Privacy policy

The town of Vohenstrauss operates the municipal website under the domain vohenstrauss.de.

The town of Vohenstrauß attaches great importance to the protection of privacy and observes the statutory data protection regulations. In the following, we would like to explain how we handle your personal data.

Bavarian Data Protection Act

As a public body, we are subject to the provisions of the Bavarian Data Protection Act (BayDSG). We have taken technical and organizational measures to protect your rights and have also ensured that the data protection regulations are observed by external service providers who work on this website. Your data may only be processed to the extent permitted by special laws or with your consent.

1. handling of personal data

Personal data is information about your identity. This includes, for example, information such as your real name, address or telephone number.

1.1 When and for what purpose does the town of Vohenstrauß collect personal data?

In principle, the municipal website is available to all users without any personal data being collected. However, you will be asked for your personal data if you wish to register for one of our personalized services (e.g. ordering information material or entering events in the online event calendar): Ordering information materials or for entering events in the online events calendar). We only use your personal data to give you access to our services that require registration or to provide services and, if necessary, to bill you for them. Your personal data will only be requested, processed and used to the extent required for the purpose of the contract. The data will be deleted when it is no longer required for the fulfillment of the respective task.

1.2 Transfer of personal data by e-mail

If you send an e-mail to a Vohenstrauß town office, your e-mail address will only be used for correspondence with you. We would like to point out that data transmission via the Internet is unsecured and that the transmitted data can therefore be read or falsified by unauthorized persons. The town of Vohenstrauß does not currently use any encryption technology.

1.3 Transfer of personal data using forms

In principle, the following applies: Any personal data collected via forms will not be passed on to third parties and will only be used for the purpose of processing your transaction, unless users are expressly informed of this again when a function is called up. The above-mentioned restriction on the transfer of data to third parties does not apply if the town of Vohenstrauß is legally obliged to pass on the collected data A distinction must be made between the following variants of the form services offered on the Vohenstrauß town website:

Simple online forms without database connection

These forms can be sent directly by clicking on “Send” after completing them on screen. If you use these services, the same conditions apply as explained above for “e-mail”: Data transmission via the Internet is unsecured, the data you enter reaches the recipient via the e-mail protocol and can therefore be read or possibly falsified by unauthorized persons.

Input into database-supported forms

In applications such as the event database, the contact details of organizers wishing to register are collected online and stored directly in a database upon confirmation. The data transfer of entries in database-supported forms via the Internet is unsecured, which means that the data you enter can be viewed or possibly falsified by unauthorized persons.

Download and use of PDF forms

The city of Vohenstrauß offers all other electronic forms in which personal data worthy of protection must be entered in PDF format. These forms cannot and must not be sent via the Internet, but must be printed out, signed personally and forwarded to the processing department.

2. disclaimer

The information provided by the town of Vohenstrauß contains cross-references (“links”) to other websites. Through the cross-reference, the town of Vohenstrauß provides access to the use of this content (§ 9 of the Teleservices Act). It is not responsible for this “external” content, as it does not initiate the transmission of the information, does not select the addressee of the transmitted information and has not selected or changed the transmitted information. Due to the selected access and linking method, the town of Vohenstrauß does not automatically store this “external information” temporarily, so that the town of Vohenstrauß is not responsible for this external content. The town of Vohenstrauß expressly points out that linked external homepages generally have their own data protection regulations, over which the town of Vohenstrauß has no influence. Any liability and responsibility for the data protection regulations of these homepages is therefore excluded. Entries are non-binding and subject to revocation. There is no entitlement to an entry.

3. commitment of municipal employees to data protection

The employees of the City of Vohenstrauß are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the relevant statutory provisions of data protection law.

4. change to our privacy policy

The city of Vohenstrauß has the right to change this data protection declaration at any time in compliance with the applicable statutory data protection regulations.

5. if you have any questions about data protection, please contact the data protection officer:

City of Vohenstrauß
Data Protection Officer
Thomas Herrmann
Marktplatz 9
92648 Vohenstrauß

E-mail: therrmann@vohenstrauss.de
Phone: 09651 922234
Fax: 09651 922241

Bavarian State Commissioner for Data Protection

In accordance with Art. 30 BayDSG, the Bavarian State Commissioner for Data Protection is responsible for monitoring compliance with data protection regulations at the public bodies of the Free State of Bavaria and also at the town of Vohenstrauß.

Bavarian State Commissioner for Data Protection
Dr. Thomas Petri
Wagmüllerstraße 18
80538 Munich

Phone: 089 212672 – 0
Fax: 089 212672 – 50
E-mail: poststelle@datenschutz-bayern.de
Internet: www.datenschutz-bayern.de