Responsible Body and Data Protection Officer

Responsible for the collection and processing of the personal data is Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Stiftung oeffentlichen Rechts (without University Medical Center), Wilhelmsplatz 1, 37073 Goettingen, represented by its President, referred to below as the University of Goettingen. The specific processing unit is the Selection Committee for Applied Computer Science at the Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Data Protection Officer of the University of Goettingen is:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Wiebe, LL.M. (Virginia)
Platz der Goettinger Sieben 6
37073 Goettingen
Germany
datenschutz@uni-goettingen.de

Provision of Data, Purpose, and Legal Basis

The provision of data by you is completely voluntary concerning the application. Within the application process, the provision of data is compulsory as long as you do not withdraw your application.

Collection of the personal data is necessary in order to conduct the selection procedure for the M.Sc. Applied Computer Science and is legally based on your informed consent pursuant to Art. 6 Section 1 Subsection 1 lit. a GDPR, and, in case of successful enrollment, Section 17 Subsection 1 of the Niedersaechsisches Hochschulgesetz (NHG) and the Regulation on Students' and Applicants' Data by the University of Goettingen (PersDatO).

Anonymised data is used for statistical analysis and evaluation. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Section 1 Subsection 1 lit. f GDPR.

Recipients and Further Processing

The personal data will be processed and transmitted to the following recipients: the Selection Committee for Applied Computer Science and all personnel within the University of Goettingen who assist the Selection Committee for Applied Computer Science in conducting the selection, admission, and, if applicable, enrollment procedure.

This includes, for example, personnel responsible for the bureaucratic and technical administration of the selection procedure and admission, personnel responsible for the technical administration of the online aptitude test, personnel conducting the personal interviews, personnel responsible for enrollment, and personnel responsible for supporting and advising prospective Master students.

If it is intended to process the personal data for a purpose other than that for which they were originally collected, the University of Goettingen will inform the data subject about this other purpose and all other relevant information prior to such further processing.

Storage Period

The data collected is stored by the Selection Committee for Applied Computer Science for 6 months in order to provide legal evidence. After this time the data will be anonymised or erased. Wherever and whenever possible, the data will be anonymised.

Rights of the Data Subject

The data subject has a right of access to the personal data concerning him or her and, where appropriate, a right to rectification, a right to erasure, or a right to restriction of processing of such data and a right to object to the processing. Within the scope of public services, there is no right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 Section 3 Subsection 2 GDPR.

As far as the data processing is based on your consent, you have the right to revoke that consent at any time. The data processing carried out up to that point remains lawful; the revocation is only valid for the future. In this case your data will be deleted immediately.

The data subject has a right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR. The competent authority for the University of Goettingen is:
Data Protection Commissioner of Lower Saxony
Prinzenstrasse 5
30159 Hannover
Germany
poststelle@lfd.niedersachsen.de