COMFOR Lab

Privacy Policy

1. Data privacy at a glance

General information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data that can be used to identify you personally. For detailed information on data privacy, please refer to our data privacy declaration below this text.

Data collection on this website

Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?

The website operator processes data on this website. The operator’s contact details are in the website’s imprint.

How do we collect your data?

Firstly, we will collect the data you provided us. This data may include information entered in a contact form, for example.

Secondly, our IT systems automatically collect further data or with your consent when you visit our website. This is primarily technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of page view). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter this website.

What do we use your data for?

Some of the data is collected to ensure that the website is provided without errors, and other data can be used to analyse user behaviour.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipients and purpose of your stored personal data free of charge at any time. You also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data. If you have consented to the data processing, you can revoke this consent anytime. In addition, under certain circumstances, you have the right to request the restriction of processing your personal data. Furthermore, you have the right to appeal to the competent supervisory authority.

For this purpose and for further questions regarding data privacy, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint.

2. General information and mandatory information

Data privacy

The operators of this website and its pages take the privacy of your personal data very seriously. Hence, we handle your personal data as confidential information and in compliance with the statutory data privacy regulations and this Data privacy Declaration.

Various personal information will be collected whenever you use this website.

Personal data comprises data that can be used to personally identify you. This privacy policy explains what information we collect and what we use it for, as well as how and for what purpose.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the internet (e.g. when communicating by email) can have security gaps. Providing complete privacy of data against access by third parties is impossible.

Information about the responsible party

The party responsible for processing data on this website is:   Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Michael Spranger
University of Applied Sciences Mittweida
Technikumplatz 17
09648 Mittweida
Germany
  Telephone: +49 3727 58-1423
Email: [email protected]   The responsible party is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (names, email addresses, etc.).

Storage period

Unless a more specific storage period has been specified in this data privacy declaration, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for which it was collected no longer applies. If you assert a justified request for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted, provided that we have no other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g., tax or commercial law retention periods). In the latter case, the deletion will take place after these reasons cease to apply.  

Note on data transfer to the USA

  Among other things, tools from companies based in the USA are integrated into our website. When these tools are active, your personal data may be transferred to the US servers of the respective companies. We want to point out that the USA is not a safe third country regarding EU data privacy law. US companies are obliged to security authorities without you as the data subject being able to take legal action against this. It cannot, therefore, be ruled out that US authorities (e.g. secret services) may process, evaluate and permanently store your data on US servers for monitoring purposes. We do not influence these processing activities.

  Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke the consent you have already given at any time. The legality of the data processing carried out up to the point of revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to object to data collection in special cases and to direct marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF DATA PROCESSING IS CARRIED OUT ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6 PARA. 1 LIT. E OR F OF THE GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT, ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING IS PROVIDED IN THIS DATA privacy DECLARATION. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA UNLESS WE CAN PROVE THAT THERE ARE COMPELLING REASONS FOR PROCESSING IT THAT ARE WORTHY OF privacy AND THAT OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 SECT. 1 GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA ARE PROCESSED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 SECT. 2 GDPR).

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority

In the event of GDPR violations, data subjects are entitled to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of their habitual residence, their place of work, or the place of the alleged violation. The right to lodge a complaint exists regardless of other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right to data portability

You have the right to demand that we hand over any data we automatically process on the basis of your consent or to fulfil a contract in a commonly used, machine-readable format to you or a third party. If you demand the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will be done only if it is technically feasible.

SSL and/or TLS encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or requests you send to us as the site operator. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the browser’s address line changes from ‘http://’ to ‘https://’ and by the lock symbol in your browser line. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, third parties cannot read the data you transmit to us.

Information, deletion and correction

Within the scope of the applicable statutory provisions, you can demand information about your archived personal data at any time, their source and recipients, and the purpose of processing your data. You may also have a right to have your data rectified or eradicated. If you have questions about this or any other questions about personal data, please do not hesitate to contact us at any time at the address provided in the imprint.

