Third-Party Services

The HCIS website may be hosted:

• On infrastructure managed by Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, or
• On a trusted external provider (e.g., university-approved cloud hosting)

From a data protection perspective, this may involve the processing of:

• IP addresses in server logs
• Technical request information (e.g., HTTP headers, timestamps)

Hosting providers are either part of the university or bound by appropriate contractual safeguards such as data processing agreements.

For improving content and usability, privacy-respecting analytics tools may be used. Typical characteristics:

• Focus on aggregated usage data (e.g., page views, navigation paths)
• Avoidance of cross-site tracking
• No sale or sharing of data with advertising networks

If a specific analytics provider is deployed, it will be named in this section together with a link to its privacy notice.

To enhance availability and resilience, additional services may be used, for example:

• Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
• DDoS protection or web application firewalls

These services may temporarily process IP addresses and request metadata in order to filter malicious traffic or optimize load distribution.

The HCIS website may reference external resources, such as:

• Embedded media (e.g., videos, interactive demos)
• Links to publisher sites, datasets, or project repositories

Once you follow such links or interact with embedded content, the privacy policies of the respective third parties apply. These third parties are responsible for their own data processing activities.

The list and configuration of third-party services may change over time due to technical, operational, or legal requirements. If the nature of data processing changes materially, this document will be updated accordingly.