Privacy Notice

On this page, we provide you with information about the processing of your data on borispaal.de, which directly or indirectly relates to you (personal data). The processing of this personal data is governed in particular by the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Professor Boris P. Paal, Vohburger Str. 13, 80687 Munich, Germany, mail (at) borispaal.de, is as so-called controller responsible for the processing of personal data in this context.

  1. Operation of the website

On the website borispaal.de we provide you with information about the work of and the person Professor Paal. For our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) in maintaining the functionality of the website and detecting errors, we store the data of your request, which are in particular:

  • IP address
  • Information about your device (e.g., browser, operating system)
  • Date and time of a request
  • URL of the requested page
  • URL of the previously visited page
  • Status or error code

We use this data for the processing of your request only or as long as necessary for the correction of an error. Subsequently, the data is deleted or the personal reference is removed, among other things, by deleting the IP address. This data can then be stored anonymously in so-called log files for statistical purposes.

We do not use cookies or similar technologies to reidentify you through our website. This website uses only technically necessary cookies, in particular “pll_lang” cookie for delivery of the website in the correct language.

To provide our content, we cooperate with our web hoster based in Germany. Such processing activities are carried out by the web hoster as our data processor, i.e. exclusively according to our instructions for the stated purposes.

  1. Inquiries

For our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) to process your inquiry sent by e-mail, we process in particular:

  • Name and email address
  • Inquiry and content of email
  • Additional email data (e.g., data such as date and time the email has been sent and through which servers)

This data will be deleted after a waiting period of several weeks, as soon as your request has been processed and to the extent that we are not legally obligated to store it.

  1. Legal obligation and legal claims

In individual cases, we may be required by law (e.g., for tax reasons) and also by orders of public authorities or courts to process, including transfer, personal data (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR). The processing including the transfer may also be necessary in individual cases for our legitimate interest in establishing or defending legal claims (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

These processing activities are carried out only to the extent that and for as long as it is necessary for these purposes.

  1. Your rights

As data subject you are entitled to rights such as the right to:

  • Access (covers information on the processing activity and a copy of the personal data),
  • Rectification (e.g., inaccurate data stored),
  • Erasure (e.g., data not necessary anymore for the purpose)
  • Restriction of processing (e.g., on your request instead of erasure; in general, after the restriction only storing the personal data is allowed),
  • Data portability (includes a copy of personal data in a machine-readable format and the transfer of such copy) as well as
  • Lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.
Insofar as we process data on the basis of a legitimate interest, you have the right to object to the processing. You may object at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation. Insofar as data is processed for direct advertising purposes, you may object at any time without cause.