III. Facebook
Facebook collects personal data in order to evaluate user behaviour. Facebook provides the providers of Facebook profiles, such as RT, with the following anonymised and aggregated data. These are demographic data, such as age, gender, place of residence, country or mother language, without any reference to identifiable persons. Therefore, RT cannot identify any visitors to the Facebook profile.
In addition, statistics about the source of the Facebook profile access, the type of end device used for the access, or the number of page impressions, are made available to RT. As the provider of this Facebook profile, RT also receives anonymised statistics data from Facebook (so-called Insights). This data cannot be used to draw conclusions about the respective visitors, subscriber or registered user (hereinafter jointly called "Visitors"; in the individual case, only the group of persons to whom the respective situation applies may be named). These received statistical data also cannot be connected to the profile data of our subscribers. We can only specify the categories of data and visitors based on which Facebook evaluates its data collection and provides it as anonymised statistics. RT exclusively uses these data to analyse user behaviour so that we are better able to target our Facebook profile and our offer to the needs and interests of our Visitors.
We use the data made available on Facebook under "Insights" in order to choose relevant information for our Facebook posts or in order to upload targeted contributions on the platform for the corresponding groups.
We exclusively use the data made available by Facebook which are required for the purposes mentioned herein. If further data are made available, these are not accessed and therefore are not processed by us.
We only receive anonymised information and statistics if the Visitors to our Facebook profile are registered with Facebook. However, we also point out that these data may be recorded by Facebook itself if our Facebook profile is accessed directly e.g. through reading of logfiles (e.g. IP address) or setting of cookies.
We use the data that you transmit to us via Facebook on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR in order to:
- carry out data analyses,
- statistically record the use of our Facebook page and optimise our offer for you,
- continually improve and manage our offer and contents,
- send out prizes in the context of competitions,
- respond to personal messages and comments.
From the above points follows our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
We can neither influence the collection of data by Facebook nor the data processing procedures available on Facebook. We also do not know the scope of the data collection nor the purposes of the processing or the saved storage periods. Therefore, forwarding of data in anonymised statistics cannot be excluded.
If you as a registered user follow our Facebook profile (Facebook calls this "subscribing"), Facebook adds your profile to the list of all followers/subscribers of our Fan Page. Facebook then shows you our contributions on your newsfeed. Facebook provides RT with the list of our subscribers. However, this list only contains the publicly available data, i.e. the information which the Visitors provide voluntarily via their Facebook settings. Each user can themselves decide based on their Facebook settings precisely which data these are. In addition, each Visitor is given the option in their Facebook settings to individually adjust their privacy (https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=privacy). Moreover, each Visitors is given the options in their Facebook settings to actively hide their likes and to stop following the Fan Page. In the latter case, the profile will no longer be shown in the list of fans of our sites.
Furthermore, the comments and likes of our Facebook contributions and activities on our profile pages can be allocated to individual users.
These data are processed for the above purpose pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR on the basis of your voluntary consent by registering for and logging in to Facebook.
We do not know the full scope of the data collection, i.e. which data Facebook collects for a Visitor and for which purpose Facebook processes data. Facebook has not provided us with the required information. We ask for your understanding that we can only provide you with information within the scope of our knowledge about the data processing in our area of responsibility and our influence on the data processing.
Moreover, we point out that the providers of the platform which can be accessed on the different end devices are usually US firms and that therefore, your data may also be processed outside the European Union and the European Economic Area. This can result in risks because this may e.g. make it more difficult to assert user rights. US providers such as Facebook which are certified under the Privacy Shield, have committed themselves to comply with the EU data protection standards. For more details, please see the providers' data privacy statements.
You can contact the Facebook officer under the following link:https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970
Facebook:
Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Irland
For more information about data processing by Facebook, please access the following links:
Privacy statement: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Opt-Out: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads and http://www.youronlinechoices.com
Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active.
Facebook has provided corresponding regulations for joint processing pursuant to Art. 26 EU-GDPR: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum.
