Data protection for commercial aviation

Information to be provided in line with Article 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation „Commercial aviation“

This is an addition to the General Information on Data Protection.

Name and contact data of the controller
Responsibility for data collection

DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH
Am DFS-Campus 10
63225 Langen
Germany

Managing Director:
Arndt Schoenemann (Chairman)

Group Data Protection Officer:
E-mail: datenschutzbeauftragter@dfs.de

Purposes and legal basis of the data processing
Customer management processes these data, among other things:
1. for events and to inform customers and their representatives, in particular airlines (e.g. Chief Pilots’ Round Table, safety meetings, bilateral meetings) and general aviation, as well as
2. for the orderly processing of customer complaints and
3. safety-related advice forwarded to customer management.
This is necessary to ensure the service quality in line with the statutory obligation.

Legal basis for data processing
The legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR and Article 6(1)(c) GDPR in conjunction with Section 1 of the German Freedom of Information Act (IFG) and Section 3 of the German Environmental Information Act (UIG).

Recipients or categories of recipients of the personal data
Recipient is the customer management department of DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH.

Transmission of personal data to a third country
This will not happen.

Retention period of personal data
Data will be stored for ten years after collection. Then, the issue, including all personal data, will be automatically deleted.