Privacy Policy

Below you will find information according to Articles 13 and 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regarding the processing of your personal data by the Parliamentary Administration.

One Parliament – Many different data protection controllers

At the federal level, the National Council and the Federal Council are the legislative bodies of the Republic of Austria. Elected Members of Parliament, employees of the Members of Parliament, and the parliamentary groups as well as the Parliamentary Administration work here.

The Parliamentary Administration as an administrative apparatus is subordinate to the President of the National Council and bound by his or her instructions. The Parliamentary Administration, therefore, is not an independent authority. It has two areas of responsibility:

1. assistance with parliamentary tasks

2. conduct of parliamentary administrative matters

Depending on the respective data processing, different controllers and legal foundations have to be considered. The information provided in the following relates to data processing by the Parliamentary Administration.

Data processing by the Members of Parliament, their assistants or those of parliamentary groups falls within the area of responsibility of neither  the President of the National Council nor the subordinate Parliamentary Administration.

Overview

The Parliament’s web presence

  • Cookies and Serverlogs
  • Registration on the website
  • Registration for media representatives
  • Social Media

Experience – Parliament visits

  • Registration of the visit and access to Parliament buildings
  • Registration for public guided tours
  • Booking of individual guided tours for groups
  • Registration for events
  • Image and sound recordings at events
  • Use of the Parliamentary Library
  • Video surveillance
  • Real-time video surveillance of the visitors’ gallery

Communications with the Parliamentary Administration

  • General inquiries and requests (contact forms, Email or post)
  • Newsletter
  • Registration for the invitation subscription (event database)
  • Applications
  • Possible future and actual contractors

Automated Decision-making

Your Rights as Data Subject

Controller and Data Protection Officer

Contact

The Parliament’s web presence

Cookies & Serverlogs

Registration on the website

Registration for Media Representatives

Social Media

The Parliamentary Administration takes the ongoing debate on data protection in the social networks very seriously. For the time being, it is yet to be finally clarified if and to what extent all networks are offering their services in conformity with European data protection rules.

We therefore explicitly underline that the services used by the Parliamentary Administration, i. e. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube (Google services) and LinkedIn store the data of their users (e. g. personal information, IP address) and use them for commercial purposes in accordance with their privacy policy. The Parliamentary Administration has no influence on data collection and data usage by the social networks. It has no information whatsoever on where, for how long, and to what extent data are stored, if the networks comply with their obligations to delete data, if data evaluations are performed and linkages established, and to which third parties data are transmitted.

Experience – Parliament visits

Registration of the visit and access to Parliament buildings

Registration for public guided tours

Booking of individual guided tours for groups

Registration for events

Image and sound recordings at events

Use of the Parliamentary Library

Video surveillance

Communications with the Parliamentary Administration

Automated decision-making

Within the scope of activities of the Parliamentary Administration, automated decision-making pursuant to Art. 22 GDPR is not practiced.

Your rights as data subject

Concerning your personal data, you have the right of access, the right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and the right to object (Art. 15 to 21 GDPR).

If the lawfulness of data processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing on the basis of your consent before its withdrawal (Art. 7 (3) GDPR).

In matters regarding the Parliamentary Administration’s administrative tasks, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority (§§ 24 et seq. in conjunction with § 35 (2) Data Protection Act).

Controller and Data Protection Officer

The function of controller, as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, for the above-described data processing, is exercised by the President of the National Council to whom the Parliamentary Administration is subordinated.

With your data protection requests, please contact primarily the Data Protection Team in the Parliamentary Administration’s Department 3.1. If you wish to invoke your rights as a data subject, please enclose suitable proof of identity. You can also use the options that are directly provided to exercise your rights, such as unsubscribe links, setting options in your profile, etc.

A data protection officer and deputy data protection officers have been appointed for the Parliamentary Administration. They readily advise and support you with questions and concerns regarding data processing by the Parliamentary Administration.