Data Protection Declaration
General information
Hochschule der Medien places great importance on the protection of personal data. When you visit our websites, personal data is collected and processed according to current data protection regulations determined in the General Data Protection Regulation of the EU (EU-GDPR) and the Data Protection Act of the Land of Baden-Württemberg (LDSG). The aforementioned regulations apply to personal data. Personal data means individual details about personal or material affairs relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. In case of contact via letter mail, e-mail or an online contact form, personal data are, for example, the name, address or e-mail address of a person. This Data Protection Declaration provides you with detailed information on the type, scope and purpose of personal data processing within our website. This Declaration can be viewed at any time on our websites.
Collection and processing of data in connection with access over the Internet
When you visit our websites, personal data are available to the system after login. A record is made each time our website or a file from our website is accessed. These data are not made public on our website but may be processed by other applications. Data are stored for internal system-related and statistical purposes. The following data are logged: name of the file accessed, date and time of the access, data volume transferred, information whether access was successful, browser version of the accessing host system, operating system version of the accessing host system. These data are processed in order make our websites accessible (connection setup) as well as for purposes of system security, technical administration of the network infrastructure and the optimisation of our websites. Additionally, the IP addresses of the requesting processors are logged. Further personal data are only collected if they were given voluntarily, for example by sending an e-mail via an online contact form. Data are no longer retained once the visitor logs out or the browser is closed. Personal data are only processed beyond the aforementioned cases if you explicitly consent to further processing. Given consent may be withdrawn at any time for future data processing.
Online contact forms
Data transferred via an online contact form or via e-mail is protected by technical and organisational measures according to the provisions of the EU-GDPR. By using the online contact form or sending an e-mail, you agree that your personal data may be stored, processed and used for a specific purpose. We only use your data in order to answer your request and for technical administration purposes. You have the right of access to your personal data stored by us according to Article 15 EU-GDPR as well as the right to have these personal data rectified, erased or restricted from processing at any time according to Articles 16, 17 and 18 EU-GDPR. As determined by law, you can request information on your personal data stored by us free of charge, at any time and without having to state any reasons. Given consent to the collection and processing of data may be withdrawn at any time and without having to state any reasons.
Please contact:
Prof. Dr. Volker Jansen
Academic Dean
E-mail: datenauskunft@hdm-stuttgart.de
Tracking settings
Use and transfer of personal data
Certain websites can only be used if personal data, such as name, address or e-mail address, are given. If this is the case, you are directly informed on how, to what extent and to which end data are processed. We only transfer personal data to federal bodies and authorities if we are required to do so by national legal provisions or if it is necessary for legal proceedings or criminal prosecution in case of an attack on our network infrastructure. We do not pass this data on to third parties for other purposes.
Consent to further use of data
Certain services on our websites, for example, subscribing to a newsletter, can only be used if personal data is collected and processed beyond the aforementioned cases, for example, e-mail addresses or addresses may be stored long-term. By stating and transmitting the requested data, you consent to the processing of the data. Given consent may be withdrawn at any time for future data processing. In this case, please contact the website operator named in the Impressum.
Security
We employ technical and organisational security measures in order to protect personal data administered by us against coincidental or intentional manipulation, loss and destruction as well as against unauthorised access. Our security measures are kept up to date with technical developments.
Cookies
When you visit a website, the browser saves session cookies. Session cookies do not contain personal data and are automatically deleted after the session has expired and the browser is closed. Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can disable cookies by changing your browser settings. However, this might impair certain functions of some of our websites.
Third party links
This Data Protection Declaration only applies to websites of the domain www.hdm-stuttgart.de. Our websites may include links to third party websites. Third party websites may collect and use data according to different principles than the ones stated above. Find information on the contents of a website in the respective legal notice.
Right of access and contact information
You have the right of access to your personal data stored by us as well as the right to have false personal data rectified, blocked or erased. If you would like to have data rectified or deleted or if you have questions on the use of data, do not hesitate to contact the operator (editorial office) named in the Impressum.
Data protection on social media platforms
- Data Policy: Click here
- For which purposes are data collected?
- User authentication
- Localisation
- Targeted advertising (mainly on their own websites)
- Analysis and research of user behaviour
- Statistics
- Transfer to third parties: legal obligation to transfer personal data to authorities and transfer of anonymized data to advertisers
- You can change your privacy settings in your user account.
- Privacy Policy:
- For which purposes are data collected?
