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This privacy policy only applies for the website of Concept Graph. For the other websites of Open Knowledge Maps refer to Privacy policy of openknowledgemaps.org.
Last updated: 11 November 2019
Open Knowledge Maps and Know-Center GmbH are joint controllers for Concept Graph. This privacy statement explains what data is collected and in what way, how it is used, and what rights you have in relation to it. The terms used herein, such as "data processing" or "controller" are defined in Art. 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj
Know-Center GmbH -Research Center for Data Driven Business & Big Data Analytics
Inffeldgasse 13/6, 8010 Graz
Contact:
datenschutz@know-center.at
Open Knowledge Maps - Verein zur Förderung der Sichtbarkeit wissenschaftlichen Wissens
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Contact:
info@openknowledgemaps.org
Please find further details in our Legal Notice: https://openknowledgemaps.org/imprint#legalnotice
Know-Center GmbH Research Center for Data Driven Business & Big Data Analytics, Inffeldgasse 13/6, 8010 Graz
Kontakt: datenschutz@know-center.at
The initially pseudo-anonymized data[1] is collected to evaluate the performance, usability and usage patterns of a graph visualization integrated into the Open Knowledge Maps search platform. At the end of the one-month experiment time window and before further processing, the data is completely anonymized. The data and the resulting results will be used for scientific purposes (including scientific publication), teaching and improving the visualization and similar services that promote the discoverability of scientific knowledge for the production of new knowledge and its use in teaching.
[1] In the case of pseudonymization, the identification feature of the user is replaced by a code in order to exclude or substantially hinder the determination of the identity.
If you have any question about our privacy policy, or data protection at Open Knowledge Maps in general, please send an email to privacy@openknowledgemaps.org
Collected data includes
Collected data is stored in data centers in Germany and Austria. There is no disclosure, or order processing by third parties.
The storage takes place until the exhaustion of the processing purpose, unless in addition there are legal or (contractual) storage requirements or (predominantly) legitimate interests which justify a longer storage (e.g. for the assertion or defense of legal claims).
Every visit to our website general data is automatically collected and stored in a log file. The following information is being recorded:
This information is technically necessary in order to display the content of our website and services correctly and is imperative when you use the internet. The data is collected to:
The processing of this information is based on our legitimate interest in the purposes for data collection mentioned above. We are not using this data to identify you personally. The recipient of the data is only the responsible office. The information is used for example to fix errors, to detect hacker attacks or for legitimate investigations of government bodies.
Access logs are deleted after 30 days in case of regular access behaviour. Access data for debugging ("error logs") are deleted after 90 days, security-relevant access data ("security logs) are deleted after 180 days. Access data is only collected in an error log in case an error occurs. Access data is only collected in a security log in case when an improper use of our website is suspected.
Additional personal information are only stored if they are provided by you. This includes data like name, address, and e-mail address in the case you make a donation and require a receipt from us.
"Personally Identifiable Information" means any information that can be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, an email address or other contact information, whether at work or at home.
We use an encrypted connection to establish a connection between your browser and our website & web services. An encrypted connection ensures that the data you send via our web services (e.g. search terms you type into our search field on openknowledgemaps.org) cannot be recognized by third parties.
If you use your email software to send us a message, please be aware that the message you send is not encrypted by default. If you want to send us personal information via email, we advise you to always encrypt your messages beforehand. Please see the section "Email communication with us" for more information.
If you click on our dedicated contact buttons: info@openknowledgemaps.org or any other contact buttons ("pre-register via email", email icon) your email software will be activated and invites you to send your comments to a specific functional mailbox. When you send such a message, your personal data is collected only to the extent necessary to reply. If you use your email software to send us a message, please be aware that the message you send is not encrypted by default. If you want to send us personal information via email we advise you to always encrypt your messages beforehand.
We will not forward your email or the data included in your email to any third parties without your consent.
If you have any questions about the processing of your e-mail and related personal data, do not hesitate to include them in your message.
