Europe Talks 2024 Privacy Policy
Europe Talks 2024
Europe Talks 2024 is part of My Country Talks, an international platform for political dialogue. ZEIT ONLINE has launched the project with various media partners, which are listed in detail below. If you have reached the age of 18, you have the opportunity to participate in Europe Talks 2024either on the websites of the media partners (collectively referred to as "partner organisations", "media partners", or "partners", individually referred to as "media partner" or "partner") or on the websites of third parties who include the sign-up form in their website.
If you participate in the project on the website of a partner organisation, the respective partner organisation will process your data and be accordingly responsible. If you participate in the project on a third party website, the data collection is carried out directly by and under the responsibility of ZEIT ONLINE.
Below you will find an overview of the partner organisations and third party websites that offer you a participation in the project, as well as a brief overview of the data collected in the context of participation, and within the software used for this purpose. You will also find a summary of your rights as a participant. Please note that the websites on which participation in the project is made possible may collect additional data. Information on this can be found in the Privacy Policy valid for the website in question, which we name in the following.
Responsible for any data processing is
Good Conversations gGmbH
represented by the managing directors Christian Roepke und Enrique Tarragona
Speersort 1 20095 Hamburg, Germany
Telephone: 040 / 32 80 - 0
Email: support@mycountrytalks.org
Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted via dsb@zeit.de.
If you have reached the age of 18, you have the opportunity to participate in Europe Talks 2024on the following websites of the partner organisations:
If you have reached the age of 18, you have the opportunity to participate in Europe Talks 2024on the following third party websites:
(1) Registration
To participate in this project, it is necessary that you answer various yes-or-no-questions about your views on current topics and provide the following personal data: First and last name, gender, age, postal code, e-mail address, and mobile phone number.
Your postal code will be used to find a conversation partner who lives in another country.
(2) After registration
After your registration you will be asked to confirm your participation by email. By clicking on the confirmation link contained in the respective message you confirm your participation. After confirming your participation, the answers you provide will be compared with those of other participants and you will then be matched with a discussion partner (your so-called “match”) whose answers are as different from yours as possible.
Once you’ve been matched with your discussion partner, if you would confirm to meet him or her, you will be enabled by the software to send a note, which will be delivered via email. If your partner confirms to meet you, he or she will also be able to send you a note which will be delivered by the software via email. If you both confirm to meet each other, your email address will automatically be sent to your discussion partner.
You and your discussion partner can arrange to meet for a one-on-one conversation, either offline in a place you both choose or online (e.g. video conferencing). Please be aware that ZEIT ONLINE and the partner organisations are not responsible for personal data collected, processed or storaged by the platform for video conferencing, you have chosen. Please note their respective privacy policy.
After your conversation, a questionnaire will be sent to you by email asking for your feedback on the project and the meeting with your discussion partner. It will also ask you to upload a selfie, video or screenshot of yourself and your discussion partner, which is fully optional.
The data requested is required in order to enable you to participate in the project. Data processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR. Without answers to the questions about your views on current topics, we cannot assign you a match. Your contact details are necessary to provide you with the confirmation link and later with a match. We need your age to ensure that you are at least 18 years old. As part of the registration process, participants will also be asked to consent to the processing of specific data. Data processing is based on Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a) GDPR insofar as these special categories of personal data are concerned.
You can revoke your consent to data processing and/or data transfer at any time, for example by sending an e-mail to support@mycountrytalks.org. If you revoke your consent to data processing and/or data transfer, you can no longer participate in the project.
Your first name, country, and your replies to the open questions will be sent to your discussion partner directly after matching. If you send a note, it will also be sent to your discussion partner. Only in the case that you and your match both confirm to meet will your last name and your email address be sent to your match for contact purposes. The disclosure of the data is necessary to fulfill your participation in the project and is based on Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR and, with regard to specific data on your consent in this regard and, to this extent, on Art. 9 (2) a) GDPR.
The partner organisations can only access the data collected on their own respective websites. Only if you are assigned a participant as a match who has registered to participate in the event via the platform of another partner organisation, the other partner organisation will be informed of your first and last name, gender, country, postal code, and opinions.
The software used is operated by ZEIT Online GmbH, which uses other service providers for software development, hosting, e-mail and SMS dispatch.
ZEIT ONLINE GmbH and its service providers will act on behalf of the person responsible for the respective website and process your data only according to their instructions. The corresponding data processing is based on the legitimate interest of the partner organisations resulting from the purposes and in this respect on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.
