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General obligations of the user

Upon registration, the user is granted a simple, non-transferable right of use for this platform. 

The storage space made available to the user may only be used for storing generated content. 

All users are obligated to treat the data of other users to which they have access as strictly confidential and to refrain from forwarding said data to third parties without the written permission of the respective person. 

This virtual campus exclusively serves the virtual learning and examination of the HEROES Alliance and other services concerning the HEROES Alliance. Any other use of the platform, such as for other private and/or commercial purposes, is not permitted. 

All users are obligated to observe legal regulations, especially those regarding copyright and data protection. If users add links to external internet sites, they must first check to make sure that the linked external website does not contain illegal content. 

If a plagiarism check is activated when submitting assignments, all personal data (e.g., interview data or company information) must be anonymized in the files uploaded beforehand, as they would otherwise be transferred to an external server.

Generally, all users of the platform are prohibited from:

• Changing, deleting, suppressing, or disabling data in an unauthorised fashion or using said data in another way than its intended use
• to breach copyright,
• Especially disseminating material from unconstitutional organisations and/or their ideas,
• Making defamatory, insulting, or libelous statements about others,
• Damaging the image of the partners of the HEROES Alliance

 

Special Obligations for Teaching Staff and Managers

In HEROES Moodle, certain student-related data is assigned to registered students. If students deregister from the system or if they are deleted from the Central Identity Management system, ergo and thus also from the HEROES Moodle database, for example, due to deregistration, certain student-related data will be lost. In accordance with the prescribed storage period of two years, examination results will be stored in HEROES Moodle. The storage period begins at the end of the calendar year in which students are informed of the results of each module examination.

 

Handling Copyright

Material and/or components such as course material, master documents, excerpts from other works, images, etc. that are used in a HEROES Moodle course and/or are generated explicitly for a course room may not, as a rule, be used outside of the course room and/or forwarded to third parties.

This especially applies to teaching and learning material generated by course instructors and to copyrighted contributions that have been made within the course of a HEROES Moodle course by participants individually or together.

Transfer to third parties and/or use outside of this HEROES Moodle platform of the HEROES Alliance is explicitly only permitted with the written permission of the originator. However, all users explicitly declare that they agree that all content posted by them personally, regardless of whether or not said content is subject to copyright laws, may be used for the purposes of the course.

The HEROES Alliance reserves the right to definitively delete courses and all content contained within them at the earliest 2 years after the examination date at the end of the calendar year.

 

Miscellaneous

If you have any questions, you can send them by email to: heroes-campus-support@th-deg.de

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Purposes of processing

User data

The user data is used to log in to HEROES VC and is stored in the Moodle instance. All optional data can be entered voluntarily by the user and is not mandatory.

Educational data

Data during the use of course offerings (e.g. forum posts, assignment submissions, wiki entries)

Users can actively participate in the courses, e.g. by posting forum contributions or submitting task solutions. This data is stored so that users can actively work through the course.

Reports

Comments, reviews, evaluations or ratings left by users in courses or activities

Aggregated anonymised data used for project reports

 

Connection data

The course roll is saved so that the respective user has access to the required courses. The other data is saved to document the process and to provide support in the event of technical difficulties.

 

Examination data

Conducting examinations (uploading task solutions, point evaluations)

 

Log data

Log data per participant

 

Device data: cookies, data stored locally

Cookies (name, domain, storage period, purpose)

MoodleSession, https://campus-heroes.th-deg.de/, duration of the Moodle session / duration of the browser session, this cookie must be allowed in the browser to ensure continuity and maintain your login from page to page.

_saml_idp, https://campus-heroes.th-deg.de, duration of browser session, Shibboleth login cookie – recognition of user group to simplify the login flow (usability)

_shibsession_xxx, https://campus-heroes.th-deg.de/, duration of browser session, Shibboleth login cookie – recognition of user group to simplify the login flow (usability)

MOODLEID1_, Optional cookie for manual accounts: when asked "Would you like to save your details for your next login?", if the user selects "Yes", their username will be pre-filled the next time they visit the login page.

 

Purposes of Recipients of categories of recipients of the personal data

We transfer personal data to internal departments only to the extent necessary to fulfill the purposes, taking into account the necessary scope and the relevant data protection regulations (e.g., to the Budget Management Department or the Human Resources Department in order to comply with legal or contractual obligations).

Recipients

Transfers to independent controllers (third parties)

Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, Belgium:

Lecturers and course coordinators at partner universities:

Course instructors and project partner staff receive limited usage data about their users in the courses for which they are responsible, e.g. course role, submitted assignments, test results, forum posts.

Study centres of partner universities:

In the event of an underscoring, the information is forwarded to the study centre of the respective partner universities.

IT centres at partner universities:

In the event of suspected technical malfunctions of the system that are related to the services of the home university, the IT centres of the partner universities may receive the necessary data to rectify the malfunction.

 

Right to revoke consent

If you have consented to processing by the Technical University by means of a corresponding declaration, you can revoke your consent at any time for the future. This does not affect the legality of the data processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation.