Last Updated: [19.03.2025]

Welcome to the website of the Computational Psychiatry research group (“we,” “us,” or “our”) at devcompsy.org. Protecting your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Data protection and data security for the visitors and users of our website have a high priority in our group. Transparency regarding the processing of your personal data as well as the protection of your data are therefore particularly important to us.

With this declaration we give you an overview of how your personal data is collected and processed when you use our website and what you can do yourself to better protect your data.

1. Responsible for processing

Prof. Tobias Hauser (Email: lab@devcompsy.org; Tel: +49 7071 29 62480)

Developmental Computational Psychiatry lab
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Calwerstraße 14, Room 3.308 / 3.310
72076 Tübingen Germany

2. Data We Collect

We may collect and process the following types of personal data:

• Automatically Collected Data: When you visit our website, we may collect log files, IP addresses, browser type, and cookies to analyze website traffic.
• Voluntarily Provided Data: If you contact us via email or a contact form, we may store your name, email address, and any other information you provide.

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. The decisive factor is therefore whether the data collected can be used to establish a personal reference. This includes information such as your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address. Information that is not directly associated with your real identity – such as favourite websites or number of users of a site – is not personal data.

You can visit this page without providing any personal information. Personal data is only collected if you voluntarily provide it to us during your visit to our website.

3. Legal Basis for Processing

We process personal data based on the following legal grounds under the GDPR:

• Legitimate Interests: For website analytics, security, and responding to inquiries.
• Consent: When you voluntarily provide information through forms.
• Legal Obligations: When required by law or institutional policies.

4. How We Use Your Data

We use collected data for the following purposes:

• To operate and improve our website.
• To respond to inquiries and communicate with visitors.
• To ensure website security and prevent misuse.
• To comply with legal and regulatory obligations.

5. Data Sharing and Third-Party Services

We do not sell or rent your personal data. However, we may share data with:

• Hosting Providers and Analytics Services: We use third-party hosting and analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics) to analyze website traffic.
• Legal Authorities: If required by law or necessary for legal claims.

6. Data Storage and Retention

In principle, we store all information that you transmit to us until the respective, e.g. contractual purpose is fulfilled. E.g. with inquiries up to the completion. If a longer storage is provided for by law, the storage takes place within this framework.

7. Your GDPR Rights

Under the GDPR, you have the right to:

• Access your personal data.
• Rectify inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Erase your data (“right to be forgotten”).
• Restrict processing under certain conditions.
• Object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Data portability, where applicable.

To exercise your rights, please contact us at lab@devcompsy.org.

These are your data protection rights

Within the framework of the applicable statutory provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and possible recipients and the purpose of data processing (Art. 15 DSGVO) and, if applicable, your personal data. a right to correct incorrect data (Art. 16 DSGVO), to delete such data (Art. 17 DSGVO), to restrict processing in accordance with Art. 18 DSGVO, to object (Art. 21 DSGVO) and to transfer data provided by you in accordance with Art. 20 DSGVO). The restrictions according to §§ 34 and 35 BDSG apply to the right to information and the right to cancellation.

In addition, in the event of violations of data protection law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority (Art. 77 DSGVO in conjunction with §19 BDSG). The responsible supervisory authority for data protection issues in our group is Prof. Dr. Tobias Hauser. A list of Data Protection Officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html

8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience. You can manage cookie settings in your browser.

Within the framework of your visit to our website, we use so-called cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your computer. Cookies help us to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of our Internet pages, as well as to make our offers as comfortable and efficient as possible for you.

On the one hand, we use so-called “session cookies”, which are stored exclusively for the duration of your use of one of our Internet pages. On the other hand, we use “permanent cookies” to record information about visitors who repeatedly access one of our websites. The purpose of using these cookies is to provide you with optimal user guidance, to “recognize” you and to present you with as varied a website and new content as possible when you repeatedly use it. The content of a permanent cookie is limited to an identification number. Name, IP address etc. are not stored. A single profile formation about your usage behaviour does not take place.

A use of our offers is also possible without Cookies. You can deactivate the storage of cookies in your browser, restrict it to certain websites or set your browser to notify you when a cookie is sent. Please note, however, that if you deactivate this option, you will have to expect a restricted display of the page and limited user guidance.

Cookies, which are necessary for the execution of the electronic communication process or for the provision of certain functions desired by you are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a justified interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimised provision of his services.

9. Security Measures

We implement technical and organizational measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, loss, or misuse.

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or requests that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Should you wish to contact us via e-mail, we would like to point out that the confidentiality of the information transmitted cannot be guaranteed. The content of e-mails can be viewed by third parties. We therefore recommend that you send us confidential information exclusively by post.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Any changes will be posted on this page with the updated date.

11. Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us using E-Mail: lab@devcompsy.org; or Tel: +49 7071 29 62480.