Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy (obligation to provide information pursuant to Articles 13 and 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR) pertains to the processing of personal data in the context of this website and the ticket shop.

Name and contact details of the data controller

Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg
represented by the General Director
Prof. Dr Christoph Martin Vogtherr
Allee nach Sanssouci 5
14471 Potsdam
Phone: 0331.96 94-0
Fax: 0331.96 94-101
Email: generaldirektion(at)spsg.de 

If you wish to directly contact specific people about your concerns, you can refer to our organisational chart to find out who can assist you.

Contact details of the Data Protection Officer

The Foundation's Data Protection Officer is available to answer questions about the processing of your personal data.
Data Protection Officer at the
Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg
Allee nach Sanssouci 5
14471 Potsdam
Email: datenschutzbeauftragter(at)spsg.de 

Purposes of data processing

Website of the Foundation

The purpose of processing personal data is to operate this website, including to ensure its functionality.

Annual ticket

In order to send annual ticket holders exclusive offers and to avoid that the card is transferred to third parties, personal data is processed.

Donations

The purpose of data processing is to receive donations and, if requested, to create and send donation receipts.

Press accreditation

The purpose of data processing is to send press information and invitations to specific events.

Contact form

The purpose of data processing is to handle and respond to your questions, comments and complaints.

Blog comments

The purpose of data processing is to moderate content on the blog.

Ticket shop

The purpose of data processing is to register for the ticket shop (login), create a customer account (registration or login without registration), to process and complete orders (purchase processing).

a) Logging in to the ticket shop

For technical reasons, the following information is automatically stored on the web server when accessing our ticket shop:
IP address of the requesting computer
Date and time of access
Browser type and version
Operating system
Unique session ID
This data is stored for 14 days and then deleted.

b) Creating a customer account (registration or login without registration)

When you register or log in, we use the data you provide solely for ordering online tickets. This data is stored in a customer database. You can query and change your data stored by the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG) at any time via your user account or have your user account deleted. The legal basis for processing is Article 6(1)(e) GDPR in conjunction with Section 5(1) Brandenburg Data Protection Act (BbgDSG).

c) Ordering and processing the order (purchase processing)

To complete and process the order, we need the following from you:
First name and surname 
Address
Email address
for payment by credit card (credit card number, validity, security code)
for payment by PayPal (PayPal password)

Legal bases for processing personal data

The legal bases for processing personal data are Section 5(1) Brandenburg Data Protection Act (BbgDSG) in conjunction with Article 6(1)(b), (e), (f) GDPR.

Disclosure of personal data

SIRUP GmbH technically operates this website and the ticket shop.
SIRUP GmbH
Brunnenstraße 181
10119 Berlin

Payment processing

To process your donations via our donation form, your personal data will be sent to NEXI GmbH (Helfmann-Park, 765760 Eschborn), if you pay by credit card or SEPA direct debit. If you pay via PayPal, the information will be forwarded to PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S. C.A. (22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg).

For ordering and payment processing of online tickets, we transmit your personal data within a work-sharing process to employees of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation responsible for processing. The transmission is based on our legitimate interest in efficiently and cooperatively conducting internal administrative activities and improving our service, based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. For payment processing and, if necessary, a refund of the purchase price, your personal data will be forwarded depending on the chosen payment method: for credit card payment via Nexi Germany GmbH to Commerzbank AG, or for PayPal payment to PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S. C.A. (22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg).
We point out that the personal data required for the selected payment method is further processed by PayPal and Commerzbank AG; the data is transmitted in encrypted form via SSL (Secure Socket Layer technology).

Review email

If you agreed to a subsequent review of your visit when purchasing the ticket, we will use your email address provided during the ticket purchase process and send you a survey link via the QuestionPro market research platform. For how QuestionPro handles your data, please refer to QuestionPro's Privacy Policy.

Newsletter

When you consent to receive newsletters, we use the Brevo service from Sendinblue GmbH (Köpenicker Straße 126, 10179 Berlin) (within the scope of our legitimate interest in technically flawless handling of our customer information and analysis according to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). For how Brevo handles your data, please refer to Brevo's Privacy Policy.
Brevo's emails contain a web beacon that notifies Brevo of the newsletter's opening and/or the activation of a link contained therein. This information, including your browser, location and IP address, is used to optimise our communication with you.
Brevo also uses this data in pseudonymised form (without enabling your identification) for its own service analysis and optimisation. Brevo will not use the data to contact you or share it with third parties.
Once you object to receiving newsletters, your personal data in Brevo will be deleted.

