Data Privacy Policy

Data Privacy Policy

This privacy policy serves to fulfil the requirements of Article 13 EU GDPR, Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subject.

 Name and address of the responsible person

Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Mail Address:
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
60629 Frankfurt

Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
studiumdigitale – Zentrale eLearning-Einrichtung der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main
Varrentrappstraße 40-42
60486 Frankfurt am Main
Telefon: +49-69-798-24600 | Fax: +49-69-798-24619
Internet: http://www.studiumdigitale.uni-frankfurt.de
Email: info@studiumdigitale.uni-frankfurt.de

For inquiries or complaints about data protection you may contact the data protection officials of the Goethe-University.

Contact details of the data protection officer

Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Die behördlichen Datenschutzbeauftragten
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Internet: http://www.uni‐frankfurt.de/47859992/datenschutzbeauftragte
Email: dsb@uni-frankfurt.de

Rights and complaints

You have the right to contact the concerned technical supervisory authority for data protection issues to complain.

Contact address of the supervisory authority of the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main:
Commissioner for Data Protection of Hesse
Postfach 3163
65021 Wiesbaden
Link to Commissioner for Data Protection of Hesse:
https://datenschutz.hessen.de/über-uns/kontakt
Phone: +49 611 1408 – 0
Fax: +49 611 1408 – 611

You have the following rights towards Goethe-University with regard to your personal data:

  • Right of access by the data subject,
  • Right of rectification
  • Right of erasure (right to be forgotten),
  • Right to restriction of processing,
  • Right to revoke your consent,
  • Right to object to the processing,
  • Right of data portability, in a commonly used, structured and machine-readable format (from May 25th, 2018).

To claim these rights, please send an email to studiumdigitale: datenschutz@studiumdigitale.uni-frankfurt.de

Type of data stored, purpose and legal basis, deletion periods

 Purpose of data retention and retention period

We may retain your personal data for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected, or as required or permitted by applicable laws. We will cease to retain your personal data, or block the data, as soon as it is reasonable to assume that such retention no longer serves the purpose for which the personal data was collected, and is no longer necessary for legal or business purposes. In case of blocking, your personal data will be deleted if there are no conflicting legal or contractual record retention periods to be observed, your legitimate interests do not demand further retention, or a deletion represents a disproportional effort.

Handling of personal data

Personal data is information that can be used to determine a natural person, i.e. information that identifies persons. This includes in particular names, e-mail addresses, matriculation numbers or telephone numbers. But also data about preferences, hobbies, memberships or information about websites that have been visited are personal data.

Personal data will only be collected, used and disclosed by us if legally permitted or if the user has consented to the data collection.

The use of personal data of students for the purpose of study is based largely on the applicable Hessian Higher Education Act in conjunction with the applicable Enrolment Ordinance of the State of Hessen and thus refer to EU GDPR Article 6 Paragraph 1 c).

The data of the employees of the Goethe-University collected and processed for the purposes of personnel administration, teaching, research and examination activities are based on the Hessian Higher Education Act, the Enrolment Ordinance of the State of Hesse, TV-GU, civil service law and personnel law regulations.

Access data / server log files

When accessing the pages of this web server, the following data is generally stored in the server log files:

  • URL of the visited page
  • Date and time
  • Source from where you have accessed the website
  • Amount of data sent
  • Type of client browser
  • Type of operating system
  • IP address

These data are for the sole purpose of checking the functionality, safety and security troubleshooting. This use is based on EU DSGVO Article 6 paragraph 1 f). The legal basis is also the IuK-Nutzungsordnung of Goethe University. All log files will be automatically deleted after 7 days at the latest.

In case of a legitimate interest of Goethe University, a legitimate interest of third party, or a statutory provision, a preservation of evidence can make extended retention or transfer of data to third parties possible.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

When you write a comment, this comment will be stored indefinitely, including meta data. Thus, response comments can be identified and approved automatically, instead of locking them in an editing queue.

Cookies

Cookies are small files storing specific device related information on your device (e.g. desktop computer, smartphone). Cookies help to provide a user-friendly experience when visiting websites, e.g. by storing passwords.

You can influence the use of cookies in your browser settings. Most browsers allow options such as restricted usage or blocking of cookies. However, this can lead to limited access or usage of some websites or website features.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

On some pages of this website, content from third party websites (e.g. YouTube videos, maps from Google Maps, RSS-Feeds, pictures etc.) can be embedded. Therefore, third party websites need to provide their IP addresses. Otherwise, their content cannot be embedded in this website.

We are trying to embed only content of third party websites that use their IP address solely for providing content. However, we cannot influence, how these third party providers use your data.