Data Usage and Privacy Statement
The CD-CODE web application is a software owned by and hosted at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden, Germany.
Purpose of Data Collection
If you wish to contribute to the data stored at CD-CODE, you will need to register as a contributor, and create a user account.
In order to create an account at CD-CODE, you must consent to the collection and processing of your data as described on this page. Without that consent it is not possible to create an account, and therefore not possible to become a contributor.
In the registration process, we collect basic personal and contact data to be able to get in touch with you and discuss the approval/rejection of data and edits.
In the application process, we ask you to provide information about your affiliation, discipline, and motivation to become a contributor. This enables us to select users who have a background in life sciences, biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics and have knowledge about biomolecular condensates.
More information on data collection and processing is given below.
Data Processing
Collection of Data
Data is collected electronically using a CMS (Content Management System) with HTTPS (Secured HTTP protocol) requests and stored on secure servers at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden, Germany. The server administrators are highly committed to keeping the data safe and are undertaking measures to the best of their current knowledge and ability to prevent security breaches. However, due to the unpredictable and constantly changing nature of technology a full guarantee of data security cannot be given.
Registration
The following data will be collected during the registration part of the application process
- Your full name
- Username (to be displayed along with accepted contributions)
- Affiliation
- E-mail address
- Scientific discipline
- Link to website (optional, to be displayed at the contributors table)
- Photo/avatar (optional, to be displayed at the contributors table)
Additionally, we ask you to have a short motivation statement.
Use of Data
The data collected in our website will only be used for the CD-CODE website. Data can solely be accessed by the CD-CODE research team. All parties and persons who can access the data are committed to maintaining confidentiality.
Server Log Files
For technical reasons, our servers and applications save personal details upon your visit to our websites in their log files. However, these data are only used for the immediate provision of our services, for troubleshooting purposes or for attack prevention and will be deleted automatically after 10 days.
- Your IP address
- Date and time of your website visit
- The address of the website visited
- The address of the previously visited website (referrer)
- Name and version of your browser and operating system
Contact
CD-CODE team
In case of questions regarding our data policy or this privacy statement, please contact the CD-CODE team at cdcode@mpi-cbg.de. Similarly, if you wish to access your personal data or have it deleted, please contact the same address. For validation purposes, please use the e-mail address you provided in the application. We will ask you to give additional data to verify the legitimacy of the request. If you no longer have access to the e-mail address you were using, please contact us with another address so that we can find a way to validate the legitimacy of the request.
Data Protection Officer
The data protection officer of the Max Planck Society is available for questions concerning the topic of data protection at datenschutz@mpg.de or +49 89 2108–1554.
Right of Appeal
If you believe we have violated data protection law regulations, you can turn to the Data Protection Commissioner of the Free State of Saxony:
Contact (German website): https://www.saechsdsb.de/kontakt
Postal mail:
Sächsischer Datenschutzbeauftragter
Bernhard-von-Lindenau-Platz 1
01067 Dresden
Telephone: +49 351 493-5401
E-mail: saechsdsb@slt.sachsen.de