You have the option to prevent the actions you take here from being analyzed and tracked.
This protects your privacy, but it also prevents the site owner from learning from your actions and improving the user experience for you and other users.
HITeC operates a website that provides general information and features an interactive contact section.
We place great importance on the protection of personal data and are committed to safeguarding privacy in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Below, we explain how we handle your personal data.
The data controller within the meaning of data protection law is
Hamburger Informatik Technologie-Center e.V. (HITeC)
c/o Department of Computer Science
University of Hamburg
Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30
22527 Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
Data Protection Officer:
Jan Reineke
privacy@hitec-hamburg.de
HITeC collects, stores, or processes data solely for its own business purposes.
In general, our website is available to all users without the collection of personal data.
Personal data is collected, processed, and used only to the extent necessary to provide the services or content you have requested.
The collection of this personal data is voluntary, to the extent possible.
When you access our website, general information is automatically collected.
This information includes, for example, the type of web browser you are using, your operating system, the domain name of your Internet service provider, and similar details.
This information does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your identity.
Furthermore, this data is also generated whenever you access any other website on the Internet.
It is therefore not a feature specific to our website.
We evaluate the information collected in this manner for statistical purposes.
Personal data includes, for example, your name, mailing address, bank account information, or email address.
We use this data exclusively to respond to your inquiries, send you informational materials, or process contracts.
We do not store personal data for longer than necessary.
We process personal data only to the extent permitted by data protection regulations.
In addition, we take all necessary technical and organizational security measures to adequately protect your personal data from unauthorized access and misuse at all times.
In accordance with the current state of the art, we take all necessary technical and organizational measures to protect your customer data from loss, tampering, or unauthorized access.
The use of personal data is subject to the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), and the statutory provisions of the Telemedia Act (TMG).
If you contact us via email or the contact form, the information you provide will be stored for the purpose of responding to your inquiry and for any follow-up actions.
We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data minimization.
We therefore store your personal data only for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here or to comply with the various legally prescribed retention periods.
As soon as the respective purpose no longer applies or these periods have expired, the corresponding data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with legal requirements.
You have the right to obtain information at any time about your personal data stored by HITeC.
You also have the right to have your personal data corrected, restricted, or—except for data retention required for business purposes—deleted.
Please send your request to privacy@hitec-hamburg.de or use our contact form.
To ensure that the data can be blocked at any time, this data must be stored in a block file for auditing purposes.
You may also request that the data be deleted if there is no legal obligation to retain it.
If such an obligation exists, we will block your data upon request.
You can make changes or withdraw your consent by notifying us, effective for the future.
The content on our website may also include content, services, and features from other providers that complement our offerings.
Examples of such offerings include maps from Google Maps, YouTube videos, or third-party graphics.
Accessing these third-party services typically requires the transmission of your IP address.
This enables these providers to recognize and store your user IP address.
We strive to include only those third-party providers that use IP addresses exclusively for the delivery of content.
However, we have no control over which third-party providers are permitted to store the IP address.
This data may be used, for example, for statistical purposes.
Should we become aware of data storage by third-party providers, we will immediately inform our users of this fact.
In this context, please also note the specific privacy policies of the individual third-party providers and service providers whose services we use on our website.
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time to ensure that it always complies with current legal requirements or to reflect changes to our services in the Privacy Policy, such as when introducing new services.
The new Privacy Policy will then apply to your next visit.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the HITeC Privacy Policy or data processing, please send us a message at privacy@hitec-hamburg.de or via our contact form.
This website uses Matomo, an open-source software for the statistical analysis of visitor traffic.
Matomo uses so-called “cookies,” which are text files stored on your computer that enable an analysis of your use of the website.
The information generated by the cookie regarding your use of this website is stored on servers in Germany.
The IP address is anonymized immediately before it is processed and stored.
You can prevent cookies from being stored by adjusting your browser settings accordingly (Do Not Track).
Please note, however, that in this case you may not be able to use all features of this website to their full extent.