HSG Paper Development Workshop 2026 Submit by 5 NovSubmit

Privacy notice

Draft – this text has not yet been approved by the HSG data protection office.

Who is responsible

University of St.Gallen (HSG), [TBA: unit], Dufourstrasse 50, 9000 St.Gallen, Switzerland. Data protection officer: datenschutz@unisg.ch.

What we collect and why

When you send us your extended abstract by e-mail, we process your name, e-mail address, affiliation, the extended abstract and the information in your e-mail, in order to organise the workshop: to select papers, to assign them to tracks, sessions and faculty, and to contact you about the workshop. Submissions are not uploaded to this website; they are received in the University of St.Gallen mailbox adrian.bohrer@unisg.ch and shared with the senior faculty by e-mail. [TBA: HSG e-mail service, where it stores data and who has access.]

[TBA: legal basis under the St.Gallen data protection act / university act; GDPR wording if applicable.]

Who receives your data

The organising team at the University of St.Gallen (HSG) and the four senior faculty: Aleksi Aaltonen (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA), Andreas Hein and Jan Marco Leimeister (University of St.Gallen), Christine Legner (HEC Lausanne). Accepted papers are shared confidentially with the other workshop participants. [TBA: disclosure abroad (USA) and its legal basis, to be reviewed by the data protection office.]

If you agree separately (in your e-mail), your name, affiliation and paper title are listed in the public programme. Without this consent nothing about you is published.

Hosting and technical data

The website is hosted by STACKIT (Schwarz Digits Cloud GmbH & Co. KG), data centres in Germany. It uses no cookies for visitors, no analytics and no third-party services (fonts are served from this site; no external scripts or captchas). The web server keeps no access logs, so visitors' IP addresses are not stored; only critical server errors are logged.

How long we keep your data

All submissions and personal data are deleted by Wednesday, 3 March 2027 at the latest, including the submission e-mails in the mailbox and the copies shared with the faculty.

Your rights

You can ask for access to, correction or deletion of your data, and withdraw your consent at any time, by writing to adrian.bohrer@unisg.ch. [TBA: right to complain to the supervisory authority.]

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