- User authentication
- Localisation
- Targeted advertising (mainly on their own websites)
- Statistics
- Transfer to third parties: Twitter has the right to transfer personal data in anonymized form to third parties.
- You can change your data protection settings in your user account.
- Privacy Policy:
- For which purposes are data collected?
- User authentication
- Analysis of user behaviour
- Targeted advertising (mainly on their own websites)
- You can change your privacy settings in your user account.
- Privacy Policy:
- For which purposes are data collected?
- User authentication
- Address book and other services which can be synchronized with LinkedIn
- LinkedIn collects data when you get in touch with the customer service.
- Use of the websites and apps of LinkedIn
- Targeted advertising (mainly on their own websites)
- Analysis and research of user behaviour
- Use of third party services and visit of third party websites
- Targeted advertising enabled by default can be disabled. Many settings can be disabled in your user account.
YouTube
- Privacy Policy: (Please note, YouTube is a subsidiary of Google.)
- For which purposes are data collected?
- User authentication
- Targeted advertising (mainly on their own websites)
- Analysis and research of user behaviour
- Transfer to third parties: User accounts of all Google services are centrally based. Collected data are automatically linked with other Google services. Anonymized data are transferred to advertisers or other third parties, e.g. for the visualisation of trends and statistics.
- You can change all settings centrally on your dashboard.
- Privacy Policy: (Please note, Instagram is a subsidiary of Facebook.)
- For which purposes are data collected?
- User authentication
- Analysis and research of user behaviour incl. type of device
- Use of third party services and visit of third party websites, incl. transfer of anonymized personal data to third parties
- You can change certain privacy settings in your user profile.
Use of social media plugins
Two-click social media buttons
We implemented a two-click solution for the buttons “Like” (Facebook), “tweet” (Twitter) and “+1” (Google) on our websites. In order to use these buttons on one of our websites, you first have to enable the respective grey button at the bottom of the page to establish a connection to the social network of your choice (first click). Only then can you use social media buttons and like or recommend post or articles (second click). What happens once you enable social media buttons depends on the social network you activated. Find an overview below:
Facebook
After activating the Facebook button, Facebook is notified that a user with a certain IP address (the IP address is the address of your device) is using our website. If you are simultaneously logged into Facebook, your visit of our website is linked to your Facebook account. Information on the purposes, scope, further processing and use of data collected by Facebook as well as on user rights can be found in the Facebook Data Policy at http://de-de.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.php. Please note that the default settings do not provide for appropriate data protection and that you are advised to individually change your privacy settings.
Twitter
After activating the Twitter button, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Twitter server. The Twitter server then collects the data necessary to run the plugin on our website. Furthermore, data containing information on your visit of our website is transferred to Twitter. If you click on the tweet button and are simultaneously logged into your Twitter account, contents of our page will be linked on your Twitter profile. Twitter can then locate that you are currently using our website. If you click on the follow button, this will also be linked to your profile as well as to the profile of the person you want to follow. Find more information on the function of the follow button at https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/following-faqs. Information on the purposes, scope, further processing and use of data collected by Twitter as well as on user rights can be found in the Twitter Privacy Policy at https://twitter.com/en/privacy. You can change your data protection settings in your account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.
Google +1
After activating the +1 button, according to the Google Buttons Policy, Google collects certain data about the website visit of the user for system maintenance and troubleshooting purposes. According to Google, data are not stored according to individual profiles, user names or URLs and are erased after two weeks. If you click on the +1 button and are simultaneously logged into Google+, Google collects information on the URL recommended by you, your IP address as well as other browser-related information via your Google profile in order to save +1 recommendations and make them publicly accessible. Google data protection information on the +1 button, detailed information on the collection, transfer and use of data through Google as well as on user rights and profile settings can be found at https://www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html.
Contact person for data protection within this website
If you have any questions on how your personal data is collected, processed or used or if you would like to have your data rectified, blocked or erased, do not hesitate to contact our data protection officer.
Data Protection Officer
Prof. Dr. Roland Schmitz
Hochschule der Medien
Nobelstr. 10
70569 Stuttgart
Germany
Phone: +49 711 8923 2124
E-mail: schmitz@hdm-stuttgart.de
Validity of the Data Protection Declaration
By using our websites you agree to the use of data as described in this Declaration. The present Data Protection Declaration is currently valid and came into effect on 15 May 2018. We may have to change this Declaration due to new features on our websites or the implementation of new technologies. We therefore reserve the right to change this Declaration for future use at any time.
Last updated on 16 December 2022