Privacy Policy

This website is a personal academic homepage. It does not use cookies, analytics, tracking pixels, advertising, comment systems or contact forms, and it does not load any content (scripts, fonts, images or videos) from third-party servers.

Responsible for this website

Rene HJ Heim
Institute of Geography, Cartography, GIS & Remote Sensing
Goldschmidtstr. 5, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Email: rene.heim@uni-goettingen.de

Hosting

This website is hosted by GitHub Pages, a service of GitHub, Inc. (88 Colin P. Kelly Jr. St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA). When you visit the site, your browser sends technical data to GitHub’s servers, such as your IP address, the requested page, date and time, and browser type. According to GitHub, the visitor’s IP address is logged and stored for security purposes. I have no access to this data. This may involve a transfer of data to the USA. For details, see About GitHub Pages and the GitHub General Privacy Statement.

Contacting me by email

If you email me, I use your address and the content of your message only to reply and to handle your request. I do not pass it on to third parties.

External links

This site links to other websites (for example publishers, Google Scholar, ORCID, ResearchGate, LinkedIn and GitHub). No data is sent to these sites unless you follow a link; once you do, their own privacy policies apply.

Your rights

Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) you have the right to access, correct or delete your personal data, to restrict or object to its processing, and to data portability. To exercise these rights, contact me at the email address above. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, for example the Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz Niedersachsen.