1. General

Data protection is our concern and our legal obligation. In order to adequately protect the security of your data during transmission, we use appropriate encryption procedures (e.g. SSL/TLS) and secure technical systems based on the current state of the art.
Javascript is used as an active component for the websites. If you have turned off this function in your browser, you will receive a message asking you to activate the function.

2. Name and address of the person responsible for processing

The person responsible within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation and other data protection laws applicable in the member states of the European Union and other provisions of a data protection nature is:

Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University
Am Hofgarten 4
85354 Freising
Germany
T +49 8161 71-0
president [at]hswt.de
www.hswt.de

3. Name and address of the data protection officer

The data protection officer of the data controller is:

Dr. Heiko Haaz
University Weihenstephan-Triesdorf
Am Hofgarten 4
85354 Freising
Germany
T +49 8161 71-5246
datenschutz [at]hswt.de
https://www.hswt.de/hochschule/hochschule/datenschutzberater.html

Any data subject can contact our data protection officer directly at any time with any questions or suggestions regarding data protection.

4. Purposes and legal basis of processing

In accordance with Article 2 Paragraph 6 BayHSchG, Article 4 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 and 2 BayEGovG, and Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letters a, c, e of the EU GDPR, we offer our services and administrative services as well as information on our websites for the public about our activities.

Our social media presence is part of our public relations work. Our aim is to provide information appropriate to the target group and to exchange ideas with you (Art. 2 Para. 6 BayHSchG). We enable you to make quick electronic contact and direct communication via the media of your choice (§ 5 Para. 1 No. 2 TMG).

We disclose content and contributions that violate the rights of third parties or that constitute a criminal or administrative offense or that do not comply with legal or contractual obligations of conduct by sending them to the responsible authority or the social media service and blocking or deleting them.

We use cookies and log files to check or maintain our web service and to ensure network and information security in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 BayDSG, Section 13 Para. 7 TMG, Art. 11 Para. 1 BayEGovG. As long as the purpose of processing is not impaired, we anonymize or pseudonymize personal data.

5. Data Categories

Administration and editing

For administration and editing, function identifiers and personal identifiers with access protection mechanisms are created and changes made with these identifiers are logged.

Log files

When you access this or other websites, you transmit data to our web server via your internet browser. The following data is recorded during an ongoing connection for communication between your internet browser and our web server. Depending on the access protocol used, the log data record contains information with the following content:

  • the IP address of the requesting computer
  • Date and time of the request
  • the access method/function desired by the requesting computer
  • the input values ​​transmitted by the requesting computer (file name, ...)
  • Access status of the web server (file transferred, file not found, command not executed, etc.)
  • Name of the requested file
  • Type and version of the web client
  • URL from which the file was requested/the desired function was initiated
Cookies

This website uses cookies. We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the accessing browser can be identified even after a page change. The use of these functionalities can be switched off by the respective user through the settings of the browser program.

communication

If you communicate a concern or an opinion to us by email, post, telephone, fax or social media, the information provided will be processed for the purpose of processing the concern as well as for possible follow-up questions and for the exchange of opinions.

6. Registration on our website

The data subject has the opportunity to register on the website for certain additional services by providing personal data. Which personal data is transmitted to the person responsible for processing is determined by the respective input mask used for registration. The personal data entered by the data subject will be collected and stored exclusively for internal use by the data controller and for its own purposes.

The registration of the data subject by voluntarily providing personal data enables the data controller to offer the data subject content or services that, due to the nature of the matter, can only be offered to registered users. Registered persons are free to change the personal data provided during registration at any time or to have it completely deleted from the data base of the person responsible for processing.

The person responsible for processing will provide each data subject with information at any time upon request as to what personal data is stored about the data subject. Furthermore, the person responsible for processing corrects or deletes personal data at the request or notification of the data subject, provided that there are no legal retention obligations to the contrary. A data protection officer named in this data protection declaration is available to the data subject as a contact person in this context.

7. Transfer of personal data to a third country or international organization

All of our social media providers are certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield to be visible to everyone, so that there is a legally appropriate level of protection for personal data:

8. Routine deletion and blocking of personal data

The person responsible for processing processes and stores personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of storage or if this is required by the European legislator or another legislator in laws or regulations which the person responsible for processing is subject to. If the purpose of storage no longer applies or if a storage period prescribed by the European legislator or another responsible legislator expires, the personal data will be blocked or deleted routinely and in accordance with legal regulations.

9. Rights of those affected

According to the General Data Protection Regulation you have the following rights:

  • If your personal data is processed, you have the right to receive information about the data stored about you (Article 15 GDPR).
  • If incorrect personal data is processed, you have the right to correction (Art. 16 GDPR).
  • If the legal requirements are met, you can request deletion or restriction of processing and object to processing (Articles 17, 18 and 21 GDPR).
  • If you have consented to data processing or there is a contract for data processing and the data processing is carried out using automated procedures, you may have a right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR).

If you make use of your rights mentioned above, the public body will check whether the legal requirements for this are met.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Bavarian State Commissioner for Data Protection.

10. Other information about the data protection declaration

We reserve the right to occasionally adapt this data protection declaration so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. B. when introducing new services. The new data protection declaration will then apply to your next visit.

11. Use of Vimeo plugins

We use the provider Vimeo, among others, to integrate videos. Vimeo is operated by Vimeo, LLC with headquarters at 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011. On some of our websites we use plugins from the provider Vimeo. If you access the websites on our website that have such a plugin - for example our media library - a connection will be established to the Vimeo servers and the plugin will be displayed. This sends information to the Vimeo server about which of our websites you have visited. If you are logged in to Vimeo as a member, Vimeo assigns this information to your personal user account. When you use the plugin, such as clicking on the start button of a video, this information is also assigned to your user account. You can prevent this assignment by logging out of your Vimeo user account before using our website and deleting the corresponding Vimeo cookies. The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Vimeo as well as your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in Vimeo's data protection information: https://vimeo.com/privacy