We are pleased that you have visited our website and have shown an interest in our company. The privacy of your personal data is important to us. Personal data are any information concerning the personal or material circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person. These data include information such as a person’s real name, address, telephone number and date of birth.
Since these data are subject to particular privacy provisions, we collect them only to the extent required for technical purposes. Below we will set out what information we collect during your visit to our website, and how these data are used.
Our data privacy practices comply with the provisions of the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG) and the German Federal Telemedia Act (Telemediengesetz, TMG). We collect, process and store your personal data solely for the handling of enquiries and where applicable for the processing of orders and contracts. Over and above these purposes, your data are used only where you have granted consent beforehand for the specific purpose concerned, for example for the providing of information on offers by means of a newsletter etc.
The body responsible in the sense of German data privacy legislation is:
Rektorat der Hochschule für Musik Saar
Bismarckstraße 1
66111 Saarbrücken
Tel. (0681) 96731-14
rektor(at)hfm.saarland.de
Our website may in principle be used without the provision of any personal data. Pseudonymized usage data are not merged with the data of the pseudonym’s owner. Usage profiles of pseudonym owners are not generated.
Our website offers you a range of functions for the use of which we collect, process and store personal data. We will explain below what happens to these data:
Contact form(s):
The data collected through our contact form or forms are used only for the processing of enquiries received through the form or forms. Once the enquiries have been processed, the data collected are deleted immediately, unless any statutory retention periods apply.
We pass personal data to third parties only to the extent required for us to fulfil our contractual obligations, in particular for the completion of a contract entered into. Personal data are not passed to third parties except for the stated purposes of fulfilment of agreements and completion of payments.
Should you consent to provide us with personal data, the data will be used only for the purpose in respect of which you granted consent and only following the express granting of consent. We retain your personal data only as long as is needed for the purpose for which they are collected or as is stipulated in law. You may revoke your consent at any time.
Your legitimate interests are observed in accordance with the statutory provisions. You may request disclosure from the responsible body of what data pertaining to you are stored.
We collect, process and store the following data when this website or individual files on it are accessed: the IP address, the calling page from which the file was accessed, the name of the file, the date and time of access, the volume of data transmitted, and the web log indicating that data were transferred successfully. We use these access data solely in non-personalized form for continual improvement of our Internet service, and for statistical purposes.
Additionally, we use the following plug-ins and active script content to evaluate visits to this website:
Google Analytics:
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses a range of methods, including what are known as “cookies”, text files that are saved on your computer and enable an analysis of visitors’ use of the website. The information obtained by Google Analytics regarding your use of this website is transferred to Google’s servers that may be operated in countries outside the member states of the European Union and also outside signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. By activating IP anonymization within the Google Analytics tracking codes of this website, Google will anonymize your IP address before transferring it. This website uses a Google Analytics tracking code that has been extended with the operator gat._anonymizeIp(); to ensure anonymous logging of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). Google uses this information on behalf of operator of this website to analyze your visit to the website, to compile reports on your website activity and to provide further services connected to the use of the website and Internet for the benefit of the website operator. Google will not merge your browser’s IP address transmitted by Google Analytics with any other data. You can prevent the installation of cookies by making a corresponding setting in your browser software; however, we refer you to the fact that in this case you will not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Further, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available from the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de) you can prevent the information generated by the Google cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) from being transmitted to and processed by Google. You can access the security and data protection policies for Google Analytics at http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html.
We use active JavaScript content from external providers on our website. Access to our website may result in these external providers receiving personal information on your visit to our website. It is possible that data are processed outside the EU. You can prevent this from happening by installing a JavaScript blocker such as the “NoScript” browser plug-in (www.noscript.net) or by deactivating JavaScript in your browser. This may result in a loss of functionality on websites that you visit.
Specifically, we use:
DoubleClick:
This website uses DoubleClick, a web analytics service from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. DoubleClick is used to place advertisements when you visit our website. DoubleClick uses information (albeit not personal data such as your name or e-mail address) about your visits to this and other websites to enable the placement of products and services that interest you. If you would like to find out more about these methods or would like to know the options available to you for preventing DoubleClick from being able to use this information, click here: http://www.google.de/policies/technologies/ads/.
Google:
JavaScript code from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter referred to as “Google”) is loaded on our website. Should JavaScript be activated in your browser and no JavaScript blocker be installed, your browser may pass personal data on to Google. We have no knowledge of what data are linked by Google to the data that it receives, nor for what purposes Google uses these data. To prevent Google from executing JavaScript code altogether, you can install a JavaScript blocker (e.g. www.noscript.net).
We use cookies on various pages, in order to make visiting our website an attractive experience and to enable the use of certain functions. “Cookies” are small text files that your browser may store on your computer. The process of placing a cookie file is also described as “setting a cookie”. You can configure your browser yourself so that according to your preference you are either informed that a cookie has been set, decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept cookies, always accept cookies, or always reject them. Cookies may be used for a number of purposes, for example to detect that your PC has already made contact with web content (permanent cookies) or to store the most recently viewed content (session cookies). We use cookies in order to enhance the convenience of our site’s users. In order to benefit from our convenience functions, we recommend that you permit the acceptance of cookies for our advertising services.
During collation, storage and processing your personal data are protected by technical and organizational measures to ensure that they are not accessible to third parties. We are not able to assure complete data security for communication by e-mail. We therefore recommend that you send information by post when a high level of confidentiality is required.
Under the provisions of the Federal Data Protection Act, you are entitled to access your stored data free of charge and, where appropriate, to have such data corrected, blocked or erased. Your data will be deleted by us at your request, but for any operation of law. You may at any time withdraw your consent for our use of your personal data. Requests for disclosure, deletion and correction of your data, and any suggestions you may wish to make, can be sent at any time to the following address:
Rektorat der Hochschule für Musik Saar
Bismarckstraße 1
66111 Saarbrücken
Tel. (0681) 96731-14
rektor(at)hfm.saarland.de
Since these data are subject to particular privacy provisions, we collect them only to the extent required for technical purposes. Below we will set out what information we collect during your visit to our website, and how these data are used.
Our data privacy practices comply with the provisions of the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG) and the German Federal Telemedia Act (Telemediengesetz, TMG). We collect, process and store your personal data solely for the handling of enquiries and where applicable for the processing of orders and contracts. Over and above these purposes, your data are used only where you have granted consent beforehand for the specific purpose concerned, for example for the providing of information on offers by means of a newsletter etc.
BODY RESPONSIBLE UNDER SECTION 13 (1) OF THE TMG/SECTION 3 (7) OF THE BDSG
The body responsible in the sense of German data privacy legislation is:
Rektorat der Hochschule für Musik Saar
Bismarckstraße 1
66111 Saarbrücken
Tel. (0681) 96731-14
rektor(at)hfm.saarland.de