Privacy Policy

Privacy statement

Status 17.11.2021

Data protection and data security for the customers and partners of the University Hospital and the Medical Faculty Tübingen as well as for interested parties and users of our website have a high priority in our clinic. Transparency regarding the processing of your personal data as well as the protection of your data are therefore particularly important to us.

With this declaration we give you an overview of how your personal data is collected and processed when you use our website and what you can do yourself to better protect your data.

Responsible for processing

University Hospital Tübingen

Geissweg 3
72076 Tübingen

+49 7071 29-0

What is personal data?

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. The decisive factor is therefore whether the data collected can be used to establish a personal reference. This includes information such as your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address. Information that is not directly associated with your real identity - such as favorite websites or number of users of a site - is not personal data.

How do we collect or process your personal data?

You can visit this page without providing any personal information. Personal data is only collected if you voluntarily provide it to us during your visit to our website.

How do we use personal information about you, how do we share it with you?

If the opportunity for the input of personal or business data (email addresses, name, addresses) is given, the input of these data takes place voluntarily. E-mails are transmitted via a contact form. If you send us such a message, your personal data will only be collected to the extent necessary to respond.

We use the personal data provided by you exclusively for the purpose of technical administration of the websites and to fulfil your wishes and requirements, i.e. as a rule to process the contract concluded with you or to answer your enquiry.

Only if you have given us your prior consent or if you - as far as legal regulations provide for this - have not lodged an objection do we also use this data for product-related surveys, marketing purposes and statistical purposes.

Your personal data will not be passed on, sold or otherwise transmitted to third parties unless this is necessary for the purpose of processing the contract or you have expressly consented to this.

A given consent can be revoked at any time with effect for the future.

How long will your data be stored?

In principle, we store all information that you transmit to us until the respective, e.g. contractual purpose is fulfilled. E.g. with inquiries up to the completion, with newsletters up to you the newsletter again unsubscribe. If a longer storage is provided for by law, the storage takes place within this framework.

Should you no longer wish us to use your data, we will of course comply with this request immediately. You can contact us at any time by sending an e-mail to dsb@med.uni-tuebingen.de .

When will your data be deleted?

The deletion of the stored personal data takes place if you revoke your consent for storage, if the knowledge of the data is no longer necessary for the fulfilment of the purpose pursued with the storage or if the storage is inadmissible for other legal reasons. Data for billing and accounting purposes will not be affected by a deletion request.

What we do for the safety of processing

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or requests that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Should you wish to contact our company via e-mail, we would like to point out that the confidentiality of the information transmitted cannot be guaranteed. The content of e-mails can be viewed by third parties. We therefore recommend that you send us confidential information exclusively by post.

Use of cookies

Within the framework of your visit to our website, we use so-called cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your computer. Cookies help us to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of our Internet pages, as well as to make our offers as comfortable and efficient as possible for you.

On the one hand, we use so-called "session cookies", which are stored exclusively for the duration of your use of one of our Internet pages. On the other hand, we use "permanent cookies" to record information about visitors who repeatedly access one of our websites. The purpose of using these cookies is to provide you with optimal user guidance, to "recognize" you and to present you with as varied a website and new content as possible when you repeatedly use it. The content of a permanent cookie is limited to an identification number. Name, IP address etc. are not stored. A single profile formation about your usage behaviour does not take place.

A use of our offers is also possible without Cookies. You can deactivate the storage of cookies in your browser, restrict it to certain websites or set your browser to notify you when a cookie is sent. Please note, however, that if you deactivate this option, you will have to expect a restricted display of the page and limited user guidance.

Cookies, which are necessary for the execution of the electronic communication process or for the provision of certain functions desired by you (e.g. shopping basket function), are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a justified interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimised provision of his services. As far as other cookies (e.g. cookies for the analysis of your surfing behaviour) are stored, these are treated separately in this data protection declaration.

These are your data protection rights

Within the framework of the applicable statutory provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and possible recipients and the purpose of data processing (Art. 15 DSGVO) and, if applicable, your personal data. a right to correct incorrect data (Art. 16 DSGVO), to delete such data (Art. 17 DSGVO), to restrict processing in accordance with Art. 18 DSGVO, to object (Art. 21 DSGVO) and to transfer data provided by you in accordance with Art. 20 DSGVO). The restrictions according to §§ 34 and 35 BDSG apply to the right to information and the right to cancellation.

In addition, in the event of violations of data protection law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority (Art. 77 DSGVO in conjunction with §19 BDSG). The responsible supervisory authority for data protection issues is the data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. A list of Data Protection Officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html

How you can revoke your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke your consent at any time. For this purpose, an informal notification by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Contact for questions, complaints, assertion of your rights

In case of questions, complaints or assertion of your data protection rights, you can contact us at any time via the e-mail dsb@med.uni-tuebingen.de .

Modification of the data protection declaration

Changes may be made to this Privacy Policy, which will be posted on this page in a timely manner.

