1. General

Data privacy is important to us and a legal obligation. To adequately protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g., SSL/TLS) and secure technical systems.
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2. Name and address of the data controller

The controller 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 of Applied Sciences,
Am Hofgarten 4,
85354 Freising
, Germany,
T +49 8161 71-0,
praesident [at]hswt.de,
www.hswt.de

3. Name and address of the data protection officer

The data protection officer of the controller is:

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

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

4. Purposes and legal bases of processing

In accordance with Art. 2 para. 6 BayHSchG, Art. 4 para. 1 sentence 1 and 2 BayEGovG, and Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a, c, e EU-GDPR, we offer our services and administrative services as well as information to the public about our activities on our websites.

Our social media presence is part of our public relations efforts. Our aim is to provide targeted information and engage in dialogue with you (Art. 2 para. 6 BayHSchG). We enable you to contact us quickly and directly via the media of your choice (§ 5 para. 1 no. 2 TMG).

We disclose and block or delete content and posts that infringe the rights of third parties, constitute a criminal offense or regulatory violation, or do not comply with legal or contractual obligations by forwarding them to the relevant authority or social media service.

We use cookies and log files to test and maintain our web service and to ensure network and information security in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 BayDSG, § 13 Para. 7 TMG, Art. 11 Para. 1 BayEGovG. We anonymize or pseudonymize personal data to the extent that this does not impair the processing purpose.

5. Data categories

Administration and Editorial

For administration and editorial purposes, functional 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, your internet browser transmits data to our web server. The following data is recorded during an active connection for communication between your internet browser and our web server. Depending on the access protocol used, the log file contains information such as:

  • the IP address of the requesting computer
  • Date and time of the request
  • the access method/function requested by the requesting computer
  • the input values ​​transmitted by the requesting computer (filename, …)
  • Web server access status (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 requesting browser can be identified even after a page change. Users can disable these functionalities by adjusting their browser settings.

communication

If you communicate a concern or opinion to us via email, post, telephone, fax or social media, the information provided will be processed for the purpose of handling 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 option to register for certain additional services on the website by providing personal data. The specific personal data transmitted to the data controller is determined by the respective input form used for registration. The personal data entered by the data subject is collected and stored exclusively for internal use by the data controller and for its own purposes.

The registration of the data subject, through the voluntary provision of personal data, enables the data controller to offer the data subject content or services that, by their very nature, can only be offered to registered users. Registered individuals have the option to modify the personal data provided during registration at any time or to have it completely deleted from the data controller's database.

The data controller will provide any data subject, upon request, with information about what personal data concerning them is stored. Furthermore, the data controller will rectify or erase personal data at the request or instruction of the data subject, provided that no statutory retention obligations prevent this. A data protection officer named in this privacy policy is available to the data subject as a contact person in this regard.

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

All our social media providers are certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield, which is publicly accessible, ensuring a legally adequate level of protection for personal data:

8. Routine deletion and blocking of personal data

The data controller processes and stores personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of storage, or as long as this is provided for by the European legislator or another legislator in laws or regulations to which the data controller is subject. If the purpose of storage ceases to apply, or if a storage period prescribed by the European legislator or another competent legislator expires, the personal data is routinely blocked or erased in accordance with legal requirements.

9. Rights of data subjects

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the following rights:

  • If your personal data is processed, you have the right to obtain information about the data stored about you (Art. 15 GDPR).
  • If incorrect personal data is processed, you have the right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR).
  • If the legal requirements are met, you can request the erasure or restriction of processing as well as object to the processing (Articles 17, 18 and 21 GDPR).
  • If you have consented to data processing or a data processing agreement exists and the data processing is carried out using automated procedures, you may have a right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR).

Should you exercise any of the above-mentioned rights, the public authority will check whether the legal requirements for doing so are met.

Furthermore, there is a right to lodge a complaint with the Bavarian State Commissioner for Data Protection.

10. Other information regarding the privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy from time to time to ensure it always complies with current legal requirements or to reflect changes to our services, such as the introduction of new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

11. Use of Vimeo plugins

We use Vimeo, among other providers, to embed videos. Vimeo is operated by Vimeo, LLC, headquartered at 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011. On some of our web pages, we use Vimeo plugins. When you access web pages on our website that contain such a plugin—for example, our media library—a connection is established to the Vimeo servers, and the plugin is displayed. This transmits information to the Vimeo server about which of our web pages you have visited. If you are logged into Vimeo as a member, Vimeo will associate this information with your personal user account. When you use the plugin, such as by clicking the play button on a video, this information is also associated with your user account. You can prevent this association by logging out of your Vimeo user account and deleting the corresponding Vimeo cookies before using our website. For information on the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by Vimeo, as well as your related rights and privacy settings, please refer to Vimeo's privacy policy: https://vimeo.com/privacy