Privacy notice

This privacy notice informs you about the collection and processing of your personal data by the Administration of the German Bundestag, informs you of your rights and enables you to take an informed decision on how your personal data is handled.

Data controller

Deutscher Bundestag
Platz der Republik 1
D - 11011 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49 30 227-0
Email: mail@bundestag.de

The parliamentary data protection officer can be reached at the above postal address by adding “Behördlicher Datenschutzbeauftragter”, at the above telephone number, or at the email address datenschutz.bdb@bundestag.de.

Legal bases and purposes of data processing

We process the data you provide, including your contact details (name, address, telephone number, email address), on the basis of your consent (Article 6 (1a) of the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR) so that we can contact you, to perform the tasks for which the Administration of the German Bundestag is responsible (Article 6 (1e) of the GDPR, Section 3 of the Federal Data Protection Act – BDSG) and to comply with legal obligations (Article 6 (1c) of the GDPR).

For every visit to the German Bundestag’s website, the following data is stored in log files for 60 days: the date and time of the request, IP address and destination address (protocol version, HTTP method, referrer, UserAgent string), the name of the requested file and the data volume transferred, and a code indicating whether the request was successful (HTTP status code). No personal analysis is carried out, nor is the data analysed for marketing purposes or profiling.

Statistical analysis

We use the open source software Matomo for statistical analysis of site visitor numbers. The data collected in this way is used, in anonymised form, to analyse how the German Bundestag’s website is used and to improve it. Matomo records anonymised IP addresses. The server-side “fingerprint” is changed randomly every 24 hours. You can prevent Matomo from collecting data by activating your internet browser’s “Do Not Track” function. In most browsers, this can be found under “Settings – Privacy”. If you use the video or audio player, your IP address is also processed in anonymised form for statistical purposes.

Cookies

When you visit individual pages on the site, temporary cookies are used to make navigation easier for you when you return to a page after visiting another page. These session cookies do not store any personal data and expire when the session ends.

Documents may be transferred to the Parliamentary Archives for archiving purposes in the public interest upon expiry of the retention periods. Their further retention takes place in accordance with Article 17 (3) (d) of the GDPR. Further details can be found in the Archive Regulations of the German Bundestag and the Regulations on the Use of the Parliamentary Archives.

Rights of data subjects

You can contact us at the address given above to obtain access to the personal data concerning you which has been stored (Article 15 of the GDPR) and, subject to certain conditions, to obtain the rectification (Article 16 of the GDPR) or erasure (Article 17 of the GDPR) of your data. You may also have the right to obtain restriction of processing of your data (Article 18 of the GDPR) and the right to receive the data you have provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (Article 20 of the GDPR).

You can withdraw your consent for the processing of your personal data for specific purposes at any time with effect for the future. Please note that in this case it may not be possible, in certain circumstances, for a request to be processed further.

You also have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to lawful processing of your personal data for which a legal basis exists. You do not have the right to object if there is a compelling public interest in the processing which overrides your interests, or if the processing is required by law.

In addition, you have the right to contact a data protection supervisory authority. The authority responsible for the German Bundestag is the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, who can be contacted at the following address:

Die Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit
Graurheindorfer Straße 153
D - 53117 Bonn, Germany