Source: https://www.frankfurt-school.de/en/home/legal
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 00:27:51+00:00

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1.1 These general conditions apply to the entire business relationship between the student or attendee of a seminar (hereinafter referred to as the “Student”) and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management gemeinnuetzige GmbH (hereinafter referred to as the “Frankfurt School”) on the conclusion of a contract in relation to a degree programme, a seminar or a certificate course of studies (hereinafter referred to as the “Course of Studies”). References to the masculine gender apply equally to the feminine gender.
1.2 In addition, the special conditions which deviate from or supplement these general conditions are applicable to individual business transactions; they will be stipulated on the conclusion of the contract with the Student. To the extent that the special conditions provide or to the extent otherwise agreed, they shall have priority.
2.1 The Student shall punctually provide the Frankfurt School with all information and documentation necessary for the provision of the Course of Studies. In particular, it is necessary for the orderly conduct of business that the Student immediately informs the Frankfurt School of any change of their name or contact details.
2.2 The Student must without delay satisfy himself as to the accuracy and completeness of all certificates and other communications from the Frankfurt School and notify any discrepancies without delay.
3.1 Unless otherwise agreed, it is necessary for the orderly and timely completion of all formalities associated with the course of studies for the student to provide the Frankfurt School with an e-mail address and check his e-mail regularly. Students will usually be notified of, e.g. timetables, changes, study instructions and important information (for example, exam results.) by e-mail.
3.2. e-mail communication may be unencrypted.
3.3 It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that his e-mail address is protected from unauthorized access by third parties.
4.1 The study material provided by the Frankfurt School is by way of assistance to the student. It does not to any extent relieve the student of the obligation to conduct his own research, to participate in attendance modules and to keep abreast of current developments in the subject area. In particular, the study material cannot completely cover all possible exam topics.
4.2 The student must acquire additional study material, e.g. legislation, more detailed literature and study aids at his own expense.
4.3 The Frankfurt School reserves the right to amend or replace and, in particular, to regularly revise the study material provided.
The Frankfurt School complies with the statutory provisions relating to data protection. It stores data relating to the student in connection with the execution of this contract in accordance with sec. 28 of the Federal Data Protection Law (BDSG).
6.1 The study material, in electronic or in printed form, is provided to the student solely for the purposes of the course of studies and for personal use.
6.2 Unless otherwise agreed or indicated, all rights are retained by the Frankfurt School.
6.3 The student shall not make the study material of the Frankfurt School and likewise the teaching material provided over the extranet or other media available to third parties, disseminate it by any other means or infringe the copyright therein. Reproduction is permitted for the purpose of personal study only.
7.1 The Frankfurt School is liable in the event of gross negligence or intent, for personal injury, death or injury to health, and, in the event of compulsory statutory liability, in accordance with the statutory provisions concerned.
7.2 The liability of the Frankfurt School for negligence shall exclude property damage and economic loss, except in the case of the breach of a term of the contract which is necessary for the orderly execution of the contract to be at all possible, the breach of which endangers the fulfilment of the purpose of the contract, and on the performance of which regular reliance is placed by the student (hereinafter referred to as a “cardinal obligation”). The liability for the breach of such a cardinal obligation is in turn limited to the foreseeable damage typical to this type of contract.
7.3 Any deviation in special conditions applicable to an individual business transactions or otherwise agreed, shall have priority.
The Frankfurt School is not responsible for damage which is caused by force majeure, civil commotion, war or natural catastrophe, or other reasons beyond its control (for example, strike, lock-out, interruption of operations, domestic or foreign State intervention).
In the event of loss due to the fault of the student (for example, a breach of the duty to co-operate provided for in clause 2. of these business conditions), the extent to which the loss shall be borne by the Frankfurt School and the student shall be governed by the principles of contributory negligence.
10.1 Unless otherwise provided in the special conditions for the particular course of studies, the contract for a course of studies can be terminated by the student by notice given not later than four weeks before the commencement of the course of studies.
10.2 Notice of termination must be given in writing. At the request of the student, the Frankfurt School will acknowledge receipt of the notice of termination.
10.3 The Frankfurt School and the student are also entitled to terminate the contract for cause. The Frankfurt School may terminate the contract without notice, in particular, if a) the student is in arrears of payment of the invoiced costs of the course of studies and notwithstanding a written deadline and a threat of a possible termination by the Frankfurt School fails to pay within the period of four weeks, or b) notwithstanding a written warning and deadline the conduct of the student significantly disrupts the orderly teaching or the running of the course of studies or the trustful co-operation between student colleagues, teachers or the Frankfurt School or its staff. Sec. 323 para. 2 of the German Civil Code (BGB) shall apply mutatis mutandis.
11.1 The Frankfurt School determines the lecturers and the course programme and/or exam programme at its own discretion.
11.2 The Frankfurt School determines the academic calendar and the examination dates.
11.3 Courses normally take place at the indicated place of study. The Frankfurt School is entitled to transfer individual courses or the courses for individual subject areas to another location within reasonable distance for academic reasons and accommodation requirements.
