For maximum transparency, we list the information we collect from you and how we use it. The protection of your data is important to us and it should be you, too.  Please read this statement thoroughly. it is in your interest. Person responsible and contact person MetaGer and related services are operated by SUMA-EV, which is also the author of this statement. By "we" in this statement usually SUMA-EV is meant. Our contact details can be found in our site notice. We can be reached by e-mail at office@suma-ev.de. Principles As a non-profit organization, we have committed ourselves to free access to knowledge. Since we know that free research is not compatible with mass surveillance, we also take privacy very seriously.  We do not operate profiling – i.e. the automatic creation of user profiles.  When using our web search engine MetaGer via their web form or through their OpenSearch interface, the following data is generated:   Internet protocol address For this purpose alone, we store the full IP address and a timestamp for a maximum of 96 hours. This browser identifier (the so-called user agent) can be used by web pages, for example, to recognize mobile devices and present them with a customized output. Example Mozilla/5.0 (X11. Ubuntu. Linux x86_64. rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0 What does MetaGer/SUMA-EV do with it?  In addition to donations and membership fees, we must finance our operation through non-personalized advertising on the results page. To receive this advertising, we give parts of the user agent in connection with the first two blocks of the so-called IP-Adresse to our advertising partners.  We store some of these data non-personally for statistical purposes.  Contact data This includes the name you provided (first and last name) and your e-mail address. We only use this data to answer you and under no circumstances pass it on to third parties.  We use this data exclusively for any queries and under no circumstances pass them on to third parties. Examples Max Mustermann, mail@example.com Erika Musterfrau, erika_m@domain.de   Payment data The payment data will be used exclusively to process the donation and under no circumstances will be passed on to third parties.  Location data: Will not be stored or shared.  We will send you as soon as possible, i.e. within days, a full copy pursuant to Art. 15 (3) subparagraph 1 GDPR of the data stored about you or other data stored by us. For this, we prefer the electronic way according to article 15 (3) subparagraph 3 GDPR. For this we will save your e-mail address for the time of processing. Please inform us if you want to have the information expressly in paper form.   Right to rectification and supplementation:  In accordance with Art. 16 GDPR. If we have stored incorrect data about you, you can determine that they will be corrected. This also applies to missing components, here you have the right to supplement.  Right to deletion:  In accordance with Art. 17 GDPR  Right to restriction of processing:  In accordance with Art. 18 GDPR. For example, if you have asked us to erase or modify data about you, you may impose a processing ban on us for the time we need to do so. This is possible regardless of whether we ultimately change, delete, etc. the data in question.  Right to appeal:  In accordance with Art. 13 (2) d) GDPR you can complain about us to the data protection officer of the state of Lower Saxony.  Changes to this statement Like our offers, this privacy policy is subject to constant change. You should therefore read it again regularly.  This version of our Privacy Policy is dated 2018-05-24. 

Summary:
This service offers a symbolic but nonbinding statement about a matter of opinion, ethics, society, or politics. Your personal data will not be used for an automated decision-making. This service collects your IP address, which can be used to view your approximate location. User logs are deleted after a finite period of time. The service uses your personal data for advertising. Your personal data is aggregated into statistics. The service does not share user information with third parties. Your personal data is used for limited purposes. This service does not collect, use, or share location data. This service allows you to retrieve an archive of your data. You can request access, correction and/or deletion of your data. A complaint mechanism is provided for the handling of personal data.  Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user . There is a date of the last update of the agreements.