Data Protection

Here you will find further information about how the Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy processes your personal data in connection with the survey for recepients of green funding for research and innovation projects in 2020.

In connection with the survey for recepients of green public funding for research and innovation projects in 2020 , the Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy will be processing personal data. The processing of personal data is carried out according to the rules of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Danish Data Protection Act.

You can read more below about the processing in connection with: 

  • The initial contact with you in preparation for your participation in the survey
  • The collection and processing of the questionnaire survey answers, including storage, transmission, etc.

1. Collection of personal data and contact information

The Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy has collected your email address from either Independent Research Fund Denmark, Innovation Fund Denmark, Energy Technological Development and Demonstration Programme, Green Development and Demonstration Programme or Environmental Technological Development and Demonstration Programme in order to be able to contact you about your participation in the survey.

The personal data is collected on the basis of Article 6(1)(e) of the General Data Protection Regulation, pursuant to which processing is lawful if:

”processing is necessary for the execution of a task which is in the interest of society"

Participation in the survey is voluntary. If you choose to participate in the survey, your data will be processed as described below.

2. Data controller

The Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy is the data controller for the processing of the personal data which the Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy has received about you.

The contact information is:

The Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy
Bredgade 40-42
1260 Copenhagen K
dfir@ufm.dk 

3. Data Protection Officer contact information

If you have any questions about the processing of your data, you are always welcome to contact the ministry’s Data Protection Officer:

By email: dpo@ufm.dk
By telephone: +45 7231 8909 
By letter: Letter to DFiR ”Attn: Data Protection Officer”.

4. Object and legal basis

The overall purpose of the survey is to illustrate how research and innovation projects that have received earmarked green funds from the Research Reserve 2020 are contributing to the goals of the Climate Law.

The legal basis of the Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy’s processing of your personal data follows from:

  • Article 6(1)(e) of the General Data Protection Regulation, according to which processing is lawful if it is necessary for the execution of a task that is in the interest of society. 
  • Section 10(1) of the Data Protection Act allows the processing of sensitive personal data without the data subject’s consent if the processing takes place exclusively for the purpose of performing statistical or scientific investigations of significant societal importance.

5. Personal data categories

The Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy processes the following categories of personal data about you:

  • Contact information consisting of your name and email address
  • Answer data from the survey on financing matters, collaboration matters and academic matters attached to the research/innovation project

6. Where does the personal data come from?

The personal data comes from:

    • Contact information and identification data are collected from Independent Research Fund Denmark, Innovation Fund Denmark, Energy Technological Development and Demonstration Programme, Green Development and Demonstration Programme or Environmental Technological Development and Demonstration Programme.
    • Data from the questionnaire survey stems from you.

7. Transmission of your personal data

The Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy does not transmit your data

8. Storage of personal data

 We will store your contact information until 31 December 2021. Your answers from the survey are journalised according to the rules of the Danish Open Administration Act and will be filed with the Public Record Office according to the rules of the Danish legislation on public records (every 5 years). After delivery to the Public Record Office, a copy will be kept in the ministry for up to 5 years, after which the data will be deleted in the ministry.

9. Your rights

You have a number of rights as regards the Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy’s processing of data about you. If you want to make use of your rights, you must contact The Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy, which can also provide you with more information on your rights.

Read more about your rights here:

A. The right to see your data (right of access)

You have the right of access to the processing of your data. This means that, with certain exceptions, you have the right to be told if the authority is processing your personal data and if so, to see the data.

B. The right to rectification (correction)

You have the right to have incorrect data about yourself corrected.

C. The right to deletion

In special cases you have the right to have your personal data deleted before the time of the ordinary general deletion.

D. The right to limited processing

In some cases, you have the right to limit the processing of your personal data. If you have the right to have the processing limited, then in future, your data may only be processed - except for storage - with your consent, or with a view to establish, make or defend a legal claim or to protect a person or important societal interests.

E. The right to objection

In certain cases you have the right to make objections to an otherwise lawful processing of your personal data.

You can learn more about your rights in the Data Protection Agency’s guide to the data subjects’ rights, which you will find here: www.datatilsynet.dk

10. Complaint to the Data Protection Agency

You have the right to file a complaint with the Data Protection Agency if you are dissatisfied with the way the ministry/administration processes your personal data.

You will find the Data Protection Agency contact information here: www.datatilsynet.dk