Data protection: Privacy notice for EMBL-EBI's public website

Find out what personal data is collected by the specific EMBL-EBI service you are requesting and for what purposes, as well as how your data are processed and kept secure.

Registration for CINECA webinar participants

This Privacy Notice explains what personal data is collected by the specific EMBL-EBI service you are requesting, for what purposes, how it is processed, and how we keep it secure.

1. Who controls your personal data and how to contact us?

The data controller’s contact details are the following and should be used only for data protection queries:

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

Tel: +49 6221 387-0

Email: dpo@embl.org

EMBL Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany

 

2. Which is the lawful basis for processing your personal data?

We need your consent to process your personal data. If you do not consent to us processing your personal data, we will not be able to provide you access to the service or we will only provide you with a subset of functionalities available within the service.

 

3. What personal data do we collect? How do we use this personal data?

We collect the following personal data:

Name

Email address

Date and time of a visit to the service website

Job title

Information about how the user heard about the webinar for which s/he is registering

Country of residence

 

We will use your personal data:

To provide the user access to the service

To authenticate the user

To create anonymous usage statistics

To contact the user about the webinar and other related webinars coordinated by the CINECA project

 

4. Who will have access to your personal data?

The personal data will be disclosed to:

 

5. Will your personal data be transferred to third countries (i.e. countries not part of EU/EAA) and/or international organisations?

Personal data is transferred to the following organisations based in a third country and that process personal data disclosed by the service:

HAUTE ECOLE SPECIALISEE DE SUISSE OCCIDENTALE

Rue de la Tambourine 17

1227 Carouge, Switzerland

 

SIB INSTITUT SUISSE DE BIOINFORMATIQUE

RUE MICHEL SERVET 1 CMU

1206 Geneve, Switzerland

 

ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL UNIVERSITY

740 Dr. Penfield, Room 6103

Montreal, H3A1A4, Canada

 

Personal data is transferred to the following organisation based in a third country and that process personal data disclosed by the service:

The Hospital for Sick Children

686 Bay Street

Toronto, M5G 0A4

Canada

 

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

Anzio Road, Observatory

Cape Town

7925

South Africa

 

Simon Fraser University

UNIVERSITY DRIVE 8888

BURNABY, V5A 1S6

Canada

 

There are no personal data transfers to international organisations.

 

6. How long do we keep your personal data?

Any personal data directly obtained from you will be retained even if the service is withdrawn. 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.

 

7. Your rights regarding your personal data

You have the right to:

  1. Not be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing of data (i.e. without human intervention) without you having your views taken into consideration.
  2. 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.
  3. Request information to understand data processing activities when the results of these activities are applied to you.
  4. 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.
  5. Request free of charge and without excessive delay rectification or erasure of your personal data if we have not been processing it respecting the EMBL Internal Policy for Data Protection.

It must be clarified that rights 4 and 5 are only available whenever the processing of your personal data is not necessary to:

  1. Comply with a legal obligation.
  2. Perform a task carried out in the public interest.
  3. Exercise authority as a data controller.
  4. Archive for purposes in the public interest, or for historical research purposes, or for statistical purposes.
  5. Establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
Published at: Friday, November 25, 2022 - 17:36