Data Protection

We are very concerned about the safety of personal data such as names, addresses, phone numbers or e-mail addresses. Our web activities are thus governed by the laws on data protection and data security. Below we will explain just what information we collect if necessary and how we handle this.
Please, notice our additional information about data privacy at the Alumni Network Website.

Personal data

The protection of your personal data takes top priority for GISMA. This is why we do not collect any personal data through our website without your consent. You alone decide whether you want to give us this data or not, for example during registration, in a survey, etc..

We generally use your personal data to answer your enquiry, process your requests or donations or give you access to special information or offers. In the interests of our students and customer relations, it may furthermore be necessary to save and edit your personal data and pass it on to our partner schools for example (Purdue University, Leibniz Universität Hannover, etc.) to deal with your exchange programs or residencies to improve our services.

Non-personal data

When you access our websites, information is collected automatically (i.e. not through a registration), whereby this information cannot be assigned to a specific person (e.g. internet browser and operating system used; domain name of the website from where you arrived; number of visits, average dwell time, pages called up). We use this information to determine the attractiveness of our websites and improve their contents. We occasionally use Google Analytics services. Please find more information at : www.google.com 

"Cookies" -information that is automatically stored on your computer

When you visit one of our websites information may be saved on your computer as a "cookie" which is then automatically recognized the next time you visit the site. Cookies, for example, allow us to adapt a website to your interests or to save your password so that you do not have to enter it every time your visit the site. If you do not want us to recognize your computer, please set your Internet browser so that it deletes cookies from your computer hard disk, blocks all cookies or warns you before saving a cookie.

Safety

GISMA takes precautions to ensure the safety of your personal data. Your data will be conscientiously protected against loss, destruction, falsification, manipulation and unauthorized access or unauthorized disclosure.

Links to other websites

The GISMA websites contain links to other websites. GISMA is not responsible for the data protection strategy or the contents of these other websites.

Questions and comments

If you have any questions or comments on data protection as practiced by GISMA (for example the inspection and update of your personal data) please contact us under dataprotection(at)gisma.com.
Hannover, 2010