Legal basis for data processing

Insofar as we obtain the consent to process personal data from the data subject, Art. 6 (1a) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO) serves as the legal basis.

In the processing of personal data necessary for the performance of a contract of which the data subject is a party, Art. 6 (1b) DS-GVO serves as the legal basis. This also applies to processing operations required to carry out pre-contractual actions.

Insofar as it is necessary to process personal data in order to fulfill a legal obligation to which our company is subject, Art. 6 para. 1c DS-GVO serves as the legal basis.

In the event that vital interests of the data subject or any other natural person require the processing of personal data, Article 6 (1d) GDPR serves as the legal basis.

If the processing is necessary to preserve the legitimate interests of our company or a third party and if the interests, fundamental rights and fundamental freedoms of the data subject do not outweigh the former interest, Art. 6 para. 1f DS-GVO serves as the legal basis for the processing. Authorized interests include, in particular, ensuring the operation and security of the website, investigating the manner in which the website is used by visitors and facilitating the use of the website.

We collect and process the personal data of applicants for the purpose of processing the application process. Processing may also be carried out electronically. This is particularly the case if an applicant submits corresponding application documents to us electronically, for example by e-mail. When an employment contract is concluded with an applicant, the transmitted data is stored for the purpose of processing the employment relationship in compliance with the statutory provisions. If no employment contract is concluded with the candidate, the application documents shall be automatically deleted six months after notification of the rejection decision, unless deletion conflicts with any other legitimate interests of the controller. Other legitimate interests in this sense include, for example, the duty to provide evidence in proceedings under the General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz - AGG).

Information sheet for applicants

If you have expressly consented, we will use your e-mail address and voluntary personal details to send you our newsletter on a regular basis. To receive our newsletter, it is sufficient to provide an e-mail address. The additional voluntary information about your person is only used to personalize the newsletter.

At the end of each newsletter you will find a link to unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about the use of the online offer by the user is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our online services by users, to compile reports on activities within this online service and to provide us with other services associated with the use of this online service and the Internet. Pseudonymous user profiles of the users can be created from the processed data.

We only use Google Analytics with IP anonymization enabled. This means that the IP address of the user is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and abbreviated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by the user's browser is not merged with other Google data.

Browser Plugin
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Further information on the use of data for advertising purposes by Google, setting and objection options can be found on the Google web pages: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners/ ("Use of data by Google when using the websites or apps of our partners"), https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads ("Use of data for advertising purposes"), https://www.google.de/settings/ads ("Manage information Google uses to display advertisements") and https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/ ("Determine which advertisements Google displays to you").

Objection to data collection
You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie is set to prevent your information from being collected on future visits to this website: Deactivate Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

For more information on how Google Analytics uses user data, please refer to Google's privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Order data processing
We have concluded a contract with Google for order data processing and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.

Google Adwords & Google Conversion Tracking

This website uses the online advertising program "Google AdWords" and, within this framework, conversion tracking. Google Adwords places a cookie on your computer if you have reached our website via a Google advertisement. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages on our site and the cookie has not expired, we and Google may recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was directed to that page.

Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers see the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, you will not receive any information that personally identifies users. Users who do not wish to participate in tracking can easily deactivate the Google Conversion Tracking cookie via their Internet browser under User Settings. These users will not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.

Conversion cookies" are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour in order to optimise both his website and his advertising.

Learn more about Google's privacy policy (https://www.google.de/intl/de/privacy.html)

Google Analytics Remarketing

Our sites use Google Analytics Remarketing features in conjunction with the cross-device features of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

This feature allows you to link advertising target groups created with Google Analytics Remarketing with the cross-device features of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. In this way, interest-related, personalised advertising messages that have been adapted to you depending on your previous usage and surfing behaviour on one terminal (e.g. mobile phone) can also be displayed on another of your terminals (e.g. Tablet or PC).

If you have given your consent, Google will link your web and app browser history to your Google Account for this purpose. In this way, the same personalized advertising messages can be displayed on any device on which you sign in with your Google Account.

To support this feature, Google Analytics collects Google-authenticated user IDs that are temporarily linked to our Google Analytics data to define and create target audiences for cross-device advertising.

You can permanently opt out of cross-device remarketing/targeting by opting out of personalized advertising in your Google Account by following this link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.

The data collected in your Google Account is only collected on the basis of your consent, which you can give or revoke at Google (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). In the case of data collection processes that are not merged into your Google Account (e.g. because you do not have a Google Account or have objected to the merging), the data collection is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The justified interest results from the fact that the website operator has an interest in the anonymous analysis of the website visitors for advertising purposes.

Further information and the data protection regulations can be found in Google's data protection declaration at: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.

Google Web Fonts

This page uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google's servers. This gives Google knowledge that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offerings. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.

More information about Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Google Maps

This page uses the Google Maps map service via an API. Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer.

The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and an easy retrievability of the places indicated by us on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

You can find more information about the handling of user data in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Google Search

We offer you the possibility to search the contents of the website using our search function. For this we use the service of Google.

