Privacy Policy 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 applicable data protection legislation. We neither publish your data nor transmit them to third parties on an unauthorized basis. Data protection information In the following section, we explain which data we record when you visit one of our websites, and exactly how they are utilized: A. General information 1. Scope of data processing As a matter of principle, we gather and utilize users' personal data only to the extent required to ensure the functioning of our website and of our contents and services. The gathering and utilization of our users' personal data normally occurs after users have granted their consent. An exception occurs where data processing is legally permitted. 2. Legal basis of data processing To the extent that permission of the affected individual is obtained for the processing of personal data, Article 6 (1) lit. a of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) serves as the legal basis. In the processing of personal data to fulfil a contract whose contractual party is the individual affected, Article 6 (1) lit. b GDPR serves as the legal basis. This also applies to processing required to implement pre-contractual measures. If processing is required to safeguard the justified interest of the MPG or a third party and the interests, basic rights and basic freedoms of the affected individual do not outweigh the first- mentioned interest, Article 6 (1) lit. f GDPR serves as the basis for such processing. 3. Data deletion and storage duration The affected individual's personal data are deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of the storage ceases to apply. Storage can also occur if provided for by European or national legislators in EU regulations, acts or other legislation to which the MPG is subject. A blocking or deletion of data then occurs only if a storage period prescribed by one of the aforementioned norms expires, unless a necessity exists in relation to the further storage of the data for the arrangement of a contract or the fulfilment of a contract. 4. Contact details of the individuals responsible The entity responsible in 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 D-80539 Munich Telephone: +49 (89) 2108-0 Contact form: https://www.mpg.de/kontakt/anfragen Internet: https://www.mpg.de 5. Data Protection Manager's contact details The Data Protection Manager at the entity responsible is Heidi Schuster Hofgartenstrasse 8 D-80539 Munich Telephone: +49 (89) 2108-1554 datenschutz@mpg.de B. Provision of the website and creation of log files Each time you visit our website, our service and applications automatically record data and information from the computer system of the visiting computer. The following data are gathered temporarily: Your IP address Date and time of your access to the website Address of the page visited Address of the previously visited website (referrer) Name and version of your browser/operating system (if transmitted) These data are stored in our systems' log files. These data are not stored together with the user's other personal data. The legal basis for the temporary saving of data and log files is Article 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Storage occurs in log files in order to ensure the website's functionality. The data also help us optimize the websites, 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 recording of data for the provision of the website and the storage of data in log files is essential to operate the website. As a consequence, users do not have an option to revoke such data recording. C. Utilization of cookies Our website utilizes cookies. Cookies are text files stored in the Internet browser or by the Internet browser on the user's computer system. If a user visits a website, a cookie can be stored on the user's operating system. This cookie contains a sequence of characters enabling the browser to be clearly identified when visiting the website again. We deploy cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website also technically require the identification of the visiting browser after a change of page. The following data are saved and transmitted in the cookies: Language settings (localization) of the browser: session cookie i18next Session data (click path, pages visited, current language, and, where relevant, error messages for forms: session cookie MPG_session_r Both cookies are deleted when the session is closed. The legal basis for personal data processing while utilizing cookies is Article 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. The purpose of utilizing technically necessary cookies is to simplify the utilization of websites for users. Some of our website's functions cannot be offered without the utilization of cookies. For these, it is necessary that the browser can also be re-identified following a change of page. We require cookies for the following applications: Transferring the browser's language setting: automatic selection of the homepage and spelling Noting of form data entered: terms and entries in the contact form utilized in searches within the website (section F) User data gathered by technically necessary cookies are not utilized to prepare user profiles. Our justified interest in personal data processing pursuant to Article 6 (1) lit. f GDPR also lies in such purposes. Cookies are stored on the user's computer, which transmits them to our site. For this reason, you, as the user, also have full control over the utilization of cookies. You can deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies through changing your Internet browser settings. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. This can also occur automatically. If cookies for our website are deactivated, you may find not all of the website's functions can continue to be utilized in full. D. Rights of individuals affected As an individual whose personal data are gathered as part of the aforementioned services, you have, in principle, the following rights, to the extent that no legal exceptions are applicable in individual cases: Information (Article 15 GDPR) Correction (Article 16 GDPR) Deletion (Article 17 (1) GDPR) Restriction of processing (Article 18 GDPR) Data transmission (Article 20 GDPR) Revocation of processing (Article 21 GDPR) Revocation of consent (Article 7 (3) GDPR) Right to complain to the regulator (Article 77 GDPR). For the MPG, this is the Bavarian Data Protection Authority (BayLDA), Postbox 606, 91511 Ansbach. 1 To the extent that this is not applicable, this sentence is to be deleted. In any instance, storage above and beyond the seven-day period can only occur if the IP address is anonymized. 2 If you do not utilise the central Matomo service of MPG but instead another (propriety) evaluation software, please adapt the section marked yellow accordingly. If you do not evaluate statistics please delete this section. 3 If you do not evaluate statistics, this sentence can be deleted. 4 If no newsletter is offered, this section can be deleted. 5 If no contact form exists, this section can be deleted. 6 If reCaptcha is not deployed, this paragraph can be deleted. If another tool is utilised, the paragraph can be adapted accordingly. 7 If reCaptcha is not deployed, this paragraph can be deleted. If another tool is utilised, the paragraph can be adapted accordingly. 8 If no registration is offered, this section can be deleted. 9 Any other external service providers are to be disclosed here.