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Privacy Policy

1. Preamble

The University of Basel attaches great importance to the protection of personal data. Personal data are all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail, phone number, photo, user behavior, IP address, etc.
With this privacy policy we would like to inform you which data the University of Basel collects, processes, discloses and for what purpose from you as users of the website https://universe-portal.com and what measures the University of Basel takes to ensure the security of these data. In addition, we inform you about your rights by means of this privacy policy.

2. On what legal basis does the University of Basel process personal data?

The processing of personal data is always carried out in compliance with the Information and Data Protection Act of the Canton of Basel-Stadt (IDG) applicable to the University of Basel and, if applicable, also the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act (DSG). In addition, the University of Basel observes the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) if applicable and indicates the corresponding legal basis in this case, according to Art. 13 para. 1 lit c GDPR.

3. What personal data does the University of Basel process and for what purpose?

The use of certain offers on the website https://universe-portal.com including when using the contact e-mail address and phone number provided, may require the collection, processing and long-term storage of personal data such as name, address, phone number or email address. We process these data according to Art. 9 Information and Data Protection Act of the Canton of Basel-Stadt (IDG) or the corresponding university regulations.
Insofar and to the extent that the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies, we process the data:
- based on legal requirements (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR) or in the public interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e GDPR),
- based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR),
- to fulfill contractual obligations and to carry out corresponding pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR),
- to safeguard the legitimate interests of us or of third parties (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR),
- to protect any vital interests of you or another natural person (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. d GDPR).
Any consents that you have given us for certain services can be revoked at any time with effect for the future. Personal data that has already been collected will be deleted if they are no longer required for the purposes for which the data was collected. Instead of deletion, the data will be blocked if there are legal or contractual reasons that prevent deletion.
If you want us to delete your personal data completely, please contact us by email: hc.sabinu%40esrevinu

4. Why are cookies set?

Cookies are small text files that are transferred from our server or the server of third parties to the user's browser and stored on your end device. This automatically provides us with certain data such as IP address, browser used, operating system and your connection to the Internet. The use of cookies increases the user-friendliness and security of the website. You can see which cookies have been set by the website https://universe-portal.com via the settings of your browser and can delete them if necessary.

5. What access data does the University of Basel process (collect, collect, store, etc.) when you use the website https://universe-portal.com and for what purpose?

For security reasons, e.g. to be able to clarify cases of abuse and to ensure our network infrastructure
to ensure that so-called access data, which are automatically collected when you access the website https://universe-portal.com, are stored in a web server log file on servers of the University of Basel for a period of 4 weeks. In the event of an attack on our network infrastructure, longer-term storage may be necessary for evidentiary purposes and for any civil or criminal prosecution of the attacker. The following access data is collected:

- visited website
- time of access
- used browser
- used operating system
- IP address

6. Does the website https://universe-portal.com use web analytics tools? 

The website https://universe-portal.com integrates the web analytics component from the website provider Weblium.
Web analytics (tracking) is the collection, collection and analysis of data about the behavior of users of the website. A web analytics tool collects, among other things, data about which website a person came to a website from (so-called referrer), which subpages of the website were accessed or how often and for how long a subpage was viewed. Web analytics is used to optimize a website.

7. Which services from third parties does the website https://universe-portal.com use

We integrate services from third parties, paying attention to the principles of data protection (in particular purpose limitation, data minimization and as far as possible without data transfer to insecure third countries).
Youtube
• Purpose: Integration of multimedia content (video files)
• URL: https://www.youtube.com/
• Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

8. Are your data safe at the University of Basel?

The University of Basel uses technical and organizational security measures to ensure that the data it collects and further processes via the website https://universe-portal.com
remain confidential and are protected from accidental or unlawful access, alteration or disclosure as well as from loss and destruction; and
access authorization to the data is granted exclusively on the basis of necessity ("need-to-know") to those persons who need to access the personal data due to their function and task.
The measures to be taken depend on the type of information, the type and purpose of use and the respective state of the art.

9. Is the website https://universe-portal.com encrypted?

Our website https://universe-portal.com is offered encrypted. The encryption ensures that the accessed website (the requested information) also comes from the server that it claims to be. Unencrypted data traffic can be manipulated by third parties.

10. Who is liable for links to websites of other providers?

The website https://universe-portal.com of the University of Basel contains hyperlinks to the website Youtube and assumes no liability for their other content as well as for the products, services and other offers offered there.

11. What rights do you have as a data subject?

Users of the website https://universe-portal.com, whose personal data we process, have in accordance with the applicable legal provisions at any time the right
- to free confirmation whether personal data are processed by the University of Basel (§25 and §26 IDG),
- to information about any stored data,
- to restriction of data processing,
- to data transfer, if and to the extent that the GDPR applies,
- to correction, blocking or deletion of these data,
- to revoke any consent given,
- to object to the processing of their personal data.
In this regard, you can contact us at any time at our contact address:
hc.sabinu%40esrevinu

12. Can the privacy policy change?

The University of Basel reserves the right to adapt this privacy policy at any time as needed. The current status of this privacy policy is August 17, 2023.

13. Who is responsible for the website https://universe-portal.com and who can you contact if necessary?

Responsible:

University of Basel
Petersplatz 1, P.O. Box
4001 Basel
Switzerland
https://www.unibas.ch

Data Protection Officer of the University of Basel:
Danielle Kaufmann lic. iur.
Schönbeinstrasse 18-20
4056 Basel
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If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data, you can contact us at the following contact address:
hc.sabinu%40esrevinu

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