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.

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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.

Note that this service collects personal data directly provided by the user, and also collects personal data from users that is provided by other organisations.

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 delivering a service that provides broader societal benefits.

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

We collect the following personal data:

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

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 conduct and monitor data protection activities
To create anonymous usage statistics
To publicly publish information to facilitate scientific research. Only personal data that is part of the public scientific record* and obtained from PANGAEA is offered to the public. The personal data gathered directly from users of the service will not be publicly published.

What personal data is provided by other organisations? How do we use this personal data?

PANGAEA provides the following personal data:

Name
Email address
Organisation
Organisational affiliation
Business address
Funding or grants awarded
Telephone number

And it is used to:

To publicly publish information to facilitate scientific research
To publicly publish information to facilitate scientific research. Only personal data that is part of the public scientific record* and obtained from PANGAEA is offered to the public. The personal data gathered directly from users of the service will not be publicly published.

Who will have access to the personal data provided by other organisations?

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?

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.
Any personal data not directly obtained from you will be retained even after the service is not longer running running. EMBL-EBI will keep the personal data for the minimum amount of time possible to ensure legal compliance and the possibility to undergo internal and external audits.

The personal data obtained from PANGAEA is part of the public record associated with the archived research object.

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: Thursday, January 19, 2023 - 09:28