Legal

Data protection information.

Which data are recorded when you visit this website, and how they are used.

The Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (MPG) takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We process personal data gathered when visiting our websites in compliance with the applicable data protection legislation and, as a matter of principle, only to the extent that this is necessary to provide a functioning website and our content. We neither publish your data nor transmit them to third parties on an unauthorized basis. In the following sections, we explain which data we record when you visit this website, and how exactly they are utilized.

A. Visiting the website

Type of data

Each time you visit our website, the web server automatically processes data and information from the system of the visiting device in order to deliver the requested page. The following data are processed temporarily:

The web server keeps no access logs. Only if a request causes an error is an entry written to an error log, which can contain the date and time, your IP address, the address requested and the referrer. There is no storage of these data together with other personal data relating to the user.

Legal basis

The legal basis for the temporary processing of the data and for the error log is Article 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Entries are stored in the error log in order to ensure the website’s functionality. They also serve to eliminate malfunctions and ensure our IT system security. Our justified interest in data processing pursuant to Article 6 (1) lit. f GDPR also lies in such purposes.

The processing of data for the provision of the website and the storage of entries in the error log are essential to operate the website. It is therefore not possible for the user to object.

Data deletion

The data are deleted as soon as they are no longer required in order to fulfil the purpose of their collection. If data are processed for the provision of the website, this is the case once the requested page has been delivered. Entries in the error log are deleted after seven days.

B. No cookies, web analysis or forms

This website does not use cookies and stores no data on your device. It uses no web analytics or tracking services and contains no forms. Scripts and images are served from this website itself, text is set in fonts already installed on your device, and no content from third-party services is embedded.

C. Links to external services

Some pages link to videos on YouTube, to maps and to papers on publishers’ websites. These links are not embedded in the pages, and no data are transmitted to these services unless you follow a link. The privacy policy of the respective provider then applies, for YouTube the Google Privacy Policy .

D. Data transmission

This website is hosted on a web server of the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG), Burckhardtweg 4, 37077 Göttingen, Germany, the joint computing centre of the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Society. GWDG processes the data described in section A on our behalf within the scope of commissioned data processing.

Your personal data are only transmitted to public institutions and authorities if legally required or for the purpose of criminal prosecution due to attacks on our network infrastructure. The data are not shared with third parties for any other purposes.

E. General details

Contact details of the controller

The controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation and other national data protection acts as well as other data protection legislation is the

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (MPG)
Hofgartenstraße 8
80539 Munich, Germany
Phone: +49 89 2108 0
Contact form: www.mpg.de/kontakt/anfragen
Internet: www.mpg.de

Data Protection Officer’s contact details

The controller’s Data Protection Officer can be reached as follows:

Data Protection Officer of the MPG
Hofgartenstraße 8
80539 Munich, Germany
datenschutz@mpg.de

F. Rights of the data subjects

As a data subject whose personal data are collected in the context of the above-mentioned services, you generally have the following rights unless legal exceptions apply in individual cases:

See also the imprint.