Legal notice

The University of Hohenheim shall not be liable for the accuracy, completeness, or up-to-date nature of this website despite careful examination. In particular, the University of Hohenheim shall not be liable for possible damage or consequences which result from the direct or indirect use of the contents.

External links may refer to external websites. The University of Hohenheim does not own these external websites. The responsibility lies with the provider. External websites were examined before the link was placed on the University of Hohenheim website. It is however possible that providers have changed website contents in the meantime. If you think that any of the external websites referred to on the website of the University has illegal or inappropriate contents, please contact us.

Data protection

Every time you access the Universität Hohenheim website, this data is stored in a log file. The data in the log file is not personal to specific individuals and is only used to improve the website. We cannot therefore prove which pages you have accessed, nor what data you have called up.

The following data is stored in the log file:

• name of file accessed
• date and time of access
• note of whether access was successful
• IP-address (anonymously)

In the areas of the accommodation marketplace and mobile teaching, we use an external link with “Google Maps” to show the location of the offer on a map. In the areas “Portal for prospective students”, “Intranet for students”, and “Intranet for staff”, an external link with the “Facebook social plug-in” is used to show the fans of the University of Hohenheim’s Facebook page. If you visit one of these pages, the IP address will be sent to Google Maps or Facebook. For data protection reasons, however, these are anonymized by the provider so that no information about the computer or user is sent.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies", i.e. text files that are stored on your computer to help analyse how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. In the case of activation of IP anonymization on this website, your IP address will be truncated within Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and get shortened there. As charged by the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website in order to compile reports about website activities and to provide further services connected to website and internet use for the website operator. Google will not associate the IP address transferred by your browser during the use of Google Analytics with any other data held by Google. You can prevent the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) to be sent to Google and the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installin gthe browser plug-in available here. Download and install browser plug-in.