligations and follow our instructions with regard to this data.



3. General information and mandatory information




Data protection
The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.
If you use this website, various pieces of personal data will be collected. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what information we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.
Please note that data transmitted via the internet (e.g. via email communication) may be subject to security breaches. Complete protection of your data from third-party access is not possible.



Notice concerning the party responsible for this website
The party responsible for processing data on this website is:



Internationale Meistersinger Akademie


c/o Prof. Dr. Edith Wiens
Georg-Stuster-Str. 10
82152 Krailling



Tel: +49 151 61560597
E-Mail: ima@meistersingerakademie.com
Internet: www.meistersingerakademie.com
The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (names, email addresses, etc.).



Note on data transfer to the USA
Tools from companies based in the USA are integrated on our website. When these tools are active, your personal data can be passed on to the US servers of the respective companies. We would like to point out that the USA is not a safe third country within the meaning of EU data protection law. US companies are obliged to surrender personal data to security authorities without you, as the person concerned, being able to take legal action against this. It therefore cannot be ruled out that US authorities (e.g. secret services) process, evaluate and permanently store your data on US servers for monitoring purposes. We have no influence on these processing activities.



Revocation of your consent to the processing of your data
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.



Right to file complaints with regulatory authorities
If there has been a breach of data protection legislation, the person affected may file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities. The competent regulatory authority for matters related to data protection legislation is the data protection officer of the German state in which our company is headquartered. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link:
https://www.bfdi.bund.de



Right to data portability
You have the right to have data which we process based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract automatically delivered to yourself or to a third party in a standard, machine-readable format. If you require the direct transfer of data to another responsible party, this will only be done to the extent to which this is technically feasible.



SSL or TLS encryption
This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and for the protection of the transmission of confidential content, such as the inquiries you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection in your browser's address line when it changes from "http://" to "https://" and the lock icon is displayed in your browser's address bar.
If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transfer to us cannot be read by third parties.



Information, blocking, deletion
As permitted by law, you have the right to be provided at any time with information free of charge about any of your personal data that is stored as well as its origin, the recipient and the purpose for which it has been processed. You also have the right to have this data corrected, blocked or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in our legal notice if you have further questions on the topic of personal data.



Opposition to promotional emails
We hereby expressly prohibit the use of contact data published in the context of website legal notice requirements with regard to sending promotional and informational materials not expressly requested. The website operator reserves the right to take specific legal action if unsolicited advertising material, such as email spam, is received.



4. Data protection officer




Statutory data protection officer
Statutory data protection officer for IMA is

Laura Butcher
Tel: +49 151 61560597
E-Mail: ima@meistersingerakademie.com



5. Data collection on our website




Cookies
Some of our web pages use cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. These cookies make it possible to recognize your browser when you next visit the site. You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure an optimized service provided free of technical errors. If other cookies (such as those used to analyze your surfing behavior) are also stored, they will be treated separately in this privacy policy.



Server log files
The website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us in "server log files". These are:


• Referrer URL
  
• Time of the server request
  
• IP address
  
• Informationen, which can be deduced by means of the IP address
  
  

This data will not be combined with data from other sources. The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.



Inquiries by email, phone or fax
If you contact us by e-mail, telephone or fax, your request, including all personal data resulting therefrom (name, request), will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your request. We do not pass on this data without your consent.
This data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR, if your request is related to the performance of a contract or is necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures.In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the inquiries addressed to us (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR), if it was queried.
The data you send to us via contact requests will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions - in particular statutory retention periods - remain unaffected.



6. Social media




Instagram Plugin
Functions of the Instagram service are integrated on this website. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.
If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the contents of this website to your Instagram profile by clicking the Instagram button. This enables Instagram to assign your visit of this website to your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or its use by Instagram.
The data are stored and analyzed on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the widest possible visibility in social media.
You can find more information on this in Instagram's privacy policy: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.



7. Plugins und Tools




YouTube
We use the provider YouTube for the integration of videos. YouTube is operated by YouTube LLC with headquarters at 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube is represented by Google Inc. based at 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
If you open up the subpages of our website with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established and the plugin is displayed.This will transmit to the YouTube server which of our subpages you have visited. If you are logged in as a member of YouTube, YouTube will assign this information to your personal user account. When using the plugin, e.g. when you click the start button of a video, this information is also assigned to your user account. You can find further information on data processing and information on data protection by YouTube (Google) at https://policies.google.com/privacy. Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.



Google Web Fonts
This page uses so-called web fonts, which are provided by Google, for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to the Google servers. This gives Google knowledge that this website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google WebFonts is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the uniform representation of the typeface on his website.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.
For more information on Google Web Fonts, see https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and the privacy policy of Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.