(1) In the following, we provide information about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, email addresses, user behaviour.

(2) The controller pursuant to Art. 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Hochschule Stralsund - University of Applied Sciences, Zur Schwedenschanze 15, 18435 Stralsund, hochschulkommunikation@hochschule-stralsund.de (see our legal notice). You can contact our data protection officer by telephone on 0385 633-5131 or at our postal address with the addition "the data protection officer".

(3) When you contact us by e-mail or via a web form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, your name and telephone number if applicable) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data arising in this context after storage is no longer necessary, or restrict processing if there are statutory retention obligations.

(4) If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail below about the respective processes. We will also state the specified criteria for the storage period.

(1) You have the following rights vis-à-vis us with regard to the data concerning you

• Right of access,
• Right to rectification or erasure,
• Right to restriction of processing,
• Right to object to processing,
• right to data portability.

(2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

(1) When using the website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we only collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR):

• IP address (anonymised)
• Date and time of the enquiry
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Content of the request (page you visited)
• Access status/HTTP status code
• Amount of data transferred in each case
• Website from which the request originates
• browser
• Operating system and its interface
• Language and version of the browser software.

(2) In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive assigned to the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the body that sets the cookie (in this case us). Cookies cannot execute programmes or transfer viruses to your computer. They serve to make the website more user-friendly and effective overall.

(3) Use of cookies:

a) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and function of which are explained below:

• Transient cookies (see b)
• Persistent cookies (see c).

b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include session cookies in particular. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the joint session. This allows your computer to be recognised when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.

c) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete the cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser.

d) You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. We would like to point out that you may not be able to use all the functions of this website.

e) We use cookies to identify you for subsequent visits if you have an account with us. Otherwise you would have to log in again for each visit.

f) The Flash cookies used are not recorded by your browser, but by your Flash plug-in. We also use HTML5 storage objects, which are stored on your end device. These objects store the required data independently of the browser you use and do not have an automatic expiry date. If you do not want Flash cookies to be processed, you must install an appropriate add-on, e.g. "Better Privacy" for Mozilla Firefox or the Adobe Flash Killer cookie for Google Chrome. You can prevent the use of HTML5 storage objects by setting your browser to private mode. We also recommend that you regularly delete your cookies and browser history manually.

(1) In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. To do so, you must generally provide additional personal data that we use to provide the respective service and to which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.

(2) In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored.

(1) For questions of any kind, we offer you the opportunity to contact us using the forms provided on the website. It is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address* so that we know who sent the enquiry and can answer it. Further information can be provided voluntarily. Data processing for the purpose of contacting us is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR on the basis of your voluntarily given consent. The personal data collected by us for the use of the contact form will be automatically deleted after your enquiry has been dealt with.

* Further contact details are marked as mandatory fields on the university website. Please check again whether all of them are necessary. In the general contact form, for example, the name could be removed as a mandatory field. If the previous mandatory fields are necessary, please add them to the text above.

(1) Stralsund University of Applied Sciences maintains online presences in the social networks Twitter, Instagram and Facebook in order to share news and information about the university with users. You will find clickable images with the logo of the corresponding provider on our website. The clickable images/logos will redirect you to the respective online presence of Stralsund University of Applied Sciences via a link.

(2) We would like to expressly draw your attention to the fact that the data of users of social networks is stored by them and used for business purposes. Stralsund University of Applied Sciences has no influence on the data collection or the further use of the data by the social networks. There is therefore no knowledge of who the data is passed on to, where the data is stored, whether the deletion obligations are complied with or to what extent the transmitted data is analysed.

(3) Further information on which data is processed by Twitter and for what purposes can be found in Twitter's privacy policy(https://twitter.com/privacy).

(4) For more information on which data is processed by Instagram and for what purposes, please refer to Instagram's privacy policy(http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy).

(5) For more information on which data is processed by Facebook and for what purposes, please refer to Facebook's privacy policy(https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy).

(1) We have integrated YouTube videos into our online offering, which are stored on www.YouTube.com and can be played directly from our website. These are all integrated in "extended data protection mode", i.e. no data about you as a user is transferred to YouTube if you do not play the videos. Only when you play the videos will the data mentioned in paragraph 2 be transmitted. We have no influence on this data transfer.

(2) By clicking on the Play button, YouTube/Google receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. In addition, the data mentioned under § 3 of this declaration will be transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether YouTube provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account. If you do not wish your data to be associated with your YouTube profile, you must log out before activating the button. YouTube stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or customising its website. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide customised advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact YouTube to exercise this right.

(3) Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by YouTube can be found in the privacy policy. There you will also find further information on your rights and setting options to protect your privacy: www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.