Anonymous Browsing

Users can browse the Website without revealing any personal information.

External Links

The Website may contain links to other websites. If clicking on these links, the user leaves the website. These external sites are not under control of IOM or BAMF and may deviate from IOM´s and BAMF´s data protection measures. IOM and BAMF are not responsible for the information or content on third-party websites. Personal data that are passed on to third-party providers who are not connected to IOM or BAMF is not covered by this data protection declaration.

It is recommended to read the data protection provisions of each company carefully before disclosing personal information to them. Several third-party providers may, under certain circumstances, pass personal data on to IOM and BAMF. In this case, the disclosure is subject to the data protection provisions of the respective third-party provider.

YouTube Videos

This website embeds videos from YouTube. This always requires that YouTube is aware of the IP address of the visiting users, as it cannot send the video content to the browser of the respective user without the IP address. The IP address is therefore required in order to display this video content. Further information on this can be found in YouTube's or Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

The videos are embedded in "extended data protection mode", i.e. no data about you as a user is transmitted to YouTube if you do not play the videos. When you click on the video, the browser data and the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website are transmitted to YouTube. YouTube is also informed that you are watching the video.

If the user is logged in to YouTube, this information is also assigned to your user account. You can prevent this by logging out of YouTube before viewing the video. We have no influence on the transmission of data to or further data processing by YouTube. YouTube also processes your personal data in the United States of America (USA). The USA is what is known as a third country, which means that the level of data protection is currently not comparable with that in the European Union (EU). BAMF has no influence on the collection of data or its further use by YouTube. Information on which data is processed by YouTube/Google and for which purposes can be found in the privacy policy of YouTube or Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Cookies

This Website uses Matomo Analytics, a self-hosted website analysis platform, that collects information (“cookies”), small bits of code stored on the user´s computer hard drive. When visiting the Website, some information, such as the browser, the type of machine used, language preference, the number of clicks done by the user, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses as well as navigational information such as dates and times spent on the Website, page visits or types of downloads of Materials are collected. The Website’s purpose in collecting these non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Users use the Website and to optimize it accordingly. IOM may use non-personally-identifying information for statistical and research purposes.

The user is free to decline cookies if the browser permits, although in that case the user may be required to re-enter information more frequently to use certain services on the websites.

Use of Google AdWords

This Website uses Google AdWords, an online advertising service, which links the Website’s online Ads to the Website providing Google Ads within Google search results and on external websites, that collects information (“cookies”), which is non-personally identifying information of the User such as a browser type, keywords put into a Google Search, referring external website, the date and time of each visitor request for the Website using Google Ads, and the IP address. This is in order to enable a better placement of advertisements that are relevant to the target users and therefore improve outreach for the Website.

Personal Information

IOM does not collect personal information, such as the name, mailing address, e-mail address, and other information of users, unless such information is voluntarily disclosed, for example by publishing official and public contact information of counselling centres (name of the centre, regular and email address, phone number) on the pages of counselling centres on the Website (https://returningfromgermany.de/en/centres/), by sending a message via the contact form, by subscribing to a newsletter, by participating in surveys, by publishing case-specific and/or individual inquiries requests which will be rendered anonymous and deidentified for publication on the restricted login area of the Website. In such event, IOM will only use the personal information for the purpose for which it was disclosed. IOM will not process further this information. Additionally, information included in messages will not be stored in any cloud-computing services.

The user may request to access, verify, change or delete his/her personal information provided to the Website. For this and for any other further assistance, please contact returningfromgermany@iom.int.

IOM does not sell, distribute or rent personal information collected on its Website. At any time, IOM processes personal information, it applies its Data Protection Principles.

IOM relies on service providers for the provision of services, such as Website traffic analysis (Matomo Analytics) or electronic newsletters (MailJet).

IOM does not share personal information with any third party.

IOM does not intend to either solicit or collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13 years. Individuals under the age of 13, should not use or enter personal information on the Website through the contact form for instance.

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Intellectual Property

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Linking to the Website

Electronic Messages

Governing Language and Language Translation Disclaimer

Disclaimer

Boundaries and Geographic Names

Advice, Opinions, and Statements

Other Websites

Other Users

Bugs, Virus, Malicious Code, etc.

Security Measures

Online Service Provider

Technical Implementation

Dispute Resolution Clause

Contact

Notification of Changes

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