Data storage duration

Personal data is stored only as long as necessary to fulfil tasks, in compliance with statutory retention periods, or until you object to the storage.

Deletion of your personal data

We process and store your personal data only for the period required to achieve the storage purpose and in compliance with statutory retention periods. Once the storage purpose ceases and the statutory retention period expires, your data will be deleted.

Use of cookies

Cookies are data sets sent by the web server to the user's web browser and stored there for later retrieval. We use session cookies to improve the shopping cart functionality of the ticket shop. They only contain the unique session ID generated during the website visit and become invalid at the end of the ticket shop visit. 
These technically necessary cookies are processed according to Article 6(1)(e) GDPR in conjunction with Section 3 of the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG).

Statistics

Web analysis

The Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg uses the usage analysis software Matomo, which is recommended by data protection officers for web analysis. No cookies are used that could permanently store tracking information in your browser.

Postcode collection

If you have consented to the collection of your postcode and country of origin information, this will be used anonymously for statistical evaluation.

Subscribing to the blog

You can subscribe to the SPSG blog using your email address after registration. You will receive a confirmation email to verify that the specified email address belongs to you. 
You can unsubscribe from this feature at any time via a link in the info emails. The data entered during the subscription process will be deleted in this case. The legal basis for data processing is your consent according to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.

OpenStreetMap maps

We use the map service provider OpenStreetMap to display geographical information. The use of OpenStreetMap is in the interest of presenting our online offers in an appealing way and making it easy to locate the places indicated on our website. 
When accessing maps, session cookies and server log files are transmitted to and stored by OpenStreetMap. This data may also be processed by third parties outside the EU. We have no influence on this data transfer and subsequent processing by OpenStreetMap. Further information on data processing by OpenStreetMap can be found in OpenStreetMap's Privacy Policy.

YouTube videos

We use the provider YouTube, among others, to embed videos. YouTube is operated by YouTube LLC, with its principal place of business at 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube is represented by Google Inc., with its registered office at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

On some of our web pages, we use plugins from YouTube. When you call up web pages on our website with such a plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established and the plugin is displayed. This transmits to the YouTube server which of our web pages you have visited. If you are logged in as a member of YouTube, YouTube assigns this information to your personal user account. When using the plugin, such as clicking the start button of a video, this information is also assigned to your user account. You can prevent this assignment by logging out of your YouTube user account and other user accounts of YouTube LLC and Google Inc. before using our website and deleting the corresponding cookies from these companies.

For the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by YouTube, as well as your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to YouTube's Privacy Policy.

Your rights

a) Right of access – Article 15 GDPR

The right of access allows you comprehensive insight into the data concerning you and some other important criteria, such as the processing purposes or the storage duration. The exceptions to this right are regulated in Section 11 BbgDSG.

b) Right to rectification – Article 16 GDPR

You have the right to demand from us, without delay, the correction of incorrect personal data concerning you and the completion of incomplete personal data, including by means of a supplementary declaration.

c) Right to erasure – Article 17 GDPR

The right to erasure includes the possibility to have data deleted by the data controller. However, this is only possible if the personal data concerning you is no longer necessary or is being processed unlawfully, or corresponding consent has been withdrawn. The exceptions to this right are regulated in Section 9 BbgDSG.

d) Right to restriction of processing – Article 18 GDPR

The right to restriction of processing allows you to temporarily prevent further processing of your personal data. Restriction mainly occurs during the verification phase of other rights exercised by you.

e) Right to data portability – Article 20 GDPR

The right to data portability allows you to receive the personal data concerning you in a commonly used, machine-readable format from the data controller to possibly transfer it to another data controller. According to Article 20(3) sentence 2 GDPR, this right does not apply if the data processing serves to perform a task carried out in the public interest.

f) Right to object – Article 21 GDPR

The right to object allows you to object to the further processing of your personal data in a particular situation if the processing is justified by the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority or by public or private interests.

g) Right to withdraw consent under data protection law

You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of personal data at any time. If you wish to exercise this right, you can contact an employee of the data controller at any time.

h) Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR or the BbgDSG.
The competent supervisory authority is the Brandenburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Access to Information.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

The Privacy Policy is adapted according to technical developments and changing legal framework conditions.

Last updated: May 2024