Data protection policy for IQWiG’s Twitter profile

When you access our Twitter profile, your personal data is processed. This data protection policy explains the details of how this is done, informs you of your rights (see section C. Your rights – Data protection) and lists the necessary contact details (see section B. Contact details).

A. Detailed information on the processing of data

The processing of your data is handled as follows:

(1)

When you access our Twitter profile, you can receive current news from IQWiG, use the “like” button to express your approval of them, or “retweet” them to forward them to your own followers, reply to messages or to start a private conversation (if you are following IQWiG and IQWiG is following you).

User data from the public profiles of any user following our Twitter profile is automatically displayed to us by Twitter. The following data types are displayed automatically: name, pseudonym, Twitter handle, picture, and biographical data. The following data types are only available after clicking on the profile: country, location, URL of a website or blog, Twitter join date, number of followers, number of accounts the user follows, number of tweets and liked tweets (where applicable). We process your data on the basis of your consent as defined in Article 6, paragraph 1, lit. a of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). IQWiG does not process these data and does not share personal data with third parties.

Other than that, we do not receive or process any personal data from Twitter.

(2)

The platform operator Twitter can match your visit to our Twitter profile to your social network account. The IP address of your device will be shared with the social network you are using. Further processing by the social network – depending on the recipient – may occur in a country with a lower level of data protection. You can find further details on this in Twitter’s data protection policy. Any information is deleted by Twitter 30 days after you accessed our profile.

B. Contact details

(1) Operator of the profile:

Foundation for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (Stiftung für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen), a private law foundation with legal capacity

Location: Gutenbergstraße 13, 10623 Berlin, Germany

Postal/Contact address: Im Mediapark 8, 50670 Cologne (Germany)

Phone: +49 (0)221 35685-0
Fax: +49 (0)221 35685-1
E-mail: info@iqwig.de

The Foundation is the governing body of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (Institut für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen or IQWiG, Germany).

(2) Responsible party

The processing of your data is carried out by:

Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG, Germany)

Postal address: IQWiG, Im Mediapark 8, 50670 Cologne, Germany

Tel: +49 (0)221 35685-0
Fax: +49 (0)221 35685-1
E-mail: datenschutz@iqwig.de

(3) Corporate data protection officer

Phone: +49 (0)172 251 1331
E-mail: datenschutzbeauftragter@iqwig.de

(4) Regulatory agency

North Rhine-Westphalia Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen).

Postal address: Postfach 20 04 44, 40102 Düsseldorf

Phone: +49 (0)211 384 24 - 0
Fax: +49 (0)211 384 2410
E-mail: poststelle@ldi.nrw.de

C. Your rights – Data protection

(1) Information about your data, deletion and additional rights:

You have the right to receive information about data that has been saved pertaining to your person at any time (Article 15 of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation). In addition, under the legal provisions of Articles 16 to 21 of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation, you are entitled to the correction and deletion of your data, and the limitation of the processing and the portability of the data you have provided. The regulatory agency responsible is listed above in B. Contact details.

(2) Complaints:

You have the right to contact the IQWiG corporate data protection officer at any time with any complaints about the processing of your data (e.g. suspicion of misuse, unauthorized access or loss of your data). His contact details are listed above in B. Contact details. In addition, you are entitled to file a complaint with any data protection regulatory agency. The regulatory agency responsible for IQWiG is listed above in B. Contact details.

(3) Withdrawal of consent:

If the processing of your data is based on your consent, you may revoke your consent at any time effective for the future. The processing of your data that has been completed up to your withdrawal of consent remains legal. If the processing of your data is based on our legitimate interest, you may object to the processing of the data for reasons that derive from your particular circumstances. We will only continue to process your data if there is proven to be compelling and legitimate grounds for doing so that prevail against your interests, rights and liberties or if the processing serves the assertion, execution or defense of legal claims.

In case of any concerns and issue, please contact the appropriate contact listed in B.

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