Ava Karami Privacy
Privacy notice
September 2026
Who is responsible
Ava Karami, Aachen, Germany · a.karami@mpi-susmat.de. This is a private, non-commercial website.
What this site does not do
No cookies, no analytics, no tracking, no embedded third-party content, no contact form. Fonts and all files are served from this domain. Nothing you do here is recorded by this site.
Hosting
The site is delivered by Cloudflare, Inc. (101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA) through its worldwide network, from the data centre closest to you. Like any web server, Cloudflare processes technical connection data (IP address, time, requested page, browser) to deliver the page and to protect it against abuse, and retains them for a limited period only. Legal basis: legitimate interest in a secure, fast delivery of the site (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Cloudflare is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and offers EU standard contractual clauses; details and retention periods in Cloudflare’s privacy policy.
If you write to the address above, your name, address and message are used only to handle your enquiry (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR for pre-contractual contact, otherwise Art. 6(1)(f), legitimate interest in answering). The address is a mailbox at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials, Düsseldorf, which operates the mail server and therefore also processes the message. Messages are deleted once the matter is settled, at the latest after twelve months, unless statutory retention applies.
Your right to object
Where processing is based on legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR), you may object at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation (Art. 21 GDPR). Write to the address above.
Your other rights
Under the GDPR you have the right of access (Art. 15), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18) and data portability (Art. 20). Write to the address above. You may also lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; the authority responsible for Aachen is the Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen.