Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement for Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH website(s)

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices of the Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH website (www.jacobs-university.de)

Information gathering
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site by identifying (1) which parts of our site are most heavily used, and (2) which portion of our audience comes from within the university network. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that user sessions will be tracked, but the users will remain anonymous.

Use of information
The Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Webservices staff uses the information gathered above to generate aggregate statistical reports. At no time do we disclose site usage by individual IP addresses. Web server logs are retained on a temporary basis and then deleted completely from our systems.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Since JACOBS has acitvated the IP-anonymization (“gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking))“, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA.

On behalf of JACOBS Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.Further information can be found under http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/analytics/tos.html (Google Analytics Terms of Service & Privacy).

Contacting us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, you can contact our data protection officer at office@datenschutz-nord.de or you may contact us directly.

Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH
Corporate Communication & Media Relations
Campus Ring 1 28759 Bremen

Telefon +49 421 200-4456
Telefax +49 421 200-4113
E-Mail: webmaster@jacobs-university.de
www.jacobs-university.de