Privacy policy

The protection of your personal data is important to us. On this page you find out our Privacy Policy explaining what we do for data protection and  the collection, use, and storage of data.

Collection of data when visiting website 

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a depersonalized form. This processing is based on Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR and represents our legitimate interest to improve your website experience and to optimize our services.

Collection of data when registering on the website 

When you sign-up for the competition on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the registration. We may collect information like your:

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Institution

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

Registration Email 

We may email you with messages about your registration. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

  • Your registration has been confirmed 

  • To remind you about the written submission 

It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.

We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

Squarespace Analytics 

This website does not collect any personal data to power site analytics.

Use of cookies 

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Fonts 

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

Social Media Plug-Ins

On certain webpages of our website we may implement so-called social media plugins, in particular Facebook, Inc.’s button, Twitter, Inc.’s Twitter buttons, Instagram buttons, and LinkedIn. When you visit a page that displays one or more of such buttons your browser will establish a direct connection to the respective Facebook,Twitter, Instagram and/or LinkedIn server and load the button from there. At the same time Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and/or LinkedIn will know that the respective page on our website has been visited. This processing is based on Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR and represents our legitimate interest to improve your website experience and to optimize our services.

We have no influence on the data that Facebook,Twitter, Instagram and/or LinkedIn collect on the basis of the buttons. According to the available information, however, if you do not click on the respective buttons no personal data will be collected and stored unless you have logged onto to your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn account. In that case certain user data (including your IP address at the time) may be collected and linked to the account information already present at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn respectively. If you wish to prevent this, please log out of your social media accounts before visiting our website. In addition, clicking a button may also lead to a collection of certain data, such as the user’s IP address. We receive no information from Facebook, Google or Twitter about which social media buttons you may have clicked or seen on our website, but, if at all, we may receive a summarised, non-person-related statistical report on the use of the buttons.

Your Rights 

 You have the following rights towards us with regard to personal data concerning you:

  • right to information,

  • right to correction or deletion,

  • right to limitation of processing,

  • where applicable right of opposition to the processing,

  • right to data transferability.

If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you have the right to rescind this at any time. Such a cancellation affects the permissibility of processing your personal data after you have issued your cancellation.