Data Protection

We are delighted that you are visiting our website and would like to thank you for your interest in our work. The protection of your privacy is important to us in this respect. To see how we undertake this, please consult following information:

Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie (LIN) as a controller within the meaning of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), takes the protection of your privacy and your personal data very seriously. We are pleased that you have visited our website and are interested in our company, our studies and our services. Our wish is for you to feel safe with regard to the protection of your personal data. Using our website is generally possible without the provision of any personal data. According to Art. 4 no. 1 of the GDPR, personal data is all information that relates to an identified or identifiable person, such as name, address and date of birth. Pseudonymous data that we cannot assign to you directly, e.g. via a name or email address, are also personal data.

The processing of personal data complies with legal regulations, in particular those of the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), the Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation. We can assure you here that your data are collected, stored and processed exclusively for the purposes of providing this website and its contents and services. These processes are only carried out within the scope of the legitimate interest according to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter f of the GDPR or if another permission exists. These data will not be conveyed to any third parties without your express consent. We would also like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) may have security gaps. It is not possible to completely protect data from access by third parties.

Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie (LIN)
Brenneckestraße 6
39118 Magdeburg
Germany

Tel: +49 391 62 63 92 41 1
Fax: +49 391 62 63 92 41 9

E-Mail: kontakt(at)lin-magdeburg.de

is controller within the meaning of the GDPR and other national data protection laws of the member states of the European Union, as well as other data protection regulations, for the processing of personal data.

Use and disclosure of personal data

Any use of your personal data is exclusively for the stated purposes and to the extent necessary to achieve these purposes. Personal data is only transferred to governmental institutions and authorities in the context of mandatory national legislation or if the disclosure is required for prosecution in the event of attacks on our network infrastructure. There is no disclosure to third parties for other purposes.

The use of certain services on our website, such as the registration for a workshop or the declaration of willingness to participate in an experiment, requires prior registration and further processing of personal data, such as a longer-term storage of e-mail addresses, user IDs and passwords. Such data is only used if you have forwarded it to us and agreed to its use in advance.

When contacting LIN by e-mail, the user’s data is only stored for processing the request.

We use personal data to ensure a smooth connection to the website, to ensure comfortable use of our website, to evaluate system security and stability, and for other administrative purposes. The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter f of the GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the purposes for data collection listed above. Under no circumstances will we use your personal data to draw any conclusions about you. It may also happen that we require your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter a of the GDPR to fulfil the purposes stated above. In these cases, we will only activate the associated tools once you have given your consent. It may therefore be possible that you will not be able to use all the functions of this website unless you grant your consent. Finally, it may also be possible that we process your data on the basis of a contract initiation or contract fulfilment in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter b of the GDPR. This might be the case if you contact us by email or if you would like to apply for a job with us. The general purpose behind this processing is to respond to your request. Further information on the processing of your personal data can be found in this data protection information.

When you visit our website, the browser used on your device automatically sends information to the server of our website. This information is temporarily stored in a log file. The following information is collected without your intervention and stored until it is automatically deleted:

• Browser type/ browser version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL 
• Host name of the accessing computer
• Time of server request

In addition, we also use cookies and analytical services when you visit our website. Further details can be found in sections 5 and 6 of this data protection information.

Unless specifically stated, we only store personal data for as long as they are necessary to fulfil the purposes pursued.

In some cases, the legislature provides for the retention of personal data, for example for tax law, commercial law, or for other contribution-related ordinances. In these cases, we will only continue to store the data for these legal purposes, but will not process them in any other way and will delete them after the statutory retention period has expired.

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties, to a member state of the European Union, to another contracting state to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, or to any other country for purposes other than those listed below.

We will only share your personal information with third parties if:

• You have granted your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter a of the GDPR,
• the disclosure is necessary in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter f of the GDPR to assert, exercise or defend legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not disclosing your data,
• in the event that there is a legal obligation to disclose data pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter a of the GDPR, and
• this is legally permissible and is necessary for the processing of contractual relationships with you according to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter b of the GDPR.

We use cookies on our website. A cookie is a small text file that is stored locally on the user’s computer when a website is visited. A cookie does not cause any damage to your device; it does not contain any viruses, trojans or other forms of malware. For more information, see:

https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2010/09/ClientSideStorage.html

The cookie stores information relating to the specific end device being used. However, this does not mean that we immediately become aware of your identity.

