University of Basel

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Theology

Science of Religion

The University of Basel attaches great importance to the protection of personal data. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail, telephone number, photo, user behavior, IP address, etc.

With this privacy policy, we would like to inform you which data the Faculty of Theology, Department o Religious Studies collects from you as a user of the website religionswissenschaft.unibas.ch, processes, discloses, and for what purpose, and which measures the University of Basel takes to ensure the security of this data. In addition, we inform you about your rights by means of this privacy policy.

Personal data is always processed 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, the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act (DSG). In addition, the University of Basel complies with the European Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), which may be applicable, and states the relevant legal basis for this case in each case, in accordance with Art. 13 Para. 1 lit c DSGVO.

The use of certain offers on the website religionswissenschaft.unibas.ch, including the use of any newsletters and forms, may require the collection, processing and longer-term storage of personal data such as name, address, telephone number, or mail address. We process this data in accordance with Art. 9 of the Information and Data Protection Act of the Canton of Basel-Stadt (IDG) or the corresponding university regulations.

If and insofar as the European Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) applies, we process the data:

  • based on legal requirements (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c DSGVO) or in the public interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e DSGVO),
  • based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO),
  • to fulfill contractual obligations as well as to carry out corresponding pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO),
  • to protect the legitimate interests of us or of third parties (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO),
  • to protect vital interests of you or another natural person (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. d DSGVO).

Any consent you have given us for certain services can be revoked at any time with effect for the future. Personal data that has already been accumulated will be deleted if it is 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 against deletion.

If you would like us to delete your personal data completely, please contact: Department of Religious Studies

Cookies are small text files that are transferred from our server or the server of a third party to the user's browser and stored on your terminal device. Through this, we automatically receive certain data such as the 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. Via the settings of your browser, you can see which cookies have been set by the website religionswissenschaft.unibas.ch and can delete them if necessary.

For security reasons, e.g. to be able to clarify cases of abuse and to secure our network infrastructure, so-called access data, which are automatically collected when calling up the website religionswissenschaft.unibas.ch, 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 reasons of evidence and for possible civil or criminal prosecution of the attacker.

The following access data is collected:

  • website visited
  • time of day at the time of access
  • browser used
  • operating system used
  • IP address

On the website religionswissenschaft.unibas.ch, the web analysis component Plausible Analytics is integrated.

Plausible Analytics is the collection, compilation and analysis of data about the behavior of users of the website. The web analysis tool collects data on the source a person came to a website from, which device/browser was used, from which country the user accessed the website and which subpages of the website were accessed or how often and for how long a subpage was viewed. Web analysis is used to optimize a website.

We integrate services of third parties, paying attention to the principles of data protection (especially purpose limitation, data minimization and, if possible, without data transfer to unsafe third countries).

fast.fonts.net

OpenStreetMap

Vimeo

SWITCHtube

Panopto

Youtube

hCaptcha

Instagram

Remote Images

 

  • The form to contact the student association collects questions and requests (content of the communication), name and email adresses.
  • This data is used in the ongoing communication between the student association (Fachgruppe Religionswissenschaft = the elected board and representation of the student body of Religious Studies Basel) and the contacting persons.
  • The board of the student association may share names and adresses with further board members, student assistants and assistants (in their function as stuy guidance) to facilitate respones and communication with the contacting persons.
  • The data is stored on internal servers with no time limit.
  • The form data will be sent by mail to the board of the student association.


The data entered in the form are transmitted in encrypted form. Any forwarding of the data by e-mail to the recipient/the operator of the website will also be sent in encrypted form.

The University of Basel uses technical and organizational security measures to ensure that the data it collects and further processes via the website religionswissenschaft.unibas.ch,

  • remains confidential and is protected from accidental or unlawful access, alteration or disclosure, and from loss or destruction; and
  • access to the data is granted exclusively on a need-to-know basis to those persons who need to access the personal data by virtue of their function and duties.

The measures to be taken depend on the type of information, the type and purpose of use and the respective state of the art.

Our website religionswissenschaft.unibas.ch is offered encrypted.

Encryption ensures that the website accessed (the information requested) also comes from the server it claims to be. Unencrypted traffic can be manipulated by third parties.

The University of Basel or the Faculty of Theology, Department of Religious Studies has not reviewed websites linked to the website religionswissenschaft.unibas.ch via hyperlinks as well as displayed RSS feeds and assumes no liability for their content or for the products, services and other offers provided thereon.

Users of the website religionswissenschaft.unibas.ch, through which we process personal data, have the right, within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, to obtain at any time

  • to receive free confirmation as to whether personal data is being processed by the University of Basel (§25 and §26 IDG),
  • to information about any stored data,
  • to restriction of the processing of the data,
  • to data transfer, if and to the extent that the DSGVO is applicable,
  • to correction, blocking or deletion of this data,
  • to revocation of any consent given,
  • to object to the processing of your personal data.

In this regard, you can always contact us at our contact address:Department of Religious Studies

The University of Basel or the Faculty of Theology, Department of Religious Studies reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time if necessary. The current status of this privacy policy is 5.9.2023.

Responsible:

University of Basel
Department of Religious Studies
Heruberg 12
4051 Basel

 

If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data on the website religionswissenschaft.unibas.ch, you can contact the following address: Department of Religious Studies

 

Main Responsibility:

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.
Petersgraben 35
4001 Basel
datenschutz@clutterunibas.ch

 

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