Privacy Policy

With the following data protection information, we, Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies e. V. (IPHT), Albert-Einstein-Str. 0, 07745 Jena, Germany, as the responsible party in the sense of the German Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), explain which personal data we process when you visit our website and use our online services. We can assure you that all data transmissions in connection with our website are made via an SSL-encrypted connection.

We reserve the right to amend our data protection information from time to time to ensure that it always complies with current legal requirements or to reflect changes in our services. We therefore recommend that you read the data protection information regularly in order to keep up to date with the protection of personal data processed by us.

External hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (host). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the host’s servers. This may include IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact data, names, website accesses and other data generated via a website.

The host is used for the purpose of fulfilling contracts with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO) and in the interest of a secure, fast and efficient provision of our online offer by a professional provider (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO).

Our host will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil its service obligations and follow our instructions regarding this data.

We use the following host:

Strato AG, Otto-Ostrowski-Straße 7, 10249 Berlin

Contact

When you contact us (e.g. by e-mail, telephone, social media), personal data is collected. This data is stored and used for the purpose of responding to your request or for contacting you and the associated technical administration.

The processing of the collected data, such as master data (names, addresses), contact data (e-mail, telephone numbers), content data (e.g. texts) is carried out to answer contact requests and for communication for the purpose of contract performance and in the case of pre-contractual inquiries on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b. DSGVO, or on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f. DSGVO. Your data will be deleted after final processing of your re-quest, unless there are legal obligations to retain data.

Logging and creation of log files

When visiting our website, a number of technical data are logged. This general data and information is stored in the server’s log files. Currently, the following data is recorded:

browser type and browser version
Operating system used
referrer URL
Host name of the accessing computer
Time of the server request
IP address
The processing of personal data is carried out for the provision of the website as well as for trouble-shooting and clarification of abuse or fraud on the basis of a legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DS-GVO. The deletion of the log files takes place after 365 days.

Searchfunction

When you initiate a search, your query is passed to our search engine. During the search, it is stored when which search term was searched for and how many search results there were. An assignment to a user is not possible. Otherwise, the previous statements on data collection and storage apply.

Cookies and analysis & tracking services

We do not use cookies or other tracking & analysis services on our website.

Google Fonts

We use Google Fonts for the uniform display of fonts in different browsers of our website visitors and for the technically secure, maintenance-free and efficient use of fonts, as well as taking into account possible licensing restrictions for their integration. The legal basis is our legitimate interest according to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DS-GVO.

Data is not transmitted to Google, as the fonts are installed on our local server.

Information on data subject rights

Data subjects may at any time request information about the personal data concerning them and, if necessary, request rectification or deletion or restriction of processing, or object to processing. There is also a right to data portability in their favor. Furthermore, if the data processing is carried out on the basis of consent, this can be revoked at any time for the future. To exercise your rights, please contact our data protection officer using the contact details provided:

Dresden Institute for Data Protection

E-mail: zentrale@dids.de

Further contact details can be found at: www.dids.de

In addition, pursuant to Art. 77 DS-GVO, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority if it is suspected that the processing of personal data is unlawful.

With regard to the assertion of data subject rights, we would like to point out that these should at best be addressed directly to the respective operator of the social network in order to obtain comprehensive measures. Only the operators have access to all of the collected personal data of the users and can accordingly provide more comprehensive information and take any measures. If you require assistance in this regard, you can of course contact our data protection officer at any time.