The following information will provide you with an easy to navigate overview of what will happen with your personal data when you visit this website. The term "personal data" comprises all data that can be used to personally identify you. For detailed information about the subject matter of data protection, please consult our Data Protection Declaration, which we have included beneath this copy.
Who is the responsible party for the recording of data on this website?
The processing of data on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find the contact details of the website operator in the "Information about the responsible party" section of this Privacy Policy.
How do we record your data?
Your data is collected on the one hand by you providing it to us. This could be data that you enter into a contact form, for example.
Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This data is primarily technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of the page request). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.
The operators of this website and its pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Hence, we handle your personal data as confidential information and in compliance with the statutory data protection regulations and this Data Protection Declaration.
Whenever you use this website, a variety of personal information will be collected. Personal data comprises data that can be used to personally identify you. This Data Protection Declaration explains which data we collect as well as the purposes we use this data for. It also explains how, and for which purpose the information is collected.
We herewith advise you that the transmission of data via the Internet (i.e. through e-mail communications) may be prone to security gaps. It is not possible to completely protect data against third-party access.
The provider of this website and its pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser communicates to us automatically. The information comprises:
This data is not merged with other data sources. This data is recorded on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The operator of the website has a legitimate interest in the technically error free depiction and the optimization of the operator's website. In order to achieve this, server log files must be recorded.
Our website embeds videos of the website YouTube. The website operator is Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
We use YouTube in the expanded data protection mode. According to YouTube, this mode ensures that YouTube does not store any information about visitors to this website before they watch the video. Nevertheless, this does not necessarily mean that the sharing of data with YouTube partners can be ruled out as a result of the expanded data protection mode. For instance, regardless of whether you are watching a video, YouTube will always establish a connection with the Google DoubleClick network.
As soon as you start to play a YouTube video on our website, a connection to YouTube's servers will be established. As a result, the YouTube server will be notified, which of our pages you have visited. Furthermore, YouTube will be able to place various cookies or comparable technologies for recognition on your device. These tools allow YouTube to obtain information about the visitors to our website. Among other things, this information is used to generate video statistics with the aim of improving the user friendliness of the site and to prevent attempts to commit fraud.
Our website uses local storage (specifically, Session Storage) to save your preferences directly in your browser. This includes saving your decision regarding the audio playback consent for our siren system and acknowledging our neutrality statement.
This data is strictly necessary for the technical functionality and usability of the dashboard. The data remains locally in your browser and is deleted when you close your browser session. No personal tracking or cross-site profiling takes place through these storage mechanisms. The use of this technically necessary storage is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
This website uses the open-source mapping library Leaflet. To display the interactive map tiles, a direct connection is established from your browser to the servers of CARTO (CartoDB Inc.). Through this connection, CARTO obtains knowledge that our website was accessed via your IP address. The use of CARTO is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online dashboard. This constitutes a legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
To dynamically display global earthquake data, your browser establishes a direct connection to the API provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). In this process, your IP address is transmitted to the USGS servers. This is technically necessary to fetch and display real-time disaster information securely on the client side, constituting a legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
For retrieving active air raid and rocket alerts from Ukraine and Israel (Tzeva Adom), our backend server acts as a proxy. Your browser does NOT establish a direct connection to these foreign military or civil defense APIs. No IP addresses or identifiable client data are passed from our server to these third-party endpoints.