ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius provides a networking platform for the participants and alumni of its programmes on its website https://www.zeit-stiftung-alumni.de/. The foundation attaches great importance to the protection of your personal data. We regard your personal data as strictly confidential. The data collected when you visit our web pages is stored and used in accordance with the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz). This data protection notice provides information on how the ZEIT-Stiftung deals with the data and information that are collected when you visit the alumni pages on our website.

1. Data Collection and Processing
ZEIT-Stiftung ensures that only relevant data is collected and stored. The alumni pages provide general information in a public domain area, and more specific information in a restricted area accessible only by password. The collection of personal data through our web pages is exclusively related to your participation in the programmes of the foundation. The alumni of these programmes have access to a restricted area via password that enables them to view the personal data of other participants such as their professional profile or contact details for networking purposes. Any commercial use of this data is prohibited. Participants can register for events on the restricted area of the website. The use of your personal data is strictly limited to the aims and requirements of networking. ZEIT-Stiftung does not share this data with third parties.

2. Cookies
Whenever you visit out web pages, this entails the automatic collection of data in the form of so-called cookies. A cookie is a small amount of data that is saved by the web-browser on your computer. It interacts with your web-browser and is designed to enable the full functionality of the web pages. To do so, the cookie reads data pertaining to the model of computer used, the operating system, the location, and the time spent browsing the pages in question. . No personal data is stored in the cookies used to access our web pages. The following cookies are used on our pages:

3. Data Transmission to Typekit
In order to achieve optimal web typography for the reading of digital texts and the use of font styles, the ZEIT-Stiftung uses the Adobe Typekit service on its web pages. The service provider requires the following information for billing purposes from the ZEIT-Stiftung: which fonts are provided by which service, user-ID of the client, application required to use the fonts, server providing the fonts, hostname of the download page, and time required to download the fonts. Adobe collaborates with other font providers in order to be able to provide the required fonts for visiting our websites on your computer via Typekit. The loading of these web fonts is enabled through a server call to Adobe. This entails the storing of the IP-address of the browser on your computer by Adobe. Further information is available in the Adobe data protection guidelines.

4. Links to Websites of Other Providers
The web pages under "ZEIT-Stiftung-Alumni" contain links to some websites of other providers. As a user, you may view and download photos via the filehosting service "Dropbox". No data is transmitted to social media companies. Unless the user follows a clearly marked link, there is no data transmission to the link in question. This data protection notice applies only to the web pages of "ZEIT-Stiftung-Alumni". We cannot influence or monitor whether other providers comply with data protection laws.

5. Security
In order to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of personal data, the ZEIT-Stiftung undertakes all necessary technical and organizational security measures to prevent loss of data, its misuse or unlawful access. To ensure this, the data is stored in a secure systems environment. Please be advised that there is a risk of security breaches during data transmission by email via the Internet. We therefore cannot guarantee complete protection of data against unauthorized outside access.

6. Data Subject Access Requests
Under the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz), you have the right to information about your stored personal data, and you may exercise the right for the data in question to be corrected, blocked or deleted. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the data protection officer of the ZEIT-Stiftung at schuster@zeit-stiftung.de. By using our website, you agree to the above terms and conditions concerning data collection and processing.

7. Web Analysis Services
Our websites use Piwik. This is a tracking service that provides analysis of the use of our web pages. To this end, the information generated by the cookie _pk_* (including your abbreviated IP-address) is sent to our server and saved for analytical purposes, for example the duration and sequence of your search on our pages. This information enables us to measure user frequency and helps us improve the attractiveness and functionality of our web pages. Your IP-address is immediately anonymized as part of the process, which means that you as a user remain anonymous to us. The information on your use of our website that is generated by the cookie is not shared with any third party. You can disable the cookies through the appropriate setting of your browser software, but this may result in your being blocked from using some of the functions of our website. If you wish to prevent the collection and analysis of this data during your visit to our website, you may opt out of the collection and use at any time by mouse click. In this case, a so-called opt-out cookie is created in your browser with the result that Piwik collects no session data. Please note that whenever you delete your cookies, the opt-out cookie is automatically also deleted and will have to be reactivated on your next visit. You can decide here whether a dedicated web analysis cookie may be placed in your browser to enable the provider of the website to collect and analyse a range of statistical data. If you wish to opt out, please click on the following link to install the Piwik deactivating cookie in your browser.