1. Data Protection at a Glance
General notes
The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data are all data with which you can be personally identified. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please refer to our data protection declaration listed below.
Data collection on our website
Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
The person responsible for data processing on this website is:
Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e.V.
Eberswalder Str. 84
15374 Müncheberg
Telefon: +49 33432 82 0
E-Mail:
Responsible party is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).
How do we collect your data and what do we use it for?
- When you visit our pages, your IP address is stored. This happens in a shortened form, we use it to create statistics.
- In order to operate our website we also have to process data.
- To be able to process your request, we need your contact data and request contents.
- In order to constantly improve our web offer for you, we rely on the support of an analysis service.
- We have profiles in some social networks and can also view information from you there.
- We work together with some service providers who can receive your data for specific purposes.
Analysis tools and third-party tools
When you visit our website, your surfing behavior can be statistically evaluated. This is mainly done with cookies and with so-called analysis programs. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous; the surfing behavior cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. You will find detailed information on this in the following privacy policy.
You can contradict this analysis. We will inform you about the possibilities of objection in this privacy statement.
Objection to advertising e-mails
The use of contact data published within the scope of the imprint obligation for the transmission of not expressly requested advertisement and information material is hereby contradicted. The operators of the site expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as through spam e-mails.
2. Data protection officer
Data protection officer required by law
We have appointed a data protection officer for our institute:
Mr. Florian Melzer, Dipl. Jur.
ecoprotec GmbH
Pamplonastraße 19
33106 Paderborn
E-Mail:
Telephone: +49 5251 877 888-0
3. Data Collection on our Website
Server log files
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:
- Browser type and browser version
- Operating system used
- Referrer URL
- Hostname of the accessing computer
- Time of the server request
- IP address
This data is not merged with other data sources.
The collection of these data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and optimization of our website - for this purpose the server log files must be recorded.
Cookies and storage elements
We sometimes use so-called cookies and other storage elements. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies". They are automatically deleted after the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.
Cookies and other storage elements that are required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions you have requested are stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. ZALF has a legitimate interest in storing cookies and other storage elements for the technically error-free and optimized provision of our services. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies for the analysis of your surfing behavior) are stored, these are treated separately in this data protection declaration.
CCM19 Cookie Consent Manager
To control and store your consent or refusal to the cookie setting and associated data processing, we use the tool CCM19 Cookie Consent Manager of the provider Papoo Software & Media GmbH as part of an order processing.
In this process, only their "consent state" is saved and stored for 365 days in Limburg (Germany).
The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest in fulfilling legal obligations, cf. Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR.
Microsoft SharePoint
In order to deliver and display our website content, it is necessary for the provider Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland to set cookies. Which cookies these are in detail and what specific purposes they serve, i.e. how long they are stored and in what form, can be traced in the CCM19 Cookie Content Manager.
The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit b, f GDPR. Insofar as lit f. is the corresponding legal basis, our legitimate interest follows from the above reasons.
Microsoft stores and processes the data at locations worldwide (including those locations without an adequate level of data protection) and implements a number of legal mechanisms, including contracts such as the standard contractual clauses published by the European Commission pursuant to Commission Decision 2004/915/EC, to ensure that the requirements of, among others, Artt. 44 et seq. GDPR are complied with. For more information on data protection at Microsoft, please visit:
- https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement.
Inquiry by e-mail, telephone or fax
If you contact us by e-mail, telephone or fax your inquiry including all resulting personal data (name, inquiry) will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your request. We do not pass on this data without your consent.
The processing of this data is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR, if your request is related to the performance of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR) and / or on our legitimate interests (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR), as we have a legitimate interest in the effective processing of requests sent to us.
The data you send to us via contact requests will remain with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to store it, or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after we have completed processing your request). Mandatory legal provisions - in particular legal retention periods - remain unaffected.
Form input / event registration
If the opportunity for the input of personal or business data (e-mail addresses, name, addresses) is given, the input of these data takes place voluntarily. The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b and lit. f GDPR. The collection and processing of the data serves only the purpose stated in the respective online-form.
When registering for events on our website, your details (usually e-mail, surname and first name) are stored by us for the preparation and implementation of the event as well as for queries. The data will not be used for any other purpose without the consent of affected persons and will not be passed on to third parties.
Matomo
Our website uses Matomo (formerly Piwik), an open source software from InnoCraft Ltd, 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand, for statistical evaluation of visitor access.
