Copyright and data privacy

Copyright

The layout and design of the website are protected by copyright. This also applies to the individual editorial contributions and the way they are compiled and to photographs and illustrations.

The pages may be duplicated for personal use only. Any other use of the pages or parts thereof is only permissible with the written consent of the Land government. The only exceptions to this are the press releases of the Land government of Schleswig-Holstein and the speeches published in the Internet. Their content may be used without specific permission.

Please note:

No liability is accepted for completeness, for any errors of an editorial or technical nature, omissions, or the correctness of the entries. In particular, no guarantee is given for the completeness and correctness of information accessed by way of inserted links.

Site owners are responsible under the general laws for content of their own which they offer for use. A distinction must be made between such content of their own and cross-references to content offered by other site owners.

References by means of links to the content of third-party websites are for information only.

Responsibility for such third-party content lies solely with the site owner offering the content. The web pages of the other site owners were examined with great care and to the best of our knowledge and belief before the links were inserted. However, no guarantee can be given for the completeness and correctness of information accessed by means of inserted links. The content of the other web pages may be changed at any time without the knowledge of the Land government’s editorial team.

The following applies to all links on these pages:
We emphasize that we have no influence on the design or content of other websites which can be accessed from our own Internet presence by means of links, and that the content of such websites does not necessarily reflect our own opinion. This statement applies to all the pages of this website and the links they contain.

Should the Land government have included references to pages whose content gives cause for objection, please inform our Internet editorial team.

The Land government’s Internet editorial team reserves the right to change, add to or withdraw the information offered without advance notice.

Data privacy declaration

The Land government takes the privacy of your personal data very seriously. We want you to know which data we record, and when, and how we use the information. Technical and organizational measures have been taken to ensure that the data protection regulations are observed both by us and by our service providers.

As our web pages are updated and new technologies implemented it may become necessary to change this data privacy declaration. So we recommend that you read this declaration again from time to time.

Access to the website

Every visit to the Land government’s website is recorded in a journal file. The journal file stores the following data:

• Date and time of the call
• Name of the Internet service used, the resource called and the action used
• The inquiry made by the client, if any
• Technical data of our server on which the Internet service was called
• Volume of data transmitted
• Information as to whether the call was successful
• IP address of the calling computer
• Browser used by the calling computer.

The IP addresses are used solely for statistical evaluation of the use of the website; they are stored for a short time in an anonymized and summarized form. The data from the journal file are stored for a maximum of four days, then erased.

In some parts of our website you will be asked to enter personal data on forms (if you wish to order a newsletter or brochure, for example). We need this information in order to meet your request. It is up to you to decide whether to enter this information or not. Your personal data will not be combined with other data or compared with them; they will only be used for the purpose you intended. If it is necessary to store the data in order to meet your request, your information will be placed in specially protected servers. It will not be stored beyond the time needed to perform the requested service.

Passing on of personal data

Data recorded in connection with visits to the Land government’s website will only be passed on to third parties outside the Land government if we are obliged to do so by law or following a court order or if it is necessary to pass them on to enable prosecution in the event of an attack on the Land government’s Internet infrastructure. They will not be passed on for any other commercial or non-commercial purpose.

We use the personal information entered by you solely in answer to your request and only within the Land government and the public authorities, offices and institutions entrusted with the relevant service. The information is not passed on to third parties for other purposes.

Use of cookies

A cookie is a text file generated by the server of the Land government’s website and sent to the user’s Internet browser. Certain functions of the Land government’s Internet presence use session cookies (for example the shopping-cart function or the on-line police station). Session cookies store a series of numbers to identify the user (ID). The website server needs this ID, for example in order to offer the user his chosen brochures centrally in a shopping cart or to save parts of forms that have already been filled in. No other data on use is recorded. The session cookie ceases to be valid when the form has been sent off, after a break of four minutes or when the Internet browser is closed, and is erased automatically.

Most browsers are set to accept cookies automatically. You can set your browser so that it enables you to decide in each case whether or not to accept, or to reject all cookies.

Newsletters

In order to send you the newsletter you have ordered we store your email address. The addresses are encoded and stored in a data base. The data base and mailing lists are only accessible to the system administrators and cannot be accessed through the Internet.

Links to third-party websites

Our Internet presence contains links to websites operated by third parties. We have no means of ensuring that these parties abide by the regulations on data privacy.

Contact:

Further information concerning the handling of personal data by the Land government is available from the Ministry of Finance of Land Schleswig-Holstein at the following address:

Finanzministerium des Landes Schleswig-Holstein
- Referat VI 52 -
Postfach 7127
24171 Kiel
E-mail: LandesportalBetrieb@fimi.landsh.de



Status at 30 January 2009