General Notice and Mandatory Information
This Privacy Policy applies to all services offered under the domain orchidee.de. In addition to this site, it also covers the forum (forum.orchidee.de), the online library (bibliothek.orchidee.de), the website of the International Orchid World Dresden (orchideenwelt-dresden.de), and the site for the WOC 2026 (woc-2026.com).
Designation of the responsible body
The responsible body for data processing on this website is:
Deutsche Orchideen-Gesellschaft e.V.
Represented by Bernd Treder, Monika Eckert and Dr. Roland Flindt
Im Zinnstück 2
65527 Niedernhausen
The responsible body decides, alone or jointly with others, on the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, contact details, etc.).
Revocation of your consent to data processing
Some data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke your consent that you have already given at any time. An informal message by e-mail is sufficient for the revocation. The legality of the data processing that took place up until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority
As a data subject, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority in the event of a breach of data protection law. The competent supervisory authority with regard to data protection issues is the state data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. The following link provides a list of data protection officers and their contact details: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html .
Right to data portability
You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to third parties. It is provided in a machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another person responsible, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.
Right to information, correction, blocking, deletion
You have the right to free information about your stored personal data, the origin of the data, its recipient and the purpose of the data processing and, if necessary, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data at any time within the framework of the applicable legal provisions. You can contact us at any time using the contact options listed in the legal notice if you have any further questions on the subject of personal data.
Data Protection Officer
We have appointed a data protection officer.
Franz-Josef Richardt
Stadtholzstrasse 116
32049 Herford
Email: franz-josef.richardt@orchidee.de
Server log files
In server log files, the website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us. These include:
browser type and version
operating system used
referrer URL
hostname of the accessing computer
time of the server request
IP address
This data is not combined with other data sources. The legal basis for data processing is Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.
Contact form
Data submitted via the contact form, including your contact details, will be stored in order to process your request and to be available for follow-up questions. This data will not be shared without your consent.
The processing of data entered into the contact form is based solely on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You may withdraw your consent at any time. To withdraw your consent, simply send an informal notification by email. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of data processing carried out before the withdrawal.
Data transmitted via the contact form will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or there is no longer any need for data storage. Mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.
Duration of storage of posts and comments
Contributions and comments as well as related data, such as IP addresses, are saved. The content remains on our website until it has been completely deleted or had to be deleted for legal reasons.
The contributions and comments are stored on the basis of your consent (Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR). You can revoke your consent that you have already given at any time. An informal message by e-mail is sufficient for the revocation. the
The legality of data processing operations that have already taken place remains unaffected by the revocation.
Embedded content from other websites
Posts on this website and in particular user posts in the forum may contain embedded content from other websites (e.g. videos, images, etc.). In doing so, requests are sent to these external sites as if the visitor were visiting this site.
cookies
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in the internet browser or by the internet browser on the user’s computer system. If a user calls up a website, a cookie can be stored on the user’s operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic character string that enables the browser to be clearly identified when the website is called up again.
Some elements of our website, ie the forum and the online library, require that the accessing browser can also be identified after a page change in order to enable the user to be authenticated. Cookies are used for this.
Using fonts via a CDN (Webfonts)
To implement a uniform and appealing website, this website uses external fonts obtained from Google Fonts, an offer from Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The provider’s privacy policy can be found at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ . Opt-out options are available at https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated .
Use of maps from Google Maps
This page binds, after explicit confirmation by the user, maps of the service “Google Maps”, operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Here, data such as IP addresses in particular and also, with the consent of the user, location information are processed. The provider’s privacy policy can be found at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ . Opt-out options are available at https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated .
Source: data protection configurator from mein-datenschutzbeauftragter.de , supplemented by the operator of this website