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Use ofCookies

  1. Description and scope of data processing

The RWTH Aachen University website uses cookies. Cookies are text files that are saved in the user's web browser or stored by the web browser on the user's computer system. When a user visits our website, a cookie may be stored in the user's operating system. This cookie contains a specific string of characters that enables a unique identification of the browser when the website is accessed again.

Cookies store and transmit the following data:

  • Anonymized IDs to identify the logged-in editors of the website
  • Declaration of consent to the use of external services
  1. Legal basis for data processing

The legal basis for the processing of personal data using cookies is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e GDPR. For the processing of the user's consent in the context of the storage of cookies, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

  1. Purpose of data processing

RWTH Aachen University only uses cookies on its website to identify editors logged in to the website and to temporarily store the user's consent to the invocation of external services such as Google Maps.

  1. Duration of storage, possibility of objection and remedy

Cookies are stored on the user's computer and transmitted to our site. For this reason, as a user, you have full control over the use of cookies. You can deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies by changing the settings of your web browser. Cookies already stored on your computer can be deleted at any time. This can be done automatically as well. If cookies have been deactivated for the RWTH Aachen University website, it may no longer be possible to use all functions of the website.