7. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Facebook.
On this website, the controller has integrated
components of the enterprise Facebook. Facebook is a social
network.
A social network is a place for social meetings on the
Internet, an online community, which usually allows users to
communicate with each other and interact in a virtual space. A
social network may serve as a platform for the exchange of
opinions and experiences, or enable the Internet community to
provide personal or business-related information. Facebook
allows social network users to include the creation of private
profiles, upload photos, and network through friend requests.
The operating company of Facebook is Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker
Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States. If a person lives
outside of the United States or Canada, the controller is the
Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal
Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this
Internet website, which is operated by the controller and into
which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-ins) was integrated,
the web browser on the information technology system of the
data subject is automatically prompted to download display of
the corresponding Facebook component from Facebook through the
Facebook component. An overview of all the Facebook Plug-ins
may be accessed under
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
During the course of this technical procedure, Facebook is made
aware of what specific sub-site of our website was visited by
the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Facebook,
Facebook detects with every call-up to our website by the data
subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our
Internet site—which specific sub-site of our Internet page was
visited by the data subject. This information is collected
through the Facebook component and associated with the
respective Facebook account of the data subject. If the data
subject clicks on one of the Facebook buttons integrated into
our website, e.g. the "Like" button, or if the data subject
submits a comment, then Facebook matches this information with
the personal Facebook user account of the data subject and
stores the personal data.
Facebook always receives, through the Facebook component,
information about a visit to our website by the data subject,
whenever the data subject is logged in at the same time on
Facebook during the time of the call-up to our website. This
occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the
Facebook component or not. If such a transmission of
information to Facebook is not desirable for the data subject,
then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their
Facebook account before a call-up to our website is made.
The data protection guideline published by Facebook, which is
available at
https://facebook.com/about/privacy/
provides information about the collection, processing and use
of personal data by Facebook. In addition, it is explained
there what setting options Facebook offers to protect the
privacy of the data subject. In addition, different
configuration options are made available to allow the
elimination of data transmission to Facebook. These
applications may be used by the data subject to eliminate a
data transmission to Facebook.