FNB Gas

Thank you for visiting the website of the “Koordinierungsstelle der Betreiber von Fernleitungsnetzen und der regulierten Betreiber von Wasserstofftransportnetzen” (for your convenience in English: “Joint Coordination Body of Transmission System Operators and Regulated Hydrogen Transmission System Operators”).

The protection of your personal data is important to us. The following information in Section 1 (“Data protection at a glance”) provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website.

For more detailed information concerning data protection, please refer to the following sections 2 to 6.

1. Data protection at a glance

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

The controller responsible for data processing on this website is:

Vereinigung der Fernleitungsnetzbetreiber Gas e.V. (for your convenience in English: Association of Transmission System Operators Gas e.V.)
Georgenstr. 23
10117 Berlin
Phone +49 30 92102350
Fax +49 30 921023543
E-mail info@fnb-gas.de

The words “we” or “us” in this privacy policy refer to the controller.

How do we collect your data?

On the one hand, your data is collected when you provide it to us. This may, for example, be data that you enter in a contact form.

Other data is collected automatically or with your consent by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is primarily technical data (e.g., internet browser, operating system, or time of the page view). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter this website.

What do we use your data for?

Some of the data is collected to ensure that the website is provided without errors. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipient(s), and purpose of processing of your personal data stored by us at any time. You also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data if the legal requirements are met. If you have given your consent to data processing, you can revoke this consent at any time for the future. You also have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. You can contact us at any time if you have further questions concerning data protection.

Web analytics and tools of third-party providers

When you visit this website, your surfing behavior can be statistically evaluated. This is mainly done with so-called web-analytics tools.

Detailed information on these web-analytics tools and the legal basis on which they are used is available in the following privacy policy in section 5 (“Web Analytics and Advertising”).

2. Hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (hoster). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the hoster’s servers. This may include IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, name(s), accessed websites and other data generated via a website.

Our hoster will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfill its contractual obligations and to follow our instructions regarding this data.

Our hoster will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfill its performance obligations and follow our instructions with regard to this data.

We use the following hoster:

1&1 IONOS SE
Elgendorfer Str. 57
56410 Montabaur

Commissioned data processing

We have concluded a processing agreement with the above-mentioned provider. This is a contract prescribed by data protection law, which ensures that the processor processes the personal data pertaining to the visitors of our website only in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

3. General notes and mandatory information

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is data that can be used to identify you personally. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g., when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Storage period

Unless a more specific storage period has been specified in this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for data processing no longer applies. We regularly delete log files after [3] months, unless longer storage is required in individual cases, for example for establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims. If you assert a justified request for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g., retention periods under tax or commercial law); in the latter case, deletion will take place after these reasons no longer apply.

Note on data transfer to the USA and other third countries

Among other things, we use tools from companies based in the USA or other third countries that do not provide an adequate level of data protection in the sense of the GDPR. Please also see sections 5 and 6 below for these tools. . If these tools are active, your personal data may be transferred to these third countries and processed there. We would like to point out that no level of data protection comparable to that in the EU can be guaranteed in these countries. For example, US companies are obliged to hand over personal data to security authorities without you as the data subject being able to take legal action against this. It can therefore not be ruled out that US authorities (e.g., secret services) may process, evaluate, and permanently store your data on US servers for surveillance purposes. We have no influence on these processing activities.

SSL or TLS encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser’s address line. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Your rights in relation to data protection under the GDPR

Withdrawal of your consent to data processing

Many data processing activities are only permissible with your express consent. If a processing activity is based on your consent (e.g., the use of advertising cookies), you can withdraw your consent at any time. We will then stop processing based on your consent. The legality of the data processing carried out until the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Right to object to the collection of data in special cases and to direct marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF THE DATA PROCESSING IS BASED ON ART. 6 ABS. 1 LIT. E OR F GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AT ANY TIME ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH PROCESSING IS BASED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA CONCERNED UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 (1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA ARE PROCESSED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING, WHICH INCLUDES PROFILING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 PARA. 2 GDPR).

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority

In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged violation. The right to lodge a complaint exists without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

The supervisory authority responsible for us (as a controller based in Berlin) is the

Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit (“Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information”), Alt-Moabit 59-61, 10555 Berlin Phone: +49 30 13889-0, Fax: +49 30 2155050, E-Mail: mailbox@datenschutz-berlin.de

Right to data portability

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.

Right of access, deletion, and correction

Under the applicable legal provisions, you have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you are being processed, and, where that is the case, access to the personal data and information about, in particular, , its origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing and. If necessary, you have a right to correction or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time if you have further questions regarding personal data.

Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You can contact us at any time for this purpose. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:

If you contest the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we usually need time to check this. For the duration of the review, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.
If the processing of your personal data was/is carried out unlawfully, you can request the restriction of data processing instead of erasure.
If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of deletion.
If you file an objection pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, a balance must be struck between your interests and ours. As long as it has not yet been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, this data – apart from its storage – may only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or of a Member State.

4. Data processing when using this website

Provision of the website

When you visit our website, we process the technical data required to deliver the website to your device. This includes in particular your IP address. The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR in conjunction with our interest in providing the website.

Cookies

General information about cookies

Our Internet pages use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files and do not cause any damage to your end device. They are either stored temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (persistent cookies) on your end device. Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Persistent cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them yourself or they are automatically deleted by your web browser.

