The personal web pages therefore contain the first and last name of the responsible employee. The personal homepages are to be labelled unequivocally as personal information offered by the employee. The use of the official institute logo or other logos of the MPG is not permitted. The offering of information which seem to be capable of harming the interests of the institute, the MPG or their public reputation, or of violating current laws or regulations, is not permitted. Furthermore it is not allowed to use the personal homepage for commercial advertisement.
Personal homepages are publications.
Authors of personal homepages are therefore obliged to especially consider that Publication of parts of PhD projects prior to completion of the PhD program might endanger attaining the PhD, Publications might render attaining patent rights impossible, Pre-publications in the WWW might obstruct the subsequent acceptance of publications by a journal. In case of violation of those regulations, the author of the personal homepage may be refused the right to offer a personal homepage. This doesn't exclude any other civil or criminal sanctions.