Protecting the security and privacy of your personal data is important to GRIN Verlag / Open Publishing GmbH, Nymphenburger Str. 86, 80636 München, Germany; therefore, we conduct our business in compliance with applicable laws on data privacy protection. Personal data on this website will only be collected to the extend as it is technically essential. We will never sell your personal data or pass it on to third parties for any other reason.

The adjacent policy describes the ways we collect, store, use and protect your personal information.

* Data Processing on this website

GRIN collects and stores information for each visitor of our website in its server log files, our web servers automatically recognize data that are sent by your browser. These are the following:

- Browser type/ version
- Operating system running on your PC
- Referrer URL (the pre-visited site)
- Hostname of the accessing system (IP address)
- Time of the server request

These data are not assignable to personal data, if users do not log in. A migration of these data with other data will not be done.

* Cookies

Our website uses a couple of so called „cookies”. These are used to improve and secure our services, or to customize the content of our site for more user-friendliness. Cookies are small data files which record information, and are stored on your hard drive while you are browsing our site.
Most of the used cookies are “session cookies”. The information we collect is used for internal review and is then automatically discarded.
Once you log out or close your browser, most of these cookies expire and no longer have any effect. Cookies do not damage or harm your computer and do not contain viruses.

* Newsletter

To receive the newsletter offered on our website we additionally need a valid e-mail address from you as well as information allowing us to check that you are the owner of the stated e-mail address and whether or not the owner agrees to receiving the newsletter. The given consent to save your data and e-mail address and using it for sending the newsletter can be retracted anytime.

* Right to Access

Anytime you have the right to request information as to your stored personal data, its source and addresses as well as the purpose of storage. For any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, please contact our data protection commissioner at info(at)grin.com

* More information

Hoping you will continue to favour us we will gladly answer your questions concerning the handling of your personal data. If you have any further questions regarding the processing of your personal data you do not find answered herein or you wish to receive more detailed information about, please feel free to contact our data protection commissioner of GRIN at info(at)grin.com

* Adserver/ Advertising

Our sites use third-party advertising technology (AdServer) to serve ads when you visit our website and sites upon which we advertise. This technology uses non-personal-related information about your visits to this website and the sites upon which we advertise, to serve our ads to you. In the course of serving our advertisements to you, a third-party cookie may be placed on your browser.