General information
The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website.
Personal data is any data that can be used to identify you personally. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please refer to the additional sections of our privacy policy below.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://eps.institute.
Hosting
This website is hosted externally. Any personal data collected on this website is stored on the servers of the host.
This may include IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contact details, names, website accesses and other data generated via a website.
External hosting is carried out in the interest of secure, fast, and efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).
If consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s terminal device (e.g., device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG.
Consent can be revoked at any time. Our host(s) will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfill their performance obligations and will follow our instructions regarding this data.
We use the following hosting providers: WordPress, GoDaddy
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Information about the responsible body
The responsible body for data processing on this website is:
Laurence M. Heywood
Meyerbeerstr. 35
13088 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 176 8033 0926
Email: mheywood@eps.institute
Analytics
We use Plausible Analytics for our analytics. Plausible Analytics is a privacy-first web analytics tool. It is built to be compliant with privacy regulations including GDPR and CCPA.
Plausible does not use cookies, is hosted and based in the EU and does not collect any personal data whatsoever.
For further information on Plausible Analytics’ open source approach to website analytics, including how they count unique users without cookies, see https://plausible.io/data-policy.