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This privacy policy serves to fulfill the information obligation required under Article 13 EU GDPR when collecting data from data subjects at the time of collection.

Data Controller

The website is operated by:

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Postal address:
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
60629 Frankfurt
Germany

As a university of the State of Hesse, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main is a foundation under public law with legal capacity (§ 88 HessHG).

VAT identification number (VAT-Id): DE 114 110 511

Legal Representative

The President of Goethe University, Prof. Dr. Enrico Schleiff

Institute Director

Prof. Dr. med. Jörg Janne Vehreschild

Legal Supervision

Hessian Ministry of Science and Art
Rheinstr. 23-25
65185 Wiesbaden

Media Supervision

Medienanstalt Hessen
Wilhelmshöher Allee 262
34131 Kassel

The websites of individual institutions, profile areas, departments, and chairs as well as any project websites ("decentralized offerings") are independently maintained by them as site operators. For these decentralized offerings, the respective editorially/content-responsible persons are named there.

For inquiries or complaints regarding data protection, you can contact the data protection officers of Goethe University.

Contact Details of the Data Protection Officers

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
The official data protection officers
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Internet: http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/datenschutzbeauftragte

Rights and Complaint Options

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority in the event of data protection issues.

Contact address of the supervisory authority of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main:

Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Postfach 3163
65021 Wiesbaden

Email to the HBDI (link to the contact form of the Hessian Data Protection Commissioner: https://datenschutz.hessen.de/kontakt)
Phone: +49 611 1408 – 0

You have the following rights vis-à-vis Goethe University regarding your stored personal data:

  • Right to access
  • Right to rectification or deletion
  • Right to restriction of processing
  • Right to withdraw your consent
  • Right to object to processing
  • Right to data portability in a common, structured, and machine-readable format

To assert these rights, please contact dsb@uni-frankfurt.de.

Type of Stored Data, Purpose and Legal Basis, Deletion Periods

Handling of Personal Data

Personal data is information that can be used to identify a natural person, i.e., information through which persons can be identified. This includes in particular names, email addresses, student identification numbers, or telephone numbers. However, data about preferences, hobbies, memberships, or information about websites visited also count as personal data.

Personal data is only collected, used, and shared by us if this is legally permitted or if users have consented to the data collection.

The data of Goethe University employees for the purpose of personnel administration, teaching, research, and examination activities are collected and processed on the basis of the Hessian Higher Education Act, the Matriculation Ordinance of the State of Hesse, TV-GU, civil service law, and personnel law regulations.

Access Data/Server Log Files

When accessing the pages of this web server, the following data is generally stored in the server log files:

  • IP address
  • Date and time
  • Type of client browser
  • URL of the page accessed
  • If applicable, the error message for the error that occurred
  • If applicable, the requesting provider

This data is used exclusively for the purpose of monitoring functionality, security, and troubleshooting. This use is based on EU GDPR Article 6 paragraph 1 e) or on §3, as well as §8-11 of the Hessian Act on the Protection of Electronic Administration (HITSiG). All log files are automatically deleted after a maximum of 7 days. In the event of security incidents, the data may be stored for up to 90 days (§14 HITSiG).

Contact

When contacting members of Goethe University (for example via contact form or email), your information will be stored for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in case follow-up questions arise. After processing your request or after fulfillment of the legal obligation or the service used, the data will be deleted unless the retention of the data is necessary for the implementation of legitimate interests of Goethe University or on the basis of a legal regulation (e.g., law, legal ordinance, statute of Goethe University, etc.).

Cookies

Cookies are small files that enable specific device-related information to be stored on your access device (PC, smartphone, etc.). They serve, among other things, the user-friendliness of websites (e.g., storage of login data). You can influence the use of cookies. Most browsers have an option that allows the storage of cookies to be restricted or completely prevented. However, it should be noted that use and especially user convenience may be limited without cookies.

We currently do not use any cookies on our website.

Advertising Trackers

No advertising trackers are used.

Analysis Services

No analysis services are used.