Privacy and Data Protection Information

We process personal data that is collected when our website is visited in accordance with the valid data protection laws and regulations, in particular the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Landesdatenschutzgesetz - DSG M-V (State Data Protection Act).

The person responsible pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation and other national data protection laws of the member states and other data protection regulations is:

Legal basis

If the University requests consent for the processing of personal data from the data subject (e.g. general enquiries via email), Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR shall serve as the legal basis.

Log files

The following data is stored in log files every time a visitor accesses our website for reasons related to data security and for statistic purposes:

• IP address,
• Time website was accessed,
• User agent (browser and operating system),
• Visited pages or content and
• Referer URL, if provided (page visited previously).

The purpose of logging is to recognise, limit and eliminate malfunctions and to detect misuse in accordance with § 12(1) and (4) TDDDG. The IP addresses will not be merged with other data sets. The data will be stored for a maximum of seven days, after which they will be stored in anonymous form for website statistics. Our website uses the open-source software AWStats for website statistics. No personal data is stored.

Your rights

You are entitled to withdraw your consent for the processing of personal data at any time and without having to provide reasons, with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the data processing that has already taken place remains unaffected by the withdrawal of consent. You also have the right to receive information upon request and free of charge about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, the purposes, and the period of data processing. Furthermore, under certain circumstances, you have the right to the retification, restriction of the processing (e.g. blocking), erasure, and the data portability of your data.

Please send any inquiries in writing to KreativEU as part of the University of Greifswald. You will find the contact details at the end of this notice.

In addition, you also have the right tolodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority for data protection, if, in your opinion, your details are not being processed in a lawful manner.

Competent supervisory authority is:

Data Protection and Freedom of Information Officer for the State of Mecklenburg‑Vorpommern
Werderstraße 74a, 19055 Schwerin
Email: info@datenschutz-mv.de

For questions pertaining to data protection, please contact the University’s official Data Protection Officer:

Official Data Protection Officer of the University of Greifswald

Dominique Kandzia
SIS - Schweriner IT- und Servicegesellschaft mbH
Eckdrift 93, 19061 Schwerin
Phone: +49 3834 385 20092 1218
Email: datenschuetzer@uni-greifswald.de

Contact

University of Greifswald
KreativEU Project Team
Baderstraße 6-7, 17489 Greifswald
kreativeu-at-ug@uni-greifswald.de

Last updated: 29 August 2025, Responsible: KreativEU Project Team