Privacy

We are delighted that you have visited our website. Medico international e.V. has put organizational and technical measures in place to ensure compliance with data protection regulations. Personal data is only collected on our website if this is technically necessary for the operation of our online services.

Below, we provide information about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is any data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, email addresses, user behavior.

The controller pursuant to Art. 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the Executive Board of medico international e.V., Lindleystraße 15, 60314 Frankfurt am Main, vorstand@medico.de (see our legal notice). You can contact our data protection officer at datenschutz@medico.de or at our postal address with the addition “the data protection officer.”

If you provide us with personal data, it will only be used to respond to your inquiries, administer donations, and process shipments. We delete the data collected in this context once it is no longer necessary to store it, or restrict its processing if there are legal retention obligations.

Your data will not be passed on to third parties for commercial or non-commercial purposes. Data will only be transferred if we are obliged to do so by law or by court order.

You have the following rights with regard to your personal data:

• Right to information,
• Right to correction or deletion,
• Right to restriction of processing,
• Right to object to processing,
• Right to data portability.

You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data.

When you use the website for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security (the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR):

• IP address
• Date and time of the request
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Content of the request (specific page)
• Access status/HTTP status code
• Amount of data transferred in each case
• Website from which the request originates
• Browser
• Operating system and its interface
• Language and version of the browser software.

For reasons of data security, i.e., to be able to investigate unauthorized access or prevent misuse of the website, the complete IP address of the requesting computer is stored. These server log files are not linked to personal data by us at any point and are deleted after 7 days.

In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive and assigned to the browser you are using, and through which certain information flows to the entity that sets the cookie (in this case, us). Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet offering more user-friendly and effective overall.

Our website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functionality of which are explained below:

• Transient cookies

Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. These include, in particular, session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, which can be used to assign various requests from your browser to the shared session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.

You can configure your browser settings according to your preferences and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may then not be able to use all the functions of this website.

This website uses the web analytics service Matomo to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. The statistics obtained enable us to improve our offering and make it more interesting for you as a user. The legal basis for the use of Matomo is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

On this website, Matomo is configured so that no cookies are stored on your computer if you have not consented to the processing of cookies. In addition, IP addresses are shortened before further processing, thus ruling out any direct personal references. The IP address transmitted by your browser via Matomo is not merged with other data collected by us.

The Matomo program is an open-source project. Information on data protection from the third-party provider is available at https://matomo.org/privacy-policy/.

The website is maintained by 1&1 IONOS SE, Montabaur (www.ionos.de) as a technical service provider on our behalf and in accordance with our specifications.