In principle, no data is transferred to the provider of the search service (Google) if official websites of our company are called up in which the "Google user-defined search" is integrated. Data is only transferred to Google after the user has activated the search box, started a full-text search and called up the search results page. By using the search function within the search result page, user data is also transferred to Google at the same time.

Google uses cookies such as the PREF, NID, or SID cookie to customize ads in Google products such as Google search. For example, Google uses cookies to track your most recent searches, your past interactions with an advertiser's ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser's website. In this way you receive individually tailored advertising on Google.

By using the full-text search and the associated call of the search result page, you consent to the use of the Google search service and thus also to the transfer of data to the Google service. This includes, for example, the search terms entered by you and the IP address of the computer you are using. Please note that Google has different data protection standards from those applied to our company's website. We expressly point out to you that the processing, in particular the storage, deletion and use of possibly transferred personal data is the responsibility of the provider of the search service and our company as the operator of its Internet presence on the type and scope of the transferred data and over their further processing has no influence.

If you are logged in to Google at the same time, the Google service is able to assign the information directly to your user profile. You should log out to avoid a collection of profile information about you.

Further information from Google about the handling of user data (privacy policy) can be found at: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy

YouTube components are integrated on this website. YouTube is an Internet video portal that allows video publishers to post video clips and other users to view, rate and comment on them free of charge. YouTube allows the publication of all types of videos, which is why complete film and television programmes as well as music videos, trailers or videos made by users themselves can be accessed via the Internet portal.

The operating company of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

Each time you access a page on our site that includes a YouTube component (YouTube video), your Internet browser is automatically prompted by the respective YouTube component to download a display of the corresponding YouTube component from YouTube. Further information on YouTube can be found at https://www.youtube.com/intl/de/howyoutubeworks/ . As part of this technical process, YouTube and Google obtain information about which specific subpage of our website you are visiting.

If you are logged in to YouTube at the same time, YouTube recognizes which specific subpage of our website the person concerned is visiting by calling up a subpage containing a YouTube video. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to the respective YouTube account of the person concerned.

YouTube and Google receive information through the YouTube component that the person concerned has visited our website whenever you are logged into YouTube at the same time as you visit our website. This happens regardless of whether or not you click on a YouTube video. If YouTube and Google do not wish to receive this information in this way, you can prevent it by logging out of your YouTube account before accessing our website.

The data protection regulations published by YouTube, which are available at https://policies.google.com/privacy, provide information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.

The data subject shall have the possibility to register on the website of the controller by providing personal data. The personal data transmitted to the data controller is determined by the respective input mask used for registration. The personal data entered by the data subject shall be collected and stored exclusively for internal use by the data controller and for its own purposes. The controller may arrange for the data to be disclosed to one or more processors, such as a parcel service provider, who will also use the personal data solely for internal purposes attributable to the controller.

By registering on the website of the data controller, the IP address assigned to the data subject by the Internet service provider (ISP), the date and time of registration are also stored. The storage of these data takes place against the background that only so the abuse of our services can be prevented, and these data make if necessary possible to clear up committed criminal offences and copyright injuries. In this respect, the storage of this data is necessary to safeguard the data controller. These data will not be passed on to third parties unless there is a legal obligation to do so or the data is used for criminal or legal prosecution.

The registration of the data subject by voluntarily providing personal data serves the purpose of the data controller to offer the data subject contents or services which, due to the nature of the matter, can only be offered to registered users. Furthermore, the registration of the person concerned (in the data protection declaration generator) serves the purpose of monitoring the use of the texts issued by us and protected by copyright, as well as checking the setting of links and the naming of the author, as well as own documentation purposes. In addition, we use the data collected via the data protection declaration generator for customer acquisition, in particular for making telephone contact and sending advertising by post and e-mail. Registered persons have the option to have the personal data provided during registration deleted completely from the database of the data controller.

The data controller shall provide any data subject at any time upon request with information as to which personal data relating to the data subject are stored. Furthermore, the data controller shall correct or delete personal data at the request or notice of the data subject, provided that this does not conflict with any statutory storage obligations. The data protection officer named in this privacy statement and all the employees of the controller shall be available to the data subject as contact persons in this context.

Our website contains links to the external social network Facebook. This website is operated exclusively by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (Facebook). The links are identified on our website by the Facebook logo or the suffix "Like" (no Facebook plug-ins are used).

When you visit our website, functions and data transmissions to Facebook do not automatically become active. Only by clicking on the links the Facebook plugins are activated, your browser establishes a direct connection with Facebook servers. If you follow the links and are logged into Facebook with your user account there, the information that you have visited our website will be forwarded to Facebook. Facebook can assign the visit to the website to your account. This information is transmitted to Facebook and stored there. To prevent this, you must log out of your Facebook account before clicking on the link.

For the purpose and scope of data collection by Facebook and the further processing and use of your data there, as well as your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy, please refer to Facebook's data protection information (https://de-de.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.php).