11.4 The participant is not entitled to the reimbursement of additional expense incurred.
12.1 The invoice is deemed to have been approved six weeks from delivery to the student unless it is queried with the Frankfurt School within this period. Attention is specifically drawn by the Frankfurt School on the invoice to the right to make a challenge within this six-week period.
12.2 The student shall pay the Frankfurt School the charges indicated in the special conditions.
12.3 Failure to commence or continue the course of studies shall not excuse payment unless Frankfurt School has caused the failure by conduct that constitutes a breach of contract.
12.4 Prompt payment of the invoiced charges is necessary for the admission of the student to the course of studies. The Frankfurt School is not obliged to admit the student to the course of studies if the student has failed to pay at least 50% of the invoiced charges.
13.1 Amendments to these general conditions and the special conditions will be notified to the student in writing.
13.2 If the student agreed with the Frankfurt School to electronic communication in their business relationship (e.g. internet, extranet/myCampus), the amendments can be communicated by these means, if the means of communication permits the student to store or print the amendments in a legible form.
13.3 Amendments to these general conditions are deemed to be agreed if the student does not object in writing or by the agreed electronic means of communication. Reference to this consequence will be made by the Frankfurt School in the notification. The student must forward their objection to the Frankfurt School within six weeks of notification of the amendments.
14.1 There are no side agreements. Side agreements must be in writing.
14.2 Amendments, supplements and the cancellation of this contract must be in writing to be effective. This also applies to the amendment of this clause.
German law is applicable to the business relationship between the student and the Frankfurt School.
The place of performance of the Frankfurt School’s educational obligation is the location chosen by the Frankfurt School.
In the following text we inform you about the acquisition of personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is all data which can refer to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behaviour.
The hosting of the website is handled by root360 GmbH.
The maintenance of the website is handled by ICON Worldwide AG.
The data is deleted when the respective session is ended.
It is imperative for the website operation to capture data and record it in logfiles. There is, therefore, no opportunity to raise objection.
In addition, our website offers different possibilities to register, log on or to make contact with us over online forms, with specification of personal data.
Included in this personal data, among other things, are first name, last name, address, e-mail addresses, company, telephone and fax number, as well as different selection fields. Mandatory data details are marked with *. All possible data extending beyond this can be given voluntarily and for improved handling.
For an improved overview, the possibilities and the purposes of the data processing are represented in tabular form.
Up to discontinuance of purpose or the withdrawal of consent, depending on whether what occurs first.
For establishing contact, we also hold available general e-mail addresses on the website. Provided that you contact us via such an address, the personal data sent in this manner is solely processed for the purpose intended.
Using our website, there exists the possibility to acquire products and/or services or initially any other information possibly to be provided with an individual offer regarding them. In case of use of these functions, you are requested to specify further information. The legal basis for this data processing is the meeting of contractual or pre-contractual obligations, in accordance with Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b) GDPR.
Different functions of this website are only usable if you have first given us your consent. Included in these functions are e.g. the ordering of our newsletters. At certain points you are correspondingly informed of the data processing, the purposes of data processing and your rights, in particular your right to withdraw your consent at any time. In case of consent being given, the legal grounds for the data processing is Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a) GDPR.
In addition, we process partly person-related data in our entitled interests in case of use of this website. Within the framework of the weighting of interests according to Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR, we have considered and weighted our interest in the appropriation and your interest in a processing of your personal data consistent with data protection. Since this data is sometimes required technically in order to enable the appropriation of our service and also to guarantee stability and security, in particular protection against misuse, we came to the conclusion - in case of the data protection, a guarantee based the state of the art of the technology- that this data can be processed, where your interest in a processing consistent with data protection is considered to an adequate extent.
Technically necessary cookies are not required as mandatory to display the website. However, some functions of the website, such as e.g. the online Campus and registration for seminars etc., cannot be used properly without these cookies. Conse,quently no possibility of objection exists for the user, where a deactivation this cookies can be carried out by settings on the respective browser.
Cookies for range measurement collect information about the manner of use of our website, e.g. website call-ups or error messages. These cookies store no information items which would allow an identification of the user. The collated information is exclusively aggregated and thus evaluated anonymously.
This website uses Google Tag Manager. Google Tag Manager is a solution with which the marketer can manage the website tags over an interface. Google Tag Manager itself (which implements the tags) is a cookie-free domain and does not record any personal data. The tool ensures the activation of other tags, which for their part may record data. Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If a deactivation was carried out on domain or cookie level, this continues to exist for all existing tracking tags which are implemented with Google Tag Manager.
This website uses Google Analytics. By order of the operator of this website, Google will evaluate your use of the website in order to compile reports about website activities and to provide further services connected with website use and Internet use, with respect to the website operator.
