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Robert Koch Institute
Nordufer 20
13353 Berlin
Represented by its President
Contact:
Robert Koch Institute
Press and Public Relations
Nordufer 20
13353 Berlin
Telephone: 030 18754 0
Fax: 030 18754 2328
Email: diabsurv
Homepage: www.diabsurv.rki.de
Data Protection Officer
Claudia Enge
Email: Data Protection
Hosting and Operation:
Federal Centre for Information Technology (ITZBund)
www.itzbund.de
Realisation and Design:
Materna Information & Communications SE
Content Management System:
The realisation is carried out with the Government Site Builder, the content management solution of the Federal German administration, based on CoreMedia AG CMS.
The protection of personal data is a very important concern for the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). The Robert Koch Institute is a federal authority and as such subject to the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). The use of the RKI website (www.rki.de) is, as a matter of principle, possible without disclosing any personal data. When using contact forms, newsletters, internal areas and in the event of telephone contacts to RKI, personal data are processed. There is no automated decision making (so-called profiling).
Personal data are information which are associated with an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes data which allow conclusions concerning your identity. Further definitions of the terms used (eg “processing”) can be found in Article 4 GDPR.
Since new technologies and the permanent further development of this website can lead to amendments to this Data Privacy Statement, we recommend that you re-read the Data Privacy Statement at regular intervals.
The storage is carried out in conformity with the directive for the processing and administration of records in federal German ministries which is implemented within RKI as the registry directive (RegR).
These web pages are hosted by the Informationstechnikzentrum Bund (ITZBund), the IT service provider for federal authorities. ITZBund creates usage statistics for the websites hosted by it. To do so, it uses the programme Matomo (previously PIWIK). The Data Privacy Statement of ITZBund can be found here.
The Robert Koch Institute receives statistical evaluations concerning the usage of the website www.rki.de from ITZBund. These evaluations do not include any personal data. The Robert Koch Institute uses these statistical evaluations exclusively for the purpose of analysis, maintenance and improvement of its internet presence.
Matomo uses so-called cookies, that is, small text files which are stored on your computer and allow for an analysis of the use of the web pages by you. These session cookies are stored only temporarily on your computer; as soon as the web browser is closed, they are once again deleted. The information generated by the cookie about the usage of our website is stored on the server of the provider in Germany and evaluated exclusively by ITZBund. The data collected are not shared with third parties and merely serve to identify and improve relevant contents of our website.
For every user access of the RKI website and for every retrieval of a file, data about this operation must be temporarily processed in a log file. Your IP address is neither collected nor stored in the access logs of the web servers of our hosting platform. Matomo is configured in accordance with the recommendations of the Independent Regional Centre for Data Protection (ULD) Schleswig-Holstein and complies with the applicable data protection provisions.
The following data are processed in detail with regard to every access / download:
These data are retained by ITZBund for 30 days.
For the retrieval of individual pages so-called temporary cookies are used in order to facilitate navigation. These session cookies do not include any personal data and expire at the end of the session. Techniques such as Java applets or Active-X controls which allow for the tracking of the access behaviour of the user, are not used.
Matomo supports the “Do not track” procedure of current web browsers. If you want to generally suppress the analysis of your behaviour on the internet, we recommend activating this option in your browser.
The website www.rki.de gives you the opportunity tocontact employees of the Institute, transmit information, make enquiries or obtain information about topics related to public health (through publicly accessible pages, the registration for internal pages (specialist public) or the transmission of newsletters).
As a rule, we use forms for these purposes. For reasons of data privacy the compulsory fields of the forms are restricted to the bare minimum required for answering enquiries. The personal data transmitted by you are used exclusively in order to answer your enquiry, allow access to internal areas and / or send you the requested newsletter. They are not shared with third parties and are not used for any other particular purposes. Your data are transmitted through a Secure Socket Layer connection (SSL) in an encrypted form, so that they cannot be seen by unauthorised persons (https connection).
In email contact forms we collect the following data categories:
Compulsory field and automatically collected data: first name and name, email, subject, message, date and time as registered while mailing the form
Voluntary data: telephone number, fax number, institution, street, postal code, place
With regard to order forms, we collect the following data categories in order to ensure the mailing:
Compulsory field and automatically collected data: title, name, street, postal code, place, email, ordered goods, date and time registered while mailing the form
Voluntary data: First name, company, department, state, message
The storage of enquiries in electronic form is carried out in accordance with the deadlines applying to the storage of records of the registry directive of RKI – based on the registry directive for the processing and administration of records in federal ministries which supplements the joint rules of the procedure of the federal ministries (GGO).
