Data protection is protected as a fundamental right. It ensures that every citizen has the right to determine the use and disclosure of his or her personal data (basic right to informational self-determination).

Personal data is individual information about personal or factual circumstances of specific or identifiable natural persons (data subjects). They may only be collected, stored, used, transmitted, blocked and deleted if this is permitted by law or the data subject has consented to this.

Data Protection Officer

The appointment, authority and duties of the data protection officer are governed by Articles 37 to 39 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The data protection officer is the contact person for employees and students of the University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen in all matters of data protection.

She provides support in ensuring data protection and advises on data protection issues. When introducing and using procedures in which personal data are processed automatically, she must ensure compliance with data protection regulations. It must therefore be informed in good time of any such plans. 

Furthermore, it coordinates the fulfillment of the rights of data subjects by the organizational units.

In the event of data privacy violations and suspected data privacy violations, she is the first point of contact, examines the facts and determines the further course of action.

The data protection officer is not subject to directives in her activities and reports directly to the President. She is legally bound to secrecy (Art. 38 (5) DSGVO). 

Further information can be found on the website of the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in Rhineland-Palatinate: https://www.datenschutz.rlp.de/de/startseite/