Privacy and Data Protection Information

We process personal data that is collected when our website is visited in accordance with the valid data protection laws and regulations, in particular the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Landesdatenschutzgesetz - DSG M-V (State Data Protection Act).

The person responsible pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation and other national data protection laws of the member states and other data protection regulations is:

Universität Greifswald (University of Greifswald)
Legally represented by the Rector
Prof. Dr. Katharina Riedel

Postal Address:17487 Greifswald
Address:  Domstraße 11, Entrance 2, 17489 Greifswald
Tel.: +49 3834 420 0
Fax: +49 3834 420 1105
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Legal basis
If the University requests consent for the processing of personal data from the data subject (e.g. general enquiries, contact form, newsletter), Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR shall serve as the legal basis.

Log files
The following data is stored in log files every time a visitor accesses our website for reasons related to data security and for statistic purposes:

• IP address,
• Time website was accessed,
• User agent (browser and operating system),
• Visited pages or content and
• Referer URL, if provided (page visited previously).

The purpose of logging is to recognise, limit and eliminate malfunctions and to detect misuse in accordance with § 12(1) and (4) TDDDG. The IP addresses will not be merged with other data sets. The data will be stored for a maximum of seven days, after which they will be stored in anonymous form for website statistics. Our website uses the open-source software AWStats for website statistics. No personal data is stored.

Cookies
When visiting our website, so-called ‘session cookies’ will be sent to and stored on your device. The legal basis for this is stipulated in § 25(2) TDDDG. Cookies are small text files that are used to make the internet more user-friendly, efficient and secure. They do not damage your computer and contain no viruses. Session cookies are usually deleted automatically after you have left our website. You can deactivate the storage of cookies by changing the corresponding settings in your browser. Please note that deactivation can mean that you will not be able to use all of the functions of our website to their full extent.

Contact form
Your personal data that is transmitted via the contact form is only processed for the purpose of answering your query and is deleted immediately thereafter. The message you sent via the contact form is sent via email to University Communications and, if applicable, forwarded directly to the responsible member of staff at the university. Your data will not be passed on to third parties.

Social networks

In addition to this website, the University of Greifswald provides and manages profiles and pages on the social media platforms Facebook, X (Twitter), Xing, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram in order to provide the public with a broad range of information and to enable effective communication with the users.

If users visit one of our profiles on one of the platforms mentioned above, their data could be processed outside the boundaries of the European Union, resulting in a lower level of data protection. The processing of your personal data is performed by the third parties who run these social networks, based on their own data protection declarations. Please contact the respective third parties to learn more about the kind and scope of data processing. Please contact the respective person who runs the platform if you would like to make any information enquiries and exercise your rights as only they have access to your user data.

You are not required to use one of these services to get in contact with us or to receive our information. Generally, the information that we publish using these online services can be found in the same or similar form on the University of Greifswald’s website.

Your rights
You are entitled to withdraw your consent for the processing of personal data at any time and without having to provide reasons, with effect for the future, by writing to the University of Greifswald, Domstraße 11, 17489 Greifswald, or via email to hochschulkommunikation@uni-greifswald.de.

You also have the right to receive information upon request and free of charge about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient, the purpose, and the length of data processing. Furthermore, under certain circumstances, you have the right to the correction, limitation of the processing (e.g. blocking), deletion, and the data portability of your data.

In addition, you also have the right to submit a complaint to the responsible supervisory authority for data protection, if, in your opinion, your details are not being processed in a lawful manner. The supervisory authority is:

Data Protection and Freedom of Information Officer for the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Werderstraße 74a, 19055 Schwerin
Tel.: +49 3834 59494 0
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For questions pertaining to data protection, please contact the University’s official Data Protection Officer:

Official Data Protection Officer
Dominique Lenzner
SIS – Schweriner IT- und Servicegesellschaft mbH
Eckdrift 93, 19061 Schwerin
Tel.: +49 3834 385 20092 1218
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Contact
Universität Greifswald (University of Greifswald)
University Communications
Domstraße 11, Entrance 1
17489 Greifswald
Tel: +49 3834 420 1150
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Last updated: 26 November 2024, Responsible: University Communications

 

 

The English translation of this privacy information is intended solely as a convenience to non-German-reading visitors to our website. Only the German text on this page [de] is legally binding. In the event of any conflict between the English and German text, its structure, meaning or interpretation, the German text, its structure, meaning or interpretation shall prevail.