Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.gruenden.uni-freiburg.de/wordpress.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor's IP address and user agent string (used to identify the browser) to help detect spam.

An anonymized string (also called a hash) may be created from your email address and provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you are a registered user and upload photos to this website, you should avoid uploading photos with EXIF GPS location data. Visitors to this website could download photos stored on this website and extract their location information.

Cookies

When you write a comment on our website, this may constitute consent to store your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is a convenience feature so that you do not have to re-enter all this information when you write another comment. These cookies are stored for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set up some cookies to store your login information and display options. Login cookies expire after two days and display option cookies expire after one year. If you select “Stay logged in” when logging in, your login will be maintained for two weeks. When you log out of your account, the login cookies will be deleted.

When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data and only refers to the post ID of the article you have just edited. The cookie expires after one day.

Forms

Embedded content from other websites

Posts on this website may contain embedded content (e.g., videos, images, posts, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking services, and record your interaction with this embedded content, including your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we store your data

When you write a comment, it is stored indefinitely, including metadata. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can view, change, or delete their personal information at any time (the user name cannot be changed). Website administrators can also view and change this information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this website or have written comments, you can request an export of your personal data from us, including all data you have provided to us. In addition, you can request the deletion of all personal data we have stored about you. This does not include data that we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security reasons.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked by an automated spam detection service.