Data Protection Policy

This website has been published by the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW). The Data Protection Policy that applies for all websites published by the Institute for Ecological Economy Resarch GmbH, gemeinnützig is the following: https://www.ioew.de/en/service/data-privacy/

Analytical service Matomo

Our website uses the web analysis service Matomo to analyse the use of this website. For this purpose, Matomo uses "cookies", text files that are stored on the user's computer. The cookies generate usage information (including the shortened IP address), which is transmitted to our server and stored for analysis purposes. This enables us to optimise the services offered on this website. The IP addresses of the users are immediately anonymised. The usage data generated by the cookie is used exclusively to analyse website usage and is not passed on to third parties. Users can prevent the use of cookies in their browser settings, but this may restrict the website functions.
Users who do not agree to the storage and analysis of their usage information can object to this with a mouse click. An opt-out cookie then prevents Matomo from collecting any session data at all. Please note: deleting the cookies in your browser settings will also delete the opt-out cookie and you will have to activate it again by mouse click. If you wish to opt out of tracking, you can drop the Matomo deactivation cookie for your browser by clicking on the checkbox:

reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. This service is provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).
reCAPTCHA is used to check whether the data entered on our website (such as on a contact form) has been entered by a human or by an automated program. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website, or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to Google.
The reCAPTCHA analyses take place completely in the background. Website visitors are not advised that such an analysis is taking place.
Data processing is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its site from abusive automated crawling and spam.
For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, please visit the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.