Data Privacy Statement

This is the Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau - University of Applied Sciences (WHZ) data protection notice and concerns the WHZ Alumni Network, which can be found at alumni.whz.de. The service provider is WHZ.

Registration

WHZ graduates who successfully completed their degrees after 14/12/2015 are automatically included in the WHZ Alumni Network. However, the registration is only activated when the graduate confirms and updates the data entered in the WHZ Alumni Network. They are sent an email with a registration link for this purpose. Graduates who gained their degrees before 14/12/2015 and/or were previously registered in the Mentor University Association of Zwickau (Hochschulverein Mentor e.V. Zwickau) alumni database will need to review, update and reconfirm their entries.

Graduates whose information was not automatically included or was not confirmed, former employees and professors, can register themselves. Login rights will be reviewed by WHZ.

The information required for registration is: surname (birth name if applicable), first name, date of birth, email address, password, information about the degree earned at WHZ (type of degree, course of study, year of enrolment, date of completion) or about the organizational unit in which the former employee or professor was employed.

Registration is voluntary and free of charge.

Use of your data

Your data is subject to the relevant data protection regulations, in particular the Saxon Data Protection Act (Sächsisches Datenschutzgesetz). We will collect, store and use your data only with your consent and for the purposes stated. Your data will only be used to send information to you (e.g. by email or post) on the basis of your specifications. You can independently view the status of, and personally maintain, your personal data in the WHZ Alumni Network. WHZ undertakes to treat your data confidentially and will not pass it on to third parties without your consent. WHZ uses data solely for the purposes of alumni support, including alumni work in the institutes and faculties.

Rights of affected persons

You have the following rights with regard to your personal data:

• Right to information and correction: You can view and correct your data stored in the WHZ Alumni Network at any time. This is possible after logging into the WHZ Alumni Network with your access data.
• Right to revoke, object to, and delete your data: You can revoke your registration at any time, and your profile will then be deleted. You can do this after logging into the WHZ Alumni Network with your access data using the “Delete account” function.
• Right to restrict the use of your data: You can specify at any time in the WHZ Alumni Network whether and by whom (central alumni management, faculties, or degree program) you would like to be contacted. You can do this after logging into the WHZ Alumni Network with your access data.
• Right to data portability

Contact person for the WHZ alumni network: Markus Haubold
alumni[at]whz.de

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Complaints Office for Data Protection, Saxon Data Protection and Transparency Commissioner, Maternistr. 17, 01067 Dresden) about the processing of your personal data in our institution. If you have any concerns, questions, or complaints about data processing and compliance with data protection requirements, you can of course contact us at any time.

Cookies

We use technically necessary cookies on our website. These are necessary to enable the basic functions and security of the website (e.g., protection against cross-site request forgery).

Use is based on our legitimate interest in providing our service in a technically error-free and secure manner (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR in conjunction with § 25 (2) TDDDG). These "Session-Cookies" are deleted at the end of your browser session.

Responsibility for data protection at WHZ

The West Saxon University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, legally represented by the Rector, address: Kornmarkt 1, 08056 Zwickau
rektor[at]whz.de

Data protection officer (technical contact person): Marcel Süß
datenschutz[at]whz.de

General reference to the WHZ privacy policy

In addition, the data protection information of the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences Zwickau applies at https://www.whz.de/service/datenschutz