Legal information / Provider Identification

Imprint according according to § 5 DDG (German Digital Services Act) and § 18 (2) of the State Media Treaty (Medienstaatsvertrag, MstV).

Provider

The GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences is the provider of this website.

Address

GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
Telegrafenberg
14473 Potsdam
Tel.: +49 331 6264 0
Website: www.gfz.de

Legal form

The GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences is a foundation under public law of the State of Brandenburg. The GFZ is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.

Representatives

The GFZ is legally represented by Prof. Dr. Susanne Buiter (Scientific Executive Director and Chair of the Board) and Marco Kupzig (Administrative Executive Director (ad interim)).

VAT ID

VAT identification number according to § 27a of the Value Added Tax Act: DE138407750.

Editorial responsibility

Editorial responsibility for this website in accordance with § 18 (2) of the State Media Treaty:
Fabrice, Cotton (Head of Secion 2.6 “Seismic Hazard and Risk Dynamics”)
Phone: +49 331 6264-1125
Email: fabrice.cotton@gfz.de

Web Editor

Editing, coordination
Steffi Lammers (IT Specialist)
Phone: +49 331 6264-1122
Email: steffi.lammers@gfz.de

Technical implementation and support

The organisational unit responsible for the technical implementation is IT Services and IT Operation
Email: webmaster@gfz.de

Copyright

Texts and photos on the GFZ website are protected by copyright. Copying these files or printing these files is only permitted for private use.

All other forms of use, such as the reproduction, modification or use of graphics, audio documents, video sequences and texts on the websites and in other electronic or printed publications for non-commercial or commercial purposes — even if they are not expressly marked as copyright-protected documents — are not permitted without the prior written consent of the copyright holder.
Content published under special licences is identified as such. It may be used in accordance with the terms of the specific licence.

Disclaimer

The GFZ checks and updates the information available on the GFZ website at regular intervals. Despite all due care, information, data or links may have changed in the meantime. Therefore, no liability or guarantee is assumed for the validity, correctness and completeness of the information provided.

The same applies to all other websites to which reference is made via hyperlinks. The GFZ is not responsible for the content of websites accessed via such links. The respective operator is always responsible for the content of the linked pages. When the links were first created, the GFZ checked the sites to ensure that they were free of illegal content at the time of linking. If you discover any errors of a content-related or technical nature, please let us know.

Data protection and IT security

You can find information on data protection in our Privacy Policy.
Should you have any further questions about data protection, please contact our Data Protection Officer.
If you would like to find out more about the concepts and technical implementation of our IT security, please contact our Information Security Officer.