Privacy Policy

We process personal data that is collected when our website is visited in accordance with the valid data protection laws and regulations, in particular the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Landesdatenschutzgesetz – DSG M-V (State Data Protection Act).

The person responsible pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation and other national data protection laws of the member states and other data protection regulations is:

University of Greifswald
Legally represented by the Rector
Prof. Dr. Katharina Riedel
Postal Address: D-17487 Greifswald
Address: Domstraße 11, Entrance 2, D-17489 Greifswald
Tel.: +49 3834 420 0, Fax: +49 3834 420 1105, e-mail: rektorin@uni-greifswald.de

For the provision of our website we use the following web host:

University of Greifswald
legally represented by the Rector, Prof. Dr. Katharina Riedel
Domstraße 11
D-17489 Greifswald

This website was created using WordPress.


Legal basis

If we request consent for the collection of personal data from the data subject (in particular answering inquiries by e-mail), Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR shall serve as the legal basis.


Log Files

This website uses “Matomo” (formerly “PIWIK”) for statistical analysis. This is an open source web analytics platform. Matomo is used by the website operator to measure, collect, analyse and evaluate visitor data in order to understand and optimise the website.

Matomo does not transfer any data to external servers. Matomo is activated when you visit this website.

You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analyzing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users.

 Matomo is processing the following personal data:

  • IP address
  • Optional user ID
  • Location of the user
  • Date and time
  • Title of the page being viewed (page title)
  • URL of the page being viewed (page URL)
  • Screen resolution
  • Time in the local time zone
  • Files that were clicked and downloaded (download)
  • Link clicks to an outside domain (outlink)
  • Pages generation time
  • Country, region, city (geolocalization)
  • Main language of the browser
  • User agent of the browser

The referrer URL is not recorded.

Matomo is configured to regularly delete old visitor logs and/or generated reports after 90 days. The data collected at each access is automatically logged, otherwise only on the basis of your input.

The information is only used for the provision, optimisation and security of this website and will not be passed on to third parties.


Cookies

Matomo is used on this website without tracking cookies. No other tracking cookies are used when you visit the website, only the following functional cookies are stored on your computer: The “pll _language cookie” is used to remember the language selected by the user when returning to the website, and also to get the language information when not available in another way. The functional cookie “mtm_consent_removed” is used if you choose to opt-out of Matomo web analytics.

Social Networks

In addition to this website, we provide and manage profiles and pages on social media platforms in order to provide the public with a broad range of information and to enable effective communication with the users.

If users visit one of our profiles on one of the platforms their data could be processed outside the boundaries of the European Union, resulting in a lower level of data protection. The processing of your personal data is performed by the third parties who run these social networks, based on their own data protection declarations. Please contact the respective third parties to learn more about the kind and scope of data processing. Please contact the respective person who runs the platform if you would like to make any information enquiries and exercise your rights as only they have access to your user data.

You are not required to use one of these services to get in contact with us or to receive our information. Generally, the information that we publish using these online services can be found in the same or similar form on this website.


Your Rights

You are entitled to withdraw your consent for the collection of personal data (in particular answering inquiries by e-mail) at any time and without having to provide reasons, with effect for the future, by writing to the

University of Greifswald
Institute for Political and Communication Science
Ernst-Lohmeyer-Platz 3
D-17489 Greifswald

or via email to kowisekr@uni-greifswald.de.

You also have the right to receive information upon request and free of charge about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient, the purpose, and the length of data processing. Furthermore, under certain circumstances, you have the right to the correction, limitation of the processing (e.g. block), deletion, and the data portability of your data.

In addition, you also have the right to submit a complaint to the responsible supervisory authority for data protection, if, in your opinion, your details are not being processed in a lawful manner. The supervisory authority is:

Data Protection and Freedom of Information Officer for the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Werderstraße 74a
D-19055 Schwerin

For questions pertaining to data protection, please contact the University’s official Data Protection Officer.

Data Protection Officer

René Schülke
SIS – Schweriner IT- und Servicegesellschaft mbH
Eckdrift 93
D-19061 Schwerin

Tel.: +49 385 20092 1213, e-mail: datenschuetzer@uni-greifswald.de


Contact

University of Greifswald
Institute for Political and Communication Science
Ernst-Lohmeyer-Platz 3
D-17489 Greifswald

e-mail: kowisekr@uni-greifswald.de


The English translation of this privacy information is intended solely as a convenience to non-German-reading visitors to our website. Only the German text on this page [de] is legally binding. In the event of any conflict between the English and German text, its structure, meaning or interpretation, the German text, its structure, meaning or interpretation shall prevail. 


Last modified: August 21, 2024