You have the option to control the activation and the associated evaluation of your usage behavior via the consent management (CCM19) at the beginning of your website visit. This means that when you visit our site, no personal data is initially evaluated unless you have consented to this. Insofar as you have consented to the activation, data will be processed as follows:
Matomo uses cookies that are stored on your computer and that enable an anonymized analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about website usage is transmitted to our servers and summarized in pseudonymous usage profiles. It is not possible to draw conclusions about a specific person, as your IP address is anonymized immediately after processing and before storage.
Further information on data protection can be found in the privacy policy at:
- matomo.org/privacy-policy/.
The legal basis for the use of Matomo is your voluntary consent - Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.
You can revoke your consent at any time free of charge with effect for the future. To do so, simply use our contact options given above or the control options of our consent management CCM19.
Alternatively, most modern browsers have a so-called "Do Not Track" option, with which you tell websites not to track your user activities. Matomo respects this option.
OpenStreetMap
We include maps of the service "OpenStreetMap" (hereinafter "OSM") on our website, which are offered on the basis of the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) by the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF). OSM is a free service and is operated by volunteers. The contact for the "umap instance" we use is FOSSGIS e.V., Bundesallee 23, 10717 Berlin, fossgis.de.
When loading this map function, your IP address is forwarded to OpenStreetMap, whereby the last three digits are set to "zero" (0). Likewise, server log files are processed according to section 3 of this privacy policy. The servers of the service are currently located in Finland. The data is used exclusively for the purpose of displaying the map functions and temporarily storing the selected settings. All server log files are deleted after 10 days.
The integration of the map from OSM and the associated data processing takes place because we want to provide you with an appealing presentation of our map-related content. In this, we have a legitimate interest according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, which in turn is also the legal basis for these processing operations.
The privacy policy of (OSMF) can be found at:
- https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy.
Google
We use various services from "Google". Google is a group of several companies. We will inform you which company is specifically responsible for the service used and the associated data processing in the respective service description. Unless otherwise stated below, Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland is responsible for data processing.
By visiting our website, Google receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding sub-page of our website. Unless otherwise described below, at least the data mentioned in section 3 will be transmitted to Google. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be directly assigned to your account. If you do not want the assignment with your profile at Google, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and may use them for purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its services. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact Google to exercise this right. Google transmits the data about your usage behavior in particular to Google LLC for independent processing by them.
Google may transmit your data to servers worldwide. This also includes locations in countries without an adequate level of data protection. For the data transfer, e.g. to the USA, Google has concluded so-called standard data protection clauses in accordance with Art. 46 (2) lit. c GDPR.
We have no influence on the further data processing by Google, beyond the stated purposes. The information provided therefore only represents our current state of knowledge.
You can find more information on data protection at Google at:
- https://policies.google.com/privacy.
You can find the option to object to the use of data by Google here:
- Opt-Out-Plugin: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de,
- settings for the display of advertising at: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.
Google Maps
We integrate Google Maps as interactive maps directly into our website and thus enable you to conveniently use the map function.
By visiting the pages with the integrated Google Map, your IP address as well as the data according to point 3 are transmitted to Google in order to deliver the iFrame, provided that you have consented to this.
The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and an easy location of the places indicated by us on the website.
The legal basis for the data processing in connection with Google Maps is your voluntary consent - Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.
You can revoke your consent at any time free of charge with effect for the future. To do so, simply use our contact options above or the control options of our consent management CCM19.
YouTube
This website embeds YouTube videos.
When you visit one of our websites on which YouTube is embedded, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited. Furthermore, YouTube can store various cookies on your terminal device. With the help of these cookies, YouTube can obtain information about visitors to this website. This information is used, among other things, to collect video statistics, improve the user experience and prevent fraud attempts. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
The legal basis for the data processing in connection with YouTube is your voluntary consent - Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.
You can revoke your consent at any time free of charge with effect for the future. To do so, simply use our contact options above or the control options of our consent management CCM19.
4. Social media
X
We use the short message service "X" of X Corp.,1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103 U.S.A. Twitter International Unlimited Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2 D02 AX07, Ireland, is responsible for the data processing of persons living in the EU.
We would like to point out that you use the X short message service offered here and its functions on your own responsibility. This applies in particular to the use of the interactive functions (e.g. sharing, rating).
We ourselves do not collect any data via our X account.
However, the data you enter on X, in particular your user name and the content published under your account, will be processed by us to the extent that we may re-tweet your tweets or reply to them or write tweets from us that refer to your account. The data you freely publish and disseminate on X is thus included by us in our offer and made accessible to our followers. We base this processing on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in communicating with you via X and processing the data published by you in this context.
