Protecting your personal data is important to us. This declaration explains the nature, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data when you visit the website of the research group Remote Sensing - Earth Surface Processes. It is based on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Brandenburg State Data Protection Act (BbgDSG).

Die deutschsprachige Fassung finden Sie auf der Seite Datenschutzerklärung.

1. Controller

The controller responsible for data processing within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR is:

University of Potsdam Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam, Germany legally represented by its President Phone: +49 331 977-0

Responsible for the content of this website: Prof. Dr. Bodo Bookhagen, Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24–25, 14476 Potsdam, bodo.bookhagen@uni-potsdam.de

2. Data Protection Officer

You can contact the official Data Protection Officer of the University of Potsdam at:

Data Protection Officer of the University of Potsdam Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam, Germany E-mail: datenschutz@uni-potsdam.de

3. Access data and server log files

Each time this website is accessed, the web server automatically collects information that is stored in so-called server log files. This may include in particular:

  • the anonymised or shortened IP address of the requesting device,
  • the date and time of access,
  • the page or file requested and the volume of data transferred,
  • the status of the request (HTTP status code),
  • the previously visited page (referrer),
  • the browser type, browser version and operating system used.

The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (e) GDPR in conjunction with § 3 BbgDSG (performance of a task carried out in the public interest) and our legitimate interest in the technically error-free operation and security of the website. The data are used solely to ensure operation, for error analysis and to defend against attacks, and are deleted after a short period. The web server is operated at the University of Potsdam.

4. Cookies

For its basic technical operation, this website does not use cookies that allow you to be identified. Cookies are only used in connection with the web analysis described in section 5, and only after you have given your consent. Your consent decision itself is stored solely locally in your browser (local storage) so that the consent banner does not ask you again on every visit; this storage is technically necessary and is not transmitted to third parties. You can prevent cookies from being set at any time in your browser settings or delete cookies that have already been set.

5. Web analysis with Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies or comparable technologies that enable an analysis of the use of the website.

We have activated IP anonymisation (anonymize_ip). As a result, your IP address is truncated by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to transmission. The truncated IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. The analysis serves to evaluate the use of our scientific website and to improve it.

The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG. Google Analytics is only loaded after you have explicitly agreed via the consent banner shown on your first visit. As long as you neither accept nor decline, no analytics cookies are set and no connection to Google servers is established. You may withdraw or change your consent at any time with effect for the future by clicking the “Cookie settings” link in the footer of every page.

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by downloading and installing the browser add-on available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Further information on how Google handles user data can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

6. External links and embedded content

Our website contains links to external websites (including the University of Potsdam, KenGen, the Technical University of Kenya, GitHub, GitLab, Instagram and YouTube). When you click on these links you leave our website; we have no influence over the data processing of the respective providers. The privacy policies of the respective providers apply.

7. Your rights as a data subject

Under the GDPR you have, in particular, the following rights:

  • Access to the data stored about you (Art. 15 GDPR),
  • Rectification of inaccurate data (Art. 16 GDPR),
  • Erasure of your data (Art. 17 GDPR),
  • Restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR),
  • Data portability (Art. 20 GDPR),
  • Objection to processing (Art. 21 GDPR),
  • Withdrawal of consent with effect for the future (Art. 7 (3) GDPR).

To exercise your rights, please contact the bodies named above.

8. Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. The competent authority is:

The State Commissioner for Data Protection and Access to Information of Brandenburg (LDA Brandenburg) Stahnsdorfer Damm 77, 14532 Kleinmachnow, Germany Phone: +49 33203 356-0 E-mail: poststelle@lda.brandenburg.de

9. Validity of this declaration

This data protection declaration is dated July 2026. As our website develops or due to changes in legal or regulatory requirements, it may become necessary to amend this declaration.

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