Privacy

The GS Soil portal contains telecommunications media, i.e. content as defined by § 1 Sec. 1 of the German Telecommunications Media Act (TMG). The following procedural principles are assured:

• In the case of each access by a user to a page from the content of the GS Soil portal and for each retrieval of a file, data relating to that process are saved in a journal file. These data are not personal data; that is to say, we cannot trace which user has accessed which data. These journal data are archived for two months and are only evaluated for statistical purposes.
  
  
• One exception to this is found within the Internet services offered where personal or business data are entered (e-mail address, name, postal address) for the registration at ‘my GS Soil’. Here, the provision of such data by users is expressly voluntary. The utilization of all services offered can be carried out - insofar as this is technically possible and reasonable - even without divulging such details or using anonymised data or a pseudonym.
  
  
• You are able to use all generally accessible pages without cookies being installed. However, if you choose to allow cookies in your browser, this will increase the usability of the application. It cannot be used to trace the user.