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Prof. Dr. Johannes Schöning
Torstr. 25
CH- 9000 St. Gallen
Privacy Policy
Protecting personal data and respecting your right to privacy is a matter of course. Data are deemed personal if they can be attributed to a specific person. This includes information such as names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers.
Collection, Processing, and Usage of Personal Data
I collect, process, and uses personal data only in accordance with applicable legal regulations (e.g. the German Federal Data Protection Act [Bundesdatenschutzgesetz] and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)). This is in particular the case when you use means of this website to get in touch with me.
Data Security
The transmission of personal data between your computer and our server always takes place in encrypted form via so-called “Secure Socket Layer” transmission, also known as SSL. Thanks to SSL, information cannot be read by unauthorized persons during transmission.
Right to Information / Option to Object
You may request information regarding saved data about yourself and free of charge at any time and may exercise your right to correct such data.
Changes to the Data Protection Policy
New legal requirements, or technological development may require changes to this privacy policy. It will in such case be modified accordingly. The most current version can always be found on this Web site.
Google Analytics
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 will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. IP-anonymisation is activated on this website, accordingly, your IP address will be truncated within the area of Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
Only in exceptional cases the whole IP address will be first transfered to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP-anonymisation is active on this website. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing them other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP-address that your Browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics will not be associated 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.
You can also opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics with effect for the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Addon for your current web browser.
Last updated: Jan 2021