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.

Privacy notice for Skylign

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.

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

Which is the lawful basis for processing your personal data?

Processing your personal data is necessary for our legitimate interest of allowing the day-to-day management, operation and functioning of EMBL.

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

We collect the following personal data:

Name
Email address
Username
IP addresses
Date and time of a visit to the service website
Operating system
Amount of data transmitted
Browser
Date and time when the support request was sent
Name, email and username are only gathered when support is requested by the user.

We will use the personal data:

To provide the user access to the service
To better understand the needs of the users and guide future improvements of the service
To check that the Terms of Use of the service are followed
To conduct and monitor data protection activities
To create anonymous usage statistics
To conduct and monitor security activities

Who will have access to your personal data?

The personal data will be disclosed to:

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 service provider based in a third country that EMBL-EBI relies on to provide the service:

Google Analytics
Google LLC
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94042

United States

There are no personal data transfers 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.

Google analytics logs will be kept for 26 months.

User request will be kept in RT for the duration of the service

Web logs are kept for 4 weeks.

Your rights regarding your personal data

You have the right to:

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

Published at: Friday, November 25, 2022 - 17:32