Participation in the project may involve the transfer of certain personal data to third countries, i.e. countries where the GDPR is not applicable law. Such a transfer is carried out in a lawful manner if the European Commission has established that an adequate level of data protection is required in the third country. In the absence of an adequacy decision by the European Commission, personal data will only be transferred to a third country if appropriate safeguards in accordance with Art. 46 GDPR or if one of the conditions in Art. 49 GDPR is met.
Unless otherwise stated below, we use as appropriate safeguards the standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to processors in third countries:https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32010D0087.
SMS message are sent by Twilio, Twilio Ireland Limited, 25-28 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland. Your mobile phone numbers will be forwarded to Twilio for this purpose. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that Twilio will not also transfer the data to its parent company, Twilio Inc. based in the USA. In this regard, the information on a transfer of personal data to third countries applies.
Once the event has been completed, the cooperation partners will retain your data for the duration of the feedback phase (three months) and a further six months thereafter in the event of follow-up questions. For the purpose of announcing and promoting future "My Country Talks" events, the participant name, age, gender, location of the meeting and feedback, including images, may be used and stored for up to three years if you have given your express consent to this before the data is collected. After that, the data will be retained until the expiry of the statute of limitations, in order to demonstrate that the data processing was justified within the scope of the project. Access to the data is then no longer possible for the cooperation partner.
With your consent, we may use your data which was submitted during the registration, matching and feedback phase, including photos or videos, for reporting on the project. The information can be published on the websites as well as on our social media profiles of the partner network.
If a photo is uploaded to social media channels, it will be forwarded to the following operators of the respective social network:
The social networks Facebook and Instagram are offered by Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. It cannot be precluded that Facebook stores and processes the uploaded data independently. We have no control over the extent of the collection and further use of this data by Facebook. You can find information from the third party provider on data protection on the following Face-book website:https://www.facebook.com/about...
Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that Facebook will not also transfer the data to its parent company, Facebook Inc.based in the USA. In this regard, the information on a transfer of personal data to third countries applies.
The X network is offered by Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02, AX07 Ireland. It cannot be precluded that Twitter stores and processes the uploaded data independently. We have no influence on the extent of the collection and further use of this data by Twitter. Information from the third party provider on data protection can be found on the following Twitter website: https://twitter.com/de/privacy
Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that X will not also transfer the data to its parent company, Twitter Inc. based in the USA. In this regard, the information on a transfer of personal data to third countries applies.
The legal basis for data processing is your consent to publication given with the up-load and thus Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. You can revoke this consent at any time, e.g. by sending an e-mail to support@mycountrytalks.org. We will store your data as long as we did not receive your revocation.
With your explicit consent, data controllers may share your data which was submitted during the registration, matching and feedback phase, including pictures and videos, with partners who are interested in reporting about the project. Consent is usually requested during the questionnaire in the feedback phase, but can also be declared and revoked later. The legal basis for data processing is your consent to publication given with the upload and thus Art. 6 (1) a), 9 (2) a) GDPR. The data controller is responsible for passing on the data to the partner organisations, and the respective partner is responsible for their own subsequent processing. If you provide personal data directly to a partner or if the partner collects personal data directly from you, the respective partner is responsible for data processing from the beginning; its privacy policy then applies.
Partners are allowed to report on the project. Therefore we are allowed to forward aggregated/anonymized data, from which no personal reference can be made. As stated under b), personal data will only be shared with partners with your consent.
You have the right to obtain information about the stored personal data concerning you at any time. You also have the right to transfer, correct or delete your personal data and to limit the processing of your data. You can also object to the processing of your data at any time. For this in detail:
If you participate in the project on the website of a partner organisation, the respective partner organisation will process your data and be accordingly responsible. If you participate in the project on a third party website, the data collection is carried out directly by and under the responsibility of ZEIT ONLINE.
Below you will find an overview of the partner organisations and third party websites that offer you a participation in the project, as well as a brief overview of the data collected in the context of participation, and within the software used for this purpose. You will also find a summary of your rights as a participant. Please note that the websites on which participation in the project is made possible may collect additional data. Information on this can be found in the Privacy Policy valid for the website in question, which we name in the following.
