General data protection information
We appreciate your interest in using the website of the MODUS project – enhancing student mobility across educational boundaries through recognition, published by the Stiftung zur Förderung der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (Foundation for the Promotion of the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK)).
We, the Stiftung zur Förderung der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz, take the protection of personal data and their confidential treatment very seriously. Below you will find general information on data protection in the HRK MODUS project as well as information on the processing of your personal data and your rights when using our offer.
Your personal data are processed exclusively in compliance with the applicable statutory provisions of data protection law, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter referred to as “GDPR”) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, “BDSG”).
1. The controller responsible for the processing of your personal data is:
Stiftung zur Förderung der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz
Ahrstraße 39
53175 Bonn
Germany
Tel.: +49 228 887-153
Fax: +49 228 887-280
E-mail: post[at]hrk.de
Website: www.hrk.de/home/
2. Our data protection officer can be contacted as follows:
Mr Florian Reichert
Scheja & Partners GmbH & Co. KG
Adenauerallee 136
53113 Bonn
Germany
Tel.: +49 228 227 226-0
Contact: www.scheja-partner.de/en/contact/contact.html
Website: www.scheja-partner.de/en/index.html
3. Subject matter of data protection
The subject matter of data protection is personal data, i.e., any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”). This includes data such as name, postal address, e-mail address or phone number.
If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, you may contact us free of charge. Please use our contact details stated above.
4. Your data subject rights
You have the following rights regarding the processing of your personal data:
4.1 Right to access
You have the right to obtain confirmation from us as to whether or not we process any personal data concerning you. If this is the case, you have the right to obtain access to your personal data and further information regarding the processing.
4.2 Right to rectification
You have the right to obtain the rectification of your inaccurate personal data and to have incomplete personal data completed.
4.3 Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”)
Under certain circumstances, you have the right to obtain erasure of your personal data. This right exists, for example, when the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed or if the personal data were processed unlawfully.
4.4 Restriction of processing
Under certain circumstances, you have the right to request restriction of the processing of your personal data. In this case, we only store the personal data for which you gave your consent or for which the GDPR allows processing. For example, you may have a right to restrict processing if you contested the accuracy of your personal data.
4.5 Data portability
If you provided us with personal data on the basis of a contract or consent, you may request to receive the personal data provided by you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to transmit these data to another controller responsible for the processing – provided that the legal requirements are met.
4.6 Withdrawal of consent
If you gave your consent to the processing of your personal data, you may withdraw this consent at any time with effect for the future. This does not affect the lawfulness of processing of your personal data before the withdrawal.
4.7 Right to object
Right to object on a case-by-case basis: You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you that is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (data processing on grounds of a balancing of interests). If you lodge an objection, we no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Right to object to data processing for direct marketing purposes: You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes. If you object to processing, your personal data are no longer processed for these purposes.
4.8 Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority
Moreover, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data infringes applicable law. For this, you may approach the data protection authority that is responsible for your habitual residence, place of work or the place of the alleged infringement or the data protection authority that is responsible for us. The competent supervisory authority is that of the federal state in which you live, work or an alleged infringement took place that is the subject matter of the complaint.
If you have any questions regarding the assertion of your above-mentioned data subject rights, you may contact us free of charge. Please use our contact details stated above.
5. Amendment of this privacy policy
We reserve the right to amend and revise this privacy policy from time to time. Please refer to the current version of our privacy policy.
Last update of the privacy policy: 08.03.2022.
Website use
When using the offers of the HRK MODUS project – enhancing student mobility across educational boundaries through recognition, the general data protection information applies.
1. Details on services, cookies, etc.
1.1 Own services
To the “Own services” table (in German, pdf)
1.2 Integration of third-party services including cookies and comparable technologies
We integrate third-party services in order to enable you to use their functions, services and features. These integrated third-party services are designed and provided by the respective providers. Therefore, we have only limited influence on the design, content and function of these third-party services or the processing of personal data by their providers. Please obtain information directly from the providers of the integrated services.
We use cookies and comparable technologies on our website in order to offer a comprehensive range of functions, to make use more convenient and to be able to optimise our offers. Cookies are small text files that are generated by a web server and stored on your computer during the online visit by means of the web browser used.
On the one hand, we use “session cookies” for this purpose. These are erased automatically once your browser session has ended.
On the other hand, we also use long-term cookies, which are primarily used to provide you, a visitor to our website, with permanently recurring settings. This allows us to adapt our website individually to your wishes. Long-term cookies also allow us to analyse the usage behaviour of visitors, but only within the scope of the cookie's validity period.
Moreover, in connection with the integration of certain third-party services, further cookies may be set by their providers (“third-party cookies”).
If you do not want any cookies to be used, you may prevent cookies from being stored on your device by making the appropriate settings in your internet browser or by making these settings individually in the Cookie Center. Please note that this might restrict the functionality and scope of functions of our offer. Furthermore, we only set certain cookies if you previously consented to this (see below). You can also make use of separate objection options for certain cookies (see below). Please refer to the information in the table below for detailed information on the type, scope, purposes, legal bases and options to object to data processing in connection with these cookies.
To the “Third-party services” table (in German, pdf)
1.3 Links
Our website contains “hyperlinks” to websites of other providers. If you follow these links by clicking on them, you are redirected from our website directly to the website of another provider. You can recognise this by the change of URL, among other things. We cannot accept any responsibility for the confidential handling of your personal data on the part of these providers as we have no influence on this.