Data Protection Declaration

1. Information on personal data collection and the responsible party’s contact details

1.1 We are happy that you’re visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following, we inform you about how your personal data is processed when you use our website. Personal data here refers to all data with which you can be personally identified.

1.2 The party responsible for data processing on this website in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) / Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO), Specks Hof (Entrance A), Reichsstraße 4–6, D-04109 Leipzig, Tel: +49 (0)341-97 35 560, Email: info@leibniz-gwzo.de. The party responsible for processing personal data is the natural or legal person who independently or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

1.3 Data protection is entrusted to an individual at the GWZO. Should you have questions pertaining to data protection, you can reach this person at datenschutz@leibniz-gwzo.de.

1.4 For security reasons and to protect the transfer of personal data and other confidential contents (such as placed orders or questions to the responsible party), this website uses SSL or TSL encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the character sequence ‘https://’ and the lock symbol in your browser line.

2. Data collection when visiting our website

If you are merely using our website for informational purposes – that is, if you do not register or transmit information to us in other ways – we collect only such data as your browser transmits to our server (so-called server log files). When you bring up our website, we collect the following data, which are technically essential for us to show you the website:

The processing takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Section 1 lit. f DSGVO on the basis of our justified interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data are neither passed on nor used for other purposes. However, we reserve the right to retrospectively review the server log files should there be concrete indications of illegal use.

Use of Plausible Analytics

This website uses Plausible Analytics, a privacy-friendly web analytics service that does not use cookies and does not store any personal data.Plausible collects anonymised data about the use of this website, such as page views, referrers, browsers and devices used, as well as geographical origin at country level.This data is used exclusively for the purpose of analysing and optimising this website.Processing is carried out in accordance with the data protection provisions of the GDPR.No personal data is passed on to third parties or used for marketing purposes.Further information on the handling of user data can be found in the privacy policy of Plausible Analytics: privacy and data policy.

3. Cookies

To make visiting our website an attractive experience and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on different pages. These are small blocks of text data placed on your terminal device.

Some of the cookies we use are deleted after your browser session finishes, that is, after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your terminal device and allow us or our partner companies (cookies from third parties) to recognise your browser during your next visit (persistent cookies).

Should some of the cookies we use also process personal data, this processing occurs in accordance with Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit f DSGVO for the preservation of our justified interests in the optimal functionality of the website as well in designing the web visit in a customer-friendly and effective way.

You can find more information about how to manage cookies for your respective browser at these links:

Please be aware that not accepting cookies may restrict the functionality of our website.

4. Contacting us

Personal data are gathered when you contact us (for example via email). These data are saved and utilised exclusively for the purpose of answering your concern or for establishing contact and the related technical administration. The legal foundation for the data processing is our justified interest in answering your concern in accordance with Art. 6 Sec. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

Your data is deleted after your concern has been conclusively handled, which is the case when the circumstances make clear that the matter at hand has been conclusively clarified and provided that no legal retention duties oppose deletion.

5. Objection to marketing emails

Use of the contact data as published within the framework of imprint obligations by third parties in order to send advertising and informational material that is not expressly requested is herewith expressly ruled out. The operators of these pages expressly reserve the right to legal steps in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertisements, such as via spam emails.

6. Tools and Miscellaneous

Hosting Our host collects the following data transmitted by your browser in log files:

IP address, the address of the previously visited website (referrer request header), date and time of the request, time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time, content of the request, HTTP status code, amount of data transferred, website from which the request comes and information about the browser and operating system.

This is necessary to display our website and to ensure stability and security. This corresponds to our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

There is no tracking and we have no direct access to this data.

We use the following hoster to provide our website:

GitHub Inc. 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St San Francisco, CA 94107 United States

This is the recipient of your personal data. This corresponds to our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR in not having to maintain a server on our premises ourselves. Server location is USA.

Further information on objection and removal options vis-à-vis GitHub can be found at: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-policy/github-privacy-statement#github-pages

You have the right to object to the processing. Whether the objection is successful must be determined as part of a balancing of interests.

The data will be deleted as soon as the purpose of the processing no longer applies.

The processing of the data specified in this section is not required by law or contract. The functionality of the website is not guaranteed without the processing.

GitHub has implemented compliance measures for international data transfers. These apply to all global activities where GitHub processes personal data of natural persons in the EU. These measures are based on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs). Further information can be found at: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service

In principle, an order processing contract must be concluded with the hoster. The Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision has made an exception for the hosting of purely static websites.In the event that the website is used for self-presentation, e.g. by associations or small companies, no personal data flows to the operator and no tracking takes place, there is no order processing. It goes on to say: ‘The fact that IP addresses, i.e. personal data, must inevitably be processed even when hosting static websites does not lead to the assumption of order processing.That would not be appropriate.Rather, the (short-term) storage of IP addresses is still part of the website hoster’s telecommunication access brokerage pursuant to the TKG and primarily serves the hoster’s security purposes.’(https://www.lda.bayern.de/media/veroeffentlichungen/FAQ_Hosting_keine_Auftragsverarbeitung.pdf) We assume that this exception applies to GitHub Pages.

Google Web Fonts
To present fonts in a unified manner, this page uses so-called web fonts provided by Google LLC., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).

For more information, see:

7. Rights of the data subject

7.1 The valid data protection laws guarantee you comprehensive data subject rights (rights of access and intervention). These include:

7.2 Right to object
You at any time have the right to object with future effect to processing for reasons arising from your particular situation.

8. Storage period of personal data

The storage period of personal data is measured in accordance with the respective legal retention period (such as trade and tax law retention periods). After the period expires, the respective data are routinely erased.

9. Responsible regulatory agency

The GWZO is subject to the data protection laws of the Free State of Saxony.

Contact details:
Sächsischer Datenschutzbeauftragter
Postfach 11 01 32, 01330 Dresden
saechsdsb@slt.sachsen.de

Contact
Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO)
Specks Hof (Entrance A), Reichsstraße 4–6, D-04109 Leipzig
Tel: +49 (0)341-97 35 560
Fax: +49 (0)341-97 35 569
www.leibniz-gwzo.de