Privacy policy
HeavensPOD is a website of the Catholic Vocation Fund, a work of the Priesterausbildungshilfe e.V.. This policy explains which personal data this website processes, why, and what rights you have.
1. Controller
Priesterausbildungshilfe e.V.
Paul-Kemp-Straße 9
53173 Bonn
Deutschland
Phone: +49 (228) 97453130
E-mail: info@priesterausbildungshilfe.org
www.priesterausbildungshilfe.org
2. Visiting this website
When you open a page, our server processes the technical data your browser sends: IP address, date and time, the page requested, the referring page, browser and operating system. We need them to deliver the page and to keep the website secure (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). The server logs are kept only as long as needed for these purposes. This website runs on servers in the European Union.
This website sets no cookies, uses no analytics or advertising services and does not track you. The fonts are delivered by our own server – your browser does not contact Google or any other font service.
3. Videos (YouTube) and channels
Our episodes are hosted on YouTube (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). The player on an episode page loads nothing from YouTube until you click “Play”. Only then is the video loaded from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced domain youtube-nocookie.com; YouTube then receives your IP address and technical data and may set cookies or similar technologies. The legal basis is your consent by clicking (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR); data may be transferred to the USA, on the basis of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Links to our channels on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts are plain links: nothing is transmitted before you click them. YouTube’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
4. Ask your question
If you send us a question, we process your name, e-mail address, your question and the time of your consent in order to read and, where possible, answer it and to consider it for future episodes (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR). You receive an acknowledgement by e-mail that does not repeat your text. Our team receives a copy. We keep your question as long as we need it for this and delete it after 24 months at the latest.
5. Automated spam protection
Every form is protected without cookies by a computing task your browser solves (proof of work, self-hosted, no third party) and by plausibility checks. The text of a question, the name given and the type of form are also checked for spam automatically by the AI service of Anthropic PBC (USA) – not the e-mail address and not the IP address. The transfer to the USA is based on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or on standard contractual clauses; Anthropic does not use the data to train its models. Submissions classified as spam are placed in a separate folder that only our staff can see and that is emptied automatically after 30 days (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest is to keep our forms free of abuse).
6. Donations
Donations through this website go to the Priesterausbildungshilfe e.V. (Catholic Vocation Fund). We process your name, e-mail address, the amount, what you chose to support, your comment and – if you ask for a donation receipt – your postal address, to process the donation, thank you and issue the receipt (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR), and we keep them as long as tax and commercial law requires (up to ten years, Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR).
Card, Apple Pay and Google Pay: you are taken to the payment page of Mollie B.V., Keizersgracht 126, 1015 CW Amsterdam, the Netherlands, a payment service provider licensed by the Dutch central bank. You enter your payment details only there; we never see or store them. We send Mollie the amount, a short description, the language of the payment page and an internal reference – not your name and not your e-mail address. From Mollie we receive the status of the payment, the method of payment and a payment reference. Mollie is itself the controller for the data it processes: https://www.mollie.com/privacy
Bank transfer: we send you the bank details and the reference by e-mail. With every donation and every question we also store on which page, in which language version and through which form it was sent, and the browser family without version numbers – never your IP address.
7. E-mails
We send e-mails through our own mail server. We log the e-mails we send with recipient, subject, time and delivery status – not their content – to prove delivery and resolve problems (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); these entries are deleted after 12 months by default.
8. Your rights
You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and to object to processing based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. You can withdraw a consent at any time with effect for the future. Write to us at info@priesterausbildungshilfe.org. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, for example the one responsible for our registered office.