Who we are
The LEPMON-Portal serves the Lepmon project in the task to develop a practical system for nationwide, automated monitoring of nocturnal insects to reliably document changes in population. The LEPMON-Portal https://lepmon.de collects personal data from site visitors. Personal data are all data that can be used to identify a real person either directly or indirectly by combination. This includes the device’s internet addresses (IP-addresses) and all identifiers connected with a page visit.
Responsible for the LEPMON-Webportal and data processing according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the:
Leibniz Institute for Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB)
Foundation under public law
Adenauerallee 127
53113 Bonn
email: datenschutz@leibniz-lib.de
You have the right to request a copy of all personal data stored about you and to request the deletion or correction of these data. The request can be send to the Biodiversity Datacenter of the LIB (address see below) or via email to datenschutz@leibniz-lib.de. Details on your rights to access, correct and delete your personal data are described in paragraphs 2, 3, 4, and 5 of this document.
1. Collected personal data of site visitors
The following data are collected from visitors of these websites:
- IP-address, time stamp, browser-identification, requested pages within this websites
These data are stored for 7 days to allow us to recognize and defend attacks on the website servers. The IP addresses become anonymized after a period of 7 days to make identification of users impossible. The anonymized IP-addresses, time stamps, browser identifications and requested pages are stored for 6 months for statistical purposes to document project activity for funding organizations.
In addition, the following data will be stored on the visitor’s device for convenience of the websites usage:
- So called cookies with an unique identifier
Cookies are small data files that are created by the browser. The website can access these files to get information on the last visit of a user on the portals pages. In the website the cookies are used to keep the users choice of the selected language. Cookies are stored for one week.
The setting and storage of cookies can be completely prevented by disallowing them in your browsers settings. This will cause the loss of your language preferences on the portals pages. Alternatively, the storage of cookies can be limited to the time period of your browser session.
2. Contact address to request deletion, correction, or accessing personal data and to revoke the agreement of personal data handling
For all requests on deletion, correction, access and agreement on personal data collected in these websites please contact:
Leibniz Institute for Analysis of Biodiversity Change
– Biodiversity Informatics –
Adenauerallee 127
53113 Bonn
email: datacenter@leibniz-lib.de
3. Deletion of personal data
Users providing a valid authentication can request the deletion of their personal data by the Biodiversity Informatics Department of LIB (see address above)
4. Access to collected personal data
Collected personal data will be made available to the concerned person in human readable form. Users can request information on their personal data and the data themselves by contacting the Biodiversity Informatics Department of LIB (see address above). The request will be processed within a period of 4 weeks, if the requesting person can provide a valid authentication.
5. Revoke the agreement to collect personal data
Registered users can revoke their given agreement to the collection and handling of personal data by the website. The collected data will then be deleted within 4 weeks. The person who wants to revoke his / her agreement will be asked for an authentication. The revoke-request can be send to the Biodiversity Informatics Department of the LIB (address see above).
6. Right of appeal at the regulating authority
In accordance to article 13 of the GDPR users have the right of appeal at the regulating authority. The address is:
Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen
Postfach 20 04 44
40102 Düsseldorf
Email: poststelle@ldi.nrw.de
Public PGP-Key: https://www.ldi.nrw.de/metanavi_Kontakt/key_ldi.asc
7. Contact data of the LIB data protection officer
The contact address of the data protection officer of the ZFMK is:
Leibniz Institute for Analysis of Biodiversity Change
Adenauerallee 127
53113 Bonn
email: datenschutz@leibniz-lib.de