Privacy Statement
General Data protection notice
This privacy policy serves to inform the user of this website about the type, scope and purpose of the collection and use of personal data by the website of viadrina Dialog und Transfer gmbh (www.viadrina-dialog-transfer.gmbh), a company of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) Foundation. The legal basis can be found in the Brandenburg State Data Protection Act, the Federal Data Protection Act and the Telemedia Act.
The protection of your personal data is a top priority for viadrina Dialog und Transfer gmbh. It is important to us that your privacy is protected at all times and that you feel safe and comfortable when visiting our website. As far as possible, we refrain from collecting personal data from you. However, if we do collect data from you, we hereby undertake to handle it responsibly.
Security is our top priority
The viadrina Dialog und Transfer gmbh takes all necessary technical and organisational security precautions to protect the personal data you provide to us against manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorised persons or unauthorised disclosure. We store your data on protected servers. We oblige our employees to maintain data confidentiality in accordance with the statutory provisions and train them in current attack scenarios. We are constantly improving our security measures.
Risks of uncrypted e-mail communication
When sending enquiries by e-mail, please bear in mind that we have no control over the confidentiality of the information as it travels over the Internet. If you communicate via e-mail or a contact form on our portal pages, the data is not transmitted in encrypted form. If you wish to exchange confidential information with us, please use the postal service.
Below we inform you about the data we collect during your visit to our website, how we use it and how we protect your privacy.files that are stored on your system, whereby these are exclusively so-called ‘session cookies’.
These ‘session cookies’ are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of the browser session.
Of course, you can switch off the setting of cookies in your browser at any time or delete them at the end of your session.
Anonymous data collection
We are committed to the principle of data minimisation and only collect as little data from you as necessary. You can therefore visit the openly accessible parts of the website without telling us who you are, unless you actively provide us with personal data of your own initiative.
Data storage for IT security
Despite the aim of error analysis and IT security, we do not store any of the following data when our websites are accessed:
– Timestamp with date and time
– complete IP address
– Your browser software and version number as well as the operating system used.
Cookies (general)
Our website uses so-called ‘cookies’, which serve to make the Internet presence more user-friendly, effective and secure overall – for example, when it comes to speeding up navigation on our platform. Cookies also enable us to save settings you have made, such as the language of the website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your system, whereby these are exclusively so-called ‘session cookies’.
These ‘session cookies’ are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of the browser session.
Of course, you can switch off the setting of cookies in your browser at any time or delete them at the end of your session.
Privacy policy for the use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc (‘Google’). Google Analytics uses ‘cookies’, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will first be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software;
However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.
You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
What other personal data or user data do we store about you?
Your personal data is only collected if you provide it to us yourself, for example in a form or when registering for an event, when registering or if you provide it to us yourself in a comment or blog, etc. We use technical and organisational measures to secure our website and other systems against loss, destruction, access, modification or dissemination of your data by unauthorised persons.
Will my (personal) data be passed on to third parties?
External links
If our website refers to third-party websites via hyperlinks, you can recognise this by the URL and the fact that a new window opens. Unless otherwise stated, no data is passed on.
YouTube videos
Where possible, we only offer videos for viewing on our own servers and encourage our employees to store films on our own servers. Should you nevertheless find embedded videos from YouTube on our pages, your IP address and other user data will be sent automatically and without our intervention to the operator: YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066 USA, represented by Google Inc: Google Inc, represented by the Executive Board: Dr Eric E. Schmidt (CEO), and stored and processed by the latter in accordance with the data protection conditions https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/ for the purposes stated therein. The operator of this website has no influence on this. The transmission of the IP address is necessary so that you can watch the video. What the company does with this data later is beyond our control.
We endeavour to require our employees to only integrate videos from YouTube into our pages in so-called enhanced privacy mode. This means for visitors to our website: Your data will only be forwarded to Google Inc. and processed and stored there when you play the video and not when you open the page with the video.
Information rights
According to the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (Federal Data Protection Act), you have a right to free information about your stored data and, if applicable, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data.
Further information and contacts
If you have any further questions on the subject of data protection, please contact us. If you have any questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, for information, correction, blocking or deletion of data as well as revocation of consents granted, please contact:
viadrina Dialog und Transfer gmbh
David Furmanek, responsible for data protection
Große Scharrnstraße 23A
15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
Telephone: 0335 – 40 16 325
E-mail: post[at]viadrina-dialog-transfer.gmbh
This privacy policy was created in co-operation with the data protection officer of the European University Viadrina and is individually designed for viadrina Dialog und Transfer gmbh. An unchecked adoption for your website is not recommended without legal advice and adaptation to your company or organisation.