Privacy

Whenever you access a website, your computer must identify to the server which is asked to provide the requested site. The server must "know" to whom to send the answer. So when calling up a website, your pc sends a sender address to the server. This "sender" is the IP address assigned to each single computer in the worldwide web. It is a number combination and may look like this:

255.255.255.255

The university server also has an IP address: 

193.175.243.120

When you enter a destination in your browser, such as www.uni-wh.de as a combination of letters, this is internally converted into the respective IP address, since computers communicate better via numbers . 

On each access to a UW/H website, the IP address assigned to your pc is registered and saved in a logging file. 

These data help us to improve our web services and identify system errors. IP addresses are counted for statistical purposes (e.g. analysis of frequency and distribution). 

No inference is made about your person. The IP address is an anonymous code figure and does not permit to determine your identity. 

As a matter of principle we do not collect personal data (like names or e-mail addresses) via UW/H websites, unless you make such data available to us by choice (e.g. in applications) or give your consent, or legal privacy regulations explicitly permit to do so. 

In no case are IP addresses linked to other data you may have entered, e.g. on forms on UW/H websites.

Google Webfonts

We are using fonts ("Google Fonts") provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Data privacy statement: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

Google Maps

We are using the online map service “Google Maps” provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Data privacy statement: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Opt-Out:

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

Cookies are text files being automatically stored in the visitor’s browser when visiting a website. This website uses cookies in order to render its service user-friendly and more practical. Due to these files it is possible, for example, to display information tailored to individual interests on a site. Cookies also facilitate safety-related functions for protecting your privacy. The sole purpose of using cookies is therefore to adapt our service to your requirements in the best possible way and to make the use of the site as convenient as possible. By applying the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018, webmasters are obliged to comply with the regulation published at https://eu-datenschutz.org/ and to inform their users accordingly about the collection and evaluation of data. The lawfulness of processing is founded on Chapter 2, Article 6 of the GDPR.

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Our website uses so-called social plugins (in the following called plugins) of the social network facebook.com operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (in the following called Facebook). Facebook marks plugins with a facebook logo and/or the addition "Facebook Social Plugin".

Various pages on our website contain such plugins which directly connect to the Facebook servers on access. If a user interacts with one of these plugins ("like", "recommendation", "comment" etc.) Facebook is able to record and analyse access to certain websites. Your IP address for example and - if you are registered with facebook.com and logged in - your user name may be transmitted to Facebook. Ths means Facebook can link access to a website with your personal data and thus identify you, which may also mean collection of personal data.

See the Facebook privacy notice (Datenschutzhinweisen von Facebook) to determine the exact purpose and scope of data collection via Facebook, handling and use of such data, and your rights and setting options to ensure privacy. If you are registered with Facebook and do not want Facebook to collect data related to you via plugins, you must log out on facebook. com prior to accessing UW/H websites. 

Owing to a legitimate interest in analysing and optimising our online presence, we have integrated Facebook’s “Facebook Pixel” into our website. The social network Facebook is operated by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. 

On visiting our pages, a direct connection between your browser and Facebook will be established. That way, Facebook is notified that you have visited our website with your IP address and thus assigns the visit on our website to your user account. We in turn are able to use the data collected for placing Facebook advertisements.  

Please note that we as the provider of the website at www.uni-wh.de are neither aware of the content of the data transmitted nor of the use of this information by Facebook. From our part, we do not collate user profiles and personal data as long as you do not actively send us this information for the purpose of contacting you. 

For further information on Facebook’s privacy statement, please visit https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

As an alternative, you may deactivate tracking via this link: Deactivate facebook tracking
After deactivation, an opt-out cookie will be set, preventing the collection of your data when visiting this website in the future.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by 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 the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. 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. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html or at https://www.google.de/intl/en_uk/policies/. Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “anonymizeIp” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).

Dipl.-Stat. Martin Rützler
datenschutz@uni-wh.de
Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 50
D-58448 Witten