UNIVERSITY OF KOBLENZ
Universitätsstraße 1
56070 Koblenz
Privacy statement for the studycheck.de profile of the University of Koblenz
We, the University of Koblenz, take the protection of personal data and its confidential treatment very seriously. When you visit our studycheck.de profile, your personal data is processed. Therefore, we hereby inform you about how we process your personal data and what rights you are entitled to.
More information about data processing by OAK – Online Akademie GmbH (hereinafter referred to as ‘studycheck’) as the provider of the studycheck.de platform can be found here.
1. Controller
University of Koblenz
Universitätsstraße 1
D-56070 Koblenz
Germany
Phone: +49 261 287-0
Fax: +49 261 287-1600
E-Mail: service@uni-koblenz.de
2. Data protection officer
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding data protection, please contact our data protection officer.
University of Koblenz - Data protection officer
Konstantin Wagner
Universitätsstraße 1
D-56070 Koblenz,
Germany
Phone: +49 261 287-2860
Contact via E-Mail: datenschutz(at)uni-koblenz.de
Studycheck’s data protection officer can be contacted here.
3. Data subject rights
As a data subject, you have the following rights under the GDPR:
Right of access: You have the right to receive information about the personal data pertaining to you that we process.
Right to rectification: You may demand that inaccurate personal data will be rectified. Furthermore, you may demand that incomplete data will be completed.
Right to erasure: In certain cases, you are entitled to demand the erasure of your personal data.
Right to restriction of processing: In certain cases, you are entitled to demand that we restrict the processing of your data.
Right to data portability: If you have made the data available to us based on a contract or consent, you are entitled to demand to receive the data which you provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to have them transmitted by us to another controller.
Withdrawal of consent: If you have given us your consent as to the processing of your data, you may withdraw the consent at any time with effect for the future. This does not affect the legitimacy of the processing of your personal data before the withdrawal of the consent.
Right to object: You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(e) GDPR for reasons arising from your particular situation.
Your personal data will then no longer be processed unless we can provide compelling protected reasons for such processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is necessary for the assertion of, exercise of, or defence against any legal claims.
Asserting your rights: To assert any of your abovementioned rights, please contact us by email at datenschutz@uni-koblenz.de or in writing at the above address. Please ensure that we are able to clearly identify you.
Right to complain to a supervisory authority: You have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data is unlawful. The supervisory authority responsible for us is:
The Rhineland-Palatinate DPA (Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Rheinland-Pfalz)
Hintere Bleiche 34
55116 Mainz
Germany
E-Mail:poststelle@datenschutz.rlp.de
4. Details of the relevant processing purposes and functionalities of the service
We use our studycheck.de profile to provide you with content related to our public-interest duties (public relations work of the University of Koblenz). The processing includes interaction and communication with visitors, receiving and processing requests, complaints or other feedback. The University of Koblenz has no influence on the type and scope of data processed by studycheck, the type of processing and use, or the transfer of this data to third parties. Nor does it have any effective means of control in this regard.
The categories of personal data processed include profile name, type and content of interaction, date of interaction, and course of study.
5. Legal basis for the processing of personal data
The use of our studycheck profile and the related processing of personal data by the University of Koblenz is based on Article 6 (1) (e) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in conjunction with Section 3 of the Rhineland-Palatinate Data Protection Act (LDSG) in conjunction with Section 2 (11) of the Rhineland-Palatinate Higher Education Act (HochSchG) and serves to perform necessary tasks in the public interest (public relations work of the University of Koblenz. In the case of voluntary interaction with the studycheck profile, your data will be processed on the basis of your express consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.
6. Access to data and location of the data processing
Employees of our organisation have access to your personal data to the extent necessary to fulfil the above-mentioned purposes. We use service providers to support us with data processing as part of data processing on our behalf. These service providers are subject to strict contractual agreements, including confidentiality agreements.
By law, we are obliged in some cases to transfer personal data to authorities (e.g. requests for information from investigating authorities).
OAK – Online Akademie GmbH, as the provider of the studycheck platform, processes data as described here.
7. Duration of processing and storage of personal data
We store your personal data only as long as it is necessary to fulfil the above-mentioned purposes and there are no obligations to store it.
In the event of an objection or the withdrawal of consent, we will delete your personal data, unless further processing is permitted by the relevant legal provisions. In addition, illegal content may be deleted. Regarding deletion by studycheck, we refer to their privacy statement.
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