1. To the processing of the collected data during the project and the independent data controllers
a) Responsibility for Data Processing
Responsible for any data processing is
Good Conversations gGmbH
represented by the managing directors Christian Roepke und Enrique Tarragona
Speersort 1 20095 Hamburg, Germany
Telephone: 040 / 32 80 - 0
Email: support@mycountrytalks.org
Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted via dsb@zeit.de.
b) Partner Organisations
If you have reached the age of 18, you have the opportunity to participate in Europe Talks 2024on the following websites of the partner organisations:
- Euractiv https://www.euractiv.com (Euractiv Media BV, International Press Center Boulevard Charlemagne 1, Brussels 1041 Belgium
- Der Standard https://www.derstandard.at/ (STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H., Vordere Zollamtsstraße 13, A - 1030 Wien, Datenschutz datenschutz@derstandard.at, zuständigen Aufsichtsbehörde dsb.gv.at)
- Efimerida ton Syntakton https://www.efsyn.gr/ (Ανεξάρτητα Μέσα Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης Α.Ε., Κολοκοτρώνη 8, GR -10561 Σύνταγμα)
- Gazeta Wyborczy https://www.gazeta.pl/ (Agora s.a., ul. Czerska 8/10, PL - 00-732 Warszawa)
- Il Fatto Quotidiano https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it (Società Editoriale Il Fatto S.p.A., Via di Sant’Erasmo 2, 00184 – Roma (RM))
- LRT.lt https://www.lrt.lt/ (S. Konarskio g. 49, LT-03123 Vilnius)
- N1 https://n1info.com/ (Omladinskih brigada 86p)
- Mirror https://www.mirror.co.uk/ (Reach plc, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, E14
5AP)
- SME https://www.sme.sk (PETIT PRESS, a. s. Lazaretská 12, 811 08 Bratislava)
- PressOne https://pressone.ro (PRESS ONE MEDIA SRL București, Str Râmnicu Vâlcea nr. 26)
- ZEIT ONLINE https://www.zeit.de (ZEIT Online GmbH, Buceriusstraße Eingang Speersort 1, 20095 Hamburg; Data Protection Officer: dsb@zeit.de)
c) Third Party Websites
If you have reached the age of 18, you have the opportunity to participate in Europe Talks 2024on the following third party websites:
- Display Europe https://displayeurope.eu/ (Display Europe,c/o OKTO.TV, Missindorfstraße 19 1140 Vienna, Austria)
2. Data collected, purposes for which the personal data are to be processed and legal basis of the processing
a) Collected data, purposes, legal basis
aa) collected data
(1) Registration
To participate in this project, it is necessary that you answer various yes-or-no-questions about your views on current topics and provide the following personal data: First and last name, gender, age, postal code, e-mail address, and mobile phone number.
Your postal code will be used to find a conversation partner who lives in another country.
(2) After registration
After your registration you will be asked to confirm your participation by email. By clicking on the confirmation link contained in the respective message you confirm your participation. After confirming your participation, the answers you provide will be compared with those of other participants and you will then be matched with a discussion partner (your so-called “match”) whose answers are as different from yours as possible.
Once you’ve been matched with your discussion partner, if you would confirm to meet him or her, you will be enabled by the software to send a note, which will be delivered via email. If your partner confirms to meet you, he or she will also be able to send you a note which will be delivered by the software via email. If you both confirm to meet each other, your email address will automatically be sent to your discussion partner.
You and your discussion partner can arrange to meet for a one-on-one conversation, either offline in a place you both choose or online (e.g. video conferencing). Please be aware that ZEIT ONLINE and the partner organisations are not responsible for personal data collected, processed or storaged by the platform for video conferencing, you have chosen. Please note their respective privacy policy.
After your conversation, a questionnaire will be sent to you by email asking for your feedback on the project and the meeting with your discussion partner. It will also ask you to upload a selfie, video or screenshot of yourself and your discussion partner, which is fully optional.
bb) purposes and legal basis
The data requested is required in order to enable you to participate in the project. Data processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR. Without answers to the questions about your views on current topics, we cannot assign you a match. Your contact details are necessary to provide you with the confirmation link and later with a match. We need your age to ensure that you are at least 18 years old. As part of the registration process, participants will also be asked to consent to the processing of specific data. Data processing is based on Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a) GDPR insofar as these special categories of personal data are concerned.
You can revoke your consent to data processing and/or data transfer at any time, for example by sending an e-mail to support@mycountrytalks.org. If you revoke your consent to data processing and/or data transfer, you can no longer participate in the project.
Your first name, country, and your replies to the open questions will be sent to your discussion partner directly after matching. If you send a note, it will also be sent to your discussion partner. Only in the case that you and your match both confirm to meet will your last name and your email address be sent to your match for contact purposes. The disclosure of the data is necessary to fulfill your participation in the project and is based on Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR and, with regard to specific data on your consent in this regard and, to this extent, on Art. 9 (2) a) GDPR.