In some cases, cookies of third-party companies may also be stored on your device when you visit our site (third-party cookies). These cookies enable us or you to use certain services provided by the third-party company (e.g., cookies for processing payment services).

Cookies have various functions. Many cookies are necessary for technical reasons, as certain website functions would not work without them (e.g., the shopping cart function or displaying videos). Other cookies are used to evaluate user behavior or to display advertising.

Legal basis for the use of cookies

Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process (necessary cookies) or to provide certain functions that you have requested (functional cookies, e.g., for the shopping cart function) are stored based on Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR, § 25 para. 2 No. 2 TDDDG (Telekommunikation-Digitale-Dienste-Datenschutz-Gesetz, Telecommunications and Digital Services Data Protection Act), unless another legal basis is specified. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services.

Cookies that are not absolutely necessary for technical reasons are only used with your consent. If consent to the storage of cookies has been requested, the cookies in question will be processed exclusively based on this consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, § 25 para. 1 sentence 1 TDDDG); consent can be revoked at any time.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be restricted.

If cookies are used by third-party companies or for analysis purposes, we will inform you about this separately in this privacy policy and request your consent.

Consent using Cookiebot

Our website uses Cookiebot’s consent technology to obtain your consent to the storage of certain cookies on your end device or to the use of certain technologies and to document this in compliance with data protection regulations. Details on how we use this tool and on the provider Cookiebot can be found below in section 6 “Plugins and tools”.

Server log files

The hoster of the pages (see above section 2 “Hosting”) automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

Browser type and browser version
Operating system used
Referrer URL
Host name of the accessing computer
Time of the server request
IP address

This data is not merged with data from other sources.

This data is collected based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR in conjunction with our interest in the technically error-free provision of the website and the detection and tracking of any attacks on the website.

Contact form

If you send us inquiries via the contact form, the data you enter in the contact form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing your initial inquiry and any potential follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

This data is processed based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR in cases where your request is related to the performance of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the inquiries addressed to us (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR) if this has been requested.

The data you send to us via contact requests will be processed (in particular stored) by us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g., after your request has been fully processed). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular retention obligations – remain unaffected.

Request by e-mail, telephone or fax

If you contact us by e-mail, telephone, or fax, we will store and process your request, including all personal data contained therein (name, e-mail-address, contents of your request), for the purpose of responding to your request. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

This data is processed based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, provided that your request is related to the performance of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the inquiries addressed to us (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

5. Web analytics and advertising

IONOS WebAnalytics

General information about IONOS WebAnalytics

This website uses the analysis services of IONOS WebAnalytics (hereinafter: IONOS).

The provider is 1&1 IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Straße 57, D – 56410 Montabaur.

As part of the analyses with IONOS, visitor numbers and behavior (e.g., number of page views, duration of a website visit, bounce rates), origin of visitors (i.e., which other webpage referred the visitor to our website), visitor locations and technical data (browser and operating system versions) can be analyzed. For this purpose, IONOS processes in particular the following data:

Referrer (previously visited website)
requested web page or file
Browser type and browser version
Operating system used
Device type used
Time of access
IP address in anonymized form (only used to determine the location of access)

According to IONOS, data collection is completely anonymized so that it cannot be traced back to individual persons. Cookies are not stored by IONOS WebAnalytics.

The data is stored and analyzed based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR in conjunction with our legitimate interest in the statistical evaluation and technical optimization of the website.

Further information on data collection and processing by IONOS WebAnalytics can be found in the IONOS privacy policy at the following link: https://www.ionos.de/hilfe/datenschutz/datenverarbeitung-von-webseitenbesuchern-ihres-11-ionos-produktes/webanalytics/

Commissioned data processing

We have concluded a data processing agreement with IONOS. This is a contract prescribed by data protection law, according to which IONOS may only process the personal data of the users of our website in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

6. Plugins and tools

Use of the Content Delivery Network (CDN) from JSD Limited

Java script code provided by JSD Limited, Suite 2a1, Northside House, Mount Pleasant, Barnet, England, EN4 9EB (hereinafter: JSD Limited) is loaded on our website. If you have activated Java Script in your browser and have not installed a Java Script blocker, your browser may transmit personal data to JSD Limited. The use of the services of JSD Limited is in the interest of a technically flawless presentation of our online services. This constitutes a legitimate interest in the sense of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Further information on this can be found in JSD Limited’s privacy policy at https://www.jsdelivr.com/terms/privacy-policy. To prevent the execution of Java Script code from JSD Limited altogether, you can install a Java Script blocker (e.g. www.noscript.net or www.ghostery.com).

Cookie consent management with Cookiebot

We use the “Cookiebot” tool to manage your declaration of consent to the use of cookies.

The provider of this technology is Cybot A/S, Havnegade 39, 1058 Copenhagen, Denmark (hereinafter referred to as “Cookiebot”).

When you enter our website, a connection is made to Cookiebot’s servers to obtain and store your consent and other declarations regarding cookie use. Cookiebot then stores a cookie in your browser allowing Cookiebot to determine the consents you have given or revoked. The data collected in this way is stored until you request us to delete it, until you delete the Cookiebot cookie yourself or until the purpose for storing the data no longer applies. Mandatory statutory retention obligations remain unaffected.

Cookiebot is used to obtain the legally required consent for cookies that are not technically necessary. The legal basis for the use of Cookiebot is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR in conjunction with our interest in al