Leibniz ScienceCampus GACT

Imprint and Privacy Policy

(German version see below)

Responsible for editorial content

Dr. Gerlinde Bigga
Leibniz ScienceCampus „Geogenomic Archaeology Campus Tübingen“
Hölderlinstraße 12
72074 Tübingen

Responsible content provider according to §5 of the TMG

Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research (SGN)

Senckenberganlage 25
60325 Frankfurt
Phone: +49 69 7542 0
Fax: +49 69 7542 1437
E-Mail: info@senckenberg.de
 

The Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research (SGN) is an association under German law and its legal personality is based on grants from the state according to Sec. 22 of the German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch – BGB). It was awarded the rights of a legal person by sovereign decree on 17 August 1867. According to § 28 of the currently applicable statute, the association as defined by § 26 of the BGB is represented judicially and extrajudicially by two members of the Board of Directors, which must include the Director General or the Deputy Director General.

Board of Directors

Prof. Dr. Klement Tockner (Director General)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Mulch
Dr. Martin Mittelbach (Administrative Director)
Dr. Lutz Kunzmann

President: Carsten Kratz

Supervisory Authority

Magistrate of the City of Frankfurt / Office of Public Order
USt-Id: DE114235295

Data Protection

The protection of personal data is very important to the SGN. Therefore, the SGN collects and processes your data on this website exclusively in accordance with the European provisions of the Basic Data Protection Regulations (DSGVO) in accordance with the new Federal Data Protection (BDSG-neu) and the Telecommunications-Telemedia Data Protection Act (TDDDG) for the SGN’s association-related purposes. The SGN therefore only collects, uses, and passes on personal data if this is permitted by law, or if you give consent for the data collection.

Legal Basis for the Processing of Data according to the DSGVO

The obtaining of consent is regulated by Article 6, Paragraph 1 a and Article 7 of the DSGVO; the legal basis for the processing in order to conduct contractual measures and for the reply to inquiries is 6, Paragraph 1 b of the DSGVO. The processing for the fulfilment of legal obligations occurs in accordance with Article 6, Paragraph 1 c of the DSGVO. The legal basis for the processing to safeguard Senckenberg‘s legitimate interests is Article 6, Paragraph 1 f of the DSGVO. In the event that the essential interests of the affected person or another natural person require the processing of personal data, Article 6, Paragraph 1 d of the DSGVO applies.

At Senckenberg, this primarily involves the collection, storage, and processing of your contact and user data

Transmission into Third Countries

Data will only be processed in a third country (i.e., outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)) if this is required for the fulfilment of contractual obligation, based on your consent, due to a legal obligation, or on the basis of our legitimate interests. The data will only be processed in a third country in the presence of the special conditions outlined in Article 44 et seq. of the DSGVO (officially recognized determination of a data protection level in keeping with EU regulations, or officially recognized, special contractual obligations, so-called “standard contract clauses”).

Consent and  Right to Objection

You can informally object to the use of your data at any time. Under certain conditions according to Article 15 et seq. of the DSGVO, you further have the right to information, correction, blocking, and deletion of the data stored by us.
For this purpose, please contact us via e-mail at info@geogenarch-tuebingen.de or via regular mail to

Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research
Datenschutzbeauftragte (Data Protection Officer)
Senckenberganlage 25
60325 Frankfurt am Main

Moreover, according to Article 77 of the DSGVO in conjunction with § 40 of the BDSG-neu, under certain conditions you have the right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Personal Data

Personal data involve all information regarding your personal or factual circumstances that can be used to identify a person. This includes information such as your name, mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Information that cannot be directly associated with your true identity (e.g., length of visit to a website or number of website users that cannot be associated with your IP address) do not fall in this category.

Moreover, transmitted personal data will not be passed on to third parties, unless this is urgently required by law. They are deleted upon conclusion of the business process and expiry of the legal retention requirements, in accordance with the statutory provisions.

Newsletter

To ensure that you do not miss anything, we will gladly keep you informed about our activities with our GACT Newsletter.

For this, we need your consent that GACT at the SGN will only collect, process, and use your name and e-mail address for the mailing of the newsletter, the communication of internal offers, and exclusively for internal statistical purposes. You can revoke your consent to the processing and use of your personal data and the mailing of the newsletter at any time via e-mail to info@geogenarch-tuebingen.de.

Your data will then be deleted immediately.

Comments

We store your IP address if you leave comments on this website, in order to be able to determine the author’s identity in case of illegal comments. The information will be deleted after 90 days.

Server Logfiles/Access Data

Access to the websites of this internet presence is logged in accordance with Article 6, Paragraph 1 f of the DSGVO in conjunction with the BDSG-neu. This includes: name of the website, file name, date and time of access, transmitted data volume, browser type, the user’s operating system, referrer URL. The data are analyzed for statistical purposes and to improve the content offer. They are deleted at regular intervals of 90 days. The provisions of the TMG apply.

Cookies

This internet presence does not use cookies.

Firewall

A firewall monitors and controls the complex data traffic and prevents unauthorized access.

Storage Limits

All personal data will be deleted immediately after conclusion of their processing purpose.

Data Protection Notice According to § 13 of the TMG

According to the provisions of the TMG, we point out that all personal data transmitted to us via this website will not be processed and stored beyond the time period required for the service provision, and not to an extent that exceeds the data volume essentially necessary for the service provision.

Copyright

All content, images, and graphics are protected by copyright and may only be used with the written permission of the respective copyright holder.

Liability for Links

Our content includes links to third-party external web pages, over whose content we have no influence. To display the content, your IP address is transmitted to the third party. The SGN cannot accept any liability for this foreign content and compliance with the data protection regulations. The content of the linked pages is always the sole responsibility of the websites’ respective content provider or operator.

Independent Analytics

We use Independent Analytics for website statistics. Independent Analytics is inherently DSGVO compliant:
No cookies are used.
No personal information is stored.
Since Independent Analytics does the tracking without cookies, we don’t need pop-up to our website.

Imprint

The use of contact data published in the context of the obligation to provide an imprint by third parties for the mailing of unsolicited advertisements and information materials is hereby expressly prohibited. The operator of the websites expressly reserve the right to take legal action in case of the unsolicited mailing of advertising information, e.g., by means of spam e-mails.