Privacy Policy

With these notes we fulfil our information obligations regarding the collection of personal data, which are laid down in Article 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We collect personal data every time our website is accessed.

We have made technical and organisational arrangements ensuring that the data protection provisions are adhered to by ourselves and by our external service providers. This page is operated by the central information technology provider of the federal administration, the Federal Information Technology Centre (Informationstechnikzentrum Bund, An der Küppe 2, 53225 Bonn).

When our web pages are modified, we may have to revise this data protection declaration. We therefore recommend that you read the declaration regularly.

Personal data

Personal data is information about yourself, such as your name, address, postal address or user behaviour, if the latter is not anonymised. This does not include information which cannot be related to you.

We collect your data, on the one hand, when you give them to us. In that case, the processing of your data is based on your consent. You may have entered such data in a contact form or confirmed that you accept a cookie.

Other data are collected automatically by our IT systems whenever you visit the website. Most of these are technical data such as your IP address (which is however anonymised immediately), internet browser, operating system or the time when the page is accessed. These data are collected automatically when you enter our website. This helps us to provide our data on the internet, which is one of the public tasks we have to carry out.

Access to our website

Every time a user accesses the website of the Federal Institute for Population Research and every time a file is downloaded, information about that operation is stored in anonymised form and processed.

The following data are stored for every access/download:

• Name of the file downloaded
• Date and time of download
• Data volume transferred
• Download successful or not
• Referer
• Equipment used
• IP addresses, these are anonymised once they have been recorded
• Anonymised IP address, anonymised DNS information and top level domains (TLD) of the accessing host system

These data are evaluated statistically and for the purpose of optimising the website, after which they are deleted. We do not create user profiles.

Use of cookies

The Federal Institute for Population Research uses cookies to optimise the use of this website.

Most browsers are set to accept cookies automatically. However, you can deactivate the storage of cookies or set your browser to store cookies only for the respective internet session.

If you use a browser extension which prevents the setting of our cookies, we will of course accept your decision. Then no cookies will be placed and your visit to this website will not be tracked. Please note that you may not be able in this case to make full use of all the features of this website.

Social Media

The Federal Institute for Population Research uses the Twitter messaging service.

Its functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. If you use Twitter and the re-tweet function, the websites you visit will be linked with your Twitter account and revealed to other users. Data will also be passed on to Twitter. Please note that we, the provider of the website content, do not know the data which are passed on or how Twitter uses them. For more information on the subject please refer to Twitter's privacy policy. https://twitter.com/privacy.

You can change the Twitter privacy settings for your account at https://twitter.com/account/settings.

Enquiries

In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. To do so, you will generally need to provide other personal information that we use to provide the service and for which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.

We will ask for your express consent to such usage at the appropriate place on the website and provide a data protection notice. The rights you have vis-a-vis the Federal Institute for Population Research with regard to the processing of your personal data (see section further down) also apply to all the services offered on our website.

Passing on personal data to third parties

Log data that are generated when the website of the Federal Institute for Population Research is accessed will be transmitted to third parties only if the Federal Institute for Population Research is required to do so by law or court decision or where such transmission is needed for law enforcement and criminal prosecution purposes in the case of attacks on the internet infrastructure of the Federal Institute for Population Research. In such cases, the data will be passed to the Federal Information Technology Centre, the central service provider of the federal administration. Data will not be transmitted for any other non-commercial or commercial purposes.

Protection of minors

Persons under the age of 18 should not transmit any personal data to us without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. We do not request any personal data from children or adolescents. We do not knowingly collect such data and do not pass them on.

Links to websites of other providers

Our website contains links to websites of other providers. Their adherence to the data protection provisions is out of our control.

Your rights

Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and provided that the conditions mentioned therein are met, you have the following rights vis-a-vis the Federal Institute for Population Research with regard to data that relate to you:

• right of access (Article 15 GDPR)
• right to rectification (Article 16 GDPR)
• right to erasure (Article 17 GDPR)
• right to restriction of processing (Article 18 GDPR)
• right to object to processing of personal data (Article 21 GDPR)
• right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR).

If you believe there has been a breach of the data protection provisions, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Die Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit, Graurheindorfer Str. 153, 53117 Bonn) about the Federal Institute for Population Research processing your personal data (Article 77 EU-GDPR).

Contact details of the party responsible

Federal Institute for Population Research, represented by director Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 4
65185 Wiesbaden
Germany
E-Mail: service@bib.bund.de

Contact details of our data protection commissioner

As the trust you place in the Federal Institute for Population Research is of great importance to us, we will be pleased to answer your questions regarding the processing of your personal data. If you have questions that have not been answered by this data protection declaration, please do not hesitate to contact our data protection commissioner. As part of the administrative community, the data privacy officer of the Federal Statistical Office is also responsible for the Federal Institute for Population Research.

Data protection commissioner of the Federal Statistical Office
65180 Wiesbaden
Germany
Phone: +49 611 75 3929
E-Mail: datenschutz@destatis.de

Wiesbaden, October 2021