Data privacy

The objective of the Paderborn University Student Survey is to systematically evaluate the experiences and needs of students attending the University. Department 3.1 will use your contact information only for the purposes of inviting and reminding you to participate in the survey. Your information will not be given to third parties. Once you have completed the survey, all of your contact information will be deleted.

Contact information is stored separately from survey data so that there can be no association between survey responses and contact details.

The survey results will be published in aggregate form. This makes it impossible to establish a link been the identity of an individual respondent and the content of his or her responses.

The Web server for the online survey is set up and run by ISTAT, a company founded by the University of Kassel that has proven itself to be a reliable partner for universities conducting survey projects. ISTAT will support the University of Paderborn in the technical implementation of the survey.

The information provided by respondents will be evaluated and interpreted at the University of Paderborn by Department 3, Subject Area 3.1.

In addition, the Data Protection Officer will help to ensure that the faculties of the University of Paderborn are able to access the survey data, in compliance with data protection regulations, for scientific research and for an assessment of their course offerings.