Twitter is operated by the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg:

Department of State Marketing
Richard-Wagner-Straße 15
70184 Stuttgart
Germany

Fax: +49 (0)711 2153 425
E-mail: kontakt@thelaend.de

You can reach our data protection officer at the State Ministry at:

State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg
Data Protection Officer
Richard-Wagner-Straße 15
70184 Stuttgart
Germany

E-mail: Datenschutz@stm.bwl.de

The State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg uses Twitter in order to be able to provide you with this online service for the performance of our duties in the public interest (public relations work for the umbrella brand campaign of the State of Baden-Württemberg).

Twitter is merely an additional offer for social media users. The State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg offers members of the public and other interested parties alternative information and communication options that can be used without drawbacks instead of Twitter:

• Our website www.theländ.de provides information about the campaign.

• The service portal Service-BW offers an online residents’ service as well as information and assistance in contact with the authorities.

The State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg points out that Twitter is solely for information and communication purposes, but that no residents’ service or other administrative tasks can be provided through it.

The use of Twitter and the associated processing of personal data by the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg is carried out on the basis of section 4 of the Baden-Württemberg State Data Protection Act (LDSG BW) (as a provision within the meaning of Article 6 (1) of the General Data Protection Regulation, (GDPR) and serves the performance of necessary duties in the public interest (public relations work of the umbrella brand campaign of the State of Baden-Württemberg).

The data you enter on Twitter, in particular your user name and the content published under your account, may be processed by us inasmuch as we may retweet or reply to your tweets or also compose tweets on our own initiative that refer to your account. The data you freely publish and disseminate on Twitter is thus included by the State Ministry in its offer and made accessible to its followers.

The State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg processes the personal data of visitors to the Twitter account only to the extent necessary to process an enquiry or comment.

Twitter is an online presence within the Twitter platform offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103 U.S.A .

The data controller for individuals living outside the United States is the

Twitter International Company (hereinafter “Twitter”)

One Cumberland Place
Fenian Street
Dublin 2 D02 AX07
Irland

We would like to point out that you are using the Twitter service offered here and its functions on your own responsibility. This applies in particular to the use of interactive functions (e.g. share, rate).

Twitter processes your voluntarily entered data such as name and user name, e-mail address, telephone number or the contacts in your address book when you upload or synchronise it.

Twitter also evaluates the content you share to determine what topics you are interested in, stores and processes confidential messages you send directly to other users, and may use geolocation data, wireless network information or your IP address to determine your location in order to serve you advertising or other content.

For evaluation purposes, Twitter may use analysis tools such as Twitter- or Google Analytics. The State Ministry has no influence on the use of such tools by Twitter and has not been informed about such potential use. Nor is the data obtained by Twitter during the analysis made available to the State Ministry. Only certain non-personal information about tweet activity, such as the number of profile or link clicks through a particular tweet, is visible to the State Ministry via its account.

Finally, Twitter also receives information when you view content, for example, even if you have not created an account. This so-called “log data” may be the IP address, browser type, operating system, information about the website you previously visited and the pages you viewed, your location, your mobile provider, the terminal device you use (including device ID and application ID), the search terms you used and cookie information.

Through Twitter buttons or widgets embedded in websites and the use of cookies, it is possible for Twitter to record your visits to these websites and match them to your Twitter profile. This data can be used to offer content or advertising tailored to you. On our pages, content from Twitter is exclusively integrated as passive elements and active elements protected via the so-called “two-click solution” in accordance with data protection regulations.

You have options of restricting the processing of your data in the general settings of your Twitter account as well as as described under “privacy and security”. In addition, on mobile devices (smartphones, tablet computers) you can restrict Twitter's access to contact and calendar data, photos, location data and so on in the settings options there. However, this depends on the operating system used.

Information on which data is processed by Twitter and for which purposes can be found in Twitter’s privacy policy.

Information on the personalisation and privacy settings available on Twitter can be found here: https://twitter.com/settings/account/personalization

The State Ministry has no influence on the type and scope of the data processed by Twitter, the type of processing and use or the transfer of this data to third parties.

Your personal data will not be passed on to third parties by us – unless expressly explained above.

Due to its global operations, Twitter reserves the right, where permitted by the laws of the user’s country, to transfer data to the United States of America, Ireland and all other countries in which Twitter operates and to store and use it there. Twitter states that it ensures an adequate level of protection for the rights of data subjects based on the adequacy of the recipient country’s data protection laws and/or makes appropriate contractual undertakings, such as EU standard data protection clauses, when transferring personal data outside the European Union.

a) Right of objection

You may object to the processing of your personal data insofar as it is based on Article 6(1) sentence 1 f) GDPR (“legitimate interests”) (Article 21 GDPR). Your personal data will no longer be processed unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing is for the purposes of asserting, exercising or defending legal rights/claims. To exercise the right of objection, it is sufficient to send a short message to the above contact details.

b) Rights of data subjects

In addition, you may – if the applicable legal requirements are met and subject to any restrictions pursuant to sections 9, 10 of the Data Protection Act of the State of Baden-Württemberg (LDSG BW) – make use of the following rights, which you can exercise by contacting us at any time using the aforementioned data:

• Right of access pursuant to Article 15 GDPR: You have the right to obtain information about your personal data processed by us (the processing purposes, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period or criteria for determining the storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection to processing, complaint to a supervisory authority, the origin of your data if it has not been collected from you by us, the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and the intended effects of such processing concerning you, as well as your right to be informed about the guarantees existing pursuant to Article 46 of the GDPR if your data is transferred to third countries) and to a copy of the data;

• Right of rectification pursuant to Article 16 GDPR: You have the right to have any incorrect data relating to you corrected without delay and/or to have any incomplete data stored by us completed;

• Right to erasure pursuant to Article 17 GDPR: You have the right to demand the erasure of your personal data if the requirements of Article 17(1) GDPR are met. However, this right shall particularly not exist if processing is necessary for exercising the right to freedom of expression and information, for fulfilling a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for asserting, exercising or defending legal rights/claims;

• Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Article 18 GDPR: You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data as long as the accuracy of your data that you dispute is being verified, if you refuse the erasure of your data due to unlawful data processing and instead request the restriction of the processing of your data, if you require your data for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal rights/claims after we no longer need this data after the purpose has been achieved or if you have lodged an objection on the grounds of your particular situation as long as it has not yet been determined whether our legitimate grounds outweigh your interests;

• Right to be informed pursuant to Article 19 GDPR: If you have exercised your right of any rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing vis-à-vis the controller, the controller is required to communicate any rectification, erasure or restriction of processing of personal data to each recipient to whom the personal data has been disclosed, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. You have the right to obtain information about those recipients.

• Right to data transferability pursuant to Article 20 GDPR: You have the right to receive the personal data, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to require its transmission to another controller as long as this is technically feasible;

c) Right to lodge a complaint

If you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you infringes the GDPR, you have the right to appeal to a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, workplace or the place of the alleged infringement, in accordance with Article 77 of the GDPR, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy. The supervisory authority with jurisdiction over us is the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in Baden-Württemberg, Lautenschlagerstraße 20, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany.

Last revised: October 2021