Terms of use for the ChemInfo-system and all connected services and products

may 2024


Disclaimer

The chemical substance data in ChemInfo is compiled and maintained with care by the Federal Environment Agency and the participating federal states and project partners. Nevertheless, we cannot guarantee the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of the data presented. No liability is accepted for any damage resulting from the use of the information retrieved.


Rights of use

In generall, accounts can only be activated if their users are located in the territories of the currently participating partner federal states or are are federal institutions and are entrusted with the execution of sovereign or simply sovereign tasks.

The following federal states are currently part of the ChemInfo cooperation:
- Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Hamburg, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia

All federal authorities and agencies can use the various applications of the ChemInfo system as well as the GSApp and other services. These include, among others:

  • Federal ministries
  • German Armed Forces
  • German Weather Service
  • Federal office for population protection and disaster reflief (BBK)
  • Federal police (there is a separate instance of this on the extranet)
Approval is granted by the Federal Environment Agency (ChemInfo Office).

Offices operated jointly by the federal and state governments.
  • ederal agency for technical reflief (THW) and the local offices / local associations
  • Fire departments that have federal vehicles (e.g. Decon-P, CBRN reconnaissance vehicles) from federal states not participating in the cooperation
  • Federal associations of public fire departments
  • Regional tax offices
  • Order of Malta (The Order of Malta is a member of the UN, it has the status of a "entities having received a standing invitation to participate as observers in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly and maintaining permanent offices at Headquarters"). Independent organizations that are assigned to the Order of Malta, such as Malteser Hilfsdienst (MHD), can be activated by the federal states if they simply carry out sovereign tasks
  • International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRI) (status similar to the Order of Malta). Independent branches that are assigned to the German Red Cross (GRC) can be activated by the federal states if they simply carry out sovereign tasks.
  • Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe
  • Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund
  • and similar

Authorities or institutions that are activated and supported by the federal states
  • State authorities, associations or institutions
  • municipal authorities or institutions

Factory fire departments
Factory fire departments entrusted with sovereign tasks may also use the services of ChemInfo. All factory fire departments located in the federal federal states involved in the project must obtain a license in accordance with the relevant and use the services and applications of the ChemInfo system in accordance with the relevant state law in the form of a certificate of recognition.


Usage

The use of the applications and services that can be accessed through the activation is only permitted in the official environment and use (sovereign and simply sovereign tasks).
To enable the administrators to manage the user accounts, the following data is queried once a year in accordance with data protection regulations:

  • Postal code under which an account is registered
  • last login of the account
If individual accounts have not been logged in for more than 12 months, the administrators reserve the right to contact the associated users by mail. Accounts that can no longer be reached will be deleted in accordance with the privacy policy.

Individual vs. group account

You are free to create individual user accounts or use a shared account for an organizational unit. Shared accounts should be distinguished from individual accounts by the use of a generic mail address to which all users have access. Group accounts can be used by any number of users at the same time. Where possible, the use of a work/official e-mail address is always preferable. Technically, both forms of access (individual/group account) are identical, but the following should be noted:
  • Passing on / sharing personal data is questionable
  • If a personal mail address is used, but the account is used by different people, it is only possible for the owner of the mail account to change the password, for example (in the case of the forgotten password function, the account cannot be used until a new password has been set).
  • If the owner of the mail address leaves the active service, the entire account is no longer accessible for notifications from us
  • Therefore, with a group account, the username should be correspondingly impersonal and the mail address should be accessible to everyone


Demo access

These are accounts to get to know the system, they are only valid for 4 weeks and are automatically blocked again. At the end of the 4 weeks, the account can be manually reactivated by us if a user authorization is available.
An update of the GSApp and thus the use of the entire database is not possible with a demo access due to data licensing.

This document is a recommendation for action, cannot be complete and will therefore be updated as necessary.