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The internet sites under esgf-data.dkrz.de (hereinafter: "Website") are operated by Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH (hereinafter: "DKRZ"), Bundesstraße 45a, 20146 Hamburg. The careful and legitimate handling of your data is an important concern for us. The following Privacy Policy explain which personal data are gathered on our website and how and for which purposes these are used.
Please, read the Privacy Policy completely before you transmit data to us or use our website in other manner and inform yourself about updates of these Data protection notices on a regular basis. The following Privacy Policy is valid for the use of our website in its respective current version.
When you visit our website, the following data are automatically gathered exclusively for the creation of anonymous statistics as well as for the purposes of data protection monitoring, data security and to ensure the proper operation of our data processing systems:
On our website, we use so-called Cookies. Cookies are small text files that are filed on your computer and that your browser stores (locally on your hard disk). Cookies serve to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure and fundamentally contain no personal data. You can prevent the installation of the Cookies through a respective setting of your browser for data protection or Internet use for individual services / sites or altogether; however, in this case, not all functions of the website may be shown or be capable of being used to the full extent.
As a rule, you can visit our website without us requiring, collecting, processing or using your personal data. You will remain anonymous as an individual user or at least pseudonymous.
Personal data are only collected if you provide them to us voluntarily, in particular during registration and use of the ESGF Data Portal via our website.
Your information will not be disclosed to third parties and is used exclusively for the execution of these services and for processing your request and remain stored only up to the final processing of the matter of the case and in compliance with statutory retention periods.
To be able to use ESGF, you must register as a user. On this occasion, we also collect personal data like given name (First Name), surname, e-mail address, user name as well as, optionally: the second given name (Middle Name), Organisation, City (State -) country (State), country (Country). Besides, you must select a separate password; this is stored encoded, of course. The thus collected information is stored on a server of the DKRZ.
If you want to download data from the data nodes operated by us, you must log in first with your OpenID; here, the log in with an OpenID not created with the DKRZ is also possible. For authentication for the ESGF data node operated by us, you must then also enter the password you chose. Then you can download climatic data and optionally carry out a group registration. On this occasion, personal data (IP- address, OpenID, downloaded data) are also collected by us.
These data will also be collected if you decide for a download with the "Wget"- script.
The thus collected data are stored only on our servers for the purpose and for the duration of the use of the ESGF- node operated by us and are not disclosed to any third party.
You have the option to revoke your consent for the collection, processing and use of personal data at any time with effect for the future. A revocation must be sent to:
Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH
Bundesstraße 45a
D-20146 Hamburg
e-mail: esgf@dkrz.de
Telephone: +49404600940
Telefax: +4940460094270
You are entitled to receive, free of charge, information about the personal data stored about you. On request, we will share with you in writing, in accordance with the applicable law, whether and which personal data about you are stored with us.
In addition, in accordance with the legal provisions, you have a right to correction, blocking and deletion of your personal data.
DKRZ reserves the right to change the contents of these Privacy Policy every now and then in accordance with the legal data protection regulations.