Information about which data is processed by X and for what purposes it is used can be found in X's privacy policy:
- https://twitter.com/de/privacy
ZALF has no control over the nature and extent of the data processed by X, the manner of processing and use or the disclosure of such data to third parties.
By using X, your personal data will be collected, transferred, stored, disclosed and used by X and transferred to, stored and used in the United States, Ireland and any other country in which X does business, regardless of your place of residence.
X processes your voluntarily entered data such as name and user name, e-mail address, telephone number or the contacts in your address book when you upload or synchronize it.
You have the option of restricting the processing of your data in the general settings of your X account and under "Data protection and security". On mobile devices (smartphones, tablet computers), you can also restrict X's access to contact and calendar data, photos, location data, etc. in the settings options there. However, this depends on the operating system used.
X is part of the X group of companies based in the USA. In this context, X may share your data within the group. Your data may therefore be accessed or transferred from outside the EU. This also affects locations in countries without an adequate level of data protection. For these data transfers, e.g. to the USA, X has concluded so-called standard data protection clauses in accordance with Art. 46 para. 2 lit. c GDPR. In these countries, no legal remedies comparable to those available in the EU are available to you, so that there is an increased risk to your rights and freedoms.
Further information on these points is available on the following X support pages:
- https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/x-privacy-settings
You can find out about the possibility of viewing your own data on X here:
- https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/accessing-your-x-data
Information about the conclusions drawn from X to you can be found here:
- https://twitter.com/settings/your_twitter_data
Information about the available personalization and data protection settings can be found here (with further links):
- https://twitter.com/settings/account/personalization
You also have the option of requesting information via the X data protection form or the archive requests:
- https://help.twitter.com/en/forms
5. Further services
Vimeo
Videos from the video portal Vimeo of Vimeo LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA are integrated on our website. By means of a plugin, we can also integrate video content that we have published on Vimeo on this website.
You have the option to control the activation and associated display of Vimeo via the consent management (CCM19) at the beginning of your website visit. This means that when you visit our site, no personal data will initially be passed on to Vimeo unless you have consented to this. Insofar as you have consented to the activation/display, data will be processed as follows:
If you call up a page of our website on which a Vimeo video is embedded, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established and the plugin is thereby displayed on the page by notifying your browser. Unless otherwise described below, at least the data mentioned in section 4 will be transmitted to Vimeo. If you are logged into your Vimeo account, Vimeo assigns the information to your user account. If you activate a plugin on our website, e.g. by clicking the start button of a video or leaving a comment, this information will be assigned to your account with Vimeo. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account before using the plugin.
If you do not wish to use cookies, you have the option to block the placement of cookies or remove stored cookies by changing your browser settings and using appropriate browser extensions (add-ons). You can find more information about your rights below.
Vimeo may transfer your data to servers in the USA. The USA is a country without an adequate level of data protection. For this data transfer, Vimeo has concluded so-called standard data protection clauses in accordance with Art. 46 para. c 2 GDPR.
The legal basis for the use of Vimeo is your voluntary consent - Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.
You can revoke your consent at any time free of charge with effect for the future. To do so, simply use our contact options above or the control options of our consent management CCM19.
You can find more information on data processing and notes on data protection by Vimeo at:
- https://vimeo.com/privacy.
Yumpu
To display the ePaper on our website, we use "Yumpu" from the company i-magazine AG (Gewerbestrasse 3, 9444 Diepoldsau, CH). Yumpu provides a digital platform for publishing magazines, brochures or catalogs. Switzerland is recognized by the European Commission as a country with an adequate level of data protection according to Art 45 GDPR.
By means of Yumpu, the content of pdf files is presented as a so-called flip page catalog (ePaper) for everyone, freely accessible and easy to read directly in the web browser, without the need to load pdf files.
To run the service, your web browser retrieves the content directly from Yumpu. Yumpu receives - as with every website - your IP address as well as information about your web browser, the operating system, date and time of the call as well as the so-called referrer data, provided that the referrer data is not disguised by your browser.
You can find more information in Yumpu's privacy policy at:
- www.yumpu.com/de/info/privacy_policy.
Yumpu integrates the Google WebFonts service from "Google" (see also section 3 "Google" of this privacy policy). Google WebFonts is a directory of different fonts, for the uniform and visually appealing presentation of textual content. When loading Yumpu, the fonts are reloaded from a Google server. The files (CSS, fonts/fonts) are requested via the Google domains fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. According to Google, the requests for CSS and fonts are completely separate from all other Google services. If you have a Google account, you do not need to worry that your Google account information, while using Google Fonts, will be transmitted to Google. Google records the usage of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and the fonts used and stores this data securely.
