Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the informations for authors.
Privacy Statement
The University of Cologne takes the protection of personal data very seriously. We want you to know when we store which data and how we use it when you visit the website of the University of Cologne. Personal data are collected on the central web server of the University (www.uni-koeln.de) only to the necessary extent.
The following statement in accordance with Chapter 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives you an overview of how we guarantee this protection and what kinds of data are collected for what purposes.
Personally Identifying Information (PII), or Personal Data: any information that can potentially be used to identify a person, such as their name(s), email address, mailing address, phone number, social network posts, or an IP address.
Responsible Controller for the processing of personal data for the operation of this website is:
The University of Cologne
Public Body (Körperschaft öffentlichen Rechts)
represented by the Rector
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Köln
+49 221 / 470-0
online-redaktion(at)uni-koeln.de
http://www.uni-koeln.de
Our Data Protection Commissioner can be contacted at:
Data Protection Officer of the University of Cologne
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Köln
+49 221 / 470-3872
dsb(at)verw.uni-koeln.de
When you contact us by electronic mail or via a contact form, the personal data submitted (your email address and, if applicable, your name and your phone number) will be stored by us to answer your questions. We will erase personal data that arise during this connection as soon as storage is no longer required or restrict the processing if legal obligations to retain the data exist.
5. Your rights
You have the right, per legal provisions, to request free information or confirmation from us regarding the personal data stored about them.
You have the right to immediate correction or deletion of incorrect personal data concerning you, to restriction of the processing, or to object to the processing.
You can revoke your consent to the processing of personal data at any time. This does not affect the legality of the University’s processing of your personal data based on your consent until your revocation.
You have the right to request information regarding your personal data in a structured, conventional, and machine-readable format and to transmit it to other persons responsible.
If you have questions that this data protection statement could not answer, or if you would like more detailed information on a particular point, contact us, preferably using our contact address: webmaster(at)uni-koeln.de. If you communicate by email, we cannot guarantee the complete confidentiality of the provided information. If your message is confidential, please send it to us by post.
In addition, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, an appeal may be lodged with a Member State supervisory authority if there are doubts as to the lawfulness of the processing of personal data. The regulatory authority of the University of Cologne is:
The State Officer for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia
(Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Postfach 20 04 44
40102 Düsseldorf
+49 211/38424-0
Fax: +49 211/38424-10
poststelle(at)ldi.nrw.de
Purposes, duration, and legal basis of the processing of personal data
Server log files
When you do not register or submit other information, we will only save the personal data that your browser sends to our server for requests:
- browser type and version
- computer name or IP address of the accessing computer
- date and time of access
- requested web page
- referring web page
- status of access/HTTP status code
- data volume transmitted
The data are stored in our server’s log files. They cannot be related to individual persons and will not be combined with other data sources. We reserve the right to check these data later on if concrete indications of unlawful use become known.
The legal basis for the temporary storage of log files is Chapter 6 Art. 1 (f) of the GDPR, because the University of Cologne has a legitimate interest in identifying and eliminating malfunctions and in optimizing its website.
Transmission of Personal Data to Third Parties and Erasure of Personal Data
This journal’s editorial team uses the stored data to guide our work in publishing and improving the journal.
Data that will assist in developing our publishing platform (Open Journal Systems) may be shared with its developer, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), but only in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics.
Metadata of published manuscripts including author names are shared with third parties for DOI registration and for indexing of published content in scholarly databases such as Scopus, DOAJ, ProQuest and the like. Apart from that, the personal data will not be shared nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here.s
Data will be stored for the purposes stated in this data protection statement and will be deleted if storage is no longer necessary for the purposes mentioned above, Article 17(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
