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The www.berlin-sciences.com portal is part of the overall Internet service of Berlin Partner GmbH.

Postal Address
Berlin Partner GmbH
Ludwig Erhard Haus
Fasanenstraße 85
10623 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 39980-0
Fax: +49 30 39980-239

Managing Director
Melanie Bähr

Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Peter Zühlsdorff

Entered in the companies’ register of Charlottenburg district court,
Entry number: HRB 13072 B
VAT ID No. DE 136629780
Tax No. 27/037/03745

Concept, design and technical implementation
Aperto AG

The www.berlin-sciences.com portal and related online services were developed on behalf of the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Research.

Exclusion of liability and copyright notice

Berlin Partner GmbH will constantly check and update information but no liability can be accepted or guarantee given for the correctness, completeness and up-to-dateness of information provided. This also applies to all websites linked via hyperlink. Berlin Partner GmbH accepts no responsibility for the presentation and content of websites that are reached through any such linking. For this reason, Berlin Partner GmbH hereby explicitly distances itself from all content on pages that can be reached from this website. The content and structure of the online services of Berlin Partner GmbH are protected by copyright. Any use of texts, parts of texts or image materials requires the prior consent of Berlin Partner GmbH. Should illegal or low-quality websites be linked with Berlin Partner GmbH websites, Berlin Partner GmbH distances itself from these and requests that it be informed about any such links so that it can remove them.

The entry of data and content into the Berlin Sciences Navigator and into linked applications shall be the responsibility of the respective institution. Berlin Partner GmbH shall not be responsible for content that institutions provide and offers no guarantees as to its accuracy. Berlin Partner GmbH is not obliged to check this content before publication, however it does reserve the right to make decisions on including an institution in the Berlin Sciences Navigator and also to check the content and modify or delete it at any time. A contractual relationship between the institution providing the information and Berlin Partner GmbH shall not thereby be founded. This service, provided by Berlin Partner GmbH, is free of charge. The provision of data by institutions shall not be remunerated.

Dr. Pantelis Christian Poetis is the author and creator of all texts and artwork (graphic elements/layout) associated with the “Berlin Wissenschaft 2015" project.

Images on this Website are subject to each respective copyright. Copyrights that are not marked directly in the image itself are listed here. Facts & Figures: Hauptbahnhof Berlin © TU Berlin, Dahl; Photo Press: TV Tower © Berlin Partner, FTB-Werbefotographie; Photo About Us: Ludwig-Erhard-Haus © IHK Berlin; Images: Fields of Innovation; Photo Energy: Solarpark © Berlin Partner, FTB-Werbefotographie;  Photo Humanities and Social Sciences: Library © IGAVA e.V.; Photo Health Care and Life Sciences: Blood Pressure © HELIOS Kliniken; Photo Information and Communication Technologies: TV Tower © Berlin Partner, FTB-Werbefotographie; Photo Logistics and Transport: Hauptbahnhof Berlin © TU Berlin, Dahl; Photo Material Sciences: Microscope © HELIOS Kliniken; Photo Mathematics: Lecture © Berlin Partner GmbH, Scholvien; Photo Media and Culture: Kulturforum © Berlin Partner GmbH, FritschPhoto; Photo Optical Sciences and Microsystems Technology: Microscope © Berlin Partner GmbH, Scholvie; Photo Leading Scientific Minds Anja Feldmann: Portrait © TU Berlin, Ulrich Dahl; Photo Leading Scientific Minds Günter Faltin: Portrait © Günter Faltin; Photo Success Story ePortrait: Screenshot of the website © ePortrait; Photo Success Story Easy Listen: Founders Christian Simon and Ginetta Fassio © Easy Listen GmbH; Photo Success Story ZIM Plant Technology GmbH: Professor Zimmermann attaches one of the magnetic probes © ZIM Plant Technology GmbH; Photo Success Story AutoNOMOS Labs: Test track at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport © AutoNOMOS Labs

Equality at Berlin Sciences
To ensure better readability, a gender-neutral form or the term usually used in colloquial speech is used in texts on the Berlin Sciences website, whereby both genders are of course always meant.

Cookies
Visiting the website may result in so-called "cookies" being stored on the user’s computer. This procedure is designed to make visiting the website more pleasant and individual. Cookies are files that identify the user as a specific customer and that can store the user’s personal preferences for using the website, including technical information. The advantage for users is that they do not have to provide the information contained in the cookies every time they visit the website.

Cookies do not necessarily in and of themselves contain or reveal personal information. If, however, users enter personal information on the website, it can be linked with data stored in the cookies. Operators of other websites cannot, however, access these files. Users can also completely block the use of cookies in their browser settings. Berlin Partner GmbH points out, however, that some areas of the website may not function properly if the user’s browser is set up to block cookies or similar mechanisms. Information acquired by means of cookies will only be linked with other information enabling identification of the person of the user to the extent that this is necessary to allow the user to take advantage of the services offered.

Google Analytics, Google Earth and Google Suche
The website uses Google Analytics, a Web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses information gathered by cookies on the way users use the website (including IP addresses) and transfers it to a Google server in the USA, where it is stored. Google uses this information to evaluate users’ use of the website, to compile reports on activities on the website for the website operator, Berlin Partner GmbH, and to provide other services connected with use of the website and of the Internet. Google may transfer this information to third parties where this is required by law or where third parties process the data on behalf of Google. Google will not in any case link the user’s IP address with other Google Inc. data. By using this website, the user implicitly agrees to the processing of the data about him that Google has collected in the manner and for the purposes described above.

The website uses the Google Earth service provided by Google Inc. in the presentation of the Berlin Sciences Navigator and reserves the right to use this service.

The website also uses the Google Inc. Internet search engine to run a user-defined search and reserves the right to use this search engine.