The partner organisations can only access the data collected on their own respective websites. Only if you are assigned a participant as a match who has registered to participate in the event via the platform of another partner organisation, the other partner organisation will be informed of your first and last name, gender, country, postal code, and opinions.
b) Software and service providers
The software used is operated by ZEIT Online GmbH, which uses other service providers for software development, hosting, e-mail and SMS dispatch.
ZEIT ONLINE GmbH and its service providers will act on behalf of the person responsible for the respective website and process your data only according to their instructions. The corresponding data processing is based on the legitimate interest of the partner organisations resulting from the purposes and in this respect on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.
Participation in the project may involve the transfer of certain personal data to third countries, i.e. countries where the GDPR is not applicable law. Such a transfer is carried out in a lawful manner if the European Commission has established that an adequate level of data protection is required in the third country. In the absence of an adequacy decision by the European Commission, personal data will only be transferred to a third country if appropriate safeguards in accordance with Art. 46 GDPR or if one of the conditions in Art. 49 GDPR is met.
Unless otherwise stated below, we use as appropriate safeguards the standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to processors in third countries:https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32010D0087.
SMS message are sent by Twilio, Twilio Ireland Limited, 25-28 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland. Your mobile phone numbers will be forwarded to Twilio for this purpose. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that Twilio will not also transfer the data to its parent company, Twilio Inc. based in the USA. In this regard, the information on a transfer of personal data to third countries applies.
c) Period of storage
Once the event has been completed, the cooperation partners will retain your data for the duration of the feedback phase (three months) and a further six months thereafter in the event of follow-up questions. For the purpose of announcing and promoting future "My Country Talks" events, the participant name, age, gender, location of the meeting and feedback, including images, may be used and stored for up to three years if you have given your express consent to this before the data is collected. After that, the data will be retained until the expiry of the statute of limitations, in order to demonstrate that the data processing was justified within the scope of the project. Access to the data is then no longer possible for the cooperation partner.
3. To the processing of the data collected for reporting
a) Personal Data
With your consent, we may use your data which was submitted during the registration, matching and feedback phase, including photos or videos, for reporting on the project. The information can be published on the websites as well as on our social media profiles of the partner network.
If a photo is uploaded to social media channels, it will be forwarded to the following operators of the respective social network:
The social networks Facebook and Instagram are offered by Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. It cannot be precluded that Facebook stores and processes the uploaded data independently. We have no control over the extent of the collection and further use of this data by Facebook. You can find information from the third party provider on data protection on the following Face-book website:https://www.facebook.com/about...
Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that Facebook will not also transfer the data to its parent company, Facebook Inc.based in the USA. In this regard, the information on a transfer of personal data to third countries applies.
The X network is offered by Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02, AX07 Ireland. It cannot be precluded that Twitter stores and processes the uploaded data independently. We have no influence on the extent of the collection and further use of this data by Twitter. Information from the third party provider on data protection can be found on the following Twitter website: https://twitter.com/de/privacy
Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that X will not also transfer the data to its parent company, Twitter Inc. based in the USA. In this regard, the information on a transfer of personal data to third countries applies.
The legal basis for data processing is your consent to publication given with the up-load and thus Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. You can revoke this consent at any time, e.g. by sending an e-mail to support@mycountrytalks.org. We will store your data as long as we did not receive your revocation.
b) Reporting requests
With your explicit consent, data controllers may share your data which was submitted during the registration, matching and feedback phase, including pictures and videos, with partners who are interested in reporting about the project. Consent is usually requested during the questionnaire in the feedback phase, but can also be declared and revoked later. The legal basis for data processing is your consent to publication given with the upload and thus Art. 6 (1) a), 9 (2) a) GDPR. The data controller is responsible for passing on the data to the partner organisations, and the respective partner is responsible for their own subsequent processing. If you provide personal data directly to a partner or if the partner collects personal data directly from you, the respective partner is responsible for data processing from the beginning; its privacy policy then applies.
c) Reporting/PR
Partners are allowed to report on the project. Therefore we are allowed to forward aggregated/anonymized data, from which no personal reference can be made. As stated under b), personal data will only be shared with partners with your consent.
4. Your rights
You have the right to obtain information about the stored personal data concerning you at any time. You also have the right to transfer, correct or delete your personal data and to limit the processing of your data. You can also object to the processing of your data at any time. For this in detail: