What personal data will be collected and used
email address, name
Legal basis for processing your data
In context of the GDPR, all survey-participants are also engaged to protect all EU citizens data privacy. This implies that all documented (patient) data on www.ClinicalSurveys.net are related to the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and rules relating to the free movement of personal data.
The academic researchers of ClinicalSurveys.net, which is provided by QuestBack GmbH, Cologne, Germany, welcome the GDPR and care about the safekeeping of personal data. For further information regarding the GDPR, please visit the websites of QuestBack and the European Commission.
Who will have access to your personal data
University Hospital of Cologne
Department I of Internal Medicine
Working Group Cohorts in Infectious Research
Head: Prof. Dr. med. Jörg Janne Vehreschild
Transfer of data to a non-EU/EEC country or international organisation, and safeguards
For scientific purposes, data stored during the course of the study can be transferred to cooperation partners in the jurisdiction of the European GDPR or to cooperation partners outside of the European Economic Community (EEC), i.e. to countries with a lower level of data protection (this is also valid for the USA).
Automated decision making
All stored data will be analyzed and published strictly anonymously. All data will be deleted automatically 2 years after completion of the study.
Your individual rights
By law, you are allowed to access and to rectify your personal information (and receive a copy thereof free of charge). You also have the right to refuse the transmission of data under professional confidentiality that could be used and analyzed within this clinical research.
Your right to withdraw consent
At any time, you have the right to refuse further processing of your personal data. In that case, data containing your personal information and any original documents will be deleted or destroyed.
Supervisory authority
Landesdatenschutzbeauftragte des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalens (Datenschutz-Aufsichtsbehörde)
Helga Block
Postfach 20044
40102 Düsseldorf
Tel: +49 211 384240
E-Mail: poststelle@ldi.nrw