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Universitaets-Sternwarte
Ludwig Maximilian Universität Munich
Scheinerstrasse 1
81679 Munich

Phone: +49 (0) 89 / 2180-6000
Web presence: http://www.usm.uni-muenchen.de
Contact: sekretariat@usm.uni-muenchen.de


Privacy Policy

Data protection commissioner: https://www.uni-muenchen.de/einrichtungen/orga_lmu/beauftragte/dschutz/index.html

Effective date: 23 July 2018

The "Young Stars and Star Formation" group headed by Prof. Dr. Thomas Preibisch ("us", "we" or "our") operates the websites http://www.usm.uni-muenchen.de/people/preibisch/ and http://www.usm.uni-muenchen.de/ys/ (the "Service"). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

Please note that both above mentioned websites are "passive" websites; this means that they

External visitors of these websites can read the text and look at the images, but they We use your connection data (e.g., your computer's Internet Protocol address) as far as it is required to provide the Service. But other than that we do not try to collect non-neccessary personal data. We also do not use your data to improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information Collection And Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected

Usage Data

We may collect information how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Personal Data

While using our Service, we will never ask you to provide us with any kind of personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data").

Tracking & Cookies Data

We do not use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website (but not from our websites!) and stored on your device. Tracking technologies (that are also not used on our website) include beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Examples of Cookies: None of these types of Cookies are used on our websites.

Use of Data

We use the collected data for various purposes: We will

Transfer Of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside Germany and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to Germany and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that even your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Legal Requirements

We may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

Security Of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Your Rights

You have the right to...

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Webhoster Privacy Policy

More information about the privacy policy of the webhoster https://www.uni-muenchen.de/index.html can be accessed here: https://www.en.uni-muenchen.de/privacy/index.html

Accessing your stored data

If you are a Visitor or User, and you wish to receive a copy, access and/or request us to make corrections to the Personal Information that you have stored with us (either yours or your Users-of-Users’), or wish to request a list of what Personal Information (if any) pertaining to you we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes, please contact us. We will make all reasonable efforts to honor your request promptly (unless we require further information from you in order to fulfil your request), subject to legal and other permissible considerations.

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children").
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Email security

We strongly recommend you not to send us an email, since emails often contain personal information. Should you nevertheless send us an email, your email address will be used only for correspondence.


Last Change: 23 July 2018