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Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. To do so, you can contact us any time at the address in the imprint. The right to restriction of processing applies in the following cases:

  • If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we usually need time to verify this. For the duration of the verification, you have the right to demand that the processing of your personal data be restricted.
  • If the processing of your personal data was/is carried out unlawfully, you can demand the restriction of the data processing instead of the deletion.
  • If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it to exercise, defend or assert legal claims, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted instead of deleted.
  • If you have objected to processing under Article 21(1) GDPR, your rights and our rights will have to be weighed against each other. As long as it has not been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to demand a restriction on processing your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, these data – apart from their storage – may be processed only with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or the privacy of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or of a Member State.

3. Data collection on this website

Cookies

Our website uses so-called ‘cookies’. Cookies are small text files that do not damage your device. They are either stored temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies) on your device. Session cookies are automatically deleted after your visit. Permanent cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them yourself or until they are automatically deleted by your web browser.

Sometimes, cookies from third-party companies may also be stored on your device when you enter our site (third-party cookies). These enable us or you to use certain third-party company services (e.g. cookies for processing payment services).

Cookies have various functions. Many are technically necessary because certain website functions would not work without them (e.g., the shopping cart function, or the display of videos). Other cookies are used to evaluate user behaviour or display advertising.

Cookies that are required for the performance of the electronic communications transaction (required cookies) or to provide certain functions you want to use (functional cookies, e.g. for the shopping cart function) or those that are necessary for the optimisation of the website (e.g. cookies that provide measurable insights into the web audience), shall be stored based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR, unless a different legal basis is cited. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure an optimised service free of technical errors. If consent to store cookies has been requested, the storage of the cookies in question is based solely on this consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR); consent can be revoked at any time.

You can adjust the settings on your browser so that you are informed when cookies are set, only allow cookies in individual cases, accept cookies in certain cases, or generally exclude them. You can also activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited. Suppose cookies are used by third-party companies or for analysis purposes. In that case, we will inform you of this separately in the context of this data privacy declaration and, if necessary, request your consent.

Server log files

The website provider automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

  • Browser type, browser version, and operating system used
  • Referrer UR
  • Host name of the accessing computer
  • Time of the server request IP address This data is not merged with other data sources and is collected on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and optimisation of his website—for this purpose, the server log files must be recorded.

Contact form

If you send us enquiries using the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact details you provided there, will be stored by us to process the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent. The processing of these data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO, insofar as your request is related to the fulfilment of a contract or is required for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the requests addressed to us (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR) if this has been requested. We will retain the data you provide on the contact form until you request its deletion, revoke your consent for its storage, or if the purpose for its storage no longer pertains (e.g., after fulfilling your request). Any mandatory statutory provisions, especially those regarding mandatory data retention periods, remain unaffected.

4. Plugins and tools

YouTube with advanced data privacy

This website embeds videos from YouTube. The operators of the pages are Google Ireland Limited (‘Google’), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

We use YouTube in advanced data privacy mode. According to YouTube, this mode ensures that YouTube does not store any information about visitors to this website before they watch the video. However, the advanced data privacy mode does not necessarily exclude data sharing with YouTube partners. For example, YouTube connects to the Google DoubleClick network regardless of whether you watch a video.

As soon as you play a YouTube video on this website, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This informs the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to allocate your surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

Furthermore, after starting a video, YouTube can store various cookies on your device or use comparable recognition technologies (e.g., device fingerprinting). This allows YouTube to obtain information about visitors to this website. This information is used, among other things, to collect video statistics, improve user-friendliness, and prevent fraud.

Once a YouTube video has been launched, further data processing operations may be triggered over which we have no influence. YouTube is used to present our online offers appealingly.

This constitutes a legitimate interest within Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. If a corresponding agreement has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively based on Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO; the agreement can be revoked at any time. Further information about data privacy at YouTube can be found in their data privacy declaration at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.