Who we are

The address of our website is: https://kapstadt.kreisgymnasium-heinsberg.de, a subpage of the website https://www.kreisgymnasium-heinsberg.de.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the website, we collect the data shown in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment has been approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.

Media

If you are a registered user and upload photos to the website, you should avoid uploading images that contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website could download these images and extract the location data from them.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so that you do not have to re-enter your details when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this website, a temporary cookie will be set to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, and display option cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember me,” your login will persist for two weeks. When you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.

Imbedded content from other web pages

Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website directly.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share the data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long your data will be stored

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognise and approve follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username, which cannot be changed). Website administrators can also view and edit that information.

What are your rights on your data?

If you have an account on this website or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent to

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.