Privacy policy

(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, such as name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.

(2) The controller pursuant to Art. 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is OWL University of Applied Sciences, Campusallee 12, D-32657 Lemgo. You can contact our data protection officer at our postal address with the addition “the data protection officer” or at datenschutz(at)th-owl.de.

(3) When you contact us by e-mail and/or via the contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, your name and your query, 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 required, or restrict processing if there are statutory retention obligations. The legal basis is Art. 6 I (a) GDPR in conjunction with the Higher Education Act of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (HG NRW), as you consent to the above-mentioned processing of your data when you send us your inquiry by e-mail. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. For the right to erasure and information, see section 2 below on your rights as a data subject.

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

• in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, to request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you can request information about the purposes of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us, and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on its details;

• in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to immediately request the correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us; in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;

• in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data if the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful, but you refuse to delete it and we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or you have lodged an objection to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;

• in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request that it be transmitted to another controller; in accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR, to revoke your consent to us at any time. As a result, we may no longer continue the data processing that was based on this consent in the future

(2) If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR, provided that there are reasons for this arising from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right to object, which will be implemented by us without specifying a particular situation.

Please send your request/objection to datenschutz(at)th-owl.de or in writing to the following address:

Technische Hochschule OWL,
Campusallee 12,
D-32657 Lemgo.

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

This is the:
State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information North Rhine-Westphalia
Postfach 20
0440213 Düsseldorf
Tel: +49 211 38424 0
Fax: +49 211 38424 10
E-Mail: poststelle(at)ldi.nrw.de

(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 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):

• pseudonymized IP address

• Date and time of the request

• Content of the request (specific page)

• 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) We use cookies on our website. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website. Cookies do not cause any damage to your end device and do not contain any viruses, Trojans or other malware.

(3) Information is stored in the cookie that results in each case in connection with the specific end device used. However, this does not mean that we obtain direct knowledge of your identity. On the one hand, the use of cookies serves to make the use of our website more pleasant for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies to recognize that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after you leave our site.

(4) In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimize user-friendliness, which are stored on your device for a specified period of time. If you visit our site again to make use of our services, it is automatically recognized that you have already visited us and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.

(5) On the other hand, we use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing our offer for you (see section 4). These cookies enable us to automatically recognize that you have already visited our website when you visit it again. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period of time.

(6) The data processed by cookies are necessary for the purposes mentioned to safeguard our legitimate interests and those of third parties in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

(7) Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or a message always appears before a new cookie is created. However, completely deactivating cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website.

On this page, videos from third-party providers are integrated as content via the video portal “YouTube” of YouTube LLC, headquartered at 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. By clicking on a video and the associated use of YouTube, your data may be processed by “YouTube”. If you are logged into your Google/YouTube account at the same time as accessing the video, YouTube can track the sub-page of our website from which the video is accessed. If you would like to prevent this data collection, please log out of YouTube before visiting our site or watching the video. Details can be found in the terms of use of “YouTube” and, since “YouTube” is a “Google” company, in the data protection guidelines of “Google”. The legal basis is Art. 6 I (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest arises from the fact that by embedding the videos we offer you an informative added value about our activities or about information of professional interest to you. We do not store any of your data in the process. If you wish to completely prevent Google from collecting data, you should refrain from accessing the videos. The embedding and retrievability of the videos does not interfere with your fundamental freedoms.

The online presence of the OWL University of Applied Sciences does not use any direct integration of social media plugins (e.g. Like buttons) of the social networks Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. This means that no data is transmitted to external social networks when you visit the website. Only when you click on icons/symbols/links of the social networks on the websites of the OWL University of Applied Sciences and call up the linked pages do you leave the websites, which are the responsibility of the OWL University of Applied Sciences, and external websites are called up in accordance with the conditions of the respective provider/social network. We would like to point out that user data may be processed outside the European Union. This may result in risks for users because, for example, it could make it more difficult to enforce users' rights. With regard to US providers that are certified under the Privacy Shield, we would like to point out that they thereby undertake to comply with the data protection standards of the EU. For a detailed description of the respective processing and the opt-out options, please refer to the information provided by the providers linked below. In the case of requests for information and the assertion of user rights, we would also like to point out that these can be asserted most effectively with the providers. Only the providers have access to the user's data and can take appropriate measures and provide information directly. If you still need help, you can contact us.

• Facebook (Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland), Facebook pages based on an agreement on joint processing of personal data - privacy policy: www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ , opt-out: www.facebook.com/settings and www.youronlinechoices.com, Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active

• Google/YouTube (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) - Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy, Opt-Out: adssettings.google.com/authenticated, Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

• Instagram (Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA) - Privacy Policy/ Opt-Out: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/

(1) As a matter of principle, we do not pass on personal data that is processed in the context of using the OWL University of Applied Sciences website to third parties.

(2) In individual 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 checked on the basis of a contract in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR.

(3) Furthermore, we may pass on your personal data to third parties if this is necessary to carry out the educational mission, to enforce our rights under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure (StPO) or to assert claims for damages in the event of copyright infringements and the investigation of criminal offenses, as well as to advise and support our students.

We use the widespread SSL (Secure Socket Layer) method in conjunction with the highest level of encryption supported by your browser when you visit our website. As a rule, this is 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we use 128-bit v3 technology instead. You can tell whether an individual page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser. We also use suitable technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

We reserve the right to update this privacy policy from time to time, in particular to take account of changing legislation or case law. We therefore recommend that you visit this website regularly so that you are informed about the protection and processing of your data.