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Privacy notice
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<p>
Last amended: 17 October 2020.
Last amended: 15 November 2020. Valid from app version 1.8 (earlier versions available at: https://www.coronawarn.app/en/privacy)
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<p>
This privacy notice explains how your data is processed and what data
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legal basis is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(a) GDPR and, in the case of health
data, Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR. After granting your consent, you can withdraw it
at any time. Please refer to Section 12 for further information about your
right of withdrawal.
right of withdrawal. On the basis of Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(e) GDPR in conjunction
with Sect. 3 of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), the processing of
access data for the retrieval of daily statistics (see Section 6 d.) is performed
as part of the RKI’s duty to inform the public pursuant to Sect. 4(4) of the Act
on Successor Agencies to the Federal Health Agency (BGA-NachfG).
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4. Who is the app aimed at?
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<p>
As soon as you enable your iPhone’s or your Android smartphone’s COVID-19
Exposure Notification System (which is called “Exposure Notification” or
Exposure Notification System (which is called “Exposure Notifications” or
“COVID-19 Exposure Notifications” respectively), your smartphone transmits
so-called exposure data via Bluetooth, which other smartphones in your
vicinity can record. Your smartphone, in turn, also receives the exposure
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recommendations for what to do next.
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For this purpose, the app runs in the background and retrieves an
up-to-date list every day of random IDs, and possible information about the
onset of symptoms, from the server system. This list contains the random
IDs and possible symptom information of users who have tested positive for
coronavirus and voluntarily used the warning feature in their app, which is
the official coronavirus app in any country participating in the
transnational warning system (see Section 7) (hereinafter referred to as a <strong>positive
list</strong>). The random IDs in the positive list also
contain a transmission risk value and an indication of the type of
diagnosis (see Section 6 c.).
For this purpose, the app retrieves an up-to-date list from the server system
several times a day. This list contains the random IDs, along with any voluntary
symptom information, of users who have tested positive for coronavirus and used
the warning feature in their app, which is the official coronavirus app in any
country participating in the transnational warning system (see Section 7)
(hereinafter referred to as a <strong>positive list</strong>). The random IDs in
the positive list also contain a transmission risk value and an indication of the type
of diagnosis (see Section 6 c.).
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<p>
The app passes the random IDs to the COVID-19 Exposure Notification System,
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d. Using the app for information purposes only
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As long as you use the app for information purposes only, i.e. do not use
any of the features mentioned above, then processing only takes place
locally on your smartphone and the RKI will not process any personal data.
Websites linked in the app, such as www.bundesregierung.de, are
opened and displayed in your smartphone’s standard browser (Android
smartphones) or within the app (iPhones). The data processed here is
determined by the respective providers of the websites accessed.
The app automatically receives the daily statistics that appear in the app
via the server system. This generates access data. Websites linked in the app,
such as www.bundesregierung.de, are opened and displayed in your smartphone’s
standard browser (Android smartphones) or within the app (iPhones). Which data
is processed in this context depends on the respective providers of the websites accessed.
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<h1>7. How does the transnational warning system work?
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