Data Protection and Terms of Use
- Privacy Statement
- Contact Data of the Responsible Party
- Access to the Internet Site
- Orders and Inquiries (in Writing or by E-mail)
- Data processing within the framework of marine casualty investigations
- Rights of Affected Parties
- Links to Websites of Other Providers
- Disclaimer
- Copyright
- Dissemination of Personal Data to Third Parties
- Protection of Minors
- Browser Compatibility
- Usage of Cookies
- Accessibility
Privacy Statement
The Bundesstelle für Seeunfalluntersuchung (German Federal Agency for the Investigation of Maritime Accidents – BSU) takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We would like you to know when we collect which data and how we use them.
We shall respect the statutory guidelines of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the German Data Protection Act, which regulate the collection, processing and usage of personal data.
During the course of the continued development of our website and the fulfilment of new legal guidelines or the implementation of new technologies in order to improve our service for you, changes to this Privacy Statement may also be required. Thus, we recommend that you intermittently read through this Privacy Statement again.
Contact Data of the Responsible Party
Responsible Party:
Bundesstelle für Seeunfalluntersuchung (BSU), Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 78, 20359 Hamburg, Germany, telephone +49 40 3190 8311, fax +49 40 3190 8340, e-mail posteingang@bsu-bund.de
The BSU’s Data Protection Officer can likewise be reached at the aforementioned address and fax number as well as by telephone at +49 40 3190 8380 or by e-mail at datenschutz@bsu-bund.de.
Access to the Internet Site
During each accessing of the BSU’s Internet site, data shall be stored for statistical and back-up purposes in a log file. The following data and only the following data shall be collected for a limited period of time:
• Name and/or URL of the retrieved file
• Date and time of day of the retrieval
• Quantity of data transferred
• Notification of whether the retrieval was successful (error code for the inquiry)
• Browser version and operating system used
• The address of the webpage from which you made the retrieval (so-called HTTP referrer if available)
• Anonymised IP address of the accessing host system, with the last two bytes set to 0 (e.g. xxx.xxx.0.0).
These data shall be used exclusively for the improvement of our Internet service and shall not be evaluated in such a manner that they are attributable to you.
Orders and Inquiries (in Writing or by E-mail)
If you order informational materials or the newsletter and/or submit inquiries to us, we shall ask you for your name and, as required, for other personal information, as well as your e-mail address. This shall be done exclusively for the purpose of processing your inquiries and orders. It is entirely your choice whether you provide these data or not. However, for sending ordered materials via the postal service and for registration for the newsletter, these data shall be required
Postal addresses and e-mail addresses that are provided for orders or inquiries shall be used exclusively for the correspondence and/or the shipment. They shall not be disseminated to third parties.
You may at any time object to the storage of your personal data. Thereupon, we shall completely delete them. However, we wish to point out that, in this case, the processing of inquiries or the sending of the newsletter shall no longer be possible.
Data processing within the framework of marine casualty investigations
Within the framework of marine casualty investigations, data are collected, processed and used pursuant to Article 33 of the German Law to improve safety of shipping by investigating marine casualties and other incidents (Maritime Safety Investigation Law – SUG).
Accordingly, the Federal Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation, the investigating officers pursuant to Articles 22 and 32, and the participants pursuant to Article 24(1) may, within the scope of their powers pursuant to Articles 22 and 26, collect, process and use the personal data of any person involved in or affected by a marine casualty, as well as of witnesses and other individuals making statements regarding a marine casualty in the course of the safety investigation, insofar as necessary for the performance of the investigation mandate pursuant to Article 9(2). Moreover, they specify the ships involved with identifying ship and operator data, as well as relevant data of the passengers and cargo on board.
Personal data within the meaning of Article 33(2) SUG are:
family name and given name;
address and telecommunications information;
post on board the ship or in the company operating the ship;
proven abilities, occupation and professional development, fitness for service at sea, and
information on the current health status and medical history, insofar as this may be linked with the marine casualty.
In the case of passengers on board, only the data on family names and given names, address and telecommunications information, as well as post on board the ship or in the company operating the ship are collected.
The above data are usually obtained through questionnaires, recordings from the voyage data recorder (VDR) or interviews and are only included in the investigation reports in aggregated and anonymised form if they are of relevance to the analysis of the marine casualty under investigation. Retention periods are set in compliance with Article 36 SUG.
To process witness compensation applications and to settle expenses arising from the preparation of expert opinions, data on family names and given names, witness employers (if applicable), addresses and bank details are collected and processed.
