Privacy notice for EGA DAC Account
This Privacy notice explains what personal data is collected by the specific service you are requesting, for what purposes, how it is processed, and how we keep it secure.
Who controls your personal data and how to contact us?
The EMBL data controller's contact details are:
Rolf Apweiler and Ewan Birney, EMBL-EBI Directors
Email: data-controller@ebi.ac.uk
EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, CB10 1SD Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK.
The EMBL Data Protection Officer's contact details are:
EMBL Data Protection Officer
Email: dpo@embl.org
EMBL Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
There are organisations outside EMBL involved in providing the service and processing personal data.
Centre for Genomic Regulation data controller’s contact details are:
There are organisations outside EMBL that have a say on how to process personal data and they are different that the organisations that already have been mentioned to be providing the service
Centre for Genomic Regulation data controller’s contact details are:
Which is the lawful basis for processing your personal data?
Processing your personal data is necessary to prepare a contract with you or to develop the tasks based on a contract we have with you.
What personal data do we collect? How do we use this personal data?
We collect the following personal data:
We will use the personal data:
Who will have access to your personal data?
The personal data will be disclosed to:
- The general public.
- Authorised EMBL-EBI staff.
- Other organisations that together with EMBL-EBI provide the service.
Will your personal data be transferred to third countries (i.e. countries not part of EU/EAA) and/or international organisations?
There are no personal data transfers to third countries or to international organisations.
How long do we keep your personal data?
Any personal data directly obtained from you will be retained as long as the service is live, even if you stop using the service. We will keep the personal data for the minimum amount of time possible to ensure legal compliance and to facilitate internal and external audits if they arise.
Your rights regarding your personal data
You have the right to:
- Not be subject to decisions based solely on an automated processing of data (i.e. without human intervention) without you having your views taken into consideration.
- Request at reasonable intervals and without excessive delay or expense, information about the personal data processed about you. Under your request we will inform you in writing about, for example, the origin of the personal data or the preservation period.
- Request information to understand data processing activities when the results of these activities are applied to you.
- Object at any time to the processing of your personal data unless we can demonstrate that we have legitimate reasons to process your personal data.
- Request free of charge and without excessive delay rectification or erasure of your personal data if we have not been processing it respecting the data protection policies of the respective data controllers.
It must be clarified that rights 4 and 5 are only available whenever the processing of your personal data is not necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Perform a task carried out in the public interest.
- Exercise authority as a data controller.
- Archive for purposes in the public interest, or for historical research purposes, or for statistical purposes.
- Establish, exercise or defend legal claims.