Information on Data Processing Pursuant to Art. 14 DS-GVO
Contact Details Responsible Party
We, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Herzog-Max-Str. 4, 80333 Munich, Germany, phone +49 89 24246-0, operate the following social media websites:
As the operator of these pages, we are jointly responsible with the operator of the respective social media platform within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO):
- Bluesky Social PBC (Bluesky)
- LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (LinkedIn)
- Wissenschaft im Dialog gGmbH (Mastodon)
- X Internet Unlimited Company (X/Twitter)
When visiting our social media websites, personal data is processed by the responsible parties. In the following, we will inform you about what data is involved, how it is processed and what rights you have in this regard. As the responsible party for these pages, we have entered into agreements with the operator of the respective social media platform, which regulate, among other things, the conditions for use of the pages. The terms of use of the respective operator as well as the other conditions and guidelines listed there at the end are authoritative.
Use of Insights and Cookies
The operators of the social media platforms also provide us with usage statistics (so-called analysis services or page insights data) of our pages on the social media platforms based on the actions and interactions of our followers (e.g. likes, shares, comments, etc.), number of followers, views of individual page areas, reach of a post as well as statistics on followers by age, language, origin or interests), which help us to get in touch with our followers and interested parties, to understand the use and reach of our posts, to evaluate content and to identify usage preferences as well as to be able to design our pages on the social media platforms in a way that is as target group-oriented as possible. We have no influence or access to the creation and processing of these usage statistics and the underlying data; it is carried out under the sole responsibility of the operator of the respective social media platform.
The information stored in the cookies is received, recorded and processed by the operator of the respective social media platform. This also includes services provided by the operator or operator group of social media platforms, as well as services provided by other companies that use the social media platforms and which are visited by the user. In addition, other entities such as partners or even third parties on the social media platforms may use cookies to provide services to companies advertising on the social media platforms. For more information on the use of cookies by the operator, please refer to their Cookie Policy.
Contact data of data protection officers
The contact details of MPG's data protection officer are: Hofgartenstraße 8, D-80539 Munich, Germany, phone: +49 (89) 2108-1554, e-mail: datenschutz(at)mpg.de.
Purposes of Data Processing
The data you enter on our pages on social media platforms, such as comments, questions, videos, pictures, likes, public messages, job preferences and selection, etc., will be published by the operator of the social media platform and will be used or processed by us only for the purposes stated below. We reserve the right to delete content should this be necessary. If applicable, we share your content on our site if this is a function of the website and communicate with you via the website.
On the websites operated by us, you will find links to other company presences on social media platforms in each case. You can recognize links to the websites of the social media platforms, for example, by the respective company logo. If you follow these links, you will reach our corporate presence on the respective social media platform. When you click on a link to a social media platform, a connection is established to the servers of the social media platform. This transmits the fact that you have visited our website. In addition, further data is transmitted to the provider of the social media platform. These are, for example:
- Address of the website on which the activated link is located.
- Date and time when the website was called up or the link was activated
- Information about the browser and operating system used
- IP address
If you are already logged in to the corresponding social media platform at the time the link is activated, the provider of this social media platform may be able to determine your user name and possibly even your real name from the transmitted data and assign this information to your personal user account with the social media platform. You can exclude this possibility of assignment to your personal user account if you log out of your user account beforehand.
Contact
You can contact us via some of our pages on social media platforms. We process your data to answer your inquiry and, if necessary, to send you requested information material. Your data may be transferred to the body responsible for your request. This body may also be a third party. A transmission only takes place if there is a data protection law transmission authorization.
If you submit a request to us on the social media platforms, we may also refer you to other secure communication channels that guarantee confidentiality, depending on the required response.
You always have the option of sending us confidential inquiries to our address listed in the imprint.
Statistical Evaluations
The processing of the information is intended to enable us, as the operator of the social media site, to obtain statistics (so-called page insights data) that the operator of the social media platform creates based on the visits to our site. For example, this enables us to gain knowledge of the profiles of visitors who like our site or use applications of the site in order to provide them with more relevant content and develop features that may be of greater interest to them.
In addition, to help us better understand how our Site can better reach our interested users, demographic and geographic analyses are also created and provided to us based on the information we collect. We can use this information to offer targeted interest-based content without gaining direct knowledge of the visitor's identity. If visitors use social media platforms on multiple devices, the collection and analysis can also be carried out across devices if the visitors are registered and logged into their own profiles.
The visitor statistics created are transmitted to us exclusively in anonymized form. We have no access to the underlying data.
Further information on the processing of your personal data by the operator of the respective social media platform in the context of the creation and processing of usage statistics can be found in the information on usage statistics on the following websites of the respective social media platform:
- LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (LinkedIn)
Legal Basis of Data Processing
We operate these social media sites in order to present ourselves to and communicate with users as well as other interested persons who visit our sites. The processing of users' personal data is based on our legitimate interests, in an optimized company and product presentation (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO).
Recipients or Categories of Recipients
Data is not passed on to third parties by us.
The servers of the social media platforms are located in the USA and other countries outside the European Union. The data may therefore also be processed by the provider of the social media platform in countries outside the European Union. Please note that companies in these countries are subject to data protection laws that do not generally protect personal data to the same extent as is the case in the member states of the European Union.
Please note that we have no influence on the scope, type and purpose of the data processing by the provider of the social media platforms. For more information on the use of your data by the social media platforms integrated on our website, please refer to the privacy policy of the respective social media platform:
- Bluesky Social PBC (Bluesky)
- LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (LinkedIn)
- Wissenschaft im Dialog gGmbH (Mastodon)
- X Internet Unlimited Company (X/Twitter)
Storage Period
The data will not be stored by us.
Data Subject Rights
You have the right to obtain information about the data stored by MPG about you, the right to demand that the data be corrected if it is incorrect or deleted if it is stored inappropriately, and the right to data portability. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. For MPG, this is the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision, Postfach 1349, 91504 Ansbach.
Source of the Data
The data are not collected directly from the data subjects but are provided by the operator of the social media platform:
- LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (LinkedIn)
- Twitter International Company (Twitter)
