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Data protection

Protecting your privacy on our website is important to us. You can find information about personal data collected in this context below. Personal data are all data that can be related to you personally, such as your name, address, email address, your behaviour as user.

We process personal data in compliance with EU law (GDPR), the data protection law of the Land Schleswig-Holstein (LDSG) and all other legal regulations that may apply.

The ZBW reserves the right to update this data protection notice from time to time. We recommend you to visit this page regularly to renew your acceptance.

Contact information

Responsible according to Art. 4 Clause 7 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation is the

ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
Düsternbrooker Weg 120
24105 Kiel
Email: zbw@zbw.eu

For more information please consult our imprint:
https://www.intereconomics.eu/imprint.html

Data protection officer

If you have any questions regarding data protection, please contact our data protection officer

Sven Markgraf
Data protection officer
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg
Email: datenschutz@zbw.eu

Your rights

You have the right to obtain, upon request, information about the personal data which are stored about you free of charge. You also have the right to demand that false data be corrected or deleted. You have the right to restrict the processing of your data, the right to object to processing, and the right to data portability.

If you have consented to our processing of your data, you can revoke this consent at any time, taking effect from the time of revocation. You also have the right to file a complaint with a data protection authority about the processing of your data by us.

Anonymous data collection

You can visit our website intereconomics.eu without providing identifying information. We can only view the name of your internet service provider, the IP address of the device you use to access the website, the device used, your browser, the time of your access, the website from which you accessed our website, the various websites that you access on our platform, and the volume of transferred data. While this information may be analysed for statistical purposes, individual users will remain anonymous.

Collection and processing of personal data

When you access pages and forms on this website and are prompted to enter information about yourself (e.g. for event notifications, newsletter subscription, RSS feed, press login), this explicitly voluntary transmission of data over the Internet is not secure. The data may be used by unauthorised persons or even falsified or diverted.

Use and disclosure of personal data

Personal data collected on this website is used only to process your requests. The data will not be disclosed to third parties.

Social Networks

We do not use any plug-ins on our website. The LinkedIn, Bluesky or Facebook logos on our website are merely links. By clicking on one of the logos while also logged in to your LinkedIn, Bluesky or Facebook account, you can link the content on our pages to your network profile. Doing so enables LinkedIn, Bluesky or Facebook to match a visit to our website with your user account.

E-Mails

When you send us an e-mail, your e-mail address will only be used to correspond with you. It will not be used for other purposes or transmitted to third parties. Be advised that unauthorised access and falsification are possible if e-mails are transmitted without encryption.

Matomo

This website uses Matomo as a web analytics service without the use of cookies. The information generated is stored on our servers. Your IP address is stored anonymously for the purpose of evaluating visitor traffic. This means that it cannot be linked to your person. The IP address transmitted by Matomo is not merged with other data.

You can object to this form of web tracking without cookies by using the following opt-out option. However, an opt-out cookie will be set so that Matomo can remember your decision. If you delete the cookies in this browser, you will have to reactivate the opt-out cookie.

Your browser settings for Matomo

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use Matomo's opt-out function.

Plagiarism search

The ZBW reserves the right to check documents with the plagiarism search engine Docoloc. The provider is going to delete the documents immediately after the check. For further information, please refer to the data protection information of the provider.

Contact: Docoloc UG & Co. KG, Methfesselstraße 2, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany

Data protection notice:  https://www.docoloc.de/en/datenschutz.hhtml The ZBW has concluded a data processing agreement with Docoloc, which conforms to Art. 28 GDPR.

Last updated on 13/09/2026