Privacy

Who we are

WaCoDiS is a research project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure as part of the research initiative mFund. Project partners in the WaCoDiS project are the Wupperverband, the 52 ° North GmbH and the EFTAS Remote Sensing Technology Transfer GmbH. Co-ordinator and operator of this website is the University of Bochum.Die Adresse unserer Website ist: https://wacodis.fbg-hsbo.de.

What personal information do we collect and why do we collect it

Comments

When visitors post comments on the site, we collect the data displayed in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and the user-agent string (which identifies the browser) to help detect spam. Since we do not review comments on our site before activation, we also need this information in order to be able to act against the author in case of infringement such as hate speach or propaganda

Media

If you are a registered user and you upload photos to this site, avoid uploading photos with an EXIF GPS location. Visitors to this website could download photos stored on this website and extract their location information.

Cookies

If you post a comment on our website, this may be a consent to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is a convenience feature so you do not have to re-enter all this data if you write another comment. These cookies are stored for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to see if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal information and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you sign up, we will set up some cookies to store your login and viewing options. Log-in cookies expire after two days and cookies for display options after one year. If you select “Stay signed in” when signing up, your registration will be maintained for two weeks. Logging out of your account will delete the login cookies.

When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal information and only refers to the post ID of the item you have just edited. The cookie expires after one day.

Embedded content from other websites

Posts on this site may contain embedded content (eg, videos, pictures, posts, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behave just as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These websites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking services, and record your interaction with this embedded content, including your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to this site.

Who we share your information with

Personal data will not be forwarded by us to third parties.

How long do we save your data

If you write a comment, it will be stored indefinitely including metadata. That way, we can automatically detect and approve episode comments instead of keeping them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can view, modify or delete their personal information at any time (the username can not be changed). Site administrators can also view and change this information.

What rights do you have to your data

If you have an account on this website or have written comments, you may request that we export your personal information to us, including any data you have provided to us. In addition, you may request the deletion of any personal information we have stored about you. This does not include the data we need to retain for administrative, legal or security-related needs.

Where your data will be sent to

Visitor comments could be examined by an automated spam detection service.

Contacts

Sebastian Drost
Hochschule Bochum
Bochum University of Applied Sciences
Department of Geodesy
Lennershofstr. 140
D-44801 Bochum

sebastian.drost@hs-bochum.de

How we protect your information

We take appropriate technical measures in accordance with Art. 32 GDPR, taking into account the state of the art, the implementation costs and the nature, scope, circumstances and purposes of the processing as well as the different likelihood and severity of the risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons and organizational measures to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk.

In, particular, measures include ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data by controlling physical access to the data, as well as their access, input, disclosure, availability and segregation. In addition, we have established procedures to ensure the enjoyment of data subject rights, the erasure of data and the response to data threats. Furthermore, we consider the protection of personal data already in the development, or selection of hardware, software and procedures, according to the principle of data protection by technology design and privacy-friendly default settings (Art. 25 GDPR).

SSL Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content that you send to us as a site operator, our website uses an SSL or. TLS encryption. Thus, data that you submit via this website, for others not readable. You will recognize an encrypted connection at the “https: //” address bar of your browser and at the lock icon in the browser bar.