The Freshwater Information Platform is a common idea and endeavour of the following institutes:
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna - Austria
Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management
Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber, Robert Vogl
Contact for: Freshwater Metadata Journal & Metadatabase, Freshwater Species Traits Database and Freshwater Information platform
info@freshwaterplatform.eu
Website
University of Duisburg-Essen, Aquatic Ecology (UDE), Essen - Germany
Jörg Strackbein, Daniel Hering
Contact for: Freshwater Information platform
info@freshwaterplatform.eu
Website
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin - Germany
Sonja Jähnig, Vanessa Bremerich
Contact for: Global Freshwater Biodiversity Atlas
Website
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels - Belgium
Aaike De Wever, Koen Martens
Contact for: Freshwater Biodiversity Data Portal
data@freshwaterplatform.eu
Website
Contact the web team
This website is built and maintained by Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber (BOKU) & Jörg Strackbein (UDE).
Jörg Strackbein
University of Duisburg-Essen
Faculty of Biology, Department of Aquatic Ecology
D-45117 Essen, Germany
Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber (BOKU), Vanessa Bremerich (IGB), Jörg Strackbein (UDE), iStock photo, Fotolia, wikipedia
Privacy policy
All data on this website are processed based on the current laws and regulations (GDPR/DSGVO). Here we explain how we use the data that you make accessible to us when using our website. You can use our website without leaving or storing any personal data. If we ask for personal data (newsletter, contact form), we just use it for the case we asked for and for which you are granting permission to us. We do care for your data, we will never hand over your data to a 3rd party in any case.
Contact
If you contact us via email or a contact form via this website we will save the received information in case of further communication. The saved information will only be used for communication purposes with you and not be handed over to a 3rd party.
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- browser type and version including operating system
- referrer URL
- hostname, date and time of the server request
The logfile is anonymised prior to its storage, including the IP address, so it is not counting as “personal data” in sense of the GDPR/DSGVO. All logfiles will be deleted automatically after 30 days by the provider. These logfiles are only used to detect potential threats for the server, they are not be used for any statistical analyses.
(please read exeption for the use of Freshwater Metadatabase & Freshwater Metadata Journal below)
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You have the right to get information, ask for correction or request deletion of your personal data which we might have stored any time. You can contact us if you have questions concerning your personal data and our data privacy policy via the persons and contact details named above.
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We also make no guarantees, warranties and/or other representations concerning any sites "linked" to and from our website or concerning the content or quality of information on other sites. Sites linked to and from to our website are not under the control of us and we are not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites.
User registration and login
For using the full services of the Freshwater Metadatabase and the Freshwater Metadata Journal (e.g. entering metadata, publishing a FMJ journal article, etc.) we offer to register yourself by sending an email with your contact details. This registration information (name, email) is collected and stored solely for the use of our offer. By registering on our site, we further store your IP address as well as the date and time of your registration. This serves as a hedge on our part in the event that a third party abuses your data and registers with this data without your knowledge. A comparison of these data with other data which might be collected by other components of the Freshwater Information Platform does not take place.
Your email address will only be used for personal communication regarding the entered metadata or the FMJ article. You have the option to deregister from our website at any time. Please send an email to the following address:
data@freshwaterbiodiversity.euWe never pass on any data to third parties.
Use of log data
To improve and optimize the services offered on our website, the following information is stored with each logged-in activity: IP address, user ID, activity detail, date and time, browser type. This information only serves the usability of our website and will not be passed on to third parties.
The following domains are are hosted by Aquatic Ecology, University of Duisburg-Essen:
freshwaterplatform.eu, freshwateratlas.eu, freshwaterblog.eu, freshwaterglossary.eu, freshwaterjournal.eu, freshwatermetadata.eu, freshwaternetwork.eu, freshwaterplatform.eu, freshwaterplatform.org, freshwatertools.eu, freshwaterdata.eu, freshwatertraits.eu.
The provider of freshwaterbiodiversity.eu, project.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu, atlas.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu is the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. More information and contact.
data.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu is provided by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels - Belgium. More information and contact.
freshwaterecology.info is hosted by University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management (BOKU), Vienna - Austria. More information and contact.