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Privacy statement regarding the management of personal files of the staff of the EIT

This privacy statement provides information relating to the processing of personal data of EIT staff carried out by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology within the framework of management of personal files of the staff of the EIT.

What is personal data and what is a personal data processing operation?

Personal data shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ("data subject"). An identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, and identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

Processing means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.