The processing of your data is based on your consent, contract (in the case of orders) and the duties of RKI in the public interest (Article 6 para 1 lit. a, lit. b, lit. e GDPR in conjunction with § 2, § 4 BGA Succession Act), more particularly the information of the public. You can withdraw your consent to any further processing at any time with effect from the future. If the data cannot be deleted due to storage periods, the data will be restricted in terms of processing. Further information can be found in the section "Your Data Privacy Rights".
With regard to newsletter subscriptions, your email address and the date of registration are stored for the duration of your subscription. The legal basis for the processing of your data is your consent when ordering the respective newsletter (Article 6 para 1 lit. a GDPR).
After your registration to receive the newsletter you receive an automatically generated confirmation message. The registration is only complete if you click on the confirmation link contained in the email (double opt in procedure) to prevent an unauthorised registration of your email address. At the end of your subscription your data are deleted. Unsubscribing and hence withdrawing your consent to further processing are possible at any time, for instance by clicking on the link for unsubscribing at the end of each email or through a separate email to the editorial office. Further information can be found in the section "Your Data Privacy Rights".
In the event of a personalised access to an internal area within www.rki.de, the email address and the personal password are securely stored. The legal basis for the processing of your data is your consent during registration for the respective internal area (Article 6 para 1 lit. a GDPR). You can withdraw your consent to further processing at any time with effect from the future. When unregistering, your data are deleted. You can find further information in the section "Your Data Privacy Rights".
For other closed areas within www.rki.de RKI provides a user name and password; these data are not personal.
The login is not evaluated.
You can also reach us via the telephone and fax numbers stated. In this case the following data categories are stored:
a) Telephone call: Name, telephone number, all contents
b) Telefax: Sender, name, device number, time of transmission, contents
The storage is carried out in the event of telephone calls by a telephone memo; in the event of faxes by retaining the printout. The duration of storage is governed by the deadlines applying to the storage of records in accordance with the registry directive of RKI – based on the registry directive for the processing and administration of records in federal ministries which supplements the joint rules of procedure of the federal ministries (GGO).
The processing of your data is based on your consent (Article 6 para 1 lit. a GDPR). You can withdraw your consent to further processing at any time with effect from the future. If deletion is not possible because of storage periods, the data will be restricted in terms of processing. Further information can be found in the section "Your Data Privacy Rights".
Insofar as we process your personal data, you have the following data privacy rights:
The web pages www.rki.de contain links to other websites. On all pages, links to contents of web pages of third parties (“third party content”) have been created by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) (editorial office) to the best of its knowledge and belief and taking into account the highest possible care. They merely provide access to “third party content”. In this connection the trustworthiness of third party providers and the accuracy as well as lawfulness of the “third party content” has been given special attention.
However, since the content of web pages is dynamic and can change at all times, a permanent individual review of all contents provided with a link is not possible in each case. RKI does, therefore, expressly not appropriate the content of web pages of third parties which are linked with its own internet presence. The respective provider of the page to which a reference is made is exclusively liable for damage and legal infringements from the use or non-use of “third party content”. Any obligations to remove or block the use of information in accordance with general legislation is not affected. A corresponding liability is, however, only possible after knowledge has been obtained with respect to a concrete legal infringement. If such legal infringements become known, we will immediately remove such contents.
RKI does not control and has no influence on its operators complying with the data privacy provisions.
RKI takes the current discussion about data privacy in social media very seriously. It is currently not finally clarified in legal terms whether and how far all networks offer their services in conformity with the European data protection provisions.
We merely draw explicit attention to the fact that the services used by RKI, Twitter and YouTube store the data of their users (eg personal information, IP address) in accordance with the data use guidelines and use them for commercial purposes in accordance with the same.
RKI has no influence on data collection and their further use by social media. There are no findings concerning the extent, the place and the duration of storage of the data, in how far the networks fulfil existing duties to erase, the evaluations and links carried out in respect of the data and the parties with which the data are shared.
Insofar as the contents published on these pages include legal provisions, public notifications, recommendations or information, they have been created to the best of our knowledge and withthe greatest possible care. In the event of discrepancies, the current official version applies, however, exclusively in the way it has been published in the public promulgating organ provided for that purpose. Any legal indications, recommendations and information are non-binding. There is no legal counselling.
The Robert Koch Institute is not liable for damage or legal infringements arising out of the use or a failure to use the information provided.
The editorial office kindly asks the users of www.rki.de to draw its attention to illegal or inaccurate contents of third parties to which a link is maintained in the internet presence. In the same way we kindly ask you to inform us under the stated contact address if our own contents are not error-free, up to date, complete or comprehensible.
The copyright for text and pictures lies with the Robert Koch Institute in the event of own contents. Texts, parts of texts, illustrations, tables or picture materials made available on the portal may not be duplicated, disseminated and exhibited without the prior consent of the Robert Koch Institute to the extent that they are protected by copyright.
Contact to the internet editorial office: Email
Contact to the Data Protection Officer: Data Protection