You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority regarding our processing of your personal data. You may contact any data protection authority of your choice.
When you use our website for informational purposes only (i.e., you do not register or otherwise provide us with information), we collect only the personal data your browser transmits to our server. This data is technically necessary for displaying the website and ensuring its stability and security (legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR):
Additionally, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files stored on your hard drive by your browser, through which the party that sets the cookie (in this case, us) receives specific information. Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the website more user-friendly and efficient.
Use of Cookies:
a) Our website uses the following types of cookies:
b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. This includes session cookies which store a session ID allowing various browser requests to be assigned to the same session. Your computer can be recognized when you return to the site. These are deleted upon logout or browser closure.
c) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified duration, which may vary per cookie. You can delete cookies at any time via your browser’s security settings.
d) You can configure your browser settings according to your preferences, e.g., refuse third-party cookies or all cookies. Note that this may affect the functionality of the website.
If we offer a blog with various posts related to apostolic topics, you can post public comments. Your comment will appear with your username. We recommend using a pseudonym rather than your real name. Username and email address are required; all other information is optional.
We also store your IP address when you comment. This is necessary to protect ourselves against liability for illegal content. We need your email to contact you in case a third party claims your comment is unlawful. Legal bases: Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b and f GDPR. Comments are not reviewed before publication. We reserve the right to delete comments if they are objected to as unlawful.
(1) Our websites use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies,” which are text files stored on your computer that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, however, Google will truncate your IP address beforehand within Member States of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports about website activities, and to provide other services to the website operator in connection with website use and internet usage.
(2) The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.
(3) You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we point out that in this case, you may not be able to fully use all the features of this website. You can also prevent Google’s collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address), as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
(4) This website uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”. This ensures that IP addresses are processed in a shortened form, thus excluding the possibility of personal reference. If data collected about you includes a personal reference, this is immediately excluded and the personal data is deleted without delay.
(5) We use Google Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. The statistics obtained allow us to improve our offering and make it more interesting for you as a user. In the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google is subject to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.
(6) Third-party provider information: