Data Security

Privacy policy

As a public body, Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences is subject to the provisions of the Saxon Data Protection Act (SächsDSG) as well as the relevant legal bases with provisions for the protection of the right to informational self-determination.

To protect your rights, we have taken technical and organizational measures to ensure that the regulations on data protection are observed within the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences as well as by external service providers if they are involved in this offer.

Your data may only be processed to the extent permitted by special laws or with your consent.

In connection with your access to the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences website, data is temporarily stored on our servers for data security purposes, which may allow identification.

 

This may be :

  • Name of the retrieved file
  • Date and time of the retrieval
  • Message as to whether the retrieval was successful
  • IP address
  • Browser used
  • Operating system used

 

When using the mail links and mail forms provided, only the data you enter will be forwarded to the recipient of the mail. Connection data may be stored in log files to ensure operation and data security.

This data is not analyzed.

Excluded from this are :

  • Evaluations in the event of suspicion of a criminal offense
  • Analysis in the event of justified suspicion of misuse
  • in anonymized form for :
    • statistical purposes
    • to optimize the website
    • research purposes

 

We would like to point out that data transmission, especially by e-mail, via the Internet is currently largely unsecured. It cannot be ruled out that transmitted data may be read and possibly even falsified by unauthorized persons. 
 

Privacy policy for the use of Facebook plugins (Like button)

Plugins of the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA are integrated on our pages. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the "Like" button on our site. You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins here:http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
When you visit our pages, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Facebook server via the plugin. Facebook receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click on the Facebook "Like" button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. Further information on this can be found in Facebook's privacy policy at http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php

If you do not want Facebook to be able to associate your visit to our pages with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze 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 anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of 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 for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. 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 at the following link(http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

You can find more information on this at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de or at http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html (general information on Google Analytics and data protection). Please note that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code "gat._anonymizeIp();" in order to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

Use of the integrated Google search

When you access using the integrated Google search, Google servers automatically record information. These server logs contain the following information Your web request, your IP address, the browser type, the language of the browser, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that uniquely identify your browser.