Name of the service

DSX Discovery Service (formerly know as eduTEAMS Discovery Service)

Description of the service

The DSX Discovery Service helps users to select their Home Organization/Identity Provider. The Service Provider may use this service to direct user to correct Identity Provider based on the user selection.

Data controller and a contact person

GÉANT VERENIGING (Association) – registered with the Chamber of Commerce in Amsterdam with registration number 40535155 with its registered address at Hoekenrode 3, 1102 BR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (hereinafter referred to as: “we” or “GÉANT”) is the data controller.

GÉANT's Data Protection Officer can be contacted at: gdpr@geant.org

Generic service inquiries and end-user support are best sent at: support@edugain.org

Jurisdiction

NL, The Netherlands

Personal data processed

For each discovery service request, the DSX Discovery Service creates a log entry in the regular web server log and a specific service log. The log entries record:

  • IP address of the client
  • Identifier of the Service Provider
  • Home Organizations made available for selection
  • Timestamp of the request
  • Browser used for making the request

Purpose of the processing of personal data

The log files are used only for administrative, operational, accounting, monitoring and security purposes.

Third parties to whom personal data is disclosed

Access to log data is protected and log data can only be accessed in a secure way by DSX Discovery Service staff.

Statistical data is gathered based on the log entries (see above). This data is anonymized and does not contain any personal data. Statistical data may be made publicly available by the DSX Discovery Service team.

Data storage

DSX
How to access, rectify and delete the personal data

Contact DSX support: support@edugain.org

Data retention

The technical logs and related information is kept independently in order to guarantee the security of the infrastructure and its optimization and we be retained no longer than 3 months

Your rights

  • As user data is anonymized it cannot be provided to end users but only to law enforcement agencies on eligible request.

  • You have the right to complain to the Supervisory Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens at https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl) about our data processing activities.


Please contact our support desk at support@edugain.org for any further information.

DSX Discovery Service Privacy Policy,
Version 1.4,
October 25, 2019

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