Google Fonts stores CSS and font requests with Google. The usage numbers collected allow Google to determine how well each font is received. Google publishes the results on internal analytics pages, such as Google Analytics. In addition, Google also uses data from its own web crawler to determine which websites are using Google fonts. This data is published to the Google Fonts BigQuery database. Entrepreneurs and developers use Google's BigQuery web service to be able to examine and move large amounts of data.
When fonts are reloaded from the Google server, your IP address and the data according to section 3 "Server log files" of this privacy policy are transmitted to Google in order to deliver fonts.
Yumpu with its services will only be activated after your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR) in the context of the consent management CCM19 at the beginning of your page visit.
You can revoke your consent at any time free of charge with effect for the future. To do so, simply use our contact options listed above or the control options of our consent management CCM19.
6. Recipient
If not specifically explained in the individual sections, we will forward your data internally to the responsible employees and, if necessary, to other recipients such as authorities, tax consultants, banks, lawyers, web hosters and other third parties typically involved in the processing in the course of normal business operations. This data may also be forwarded to third parties if it is necessary to pursue our claims or if there is a legal obligation to do so.
A transfer to third parties for independent use does not take place without your express consent and always follows the requirement of legality. All service providers are integrated in accordance with the requirements of the GDPR.
7. Delete
Your personal data will only be stored for as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including compliance with statutory accounting or reporting requirements.
We are required by law to retain basic information about our customers (including contact, identity and transaction data, business letters) for tax and commercial law reasons for a period of six years after the end of the business relationship or ten years after the end of the current tax year in which the invoice was issued (§ 257 HGB, § 147 AO and others).
In individual cases, separate deletion periods apply, which we have then highlighted in the respective sections.
Under certain circumstances, you can request the deletion of your personal data: for more information, please refer to the section "Your rights".
8. Your Rights
In certain cases, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data:
Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR) to your personal data which we process. Based on this right, you can obtain a copy of your personal data stored with us and check whether we are processing this data lawfully.
Right to correction (Art. 16 GDPR) of your personal data stored by us. On the basis of this right, you can have incomplete or incorrect data stored with us corrected, even though we may have to check the accuracy of the new data you provide.
Right to deletion (Art. 17 GDPR) of your personal data. On the basis of this right, you can demand that we delete or remove personal data if there is no valid reason for its further processing. You can also request us to delete or remove your personal data if you have successfully exercised your right to object to the processing (see below), if we have processed your data unlawfully or if we are obliged to delete it in order to comply with local legislation. For legal reasons, it may not always be possible to comply with your request for deletion, but you will be informed of this at the time of your request.
Right to limit the processing (Art. 18 GDPR) of your personal data. On the basis of this right, you can ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following cases: (a) if you want us to establish the accuracy of such data; (b) if the use of the data by us is unlawful but you object to its deletion; (c) if you want us to keep the data for longer than is necessary for us because you need it to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim; or (d) if you have objected to the use of your data by us but we need to verify whether there are overriding legitimate reasons for its use.
Right of transferability (Art. 20 GDPR) of your personal data to you or a third party. If you so wish, we will provide you or a third party designated by you with a copy of your personal data in a structured, common, machine-readable format. However, this right applies only to automated data that you have originally consented to the use of or that has been used to fulfill a contract with you.
Right to object to the processing (Art. 21 GDPR) of your personal data. This right exists if we invoke a legitimate interest (or that of a third party) and your particular situation leads you to object to the processing for this reason, as you consider your fundamental rights and freedoms to be impaired. You also have the right to object if your personal data are processed for the purpose of direct marketing. In some cases, we may demonstrate compelling reasons for processing that are worthy of protection and that outweigh your rights and freedoms.
Right not to be subjected to automated decision-making (Art. 22 GDPR) (including profiling) if this would significantly affect you. Since we do not engage in such activities, this right is in practice not relevant to your use of the website.
Right to revoke consent at any time (Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR) if we need your consent to process your personal data. However, this has no effect on the lawfulness of the processing prior to the revocation of consent. If you revoke your consent, we may no longer be able to provide you with certain products, content or services. However, we will inform you of this at the time of revocation.
Right to complain to a supervisory authority. The supervisory authority responsible for us is:
The State Commissioner for Data Protection and the Right to Inspect Files
Dagmar Hartge
Stahnsdorf Dam 77
9. Changes to this privacy policy
This privacy policy may be updated or otherwise changed at any time. You will be notified of any changes to our privacy policy by posting the amended version on the website.
This version was last modified on the date indicated below. Older versions can be requested from us.
Last modified on: 07.08.2024