Privacy policy

This site is static: no accounts, no comments, no newsletter, no advertising. It sets no cookies, and nothing on it identifies you — which is why there is no consent banner to click away. Neither the shortened server logs nor the statistics allow me to identify you (Art. 11 GDPR).

Server logs and settings

Hosted by ALL-INKL.COM – Neue Medien Münnich, Hauptstraße 68, 02742 Friedersdorf, on German servers, under an Art. 28 agreement. Each request is logged with time, file, status, referrer and browser, and with your IP address shortened to its first two blocks (11.22.33.44 becomes 11.22.0.0), so that it no longer points to you — needed to trace faults and fend off attacks (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Deleted after 90 days.

The only thing kept on your device is your choice of colour theme, stored in your browser’s local storage. It never leaves your device and needs no consent (§ 25 (2) no. 2 TDDDG). Clearing your browser storage removes it.

The site search runs entirely in your browser. The index is downloaded once; your search terms are never transmitted anywhere.

Web analytics

Page views are counted by a small script of my own. It sends a short notice to this site’s own server (the hosting provider above) — no third party is involved, and no cookies or identifiers are set or read.

What is recorded per page view: date and hour, the page address (without query strings), the domain of the referring site (or the source named in a link’s utm_source parameter), the country — derived from your browser’s time zone or, failing that, the region of its language setting — the browser family, operating system and device type, and whether the page started a visit.

IP addresses are neither stored nor used for the statistics; the browser string is used only to determine the browser family and to filter out robots, and is not stored. There is no fingerprinting and no recognition across pages, visits or sites. The counts are kept until I delete them. Legal basis: my legitimate interest in knowing which pages are visited (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Because nothing is stored on your device and no identifier is read from it, § 25 TDDDG does not apply and no consent is required.

Citation counts on the publications page

The citation figures, yearly counts and field-weighted impact values come from OpenAlex, an open scholarly catalogue, and are built into the page beforehand. Opening the page therefore contacts no third party and sends nothing about you anywhere; the figures are refreshed from time to time and carry the date of their retrieval.

Controller and supervisory authority

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schroeders, Holländische Str. 36-38, 34127 Kassel — contact details in the imprint.

You may lodge a complaint with Der Hessische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, Postfach 3163, 65021 Wiesbaden, Germany.