Privacy policy

Who is responsible

The controller for personal data on releasebeforepeace.com is Vitsche e.V., Skalitzer Str. 80, 10997 Berlin, Germany, email: board@vitsche.org. Please send any data protection questions to this address.

In short

This website sets no cookies on its own and does not track you across other websites. Fonts, images and PDFs come from our own server, with no Google Fonts or other third-party services.

Anything beyond that asks first: statistics and the newsletter form only load once you agree in the banner or right at the form. Without your consent, neither runs.

Your choice in the cookie banner

On your first visit a banner asks whether we may load statistics and the newsletter form. "Reject all" and "Accept all" sit side by side as equals. We store your choice in your browser's local storage (not a cookie; entry "rbp-consent", with a timestamp) so we don't ask again on every page. This is strictly necessary (§ 25(2) TDDDG). You can change or withdraw your choice at any time via "Cookie settings" at the bottom of the page.

Statistics with Google Analytics

Only if you allow "Statistics" in the banner do we load Google Analytics 4 from Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, § 25(1) TDDDG). Until then, Google Consent Mode keeps everything set to "denied" and nothing is sent to Google.

Google Analytics then sets cookies (_ga, _ga_…, up to 2 years) and counts page views, where visitors come from, country, device, and clicks on the policy paper. Google uses the IP address only briefly to determine the location and does not store it. Google Signals and advertising features are switched off; we keep the data for 14 months. We use the numbers only to report to our funders and improve the campaign.

Google may transfer data to the USA. Google LLC is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework; the EU standard contractual clauses apply in addition. More: policies.google.com/privacy

To withdraw: "Cookie settings" at the bottom of the page, untick "Statistics". We then delete the Google cookies in your browser.

Hosting and server log files

The website is hosted by Hostinger International Ltd., 61 Lordou Vironos Street, 6023 Larnaca, Cyprus, on a server in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Every time a page is requested, the server automatically records:

• IP address
• date and time of the request
• the page or file requested
• the page you came from (referrer)
• browser and operating system
• amount of data sent and status code

We need this to deliver the website, find errors and fend off attacks. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in running the site securely and reliably (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). We do not combine the log files with other data or use them to identify individual visitors. Hostinger processes the data on our behalf under a contract pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR.

Encryption

The connection to this website is encrypted with HTTPS (TLS), so data you send us cannot be read by third parties on the way.

Policy paper and stories

The policy paper PDF and all images in the stories are served from our own server. Viewing or downloading the PDF only creates the log file entries described above.

Newsletter form (Action Network)

We use Action Network (Action Network, Inc., Washington, DC, USA) for our newsletter. The form only loads once you agree in the banner or click "Load form" (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, § 25(1) TDDDG). Your browser then fetches the form from actionnetwork.org, and Action Network receives your IP address and technical details about your browser.

If you sign up, Action Network stores your email address and the other details from the form on our behalf. We only use them to send you the Vitsche e.V. newsletter and news about Release Before Peace. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw it at any time via the unsubscribe link in every email or by writing to board@vitsche.org, and we will then remove your address from the list.

Action Network processes the data in the United States. For details, see Action Network's privacy policy: actionnetwork.org/privacy

Contacting us by email

If you write to us, we use your message and contact details only to answer you (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, or Art. 6(1)(b) for enquiries about working together). We delete the message once it has been dealt with and no retention obligation applies.

Links to social networks and partners

Instagram, Facebook, Telegram, TikTok, X and our partners' websites are only linked from this site, not embedded. They receive no data from you until you click a link; from then on, that provider's privacy policy applies.

Your rights

You have the right to

• access your data (Art. 15 GDPR)
• rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
• erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
• restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
• data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
• withdraw consent at any time, with effect for the future (Art. 7(3) GDPR)

Right to object: where we process data on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR), you may object at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation (Art. 21 GDPR).

Just write to board@vitsche.org.

Complaints

You can complain to a data protection supervisory authority. The authority responsible for us is the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit), Alt-Moabit 59–61, 10555 Berlin, www.datenschutz-berlin.de

Changes

When the website changes, we update this policy. The version published here applies.