The protection of your personal data is of utmost importance to us. The usage of offers from Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (e.g. of publications or events) usually requires the specification of personal data (e.g. contact details such as names, postal addresses, e-mail addresses). The collection, processing and usage of these data is only permitted for Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung within the statutory framework. Where your consent is required (e.g. when registering for the newsletter), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung takes utmost care to ensure that the content and formal requirements for proper consent are met.

For personal information used on this website, we are committed to protecting your personal data in compliance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (“PDPA”) of Singapore.

If you have any feedback or enquiries relating to your personal data or if you wish to know more about our data protection policies and practices or revoke your consent to the processing and usage of your data, please contact our Data Protection Officer Annie Teo at:

info.orca(at)fes.de

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Office for Regional Cooperation in Asia
Thanapoom Tower, 23rd Floor
1550 New Petchburi Road
Makkasan, Ratchathewi
Bangkok 10400, Thailand

+66 2652 7178/9

Data Protection

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung attaches the utmost importance to the protection of your personal data. It strictly abides by statutory provisions governing admissibility of its handling of personal data - in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) - and has taken the warranted technical and organisational measures to ensure data security.

The following information is intended to provide you a summary of how we ensure this protection, in particular what kind of data we collect, process and use for what purposes and what rights are granted to you by law.

The controller for the data processing

The controller (Article 4, no. 7 of the GDPR) is

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e. V.
Godesberger Allee 149
53175 Bonn

0228 883-0
0228 883-9207

Presse(at)fes.de

Data Protection Officer, supervisory authority

The contact address of the Data Protection Officer of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung is:

DMC Datenschutz Management & Consulting GmbH & Co. KG
represented by Mr. Thomas Müthlein
Belvederestraße 65
50933 Köln

+49 (0) 221 139982-19
datenschutz@fes.de
www.dmc-datenschutz.de

You are entitled to file a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority (Article 13, section 2 (d) of the GDPR). The supervisory authority in charge of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung is the North Rhine-Westphalian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Kavalleriestraße 2-4, 40213 Düsseldorf. 

Data collected automatically

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung collects and stores the following information automatically transmitted to us via your browser in its server files when you access this website as a standard procedure:

• the browser type / version
• the operating system used
• the referrer URL (the site visited previously)
• the hostname of the accessing computer (IP address)
• the time and date of the server request.

This information cannot be assigned to specific individuals by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. It is only evaluated anonymously and is used to improve the website content and optimise its functions. This data is not merged, pooled or combined with any other data sources, nor are personal user profiles created in any other manner.

Personal data of the user, purposes of processing

Use of services provided by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (e.g. publications or events) or the processing of enquiries (e.g. on scholarships) generally requires disclosure of personal data (for instance, contact data such as names, postal addresses, e-mail addresses). Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung is only allowed to collect, process and use this data within bounds strictly limited by law (Article 6, section 1, subsection 1, letters b and a of the GDPR.

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung furthermore uses this data to draw your attention to the Foundation's other events, publications and activities (Article 6, section 1, subsection 1, letters a and f of the GDPR); generally, we ask you for your consent. We only transmit data to third parties (e.g. to government authorities) if we are obligated by law to do so or if you have provided us your consent to such. Whenever the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung engages service providers to provide technical support for IT-supported workflows, this is done in accordance with the provisions applying to contract data processing (Article 28 of the GDPR).

If your consent is required (e.g. including when registering to receive our newsletter), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung exercises the utmost care in ensuring compliance with the stipulations and formal requirements necessary for proper consent (Article 7 of the GDPR). You can call up the contents of your declaration of consent at any time. In addition, you can withdraw your consent to the processing and use of your data at any time (Article 7, section 3 of the GDPR); this also applies to the withdrawal of a declaration of consent that you issued to Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung before 25 May 2018 (the date that the GDPR entered into force). In this case, please contact Onlineredaktion(at)fes.de

Erasure (right to be forgotten)

Subject to the reservation of storage periods required by law, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung will delete your data if the purpose for which the data is being stored has been attained, you have withdrawn your consent or if one of the additional cases listed in Article 17 of the GDPR applies.

Cookies

The Internet pages use so-called cookies in several places. These serve to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies". These cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. You have the option of setting your browser to notify you if you are supposed to receive a cookie, however. Then you can decide yourself whether you want to allow this or not. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain any viruses.

Web analysis tools, plugins

The website of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung uses the following services, which use cookies: Google Maps, Google Custom Search and YouTube. You can obtain additional information by clicking on the indicated services.

Matomo web analysis tool (previously Piwik)

Matomo web analysis software sets a cookie on the user's computer.

Here you can decide whether to allow a unique web analysis cookie to be set in your browser in order to enable the operator of the website to collect and analyse various statistical data. If you wish to opt out, click the following link in order to have the Matomo deactivation cookie placed in your browser.