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Add templates for Imprint and Privacy Policy #9

Open cagix opened 9 months ago

cagix commented 9 months ago

Deploying the content of a repo as a GitHub page makes the author a website provider. Accordingly, a legal notice ("Impressum") and a privacy policy ("Datenschutzerklärung") must be provided in the EU and Germany.

Could you please include suitable templates here so that as a teacher I can publish my teaching website in accordance with the legal requirements?

mirjan-hoffmann commented 9 months ago

Dear @cagix, Thank you for the issue. We will discuss how we can integrate an imprint and privacy policy into the generated page and then get back to you in this issue.

mirjan-hoffmann commented 8 months ago

Current first idea (still being tested/verified): In GitHub, users can define a description for their repo ("About", right-hand side). This description can also include links to your own imprint and privacy policy. These links can be clicked by the user. The description is not copied as soon as another user clones or forks the repo - so no personal data is copied during reusage. From the GitHub page, the repo can be reached via Link, from there you can access the imprint / privacy policy as described. These documents may be 2 clicks away - so, this should fit.

smatts commented 8 months ago

You can see an example here: https://github.com/TIBHannover/oer-github-tutorial-template

I pointed them to the TIB site, I am not sure if this is enough since they are not on the same domain, but it might serve as a first idea.

cagix commented 8 months ago

That looks intriguing. Thanks for the idea!

The GitHub page will be displayed independently from my repo. Would it be sufficient to add a note only to my repo, or would I also need to add a note to my GitHub pages?

As a lecturer, can I really simply refer to the imprint of my university?

And regarding the privacy policy: Shouldn't I also include a note about the particular situation, i.e. me deploying a lecture page to GitHub servers?

smatts commented 6 months ago

Sorry for the late answer, unfortunately I don't know if this would be sufficient and I haven't gotten an answer yet either. It is probably best to ask at your university which steps you should take to be legally safe. If we know more, we'll get back to you!