The use of cookies serves, on the one hand, to make use of our offer more pleasant for you. We use so-called session cookies to check whether you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after you leave our site.

Furthermore, to optimize user-friendliness, we use temporary cookies that are stored on your device for a specific period of time. If you visit our website again to use our services, it will automatically recognize that you have already visited us and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.

We use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing the offer for you. Such cookies allow us to automatically recognize that you have already visited our website when you visit it again. These cookies are automatically deleted after three months.

The data processed by cookies are necessary for the purposes mentioned to protect our legitimate interests and those of third parties in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter f of the GDPR.

Your browser automatically accepts our cookies. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or a warning always appears before a new cookie is created. However, completely deactivating cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website.

The tracking measures listed below and used by us are carried out in a manner compliant with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter a of the GDPR. By consenting to data processing, you provide us the opportunity to ensure a needs-based design and ongoing optimization of our website by evaluating your user behaviour. We use tracking measures to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purposes of optimizing our offering for you. We will only activate the analytics tools once you have given your active consent; until then, your data will not be processed by the analytics service provider. You can revoke your consent at any time with future effect. Further information about the processing of your personal data can be found with the corresponding tracking tool.

We use open-source software on our website to analyse and statistically evaluate use of the website. For this purpose, we use cookies. The information on website usage generated by the cookie is transferred to our server and summarized in anonymized usage profiles. We use this information to evaluate the use of the website and to enable a needs-based design of our website. The information is not passed on.

We can assure you that under no circumstances will we associate the IP address with other data concerning the user. The IP addresses are anonymized in such a way that it is not possible to assign or identify you personally.

Your visit to this website is recorded by the Matomo web analytics service. You can find further information about anonymization and data processing via the following link: https://matomo.org/privacy-policy/ 

We are pleased to offer you the option of making our philosophy and our company better known on various social media channels, beyond our own website. We maintain our own profiles on Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, LinkedIn and Xing. 

Facebook

We maintain an online presence on the social media platform Facebook to present, sell, and raise awareness of our company and services. On Facebook, we are jointly controller along with Meta Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland. If two parties are jointly controller for the processing of personal data, this model is referred to as “joint controllers” according to Art. 26 of the GDPR. We have agreed on this shared responsibility and the resulting obligations in a contract. The content of this contract can be reviewed via the following link: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

Your personal data will be processed on the basis of a legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter f of the GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, communication, sale, and promotion of our products and services. If you interact with us and leave comments and reviews, consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter a of the GDPR can also be the legal basis for processing. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect in accordance with Art. 7 (3) of the GDPR.

Instagram

We maintain an online presence on the social media platform Instagram to present, sell, and raise awareness of our company and services. On Instagram, we are jointly controller along with Meta Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

If two parties are jointly controller for the processing of personal data, this model is referred to as “joint controllers” according to Art. 26 of the GDPR. We have agreed on this shared responsibility and the resulting obligations in a contract. The content of this contract can be reviewed via the following link: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

Your personal data will be processed on the basis of a legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter f of the GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, communication, sale, and promotion of our products and services. If you interact with us and leave comments and reviews, consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter a of the GDPR can also be the legal basis for processing. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect in accordance with Art. 7 (3) of the GDPR.

X (formerly Twitter)

We maintain an online presence on the messaging service X via the technical platform and services of Twitter Inc. in order to present our company and our services and to communicate with you as a customer or interested party. X is a service of Twitter International Unlimited Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland. Hereinafter now on we will refer to the service as X.

We wish to point out that the provider of X originates from a third country, i.e. from a country outside the European Union and/or the European Economic Area. There is a possibility that your personal data will be processed in the USA. X has exclusive access to your personal data; we have no influence on how they are processed. For further information, please see X’s privacy policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy 

Your personal data will be processed on the basis of a legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter f of the GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, communication, sale, and promotion of our products and services. If you interact with us and leave comments and reviews, consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter a of the GDPR can also be the legal basis for processing. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect in accordance with Art. 7 (3) of the GDPR.

YouTube

We also maintain an online presence on the social media platform YouTube in order to present our company, our products and services and to communicate with you as a customer or interested party. For this purpose, we use the services of YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave., 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA. This is in turn a company of Google Inc., Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The controller of the processing is therefore Google Inc. Hereinafter we will refer to the service as YouTube.