Since the co-ordination of the Hamburg representative for data protection and freedom of information with Google, on the basis of the decision of Duesseldorf District relating to the structuring of analysis processes for range measurement in case of Internet offers consistent with data protection, a use of Google Analytics consistent with data protection and complaint-free is possible under certain conditions. We respect these prerequisites of course. In particular, we point out that, on this website, Google Analytics was extended by the code "gat._anonymizeIp(); in order to guarantee an anonymised recording of IP addresses (so-called IP-Masking). Your IP address is shortened by Google within Member States of the European Union or in other treaty states of the Agreement on the European Economic Region. In exceptional cases only, the full IP address is transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The IP address sent by Google Analytics within the framework of your browser is not combined with other data of Google. Please find further information on conditions of use and data protection at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.
Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files which are stored on your computer. The information about your use of this website generated by the cookie is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. You can prevent the storage of cookies through a corresponding adjustment of your browser software; however, we point out that possibly you will be not be able to use all functions of this website fully in this case. In addition, you can prevent the recording of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) by Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, where you download and install the Browser-Add-on. If you click here, an Opt-Out cookie is set, which prevents the future recording of your data during any visit to this website: Deactivate Google Analytics.
In addition, we use Google Conversion Tracking in association with Google Analytics. This enables us to record the characteristics of our website visitors. For example, it is indicated to us how many PDF's on our website are downloaded or how often the contact form was filled out. Like,wise it is indicated to us how many clicks on advertisements from external sources (AdWords, LinkedIn, Xing, Bing) were made on our website.
We use dynamic remarketing on our website - a function of Google AdWords. The technology, after your visit to our website, enables us to switch automatically-generated, target-group-oriented advertising. The displays are based on the products and services which were clicked on during the last visit to our website.
If you do not want to receive any user-based advertising from Google, you can deactivate the switching of advertisements with the aid of the Display Setting of Google.
If you do not want to be provided with any user-based advertising, you can deactivate the switching of advertisements with the aid of the Display Setting of Google.
You have the possibility to contact us via our e-mail address or the contact form. We will of course use any personal data sent to us in this manner solely for the purpose intended.
A forwarding of your personal data to third parties for any objectives other than those listed does not occur.
where this is legally admissible and required for the handling of contractual relationships with you.
In case of data communication outside of the European Union, the high European data-protection level basically does not exist. With any transfer, it can be that there currently exists no adequacy decision of the EU Commission, as specified by Art. 45 Sect. 1, 3 GDPR. This means that, to date, the EU Commission has not positively determined that the national data protection level corresponds to the data protection level of the European Union based on the GDPR, therefore we have obtained suitable guarantees as designated above.
your personal data could possibly be processed over and above the actual purpose.
in addition, there exists the possibility that you cannot exercise and enforce your data-protection rights sustainably, such as for example your right to information, to correction, deletion or data portability.
there also possibly exists a high probability that an incorrect data processing can result and the protection of the personal data does not correspond quantitatively and qualitatively fully to the requirements of the GDPR.
For the continuous improvement of our website, for advertising purposes and in order to enable certain functions of this website to be offered to you, we are instructed with the employment of processors.
All processors are obliged here to process the data only for the service provision actually defined by us. All processors were selected by us carefully and sufficient technical and organisational measures were put in place in order to guarantee data protection.
Every person affected has the right of access according to Art. 15 GDPR, the right to rectification according to Art. 16 GDPR, the right to erasure according to Article 17 GDPR, the right to restriction of processing according to GDPR Art. 18, the right to object from Art. 21 GDPR, as well as the right to data portability from Art. 20 GDPR. In case of the right to of access and the right to erasure, restrictions apply pursuant to § 34 and 35 BDSG.
Furthermore, you have the right to complain to the responsible data-protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.
You can withdraw any consent to the processing of personal data at any time with respect to us. This also applies for the revocation of consent declarations which have been made before the validity of the basic data protection regulation (before 25th May 2018) with respect to us. Please note that the withdrawal effects the future. Any processing implemented prior to the withdrawal is not affected by this.
In accordance with Art. 21 Sect. 2 GDPR, you have the right to make an objection at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you. In case of your objection to processing for purposes of direct advertising, we will not process your personal data for these objectives any longer. Please note that the objection comes into effect for the future only. Any processing implemented prior to the objection is not affected by this.
As far as we base the processing of your personal data on a weighting of interests, you can make an objection to the processing. In case of the exercise of such an objection, we request that you explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as described. In case of your reasonable objection, we check the state of affairs and will either cease or adapt the data processing, or explain to you our compelling reasons worth being protected.
Our websites can include links to websites of other providers. We refer to the fact that this data protection declaration applies for the websites of www.frankfurt-school.de solely. We do not have any influence on this and do not check that other providers comply with the applicable data protection regulations.
We reserve the right to change or amend this data protection declaration at any time, taking account of applicable data protection regulations.

References: Art. 6
 Art. 6
 Art. 6
 Art. 45
 Art. 15
 Art. 16
 Art. 18
 Art. 21
 Art. 20
 § 34
 Art. 21