Our website may be used without entering personal information. Different rules may apply to certain services on our site, however, and are explained separately below. We collect personal information from you (e.g. name, address, email address, telephone number, etc.) in accordance with the provisions of German data protection statutes. Information is considered personal if it can be associated exclusively to a specific natural person. The legal framework for data protection may be found in the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Telemedia Act (TMG). The provisions below serve to provide information as to the manner, extent and purpose for collecting, using and processing personal information by the provider.

BDI Berlin Dance Institute GbR
Egelingzeile 6
12103 Berlin

+49 (0) 30 +49 (0) 30 517 35520
+49 (0)1573 – 4987566
info@berlin-dance-institute.de

Please be aware that data transfer via the internet is subject to security risks and, therefore, complete protection against third-party access to transferred data cannot be ensured.

Cookies

Our website makes use of so-called cookies in order to recognize repeat use of our website by the same user/internet connection subscriber. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser downloads and stores on your computer. They are used to improve our website and services. In most cases these are so-called “session cookies” that are deleted once you leave our website.

To an extent, however, these cookies also pass along information used to automatically recognize you. Recognition occurs through an IP address saved to the cookies. The information thereby obtained is used to improve our services and to expedite your access to the website.

You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our website.

Purpose of Registering

We offer you the opportunity to sign up for our website. The information entered when signing up, as shown in the registration form

Name, email, postal address, date of birth, phone number

is collected and stored solely for use by our website. When signing up for our website, we also store your IP address and the date and time you registered. This serves to protect us in the event a third party improperly and without your knowledge makes use of your data to sign up for our site. None of this information is transferred to third parties. Nor is any of this information matched to any information that may be collected by other components of our website.

Use of Google Analytics with anonymization

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google“. Google Analytics employs so-called “cookies“, text files that are stored to your computer in order to facilitate an analysis of your use of the site.

The information generated by these cookies, such as time, place and frequency of your visits to our site, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google’s location in the US and stored there.

We use Google Analytics with an IP anonymization feature on our website. In doing so, Google abbreviates and thereby anonymizes your IP address before transferring it from member states of the European Union or signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Google will use this information to evaluate your usage of our site, to compile reports on website activity for us, and to provide other services related to website- and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if this is required by law or to the extent this data is processed by third parties on Google´s behalf.

Google states that it will in never associate your IP address with other data held by Google. You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our website.

Google also offers a disabling option for the most common browsers, thus providing you with greater control over the data which is collected and processed by Google. If you enable this option, no information regarding your website visit is transmitted to Google Analytics. However, the activation does not prevent the transmission of information to us or to any other web analytics services we may use. For more information about the disabling option provided by Google, and how to enable this option, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Alternatively, you can disable the future analysis of your website visit by Google Analytics, by “clicking” on the link below. By clicking on the link, a so-called “opt-out cookie” is configured, which means that the analysis of your visit to our site will be prevented in the future:

Enable the “Opt-out Cookie” for Google Analytics!

Please note that if you delete the cookies in your browser settings, this may also delete the opt-out cookie and its re-activation may become necessary.

Use of Google Maps

We use the “Google Maps” component of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter “Google.”

Google sets a cookie in order to process the user configuration and data when the page with the integrated “Google Maps” component is displayed. As a general rule, this cookie is not deleted by closing the browser, but rather expires after a certain time, as long as it is not previously manually deleted by you.

If you do not agree with this processing of your data, you may choose to deactivate the “Google Maps” service and thereby prevent the transfer of data to Google. To do this, you must deactivate the Java Script function in your browser. However, we would like to point out that in this case you will not be able to use “Google Maps” or at least only to a limited extent.

The use of “Google Maps” and the information obtained through “Google Maps” is according to Google’s Terms of Use

http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/terms/regional.html

as well as the additional Terms and Conditions for “Google Maps”

https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html.

Cloudflare Turnstile

We use Cloudflare Turnstile, a service provided by Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA, to ensure that form submissions on our website are made by human users rather than automated bots.

Purpose of Processing

Turnstile analyzes various “Signals” to distinguish human visitors from automated traffic. This helps protect our website from abuse, spam, and attacks.

Data Processed

According to Cloudflare’s Turnstile Privacy Notice, the following data may be processed:

  • IP address
  • User agent
  • Browser and device characteristics
  • Operating system information
  • Referrer URL
  • Mouse movements, scrolling, and interaction patterns
  • Time and duration of page requests
  • TLS fingerprint
  • Browser behavior patterns
  • URL of the visited page

These signals are necessary to determine whether a request is legitimate.