We wish to point out that the provider of YouTube originates from a third country, i.e. from a country outside the European Union and/or the European Economic Area. There is a possibility that your personal data will be processed in the USA. YouTube has exclusive access to your personal data; we have no influence on how they are processed. For further information, please see YouTube’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de 

LinkedIn

You can also follow our company presence on the social media platform LinkedIn to learn more about us and our company as well as our products and services. For this purpose, we use the LinkedIn service of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, a subsidiary of LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W. Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA.

We wish to point out that the provider of YouTube originates from a third country, i.e. from a country outside the European Union and/or the European Economic Area. There is a possibility that your personal data will be processed in the USA. LinkedIn has exclusive access to your personal data; we have no influence on how they are processed. For further information, please see LinkedIn’s privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Xing

We also maintain an online presence on the social media platform Xing in order to present our company, our products and services and to communicate with you as a customer or interested party. For this purpose, we use the “Xing” service of the company XING AG, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.

When you visit the Service, cookies and similar technologies such as pixels, web beacons, and local storage may be used to collect information about your use of the Service and to provide features to you. For further information, please see Xing’s privacy policy: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung 

On the basis of Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter f of the GDPR, we use social plug-ins from the social networks Facebook, Instagram, X, and YouTube on our website to make our company better known. The social media plug-ins are integrated via a linked graphic from the respective network. By linking the channels via a graphic, we prevent a connection from being automatically established with the respective social network servers when the website is accessed. Only by actively clicking the corresponding graphic will you be redirected to the service of the respective network. Personal data, including your IP address, date, time and page visited, are collected and processed on the respective network page. If you are logged in to your user account during this time, the platform operator can assign the processed data to your personal account. If you then interact with our posts, your personal data may be stored and published. If you do not wish for your data to be linked to your user account, you must log out of the corresponding social media channel before clicking the graphic on our website. The legal basis for the processing of the data is a legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter f of the GDPR. The underlying advertising purpose is to be regarded as a legitimate interest within the meaning of the GDPR. The responsibility for ensuring data protection-compliant operation must be ensured by the respective provider. We integrate these plug-ins by employing the so-called two-click method in order to best protect you as a visitor to our website.

For further information on data processing, please refer to the respective providers.

Facebook

We have integrated the Facebook social media plug-in on our website. You can recognise the Facebook plug-in from the logo, the small “f” or the “f share” button on our website. With Facebook, we are jointly controller along with Meta Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

For information on the purpose and scope of data collection and further processing of data by Facebook, as well as your rights and setting options to protect your privacy, please refer to Facebook's privacy policy: https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php 

Instagram

We have also implemented the Instagram social media plug-in on our website. The plug-in is marked with an Instagram logo, for example in the form of an “Instagram camera”. By implementing the social media plug-in and maintaining a customer account on Instagram, we are jointly controller with Meta Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland.

For information on the purpose and scope of data collection and further processing of data by Instagram, as well as your rights and setting options to protect your privacy, please refer to Instagram's privacy policy: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy 

X (formerly Twitter)

On our website you will also find the social media plug-in for the messaging service X via the technical platform and services of Twitter Inc. These functions are offered by Twitter International Unlimited Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland. You can recognize the X graphic from the X logo, the X, on our site.

For information on the purpose and scope of data collection and further processing of data by X, as well as your rights and setting options to protect your privacy, please refer to X's privacy policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy 

YouTube

We have also implemented the YouTube social media plug-in on our website. The plug-in is identified by the lettering of the same name “YouTube”. By implementing the social media plug-in and maintaining a customer account on YouTube, we are jointly controller with the provider YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (hereinafter referred to as “YouTube”). YouTube is provided by Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

For information on the purpose and scope of data collection and further processing of data by YouTube, as well as your rights and setting options to protect your privacy, please refer to YouTube’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy 

On our website you can watch videos about our product range. To embed videos on our website, we use the provider YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (hereinafter referred to as “YouTube”). YouTube is provided by Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

We have embedded the videos in YouTube's enhanced privacy mode, which blocks the setting of YouTube cookies until an active click on playback occurs. By clicking on the play button, you give your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter a of the GDPR that YouTube may set cookies on the device you are using, which may also be used to analyse user behaviour for market research and marketing purposes by Google. A connection is established to Google’s “DoubleClick” advertising network.

