Data Privacy
Privacy Policy at KCDC

This website and the service is part of web services of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT, and legal concerns are covered by the Impressum of KIT.

I. When do we collect privacy data and how do we use them?

When you view the KCDC website the webserver stores the used IP, date and what pages are accessed in his log files for 14 days. This help us to identify service problems or intrusion.
We track page views and downloads with MATOMO (former piwik) analytics to learn about the customer needs. Further we have to report usage statistics anonymized to the public financiers. If you set “do-not-track” in your browser we respect that.
Cookies are used to store the session ID of the browser, a Cross Site Request Forgery protection cookie and the analytics cookies used by MATOMO.
When you register as a KCDC user your data will be transferred encrypted to our web service and stored in a local database. These information is used to provide you a personal fileshare and inform you via email about the satus of the job processing.


II. When do we delete data?

When you close your account all your account data are deleted.
You may deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies by changing the settings of your web browser. Cookies that are already stored may be deleted at any time.


III. How do we secure your privacy data?

Only KCDC administrators have access to the user database and KCDC server. The data will reside also on a system backup with limited administrator access.
We use encrypted connections and limit access to the database to the minimum. We will never share or publish privacy data.
Analytics statistics are stored anonymized.


IV. Your options and rights

If you do not want to register to use KCDC you can always mail us to find an alternative access to the data. You can at any time ask us to delete your data.


V. Contact information

If you have questions you can always ask the KCDC Team: iap-kcd[at]lists.kit.edu


The KCDC Team


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