Data Protection

Processing of personal data

Danish Emergency Management Agency processes for instance personal data when citizens approach the agency with questions or opinions.

The processing of personal data is effected in compliance with the Data Protection Rules and the Data Protection Act.

The legal basis for processing personal data for the purpose of processing your questions or opinions is found in the General Data Protection Regulation article 6, (1) e and article 9, (2) b and f-g.

The legal basis for processing personal data for the purpose of sending you a newsletter is found in the General Data Protection Regulation article 6 (1) a.

Disclosure of personal data

The data may be shared with other authorities within the field of the Ministry of Defence who handle specialized functions, such as recruiting, financial accounting and property management.

Moreover, the data may be processed in IT systems being jointly applied by several different authorities within the field of the Ministry of Defence and whereby there is a common data responsibility between the authorities.

Your rights

Regarding the processing of personal data by Danish Emergency Management Agency you have the right to:

Request insight of data being processed on you
Request to have incorrect data on yourself rectified or to have incompleted personal data completed.
In special cases request to have data on you erased.
In some cases request a limitation of the processing of your personal data.
In some cases make objection against the legal processing of your personal data by the ministry.

Complain to the Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet) about the processing of your data.
You can read more about your rights in the Danish Data Protection Agency’s guidelines on the rights of registered persons which you will find on www.datatilsynet.dk.

If you have questions regarding privacy policy and data protection or requests on insight, rectification, erasure, restricted processing or objections, please contact the Danish Emergency Management Agency at BRS-KTP-LESEK@brs.dk.

The data protection adviser with the Danish Emergency Management Agency

Danish Emergency Management Agency has appointed a data protection adviser who is an expert within the regulations on personal data processing. The task of the data protection adviser is among other things to advise, train and to monitor the compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation at Danish Emergency Management Agency.

The data protection adviser can advise you further regarding the regulations on data protection. The data protection adviser can also guide you on your rights with respect to the processing of personal data by Danish Emergency Management Agency and whom to contact if you want to make use of your rights.

Cookies

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Handling e-mails

When you send an e-mail to Danish Emergency Management Agency on brs@brs.dk, it is forwarded to a central mailbox of Danish Emergency Management Agency. Upon reception of an e-mail in the central mailbox, the e-mail is registered and sent on to the relevant department.

After this, we handle your request as soon as possible. We only use your personal information with the purpose of processing your questions or opinion and replying to your e-mail.