Source: https://www.pegnet.ifw-kiel.de/privacy/
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 00:58:34+00:00

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The protection of your personal data is important to us. On this page you will find out in our Privacy Protection Statement what we do for data protection and what your rights are.
(a) In the following we provide information about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data are all data that are personally identifiable to you, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.
(b) The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiellinie 66, 24107 Kiel, Germany, info@ifw-kiel.de (see our imprint) is responsible according to Art. 4 Sect. 7 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You can reach our data protection officer at: datenschutz@ifw-kiel.de or our postal address with the addition "The Data Protection Officer".
(b) We store this data in so-called server log files. We neither pass on this data nor do we merge it with other data sources. We need this data in order to be able to analyze errors or track illegal use. This interest justifies the storage of the IP address that cannot easily be personalized by us for 180 days.
(a) On the legal basis of Art. 3 Sect. 1 LDSG and Art. 6 Sect. 1 Sentence 1 lit. e GDPR we process generally accessible contact data, which we have included in our mailing list after a targeted and conscientious search. We inform these contacts exclusively about our work and events, in order to fulfill our public statutory mandate and purpose. A transfer of the data to third parties or a use for commercial purposes does not take place.
(b) Processing and storage of this data will only take place for the period required to achieve the purpose of storage and in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation and the federal state regulations. Upon achievement of the purpose, the data will be deleted in accordance with the law.
(a) In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard disk in the browser you use and through which certain information flows to the place that sets the cookie (here by us). Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet offer more user-friendly and effective overall.
(b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. This includes in particular the session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which different requests of your browser can be assigned to the common session. This will allow your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.
(c) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser.
(d) We request your consent to accept cookies when you visit the website (legal basis is Art. 6 Sect. 1 Sentence 1 lit. a GDPR). If you agree, your consent will be stored as a cookie (cookienote) in the browser program of your device for one year.
(e) You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse the acceptance of third party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.
(a) Our website uses the open source web analysis service Matomo (formerly "PIWIK"). Matomo is operated on one of our servers. Matomo generates two cookies (_pk_id.##### and _pk_ses.####). If you agree to accept cookies, the data generated by the cookie about your use of our website will be stored on our server together with additional usage data. These statistics serve us to improve the usability of the website and the usefulness of its contents. We keep these statistics for several years. To protect your identity, the second half of your IP address is omitted when saving. These data cannot be assigned to specific persons.
(b)I f you do not agree to the storage and use of this data, you can deactivate the analysis service here. In this case, an opt-out cookie is stored in your browser which prevents Matomo from saving usage data. If you delete your cookies, the Matomo opt-out cookie will also be deleted. The opt-out must then be reactivated the next time you visit our site.
When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data you provide in the form will be stored by us in the mail program of the responsible employee in order to be able to enter into dialogue with you. When contacting us by e-mail, we assume your consent so that we can reply to you (legal basis is Art. 6 Sect. 1 S. 1 lit. a GDPR). We delete the data arising in this context after the storage is no longer necessary, or limit the processing if statutory retention obligations exist.
If you use the Insitiute’s Facebook fan page, the Institute is jointly responsible with Facebook for the processing of your personal data in accordance with the ruling of the European Court of Justice of 5 June 2018 (Case C-210/16).
The agreement on the sharing of responsibility can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum.
Information on page insights data can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data.
Links on our site that connect you to Twitter can be recognized by the Twitter logo (a little bird).
Links on our site that connect you to YouTube or GoogleMaps can be recognized by the YouTube logo (a "Play" button) or the Google logo respectively.
If you click such a link while logged in to the relevant service, your visit to our pages may be associated with your user account at that service. You can prevent this by logging out of the corresponding account before clicking the link.
(a) In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if interested, such as subscription to our newsletter. For this purpose, you must provide further personal data which we use to provide the respective service and to which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.
(b) In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected by us, commissioned and committed to confidentiality and are bound by our instructions. We do not sell or rent your personal data.
(c) For technical monitoring and for the optimization of our website with regard to search engines, we use Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. No personal data is stored on our website or passed on to third parties for this purpose.
During events organised by the Institute, we take photos and films for our public relations work in online and print media, including social media channels, and in individual cases pass them on to third parties for reporting purposes. The recordings will be deleted as soon as they have fulfilled the purpose for our public relations and documentation work. If you do not wish to be photographed, please inform one of our local employees.
You have the right to demand deletion of an image that concerns you and the right to appeal to a supervisory authority. Legal basis Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e), § 3 para. 1 LDSG SH. The contact details for your data protection concerns can be found below.
(b) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you have the right to rescind this at any time. Such a cancellation affects the permissibility of processing your personal data after you have issued your cancellation.
(c) You also have the right to complain to a competent data protection supervisory authority, e.g. Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz (Independent National Centre for Data Protection) at www.datenschutzzentrum.de about our processing of your personal data.

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