Information on the processing of personal data
The Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna intends to carry out a research project that intends to identify digital biomarkers based on wearable sensor signals for fall risk assessment and to develop a multivariate model based on these biomarkers. The research is conducted by the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”- DEI of Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna.
Pursuant to artt. 13 and 14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation), please note that Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna is the Data Controller and will process your personal data in compliance with the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) and Decree 196 dated 30 June 2003 as amended (Data Protection Code).
Parties involved in processing
- Data Controller
Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna (registered office: via Zamboni 33, 40126 - Bologna, Italy; e-mail: privacy@unibo.it; PEC: scriviunibo@pec.unibo.it).
- Data Protection Officer of Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna
Registered office: via Zamboni 33, 40126 - Bologna, Italy; e-mail: dpo@unibo.it; PEC: scriviunibo@pec.unibo.it.
Purposes and methods of processing
Your personal data, and particularly the data relating motor activity, will be processed by specifically authorised persons, both with and without the use of automated equipment, for the following purposes:
(A) Participation in the research and related operations and activities
If you give your consent to participate in the study in question, some of your personal data will be collected through:
- interviews;
- wearable inertial motion sensors.
The information to be provided will be made available by the curators of “The Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing” (TILDA) study through the application form.
Personal data may be sent to third parties who, as Data Processors pursuant to Article 28 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, assist the Data Controller in the management of the University's IT systems and services.
The data collected and stored for the implementation of the study in question will be kept for 2 years.
(A1) Information concerning the dissemination
Data will be disseminated only in strictly anonymous form, such as through scientific publications, statistics, and scientific conferences.
(C) Conservation for administrative purposes
Your data will also be processed for administrative accounting purposes and kept for the time strictly necessary for the pursuit of these purposes, except for the ten-year period to ensure the fiscal, accounting and administrative requirements required by law and, possibly, longer terms, not determinable a priori, as a consequence of different conditions of lawfulness of the treatment (for example, legal actions that make the treatment necessary for over ten years).
Legal basis and nature of the provision of data
The legal basis of the treatments referred to in point (A) and (A1) described above lies in the consent, pursuant to art. 6, first paragraph, lett. a) of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Regulation on Data Protection) and to art. 2-sexies lett. cc) del D.Lgs. 196/2003, in the institutional tasks entrusted to the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna for the performance of a task of public interest (scientific research).
Participation in the research is voluntary. However, the provision of data is essential in order to participate in the study.
The provision of data for the purposes referred to in point (C) is necessary to comply with legal obligations regarding the conservation of administrative and accounting documents. In this case the legal basis can be found in the art. 6, paragraph 1, lett. c) and e), of Regulation (EU) 2016/679.
Rights of the Data Subject
Without prejudice to the limitations placed on exercise of the rights of data subjects by arts. 2-undecies and 2-duodecies of the Data Protection Code (Decree 196/03), you, as a participant in this study and therefore a data subject, may exercise the rights granted pursuant and consequent to arts. 15-21 of the Regulation, including the right to request access to your personal data and its rectification or erasure, as well as to restrict the processing of your data, object to its processing and request its portability.
Requests to exercise the above rights may be presented to Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna by contacting Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi" - DEI at the following address: Viale del Risorgimento, 2 40136 Bologna, Italy, tel. +39 051 20 9 3001, e-mail dei.dipartimento@pec.unibo.it.
Lastly, should you believe that the processing of your personal data is in infringement of the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 or Decree 196/03 and subsequent amendments and additions, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Italian data protection authority (known as the "Garante per la protezione dei dati personali"), pursuant to Article 77of the Regulation (UE) 2016/679, or to refer to the appropriate courts (art. 79 of the Regulation).