Rights of Affected Parties
You shall have the right:
• In accordance with Art. 7, Para. 3 GDPR, at any time to revoke consent that you have previously granted to us. This shall have the result that in the future, we may no longer continue the data processing which was based upon this consent;
• In accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, to demand information regarding your personal data that we have processed;
• In accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to demand the prompt correction of incorrect data or the completion of your personal data that we have stored;
• In accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, to demand the deletion of your personal data that we have stored insofar as the processing is not required for the fulfilment of a legal obligation;
• In accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data insofar as you dispute the correctness of the data, the processing is illegal or you have lodged an objection to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
• In accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to demand to receive your personal data, which you have provided to us, in a structured, standard and machine-readable format or to demand the transmission of your personal data to another responsible party;
• In accordance with Art. 77 GDPR, to lodge a complaint with a government supervisory agency. As a rule, in this regard, you may contact the government supervisory agency for your customary place of residence or work location or the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.
Information Regarding Your Right of Objection in Accordance with Art. 21 GDPR
You shall have the right – for reasons which are based upon your special situation – at any time to lodge an objection to the processing of your personal data which is undertaken in accordance with Article 6, Para. 1, Clause 1, lit. e GDPR (data processing in the public interest) and Article 6, Para. 1, Clause 1, lit. f GDPR (data processing upon the basis of a balancing of interests).
If you lodge an objection, we shall no longer process your personal data unless we can document mandatory reasons worthy of protection for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing serves the purpose of the assertion, exercising or warding-off of legal claims.
Links to Websites of Other Providers
Our website contains links to those of other providers. The BSU assumes no responsibility for the contents of websites which are reached via links. The BSU has carefully selected these links and examined the affected contents when the initial linking was made. We have no control over whether these providers follow the data protection guidelines.
Links shall always be considered to be "living" (dynamic) referrals. Thus, the contents of the linked pages could have been changed without the BSU’s knowledge. A continuous examination of the contents is neither intended nor possible.
The BSU expressly distances itself from all contents which may possibly have relevance under criminal law or liability law or which may violate good morals.
For damages arising from the usage or non-usage of the websites of other providers, exclusively the provider of that website to which reference was made shall be liable.
Disclaimer
The information found on these Internet pages has been sought out and compiled carefully and using the best of our knowledge. However, we provide no guarantees for the currentness, correctness or completeness of the information found on this homepage – particularly of the legal guidelines that have been published there.
Laws and guidelines shall only be valid and effective in accordance with their respectively most-current official version, which has been published in the relevant promulgating organ (particularly the Federal Law Gazette and Federal Gazette). Any legal recommendations, information and notes shall be considered non-binding, and no legal consulting shall be provided.
Insofar as this is possible, we would like to avoid technical disruptions. However, through the digitalisation of data, errors may occur. We shall assume no liability for disruptions or other malfunctions which have been caused by flawed files or formats with flawed structures. The same shall be applicable to damages which have been caused by computer viruses during the retrieval or downloading of data or during the installation or usage of software.
The BSU requests that the users notify it if they discover third-party illegal or flawed contents to which a link has been placed on the Internet site. The BSU likewise requests that you send it a notification if your own contents are not flawless, current or complete.
Copyright
The texts, text sections, graphics, maps, map sections, charts and photographic materials provided on the website may not be reproduced, disseminated or exhibited
Any further use shall be permitted only subject to the BSU’s prior consent (contact).
Dissemination of Personal Data to Third Parties
Your personal data shall be provided to third parties only insofar as we are obliged to do so by law or by a court ruling or if the dissemination is required in the case of attacks on the Internet infrastructure for the purpose of the assertion of rights or a criminal investigation. Dissemination for any other non-commercial or commercial purposes shall not be made.
Protection of Minors
Persons under 18 years of age should transmit no personal data to us without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. We shall request no personal data from children and youths. We shall not knowingly collect such data and shall also not pass them on to third parties.
Browser Compatibility
When using various browsers for the Internet and owing to the various software settings, there may be deviations during display of the data. The original materials forming the basis for the informational offerings may, as required, be requested from the BSU.
Usage of Cookies
On certain pages of our website, cookies may be used, and it may be the case that we are not able to inform you of this. Most browsers are set in such a way that they automatically accept cookies. However, you may deactivate the storage of cookies or adjust the settings on your browser in such a manner that cookies are stored only for the duration of the respective connection to the Internet.
Accessibility
During the design of the BSU’s Internet site, the provisions of the Guidelines for the Creation of Barrier-Free Information Technology in accordance with the guidelines of the ordinance for creating barrier-free information technology under the law on equal opportunities for people with disabilities (Barrierefreie Informationstechnik-Verordnung – BITV) were taken into consideration.
As a rule, the PDF files that have been created on the BSU’s webpages are barrier-free or have few barriers.
However, some PDF documents are old and the original document is no longer available. Unfortunately, these documents cannot be subsequently revised. PDF files that are not barrier-free have been specially labelled with the add-on "not barrier-free".
Unfortunately, regarding original materials from external sources, barrier-free processing cannot always be guaranteed.