Privacy Policy

The protection of your privacy when using our website is important to us. Therefore, please take note of the following information.

I. General Information

Retrievability

This data protection declaration can be retrieved permanently and at any time at the web address www.mco.degruyter.com/privacy-policy or can be printed out.

Controller:

Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
Im Westfeld 8
4055 Basel
Switzerland
Phone: +41 61 306 17
Fax: +41 61 306 17 01
editorial@birkhauser.ch

Information about the De Gruyter Group:

Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Genthiner Straße 13
10785 Berlin / Germany
Tel: +49 30 260 05-0
Fax: +49 30 260 05-251
E-Mail: info@degruyter.com

Data Protection Officer of the De Gruyter Group (EU Data Protection Officer):

Thorsten Feldmann
JBB Rechtsanwälte
Christinenstraße 18/19
10119 Berlin
Deutschland
E-Mail: datenschutz@degruyter.com

II. Functions of our Websites

We offer the following functions on our website:

General Information

Personal data is only collected on this website to the technically necessary extent. During a mere visit to our website, no data is collected that could identify you directly. To establish and maintain the connection, Birkhäuser and de Gruyter automatically collect and store only the following server log files that your browser transmits to us:

  • the filename and URL you accessed
  • the HTTP response code
  • the browser type, the browser version
  • the operating system used
  • the referrer URL (the previously visited page)
  • the host name of the accessing computer (IP address/domain name)
  • date and time of the server request
  • and the bytes transferred during the connection.

The collection of the IP address is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to offer you our website and service.

Contact

You can contact us, for example by email. In this case, we will process the personal data provided by you, primarily your email address, name and message, in order to process your enquiry. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR, whereby our legitimate interest lies in the purpose described. After processing your inquiry, we will delete your data immediately, unless it is necessary to keep your email for other reasons.

III. Internet-specific technologies, in particular cookies

We use cookies and other technologies such as tracking pixels on our website. We use these cookies and other technologies to provide you with certain technical functions that make your use of our site more pleasant and comfortable and to analyze the use of our site. You can read what cookies are, which ones we use and how you can refuse non-essential cookies in our Cookie Policy.

IV. Recipients of data

Internally, the departments responsible for processing the respective task have access to personal data. External data transfers take place in addition to those mentioned under II. and III. above all to external service providers, which we use, as far as we cannot provide services or cannot provide them sensibly ourselves. These are primarily IT and communication service providers.

V. Data Subject Rights

The basic data protection regulation guarantees you certain rights which you can assert against us – insofar as the legal requirements are met.

  • § Art. 15 GDPR – Right of the data subject to obtain information: You have the right to request confirmation from us as to whether personal data relating to you are processed and, if so, what these are and the detailed circumstances of data processing.
  • § Art. 16 GDPR – Right to rectification: You have the right to request us to rectify any inaccurate personal data concerning you without delay. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you also have the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data – also by means of a supplementary declaration.
  • § Art. 17 GDPR – Right of deletion: You have the right to request us to delete personal data concerning you without delay.
  • § Art. 18 GDPR – Right to limitation of processing: You have the right to request us to restrict processing.
  • § Art. 20 GDPR – Right to data transferability: You have the right, in the event of processing on the basis of consent or in order to fulfil a contract, to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided us in a structured, current and machine-readable format, and to transmit this data to another person responsible without our interference or to have the data transmitted directly to the other responsible person if this is technically feasible.
  • § Art. 21 GDPR – Right of objection: You have the right to object at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you, which is necessary for our legitimate interest or for the protection of a task in the public interest, or which is carried out in the exercise of official authority. To do so, please contact one of the addresses given in the data protection declaration.
    If you object, we will no longer process your personal data, unless we can prove compelling reasons worthy of protection for the processing, which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
    If we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object to the processing at any time. If you object to the processing for direct advertising purposes, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes.
  • § Art. 77 GDPR in conjunction with § 19 BDSG – Right of appeal to a supervisory authority: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your place of residence, your workplace or the place of suspected infringement, at any time if you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you is contrary to applicable law.

If you have given us your consent, you have the right to revoke your consent at any time. All data processing that we have carried out up to your revocation remains legal in this case. For this purpose you can send us a message to datenschutz@degruyter.com.

VI. Obligation to Provide Data

You have no contractual or legal obligation to provide us with personal data. However, we will not be able to offer you our services without the information you provide.

VII. Existence of Automated Decision Making (Including Profiling)

We do not use automated decision making that has legal effects on you or affects you.

VIII. Data Security

The transmission of payment data to the payment service provider is encrypted using a 256-bit RSA TLS protocol. By entering the domain as https, the user can effect the encrypted transmission of other personal data to de Gruyter.