Our portal offers information on numerous topics such as leisure, politics, business and service information for our citizens and guests. The Hanseatic town of Seehausen (Altmark) and its surrounding area are popular with tourists and residents alike and are a popular business location with a good geographical location.
Website and online services of the municipality of Seehausen (A.)
The protection of your personal data is of particular concern to us. With this data protection declaration, we would like to give you an overview of how the municipality of Seehausen (A.) guarantees the protection of your data, what type of data is collected for what purpose and how it is used. With this information, we are fulfilling our information obligations in accordance with Articles 13 and 14 GDPR in conjunction with the applicable data protection law of the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Please note that data protection regulations and data protection practices are subject to constant change. In the course of the further development of our Internet pages and the implementation of new technologies, changes to this data protection declaration may also become necessary.
Scope of the privacy policy
This privacy policy applies to all websites, web applications and offers on social media platforms for which the municipality of Seehausen (A.) is responsible. Insofar as the website of the municipality of Seehausen (A.) contains links and references to other providers whose content does not fall within the area of responsibility of the municipality of Seehausen (A.), the municipality of Seehausen (A.) assumes no responsibility and expressly points out that it has no influence on the data protection regulations of external providers.
The use of the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Seehausen (A.) is generally possible without providing any personal data. However, if a person concerned wishes to make use of special services of our authority via our website, it may be necessary to process personal data.
Your data is collected in order to process your application, request or wish. Your data will be processed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 GDPR in conjunction with the specific legal basis. If this legal basis is not clearly stated in the application, you can ask the responsible person in charge if necessary. The aforementioned regulations also apply if there is a legal or contractual obligation to provide your data.
Your personal data will (if necessary) be passed on to other specialist departments within or outside the company for processing. You can also enquire about these other departments with the responsible case officer. After collection, your data will be
will be stored by the municipality of Seehausen (A.) for as long as is necessary for the fulfillment of the respective task, taking into account the statutory retention periods.
The municipality of Seehausen (A.) is responsible for data collection:
Mayor of the municipality
Rüdiger Kloth
Große Brüderstraße 1
39615 Hanseatic town of Seehausen (A.)
Email: r.kloth@vgem-seehausen.de
Phone: 039386/98210
Data Protection Officer for the municipality of Seehausen (A.):
Data Protection Officer
Email: datenschutz@vgem-seehausen.de
Phone: 039386/9820
Your rights as a user of this website
As a data subject within the meaning of the GDPR, you have the following rights:
If you have given your consent to the processing of your personal data, you can revoke your consent at any time for the future. The legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation
Data processing is not affected by this.
Processing of user data
When using our website, you transmit data to our web server via your internet browser for technical reasons. The following data is recorded during an ongoing connection for communication between your internet browser and our web server:
This data is stored for the purpose of optimizing the website and for data security. This data is evaluated exclusively for statistical purposes in anonymized form. These purposes also constitute our legitimate interest in data processing in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e GDPR. The collected data will be deleted after evaluation or security check. In the case of the collection of data for the provision of the website, this is the case when the respective session has ended. The stored data will not be passed on to third parties for commercial or non-commercial purposes.
Use of cookies
This website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, e.g. to display individual page settings again the next time you visit the site. The information generated by the cookies does not contain any personal data.
Web analysis
This website uses the web analysis service Matomo for the statistical evaluation of user access and page views. Your IP address is immediately anonymized during this process and is not merged with other data. The data collected in this way does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your identity.
Use of the contact form / contact by e-mail
You can contact the website's online editorial team via a contact form. When using the contact form, personal data is only collected to the extent that you provide it. You are free to use our contact form without providing any personal data.
If you use the contact form offered by us and provide us with personal data or contact us by e-mail, we will process your personal data solely for the purpose of processing your request. The data will be sent to the addressee selected by you, but may also be forwarded to the office responsible for your request. The data will not be forwarded to other parties.
When using the contact form, your data is transmitted in encrypted form, which guarantees confidentiality. If personal data is transmitted unencrypted by e-mail, the confidentiality of the data cannot be guaranteed, as unauthorized persons may be able to view the content of the e-mail.
The deletion of personal data transmitted via the contact form or e-mail takes place immediately if the data is no longer required for the fulfillment of the task, provided that there are no legal retention periods to the contrary.
Voice output reading service
The voice output of our website is realized through a cooperation with ReadSpeaker GmbH. By clicking on the speaker icon, your Internet browser will transmit the selected page content or the requested document and your full IP address to ReadSpeaker GmbH to generate the voice output if you agree to this.
This data will only be transmitted with your consent, otherwise voice output cannot take place.
Automatic translation with DeepL
www.seehausen-altmark.de uses the DeepL Pro translation service, which automatically translates all content and stores it on the web server in multiple languages. When you select a language version on our homepage, your personal data remains anonymous; no data is transmitted to the service provider. All translated data is stored locally on our web server and delivered directly from the content management system, so that multilingual search queries do not trigger any data transfer to external servers.
It cannot be ruled out that machine translations do not fully correspond to the original text. The Verbandsgemeinde Seehausen (A.) therefore accepts no liability for the accuracy, completeness and up-to-dateness of the translations.
Links to external websites
The municipality of Seehausen (A.) is only responsible for its own content on the website www.seehausen-altmark.de. The municipality of Seehausen (A.) accepts no liability for the content, quality, or currency of third-party websites accessed via external links on this website. We have no influence over whether external providers comply with the statutory data protection regulations. You should therefore always check the privacy policies of the linked third-party online offerings.
Use of Facebook
The municipality of Seehausen (A.) operates a Facebook page. The data protection guidelines established for the municipality of Seehausen (A.) are not valid on Facebook, as this social network has its own data usage guidelines. When you visit the Facebook page of the municipality of Seehausen (A.), Facebook collects your IP address and other information stored on your computer in the form of cookies. This information is used to provide the operators of Facebook pages with statistical information about the use of their pages. The statistics that Facebook provides to administrators are issued in aggregated form and do not allow administrators to draw any conclusions about personal data. Facebook provides more detailed information on this at the following link: http://de-de.facebook.com/help/pages/insights.
Exactly what data Facebook stores and for what purposes it is used is not known in detail. In addition to personal data, usage behavior such as preferences, habits, contacts or computer and cell phone information can also be logged and used. For this reason, you should only switch to Facebook if you are aware of this processing of your personal data and accept the possible consequences. You can find out more about this topic in Facebook's data usage guidelines (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy).
Seehausen (A.), 10.12.2025