This means that your IP address, the date and time as well as the website you visited will be transmitted to YouTube when you click on the video so that YouTube realises that you have watched the video. If you are logged in to YouTube during this process, this information will also be assigned to your user account. If you wish to prevent any such assignment, you must log out of YouTube before viewing the video. For more information, please see YouTube’s privacy policy at the following link: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de 

Contact form

We offer you the opportunity to contact us on our website. You can do this using the contact form or through the active link behind our email address.

If you contact us via the contact form, we will only collect the information we need to process your request effectively, taking the principle of data minimization into account, and we have specially marked the optional fields. When you submit your input, these data are transmitted to our web server via an encrypted path and from there an unencrypted email is sent to our responsible departments in the company without any intermediate data storage. Without providing your data, we cannot answer your request, or we might only be able to do so to a limited extent.

The legal basis for processing your personal data is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter b of the GDPR. We will delete your data as soon as your request has been answered conclusively and we are not subject to any statutory retention periods that might prevent deletion.

We are delighted to offer you the opportunity to apply for a job with us via our website. You can contact us by email. The data you provide (cover letter, CV, references, etc.) will be collected and processed electronically to complete the application process – without this information, we will not be able to respond to your application or will only be able to respond to it in a limited manner.

If an employment contract is concluded between you and Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie (LIN) after the application process, we will store the data you submitted during the application process in your personal file for the purposes of the usual organizational and administrative processes.

If we reject your application, we will automatically delete the data you have sent to us three months after notification of the rejection. The data cannot be deleted if the data requires longer storage due to legal stipulations.

However, you also have the option of consenting to longer storage of your data if you are interested in being included in an applicant or interest database. Your data will then be processed further based on your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time in accordance with Art. 7 (3) of the GDPR by notifying Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie (LIN) in writing with future effect.

You can exercise the rights indicated below once a year free of charge:

• to request information about your personal data processed by us (pursuant to Art. 15 of the GDPR). In particular, you can request information about the purposes of processing, the categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on its details;
• to immediately request the rectification of inaccurate information, or the completion of your personal data stored with us (pursuant to Art. 16 of the GDPR); 
• to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfil a legal obligation for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims (pursuant to Art. 17 of the GDPR);
• to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data (pursuant to Art. 18 of the GDPR) if you contest the accuracy of the data, if the processing is unlawful, if you refuse to delete them and we no longer need the data, but you require them to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or you have objected to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 of the GDPR;
• to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request that they be transmitted to another controller (pursuant to Art. 20 of the GDPR);
• to revoke your consent at any time pursuant to Art. 7 (3) of the GDPR. This means that we will no longer be permitted to continue the data processing based on this consent in the future; and
• to complain to a supervisory authority pursuant to Art. 77 of the GDPR. Normally, you can contact the supervisory authority at your usual place of residence or work or at our company headquarters.

You can issue any requests for information, deletion and authorization of your data at any time in writing to the following address:

Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie (LIN)
Brenneckestraße 6
39118 Magdeburg
Germany

If your personal data are processed on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 letter f of the GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 of the GDPR, provided there are reasons for doing so that arise from your particular situation or the objection is raised to prevent direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right of objection, which we will implement without specifying any special circumstances.

You can send your revocation or objection to us in writing by post once a year free of charge. You will only incur the postage costs for this.

We make every effort to ensure the security of your data within the framework of applicable data protection laws and technical possibilities.

To protect your personal data against third parties, against accidental/intentional manipulation, against partial or complete loss and destruction, or against unauthorized access, we use appropriate technical and organisational security measures. Your personal data are only conveyed to us in encrypted form. For this purpose we use the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption system. We nevertheless wish to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) may have security gaps. It is not possible to completely protect data from access by third parties.

Our security measures are continuously updated and improved in line with technological developments.

This written privacy information is dated July 24 and is currently valid.

Due to ongoing development of this website or due to changes in legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to amend this data protection information. You can find the latest data protection information for viewing and printing on our website: https://www.lin-magdeburg.de/institut/kontakt/datenschutz

If you have any suggestions or questions about our data protection conditions, you can contact us at any time. Please feel free to contact our data protection officer by post.

Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie (LIN)
c/o Maren Kübler
Brenneckestraße 6
39118 Magdeburg
Germany

Tel: +49 391 62 63 92 41 1
Fax: +49 391 62 63 92 41 9

E-Mail: datenschutz(at)lin-magdeburg.de

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