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Data Privacy

Information on the Collection of Personal Data

The operators of these websites take the protection of your personal data seriously.

Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, such as name, address, email addresses, and user behavior (information referring to an identifiable natural person (Art. 4, No. 1 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR))).

Responsible for data processing in accordance with Section 15 of the OVO Mr. 4 No. 0 and other applicable data protection regulations is:

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Kaiserstraße 12,
76131 Karlsruhe,
Germany

Phone: +49 721 608-0
Fax: +49 721 608-44280
Email: info@kit.edu

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is a public corporation. It is represented by the current President.

You can reach our Data Protection Officer at dsb@kit.edu or via the postal address mentioned above, addressed to "Data Protection Officer."

When you contact us by electronic mail or via a contact form, the data given by you (your email address and, if applicable, your name and your phone number) will be stored by us to answer your questions. The data arising in this connection will be erased as soon as storage will no longer be required or processing will be restricted, if legal obligations to retain the data exist.

We would like you to note that internet-based data transmission (e.g., when communicating by electronic mail) may have security gaps. Absolute protection of data against access by third parties may not be guaranteed.

Collection of Personal Data

When using the website for information purposes only, i.e., when you do not register or transmit other information, we will only collect the personal data that is transmitted by your browser to our server according to the settings made by you (server log files). For viewing our website, we collect the data required for this purpose and needed for ensuring stability and security according to Art. 6, par. 1, clause 1, (f) GDPR:

This data cannot be referred to certain persons. This data will not be combined with other data sources. We reserve the right to check this data later on, if concrete indications of unlawful use become known to us.

This data is currently stored for a maximum period of twelve months.

Your Rights

As far as your personal data stored by us is concerned, you have the following rights:

In addition, you have the right to complain about the processing of your personal data by us with a supervisory authority. In the case of manifestly unfounded or excessive requests, we can charge a reasonable fee. Otherwise, information will be provided free of charge (Article 12, par. 5 GDPR). In the case of reasonable doubts concerning the identity of the natural person asserting the above rights, we may request the provision of additional information necessary to confirm the identity of the data subject (Article 12, par. 6 GDPR).

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