:Privacy

The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz are actively working to ensure that the content of these Internet pages is correct and up-to-date. Nevertheless, small mistakes or irregularities cannot be completely avoided. The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin do not take responsibility for the currency, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided.

The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz are not liable for material or immaterial damages caused by using or not using the information provided, or caused directly or indirectly by using faulty or incomplete information, insofar as they cannot be proved to be at fault for having acted wilfully or with gross negligence. The same applies to software available for free download.

All offers are not binding and subject to alteration without notice. The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz explicitly reserve the right to alter, supplement or delete parts or the whole of the website's content, or to temporarily or completely discontinue publication without further notice.

The liability for "external content" – offered for instance through direct or indirect links to other web providers and pages – presupposes a positive knowledge of any illegal or criminal content. Features of “external content” are marked in suitable fashion. The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz have no influence whatsoever on “external content” and do not endorse any of this content. The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz possess no positive knowledge about illegal or illicit content on pages of other providers that can be reached through links on their website. However, if these linked pages do contain illegal or illicit content, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz explicitly disassociate themselves from this content.

The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz make all efforts to respect in all publications the copyright of images, audio features, video sequences and texts, to use their own images, audio features, video sequences and text, or to use images, audio features, video sequences and texts from the public domain.

All trademarks mentioned on this website and (where applicable) protected by third parties are without restrictions subject to the regulations of the appropriate trademark registration law and the property rights of the individual registered owner. The mere mention of a trademark must not lead to the conclusion that it is not protected by the rights of third parties!

The copyright for published objects developed by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz themselves remains only with the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz. The duplication or appropriation of such images, audio features, video sequences and texts in other electronic or printed publications is prohibited unless explicit permission has been granted.

Legal Effect of this Disclaimer

This disclaimer is an integral part of the website on which you found the link to this page. If any part or the whole of this text does not, no longer or not completely comply with the effective legal position, the other parts of the document remain unaffected in their content and their validity.

Legal Advice on Copyright

The layout of the homepage, the images used and all other content are protected by copyright.

Online privacy statement

Every time a user accesses a page of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz website, and every time a file is requested, data about this occurrence is temporarily saved and processed in a log file. Here is a list of the data that is saved each time someone accesses our site or requests files from it:

  • IP address/DNS name, 
  • date and time of request,
  • page requested/name of requested file, 
  • volume of data transmitted, 
  • operating system used, 
  • browser used, 
  • success status 
  • whether request was successful

This data is assessed for statistical purposes only, so that we can improve our range of online services. The information is not used for any other purpose and is not disclosed or passed on to a third party.

When visiting individual pages, session cookies are used temporarily to make it easier to navigate around the site. These cookies expire when the session is closed and do not contain personal data. Programs such as Java Applets or ActiveX controls, which make it possible to track access information on the user, are not used.

Anonymized Usage Analysis with Piwik

This website uses the web analytics software Piwik. The information collected cannot be assigned to a specific individual through an automatic anonymization of IP addresses with the plug-in AnonymizeIP. This ensures that user data or user profiles cannot be connected to personal data. Data is transmitted by browsers every time a user accesses a website on the Internet and every time a file is downloaded. Of the data that is transmitted when you visit this website, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz collect the following information:

  • browser type / version 
  • operating system 
  • referrer URL of forwarding page 
  • time of server inquiry 
  • pages and data viewed 
  • anonymized IP address 
  • country of origin Advice for web-tracking

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