To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies on our website
The cookies for the purposes mentioned above are not used to personally identify you. These cookies are stored permanently and are not used for any other purpose.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics uses cookies to analyze your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there securely. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on these websites, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google, within any member state of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software. In addition, you may prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
In addition or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our pages by clicking this link. An opt-out cookie will be installed on your device. This will prevent the collection by Google Analytics for this website and for this browser in the future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.
More information about the use of cookies by Google can be found at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ and https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
Matomo
Our website uses Matomo, a web analysis service which uses cookies (text files that are stored on your computer and allow us to analyse the use of our website). For this purpose, the usage information generated by the cookie (including your truncated IP address) is transferred to our server and stored for the purpose of analysing the use of our website, which in turn allows us to optimise the website accordingly. In this process, your IP address is anonymised immediately in order to ensure your anonymity as a user. The site usage information generated by the cookie is not passed on to third parties. You can block the use of cookies in your browser settings; however, you may not be able to use all of the functions offered on this website as a result.
If you do not consent to the storage and analysis of data on your visit to our website, you can block these actions at any time by clicking below. In such a case, an opt-out cookie will be stored on your device, meaning that Piwik will not collect session data from your visit.
Note: If you delete your cookies, your opt-out cookie will also be deleted, meaning that you will have to reactivate the cookie for your next visit to the site.
How to control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work as expected.
We use Google Hosted Libraries, Google Analytics, and Google Drive of the company Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) for our website and web services. For more information please see, "Use of Content Distribution Network (CDN)", "Use of Google Analytics", and "Use of Google Drive" further down. We als use some web services provided by Twitter. For more information please see "Social Plugins" further down. In addition, we use the GDPR-compliant service MailChimp, a marketing automation service provided by The Rocket Science Group, LLC (675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA). For more information please see "Newsletter" further down. We use the GDPR-compliant service Hypothes.is, a web annotation service provided by HYPOTHES IS PROJECT ( 2261 Market Street 632, San Francisco, CA, 94114 United States of America ). For more information please see “Social Plugins” further down.
The processing of donations is handled by PayPal, a payments processor of PayPal Inc. (which is a parent company of PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A.) located in California, USA. For more information about the data collected please see https://www.paypal.com/ie/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full?locale.x=en_IE.
Apart from the aformentioned data processors, we do not transfer your data to any other third parties.
The data controller shall process and store the personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of storage, or as far as this is granted by the European legislator or other legislators in laws or regulations to which the controller is subject to.
If the storage purpose is not applicable, or if a storage period prescribed by the European legislator or another competent legislator expires, the personal data are routinely blocked or erased in accordance with legal requirements.
On our website we use Google Hosted Libraries a Content Distribution Network (CDN) of the company Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). A CDN ensures that all program libraries and style sheets (CSS) that are necessary for the correct display of our website and services are being loaded as efficiently and securely as possible, independent of their location. The use of google hosted libraries does not require logging into to google services and google hosted libraries does not save any cookies on your computer. If you have an account with Google, your google account information is not being transmitted while using google hosted libraries. Google only registers which libraries and style sheets (CSS) are used and stores this information savely.
Google’s privacy policy is available here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
More details regarding Google Hosted Libraries are available here: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. We use Google Analytics to compile reports about user activity on the site. These reports serve as a basis for analyzing user behavior, improving our services, and developing new services.
Google Analytics uses cookies (see section "Cookies") to perform analyses of the use of the website by you. The use of Google Analytics takes place without registration. The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
Google's privacy policy can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
More details about Google Analytics can be found here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
We use Google Drive, a service provided by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA), to share training material and other documents. Accessing documents on Google Drive may take place without registration, information about your Browser and IP address is still available to Google. If you have a Google Drive account and are logged in, the access can be associated with your account. To prevent this, you need to log out of your Google Drive account.
Google's privacy policy can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
More details about Google Drive can be found here: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2450387?hl=en
You have a right to
You can submit a complaint to the competent regulators at any time.
Open Knowledge Maps is not responsible for the contents of websites that are maintained by third parties and therefore waives its liability for any links from this website to other websites. When you leave our website the privacy policies of that other website apply.
Our privacy policy is subject to change. We will adapt our privacy policy in order to comply with current legal requirements or to notify you of changes to our services. If you revisit our website make sure to read the changes to our privacy policy.
