Privacy Policy Legal Basis

We strive to minimize our processing activities in relation to your personal data. In the absence of specific retention periods set out in this Policy, your personal data will only be retained for as long as necessary to achieve the purpose for which we collected it and, where applicable, for as long as required by legal retention obligations. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an EU law that aims to give EU residents more control over their data. This regulation requires organisations that process data of EU citizens to comply with data protection rules. Privacy Enhancement Technologies (PET). Requirements for the use of privacy-protecting technologies (e.g. tokenisation of unique identity numbers) eliminating or reducing the collection of personal data, preventing unnecessary or unwanted processing of personal data and facilitating compliance with data protection rules. Use our all-in-one cookie consent solution for cookie management to comply with GDPR and CCPA and other data protection laws: Finally, we may collect demographic information about you, such as your gender and ethnicity. We generally collect and use this information on an anonymous basis. When you provide demographic information to PLOS, you do so voluntarily and PLOS collects, stores, and uses your demographic information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

However, the exchange of information between government agencies, if not well regulated, can become a “back door” that bypasses individual data protection regulations. Comprehensive demographic databases, such as those set up as part of identification systems, are a tempting resource for law enforcement, especially if they contain biometric data. The collection of DNA data which, like other biometric data, can be used not only to identify an individual, but also as evidence in an investigation to determine whether they have committed a crime. Please direct any questions, concerns or comments regarding this Privacy Policy or inquiries regarding your personal data by email to our Group Data Protection Officer. You can contact our Group Data Protection Officer via [email protected] By providing us with your personal data (whether via one of our websites, by email, in person or by telephone), you consent to the processing described in this Privacy Policy. Other notices outlining certain uses we wish to make of your personal data, as well as the ability to enable or decline certain uses, may also be provided to you when we collect personal data from you. Note: This Privacy Statement does not apply to, and Norton Rose Fulbright is not responsible for, third-party websites that can be accessed through links from this website. If you follow a link to any of these third-party websites, they have their own privacy policies and you should review that policy before submitting any personal information to these third-party websites. Insofar as personal data is passed on to third parties for the aforementioned purposes, the legal basis for the transmission of your personal data is Art. 6 Para.

1 Sentence 1 lit. b and f GDPR. Some of the recipients may reside outside the EEA. For more information on cross-border transfers in general and transfers outside the EEA, see the section on cross-border data transfers. However, due to uncertainty about data protection standards abroad, many countries restrict the offshore transfer of personal data. Such transfers may be permitted in certain circumstances or where data protection standards are considered adequate in a third country. This is particularly sensitive when it comes to personal data for national identification, civil registration and voter registration systems. In addition to cross-border data transfer, the legal framework may also include rules on regional or international interoperability or mutual recognition of their identification systems. There are a number of other countries around the world that have data protection laws that require a privacy policy. See our article “Data Protection Laws by Country” to see some of the other laws and take a broader look at some of the laws mentioned above.

Article 4(2) of the 2016 EU Data Protection Directive 2016 on police and criminal justice requires that personal data collected for other purposes – for example: for an identification system or for civil registration – may only be processed by the same controller or another controller for criminal purposes to the extent that (a) there is a legal permission to do so and (b) such processing is necessary and proportionate to the purpose for which the personal data is used. was collected. (See, for example, The Council of the EU, Data Protection in Law Enforcement) PLOS may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be made by updating this page. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically to review the current version. If there are material changes in the way we use your personal information, we will endeavour to provide you with reasonable notice of such changes, either by posting prominent www.plos.org or to your registered email address. We will only use personal information collected through this website as set out in this policy. Below you will find information about how we use your personal data, for what purposes your personal data is used, with whom it is disclosed and what rights of control and information you may have. Anonymous data (which does not contain personal data) may also be classified as “personally identifiable information” when used in conjunction with another type of data that may lead to the identification of an individual. For example, some types of IP addresses are personal data protected by law under modern data protection laws. In addition to the scope of processing described under IV, if you make a comment, we store some of your personal data such as your IP address and name, as well as other metadata such as the time of publication. This is necessary to defend ourselves against possible liability claims that may arise from unlawful comments on your part and reflects our legitimate interest in the legal justification for this processing activity in Article 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR.

Stay up to date with this powerful weekly e-newsletter with key privacy trends, tools and news. You will laugh, you will cry, you will be better informed about important events in the world of data protection. Some of the new rights and obligations it introduced with the entry into force of the GDPR in 2018 are still being debated in political circles, and a number of legal questions remain about their application in practice. However, the basic principles of the framework have their origins largely in previous European law and are not new or specific to Europe or the GDPR. They are reflected in one form or another in many national data protection laws outside Europe, largely due to the general recognition of their merits.