No use for advertising

Cloudflare states that Turnstile does not use the data for advertising, tracking, or profiling and does not set persistent tracking cookies.

Controller-to-Controller data sharing

Cloudflare acts as an independent data controller for certain processing activities, especially when improving Turnstile’s bot‑detection algorithms.
Users may therefore exercise their data protection rights directly with Cloudflare.

Data transfer to the USA

Using Turnstile involves transferring personal data to the United States.
This transfer is based on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs).
A residual risk cannot be fully eliminated.

Legal Basis

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest).
Our legitimate interest lies in protecting our website from misuse, automated attacks, and spam.

Cookies / Consent

Turnstile does not set tracking or marketing cookies.
It uses only essential cookies required for the challenge mechanism, which does not require consent.

However, if Turnstile is loaded before the user interacts with the form, some EU interpretations may require prior consent under local ePrivacy rules.

 
 

Use of Facebook components

Our website employs components provided by facebook.com. Facebook is a service of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

Each time our website receives an access request equipped with a Facebook component, the component prompts your browser to download an image of this Facebook component. Through this process, Facebook is informed precisely which page of our website is being visited.

When you access our site while logged into Facebook, Facebook uses information gathered by this component to identify the precise page you are viewing and associates this information to your personal account on Facebook. Whenever you click on the “Like“ button, for example, or enter a comment, this information is transmitted to your personal account on Facebook and stored there. In addition, Facebook is informed of your visit to our website. This occurs regardless of whether you click on a component or not.

If you wish to prevent the transfer to and storage of data by Facebook about you and your interaction with our website, you must first log out of Facebook before visiting our website. The data protection policies of Facebook provide additional information, in particular about the collection and use of data by Facebook, your rights in this regard as well as the options available to you for protecting your privacy: https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/

In addition, tools are freely available on the market that can be used to block Facebook social plug-ins with add-ons from being added to all commonly used browsers: http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/
You can find an overview of Facebook plugins at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

Use of YouTube components with enhanced data protection mode

On our website we use components (videos) of YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave., 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, a company belonging to Google Inc., Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

To this end, we use the “ – enhanced data protection mode – ” option provided by YouTube.

When you display a page that has an embedded video, a connection will be made to the YouTube server and the content will appear on the website via a communication to your browser.

According to the information provided by YouTube, in “ – enhanced data protection mode -”, data is only transferred to the YouTube server, in particular which of our websites you have visited, if you watch the video. If you are logged onto YouTube at the same time, this information will be matched to your YouTube member account. You can prevent this from happening by logging out of your member account before visiting our website.

Further information about data protection by YouTube is provided by Google under the following link:

https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Use of NinjaFirewall (WP Edition)

To protect our website against unauthorized access, brute‑force attacks, malware, and other security threats, we use the security plugin NinjaFirewall provided by:

NinTechNet Limited
38 Soi Ladprao 94
Wang Thonglang
Bangkok 10310
Thailand

What data is processed

NinjaFirewall checks incoming requests to our server and compares them with security rules.
For this purpose, the following data may be processed:

  • Anonymized IP address (the last three characters are removed)
  • Date and time of access
  • Requested resource (URL)
  • Browser and system information
  • Referrer (previous page)
  • Server error messages (if any)
IP anonymization

To comply with GDPR requirements, we have activated the feature IP Anonymization.
This means your IP address is stored only in truncated form, so it is no longer personally identifiable.

Log storage and retention

The anonymized log data is stored locally on our server and is not transmitted to the plugin provider or third parties.
Log entries are kept only as long as necessary for security purposes and are automatically deleted after 30 days.

Purpose and legal basis

The processing of this data is required to maintain the security and stability of our website and to prevent misuse and attacks.
Legal basis for this processing is:

Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO (legitimate interest)
Our legitimate interest lies in protecting our website from harmful access and ensuring reliable operation.

No data transfer to third parties

All data generated by NinjaFirewall remains on our own server.
There is no transmission of personal or anonymized data to NinTechNet or to any third country.

Information/Cancellation/Deletion

On the basis of the Federal Data Protection Act, you may contact us at no cost if you have questions relating to the collection, processing or use of your personal information, if you wish to request the correction, blocking or deletion of the same, or if you wish to cancel explicitly granted consent. Please note that you have the right to have incorrect data corrected or to have personal data deleted, where such claim is not barred by any legal obligation to retain this data.

Sample Data Privacy Policy Statement provided by the Law Offices of Weiß & Partner