Privacy Statement
The Federal Ministry of Interior attaches utmost priority to responsible handling of personal data. It is important to us that you know when we collect which data and how we process this data.
We have taken technical and organisational measures to ensure that both we at the Ministry as well as our external service providers fully comply with the relevant data protection regulations.
As our websites continue to be developed and new technologies are implemented, changes to this privacy statement may become necessary. We therefore recommend reading this Privacy Notice at regular intervals
Legal Basis
The Federal Ministry of Interior processes data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, Regulation (EU) of the European Parliament and the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC) and the Austrian Data Protection Act (Bundesgesetz über den Schutz personenbezogener Daten, Federal Act concerning the Protection of Personal Data, Federal Law Gazette I No. 165/1999 as amended).
Unless otherwise explicitly stated, the legal basis for the storing and processing of personal data by the Federal Ministry of Interior is the Bundesministeriengesetz 1986 (Austrian Federal Ministries Act of 1986, Federal Law Gazette No. 76/1986 as amended), Part 1 of the Appendix to § 2 (inter alia: matters of information concerning the department, including communication with the press, radio and television).
Serverlogs
Each time you visit the website of the Federal Ministry of Interior the following data is recorded and saved in a log file (server logs) for a limited period of time:
- IP address of the visitor
- details of the request (e.g. user agent) and target address including GET parameters
- name of the requested file and amount of data transmitted
- date and time of the retrieval<
- report on the success of the retrieval
- form data (POST body), if an error occurs during sending
This data is used exclusively to monitor system security. There is no person-related analysis or evaluation of this data nor will user profiles be created.
In the event of attacks on the internet infrastructure of the Federal Ministry of Interior we nevertheless reserve the right to analyse your IP address
Analysis tool
The websites of the Federal Ministry of the Interior use tools for statistical analysis with which the log files of the web servers are evaluated without the use of cookies. No IP addresses or personal data are shown in the reports created.
Requests and applications received via contact forms, email or post
Any personal data that you disclose to us via online forms, by email or by post (for instance when completing contact forms, or signing up for newsletters or events, or when providing input to questions) is handled responsibly by Ministry staff and is used exclusively in accordance with and for the purpose of handling your request and/or registration and/or application. For more detailed information on data protection, please refer to the respective website or application and/or information provided by the respective department.
When ordering information material, brochures or products, you will be asked for your name and contact details. It is your decision whether or not you wish to provide this data to us. When placing an order, the personal data you have provided will be used exclusively to process this order. This includes the disclosure to distribution companies commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Interior.
Any other inquiries to the Federal Ministry of the Interior will be stored in paper or electronic form in accordance with the deadlines applicable to the storage of written material. Your data will only be used for direct correspondence with you.
Publication of information containing personal data
Subject to the explicit consent of the data subjects, personal data (for instance details of members of committees and working groups, media contacts etc.) is published on the information pages of the Federal Ministry of Interior for the purpose of establishing contact and enabling networking. In individual cases, data is published in the interest of public information (for instance on members of advisory councils, reports on state visits etc.).
The legal basis for publishing personal data in press releases in the public interest is formed by Article 6 Para. 1 lit. e GDPR (information on the activities of the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs within the meaning of transparency in public administration).
Profiling
The Federal Ministry of Interior does not generate personal user profiles.
Disclosure of personal data to third parties
Data that was logged when accessing the website of the Federal Ministry of the Interior is only transmitted to third parties if we are required to do so by law or a court decision or if this is necessary for legal or criminal prosecution in the event of attacks on the internet infrastructure.
When ordering information material, brochures or products, you will be asked for your name and contact details. When placing an order, the personal data you have provided will be used exclusively to process this order. This includes the disclosure to distribution companies commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Interior.
Unless otherwise specifically indicated, data processed by the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs will only be transferred to third parties if we are required to do so by law or court order.
Apart from such cases, no data will be transferred to third parties for commercial or non-commercial purposes without your explicit consent.
Protection of minors
Persons under the age of 14 should not transmit any personal data to us without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. Unless it is officially required to do so the Federal Ministry of Interior does not request any personal data from children and adolescents. Unless officially required, such data is neither collected nor passed on to third parties.
Social media
The Federal Ministry of Interior uses social media and services (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr) for the purpose of sharing information on its activities. Any publication of personal data on the social media is always subject to the individual data subject’s consent.
The Federal Ministry of Interior takes the ongoing discussion on data protection on social networks very seriously. To date, there is no final and conclusive legal decision on whether and to what extent all of the above networks offer their services in compliance with European data protection provisions.
We would thus like to explicitly highlight that the services (i.e. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube und Flickr) used by the Federal Ministry of Interior process their users’ data (for instance personal information, IP address etc.) in line with their privacy policies and use them for commercial purposes.
The Federal Ministry of Interior has no influence or control whatsoever over data collection and further use of data by the social networks mentioned above. Please use the information provided by the Federal Ministry of Interior responsibly in the social media and read the respective providers’ data policy notices carefully prior to sharing your personal information on the networks.
Links to third-party websites
Our website contains links to third-party websites. We have no control over these providers’ compliance with data protection provisions.
Your rights
You have the general right to information, rectification, deletion, restriction, data transferability, revocation and objection.If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or your data protection claims have been violated in any other way, you can complain to the supervisory authority. In Austria, this is possible through the data protection authority.
Contact
You can reach us as
Federal Ministry of Interior. Department I/C/10,
Unit I/C/10/b – Presse- und Informationsdienst,
Phone: +43 1 53 126-2488,
E-Mail: pressestelle@bmi.gv.at
The data protection officer at the Federal Ministry of Interior can be reached at:
Herrengasse 7, 1010 Wien
E-Mail: bmi-datenschutzbeauftragter@bmi.gv.at