Dear visitors of our website,
The protection of your personal rights when handling your data is important to us. With the following information, we would like to inform you which data are processed during your visit to our website, on the basis of which legal basis the data processing takes place and what your data protection rights are.
Controller
The party responsible for the processing of personal data during your visit to our website is the WZB Berlin Social Science Center:
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 30 25491 0
Fax: +49 30 25491 684
E-mail: wzb@wzb.eu
Usage data
When you visit our website, we temporarily store so-called usage data on the basis of Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We use this information to enable you to access our website, to monitor and administer our systems, to improve the design of our website and for statistical and security purposes. These purposes pursued by us also represent the legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f GDPR.
The saved information includes:
- the website from which the file was requested
- the name of the file
- the date and time of the query
- the amount of data transferred
- the access status (file transferred, file not found)
- the description of the type of web browser used
- the IP address of the requesting computer.
We delete the IP addresses after seven days. No personal user profiles are created.
Web analytics with Matomo
Our website uses the web analytics service Matomo on the basis of Art. 6 paragraph 1 letter f GDPR. Matomo uses so-called “cookies”. They are text files which are stored on your computer and which enable us to analyze the use of the website. For this purpose, the information generated by the cookie about the use of the website is stored on our server, which serves to optimize our website. The IP address is anonymized before it is stored. These purposes pursued by us also represent the legitimate interest in the use of data in the sense of the legal basis.
Contact options
You have the opportunity to contact us by electronic mail or by telephone. The data you provide will only be used to answer your enquiry. Your data will only be passed on to third parties if this is necessary to process your request. The legal basis for the use of your data is Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f of the GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in being in contact with the users of the website and in answering any questions you may have or sending information.
Requirement of data provision
The provision of your personal data is not required by law. However, some of the above data is required in order to use our website and the functions, services and contact options it contains. When you enter data, we will inform you if it is necessary for the respective service or function to be provided. These corresponding entry fields are marked as mandatory. If data is required, the non-provision of this data means that the service or function in question cannot be provided. In the case of optional data, non-provision may mean that we cannot provide our services in full.
Duration of data storage
We only store your data for as long as is necessary for the provision of our services and there are no retention periods to prevent deletion.
Use of service providers
We employ service providers to provide services and process your data (so-called commissioned data processing). The service providers process the data exclusively upon instructions of the WZB and are obliged to comply with the applicable data protection regulations. All processors have been carefully selected and are only granted access to your data to the extent and for the period required that is necessary for the provision of the services.
Data protection rights of users of this website
You have the right to request information about which of your personal data is being stored with us, and for what purpose. In addition, you can have incorrect data corrected or have data deleted if its storage is inadmissible or no longer necessary. You have the right to restriction of processing as well as the right to data portability. Furthermore, you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority about the data processing taking place.
Information on your right to object
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. The prerequisite for this is that the data processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 paragraph 1 letter f of the GDPR (processing for the purposes of legitimate interests).
Data protection officer of the WZB
Our company Data Protection Officer will be available to provide you with further information on the subject of data protection:
Jan-Christoph Thode, datenschutz nord GmbH, office@datenschutz-nord.de